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EDGEFIELD, S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 182I. &Vr Wa are bound to ask our correspondent "CAROLINA" for the proof, if he means to say that Judge BUTLER'S "motives have been insidi ously attaicked" in this State. No man, since the foundation of our Commonwealth, has been treat ed with more marked courtesy and forbearance in this respect. That Judge B., has pursued the hon orable course ascribed to him, we cheerfully ad mit. Take not the same credit, unjustly, from others. " SECESSION." TnE song over this signature to be found in another column, breathes the right spirit. Will our Marion friend please let us hear from him again? We return him our thanks for the highly respectable names he has been kind enough to add to our subscription list. ." SOUTHERN CONGRESS, WE are requested by several gentlemen to re insert the Southern Congress nomination, which stood in our paper for three or four months, and we have accordingly done so. It was withdrawn only temporarily. PROFESSOR LABORDE. Tats able scholar and excellent gentleman has returned, as is his custom, to take his summer re creation here in his native village. We are pleased to see him attaining better health as he grows older. The community of Edgefield is always glad to welcome him and his to their midst. CHARLESTON CO-OPERATION MEETING. WE see a very large call, in the last Charleston papers, for a meeting of the co-operationists. Can it be intended to drnp Charleston below the tone of the late Southern Rights meeting? We will see. In any event, we have confidence that the noble spirit of resistance will continue to rear its head higher and higher, let mistaken Prudence counsel as it may. Three months ago, Charleston was said to be, by a large majority, against action now, the City is nearly equally divided. Three months more will give us the majority. Should it be otherwise, even "the gates of Charleston shall not prevail against us." THE CAUSE IN ALABAMA. FaoM our Alabama exchanges we gather very satisfactory intelligence of the progress of the good cause of Southern Rights in that State. COCRAN and YANCEY are leading our friends with distin guished ability, and we have not a doubt that victory will perch upon their banners. We cannot avoid taking this occasion to express to our old class-mate, SEIBLEC, the admiration with which we have all along regarded his able efforts in this great controversy. le has manfully thrown himself into the front line of the battle. May he as bravely bear up under the burden and heat of the day, and in the quiet, cool evening, after the engagement is over and the victory won, may he enjoy the rich fruits of Southern Independ ence, for which he is striking such sturdy blows ! CHARLESTON AWAKENING. "RICHARD is HIMsELF AGAiN." WE observe with delight that ournoble old City is at length shaking off that seeming lethargy of spirit, which had crept over her wvonted energies, and is now~ bravely buckling on her armor for the decisixg engagement. The original Southern tie purposes of its formation, a new one has been instituted and is styled the " Auxilliary Southern Rights Association of the Parishes of St. Phillips and St. Michael.." This is evidently intended to be an active, working, moving body, devoted to the cause of Southern Rights and to the mainte nance of South Carolina's constituted authorities, in their onward and upward course. The meeting assembled for the purpose of or ganizing this Association, is said by the Mericury, to have been " one of the greatest and most im pressive political demonstrations ever witnessed in that City-marked equally by intelligence, enthu siasm and settled determination." Hon. JohN S. ASHE w~as made President of the Association and thirty-one other gentlemen, of the first talents and of the highest respectahility, were appointed Vice-Presidents. A Committee of Vigi lance, consisting of one hundred and thirty Mem bers was also filled out; and among them, we are pleased to see much of the enterprise, wvealth, ge nius and spirit of Charleston. The whole affair wears a manly, open nnd fearless front, indicative of the rapid progress of the Resistance feeling in South Carolina. Freemen of the up-country! There's a good time a coming. " The deaf hear, the dumb speak, the dead are raised tup." Heaven's hand is in it. A voice has sounded from your hills and has been shouted back from where the Ocean-wave dashes upon your beach-and it says, " SouvTu CAnou-I NA MUsT AND WILL DC UNITED!-SoTH CtAoLt NA MUST AND WItLL BE TRtIUMPHiANT!" "WHAT IS YOUR PINEY WOODS LAND GOOD FOR ANY HOW I" Sticit was the somewhat startling and rather impertinent query abruptly propounded to us a few days ago, by one of these conceited red-clay 'Twisters.' At the first blush, we wore disposed to turn off in dignified silence ; but, upon second thought, we merely replied by saying.-"Andl what is your plagued oaky woods good for ?" " Well, said he, its good for almost anything corn, cotton, wheat, on~ts &c" " And our piney woods," said we, "can beat you in cotton-equal you in corn, and instead of your trilling wheat and oats, we'll show you cow peas, sweet potatoes, water-melons, pindars and other things too tedious to mention." " Yes," returned lie with a sneer, " and what other things are those you pretend to be too lazy to mention? Gooseberries, fox-squirrels and clay roots, by Hokey. Ha ! ha! ha !" By this time, our sand-hill indignation wvas up and we commenced unbuttoning. We looked around for a place to deposit our coat, bitt on turn ing again to face the foe-lo! the fellow had sloped.. We walked off and, as we went, indulged the follow!pj reflections. a'ji~ abili'ies of our sandy Pine sections are even yet unappreciated except by a few. But the day is coming around when they will stand upper mgt in the estimation of shrewd men. And there are several good reasons for saying so. First, these lands are