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All Advertise ments not having the desired number of insertions marked on the margin, will be continued until forbid and charged accordingly. - Those desiring to advertise by the year can do so on liberi terms.-it being distinctly under stood that contracts for yearly advertising are con fined to the immediate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. Transient Adver tisements mast be paid for in advance. For anr.G-cing a Candidate, Three Dollars, in advance. For Ad vertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid by the Magistrate advertising. EDGEFIELD, S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1851. DISTRICT METING, The citizens of the District are invited to attend a PUBLIC MEETING at the Court House, on the first Monday in July, for the purpose of interchanging opinions upon the political questions which now so deeply agi tate the State. Several speeches may be expected from prominent and experienced gentlemen. To the Citizens of Edgefield District who are Opposed to Separate State action by South Carolina: You are particularly thiuested to attend at Edgefield Court House on the first Monday in July, at which time you may expect several speeches in opposition to separate State ac tion. MANY ANTI-SECESSIoNISTS. gggEatIE-r SEIILES, Esq., of this District has been appointed by Governor MEANS, a Notary Public in and for this District. COTTON PROSPECT. IN a notice of the crops last week, we observed that cotton was very promising. We have since learned enough to warrant us in saying that the appearances of a fine crop are really extraordinary. In this immediate neighborhood, Col. F. W. PicK ENS and AvoaRY BLAND, Esq., two of the largest planters in this section, have such crops as they never had before. The plant is at the same time large and.well-bolled. We hear similar accounts from all quarters. "What a pity," we said as we gazed upon one of these beautiful fields. " What a pity-it is for us that we concluded last March to plantalmost all corn !" Perhaps we were wrong in speaking thus. The "mrfranentarse" is an important element-of success, with individuals as -we.la-S~tiesC - OUR PIANK ROAD. -WE have been'iniformed that six miles of this work is.completed, and that the company are ma king arrangements, to progress more rapidly for .,tie future. -A mile for each month is expected to be their speed hereafter. It is to be hoped that 10 miles at least of heavy pulling, each trip, will be saved in the hauling off of thid Coming Crop. We are not among those who doubt the success of this road. Two trial trips have fully satisfied us of. its excellence and utility. When completed, it will answer the purposes of a Rail Road suffi ciently well for all ordinary purposes. Is will L doubtless prove a profitable investment. Acceller ate the planks ! SOUThERN REPUBLiC AND SOUTHERN STANDARD. WE'welcome these new-comters to a place in the ranks of the Carolina Press. The former advo eases co-operation, if is can be obtained-if not, separate action. The latter also advocates co operation-anid if we fail to obtain it, lhe is for .we know not what. Both sheets are well printed and well-edited. We wish them abtund ant success. 11hb Republic is edited by C. A. PrCE--the Standard, by B. C. PRtssi.v, assisted by W. C. RiCIIARDS and T. C. SURINE. MASONIC MISCELLANY. Turis excellent Monthly ia again upon our table with its usual attractions. We notice in it an in teresting -though somewhat abstruse article upon the " Jewish Cabbala." We also observe the fllowing extract: "SECRECY OF TIIE MYSTERIE.--Montfautcon says, (Book ti. chap. xii,) that Augustus. out of respect to the Eleueinuian mysteries, upon hearing a cause between two priests of Ceres. in which some secrets wecre necessary to be mentioned, dismissedl a numerous attendance of the Senators of Rome and all the autdience, that he might hear the mat ter in private, and without discovering any secrets relating to these mysteries to the common pe~ople." Are we to understand that the Masons claim any kindred with the-ancient Priests of Eleusis! Or is this published in a Masonic work merely as an asnalagous illustration of the respect which myste ries generally inspire1? . From another article we pluck the following striking aphorism. "As the mos? healthy and vigorous constitution does not escape the pestilence, so the most virtu ons and upright rit may, ore aware that it is breathing the malaria, be coutamiinated by the at mospherc of vice." We perceive that Spartan Lodge, No. 70, of this order is to lay the corner stone of Wofford College, in Spartanburg District, on tomorrow', the 4th of July, THE NOTICE OF MANY ANTI-SECESSIONISTS. MANY took up the impression, as we first suppio sed in our remarks of last week, that this notice meant a call of particularly-described individuals for the special purpose of a separate and distinct meeting. We merely gave it as a supposition, which, in the after part of our remarks, we ex pressly abnegated, in favor of the view that a pub li-c discussion and trial of strength was intended. Since then, the only person we know to be con nected with this business, has said to us emphati cally that he was and is in favor of a separate mteeling. How are me to understand tis? We must draw our inferences from what we know not from the assurances of unknown person!. We should judge the play by what we see acted tipon the boards-not by the wire-working behind the scenes. If this be not the full measure of editorial fairness, we do not understand it. When a deed is not done openly and above-board, it is natual to suspect that something is on foot, which calls for watchful scrutiny. And to receive every item, connectetd with such a deed, with caution, is our duty. But in spite of the facts of the ease-, we will en deavor to exh;ii a little "magnanimity" of the right stamp, and will accept the explanation made by these "anti-secessionists" as