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To the Citizens of Edgeflold District who are Opposed to Separato State action by South Carolina: You are particularly requested to attend at Elgefleid Court House on the 'Irst Monday in July, at which time you may expect several speeches in opposition to separate State ac tion. MAxY ANTI-S.cETsONtSTS. C3PWE invite attention to the new advertise ments of the well known firm of SNowDEN and SurAR, Augusta Georgia. GEORGIA SARSAPARILLA, In this -week's. paper may be teen an advertise. ment of Dr. D.xxis's Sarsaparilla. an article of Georgia Manufacture. This is said to be a most excellent preparation. In addition to this, it. is a Southern preparation. Equal as it is to SAN's, ToWNsEND'S &c., in real merit, and superior in the locality of it's birth, should it not have the de cided preference of all Southern invalids? Of course. . . SODA FONT. ANY one wishing a delightfully cooling and re freshing glass of Soda Water, had better drop in at Mr. G. L. P xxs Store. He keeps a -eular supply of the colderst ice and syrups of the finest quality. GODE.YS LADUS-E00K.. . TE: Jiliy number (an excellent one) is upon our table. The contributions to it are all from Amern can Iadies. This month begins thte 22nd year of the existence of this periodical. May it flourish 22 years longer under the direction of the same capable conductor. NEWSPAPER REGISTER. The receipt of this is acknowledged. It is pub lish~ed quarterly in the City of Philadliphia, by C. PEincE. anti edited by Mats.'cr Pptta. The pre so-it number contains a list oIf all the Newspapers published at this time in thc United States. The curious can also see this by calling "roundI the corner." LEWIS' STRAW CUTTERS. TnIEsE admirable machines are now readly for delivery to all who may -desire them. We htave seen one of them in operation. andl havec beer. struck with the ease and rapidity of its execution. The construction is simple, but very complete. All who wis~h to save time and labor by thec quan tity, in cutting up their Oats. Straw. Shucks, &c.. would do well to order immediately one of these utseful implements. Pric, $i30. Manufactory in Hamburg. Orders sent either to W~t. LE wzs, (thle inventor) at Ihamburg, or to the Preprietor of the Advertiser, at this place, will be promptly attend. ed to. : HOW'S THlE CRAP ?n Oca's is a brag one--although wcr say it that should not. As to thle District at large, the an swers will be various. Oat'i failed almost every where except on Turkey Creek. (That ncrcr fails.) Wheat is turning out generally well. Ear ly Corn in several sections (Cheves' Creek and Reach Island for instance) lhas suffe~red altmost ir reparably. In other places. it is like our-s. Cotton is utniversally promising well-alas ! we fear too well for the price next Fall. Waterm'lns (don't knth!) arc coming on cheeringly. IHuckleberries are jm-~t over--black berries are now in full blast. and, last but not L.east, Cow-peas is up. - o-.- - - DOCIUIEXTS AFLOAT. IT is currently reported that soveral Egelieldians are in possession of Penys sp'ceches by the quantity and are actively engnEed in putting them offutpon variouts persons as orthodox publications. Now this is to inform all whom it tmay concern. that these speeches arc from the pen of one who dlifiers from lBt.r n,. B~inswELT., Onn andl others opposed to separate action, mnore triddy than do those who advocate action. Mn. Psenny prides himself upon being a Union man to the extent of subndssion. For this view. BeL-ts~n. Hans~watL .. &c., have aa little tolcrat ion as any men in South Carolina. Mn. Psennv is nterly: opposed to any thing that thrteatens a dissolution of tlin U~inin. Be-rLEn, BAntNwELL, &c., ear'eslly decsire a Southern Confederacy, and with a present pro-'' pect of such a thing, wvouhl rejoice in immediate disunion. Mr. PERRY is on good tcrms with an administration, which BTrLER, BItnswELL. &c., would rec4rn to approach. Mr. Penny's pa per, if not a tool of that administration, is abutndantly acceptable to it andl reseives it's cordial smiles of favor. R'-r.n. JanXwEItr. &c.. are known to be enenmies to thc Gonvernrment at Wzishingtnn and are anxiously awaiting an opportunity to throw off their allegiance to it. Mr. Pennv speaks aip provingly of Mr. Conn of Georgia, and shakes him by the hand as a good and true al:,. Jttig" IlLT LEnt has denounced him as a dernerter whlo has "turned and fired on thte camp (If his comrades." But it is useless to continue the contrast. It i; very certain that Mr. P~nny's creed, if testedl by the standurd of Carolina politics, i:; not orthodox. Therefure, we woul suggest to all who may chance to read his argument. so bear in mind the prineiples of the athor and his, manif-at politi c-al amlnitien WF return our thanks to CaiLW f e"'vera copies of the Liverpool Mer'cury and Liverpool Journal. In one of them'we see it noticed as an item of " American News," that " the people of South Carolina are threatening a dissolution of the Union." So it seems Lhe doings of this little "Rice plantation," as one of our good citizens is wont to term his State, have actually been heard of across the Big Atlantic. And a paper of note mentins the fact without so miucht as cracking a smile. The bright Lord MATOR, with wham Mr. WEDISTF.R feasted at Liverpool, has found out per haps that New York and Am:-rica are not exactly synonymous tenns: that is, if he takes the City papers. We are indebted alo to our friend, JAtES RL INS ForD Esq.. (now in London) for copies of the I London Tintes and Liverpool Standard. Any one desirous of reading fresh London-news out of London papers, can have that privilege by calling at our ofiice. McDONALD'vs. COBB. Tnr struggle in Georgia between the two par. ties is now fully re-opened-McDoNALD, being the