generally level. Secondly they abound in the best of timber. Thirdly, pine-straw, the geatest of all vehicles for manure, covers the earth and costs but little labor in the hauling. Fourthly, the land is easier of cultivation and the wear and tear is greatly less than on stiff soil. Fifthly, it is abundantly proved that a general failure of a orop occurs less frequently ; because planting: can be safely done so early as alnmost to muajce the crops with the Spring seasons, which1 are generally more certain. Sixthly, the summer range is better. Seventhly, the water is purer and the healthfulness is superior. Eighthly-but we will reserve the other reasons till that chap, who spoke to us so the other day, comes out and pub lishes his. reasons in favor of the oaky woods. We . SOUTHERN STANDARD, ft ALTHOUGH the Southern Standard peremptorily C declines an argument with the Advertiser, yet this shall be no drawback upon us in exprning the fallacy of his positions, whenever we think. proper, especially whient his remarkrls hav.e a bearinug upon the people of Edgefield. It was no paltry anmbi tion to cross swords with the Standard-.ditor, c that caused our comments of last week-but an v honest desire to place our District "rectus in t curia" at once. Ir The Editor is unnecessari'y mitt-d by onr allu sion to the paper under his control. Outr remarks e upon that point, he assumes, were intended for I himself. If he will look again he will had this cannot be so, unless, perchance, he takes the "genius of the State" all to him":elf. We certain intended no such personal application of the ex pression. how could we, when, to tell the truth, we have only very recently learned who Mr. B. C. PREsSLEY is, and that, too, from vague hearsay! But enough of this. We are perhaps less dis posed to bandy words wtth the Standard than he is with us. "Plain dealing and plain talking" is our motto. If any wince under it, it is not our fault. If we are at any time censurable, tell us of it candidly, and we will endeavor not only to see our error but make proper amends for it. A FEW WORDS TO THE CO-OPERATIONISTS, TitE indications from almost all qtuarters of the State are cheeringly strong in favor of our pro gressing in the course of resistance already institu ted. Day after (lay we receive items of intelli gence to this efect. Scarcely one mail in ten brings news of an opposite character. We have examined the few South Carolina Newspapers which differ with us in politics, and so seldom do we discover on their pages anything to prove that they are sustained by the people of the State, that really our sympathies have becu somewhat excited towards them. On the other hand, the Secession Papers, from the mountain-s to the sea-board, teem constantly with abundant proofs of the true senti ment of the ever-gallant people of South Carolina. And this sentiment is one of deep hostility to Fede ral Rule, connected with a fixed determination to free themselves from it, by the on!-; proceedure which will be, at the same time, right tend effec tual-.the proceedure of Constitutional Secession. The rapidly increasing unanimity of our people, on this great matter, is destined to exercise a pow erful influence upon this era of American history. It is like a fore-shadowing of the gloom of Erehu3 to the hearts of our enemies. Pitt it i? joyott- sun light to the souls of all true Southern Patriots. Friends of the Co-operation party ! let us reason together with all manner of kindnes1. Were your policy decidedly in the atronlcney at this time in the State, would you not think it ttl reasonable in your opponents, not rnly to wi'hhold the in fluence of their concert, but to r-ck, by fanning the flame of civil disnord, to heat down the free voice of the great body of their fellow-ci:irens ! And is not this precisely whet you ant doing now? We fear it is. It does not occur to ui that you have any im proper motives in doing this. It may very well be that you are actuated by the purest intentions. But the effects produced by your unavailing exer tions at this stage of the contest. may not be the less fatal to your State. Without designing it, you may foment bitter discord and strife at home. You may even encourage, indirectly, treason in the camp. One of your own-number has been among the first to inform the St"e, that there is already a spirit of rebellion abroad among us. We have all along feared that there might be a fewi rene gades in. thind. But that they were to be found their disloyal whims, we had not before imagined. We have not the slightest, idea that this is so as yet ; and we trust in God it may never be. Yet the bare suggestion of such a thing is sufficient to startle every good man into a sense of the awftul ruin and disgrace, which such a spirit might pos sibly work out, unless crushed at once with the contempt and scorn it merits. If it has comae to thIs, that such vile treason muet be pendered to by South Caroliniane, then we m-uy ar well tear down the Palmetto, burn the recordls of the past and prepare for the lowest political degra'dation. Ex pect to win over an A nlxo:.D by compldai'anmce and concessions ! It is wvorso :han idle. You only keep alive the serpent by such mintirtrations. Smother it at the beginning by unmniitiated con demnation, or it may grow to he a rtaneo.o - iper in your bosom.-Blut, while th-ere powseih!y may be on the one side, a few individuals, had enough to yield to this wicked spirit, look umnn the ether side of you, and you wvill there find three-f".urmhs of your State pressin:g on for their In-lpendence, by direct, strait-forward measures. Trhey desire to turn neither to the right hand nor the left, until this fond desire of their hearts shall hav-e been accomplished. While they si-li-it arnd earnestly hope for the co-operation of other States, yet they are resolved to carry their ecen State, alone, if it must be, out of this unequal Union. 