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EDGEFIEiLD DVERISR .FDIoEttrua, ZrOr. to GouttFIL MOJUNE26,, Ot *it( , -l t1851., geu votfaxvrif,. "We will, cling to the Pillars of the Temp!. of our nd if Wit must fal we wifl Perish amidst the 3un. W. F. DURISOE, N'orno.EDGEFIELD, *jpI JUNE 26,1851pVL.XVNo 2 From the Augusta Republic. MIDNIGHT MUSINGS, My heart is very bad to night, It craves for rest and peace, For it has beat too quick and vain When will its sorrows cease I hsve been thinking on the past, And upon coming years, And find; alas! there's much in both, To wring forth bitter tears. The Past-its buried joys and hopes, Now haunt my breast with pain, Oh! could I soar to you bright star, And ne'er know care again. I've beeitthinking of the future. There's not to cheer the gloom, I feel this shadow on my brow, Foretells the early doom. On earth Ihave no hope of joy, No thronging visions, bright, Flit now before my anxious eye, To 611 me with delight. There's sorrow here, but there's a place, A bright blue Heav'n above, Where aching hearts may find a~rest, A home of light and love. I'll not despair as once I did While there's a promise given, Of rest, and hope, and joy, and peace; Oh i may I find this Heaven. Father above! I pray to thee, Thou'lt heed a prayer sincere, Cleanse, cleanse my soul and take me there I'm weary, weary, Aere. Augusta, May 15th. E. L. L. The Graves of those we .ove. 3Y WASHM.IGTON IMVING. THE grave is the ordeal of true affection. It is there the divine passion of the soul mani fests its superiority to the instinctive impulses of mere animal attachment. The latter must -uw rafmqhed and kant alive by the . .zuvaa is wne ony sur row from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other would we seek to hieal-every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open-the afilie tions we cherish and brood over in solitude. Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the daughter who would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of agony would forget the i friend over whom he mourns? Who, when the tomb is closing upon the remains of her most loved-when he feels his heart, ks it a were, crushed in the closing of its portail- I would accept consolation that must be bought i by forgetfulness? No, the love which sur- E vives the tomb is one of the noblest attri- f butes of the soul. If it has woes, it likewise 1 has its delights; and when the overwhelming t burst of grief is calmed in the gentle tear of x recolleetion-when the sudden and convul. I sive agony is over-the present ruin of all that we most loved is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days of its loveliness. Who would root outc such a sorrow from the heart ? Though it, may sometimes throw a passing cloud over I the bright hour of gayety, or spred a deeper, sadness over the hour of gloom, yet would we not exchange it for the song of pleasure or the burst of revelry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrauee of the dead to which< w'e turn even from the charms of the living. 1 Oh, the grave? It buries every defet-ex-c tinguishes every resentment. Froriits peace-t ful bosom springs none birt fond regret andr tender recollection. Who can look upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a com-t punctive throbthat he had ever warred against the ~or hand ful of earth tlrmt lies moulde'r ing bfore hims. C Bsut the grave of these we love-what a place of meditation!~ There it is that we call up in long review the whule history of virtue and happiness, aend the thousand en' dearments lavished upon u's alnost unheeded in the daily intercourse of intimacy ; the ten- E derness of the parting scene the bed of deatth, with all its stifled griefs, its noiseless atten.~ I dance, its mute, wvatchtul assiduities-the last 1 testimonials of expiring love-the feeble, flut-. tering, thrilling-oh, how thrilling !-pres. ~ sure of the hand-the faint, faltering acs cents, struggling in death to give one more ( assuranee of affeetion ! t Av, go to the grave of buried love and r meditate! There settle the account with lI thy, conscience for every benefit unrequited, il every enidearment unregarded, of that de parted being who can never-never return to I< be soothed by thy contrition.n If thou art a child, and hast ever added a d sorrow to the soul, era furrow to the silver n browt of an affetionate parent-il thou art a v husbnid and hast ever caused the lon'd bosom a that lha venturecd its whole happiness in thy 0 arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness o and'triat-lf thiou art a friend who hast ever b wronged, in thought or word,or deed, the 11 spirit that generously conidd n thee; if thou art a lover~ and hast ever given one un merited panig to that heart that now fles cold and stiff beneath thy, feet;- then be sure that P every unkind look,.every ungracious word7 o every ungentle action will come thronigi a back