far as the place of meeting and the spirit intended to be displayed in that meeting are concerned. Now in return, gentlemen, exhiliit a like magna. nimity by acknowledging that the attempt to show that your contracted notice made the "PUBLIC No TICE" one whit more pu5lic, is the merest shift. Exhibit a like magnanimity by withdrawing the term "Party Press," which you use only for effect, and allowing us to be what we have all along en. deavored to be, a fair and independent District Press, engaged it the good cause of Carolina and of the South. Exhibit a like magnanimity by confesring that your fling at our "reluctance to have anti-seces sionists invited to this "Public Meeting" is pilpa bly inconsistent with the character of that notice as well as with the remarks in which we referred to it,-by confessing also that our question, "Do they design forthwith to place old Edgeficld in leading strings 1" was penned in connexion with the supposition that an e.rclusive meeting was in tended. This supposition we threw aside, and substituted of our own accord "the heroic desire of a public passage at arms" as beinr the more probable motive which prompted the call. Exhibit the same noble feeling by admitting tl-at you have totally minconceived the first call, when you say that its object was to bring about a Party gathering. Nothing of the sort can pos sibly be deduced from that notice. It was intend ed to elicit calm and dispassionate consultation. It was expected from the first that Judge BUTLER would attend and lie was spoken to on the subject with as much formality as any other speaker. You say that it is announced "that speakers on the secession side may be expected." Read the no tice again, and you will find that your memory has served you very badly. Moreover acknowledge magnanimously, that it is a remarkably far-fetched idea, to say that your notice, bearing upon it's very face the plain traces of party lines, was a necessary appendage to the other liberal notice, "to make the meeting what it purported to be, one of harmonious consultation." Finally, exercise that magnanimity, of which you seem to have so keen a perception, by frankly admitting that your allusion to "Edgefield Vil lage" is an ungenerous appeal to narrow prejudi ces. Whether you admit it or not, we are sure that nine tenths of the sensible people of the District will contemn this shallow effort to curry their favor by low appeals, at a time when high princi ple alone should sway the minds of all. Are the secessionists confined to Edgefield Court House ? Do a majority of the members of the Legislature reside at the village, or sympathize with it? Do one fifth of the Southern Rights Association reside within it's corporate limits? As far as the Edgefield Advertiser and its influ ence are attacked by your illiberal thrtst, we ask. doyou not know that the humble individual, who now conducts it, has been altogether indentified with the country since his earliest manhood? Have you any information to rebut our assertion that the greater part of our correspondents were born and brought up in the country, and have their dearest associations linked with remote corners of the District? Even where this is not the case, are they not entitled, equally with other citizens of the District, to their proper and legiti mate influence ! Are they to be suspectedpmfiding actuated by impure or unpatriotinnotives, merely because of their loealit? Is not an accusation that conveys this charge, a gross slander!? - - Truthful answers to these questions will suggest a course of~prudence and rpoderation-to our corres pondent, if it dges'rit restoihito hIacius tomed equinim" isnd d.tin~pe'r.f'Let thiem be answered, and' en let e poisoned'shaft rebound against it's impotent projector.- - Let one other question be answered. Who re ceives and circulates numbers of the "5outhern Patriot," a paper which fondles Cosa of Georgia, and hugs SAt HoUsToN of Texas, and worships DAtNIEL WEBSTER of Massachusetts, and declares that it will defend the Union against South Caro lina and all the other Southern States ? Who? But we have said more of this commutnication and its author than was required. 4 31ILE BRANCH ACADEMY, BARN WELL DISTRl ICT, WE cheerfully cG~fply with the rngnem mi:de of tus, to call attention to this inhool. From referen ces pointed otut to uts, we have no0 doubt it ia con iducted with perfect orderandl propriety. 'The late examination and exhibition, from the account giv eni in the letter below, musrt have been ani occa riotn of uncommon intereset. It. is pleasant to hear of well-conductedl Academies springing tip and flourishing in different secions. WVe coingratulate ottr Blarnwell friends of the Sav~annah side upon the prosperity of this growsing institution in their midst. Go on-the attention of Edgefield will be attracted by its light. In days past, Edgefield help.ed to educate many of your girls. Pay us back now by helping to educate our boys. We have no doubt you will. The following is a brief, notice which has been forwarded to uts; of the school, its principal, the examination. &c. 4 MILE BRANCH, BUnswer.L D~s-r., S. C. Jutne 23d, 1851. COL. SrIMtas-Dear Sir:--The semi-annual examination of the 4 Mile Branch Academy. lnrnt well District, came ofy on Friday last, 'the 20th inst., and though the weather was very unfavor able. (it rained all (lay.) there were uine 300 or 400 people in attendance, uposn the occasion. The school is a very large otne. Mr. J. E. CatLNn is the teacher. and an abier ieachter or a better man cannot be found upon the globe. He has a fine set of boys, and a good many scholars studying the differetnt languages. The scholars were exam ined by several very competent gentlemen, anid they reportedl that they had never seen boys get along so well us they did. There was a barbacue on the day of the exami nation. At night the servie, were opened by a chaste and ebxiuent address from Mr. CLix-roN Ba~owy, of Barnwell