leader of the Southern Rights party-Conn, of the Constitutional Union party. We are much pleased to hear from many sources, private as well as public. that McDo.NALD'S prospects are rapidly brighten'ng. The language generally used a month ago, when speaking of this coming election. was. "Al! Conn rules Georgia-there's no chance to beat him!" But since the selection of Mc DONALD by the Southern Rights Convention as their chieftain, and since certain issues have been pressed home upon the consideration of the spirit ed people of Georgia by the determined attitude of a neighboring sister, the tone and style of refer ring to this contest with King Conn has undergone a very great moliftration. We hear it now very generally said, " Well, Conn's found at last. Cun ning and crafty as he is, Georgia shrewdness has penetrated him. And there he stands-a naked Consolidationist. If lie cant swear out of it and make himself believed, he is thrown this time, cer tain." It is rumored on this side of the river that he will make such an attempt. And indeed some traveller, passing through our little town lately, dropped the remark " that Conn could tear any plank from his platform lie pleased and make a large part of tie Georgia people believe that it had nerer been heere." We do not, of course, credit such idle nrertions. Facts and circumstances, now transpiring beyond the Savannah, prove their absurdity and falsity. The able and intrepid Press of that State are hemming his Cons-ship within a -;cry incomfortable enclosure. To es cape will be as detparate as to stand his grottmd, acknowledge his creed and fight it out. Whatev er course lie may select. the day of his dethrone ment draweth near. 90 Cui.ns ion McDoNALD AND TIM SoUTHIERN CAISE! Look out Co1tbb-,. Tx-st you and hi)h-by 1ake' a bad jobby Of it. PUBLIC NOTICES. Ttrina are too notices of public meetings at the head of our editorial columns to-day, which will. doubtless, appear to many of our readers as clashing. One is a call upon the District' for the purpose of a free "interchan; of opinion" upon political matters-the other is n call uipon n' par ticular portion of the District for the special pur poses of hearing anti-secess~ion speeches. Thte former (general) invitation appeared fist--thet atter Qif~a~:jiuoe.jse e h~ooL We arc at a loss to know precisely what is in tended by this maneuvre. Are our friends . of the anti-secession party determnined tupnn holding an exdusive meeting, in opposition to thte liberal one prcviously advertised ? Are they determined to tmake the elTort to place old Etdgefield in their leading strings ? Do they really intend forthwvith haltering all they can catch, hitching them in tra ces at once and cracking the whip to the tune of Btut perhaps we misconstrue thern in supposing for a moment that this ie their ohieet. Perhmps th~eir intention is to bring tup their party in close coht:mn for an efli.ctutal charge upon the District meetittg. Alt hough they will be, by cuch a step, unfturling the h~n ek flag of division-although they will he court intg distraction and the consequent ruin of thme Carolina catuse, yet th eir purpose will be somewitat redeemed by the fact thtat they heroically challenge all the rest of their fellow-ci'izens to ope~n combat. Our first sutpposition then may be incorrect--our latter cate. right. Instead of a par y conclave, they may design, pirompited by a spirit of emulation. to meet their opponenta before the people of IElgefield. in a passage at arms atnd, if need be, to dash into a getneral mi-lee. We had not. of late, anticipated thi; consttm mation as a tihing in anywise prohale. We (1o not know, nou-. whether this proceeding emanates from a respectale combination of tmen or from a dliscontented and capiious few. We have lbut one responsible name for it. There may be many others aware of the- circumsitance. We have no idea of tile speakers expected, or whether they are utmpor'ed or horme-bred. We have heard it ruggcsted that. Mr. Brta-r is to be called in !!! Our ceclamtation points must be un dlerstood as denoting the sutrprise n ith which we first. received this hint. Ar'd vet it may he so. We certainly know of n other speaker in the Congressional UiA rict, who is likely to respond to n srecinl, on-.eided call, as thlis utniestionahly is. Juodge ihrrr.tr.a :-u-ely will not. Whto then I The first 'Mooday in July will decide. 'FT original object of the meeting first adver tisced was to huarmonize r.nd conciliate the people of FEdgefneid-:o gntell iissension by caln remon strances and phlain expllanatio'ns. The ill-timed do iatec, imuplie'd int the other notice, is well calI culated to chtange the entire character of tat meeting. When an enemy is seen marsha!!ittg his men for thte onset, the truce is at an end, and swords and hucklers are in demand. Let tile chrge' he mnade,-and even though Mr. . unT himself shouthl consent to be the standard-hearer, we feel convined that thte shock of arms will be met with a promnptitud~e and boldnet's, worthty of ottr gallant ol Itistrict. .---0 TIlE NEW COSTUrME. WoerLn yott believe it ? This "Ex~oo~ua mode of clothing ladies is actually about to be taken ttp and adopted. At least the-c are manifest indica tions of it in all our large cities, except Charleston We arc no audepls in ft malc dressintg, and cannot therefore it'eribe in proper phrse, the varicus parts of this d rers. Wi thotut dlescentding to die-tails, t'e long andi short of it is, that the skirts are short and the pantal:ettes long. The latter a "visible to the naked eye" nieorly as high tup as thme knee. The former of course. come down to that point precisely. Thme pantalettes are, ase yet. fnll, a fter thme Titrkirh style ; hntt it is expecteel thmat the next step will be into pnnts of a tightter fit. and so on by degrees, until the exact dress of the French opera girls is reached. The propriety of these chtanges we w'ill ntot dare to discm:,. It belongs to thle ladties to deide and art upon thtem. We woulil simply ask tii qtuestion: Is this peculiari ty of dress, ieen whlen carried ot asanticipated, mtore unnatural, mtsemttly, unbecoming or tunetris tinut thtan the monstrouts tournures, of thme yeatr 110 ? W.