upon-the memo~ and kuiock dolefuill I upon thie soul; then besure . tlou wilt len down sorrowing and repenting on the grave, 'a and utter the unheard groan,.and pour the d unaviiling tear, more deep, more bitter, be-. ni ause unheard and unavailing. C Then weave the chaplets of flower and strew the beauties of nature about the grave -console thy broken spirit, if thou canst, with those tender yet fertile tributes of re gret, and take warning by the bitterness of this Thy contrite affliction over the dead, and henceforth be more faithful and affectionate in the discharge of thy duties to the living. From the Mercury. The Path of Honor. Messrs. EDITORS:-I am a plain man, un accustomed. to appear in print; by the sweat of my brow I eat my bread, and thank Heaven that I have never been in want. Anxiously have I watched the course of event, for some years past, and have been for some time pre pared for the crises which has arrived. I ex pect, sir, it would be difficult to find a man, who has so little sympathy with politicians, as a class, from Demosthenes down to the present generation. I mould my own opin ions-have my own views-read my own newspapers-and "pay the printer." You will not refuse me a brief space in your paper (the invaluable exponent of State rights,) to offer a few plain remarks, disencumbered of political logic, and all that sort of stuff, which does very well on paper; but which, as some one has said, don't touch the question. If we read the speeches of our "great men," a plain man like myself would be very apt to conclude that South Carolina had gone stark mad; while, on the contrary, if we have been accustomed to watch the proceedings of those very men, for the last five years, we would be forced to conclude, that South Carolina should not, under any circumstances, have re mained in the Union until the present time. One thing, sir, is very certain, and according to my calculations equally demonstrable, and that is. that South Carolina ought not to re main in the Union. That if she ought to come back to her allegiance; and it she ought not, she ought to break off entirey from the General Government. And I have come to these conclusions from good and sufficient reasons : the first and most considerable rea son is, that Calhoun, Butler, Cheves, Barn well, and all our statesmen have taught us. I regard Mr. Calhoun as the purest statesman the world ever saw, and am confiident, were he alive, he would sooner die ten thousand deathe on the field of battle, than prompt, by a singie word, "one step backwards." How To say, therefore, that while wrongs have been perpetrated which have placed us at the reet of the tyrant, in the attitude of slaves, ind then to tell us to endore our chains until sur neighbors (slaves as we are) see and eel, as we see and feel, is in effect to say, ,hat our neighbors have the keeping of our iberty, is to place us as much in the power )f our sister Southern States as in the power )f those of whom we would be freed. God forbid that ever that day should dawn ipon South Carolina, when future genera ions should point to the graves of our states nen and say: these are they by whose coun cl our chains were forged; rather let them neel around their tombs, and lisp with honor nd veneration, the names of twenty thou and freemen, who fell because they dare be ree-who fell to teach them the lesson that hile "the philosophy of liberty is jealousy," he exhibition of jealousy is the unyielding. [neompromising, and stern resistance to op oression. To be bose enough to, weigh liberty with ,old, is to be sunk so deep in dishonor that cumulated insults cannot sink lower. To alculate wvitir fear the cost of resistance, when we knowv that resitance is-a duty,is die onorable. To be inafluenced by fear is ala-1 ish ; to endeavor to influence the brave and oble, by appealing to such a passion, is vile, ) neani, contemptible! I scorn, thousands corn, unborn generations will scorn, with verlasting contempt, that man, be he high r low, Senator or Representative, who- shall ~e the means, by counsel or otherwise, of ausing South Carolina to submit to Federali yrannyw. Let South Carolina fail to net, and ot all the- protestations of fight with her, or or her, shall retrieve their names from merf, ed disgrace. Young men ! I call upon you, who, is sub- I ilsion counsels prevail, will feel the gallingi hains most keenly, to arouse yourselk'es and < repare f'or action, and never bequeauth the in eritance of your fathers, bought with theira lood, to fear or dishonor. old men!' all we ask of you will be to' let s fight this battle; give us your blessing.< our sonis will never dishonor your names, y living slaves, when they can dlie freemen. testrain your fears and give us encourage- i lent, and the chains of Federal oppression c huil. melt like wax before the blnze. 