1k-re then is a small factiotn, supposed to be ready for mutiny on the one hand, and on the other, vutt SIassES OF -vis STavE, burning to secuire their rights andl vindicate their freedom. Friends of the Co-operation party, what will you do? We will not ask you to choose het ween the two; for we are constrained to believe that most of you regard that petty factio-i of recuisants with tho same abhorrence, wvhich is felt by the se cessionists. But we ask yout, in friendly mood, will you clog the onward course of the latter, when, to do so, you find yourselves compelled to use arguments which, if they have any effecot, muset tend to strengthen the hands and increase the ranks of the former ? It is surely well demnonstra ted that you cannot decrease the numbers of the Secessionists-it is above contradiction indeed, that they are rapiidly gaining accesiqn in ev-ry part of the State. You have exhausted thme vari rious terms " folly," "madness," "delirium," "recklessness,"4:c., in application to thetm, bt they are still determined. You have appealed to their fears and their interests in the strongeut terms, and yet they are undaunted. You have presented many worthy and distinguished names, in long and powverful array, to sway them in their opin ions, and yet they increaso in a ten-fold ratio. Bethink you, friends, there is significance in all this. Beware, lest you miscalculate the depth and force of that feeling which some of ycu, twelve months ago, fost red and encouraged. Beware, lest in after years, you find that what you lhad termetd " recklessnes" and 4"insanity," was in reality the influence of an Almighty Providence, moving upomn the hearts of a generous race. andI inmpelling them to the execution of a high purpose. In the progress of our holy religion, such epithe ts wereI applied to the agents employed in its advancement. Mlay not the same happen to those destined to prosecute the cause of true Liberty ! We appeal, then, ardently and kindly to those among us, who style themaselves Co-operationists, asking them, as an .act of brotherly justice andI fi filial piety, to join the dominant party in the State. It is the only possible method of obtaining that perfection of unanimity, which will enabsle us to ride out the storm that may await us. That s' this junction will make South Carolina as one man, we have not te slightest shadow of doubt. For, without the countenance of thme respectability, a talent and position, of which the .cu-operationxists 8 mre unquestionably possessedl, this last and least C unily strife, convicted and disabled. SoUTH AROLINA WOULD THEN PRESENT AN UNDIVIDED no'T! Think, oh, think of this most fortunate onsummation! It is yours to achieve it. Be onsiderate. and place your shoulders to the wheel rith us. All will be well, if this division be ealed. For, then, ouraction will have a mighty, ontrolling power. And this, it is generally agreed, could be the happy result of unanimity. To show hat some of our most prudent and distinguished men, in both wings of the resistance party, concur it this last conclusion, we will quote the langunge if two of our immediate fellow-citizens. Judge ;UTI.ER, in April last, wheh deprecating action in account of the divisions atnong ourselves, said listinetly and with marked emphasis,-" If you rcre unitcId, you could dissolve the Union to-mor -ow beyond a doubt." Col. PicxENs, on Sale lay last, said, "If we are cordially united at tome, we can sarc onr. eles alone!" We select hese opinions out of many others, because they ell from men, long known and long trutted by the reater part of our readers. ST.1NDARD LOGIC. Te Southern Standard gives us rather a queet 'pecimen of reasoning in one of its recent articles, the oddity of which we desire, briefly and in part only, to point out. The question is asked. "Will the other States follow us ?" He says not. This nay be true enough-but time alone can show. Our design is not here to controvert the conclu. pion-but to notice the manner in which the Standard arrives at it.. We confine ourselves ts what lie says about Georgia, as this is the only part which has the appearance of plausibility The only argument advanced, to prove that Geor gia will never follow our lead, is derived from he: Cotventiion's decision not to act on the score o past wrongs, and from that obstinacy of opinior common to frail humanity. To give the demon stration point, Sowath Carolina is placed in Geor ia's shoes and an "urguentum ad <irilatem" i thrust at her, after this fashion : Would you, tin der similar circumstances, follow Georgia ? Woul you not rather stan-d by in an over-boiling "huff,' simply because Georgia had, after waiting in vait for you to take the lead, pursued the dictates o duty to herself, by stepping forward on her owt responsibility ? Would you not stand by, grindin your teeth like a very Achilles, and suffer her ti be coerced hack into the Union by Federn power! "Assuredly you would," says the Stand ard-and how dare you hope that Georgia wil not do so unto thee ?" We are astonished-w are mortified that a South Carolina Journalis should have entertained, for an instant, a thong: so unsuited to the character of our people. W will not say it is dishonoring the name of Sout' Carolina ; for this might have the appearance c harshness, and we now write "more in sorroi than in anger." Tell us, that South Carolina i sunk so low, as to he capable of standing by wit indifference, should her sister Georgia be born down.,for any cause, by the arm of it governmer hostile to the South and her Institutions ? Tell u that her sons would not rather rush to the rescu at the first signal of alarm ! The man, who titters the thought, knows notli ing of the people ie thus grosly, but perhaps ur wittingly, slanders. We would be perfectly wil ling to ri-k our whole cause upon the reply of ou fellow-citizens to the question, "Would you not in a quarrel like ours, sustain Georgia to the last with men and with money ?" Could the voices c the freemen of South