- stubmit title gryr, for di'cu-ion,to all TIlE ARGU3MENT OF CAPT. BROOKS, As we intimated in our last an intention ofre plying to the argument of Capt. Baooxcs, we will proceed to make one or two observations accord ingly. "Will secession avenge the insult or injustice which we all admit has been' done us ?" This might be answered, after the Scotch fashion, by asking another question, viz: Will it not do so? But we undertake to answer directly. We say then, "It will." Even supposing that we neither ijiire our adversaries nor benefit ourselves pecuni arily, we will have become freed. by this act, from all coinexion with the most loathsome and ofTen sire allies. We will have robbed our most malig nant foes of the fiendish delight they anticipate from seeing us crushed by their direct and imme difte agency. We will have snatched from them all pretext of authority, under which, in the Union, they expect to drive on their purpose of destruction steadily and uninterruptedly. We wvill have flung a bold defiance into their very teeth, astounding them with the conviction that they must either stay their assaults for the future, or prosecute them at the point of the bayonet. We will have sickened their very souls with blank disappoint ment and chagrin, seeing that their long cherished schemes for our destruction have been so suddenly upset. Will there be no revenge in this? That they will feel it as such, is sufficiently proved by the fact that they threaten and rave at the bare suggestion of such an act on our part. But, in it's consequences, there is much reason to believe that this act will achieve a complete and dire revenge. If war result from it, (and such is the opinion of Mr. BARNWELL,) a union of the South may be expected ac one of the most natural of probabilities. (And such, if we mistake not, is the expectation of Judge BUTLr.n.) A union of the South, however efected, would as all admit, give us an easy victory. And in less than twenty years, the North would be sueing at our feet. Would not this berevenge ? Remember now that blockade in any shape or form is war. No one has yet proved the contrary. Southern union would as surely follow from this, or any other plan of co-ercion, as from a direct conflict of arms at the beginning, and, with this union, the full measure of revenge just mentioned. If war be not a consequence of secession, there can be no doubt that our State will take her stand quietly and peaceably, as an independent Repub lie. And will any one pretend to say that the bare spectacle of the abused and insulted Carolina. stepping proudly forth in the bright garb of her sovreignty, would not torture the inmost souls of our old oppressors. Would there be no revenge in this ? When the genius of her sons had demonstra ted to the nations of the earth lier perfect right to a place among them, and procured from them the public recognition of this truth, can we beleive that the bitterest pangs of mortification would not seize upon those whose gross injumtice had placed her in the right before the world ? Would there be no revenge in this I When, one by one, those gallant Southern States, which had, ft ' a while, been severed from her side by the specious der n tion of traitors and the hollow professions 01 .is guised enemies, should return to their first love and link their fate once more with their true and devoted sister, can we not imagine the blanchled look of dismay that would seize upon the most audacious leaders of the enemy? Wonld there be no revenge in thiP ? When by our noble ihlustration of the rights of the States, the Northern Federaljstawould be compellod to relinquish their creed arid yield at once thmeir fond hopes of ruling tlif~outh by a'centralization of po'wer, can wo not' mihiot seec them writhing in agony as thmeir passed into nonentity ? Would this be no revenge!? Even granting then, as we did at the outset, that we may not be able to wnreak such vengeance up on our foes as wvill resuilt ia actual injury to their persons or their property, we will yet have "re venged time tarnished honor of our house," in the most direct, manly and efTctual way that is left us. Certain other interrogational arguments of Capt. Bnaooxs wvill be noticed at our leisure. "GOO0D NElWS FRlOM A FARl COUNTRY." I-r is evident that the action of thme recent Con vention of Associations has had the happiest pos sible effect upon the entire Southern Rights party of thme South West. Thmus far at least, thme predic tions of those, who opposed thme measures of that Convention, have stopped greatly short of fulfil nmcnt. The result has been suich as to " grapple to us with hooks of steel'' all our trume friend:. We feel assuedl that those, wvho prophesied evil, will joyfully acknowledge that they were much nmistakien. Tme cause is pros'pering to a degree thmat couldl scarcely have been anticipated. Tme fee-linig, in favor of t Ac movement in South Caroli na, is going on " conquering andl to conqer." True, neither Georgia nor Alabama nor 3Mississip pi is ready, at thmis time, to pursue time measure of Secession ; but there are utnequivocatl proof. thmat the boiny of the people in those States are ready to sustain South Carolinma in taking thmat step, with all thme means God lhas given them. 31any of thme strongest indications of this condition of public sentiment are to be foundi in direct responses to time action of thme