1 Butler, Cheves, and Barnwell: Let S'outhC farolina restore her fallen greatness, and C den we will ask~ your counsel: and adviee to ' main tain it. Let us strive to be- free, or att rast let us be slaves because we have striven vain. Sister Southern states, follow where we ad, and we lead you- to- honoe ; but somnsel s not to pause, for pause in the hou-r of I anger stops the pendulum of liberty. For 3 iyself, I can only say, without counting the iews of expediency wvhen a great principle is stake, "Sink or swim, live or dlie, survive r perish," I am for "siecession, with or with ut the other Southern States;" and may this' e the- position. of every true South Care mian.t A CHARLESTONrAN. Srvarous BAmn NOT.-A spurious note, arporting to be a One Hundred Dollar bill ( I' the Mereh~ants'' Bank of South. Carolina E Cheraw, was received at the Bank of Char. S ston yesterday in a remittance. The sig- t itureo of the officers are bad imitations, but a e deem it unnecessary to-go into a further escription, as the- Merchants' Bankt have- il aver issued notes of the denomination of v no lndrae noarm _Courine The :'eeling in Georgia. We are permitted, (says the Spartan,) t< make the following extract from a privat letter, received by a gentleman in this towr from a friend in Georgia. The writer hai been for some years in public life in tha State-a member of the Georgia Legisla ture--and has every opportunity of corree observation and intimate acquaintance with the feelings and views of the people of that State. Read foryourselves, and then judge o: of the falsejand exaggerated reports which are industriously circulated, as to the prejudice of our sister States against South Carolina " I have but one idea on the subject now agitating the country, and that is that South Carolina holds the destiny of the South and of slavery in her own hands. If she backs out then is slavery doomed, and that n. no distant day. But if she will secede frot, the Union, she can save the South and protect slavery. Either the Government will let her go out peaceably and quietly, or will endea vor to force her into subjection. If the Ad ministration permit her to go out without in. terruption, then three-fourths of the cotton States will follow suit in less than two years; for they are only restrained now through fears of an interminable civil war. The people of Georgia do not love the Union, as a sentiment. Well reason teaches me that we should be more prosperous, happy and secure, in a Southern Confederacy than we are in the Union. But suppose the Government determined to coeree South Carolina back into the Union, then the South ern people are driven into the civil war any way; and when forced to fight, they will never fight, on the side of the North-for full well will they know that " the self-same grave, oppression is preparing for South Carolina's rights, will be yawning for them." I have never heard a man of any party here speak on the subject., but that said, if forced to fight at all, he would fight on the side of South Carolina; and every hot-headed Dis unionist would flock there at once, and with arms in their hands and means at their com mand they would do or die in the cause of South Carolina. I have heard many a man of wealth and influence and standing and reputation vow, in public and private, that if South Carolina secede, and Georgia did not. they would remove with all their means to South Carolina. A young man of wealth, an old nriond of wUI1e, tWIu l usiO *J. ia 21 a VW a v 1. 5311111~ river. If we had had a bare majority in South Carolina, why do you hesitate? De lays are dangerous-hesitation is ruin.-If you will not resist now, you will not when they abolish slavery in the District of Co lumbia, in the forts, doek-yards, arsenals, and Dn the high seas. A strong Union party will soon spring up in South Carolina-your itrong men will be bought up-your C on gressmen are already under a bad influence, iad if you do not net now, and that prompt y, the Southern Rights party will cre long let in the minority in South Carolina as well is everywhere else. And we may then give ip the ship-for slavery will be doomed and lhe South degraded. God iny iave a hand n- all this matter; for it is said whenever le wishes or designs to destroy a people, ie first dements them. And the great ina ority of the Southern people do seem to me ;o have lost their foresight, their penetration, heir senses." Now, we ask in all sincerity nnd enrnest iess, how does the above view of the ques ion comport with the action and efforts of .ome of our own people? South Carolina s regarded as the last hope of Southern in lependonee-as the only capable leader of .he Southern hosts at this time. The patri!. >tic- and trwe of all our siater States are ookinig to Sonth Carolinato make an issure. lirect and strong enough, to insure the per nanence and safety of our institutions-to inve our common country, our homes and our -hildren frem intoeranble oppression and nisfortune-while some of our own people, n whlose veins flowsa