C. If., on Education. which was received with great applause ; a fter which the scholars followed in their respective order. And nowy for the fun. Major .oov~s' Courtship was ac tel in full, and was received with tumulttuous a p plauise by the people, who had waited (notwith standing the had night,) with the utmost patience to see it performed ; and after that, they htad a ne gro dialogue which, rest assured, was acted " brown asp." This dialogne was composed by the Boys of the school. Every person whlo wvitnessed thte per formances says that it wotuld have done honor tea theatrical corps. A fter the exhibition was over, the ladies and gentlemen had a dance whtich they kept up until mxorning. In short, it was one of the pleasantest days that I have ever spent. And now let mu say to you that if any of your Edgefield boys wish to go from Edgefield to a school where theiy can, on cheap terms. he prepar ed for College, ict them come to 4 Mile Branch Academy. It is a very healthy place. Board can be obtained at the most reasonable rates, and the society around isi excellent. This Academy is situated on the Savannah riv. er about 25 miles below Augusta. inery Resectuys prsB. F. C. . P.S.-The eope i thee prtsare almost all m faor f "sparte Sateaction," if they cant get tec-prtoofother Sothern States speedily. (A good posteript thiat !-Ep. ADo.) A LATE OCCURRENiCE, THE military commander of the United States soldiers stationed at Fort Moultrie has recently re fused to permit the " Moultrie Guards," an old volunteer company of Charleston, to celebrate their anniversary at theirlong-used place near that Fort. It was done, because Gen. W. E. MA -rN, at the last celebration on the Island, delivered an able address, demonstrat ing the injustice of Feder al Legil,:in, and bchusr seeal sentiments were given at the same time, of a similar hue. This is taking the view that it is treason to mur mur against the government at Washington, on Government grounds. Thus progresses the DEsro TIS31 OF THE MAJORITY! Poor Charleston! many of your sons gave out to the world that the great mass of your population condemned action ag ainst Federal Injustice. It went up as a sweet-smelling sacrifice to the great Political Wanton. And In! the result! you have been requited, through or.e of your time honored corps, with supercillious mockery. "Ye have the ' Moultrie House' as yet Where is the Moultrie phalanx gone? P. S. We learn, since writing the above, that a noble band of Charlestonians proved themselves fully alive to the insult offered them-that they went by boat-loads to the Island and held a glori ous celebration within ear-shot of the hostile fort. A letter, received at this place, states that intense excitement was speading through the City. Hoist the Palmetto! THE POSITION OF TilE MINISTRY. In periods of excitement, like the present, when painful anxiety for our future political destiny troubles every patriotic heart, it is difficult for any of us to possess our spirits in that degree of calm ness, which is essential that our course may be shaped with perfect propriety. We have thought that, of all other men, the ministers of God found this task most trying. The nature of their office is such as to render it problematical whether they I can, in accordance with the instructions of their master, participate at all in the public discussion of political questions. On the other hand, they have the feelings of men and of citizens. and can not well forbear the expression of their views up. on any question which touches the institutions of their country in a vital point. Truly, it must be hard for them to decide their course. It has often been said in our hearing, that the trials of a preach er's life were the severest known to humanity. In view of the present dangers and doubts that cur round and perplex us, calculated, as they are to absorb the universal mind and to excite contending feelings and opinions, we are ready to admit the truth of that remark. How shall they serve their country and not displease their God? We confess ourselves totally unable to dccide this doubt. The most satisfactory solution of it we have yet seen, is contained in a private letter recently ad dressed to us, as Secretary of the Southern Rights Association of this district. It is from a Divine, generally admired and beloved for his mildness, purity and intelligent zeal in the cause of his religion. We risk, perhaps, his displeasure by publishing this letter; but we know it cannot be injurious in its effects, and as we honestly think it may do much good, we venture to lay it before our readers. 1 Iheed well the calm temper and elevated tone which characterises it throughout. Con.. AItTIUr St ts-Sir:-Your note and the copy of the " Constitution of the Southern Rights Association" have been received. You inform me that it is the wish of the Association that I should serve as one of the " Committee of Vigilance.'' Occupying the office that I now do in the Church, I do not think it would he expedi-L ent for me to take an active part in the nolitical affairs of the country. As a minister of the Gos - pel it becomes my duty to give myself wholly to the work of the-ministry, while I have opportunity. I erilous times should come I will then, when my services are needed, obey my country's call. No one I presume will deny me the right cf opitnioz. I gladly embrace this opportunity, to do what r'have never till now thought necessary. No one I am persuaded. feels more sensibly thimn II do the insults~and injuries heaped uponau by the General Government. I- believe, the Sopthern Stites should -seed~e and form a rate gv~ - South Carolina to: make the r in'eans she has, and trust in God for help. --. The Association will confer on me a favor by appointing, some one to arct in the place of trust, which their kind regard would have assigned me, and for which Inow return them my hearty thank#, hoping that they will ever find irn me a friend to Southern luistitutions and States Rights. 