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a Drulottatic 3 outral, UrbottV to sotttwjutf 3RIg jts, , golitics, 'i tral )uttigetit, Efterattte, jotrIttm, E em tite, g iut't $ r. "Wo will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Libertiesand if it zaust fall, we will Perish azaidst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor, EDGEFIELD, S. C., OCTOBE R 9,1851. v.-O THE EDGErsIELD ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. ARTHUR SINKIlNS, Editor. TERMS.-.Two DOLLARS per year. if paid in advance---Two DOLLARNS nnl FoTV c(N-rs if -not paid in six months---anld TuittEf DoLLARs if "not paid before the expiration of the year. All -subscriptions not distinctly limited at tle tite of subscribing, will be considered as ittie foran nil definite period, and will be continued until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of the Pub lisher. Subscriptions front other States nust be accompanied with the cash or reference to some one known to us. 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Its beatmrs f-Il upotn on(e who would never agaii behold its setting. and brought to his sad heart thoughts ot h0, home, his country, his own gloomv alte, and dreams of the past-the buried past. It is the last time that sun will ever dawn for hitm -the last time he can gaze upon its beaii glancing over the bright waters, or watch the glad waves of the blue Atlitie, as they lIve the glowing shores of his ttative ;tate ir. has gone forth that awful settene- bT shalt die!" le has been condemntied as a trd tor, and lie tust die a traitor's death. Trai tor! must such -is he be calleda traitor? He was torn from the couch Of a dyint wii. and marched to a gloomy pri)on.-There, tIe soldiers of King G(eotrge ofi'ered hint thi; al. ternative: "Swear not to take up arms siniit your king, and you shall not be called upon to fight against your country. Give us this oath and you may return :.rfuse.and the pri son must-beyourabode. Tlk eelint"softhe tuan triumphed over those or" patgitt, and he swoi-oWri : trag te pr?,mise of the'Britiiti wN r -n -he wat. called uponl to support the Royal Standard.' This releas ed him from his allegianes, and lie a:tin drew his sword in defence of America. This was treason to his Majesty ; for this he must die. Nothing could save" him. Lord Ravdon i turned away from the petition of thei. Gov ernor, and with cold elegance denied tIhe re quest of "Carolina's rebel daig'hters." Then i came she "who was bound by the ties of sis terhood," to be condemned, and with her his son but the proud Britonl, turning awat rom that sister's glance, and the mild, in plori'ng' look of that noble boy, as lie prayed him to spare his father's life,answered still. --He mttt1 die!" That soletni ediet. --Death by tei- ib bet's rope,' has been spoken, and e:-htly ind fearlessly Carolina's patriot son awaited his do6od. Alone in the deep and imassy prison. the stray sun-beams Ildelmintg over the dark, damp floor, and tie thick. grey wall. the spider weav ing her gossamer veb over the immines ofthose who have suffered as lie now suftiers. the crick et on the cold earth, was the captive-alone. with his God ! That God only1. might ever know he conflicting etot ions thait swept ve heart atnd mind. Het knew the keen agoniiy that wratpt his soul in gloom, lie ailone could cheer that noble spirit, shrouded ini darkntess anud woe. A iision of the futture camne over his soul; a vision of his country in echainsatnd bonidage ; her soil, enriched lby the hea~rt's blood of her brave sons, smiling~ a plentiful harvest for the oppressor: her children the slaves of .England's monarch. Then catme au dream of aill that he would have done foir that bleeding country : a dream of the laurels she wvould have wreathed arountd his brow. anmd the blessing that would have rested uponi his name. Clearly upon the still air St. Michw's chime tolled forth the hour of t welve. St. .Mliehol's chime ! How many thoughts does !ihat sound bring to miy umid ! thotughlis of all thait has~ been, anid can never, niever be again ! My wife, I have no teatrs for thee: they were atll shted wvheni we laid thee downt to steeni ini thv still damp grave. Thou hatst watched over me in "deep, imnmtculate, itmmorltal love." frotm thy spirit houme. Thy smile hi:s bea;med uploni me ini the soft light of the stairs-thty voice, low-totted and sweet, has whispered to inc ini the gentle murmur of the witid. Atnd now, I ami hastening to joitn thee in that Ileatven. where the tread of armies. the wild lhast of the trumpet. and the fierce batttlec~ury are nev er heard. There is bliss, there is Heav'en itt the thought, anud yet, Earth. thou hast strong ties to bind me to thee. My chiildrent. I muist leave you fatherless and alone. The deep waters of the dark and turbid river will scon roll between yont and me.