Crolina blood, oo-fd' ave us now, in advance of knowing what luty and patriotismi may require at our ands, as freemen of Spartanburg to give that is equivalent to a wcritten pte~~ to op ose the action of the State is the onr'y mode n wvhieh the State can ever act so as to re leem her honor and save the country. Let the'honest eftizens of the couintry be: rare how they are thus entrapped into'what vil turn out to 1~e nothing less than tamn ubmission to the insults and tyranny of our appressors. Are you not competent to de ide for yoartefres when thn time cofles, rhat is best t o be done-? Does any one are to doubt your truth, your honor,-your enrage, or your patriotism? Why, then, ni they tie youirhands and blind you to any ne course, in a matter *herty verytinsg will ipend upon circumstances, and a matter in olving your destinies ams freemen by a writ en promise, years before' hand. 1Nople of ;partanburg, hold'your destines in your own ands ; be not mislead by any man; you are reemen, and capable of judlging for your elves. Will you thus bind yourselves by a 'romise to do or not to do-a partieular thing, then your libertics are at stak~e, and your isulted country may call upon you her sons, s rally to her rescue ? No! never J Iet its e free to act as the good of our country may require. Suspend your decision till the ,holo matter is properly presented to your. luppose an incendiary designs to apply a irch to my dwelling. ShnlH I go before and and make a written promise to use no ieans to prevent the destruction of my ousehold- but argum-ent and' remonstrane? br that I will not resist it alone, unless my eiwhbors join, me in resistance ? I'll give no' ae~i promise. I will resi'st by afll the means 'at God andnature have placed i my hands: nd that, too, if I fight alone. Now, we-are brethren suffering a common ijury ; threatened alike with- subjugation; -fth the loss of all we bold dear as freemen. ihall we deic amongr onrselkes upon the question of what is t remedy? Sha)l we war with each oth when the foot of the oppressor is bein on our neck? Shall we raise a bitter0 * dcripple each other in the house, wh dncendiary applies a torch outside to c a all. Shall we not stand shoulder to-: lder in the hour of peril? If we diii Ilis lost. That man can have but little ism, who would gret up bitter politics an r" strifes among his countrymen, at a this. If you di. vide, you are doome. Set your faces sternly against all partizan o zation. United we stand-divided we f Are there Dii among Us? It is our province-~ watch closely the wordings of the puble ntiment, the influen ces that direct it and* distinguish the gen. uine from the spuri. Beyond questions there are strenuous irts now being made in various sections ofrthe State to palm off on the superficial ob"rver, both here and abroad a counterfeit Aetency in this respect. We are convinced, liever, that the public sentiment of South Cablina cannot be thwar ted from its legitimateults by such efforts. In newspapers No of us we read con gratulatory notices 60 widespread reaction of public sentimentpe n the whole State, that Time has brough hahng on its wings, and that the genial woig of reflection have produced a wonderfd* 0ange in the minds of our people in reltiohto the issue now be fore them. In some ofthem we read that all the resolutions, all tht-public declarations, and all the expositiondoof sentiment hereto fore made, have been &erely the empty de claration of a gscon g people, and that the result will demons te of-repeated pre dictions of the No journals-That South Carolina will o from the position she was at least unde r d to occupy on the prominent questions b" e the country. ' Is this change real etious? It is true that the people of So '.Carolina are more inclined to acquiesce i unjust legislation of Congress now than ey were last year? Is it true that the p p who for years past have presented the mo triking example of union againit Federal ongs ever witnessed in the country, have. ef to tfie conclusion now, when everythin hold sacred and dear demands that um, d its influence to be exercised tosave t to allow internal I -4a% and to I cLufler dom and so feebly expressed in a few quar ters of the State, that its utterance causes 1 not a ripple on the calm surface of a settled determination to dissolve the Union. All the coadjutors of the Southern Patriot in the country can bring no proof to the contrary. And there, then, divisions among us? We assert now that there are none of such mag nitude as to endanger the cause in which we I are engaged. But let us beware of the future. We appeal to Carolinians who love their State, who desire that she should not falter in the discharge of the trust committed to her, and to crush, when they have the power, the demon of discord among them. And we must be understood on this point. It is not any acts of proscription, nor attempts to os. tracise those who differ from us-nor the use