'Yours Respectfully, ~ A. P. N. DOUBTS vs, L'LUTY. WE ntre forced to the conclusion, after long antd calm reflection, that the arguments against the in dependent action of South Carolina, are, mainly, horn of the imagination. They are almost invari ably founded upon vagtte anticiption~s of non descript calamities to arise from undefined causesa. how it is that freemen and Carolinians can thus far yield to thte influcnce of 'excited fatncies, we are unable to conceive. We findh it still more dif ficult to rcalise this condition of feeling. when we think how great and essential are the reasons which call upon us to combat even the sternest re alities, that lie in the wvay o~f the deed we propose to enact. WVho has well consiidered the nature of that deed ? Who rcmemhers that it is the act of' insulted Americans in defence of those holy rights, which, they were taught from infancy to believe, must bse prererved inviolate to be of any worth ?1 Who be::rs in mind the truth, that even the op-1 pearancee of submissicn to " foul and unnatural" " injustice amounts to descrtion of the high grotund of ttncompromising hostility to oppression ? Who, we ask, ctan fix his indi upon these truths with unbiased earnestness, and yet doubt that there is but one strait forward course left us to pusue ? What will a bold pronunciamento, of our doter mination to cut, slash and annihilate every thing in creation upon a repetition of the insult, availj us, i f we tamel y acknoweledge our inability to re sent the insults of th~e past? When shall weu be I moraldly or physically, strongeri The act we con template is approved by the Southern people-or at least, by that portion of them upon whom we should most implicitly rely. Their approbation is indicated in termus that cannot be mistaken. The present attitude of South Carolina has nerved their hearts and is carrying them to speedy sue cess. " The wvork goes bravely on." The " Mac edonian party " tremble already at the near pros pect of their downfall. Good and true men are bcginning to sea and to reali,.e the treachery, which had led theta by insidious steps, to the very gate-wvay of apostasy. They are turning upon the faithless leaders who deceived them, and they will visit upon the~ir heads the bitter scorn of indignant Southern freemen. Of all the South, it is this rapidly-decreasing Macedonian party alone, which condemns the coturse of our Stale. And shall we pander to their vile desires ? Shtull we give them renewved strength by our irresolution ? Shall wve not rather make an issue wvhich will assuredly bring to tnught their dreams of unhallowed hion. ors and polluted gaini? By this course, wve may possibly save even the worst of them from the deep disgrace of stabbing their native South for purposes of self-aggrandisement. By this course, we will certainly unite an overwhehning majority of the Southern peoplc upon genuine Southern grounds. Let him, who denie~s this proposition, attempt to show that these efihects are not, at this very time, being produced, and that, too by the independent course of this State. Hie will be convinced beyond a doubt, unless he suufler the imaginary accid~its of tomorrow to outweigh thne stubborn facts of to-tday. Why thnen should wo hesitate ? Why mar the perfect eff'eet of our action by distracting the putb ic mind of Carolina with woeful speculations ? It in not by any means certain, that a single seri ons obstacle will hinder our triumphant progress. It is not in theo least probable, that Southern co operatioa will fail to result from the moderate hut firm line of policy, now universally known as the 5 ion, has given birth to the different reasons for I lelcy. To prove this, it is only necessary to state t hat there reasons are almost as various as the ninds that originated them. One apprehends war -another peace. One pictures to himself the in ititution of slavery as the indissoluble bond of Southern Union-another fears that this bond will )e no protection to poor Souith Carolina. One says that two States can act safely-another sug ;ests that it will require at least-three. One says hat we can never strike alone-another rays we nust do so. if all elne fail. And thus throughout, heir reasons clash, and cancel each other. " When doctors disagree, - - Disciples are set free." -1 Well may the anti-secession followers look to heir leaders and exclaim, " whom shall we be ieve. or by whose suggestions shall we direct our course l"-Fellow-citizens, there is one plain path, which we will venture onee'again to point to your new. It is the path of Duty acid of Honor. In t, there is no perplexity. Those who pursue it, tre vexed with no grating contradictions. But i me feeling animates them all.. It is the self-same eeling which influenced your' randfathers in the var of the Revolution. It is a feeling of strong letermination to decide at once - the 'question of ur Freedom as a State and of our Rights as indi riduals. And the foundation.qf this feeling is the :onviction that this Freedom and these Rights are 1ow most imminently endangerod. Who will not say ' Amen' to the wish, that we 1 nay all yet walk unitedly in ths plain path, hav ng oflfred up the sacrifice of aff minor doubts and lifi.rences. in humble propitiation of the mighty [tuler of Nations. .0 FOR THE ADVERTIsBR. "When I hear a N',rthern man, cry this ' Glo bus Union,' methinks' I hear the bugle blast of he robber hand ; but vthen I heara Southern man ny this ' Glorious Union,' methinks I snuff treason n'the tainted gale." MR. EDITOn :-T notice a call, in your paper, hr a meeting of the citizens of the district, on Wale day next, for the purpose of discussing the Iolitical questions of the day. Another call, I >creeive, is made by "MANr Asr-SEcEsstoN srs," who, I suppose, think .that. their party is lot invited by the general call. From the above, t is apparent that our District, which has here ofore been almost unanimons on all of the im ortant ouestions which havetbeen agitated for a mumber of years past, is uowdivided into three >arties, viz: i1st, The party who are for Seeession by the o-operation of one or more States, if attainable, f not, secession " at all hazards." 