-Then. who will .care for you, my orphant one ? lie who has promised to be a "father to the fatherless." -even the Shephterd of' Israel. He will shield -you from every danger, and stustini you through all the stormy strife of your exist ence. Live so, that when lie scnds his antgels to call you from this world of death antd son row.;yout may be reaidy to meet htitm in a hright er and holier land. May the only King I serve look down upon you,'my children, anti grant a dying father's "God bless you." "My country ! my country ! tmust I leave thee s'till in irons? thy shores troddent by the foot of the proud oppressor, thy houses dei.so late and1 laid waste by British tyrantny ? My cup of agony is full, yet I bless thee, my Fa ther, that onei drop of joy-stern, indeed-but oh, how blissful ! is miingled timid its deepest, darkest dregs. I thank thee that I may die for my country, thian which a more glorioums death thy stun tnever shone upotn. Willingly do I give bacek the life thou gavest, willingly doaITlay it donwn unon tim nalterno' Librrf. I but to us his memory is stil holy, his name is still sacred. South Carolinians, have we proved true to his dying charge? Have we guarded our Palmetto Banner from dishonor? We are answered by the Carolina war, closed so glo riously by our own FEnwICK, echoed by the heights of Churubuso-that bloody battle from which so few of our Palmetto boys re turned, and those few an orphan band. Car olina, thy flag that day was stained with the blood of the noble BUTLER, thy Palmetto Ban ner formed his pall. Well did she deserve a place in the picture, and the name she won, "The Harry Hotspur of the Union." Nobly, right nobly did her gallant sons defend her colors, and we can unfurl our standard, un stained and beautiful as when MAnIox's men bore it through the cypress swamps of Charleston, or SUMTER waved it on the hiigh hills of Santee. And when a darker time shall come-darker than "Old '76. or Young '-17" -!till, Palmetto boys, remember the words of our patriot martyr, "Death to submission, a grave to chains and servitude," and with the motto, "God. and our sacred rights" engra ven on your Palmetto shield, go forth to vie tory, or a grave. With "the blood of the murdered HAYNE upon the soil;" the sacred dead of '.17, sleeping beneath her red earth; the ashes of CALirotx reposing within her borders, South Carolina dare not submit and become a slave. While we remember the words and example of our mighty statesman, who is gone, the freedom for which lie lived and died, must and shall be ours. Let oth ers sneer at our glorious little State, and seek to defame her, we will cherish her, love her and defend her to the last. When that dark day comes, and come it surely will, the words of every South Carolinian will be, "millions for defence, not a cent for tribute." ___ itfical FOR THE ADVERTISER. Proceedings of the Co-Operation MNeeting--Continued. TuE following letters were received by t the Committee of Invitation, at the Co operation Meeting, held at Capt. JAS. Doas's, on the 20th ult. I coula give aniy auuionai strength to your meeting, but because I am heartily with you inl sentiment upon the great question of the day. I believe that the separate secession of South I Carolina, under existing ciremstances, would dress no wrong that has been done us-that it would restore to us nothing that has been r lost-that it would neither give us indemnity for the past, nor security for the futre; and that, considered merelv as an indignmant act of resentment, it would 'be not only injurious but ruinous to ourselves. We should not be deterred by the fear of consequences, from resenting an insult-pro vided the aet of resentment can be directed awtinst, and made to reach tIhe assailant-but it would be a poor satisfaction fur injuries re ceived to aim a blow. in the transport of pas sion, which would infliet a mortal wouind upon ourselves. It is proposed to put the State upon the tri al of separale nationality. We think that the man has looked to the history of the times to little purpose, who ca-n helieve that tlie - ees sion of South Carolina,a:t this time, willfoirce any of the Southern Staites into co-operation< with us. We believe that it can hiardly be doubted by any, that as things now stamnd, nio< other Stale will secede and join us in forming a Southern Confederacy. But it is insisted1 that war, or some unforseen eireumtanmce] which is to follow the act of secession, will necessarily induce the other Southierin States to join us. We do not believe any such thing -and we think it unreamsonamble to ask us to I believe it. We mayv conjecture such a resulti possible, but w'e thinik it unwise to rely umpon such a vamgue expectation, in veniturinig upon a fundamental ebian ge in government, in which our all is involved. The burden lies upon those who propose a change in government, to show that the pro psed chiange will better the condition of ilie citizens of that governmnent. If~ they fail to do, by satidacetory evidenice, they have no right to expect that men of understandinig and prudence will launch life and fortune upon the ocean of unicertainty and expleriment, merely to test their political speculations. Have thme immediate secessioniists furnished this evi dence? They 'propose to secede "solitary and alone"-and what then?