of offensive epithets, nor the infliction of in- t juries to any man's business or reputation on account of the opinions he holds on the issue of separate secession, that we enjoin. In our opinion this is the very way to create the di. I visions we dread and deprecate. But we do ppeal to all who think we are wronged, who esire to see a dissolution of a Union that romises nothing but a continuance of these rongs to the end, not to let pride of opinion o operate on their feeli'ngs as to- drive them ito a position they honestly abhor. In Greenville we have a press opposed to eessioni, either by this State or all the C outhern States; yet its adroit muanagers snle- ~ eed in bringing to-its support man, wvho rofess a southern Confederaef to be the C erest politicail object they seek or desire. C Iut the Patriot is a Union paper, a champron f federalism', and thiose, disunion co-opera ionists will have to be eciary of its insidi'ous ~ eachings to keep their garments unspotted. C n Charliest'on- the Southern Standard is an ounced as- seelifug to' olitain thie union of outhern Staites, for the avowed perpose of ~ stabishing a Southern Confederacy. Ent r the Standard however laudable the 'original ~ urpose of its establiehmnent, may impercep- ~ ibly glide into the same etarrent of unionism ad consolidationiafl' on which the- Patriot wimis now solitary and al'one'.- The evening f'ews is in the same' position. Now, the ' i-mger in these in'overents is that pnrties, ~ arty strife and bickerins ,will be introduced C mong us, and a fenal contest betwveen a hiose who originally sotwght the same cend ill produce an estrangement and albenation f f feeling fatal to present action, and not less 'tal to future action, even when ce-opera- ~ on is no-longer doebtfidl. t Th'e nucleus of a Unionfa'rty one'e formed a ithin our borders will be frauwht with the ~ tmost danger to the cause oithe South. * round that nucleus will gather those who ure not only opposed to- State secession, bat ro any Southern action whatever. Its memn- a ~ers (vill be baited and tempted with Federal ~old and Federal honors, and at last it may ather strength enough to control even our ~tate policy. There is nothing either pre - umptuous or timid in the entertaining such uspicions. The histoiry of public affairs in ter States testifies to the correctness of e position, that the vision of public men 'a be obscured, and that gold and promises ma revive a love' of the Union where it had ecome nearly extinct. Let South Caroli. iins beware lest they aid the enemies of out' stitutions to divide a people, who, with such ivision, must triumph at last. The' men who advocate. State action de- j aire- to avoid the difliculties-alladed to'. Thefr t irn is to secure the U'nion of our people,and i wo this purpose they have spared no efforts ti ,o cnH'ahten them~ The argunents for and ,1 against the course they believe right Iave been given with no sparing hand, and the course of the journal that represent thei views has almost precluded the necessity o the establishment of special organs by those who differ from them. They deprecate and repudiate all vituperation, and ought not to be held responsible for the heated expres. sions of individuals exereising more zeal than wisdom. Such, we believe, is the policy of what some may call the separate State action party, and we submit that it is one which pa. triotism dictates, and which Carolinianse an. not err in sustaining. The bitter fneds of '30 and '32 are well remembered, and the les. sons then taught should prevent a reorgani. zation of parties that must be even more dis. astrous than that of those days. Butler, Cheves, Chesnut, Preston, Hampton, and other prominent names, are cited to us as op posed to separate State action; but we have yet to learn that they will be found giving distracting counsels to the State. Let those who think with them abstain from seeking distinction by running ahead of such leaders. -South Carolinian. South Carolina. The whole burden of the Whig press of this State, seems to be, how to abuse most effectually our sister State. The noble stand taken by South Carolina, instead of being imitated is deeried ; there is no friend ly remonstrance to the tone-no dignified ap. peal to generous feeling-no sympathy but a bitter, vindictive, uneompromising hos tility, that would come with more grace from Federal Massachusette, than a twin-sister. The Democrats of our State, are far more generous, for though many of them, the )ar ger portion we may say, do not believe in the policy of" separate State action, they contend for the r'ght of secession, not knowing how soon nortern aggression may bring about that co-operation of the South, which the present or pait seems not yet to have done. The doctrine of nullification so strongly con demned in'33 and '35, and which caused two vessels of war to be placed in Charleston harbor to enforce the laws, assumes a new feature when