2nd, The party who are inrfavor of secession >y the co-operation of one'or more States. 3rd, The many named party, i. e. " Anti 3ecession,. " Consolidation,"" CLAv, EI x.MsonE, 1 Co." " Union at all hazards," or" Submission arty." - Between the two first naied parties their can tot be much difference; b$ acknowledge the iggrowsions 6f'ite Gene l Government and oth are for resistance, an f warm discussions o sometimes arise between e:two parties, they 1 Lre in the end 'obliged to be-ohe, for neither are nt favor of submission. I - therefore. when ye meet on Sale day, the eotion will be pru !ently discussed by both patfes, and that we u'ilh shew to thethf abt we .lmnve no1 y.mpathy for th' ~. d of pulling 'intse t riet-us gether ad save 1t ou 'Greenvill'se iiy nmountins, bt it seems that re have sonme cold hearts in the sunny elime of )ld Edgefield, who are willing to desert their ontry in her time of need.' If so, come out,< sentlemen, and give us your Platform, and let us and it down to posterity. Or are you like yourt mother sub, the Senator froni Marlboro. In his ronunciamento he has decltred that he will not; ec taxed or fight for posterity, fur. they have ner r yet done aught for him. Turn out Gentle non, and let us know whether vou arc native roductions or imported-whether you nrc for 'EQuatrrr IN -rHF UNIoN on INDEPEiNDEeE OUT FIT." RESISTANCE. -- -0. FOIR THE ADvERTISER. Mr Editor :-Your comments upon our call ri anti-scessionists to be at Elgefield Court louse on sale day next, are unjust. The first call (which you denominated gener 1m is for a " Public Meting"-a District meet ne for the purpose of interchanring opinions. tmd our call was~ inte~nded to mnake it more pub ic-nothing more. If the meceting you adver ise as a " Publie Meeting" for the interchange if opinions was intended as a bona Ji'e public id general meeting, how can it he objected to >r specially regquesting the attendance of those i or way of thinking. Yours is a party Press, mnd a general convocation of your party is luite ufficient, but our invitation was, of necessity, pecial. You announce that speakers on your 'de tnay be expected-we do the same. Ts this mprmoper at a genern1 meeting for an interchanee f opiion-thie example enne frotm you. You vill not surely now pretend that anti-secession peakers were included in your annou'neemen~t imong tihe " prominent and experienced gentle tnon expeted"m to speak, and because we ilesire mr friends to appear at this " Public Mieeting," md that we may also have speakers to represent mr views, we are ch'arged with " illtimed de innee !" It would seem from your relutctance to have mti-secesinnists invited to this " Public Meet ng," thuat after all your call was for a party con :ave-where of course we were not expected, ye unrortunately deenmed you sincere and thus maye been beguiled into error. We trust that1 -o will not be offended at our believing you nore ingenious than you now present yourself. 7ur purpose was to prevent a one sided affair, nml to-make thme meeting in reality what it pur >orted to be, one 4"or larmmonious consultation" mmd " plain explanation." This you construet mto " unfurlinig thme black flag" of dissension. Ve have become habituated to these exhibitionsC C magninmity however. Whenever you are per-t itted to have things your own way, then you re for "conciliating" and harmonizing and iaving one sidedn " Public Meetings ;" but thmei isant those of us who dissent from your politi- I al doctrines, express a desire also to be heard, I re are then charged with a design to place " Old I adgefield in leading strings." You have noC oubt read the fable about the Farmer, the Law er and the Ox.-Readl it again. We still desire a full attendance of anti-sces- t oists at this " Public Meeting." for a fair in ere.,ange of opinions upon a question itn whicha se are interested as wvell as the secessionists. I We ditrer with a large portion of our mostv espectable and virtuous.fellow-citizens and de- 1 re to do) soan the spirit of kindness. Such is t ield Village shall. not put " Old Edgefield Dis niet in leading strings" any longer if we can revent it. respectfully, MANY ANTI-SECEssIo.NIsrs. FOR THE ADVERTISF.R. THE EDGEFIELD HUSSARS. Mr. Editor :--On Saiurday the 28th ult., this rrslant Corps paraded at Cosav's, within nine niles of Hamburg, and after the drill, they were addressed by Capt. losiERT MERRwETnER, in egard to the ndition of public aftairs, and as o the probaboties of their being called on in a hort period, for active servico in the field. The Captain did not pretend to determine which was the best mode of resenting the insults Inm encroachments of government-he was per aps unable to decide whether the beginning of Southern Confederacy, or of our great conflict n support of our rights, should be made by south Carolina alone, or by her conjointly with he other Southern States. The end would be he same, it mattered not how the movement hould be commenced. There is one question or us to decide. It is a simple one. Shall we lofend the institution of slavery. and preserve >r equality on this continent and among the na ions of the earth, or shall we yield up our pro nerty and suffer ourselves to be rendered infa inons? (Here voices from the crowd of specta ors shouted we will defend our property and 4onor.) Fellow-Soldiers, the question will uei mately be decided by the arguments that hang it your sides, and I care but little, how soon, or n what way the issue shall be made. The sooner t is made, perhaps, the better it will be for our reneration. The anti-slavery fanaticism at the North is growing fiercer, and the abolition ma iority in the country is growing stronger with very year of our delay. We must reconcile o our minds, the most speedy measures of resist inee, or we are utterly overwhehned and pressed lown. These remarks are made to warn my 2ommand and my comrades ai friends that the dea of a compramise, or a peaceable settlement >f our difliculties is an idle dream. We can Irnve no peace until fanaticism learns modera ion, and avarice learns forbearance. If we are lrave men-if we are freemen, we will have war in our own day, and our swords must be kept bright in their scabbards. We are not Legislators but Soldiers, nor do the presume to question the wisdom of our Leg islature and the constituted authorities of the State. They have pretty clearly indicated the yoursc for South Carolina to pursue and have marked out our duty ! To the faithful and noble performance of that duty, we must direct every .