~ Clouds and darkness rest upon the future. They never have shown-they cannot show, that thme sep arate secession of South Carolina, under ex isting circumstances, will accomplish the end proposed, or ini any way better our condition. On the contrary it has been shown, in thme dis ussion of this question, by an argument which has not been answered,and which it is unnecessary for me to insert here. that it will accomplish no good-that it will increase and aggravate the dangers which environ our pe culiar institution, wmeih we are resolved to maintain at thme hazard of our lives-that it will destroy our present prosperity, nnd make our condition infinitely wvorse in every respect. But it is insisted that the honor of thme State requires that we should now secede--that the State is committed, pledged to separate se ession, and that she cannot now recede with out dishonor. I deny that the State is pledg ed. Those who assert the affirmative must prove it-it is a question of' fact, not of argu ment. If it be so, the record will show it but thme record showvs no such thing. Thme people of South Carolina are a high toned, spirited amid honorable people; and the secessionists, taiking advantage of this knowvn character, appeal, in burning words of elo-. quence and indignation, to their spirit and high sense of honor. This appeal they press5 honr. nuon the neonle in all parts of the State, might wvis that the manner of my death were more glorious-that Icould die on the battle field-die supporting the banner of the stars. I but asked a soldiers death-a soldier's bu rial. Britain sternly denied me. But this avails nothing with thee. Thou wilt give me strength, niv Father. to teach my foes how an Americao ren die. Thou knowest that I have been wronged. Thou wilt avenge me. How miany a hand will grasp the sword, and rush to the field of earnage, hntesoyo my wrongs-my death is heard! From the snowv mountains of Maine to the red old hills of Ceorgia. they will rise up and nerve their hearts to vet sterner deeds. "And tiion. my State, my gallant, patriotic little State! I thought to see the bright star of victory. shilling above thy Palmetto trees, :mud the snowy dove of peace nestling amid its green bran'ches. But this blessed hope is crushed, and I mut. go down to the grave, leaving!r thy shield shrouded in a pall of dark niess.-..Cirolina Carolina, with what death less ebnins of love art thou twined around this heart. Dearly hare I loved thee-dearly do I love thee. even now, in this last. darkest hour of my exi-tenee. Thou wert the fore mnost to throw off the domination of old Eng land ! Never submit to the yoke of her mon arch. Ever choose denfth to submission-a rave to cbains amd servitude. Sooner would I see every nember of my State die in her defence : ive, even as I sluill die ere this day's son sal:l go t, rest. than that she should sub. mit and renain in bondage and oppression. Sonth Carolina, receive my blessing. the last I shall ever give to thee. Guard thou the Pal nietto Banner with thy life, when death only an save it from dishonor; let thy heart's blood crimson its snowy whiteness, but never suffer the stain of submission to color its glo rious rolds. But this is not a time to cling with such deathlcss aifllection to what is of 'ear: h. earthy." The thoughts of this last hour should 'e of thee only, my Heavenly Father." * * * . * * It was the hour of noon. Not a zephyr stirredl the hot air. or ruffied old Ocean's sleep in- billows. The breeze scarcely murniured aid the snowy flowers of the orange groves, or wawd the white incense-enps of the mag nolia. The Red Cross of St. George waved not proudly and free from the citadel turret, but conscious of the life-blood that crimnsoned its titterinrs, drooped mournfullv downward, :nd. more hiunmn than its defenders, could g:w upon ::other scene of murder. The poured down its iiirning rays upon the gl ing sands of Charleston: mournfully droc tie haniging moss front tile branch'es of old oaks. How mnany a. dark and bk scene had that calm sky looked down r ad over those-stilkvaters, how ofterrhwi sigh of the lonely captive, the groan o dying soldier, been wafted. A stillncs death-a gloom like