put in practice in Massachu setts and Vermont, to nullify a constitutional act of Congress; for the Fugitive Slave Law as passed, is merely a section of the Constitution itself, served up a la mode to humbug the unwary. Every thina' S9nnth We hear nothing of these things in those )resses who take pride in abusing South Caro ina-who seem to forget that she is not everf ,ontending for a share of the soil her valor ielped materially to win-but an inherent -ight-a guaranteed right-a right she n er surrendered, nor never will-the right o regulate her own internal affafre and >rotect her institutions from being cor upted by either a foreign or a domestic oe. If we eamot agree with Sottir CaroiMe n principle, we have no right to condemft ier-as she came into the Union voluntarily, lie can go out so-but then will be no time or recrimination-, it will be- one when better eelings should be aroused-and if we are ot mistaken, one would be, that might unite he whole South in a common cause. But South Carolina will not secede *e rust; honest counsels may yet prevail in 'ur National Assembly, and a genuine com. romise be effected that will lie: all dissen, ions. But the rights of the States must till be guaranteed, If Vermont and Massa husetts wish to secede, they have a riht nd let them go !-Lincoln, (N. C.) Courier. Calhoun on Subnmssioim "Com'e what will, should it cost every drop f blood and every e-ent of property, we must efond ourselves, and if compelled, we would tand justified by all laws human and divine." 1 "If we do not defend ourselves, none will efend us; we will be more and sMore press. d as we recede; and if we submit we wil'! c trampled under foot." .nhrme "I say, for one, I would fahrme ny xtremity on earth- tha give up' ono inch of ur equillity-one inch of what belongs to 1 s, as members of this great Rep~ublie" "Wherevera free geogie permit their fears a control them in refusing to vindicate their ghts, they are .ready to be slaves, and onlyc rait for a deposit who has more comtrage than, wey have, to make them such." 1 "There is one poiht on which thei'ec n Ym 6 diversity of opinion in the South among losc who are true to her, or who have madc p their minds not to be slaves; that is i'f we bould be forced to' choose betiteen resistan y and'submrission, we' would tako resistance L all hazards." Mr. Editor-The above quotations- are -om speeches and retters of~ J.. C. Calhoun.i [o purer patriot than hiin ever lived-no 1 nine shines brighter upon the roll of fame ian that of the "illustrious Carolinian." Agei ter age may pas away, but as long as free fen ive his name will be honored-his me ory revered. And especially should the ans of the old Palmetto State attend to the aunsels and follow the advice of him whose fe was spent in the defence of their rights nd native land. The Separate State Action p arty do buti bey the commands of Mr. Calhoun in ad' iing resistance. Did lhe ever say, that be-1 mse we were not as powerful as our one-c aia, we must endure oppressions or injus-r cec? No. Read the above third and fifth notations, and especially the fourth, and se hat his injunctions were. If,-then% we heed 1 is advice, wo will "resist at all hazard." 5 Columbia, Juno 11, 1851. HAYNE. I (Fairfield Register, t HIna Hrlr.-the Boston Post says of Sam. or, what will do to read mouch nearer the 1 !quator: "Love for' trie T1nfon is very na ial and becoming in a person chosen to. io United States Senate for aix years. If ie Union does not last, the Senator's occu nftinnM' gno."r From the Mercury. ecession vs. Bubmission al. Co-opera. tion. Messrs. EDITORS:-In this time of ex citement we must endeavor to express our sentiments in a spirit of kindness towards those who differ from us as to the remedy to be applied for the redress of our wrongs. We must, if possible, prevent the formation of parties in our State, when there seems to be little, if any diversity of opinion, as to whether we have been wronged, and as to whether we may reasonably hope that the tide of Northern aggressions will voluntarily cease. Those who claim Messrs. Cheves, Barnwell, Butler and Orr as the exponents of their views, are avowedly "resistance men," and many of them unhesitatingly declare that they will not only acquiesce in the decision of the majority, but will actively co-operative in the measures of the State. Let us hold them by kindness to that position. Let us ever treat them as friends, though some of them lose temper occasionally, when their arguments are too keenly disseeted,and then use very harsh language towards the "Action Party." Let us convince our brethren, that we have towards them the confiding loving feelings of a generous brotherhood; and in the conflict we will be found shoulder to shoulder. My social position brought me in contaet with the question which has now embodied Northern hostility to Southern prosperity some years before it assumed any civil im portance. It was only