-ffort of our bodies and minds. Wid that view, his troop must be organized for active service. Every officer that shall hereafter be elected, must be chosen with the expectation that he may cad you to battle. I trust that every member will exert his utmost to fill out the ranks of our ompany, and to aid me in having it perfectly quipped. This company has been handed down 'o us from the Revolution. It is a link that con-. icets our tinie with a most chivalrous ago. It vas organized by as brave a warrior as ever Irew his blade for liberty, and has been filled, mad'eontinueddogyn in r ulir'suecession to us, b e.oor add 'th* * o >reserve the charge committed to' u' and to >rove ourselves equal to those who have preceed !d us, we will hold ourselves prepared to'make my sacrifibes either of our persons -or ou'r es ates." A t the conclusion of this address, which gave eneral satisfaction, the company and its friends at down to an elegant dinner furnished in Mr. "osav's usual good style. According to my owvn observation, there was to member of the company and scarcely a spec ator that did not approve of the course of the state, and showv himself ready to sustain her in t, at any risk. ERSPRIT DE CORPS. Font TnPF ADvERF.R~f. TH E NAKED l'OSITION OF TlE MODERATE P ARTY. Mr. EDITOR :-It strikes me as being a strange nonsitistency. not only in a portion of our Dele tatio~n in Congress, but in most of the assailers ,f the present position of Soeuth Carolina, to at empt to create the impreseion, that they acre pre 'ared, in certain contingencies, to resist inede tenelantly of other States. In sonme of their re narks, they most assuredly intinmate that they i'ould adopt that course, eibber ott our failure to ,btain Southern co-operation, or on our experri meing a repetition of Federal aggressiones, which hey denounce as certain to he inflicted, when ~very argument thoy address to the people is de igned to, demonstrate the utter inability of the late under any circumstaneces, to resist separ etely, eand to show the total incapacity of a free e'ople to maintain those rights and privileges tat Equality and Independence. which were -;en foer them by the swords of their fathers, and insmnitted as a legacy dearer thtan honor. and nore precious than life itself. As a Souith Carolinian, I feel a resentment, vhieh I canneot suppress, when [ read and hear hiese appeals to the fears, (for I can call them by io other name) of a wreenged and outraneed people, whethter they proceed from the pens of news >apen carrespondents, or from the lips of grave mud wise Legislators. I would impugn the tmo ives of nto man, and I would sedulously avoid 'very acrimonious expression, but if these ap ,eale do noet contaitn, under the decent and pcpnt ar gatb of mtoderation, exhtottationts, excuses, mnd nmotives, wvhicht might natutaly lead to ualti nate submissiont to infamous tyrany and degradla ion, then these writers and speakers arc the vorst luogiciaus in the world, and their arguments omprehendc a thmousaund times more thant the end bety have in view, and wo~uld coniduet themt to my eother ponint, than the one they profess to be iming to reach as a "de'rnier resort." Let the eeptive nmrk be torns of. Many of th'se mn re opposed to separate resistance in any contin ~eney; but they dare not boldly occupy that ~round before the people. For the purpose of stabliahinuga respectable party,they declare them elves in favor of joint action and nmoderation, mitil "their fintal hope is flat despair," or until he legally constituted convcntion of the people hall meet, when they will shape their course eording to the exigency, and wvhen they may rove themiselves as ultra secessionuibts as those, rho from the beginning, have borne up the ntner of the State. They make these loffy pre ensions, to commit men to their support, whilst arguments would extinguish all the fire of separ ate State action, and break down and quell the proud independant spirit that has animated the bosoms of Carolinians for the last quarter of a century. If moderation only is their policy, why not tell the people, in plain English, that they desire to wait a specified time-a certain number of years, say fifteen or fifty-in order to prepare the State for. struggle, and to let the infatuation of the North have time to force a Union of the South ; and that if nothing can be effected with in the period specified, by negotiation, and by indulging the frenzy of our oppressors, they pledge their honors, their fortunes, and their lives to the cause of resistance-even to the separate secession of South Carolina. A course like this, if it were not wise, would command the respect of us all, and we would be disposed to "let them alone in their glory." But on the contrary, their arguments have no othcr tendency than to debase the minds of their fellow citizens, and to reconcile them to their lot of slavery, by exaggerating the difficul ties of their ridding themselves of the yoke. They insist, that nothing can exceed the tyranny exercised over us, the enormity of our wrongs, and the low degradation of our condition-which tyranny, which wrongs, and which