Charleston Convention How then can cany man continue to assert with any shmow of reason, that this action was so ill advised and so culpabmle, as to cnll for a rebuttal through primary meetings of the people!? If it has satisfied-nny more. gratified the great mass of otur friendus abroad, should it not satisfy and grati fy our friends at hnme ? If it is considered by the most distinguished leaders of the Sottthern party in othmer States. as time best thing that cotuld have been done for thme advancement of thmat party, shall Carolinians, from a petty pridle of opiunion, still insist that it is not tihe thing, and refuse to ad mit its unmistakeable eflfets ? Surely not. Feel ings of genutine delight should fill the heartsm of all of us, when hearing, again and again, time glad tidings that ouir course, thmus far, meets the tunquali fled admiration and approbation of the Southern party every whmere. "JIo Triumphe!" Tme dawn hmas funlly broken. The mists are dis appearing. Tme path of (dutty is proved to be, noun as ever, the path of sa fety. It lies before us, clear and bright. We hmave but to march boldly on. Tme heights of Independence are already in view. "JIo Triumphec!" THE SOUL OF alUSIC. WHi'rnIER has it fled!? There was a time whmen Edgefield acknowledged no superior in time varioums kinds of musical excellence. Pianos, guitars, fitites, violins, aye, and even a venerable Harp, were once heard sounding at eventide from parlor, porch anid piazza end filling time moon-lit air with all mannier of joyous notes. Those were indeed pleasant (lays. A spirit of gallantry thmen anima ted bothm old men and Tounog. Thec desire of harm lesis mirth was felt and acknowledged by amatronm. as well as maidens. One of thme employments of life seemed to be, to give each other pleasure. The witchming strains of music were regularly eni listed for this laudlable pnrpose. Ah ! well do we rememb~er our first serenading exploit! It was when the sweet influence of " charmed melody" was really felt and admired by our community. Of our two companions in that nocturnal adven ture-, one has sincee become am well-known General -the other, a College Professor. Of course we were their junior ; hut they kindly took tis by the to the impulse given to our musical propensities by their encouiagement- on that very night, do we attribute that humbskiUll, which has solaced and amused so many hours of subsequent life. Since their day tootwe have had several golden periods of the Divine Art-:The first to which we allude is that era in which flourighed OGDcox, BORDEAUX, AsHmAN, HADYN, GnANTOY and HANDEL. The second is marked by the names of BAXTER, ToULoN;- PAULDJNG,' SMITH and LEs TER. Few will know the "dramatis personm" here alluded to, by these appellations. The actors themselves will, howeverpnd this in suffiniea for our purpose. brany an hQur..of innocent glee and merriment will be recilledi' their imaginations by the bare mention of those. names. But these days are " gone glimmering, &c." and perhaps we ne'er shall see their like again. - In the language of NooRE, so often quoted by LzsTta, . " Long be my heart with.such memories fille'." The question, with wlih e commenced, now recurs-" Whither las the soul of music fled ', We pause for reply. FOR T E TISER. TO THE HONM-ARIS'EAD BURT. "It is grossly unbecoming in those who would discharge the trtust of sentinels, not only to quit their posts, hut to turn round.. and fird upon the camp of their comrab.Jqudge Butler's Charles ton speech.] Your course, from d time you took your seat upon the floor of Congress, until a recent date, has, in the main commanded our approba tion. We have adhered to and defended you through evil, as well as good report, and were among the last to suspret your faithfulness as a Southern sentinel. But you yourself have aflord ed proofs, which unexplained tend to confirm our our worst apprehensions. For years past it hasbeen known that you have a 'penchant' for the speakership of the United States Uouse of Representatives. You have not forgotten, that you would not have been a candi date for re-election several years ago, but that some of your friends In Congress desired to run you for the speakershipi. Nor have you forgotten that you would not have desired re-election at a subsequent period, but for the same good rea son. The intimations of the Press of your Congressional District, that you still cherish a lurking desire for that 'high place, have passed urcontradicted as we understand it, and your immediate family, it is said, esteem your prospect of success before the next Congress as highly ..ttering. It is true you asserted in your Green wood letter (which, on its face shows that you were half inclined not to answer that imperlinent call for your viewson " a question which can not .come within the scope-of your duties") "I have never seen the day when I wculd have held an office under the 'Federal Government. I could not do so at thi*iime, without a feeling of personal degradation."