Carolina be collected int one sountd, it would almost reach Heaven with th response, "We would--we would." We must say to the Standard that a more un surdum," whtich tells with efTet, precisely agains the position designed to be mainitained. Will the Standard excuse us for asking an ex planation of his singular use of the word "coer cion," itt the article under consideration. If w. comprehend him at all,he intimates thtat secssioi by a single State would be, towards anm adjoinini sister State, as flagrant an act of coercion, as tht interposition of Federal power, woutld be towvari the seceding State-in other words, that Soti Carolina's co-ercion of Georgia would be as pal pah'le andI as ourageous as FtL~stone's co-crcio: of South Carolina. For, says the Standard, "1 ,oul onli be th coercion of a sovereign State, i. either crse''! !!! Thtis is a parralel, vwith a yen geance. Poor South Carolinta! rThreatenedl b her enenmies wiuth Fcd'ral coercion, and accuses by her children of umeditatinig toward others sin gle-Statle eo-eriont ! But sutrely sutch notions ara writtent dlown inore int jest thtan in earnest. A least, it cantnot he expected thtat grown-up meni who fully realize the equtality and sovereignty o the difTrent Statec, will he at all itnfluetnccd bs them. No stuch thing as the coercion of Georgia b: South Carolina hias ever been dreamed of for moment. The act of Southl Carolina when shi secedes, will b~e her own, independent, legitimat< and sovereign act. Howv can any one find ini thea coercion of Georgia? Because gentlemer think proper tos specutlate upon the probabilities o a sister State's jointing her destiny with ours, art theiy to be accused of dlesigninig thte coercion a that State ? If the result of that secession be peace catn Georgia sufTer ini any degree fronm ouract ? I it be war, ouir act would thten inudeed have causec i development, whticht would shake the Utnion in to fragments. But would Georgia have the slight st cause of murmuring against South Carolina sven in that event!? Would shte charge uts witha result, brought aboutt by Federal despotism! ? L thters think as thtey wvill, we can but believe thta ur gallant sister wotuld then be thankful to the tate, by whose instrumnentality the rotten condi ion of the Federal Governtment lhad been thut uddenly and comipletely exposed. Shte wvould less the means which had discovered to hter the ninte, before it was futlly laid for her destruction. [east of all, woutld site then complain of coercion iSouth Carolina !! No! the idea is a hunbug, md ottr sensible brethren of Georgia will be thes irst to lautgh at its futility. Whatever coturse then otur neighbor may putrsue n reference to the secession of Sotht Carolina, and we do not pretend to divine whant it will be,) ne thing is very clear-it will be shtaped by high. r or at least stroniger cnsideratiotns thtan thtose uggested by the Standard. G7TnuE Augutst tnmber of the Farmer and lutter, puiblished at Old Pendleton has reached us, nd containis its usual variety of itnterestinig and seful information. We agree with "Strawts" itn the main, about )ats. It is, in nine cases out of ten, the close asturing and hard trampling which do the dam ge. We have tried it. " Broomasedlge" is a clever Rleviewer and makes maiy good hits. We wish heo would extend his omments a little. As a specimen of htis sensible ay of talking we clip the following. "CnovnR vs. Tt'Rstrs."-The " turnipahbene to land !"-all gammon-" theatrical phantitng, is, truly. Commnt sense come to our aid-dlid ver atny hodly grow turntips on poor land ? If this nnnot be done, we take it. that it mnurt hte the lture, and not the turnips, whIh imiproves the il, i fanv improvement does take place.-Sprengal 'tys, 20 t'ons tutrnips contain 15 lbs. of alkalis anid I) bushels wheat with its strawv added only sixteen ouds. Profeossur Johaon in coprigte mounit of alkalies abstracted from the soil by thte nn and green crops, says that " nine teuths of to potsaah and soda withdrawn from thte soil are ontainedl in thte green grasses," andl that " every "GEN.ADAMS'S L.Enlemen, here is something worth ieadin -e take it ; no man has ever travelled through The Fork," without being struck with the woi4erful neatness of their planting operations, or without the thought being suggsted-"how in the world do those plantern grow rich on such poor d 1" The mystery is I solved by Genl. A's e lar manuring,sys teniatic management, clean culture. We have heard it said, that It because they can cul tivate more to the han tin we do. Not so-here is only fifteen acres t hand-but it is wellt done-slowly and sure y dr e..More failures arise from planting a crop in great a hurry than in any other way. Take 'at the beginnin, and remember that, " wit Q requisite nuniher of stalks to the acre, you t ther a full crop." , -ROOMSEDGE. 0OMMU TIONS, FOR TISER. TO THE GOVERNOR'UARDS, OF COLUMBIA, TiE first Company-to 'offer its services to Gov. SEADROoK, in defencef Souiern Rights, this song is respectfully dedicated by an old Member. Aua-" A wet .8Sand a ftowing Sea." Oppression, with ts gallig bands, Now presses on the South, And Northern tyrgnIeommands That we should hold our mouth, While they are tra;ifly on our rights Who once have bhrers been So let us, from our-sunnyheights, Our rallying cryb"! tUNFoLD -rn FI he "SouTnRn FI.Ao," And let our warriorsoaome From sea board, vioe nd mountain crag, To march at the roll1f the drum. I .- , , Against Ambition an'd its hordes Of greedy, lawless men, Who, for the wealth the South affords, Would visit her again -: f With fire and sword, which once she bore For them, in Freeddm's cause, When Britons from aToreigu shoro Came to enforce thgi laws "Rise fellowmen"-Unite, unite, And should our foeinen come, We'll show them that we still can fight We'll march at the roll of the drum. t III: Justice, Right and.Vidfue, all Upon our side will etand Then hearken to a brother's call, Obey CALIwoL's 1 mand. "UNIE, UNITE," ai ever fear, Though ten to one oar foes t To SrARTANS this verenoble cheer s So strike. your deadlet blows;. And show that traitori, like the Stag, Though bragging, will be dumb, To see us 'neath our Southern Flag, March at the roll of the drum. But should our Southern sisters fail To join us in the eapse Shall Carolina's childrt quail ? S Can Carolina pauset No--No ! our rights oqurs to guard 'Tis ours the time e .