regarded then as a moral or religious question. I was led pa tiently to investigate its scripturalness and J the probable result of its agitation upon the t prosperity and petuity of the Union. Of the I scriptural ness of our domestic institution I 8 had no doubts, but my worst fears were ex- I cited as to the consequences of the discus. ( sion. The present state of the country proves I that those fears were well founded, and the I epitaph of the Federal Union of equal sover eign States may now be written. The Feder- A al compact is torn into shreds, and we must 1 either resume the powers delegated to the I General Government, or remain in a state of r degradation now, and soon witness the utter i ruin of the land of our father under the iron c despotism of a lawless majority in Congress. . I say lawless, because if the will of the jorify is law, then that maL leag e. Nor must we be so deluded as to r beheve that the storm will not descend in its 1y merieless firy until we rest under the clods ei of the valley. We must devide the sad fate ea with our children; but we will be less able P( to bear up in the desperate struggle when fA we have permtted odr souls to eraven under W the fron tread of a Consoffdated Governrent 1: at Washington. Ohi, sirs, if our State is so th Draven already that she quails under the ap- . prehension of evil from resumption of the In New powers delegated, let her look on the ar otfier sfde, and see the consequences of sub- nc mission to Congressional misrule. Do the fe merchants of Charleston fear the loss of Pf Ames if we secede! let them kavt that if to do rot seeede, in ten yeats Charleston sI wifl, in all probability, be a smoni'detfng at nin'. Does the large slaveliofder tremble for he safety of his negroes, let him know that t n teo years lie will have no negroes left. We 1 tre doomed to feel the power ofthe Northern S Baebarian'. The Vandal hordes pant for ex ,loit and plunder on the fields of the sunny to gouth; and if there is might in numbers, hen we must be destroyed by~ the unfon of t~ lreesoffers with our negroes, or we wvill be i oreed to destry tfie entire raCee of our ne:- hi troeu lborated bthe General G~overnment, tI )h,- that the Go of Mercy may avert the S iwfal catastrophe, and save our eountry fi-oni tI he hovirots of a servile war!h If we secede; *e may7 esenipe, f ve do' not secede, then es-t ape is impossible. CLE}ICICtrS. ~ K Co.O'PERATIo.-The following exhaet of U letter froms a eilen of Mississippi to a os ~enitan in this efty, (safs the Mfetury,) is ne of many similar pledges wvhich have enome o us from various parts of the South. We th >elieve it expressen truly the convfetions and a eelings of a great and growing party in near- T y alT the slaveholding States, They will de ro-operate with us if we have the spirit to C Let, though it must also be admitted that se key wHil certai-nly eo-.operate with us if we a hrink fiom that aetion. to CANTON, Miss. May, 28. if I was highly, gratified in reading the speech ini f Mir. Rliet, one of the newspapers you d< Lent me. His course meets mv views, as I ar zave thought that South Carolin'a had waited se 00 long al'ready, the argument long since ge maing been exhausted, and no alternatives se eft but resistance or dishonor. Glorious lit- gi le State i my heart my soul is with her, and find many in this county ready and willing, ? f any attempt is made to subjugate her, to acrifice property and life in her behalf. r'hough old, if she should need resistanee, I gC nill endeavor to be there, and so, I feel as- U ured, tilT be many of my neighbors. A PrLANx ReAn) MACRIE.-Mr. Randolph, of e: t.owan county, N. C., has constructed a mo- eq el of his new Plank Road Machine, which Ur an be seen at Mr. McKoihan's establishment. co Ne have examined it, but confess that we of ani't describe it, and would liko to see the ar nun that can. It is without wheels or axles, br ad works on a connected chain of rollers th ,nd blocks. It is intended for plank roads, C< iut the inventor informs us that it, will run pr vith eace on any graded road. He says heist as drawn 8000 weight with one horse. One housand pounds can be easily moved with in hand on this model!h-running on the ed loor. The cost of one for two horses would me about $200. ''Oe Mr. Randolph expects to obtain a pgatent bki or his invention.