%. But if we are not greatly mistaken, you will hold that there is a distinction between federal office strictly speaking, and the speakership, the correctness. of .which we will admit, however such' distinction may appear to others in the light otrdn vasion. Your INamburg 16t seems-confirmatory of our apprehensions. Y'tet never a word of in - dignation, as to the dia of- the Constitution, and the grievous of the down-trodden South, as mnig expeeted fron) one nexion, of "loo an n iip'dder' ta,",as a beverage ; bult you -exhaust your native tongue in the application of harsh epithets to the secession policy, which you yourself denominate, the "sun alterable determinatiori of the State." '"Suici dal measures," " madness," "dire calamity," " the most extraordinary delusion that ever ruin ed a country or a rieople," " disaster utter and irreparable," arc a few of the gentle phrases wvhich fai-ly dance through yo'ur letter, in ap plication to that " wmlterable determination ;" whilst to those who favor that policy, you courte ously attribute " headlong indiscretion" and "tlie most reckless and desperate efforts," to efl'eet it. You " do not percivehow any rational muan can doubt" that separate State secession " must involv-e the State in a hostile collision with tile Federal Government." You could not have been ignorant when you penned your letter, that our dietinguished Senator, the Hon. A. P. Thrra. had taken the ground, in his Charleston speech, that such would not be the result. Whantever may be your opinion of his intellect, the people of this State-especially those of your own Con gressional .District, although they differ with him in some of his political views-look upon that Senator, not only ast a " rational man," but also as one of unquestionably high abilities. Per Iaps this side blow at that Senator, may be a part of the services due to your allies, in cornsiid eration of your future reward. Nothting could be more grateful to the trio-Conn, S-riavv.xs and Toonus-especially since that Senator's applica tion to Mr. Speaker Cosa, of the extract at the head of this communication. You take up the question of thec " valor and heroism" of the other Southern States, as lhongh South Carolina really denies them " those quali ties," and as though you were a cit-izen of one of them claiming " those qualities alno," for your self and your fellow-citizens. You unwarrantably assume that South Caro-, hin arrogates, by her "unalterale determina tion" of separate secession, to hersel' 4alone," " the spirit and intelligence to defend the cem mon rights of all thne Southern States," and thecn condemn it as " bad policy, as it is bad taste." You vaunt you familiarity, with " the public opir ion of the Slave-ho~lding States," as though a few leaders at Washington--your " gallant and distinguished and true aen !"--can indicate with precision, in advance, the course of their respec tive States. Some of your informants will, per haps, find themselves as far in error as have some of the leaders of South Carolina. Hecr course indientes the voice of her people-not of her leaders. You eagerly court " the cons~equncelCs ot' dar ing to dissent from thiose who have led us to the brink of the preipice"-scession--and intrepid ly proclaim your defiance in this bold and eam phatie language-" Let them striire. I crave not their forbedrance, or their forgiveneen " " Fitz hArEs was brave-though to his heart " The life-blood thrill'd with endd~en start, "He mann'd himself with danuntless air, " Returned the chief his haughty stare, " His back against a rock he bore, "And firmly placed his foot before: "' Come one, come all ! this reck shall fly " Fronm its firm base as soon as I'" Your tauntts..-your. assumptions-your defi mee-may not be "bad policy" for your pur' poses-few will esteem themi mark. of good taste," or very patriotic. It has long been the Fail her with eneere and irony : but we venture the assertion that, within her- wido borders, no other son of hers can be found who would make such flings at her action and elaracter. Why did you not fill the measure of your derision by calling her at once, " Tin CmvAR"t "sto briquet" so often applied to her by her enemies. in the spirit of your ITaniburg letter? If you have thrown yourself into the embraces of Mr. Speaker Conn, STvrCs and To-mas-you may with propriety say, you "Ithave nothing to loose by expressilr your opinions." on this "fore gone conclion"-this " unalterable deterinina tion of the State-cerainfly/, nothing, with your "new fledged comirades." (Why, Legislators of South Carolina, stands unamended -our A. A. 1P22, under which our members of Congress are elected fourteen months before they take their seals ! ~ Georgia and North Carolina wisely eleet theirs but four montlis previously.) Your course, apparently, can alone be recon ceikd with r.spirations to that distinction. which Mr. Speaker Cous, with all lis popularity in f'ongress could get, after sixty odd ballotings, on!y at the price of plawing Abolitionista at. the head of several important committeen. How, let its ask, can a South Carolinian-whose State, for twenty-five years past. lims been ostracised. as to that honor,-now reach it, except by s:mi lar, if not greater conces.-ions? Could the im mortal McDUFFIR ' snuiTthe tainted gale* whilch may bring to the South the intelligence of such an event, lie would rise from his grave and re buke the apostacy. MANY CITIZENS. -0- -- - FOR TIE ADVRRTISER. EFFECTS OF SEPARATE STATE SECESSION ON OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS GENERALLY. Muci has been said of "outward pressure" destroying the commerce, and endangering the slave institution of South Carolina in case of her independence. The question lis been approach ed with too little regard to its practical bearing. IIow' will our commerce be afrected except by open war? Suppose the general government should shut up all the United States ports against us-cut of our internal trade with the States ard, in legislative bounties. discriminate in favor of the Sea-Port Towns of our neighboring States: would all this seriously injure our commerce, while European ports shall be open to us ? Could we not eamily dispose of all our exports, and re ceive every commodity we may desire, in the Towns and Cities of Europe, or at places under control of European powers ? England. France, Holland, the West and East Indies, will supply us with everything we may wish, and the three former would be anxious to enlist a large portion or even the whole of our carrying trade. Would United States ships of war dare disturb