-eanti se~ tUnfol then our Palintto'Fing-. Let Carolinians come From sea-board, vale and mountain crag, Andl march to the roll of-the drum. Marion C. H., July,1l85%; SEcEssioN. - Fo THE AnvEatTisERt. ?ItR. EDITOR :-Rarely indeed have we been permitted the pleasure- of attending a Barbacee equal to that we had the pleasture to partake of on the 1 7th instant, at the residene of our old friend, Cel. WYA-rr UIoLME,-theC expense andl trouble of which was all shouldered by our libe ral old friend anod veteran. It was truly'inferior to none, tboth for quality and variety. His guests consisted of,.some 'our hundred or more persons, principally from the neighborhood imnmediately surrounding him, all of whom seemed to be perfectly delighted, at home, and much too to thme gratifleation of the Colonel him self. The juvenile portion of the company, as a matter of course, was engaged pretty much all the while, ini a well-directed Cotillion party. We hope that others will profit byithe exam ple set by Col. UI., and call us together again on a like occasion. HORN'S CREEK. r-- -- - FoRt TiHE ADVERTISER. rMr. Editor :-In your paper of the 17th inst., I finid the followirig: " To Lovsia.-The Picayune says. 'We pronise to tell any ono .who will unriddle the fllowing, where he may find a sweet-heart.'" A Problem.-A witty yotung gentleman living with a rich farmer, fell in love with his daughter. On harinmg of this he said to the young man that there were three 'gates between his house and his orchard, and that if he wvould go to the orchard and get a nuamber of apples and leave half he had and half an apple over at the first gate ; and half lie had left and half an apple over at the second gate; and half he then had left and half an apple over at the third gate; and bring one tp him, without euttiug an apple, he might have his daughter. I wish to know how many apples lie had left at each gate, and the number of apples." Now, I ay, the young man who can't unrid de this problem, is unworthy of a sweet-heart. Why, sir, it is as easy as " falling off of a slick log." Let him take 15 apples. The half of 15, and a hmlf over, is 8, which he will leave at the first gate, and have 7 left ; the half of 7, and a half over, is 4, which lie will leave at the second gate, and have 3 left ; the half of 3, and a half over, is 2, wvhichu he will leave at the third gate, and have 1 left, which he will present to' the old boss and tuke his " gal," for aught I care. I send you this, 'MR. Enrron, for thme benefit of love-siek swains in general. But I wish you to hear in mind that [ donot belong to this class ; nor do I claim tho. benefit of the Picayune's promise. I waive my claim in favor of thoso youths whio think tihat, " Sugar apd 'las.ses are ne'er so sweet, As kneeling at the lasses' feet." A COxFlaxED B3ACHEI. Iiggins Ferry, July 24, 1851. A DV'ERTIS!NG.-Genlin, the great hatter, in a nte to the editor of the New York -Cou rier, inviting him to teat his style of hiats, holds the folowino.-language: " The benefits I halve drvdfronm the press as an advertising. medium it is be~yond m powver to, estimate, and I am wvelh satis tid, from careful observation and experience, that advertising is the main-spring or success in ever bnmh of business." FOR TrE ADVERTISER. Ma. EDITOR :-I have been pleased to see the ecesionists and Co-operationists of our State ending to harmony with each other. Unanimi- bi y is absolutely indispensable to our success. to tlthough some have assumed that South Caroli- te in may sustain herself in her present exigeney, f, olitary and alone, none are so rash as to deny fu Io impossibility of her doing so without the p muited wisdom and action of her own citizens. 01 The one is possible, the other impossible. For Lunately for our State, our able men have gene- ai rally interchanged freely their counsels with each t Ather, and uniting upon some common ground, ti guided us safely through every political crisis, tl No one would deprecate more than I, to see our p leading men so ambitious and injudicious as to I erect, each for himself, his individual standard h and which having erected it, pride of opinion ti would induce him to maintain, by inflamatory ap- g peals to the people. Such would be dishonora- s ble to them, ruinous to the State and a deep stain t1 upon her fair history. South Carolina is not a e place for demagogues, and I would gladly hope a that the conservative character of her govern ment will ever protect her against them. It is with the profoundest admiration, therefore, that c I view the present course of Judge Bu'r.Ea and v his friends-submitting to misrepresentation and ? insidious attacks upon their motives,-rather than I underteke a vindication of themselves, lest it should involve our citizens in party strifes and t bickcrir.gs. I pity the soul, that cannot appre- < eate such patriotism, but deludes himself into the belief that Judge BU-rLEa is not able to vin- i diente his course triumpintly before his coun- < try. Surely no one has been more devoted to his State, or more consistent in his course thani this distinguished gentleman. In 1849, the Southern Delegates in Congress, i under the lead of .1r. CALHouN, met in Council to advise upon the most efficient remedy of the great evils*of which we, and the whole South now complain. The result of their joint wisdom and deliberations, was given by Mr. CALHOUN, and subscribed to at the time by Judge BUTLER and our Representatives in Congress, in the fol lowing words. "We then aro of the opinion, that