the shadow of the grave, huig over the city. That deep silence, like the 'eAm preceding the tornadoes of .the In dies, foretold :L convulsion. but a mightier far On thit of winl or water. The "still small voice" that spoke in the Martyr's death, arons ei the fierce wliir!wind and earthquake of hu Beyond the precinets of the city, upon a worn ot common, were gathered all those who had deserted the streets of Charleston. There was the gold and scarlet uniform of the British ollicer, the plain dress of the eivi. lian, the peacelul drab of the quaker, even the coperas suit oh the negro. There was not henri tihe shout of contending arnies, the roar of artillery, that att tends the soldier's death. No hearse with sable plumes was there, no mumitted drum, Io cra pe-shroided banner, to mi::rl the soldier's funeral. Instead of thise were the gibbets, the rude white pine coffin, the earrier's eart.-Beside that coffin stood !N.uc ll.ivs, the Martyr of Carolina. A halo seemed hovering around that noble form, aid on tha:t _l.'rious brow Iwas written the stringthi of lhigh and holy resolve. Trhere was1 a smile in his full dmark eve, upraised to Hecaven, as though~l, like the exile returniing to his native land, lie had pierced the niists arond himt, antd was gazing upon his henu veily home. Every brow wats pale: upon every face was written the feeling of' the heart--hatred, sorrow, and wrath, struggling for the mas tery. But no tears were there; that scene was too sublime for tears. The soldiers of King George looked gloomy) ; even to thetm, a vice was ervinmg "Murder !" The execu tioner advaniced to tr;ise the fatal drop. Sod deily thet word '-Father!" was borne uplon he st ill air, utt ered in tones of such wild ago n. that even'i the rude soliers started, acnd imh':n ii of thme executioner fell powe'rless by~ his side. A boy, over whose head scaree wel ve snner's suits laid shone. dashed t rougrh tie crowd. Beauitiful was that young tit'e, with its dark flashing eyes, its raven earls, wvavinig over a broaud, highi forehead, upon which the seaul of intellect was strunped. 'Father !"hle exclaimied.a:s the Martyr fold ed~ him to his heart, 'America will avenge her mrdered H~avoe! England shall yet weep tears oh' blood for theie !" and his pale lip quiv eredl with .scorii as he gazed upon his father's foes atid his owni. "Mv noble boy, weep for your father, but weep not that lie died for his country. Love that country even as lie loved it; wIth his sword, and votir own life defenid it. Go forth to battle withI a stout heart aund strong arm, and if von till, Coubia's flag w~ill form your wi ndling-shee t. May the God of battles bless The boy turned awvay, and with a firm, proud step; paussed through that host of glit tering~ blades, and brilliant uniforms. Every heart was f'ull of compassion for that lotte, injured child : every hoart re-echoed the words -God bless von !" lie turned to gaze upon his tinther for thme last time. A strange, wild light gle::med in his dark eye, and he laughed a bitter, uinearthlly laugh. ILwyr. lived as South Carolina wishes her sons to live : lhe died as Souith Carolina wvishm es her sons tio die. ie taught his country's enemies, "flow ani Amnericaun could die." His ase's sleep ini a narrow grave, beneath thme red soil of' his native State, but the breast of every Caroliinian is his sepulchre. His mon ument is a nation's trratitude, his epitaph, a nationt's tears. Carolina wept stern tears for him. but "Britain paid them back ini drops of blood." Seventy years have passed away. n,,t h.a. ,.e.,.n,.d to ,1,,taszm to nahs--. with more effect than al their arguments. The people are asked if they are willing to take a step backwards!-tO back out!! Will c you eat. your words and ndkv submit; after all r your high-sounding threan and pledges!!! I This appeal to the noble adgenerous impul ses of a high-minded and 1vAlrous people, is not warranted by the faats of the ease. I rcenture to aJiirm that Soutk Carolina is not pled(ed to separate secessio*, -4d that her ho nor does not necessarily reqkire it. It is now conceded, by high authority with j the secessionists, that the rsplutions of our Legislature, passed in 1849and 1849, do not c pledge the State to separate accession. If they contain any pledge at all,it is, that South Carolina will co-operate iWith other States. But it is contended that the last Legislature pledged the State by the appropriation of mo icy to provide for the defence of the State, mil by passing the ConventionBill. The Bill n y providing for the defence of the State was ti )assed before the Convenfon Bill, without 0 my reference whatever to i$ and, I am credi bly informed, was first proposed and recom- tl iiended by those who wele opposed to the :all of the Convention. Ind#ed,"Arming