the yes sels of these countries in passing to and from our harbors? This would arouse the indignation of the civilized world. It would unite half of Europe in a war neainst the Fedcral Union. Let us ex pet no such folly. The practical wisdom of the day will be more considerate. Nothing of the sort could take place unless in a state of war. Should any nation, in tie mero wantonness of power, insult or disturb us (a thing little likely to occur) we should have ample guaranty of protec tion in oar own strength, and in the alliance we could at any time form with friendly powers, in terested in preserving peace and comity between nations. But to what does this argument tend ? Does it not practically deny the ability ogsm11 States to exist witlhout being perpetually harraused and devoured by the larger nations of the world ? -crqthi0. notomn. the~ vn1' of narallesd, iv'ould be that of savage, nations-"the strongest arm of the strongest man" would be the eon troling element of power. It would place small nations completely at the mercy of large ones, as the small fisht of the sca are at the mercy of the large fish. .This is to argue against the mnoral opinion of the world. It practically denies an overruling God, who controls the destinies of nations. It is the heartless creed of the infidel, who pretends, to think everything governed by a blind, senseless fate. It is seldom in the moral economy of the world,.that injustice so monstrous is, for any length of time, allowed to predomi nate. In a civilized age such a state of things is mioraliy iimpossible. Small nations have rights as well as large ones and, under a kind Provi dence, cnn always maintain thom while they pur sue the paths of duty and honor. While exclusion, therefore, from the trade of the United Staites would net injure oar eomnmerce, European nations would never allow the Federal Government in time of peace, to impose restrie tionis on our trade with the old world. As to any pressure upon our commerce by any Euro peani natior, we hnve, evidently, nothing to fear. The products of our State will always gain for us a favorable reception at any port in Europe. It is equally diflicult to see how the institution of slavery will be endangered by any foreign in fluence, when South Carolina has established her independence. From what source is danger to come ? Certain ly not from the Staites. that immediately s'irround us; for they arc as deeply interested in preserv ig the institution as ouirselves. They weuld rather srrve as n thiek wall to guard and defend us. 'Would Eturopean powers disturb us? Of all future events, this is the most improbable. ilow could they, if they desired? iTheir incen diary documents could not reach us. In our commercial intercourse, we should have no deal ings with the fanatics of Europe : and the dis tance is too great for them to excise any influ ence over our public opinion. TBut a state of facts is conjured up to give op prtunty to Great Britain to intermeddle with our shavery. A wvar is supposed to break out between South Carolina and the General1Govern ment. We arc imagined to be fortutnate enough to secure the aid of Creat Britain. With this alliance South Carolina gains an honorable peace Future relations are now to be settled between this State and Great Britain. Is it in the bound of reason to suppose, that after assisting the Wtitct to defend her institntions against the f:mnaticism of the North, Great Britain would (lier to frec our shives, or to rednee us to a dependent colo ny ? If she did, whlat would be her prospect of success? Would wve not defend ourselves as stoutly against her, as we may have done against the Unitedl States? 13ut such terms wvould never be oll'ered?. There is no reason to suppose so. In :nuch less enlightened times, Englnd gave repeated assistance to the sniuiller European powers in their wars with larger nations ; but we read of her making no such humiliating proposi tions. Thle idea is positively absurd. What benefit could Great Britain promise herself by such a scheme, if carried into eff-ect? She cer tainly could not desire to free the slaves in South Carolina, without wvishting to free thenm in the othe r States. But how could she lend her hand to this nefarious object ? Would not thme aboli tion of slavery at once put a stop to the culture of .,.,on -,, te. nt.d Sates? Wat then wonad become of the many millions of British people, who depend on cotton for- employment and the means of subsistence? They would, at once be driven to the point of starvation, and would raise such a tumult as to causo the English govern ment to shake to its very centre. A total failure of the cotton crop in the United States would cause in England an amount of misery and des titution, and a degree of popular outbreak, that would be terrific to contemplate. The English government, exercising any agency in the mat ter, could not survive six months. That govern ment, how great soever might be the clamor of a small class of fanatics, could never be so infatu ated as to attempt an object so utterly suicidal. Besides, the ghnstly picture of ruin, presented by her West India possessions. stares her boldly in the eyes. representing to her, more powerfully than language or argument, the disastrous efiects of her former policy, The English nation; of ten bad at theorizing, but quick to learn from ex perience, has too much practical wisdom to again attempt a like ruinous course. Under no circumstances can elavery in South Carolina be endangered by British influence; and if not by this, surely by the influence of no other European power. No! the unholy cru sade against this institution, if it come at all, must come from the North. It can come from no other quarter. On that side is the certain dan ger. This is as clear as any moral