the firt and indispensable step, without which nothing can be done, and with which every thing may be, is to be united among yourselves." Here we see how much Mr. CALnOUN and .udgc EUTLEn., relied upon the co-operation of the Southern States with each other to effect a remedy of the identical evil of which we now complain. But shortly after this Mr. CALHOUN died, and the evil continuing, it devolved upon our Statesmen, still to use their efforts to secure us against the aggressions of the North., The consequence was they became tho advo cates of a dissolution of the Union, for the pur pose of re-organizing ourselves into a Southern Confederacy. This project was unanimously ap proved of by the whole State, dnd our Senators returned to the last Session of Congress, its open and avowed advocates. In fact, Mr. RnErr was elected Senator by our last Legislature, because of his bold advocacy of this measure, and on ac count of which he was denounced by Ir. C.v .And consistent-with th'e pledge of thi State, not to lead, bzi* jofollot,-theo ,Legislisturo ap But although Mr.-Run-r-r had been so conspieni ous an adroentc of this great project, upon his return from Congress. he suddenly places him self in the lead of the Secessionists, and is so ultra as to say we do not need co-operation, and so bold as to threaten to force it if necessary. Is this the conduct of a wise Statesman, or of a practical man ? To dissolve this Union and form a Southern Confederacy is not the work of a day. t is a great and magnificent adventure in behalf of our liberties and institutions. And now when it has beer, advocated as the settled policy of the State, but little more than twelve months we are tld to discard it as not important. In truth it is wo ~rth the labours of many years ; it is as great and as essential to us, as was the achievement of the American Revolution, to the interest of our ancestors ; and if formed wvith a proper estimate of the comity and good-will that should subaist between its members, it would prove a lasting victory over the enemies of our country. The assertion of Mir. RuETTr that we do not need or that we will force co-operation, sounds to me more like the maudlin vauntings of a bragart, than the lesso'ns of either patriotism or wisdom, and forces me to refer it to his weakness, to avoid maligniug his motives ; for in any event it could only result in his ineuring the denunciationi of the South as lie did that of the North, hut with out any reward. In' truth South Carolina can have no sympathy eithi any men or measures that would hinder that union and co-operation of the Southern States, which Mr. CALHOUs and his distinguished associates have taught us to regardI as " the first and indispensable step on this great question." The remarks of the brave and patri otic G. M. Taour in reference to nullification, 1 may be easily applied to the present question. p " Carolina (said he) had a perfect right to doo as he did ; but as we doi not always wvisely what c we havo right to do. I b!amed Carolina for notr acting in concert with these States having iden tical interests ; if ahe had done so, a certain and omplete triumph of the Constitution would have r been the result." But in tho present ease it is not only wise, but b onsistent in South Carolina to " act in concert t< with those having identical interests." It is her v declared policy. The publication in the Cnarles- f~ ton Mercury, of an extract from .Judge Bumr- o Et's speech, delivered in 1830, is entirely fin- e pertinent to the present issue. The object then r was to interpose the sovereignty of the State to a rohibit the abuses and usurpations of the gov- g mnent. South Carolina contemplated no revo- a lution or remodeling of the government; but a lud up a::d acted under the regis of the Consti- ni tution with a viewv to its preservation. Standing d apon the platform of the Conistitution, lie could ae Aell say " if our principles are right. South Cara- U in small as site is, can minhtain thema as well te is twenty States joined." But the opinion now te btains that the Constitution is impotent to pro ect us against the encroachments of onr eneimies; ib liat the Union should be dissolved and the South- it r States reorganize thiemseclves into a Southern ti onfedray to save their liberties and institu No one has been more devoted, patriotic and be onsistent upon this great question, than Judgo pt 3ILEa, and more deserving our lasting grati- ca ude. Let us show that co-operation and conse uently a Southern Confederacy is worth any b acriice, but the sacrifice of submiissioni. 'When If his is done, the co-oporationists will then resort cc > secession by time State, as a forlorn-hope, and rove the truth of their words that in any event i 'the fate of South Carolina shall be their fate." at CrnnIN. 4 FOIL Tmits AuYizTLER. OUR CAUSE OF QUARRECL. FELLoW-CITIZES:-The inquiry then, may fairly made, from my precceding remarks, us the distinctive character of the different quar *rs of this immense country, of which we have end ourselves possessed. For, it really has ur sections as different from each other, as it is ssible for difference of location, of popuitionl pursuits, and of interests to render them. The Southern States are bounded on the East Id South, by the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, eo Rio Grande, and Mexico; on the North, by te States which have abolished slavery ; and on te West, by a line yet to be determined, but, rhaps running with the Rocky Mountains. With an agreeable and salubrious climate, they ve a high spirited people. Stretching nearly trough fifteen degrees of latitude, and thirty de recs of longitude, they freely yield an abundant apply for all the physical wants of man. From lie peculiarity of their soil, and the slave labor mployed in them, Cotton is raised in greater bundance and perfection here, than in any other art of the globe. The productions of this re on alone, are