-Fayetteville Carolinian. col Col Unsophistioatoed manners are the genuine i irannts of a irtuous mind. thi Our lraspeat& After all that has been said and writtew against the Charleston Converton of South-w ern Rights Associations, both in and out of the State, denouncing it as a meeting of a, cobins, and attempting to throw all sorts of odium and contumely upon it, we are rejoiced' to see it is doing its work handsomely. Even the candid anti-session or model. resistane men, as they would havithemselvesregarded;) are rejoicing at the bright prospects of co. operation w. ich are looming up- in the dis tance, since the action of our Convention has been made public. Hon. A. P. Butler says, in his letter to the Hamburg meeting. "I be lieve that the great State Rights-cause and: principles are stronger in the Southern States. than they have ever been." And what, we ask, has made it stronger? If the effect of.' separate secession by South Carolina is "to bring about hopeless isolation of civil- war,' why is it that now she has signified her de termination, to secede, some- symptoms of' this isolation does not manifest itself ih-the Southern States? Why as MrButlerjays;, iave issues been made and are now poding in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, that. were never distinctly presented before ?" We mnswer-reason and common sense will an nver-because the impression that South, Carolina will act has strengthened the cause )f resistance throughout the entire South. Let it be known or believed by friend:andi be that South Carolina will secede next. spring, with anything like unanimity, andt. ve would stake our judgment upon the re iult that there would be at least two States >repared to go with us in twelve months af. er she had taken what some have been. Pleased to call the "absurd and disgracefuli tep;" but let the doubting and diseontente& oliticians get up a few more Hamburg-and'. rreenville anti-secession- meetings, say hardt hings, stir up strife, create- divisions and[ eartburnings throughout the State, and'fin Ily prevent secession by raising popular larms, and our causethe cause of the South f humanity, justice and freedom will be, if" ot overthrown, retarded another halteentu y. The friends of secession and reslkance i Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, will be ompletely paralyzed and disheartened, their isociations disband, theirat"i- ', sideiis~6fiu'secity, only two were regular. employed as laborers. Many of them gain. I a preearious livelihood as runners to hous. - of prostitution, and the majority were sup >rted by charity. Such, we are alio in rmed, is the general condition of fogifives ho hate taken np their residence in our. rge towns and eities, where, be it observed,. ey chiefly congregate. "In Canada, also, they are regarded ylithe habitants with distrust and vo-ion.. There e two towns in Canada West, in which a gro is not allowed to set his foot, through. ar he may become a burden upon the tax Lyers." Is It not cruelty then to them to tempt'. waes ffom the South thus to degrade themt. the North? "A correspondent of the New York Day 3ok, writing from Louisville, Kentucky, th'e nte which Mr. Clay pledged to send a'regi ent of horse dragoons into South Carolina-, subjugate her people, discourseth thus:: "They (the Kentuckians) are willing to, k "Union! every thing for Union !" and thiks good faith; but if fatc should will theirr pes to blast, they will stand as a pillar of7 e South. They seriously believe thatb )uth Carolina is about to withdraw from& e Union, and should the Nor-th still eling to r Sewards and Sumners in this erises, and' e President call out the United States Arn y to subdue the Palmetto, fifty thiousandi entucky bayonets will face the music- ot' nele Sam, and make Carolina's cause- hen vn. Mark this prophecy"~ Sotu CAnOuIn-We undsrstand~ (sayse' e Montgomery Adieus) that Gen. Hamilina South Carolina, sub, passdi on. his nayty exas, a short time- sine, ad-gave it as his ' cided opinion that the secession of South zrolina was new- Sted-insuiaflt.- NQo ne man, it seems to us, tan dbh ii Sicea pressure, as the act of secession, must draw the surfae all; that which is rotten, and! a dark spot occasionally appears, like that: Charleeten, it ii a matter-notto-beWeni tred at. It is eny surprising, that swoli e so few and far btween--and in thenms Ivoa so inin s:nlk Ne p3s5 ta meral rule, eys teneto prove the generall udness of the pblic sentiment in' that llant State. Ma her course be onward!! etract of a ?etter from a gentieman in Alh, bamas, dated 11th.Juno. I write this l'etter 19om the eity orhont mery, where I have been ist-at'tendance on the Southern Rights Conventien of abama. Our meeting was bainonions e passed a resolution, " uemtse contradi. ite," that of South Carotlina, in Her sover: an eapacity, chooses to accedekfom the ion,-and- the Federal Governmiencattempta ereien, we pledge-the State Rights Party Alabama, to resist, force- ly force. We going into the contest with prespects ightening. The hopes anid the liberties of' i South are ini the hands of your noblo muonweafth. W'e wish the questiota icipitated. "Delays are dangerous.-.Co, nb a Telegraph DOGGisir ADvE~R'sIENT,-edA Kentucky itor advertises as follews: "Wanted at this office, a bull dog, of any or except pumpkin and milk, of respecta size, snub nose,ecroppe ears, abbrevisted itinuation, and bad dispositlon'-who tli ne when called with a raw beef steak, and il bite the man who spits tobacco juice on stovea nd stenas the oxchamm'a."