proposition, resting on future probabilities, can be. In that direction, then, we should erect our bulwarks of defence. Now, whether will slavery in South Carolina be safer against the machinations of the North, while the State is in or out of the Union? There can be no doubt-while out of the Union ! For first, by having control of the mails, we may casi ly exclude all incendiary documents &e; and by P proper system of police, fully justifiable in the eye of international law, we can shut out from our borders all suspicious and evil-disposed per sons. Free from federal legislation, also, we need have no fears from legislative enactment, which is now so threatening. The Northern Anatic may then rave, print, publish, denounce, and pursue the dictates of his "higher law," to his heart's content: he will little disturb our quiet. How would it, indeed, be possible for Northern fanatics to endanger our institutions unless by actual inroads upon our soil? for as to fugitive slaves we could be in no worse condition than we are at present. Are they likely to wage a war of arms against us ? How is the army to be raised and supported? and where is it to be sent? Could bur neighboring States assist in raising such an army? or, if raised, could they suffer it to march through their borders to abol ish slavery in South Carolina? The overthrow of slavery with us, would be its overthrow with them. The army that could be,mad enough to attempt the abolition of slavery here, would not have forbearance enough, in triumphantly re turning, to rpare thc "damnable" Institution in the other States. These States would have to surrender it likewise. Nothing les would satis fy the demented folly of this hellish spirit. Would the other States, until they are prepared to give up slavery altogether, alloew such -an army -to pass throngh their borders? To sup'pose they woula, is.tmeachibir-ital egai. spirit. But their is little danger'of hostile invasion by the fanatical North.- The rabid spiritof ararice by which that people are govertied, would re strain them from placing hostile feet upon our soil. It is well known, that, in all this crusade agrinst our institutions, they have been moved by no feelings of genuine philanthropy or religion, but a close, sordid scllishjness, which has as yet never lost sight of the pocket. This is the Dei ty, at whose shrine they worship, in all their de nunciations of our people, and in all their en croachments upon the South. It hans been with them purely a question of power, a desire to con trol the operations of the government: to mo nopolize its honors and ofilees ; to regulate the taxing power and the disbursements of the pub lie revenm: in a word, to screen themselves from the burthens of the union, and to gathier and appropriate the largest possible amount of money from the Southcrn people. Left to exercise itself blindly, under the slow but gradual developments of despotic power, this spirit will doubtless perpetrate the iniquitous vil lay of freeing the slaves in the States, though to the pecuniary loss of the North : for "it is the characteristic of despotism to cut deorn the free to get at the fruit,"* hut when the delusions of power are once dispelled by the call to arms when the ways and means are to be devised, the men and money to be raised to carry out the fatal scheme at the point of the bayonet, the old spirit of auarice, true to its instincts, will shrink back in cowardly timidity from the threatening storm of war, brought to a dead pause on the banks of the Rubicon. Under a government, in which the majority rules, the Northern horde rarely move in arms except to plunder and to rob. Subsistence or money-the prospect of some glorious El Dorado has prompted all their grand military expeditious. What isi there at the South to tempt thieir cu pidity ? We have no magnificent Cities for them to sack-no public wealth to charm their covetous eye. Would they take our slaves? For what ? To feed them ? Tuis, they would certainly have to (10, or make them~ feed themselves, and hence they would be slaves still. To transport them would require immenoe means, and they will not allow them to enter the free States. Can any one, for a moment, think that the Northern peo ple, without any prospect of remuneration, with out any hope of gain whatever, would incur the hazards and heavy expenses of so profitless an expedition ? It is past all belief. So long as they are united with the other Southern States they would not attempt such a thing, for fear of driving off these States into a Southern Confederacy. Left to themselves they would not dream of it; for, deprived of the rich spoils of the South, they would be placed under the necessity of' practising a. little economy ;of "husbanding their resources" to meet the taxes that would fall upon them, which they have been so little accustomed to bear, and on the least ap pearance of which they have always attempted to kick against the government. Tism conclusion is almost manifest: SLAVERY, IN ANY sL.AvE STAT our o 'TnE UNroN, nAs No-rI meT FEAR FROM A NOATUERN AI.RMY, oat FRoM Noamnaua FANATICAL AGrTA'rIoK. The sole danger is while we are in the Union. So long as dais confederacy lasts, we will be per petually beset by the snares and machinations of Noritern abolitioulm. inecadisi-aoeuments. Witbooded among us; the seeds of discorl and 'dissension will be rapidly sown among our peoPle, by means of Federal gold sa oie; and .soon a host of enemies will spring up in the very midst f us, that will more endanger our.intu tions thana al ur.enemies -from abresd.