said to furnish almost half the mmercial and manufacturing resources for the rhole world. The profits derived from it to the forth alone are computed at eighty-eight mil ions of dollars per annum. Its interest then ould lead it, to burst the fetters and commercial estrains thrown around it by government, and ifer a market for the competition of all nations. his course successfully adopted, would make it, n a few years, the most opulent and powerful ountry ever dreamed of by the wildest and most anguine political philosophers. The support of million of troops for an exigency, would not ex must its treasury ; and the natural courage of its mhabitanta would oppose resistance to all the wcrs of the earth. This, I believe, is an unex g;gerated portraiture of the South ; and these are ier vast capabilities. The States not included in the Southern States tud North of the Ohio, but watered by the Mis issippi and its branches, and lying east of the Roeky Mountains, may be considered as the Western States proper. They are inhabited by a people, who present some features of character different from those of the people of any other section. In travelling amongst tle m, a stranger would be struck, by observing it singular mixture, in the same individuals, of frankness and dis honesty, profligacy and avarice, ignorance and sagacity, and of indolence and enterprise. The character of this region seems to be yet in- its chrysalis state, but possesses some rough strength, and exhibits some bold points. This part of A merica is better adapted, by soil, climate, and situation, to farming and husbandry, than any portion of country known. It could furnish pro. visions for one quarter of the globe. Nature has decreed its independence, in every respect, and nothing but the degeneracy of its people can change the order. The genius of this population is likely to turn towards speculation rather than commerce. Front the abundance'of their corn, meat, and other supplies, the Western States will be the most populous of any other, and hy. the nmerical strength of their vote, they w~ill con trol every measure of legislationa and. no com~ inatioq~fj~ti tt~a eetterj utet for -their produc, throug~h the Mississippi, r through. the:St. Lawrence,:in. despite..of all hat fleets,. or armies, or any opposition can ef let. The quality of their productions, and their id will always comnmand a ready market. Let this suffice for the West-a region of ini ~alulable ntatural wealth, and of dxhaustless re oures. The Northern States, bordered by the Lakes ,d the Atlantic are peculiarly mnraitime, comn ercial and manufacturing in their habits; and to political organizations, or national eonvulsions otuld alter their destiny. They are likely to far ~xel,in pursuits of trade and manufactures, every cope on this henmisphere. Trhe tide of emigra ion first reaches their shores, and therefore, they an sooncst obtain the cheapest laborers, and the blest artisans that Europe a!Tords, or that any )art of the world sends to the A mnerican Conti tent. Their business too, and their freqjuenit ~omnintiont with other countries will keep item fanilliar wvithi all the improvements and in ~etins of mankind. Fromn the ntature of their tonsant avocations, and from other causes, the tharacter of this p~eople is already fixed. It is tot surprising, that they should be both indus rios and calculating. Almost every politicnl esure is estimated, at the Nortih, according to s utility; and the noise of the spindles of Bos pn and Lowel, andl of thte iron forges of Pennt ylvania, are sufilienct to drowvn the miost elo ent appeals of patriotism, and the most im assioned exhortations, ever addressed, by j us e and humanity, to the hearts of men. The Territory on the Pacific, and West of the tocky Mountains, froni its position and settlers, roises to have a separate organization as soon, before any other portion of theo Union. Theo mntry- is described as Asiatic, in its soil, scene y, and many of its products; and its people be g constituted of all nationas, will form a mixed tee, differing, in many respects, from every ter ia existence, Their directest intercourse eing held with foreign States, and foreign eus nts, and languages, and institutions being inter 'oven there, thtickly, with thte American, and mrmng a whole differing essentially from our va, our government, in a little while, will be me an intolerable burthen to them. It is natu l, that a comtmunity so situated, and so far re oved fromt the fountain-head of authority, and rernent, and syinpathty,should desire to think ud act for thtemnselves. The quality and rielh ss of thteir mines, and their distance from the ain power of the country, will give. them confi ee in their ablity to protect thtemselves, and cure their intdependence; and it will cost the ited States ten times more, in men and money,' preserve her authority over them, than it did win their territory from Mexico. The condition of the various sections of this and Republic being sucht as I have represented would it not be a miracle, if thtey should con te united under one Constitution and Govern cut for a centuryi I pray Hleaven that it may so, if our liberties, in thte meantime, can be 'eserved inviolable. But, if it should be the se, it will be the tnost remarkable Instance of therhood and harmony reorded in history. tte iitecrests of all these various portions of our untry, and their pursuits were similar, then we gt expect to realize -ur bi-ightest anticipations, our fondest hopes of the perpetuity of our ion Thir. intrests thonugh_ are all rlisuim lar. The Northern man is a manufacturer-the Southern man is a cotton, rice, and sugar planto, -the Western man is a farmer and speealator-x and the Californian, is a piratica dreamer-ad . full of dreams as any disciple of Swedenborg - but unlike the imaginative reigionist, ie does not revel amid a world of beatific. spirits..an guardian angels-his dreams are of gold, and plunder