degradation, are only to be hightened, magnified, and riveted upon us in the future. We are admonished also, that it is folly to calculate with any degree of cer tainty, upon the resistance of the other slave holding States. When all this is told, we are be sought, in the name of wisdom, not to perpetrate the "madness" of risking our lives and pro perty, in stopping the wheels of this monstrous despotism, which is crushing us to atoms. One great argument, which is set forth, with much stress against resistance, is the possibility' of a failure. What great and glorious cause was never in danger of a miscarriage ? If their was no hazard in the noble enterprise, our success would confer no victory and no honor. Who deterve a reward for the perfI.rm aace of an exploit in which failure is impossible? If a man defers the execution of a high purpose until he is certain of a prosperous issue, he will never accomplish any worthy or noble under taking. Instances are recorded in history, of more hopeless causes than ours being brought to a happy termination by the genius, the courage and the perseverance of their advocates. The an nals of Greece and Great Britain are crowded with lessons for our encouragement and instrue tion. What obstacle ever impeded the designs of HANINISAL, of CROMWELL, of C nsAR, of ALEX ANDER, of FREDERICK, of NAPOLEON, or of CHARLES the twelfth of Sweden ?-or what ob stacle ever thwarted any magnanimous nation while supporting its birth right of liberty? In accomplishing the affairs of this world, in the most of cases, "the will is the measure of the at tainment." I sincerely believe, that no free people, who deserve the boon of liberty, can be enslaved by any earthly power. If we are invaded by our brethren we gill make every narrow defile a Therinopyla and every swamp in the State, a valley of slaughter. The assertion of one of your correspondents, that, "Spartan valor won only a grave at Therisopflm" was certainly a feeble and injudicious display of learning and rhetorie.s Why according to wsiry Persian., and contributed vatly to-the p ra tion er the independence and liberties of Grieee. That ine battle has made patriots and heroes in every war for libertythat lha been waged, from that day to this. A generous spirit would rather have his. name enrolled with the dead of so noble a Spartan band, than to be the undis tinguished hereditary ruler of an empire. Mr. EDITOn: South Carolinians should speak in this emergency, as thteir ancestors spoke in 76. The leaders in that crisis, addressed to their compatriots. no such sentiments as are now ad dressed to their descendants, to deter them from defending their proud inheritance of freedom. In those callant old times, it was esteemed a manly virtue.~ to resist unto death, the yoke of tyranny. The obligation to maintain the rights and honor of one's country, waglceemed the highest obliga tion on earth, anii hie was deemed a traitor, who wilfully failed in its fulllmient, or a craven, if he ecunselled submission to intolerable oppression. SAVANNAH RIVER. -- -S. -- 00NtUNDRUMS SENT UP BY A PlNETUTCEIAN. Why is a falsehood told by one of the tribe of Eenjnmin like one of the warmest months of the year? Becauae it's a Jew-lie (.yuly.) Why is a lean, lank dog like a fire stick ? Because he's a poor cur (po-kes.) Why is an old man stealing children like a young goat sleepingi Because he's a Kid-napping. Why is the letter S, printed with type six inches long like a gracious gifti Because it's a largess (S.) Why was the song written by MISS Lucy Long, like brightness and splendlor ? Because it was a lucidity, (Lucy-ditty.) !'atal Affray in Barnwell District. Wec are intdebt'ed to a friend for the partie uhirs of a horrid affray, which occurred at Barnwell C. H., S. C., on the 17th of June. It aipp~ears from the accont oif our correspon. dent, thait Mr. Jolhn McDaniel, who kept a boarding house and grocery store in the vii lnge, dismissed t wo young men-viz: .Daniel Tobin and Win. Tobin fromn his house, for some caunse not mentioned. These young mcen, in company with some others, enteredi the grocery store of Mr. McDaniel the same day, and violently assaul ted him-heating him over the head and infieting wounds of whlich heo died in forty-five hours afterwvards. His Clerk, Mr. Thomas Richardson, was also se verely beaten-having received no less than six wounids in his head alone. Fortunately, these have not. proved fatal. Immediately after the assault, the young men engaged in it endeavored to msake their eseape. Twvo of them-Wiliam Tobin and Seahl Fanunin-succeeded in doir g so. Four oter-Dtaniel Tobin, WV. E. Murphy, How ell]larsden and--Pitts were arrested and safely'lodged in jail. A'few days after this melancholy event a meeting of the citizens of Barnwell C. H. was held and resolutions passed to clear the town of all abandoned characters. Maj. A. P. Aldrich was chairman and Messrs. Samuel Bailey and J. G. WV. Duncan appoitled Sec retaries. Several reports have been made to the Chairman of that meeting in relation to its objects, and several of the most susicious5 characters havo vacated the village. We trust that there may be no repetitions of such a shocking outrage in that enlightened comi munity. The above particulars are derived from the intelligent Coroner of the District, and may be considered perfectly reliable.