-In--this way, Northen fanaticion, under the triumphant career of nR alnlutcdespotic governme4 will continue its agressions, till, ripe for the last act of the political tragedy, it -lvmaov by legis. lative enactment, to be enforced by the FKDnEAL ART, the institution of slavery in the States. Then indeed will come the so a rors of a civil wiFin {i"b ou drink the blood of each other, and ri in- ath excesses of anarebysiandion iW safeguard for slavery in the Southeri. States a g bisyolved-if possible, by all the:llu, State if not by all, by one State; and iftneeds be, let that State be Sou~m CAnourA. . RlUTLEDGL HERE IT IS. Brother HARTSoSN. of theAnderrislr. eue, thus pointedly discourses of the th ern Patriot": "TESoi PTUTHERN .ATE,.- rdktor of the Patriot, in his last humber,eomplimnt Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and hopes tat he may be successful in the guberp' vass. Who is Howell Cobb T'e. mant who has said that the conduct of$4tiCa. olinais "disgraceful and infmotis"aid*j T Because she has stood up maiflffftor tiT constitutional rights of the-Soutig through weal and through woe. Nor does Cobb. stop tiere. If elected Governorhe has.-iidthat he would hold himself readyttopOn*,qainst South Carolina, in the event. o:seeeptin, with the militia of Georgia, and cotree her into submission to the Geneial '6dvern. ment And yet the Southern YAtrio, is gratified at the prospeet of Howell Cobb's election. Mark that;felloW eitizelis" Aye, mark it well-but be sure it with charcoal. From the Charleston Mercury.. "The Zambr Zelg" MEssns. EnThons: As soenim lngortnce seems to be attached abroad tWth'f aieeting, its true character should be unzdersoot..n Messrs. WilliainGregg and Ker oyce, late (if not now) citizens of Cliiirton. nd large stockholders in the Graniteille F o ry, a few "Northern men with Norhiri'jfm. ciples" About Hamburg, and other.fewnjative born citizens, who opposeseparakesefan, but go for resistance toeristig ,iro, are said to have been the prime lnoveri oftls meeting.... -;.- , t I The call was signed by four kmndipejr sons, some of whom ordered- their4naMes erased from the roll before the. etM d two hiindred of whii culd'idtlmrviattend ed it, as it'ls conceded thit theri were .not many, if any over twe huskid jii r sent. A large propri6 f e-4 Gmaniteville and some frdmnii " ' field has polled two thousand ue votes within the last eight yihli more. . r The enemies of the .State catdeuife-b little comfortfrom this meeting'whed''tbei remember in addition' to the abot hltit thespeakers, Messrs. Owen zundW:W.'~ were "sent-fr.orators;" thme fo lieen broughtoii Bamwlla4Is Fairfield. JudgeXtl,"aind Espt.D~ of this Distrietydeelined the honor~ JTUsTreE TO EDGET1Idh DSRCt -STRONG LANtGUAGE.-We'have beard ai said of warmi and intemperatoelanguage being used by the secessionist' .The- fol lowing dose, being a reply to one of the ar guments used agaimst secession;isfrio- C operation paper, the Hamburg Repubic&% South Carolinian. - " Capital leaving the State is the last argu ment that will sway the true friend of Cario lion from his duty to .her. Every true h'esrt will be drawn nearer and nearer- to her-as her need for them or theirs increases. "Curs ed is thatnman w~ho for filthy lucre, or t save it, would sacrifie every ennobling senti ment that stamps God's image on the brow, and voluntarily become, in soul, mind,-ad sense, a filthy mass of eurrupt earth. " A man who would desert his State mere ly to save hi plunder should be hooted ont of any communiity where lhe attempts to lo eate himself, and we are well rid of th'em,. for in such souls we would find Arnolds in our midst should they remain. We cannot thin~k there are many such ; who are they? If their reasons for leaving the'Statenare sd well known, surely their names msust .be nnd as they have no objection to theirmo-' tive being published, thiey can, certainly have none to giving us their name. But, it is cheering to see thast as these mammon.wor shipping citizens of :any land where they can make money, and whose patriotic ardor rise and full, as a thermometer, in exact pro-. portion to their gins, and whose patriotism. is now freezed down to their heels, are fir ing the State, true, loyal hearts are talking their palees-bold patriotic hearts, who-fear' no sacrifice." TRAGEDY JS KENTUCKY.-Th~e Frankfort Commonwealth gives an account of a tragical affair at Boosnville, Owsley, Kentucky, on the 12th of.May last. There had been some difficulty betwveen William Moore,'-yohnr Moore and John Reese, brothers-ln-law, in relation to the division of some property. On that day they met in the open street and. had some eorgersation which resulted. in blows. The two Moores attacked Riese with stieks and stones, and .he defended himself with a large butcher kntifer 'wth which he stabbed his assailants in such a manner that they died in about ten hours. The deceased each left a -wife and family. Reese was severely beaten, butis -expected to recover.. ---- AN TNTERtsTING CoNVEIsATroN.-A Wash.. ingto n correspondent of the New York Her aid gives the following as tho.substane of a conversation between. Seeretary Corwin and a Whig applicant for office: -"A Whig applicant for office, who pleaded serrieds to to his party as entihuig. hi.toa place, was told by Seretary Corwmthat "there are-no parties now." The applicant replied, " well, where were the parties a year ago, when you got your office? Did not party make you a Senator, and the Secretary of the Treasury and ;thereby enable you, at one lash, to realize a -fortune of one .hundred thousand dollars-and now, forsooth, you man know no party." .-F THERE is j.rumior in elregiatioa th z bottle has been, picked _usp upon the hbioek it East Boston, containing a piece of pape apon which, Is writen the woras-"e ei light-house is now careoding-onife s.m will carry us over.-Wlsaon." .Wjk will be -remembered, withe name of opedo the assistant keepers who perished.with thes destruction of the light-house --N. Y. Cour0 &. Enn.