and deialtatfoii. The Northern State% will oppress the Southern States for the 6enetfitof' their commerce and mamfateres. The Wes tern States will join in the oppression to monopo lize the ofilces of the Government; and as it spice to their common measures of extortion,and as a relaxation from their severer financiaisti ies, these two sections will occasionally create wars. in order to shift off their old goocaf' their surplus of musty provisions, and to en ter, for a brief period, into exciting end-nii cent army specenlations. To be sure it is to the interest of chof sections described, that the other should exist; but the interest felt, that they all should exist-uw. der the present union and constitution, has long proved itself too weak, to restrain from'_ cred instrument, the hand of lawless. vioese. . and sacrilege. The magnificent idea of the bounle s( slon of our territory may well eoomportiu thil, , views of those, who would destroy our tif . Federal System-annihilato the. sovereis'of2 the States, and build upon their-rmine, a e and consolidated despotism. By discanling the Constitution, and establishing astrong,.t n i' central Government, the Union mightbe vestrv es as long as a despotism like that of iti could last. BRut, I am opposed to the adznitiq of so many States into this eonfederacy,'fen he o" very reason, that when the public 'ititrests come so varied, it requires a stronger andmct7 ahsolute power to control them. When the1eitiiii is called upon to sacrifice his.eivil and political b erty for the enjoyment of a Governme ernment ceases to be a blessing, .and bein curse. The most imposing and solemn foeng..rt. law, become the more distasteful and loathsome.' to the prisoner in chains, from .the iverypomp and ceremony with which they are admini d, No nation ever enjoyed freedom, with "a' large extent of territory ; and I appeal to-the history of., all Governments to prove the assertion . L l,, liberty, and constitutional freedom is likeho:.w tal heat that animates the body; the more diffused, the fainter becomes its glow,,until totally extinguihed and life has entirely 4g TUE STAR REDOUBsT. As AMERTCAN STEAMER BLOWN U YJ4I EscLusu STEA FRIGATE By the ariv i of the bark Minnesota at Philadlifi Rio Janeiro. we lnin 'that the "o i of H. B. M..Steamer Cormorant, =hacekcM the steam tow boat Saialhownedfy ,tasn Hobbs & Alvaringe, an American Bous-se suspieion of het hiiving.furnished r to .vessels engaged in te slave tridni .~i sod her to be blown up.. It aPpea a notorious slave deiler named A zt o. nez, dispateed a- sch'ooner' fromii Rin'Th 6th ult., for the coast of-":I!,friedr=#r she was at anehor 3 miles oatside'of - br.on t S%-alt j eeded to the -scqe r w the. Bfiti i offlcer.app foi the- ami eniance of f fled, he took ,pose iof4h and aftNr trans e~h oranit, towcd the Srhsome~ from 'the' herb F,'snd had-- eOr'wU' wvheranponi the owners' laidfethwirn t'ore Mr. Todd, the--American--Miniser,who repaired on board. the Cormorantandideman (led anexplanation, whitywagiutbul in a very satisfacto.ry mrnnr. Jzs stood *tht't Mr. Todd has fonvari , whole'proeeding 1;o Wasi .gtnn the Britishofficer 'to underatr.dtaicy~a iion and apolngy'wouId be nsitItlydemft. ed by his Government.-N. Yorker, July'227 STGs or Tinl' Twmas.--Since our-]ast~issuc, says the Mississifyvia of thslmth inst.,'we hiavereceived many gratifying assurances'from varioonrs oL f. the State, of. .the'success of the lemocratie State Rights ticket.. Thompson is sweeping everything before him in the First District. In th6 Second, Featherston is tearing away the foundationsf of Submissionism. M'Willio has his lance' poised in the centre, and will make exter-. minating work of Submissionism when his canvass conmmoees. ]3rown has just com pleted a triumphal tour, and those who have' heard him, say that he is fairly out-doing himself'. He will be rdthrned to Congress by a larger majority than over before. Jef t'ersona Davis wvill soon commence fulfillirig. his rappointments in the Northern Counyj and the people will turn out'by . thousands to hear him. They will grect hien with bai nors and musie,and'better than'all, witir hearts heating with gratitude for his services in their cause.-State-Rights Republican. Ex-POUNDING THE CoNSTzruTo.-J'he6. right of petition-The right~.to abuse and endanger ha:lf the States of the Union. The power to addiit a Stafe-The power to exclude half the States of the Union from all share of a commnon territory. Com~promise-' he vote of a majority to take all. Faithful execution of the laws--. the conquest and subjugatiori-of soviielgn States to the unlimited control of -their. equals. The glorious Union-A government of a majority without limitation of power.. The right of' revolution-The right .of committing treason, and of being hanged for it, if caugrht. The resolutions, of '98-The right of pas-. sing resolutions, and backing ont from themu The love of the Union-The lust for m. opolizing its purse and its conquests.. DEsPERATIO.-A letter to. the Tribei mentions the eircumstan~ces -of-a merdhant - at San Francisco, who, having been buriit out of all that he owned by the previous fires at that city, when the flames of the' last conflagration surrounded his building,--in which he had all ho possessed, cooly invited his wife to walk out and see the, fire; wiheni they had passed into the street, in a momient of mad phrenzy, he drew a revolver and shiot her through the head, .and then instantly. ended his own life with another sh t f:7 Hox. W. C PREsroN-We are grati.. ied to state, says the Columbia Carolinian, that this gentleman is recovering from his recent alight attack of paralysis. We Idarn that it is his intention not to resume hIsaz.. lies as President of the- Soth Carulina College. gir CIInUsT was born amo~g the poor, rrewv up among the poor, toiled wvith the poor, and died for the poor. The casea in avhichi he eve~r came'i~n-ttetaith rich m4li .re noe wt-epasis in the 8criptq,