-Augusta Renuhlin. FOR TnE ADVERTISER. SHOULD SOUTE CAI~JNA STRIEE FOR HER IN1JEPE!W0ENCE? WE have hitherto written to show, that once established into an Independent Republie, South Carolina would be much more prosperous than at present, while those ill consequences, so much dreaded by many, are never likely to occur. Of the probable cost, of the expediency, and of the practicability of achieving our independence, we have ye.; said little. We propose now briefly to touch on these points. It would be an useless at tempt to count the cost of the struggle in which we may be engaged in breaking off from the Union. That struggle may never take pse Besides, the uncertainty of its character-of its duration-of its results, forbids such an estimate. But who would stop to cast up such an account ? Will a people, actuated by a high and geerou purpose, pause to calculate the costs when.called on to vindicate their dearest rights andrlibertiesy Such an enterprize is above all money value. What is property without liberty ? without the, ability to protect it? The gins of the industri ous would only be spoils to the tyrant. A brave people, bent on preserving their liberties, would. . yield not a third or a half, but all of their worldly goods sooner than submit to be slaves. Who. has failed to admire the noble generosity of our brave fathers, who freely pledged "their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to gain the liberty we are about to surrender? To, achieve liberty for their descendants, they not only pledged, but freely expended their treasure and shed their blood. The people that are not ready and willing to do this, do not deserveliber ty, and will not long enjoy it.. Satisfied, then, with the justice of our cause, and the happy con sequences of its success, how can we, as a brave and high-minded people, pause to calculate the costs of the blow we may have to strike ? We may rest assured that the means of resistance will rise to meet our wants, as they have-in the case of all other nations, great and small, that have struggled for liberty. So lone as we prove ourselves worthy of confidence, our credit will command in any market of the civilized world, ample supplies of money and munitions of war. And all nations, going to war, are compelled to, contract loans to meet the demands on their tree sury. The question for us to consider, then, is this: are our wrongs of that oppressive and degrading . nature, as to submit to which would stain our character, and destroy our liberty and indgpen dene ? If they are so deemed. by.tushen whatever all others may say or do, we should re sist them at all hazards, cost what itymay. ;To the people of South Carolina it is certainly, ,, less to discuss the various wrongs andgrievance,. we have suf'erde from the General Government. A bare recapitulation of them will serve our pur pose. They are familiar'to the minds of all. Their enormity is known and felt by almostevery one. I. First. then, since the formation of this govern mont, and especially within the last twenty-fve years, the people of the~So'utlh, have-b'edi oner ously and unjustly taxed by."thelieoble6 the North. .From the year 1790 to 184041ta 8oS~ has.paid seuen- s~otoall the duia u4h Governme,' i'eeeive ninth&v i. a 1 lied at tho reth.. The meantime only $215,85,09"I." So haftthe tax> paid by the South per 'head within te'- period& specified, has' averaged $20 47 per 10' years, while that of the North has beent onily $8 091T n late years the disproportion' has- b6en much' greater. From 1841 to 1845 the tax paid-by the South per head was $10 46: the North $1 99 ? making for the South per -heed-nearly ten times more than for the North. 'f' s This has been in the way of duties alone.' Bat consider the increased price of Northern pro tected articles, the diminution in price of Sotih' ern produce, and the increased price of fr'ei t due to the Tariff and navigation laws, and the South has paid to the Government and to the. Nor-th from 1790 to 1840. over $1,200,000,000. The one-tenth of this would make far Sout1& Ca., in the same period, $120,000,000. But It has been estimated upon data furnished by th'e Congressional Documents that the South iti various ways now contributes annually to North ern wealth not less th'an $50,000,000.t Allow ing one-tenth for South Caroliaa, her annualcosn tribution to the North is about $5,000,000: bes lug upwards of $17 for every white soul, man, woman and child, among us, while our State-tax is little over one dollar to the white inhabitant. What people, claiming to be free, ever en dured taxation so unequal, unjust and enormous I Nor is this all. II. In the acquisition of California and the ne' Territor'ies, the South contributed' abottst thirds of the soldiers, and will have to pay at least twno-th.'ird.e of all the heavy expenses 'ness red. Yet of the whole of these Territories, wortlh millions upon millions of dollars to the Southersi slave-holder, the South has been outragcouslf plundered, in contempt not only of all constitu tional guaranties, but in the most oifensive and insulting manner, by allowing a heterogeneousn mass of squatters and gold-diggers to deprive us of all our r'ghts to these Territories, ad bfecar ryig out the nefairous measure of slaver pro hibition under the bitterest denunciations aginst our people and our institutions. IlI. Again: By interposing every 'obstaele to the arrest of our fugitive slaves, and by shame lessly huarrassing and insulting our citizens while in pursuit of their property, the North not'enly deprives the South of thousands of dollarer 'an nually, but heaps upon her wrongs and indigsi ties, too flagrant for a high-minded peoplegte bear. The North moreover perpetually annoys our people by agitating the question of slavery in and out of Congress, using towards us the most in'.lamatory and abusive epithets, and expressing the fixed determination to persist in their efilurts, directed by their talent, influence and money, till slavery shall be driven entirely from the Re public. And do we not know these fanatics to be ini earnest ? "There is" says Euixu,- oi ae, in which it would be madness'not to give tho fullest credit to the most decitfnl'of uiten, hat is, when they make declarations of hostility against us." IV. Further. Under the absolute sway of the 5Torthern majority, the sovereignty of-theinudivid-. tal States, the great arch pillar' of;Southern iberty, is becoming rapidly drawn into a uge *The Union Past and future-Table 3.-" tGarnett; letter to the New York Day Book. tThie amount has been, estimated at $50,000