the t State" was distinctly indicatid as a substitute Q or the Convention itself; did as the State :in only secede through a .Convention, how a :an the passage of the "Arnoing" Bill pledge il lie State to separate seeeitin ? e The small amoun appripriated, and the ,eport which accompanied lbBill from the d 3ommittee on the 1ilitaryiboth prove that t t was intended maercly as a i ing of that , )reparation in relation to a- to: Southern r Jonfederney, which shows tiat we are put- g ing our house in order, "not to'die, lut to live. I have never been able t. uuderstand by . vhat process a pledge to separate secession, 0 :ould be extracted from ifhe .Convention Bill. tl l'he phraseology of the Act itself, both in the n ireamble and the body 6f it.shows that the c irst and main object of the.Convention was s o consider of any recommendation the South- tl rn Congress might make.. The Southern .ongress was to recommen& And not to act tself; and hence it was necessary that the C aonvention should be called to ratify its pro- h :eCdings. This is also showj byjts connec ion in the same act with th proy-sions for ti mr Representation in the So M es, el mid by the failure (f the ft - Bill, it <no1%n as the Senate Bill, in house s if the Lpfislatnirn. Tin h * i ind, is conmlusive; but it were uLset %1C, ri ow could the Legislature, by calling a Con- d ention of the people to deliberate upon and q leterinine a imatter for themselves, pledge the M ieople to any particular decision in the prem- e ses? It is a solecism in terms. The Leg slature could not secede, for it has not the n ight to do so. The Legislature called a Coii 'ention to determine whether the State would t et or not ; and it is absurd to assert that the si ,ouvenlion by the mere act of being called a nto existence, is pledrod to any particular C ine of action. The whole subject will be be- 1 ore the Convention,and I believe that it may u mite the destiny of South Carolina with her s ister Southern States, without defacing her , scuteicon, or tarnishing her honor. 0 Spirit, without prudence and wisdom, is not t< satfe guide-it often leads those whose in- it entions are pure and honorabe, into failure, lisaster and ridicule. If South Carolina now secedes, I think that fi Ie will not have the aid of any one of the I Southern States. She will have then taken a o tep from which she cannot recede. and which si nust lead either to the establisl.mecnt of an in- ti lependent nationality or utter anid complete r< -n-either of which should lie avoided. The ir :stablishment of an indepenmdenit Republic of a South Carolinai, would be a withdrawal from tj .he Southern States as well as the Northern. y~ [t. would give our "peenliar institution" the a <everest shoek that it ha~s ever received, and n: >ostpone for years, if not forever, the foun- it Jtion of a Southern Confederacy. I cannot C iretenld to predict the consequen~Ices of sepa- it -ate secession. and will not attemipt it. Suif- ti ce it to say that it will let fal a curtain, be- is unrd wvhich no. human ey.e cenn look-.t Very Respectfully, e Your Ob't. Serv't., I, fessrs. J1. Laindrumi,D1an'h. Holland, Jno. C. st Alleni, Jas. C. Smiyhy, S. W. Nicholson-np Commnittee, &c. I CotuunA, Sept. 15, 1851. fr Gentlemen-I have the honor to acknow- s< ledge the receipt of yout cordial invitation to S ttendl a muss meeting o:' the co-operationists hc af Edgehield. Permit nie to thank you for bi your kinid consideration and to express my he sincere regret that I camnot join you. Ii I believe, gentlemen. our people aire tho- si roughly :aroused to the <angers which threat- p en the State, from a to. precipitate attempt ti to remedy our almost irtolerable grievances, sond that they will soon souclude that true re- di sistanco is to be foundin wvise and prudent " counsels,and not in rashimnpaticence. A pow- 0l er has been appointed ly the people through IS the Legislature, to whici our destiny may be Ih entrusted. Those wvho .eek by clamor to pre- rc ordain the action of that organ, are, in my ti judgement, forgetful ofthe highest behests of constitutional freedom and I sincerely trust si the present strife amno~g ourselves will soon tI1 yield to that calm julgemnent, which ialone si should influence trute pitriots. Let the State it follow out her long-setled policy of seeking wi co-operation by all iown honorable means a -and thus abiding i: the counsels of Cal- us honn anid Cheves, ani your own Butler, and si fulfilling her pledgesto the other States and w her own 1.eople, and she will soon achieve a h: glorious renmedy for .11 our evils.-I sincerely w trust such may be hir course. tI Thanking you apiin, gentlemen, for your o1 very kind and flatteing invitation, I beg you b to believe me, grat1rully and respectfully, si YouFellow-Citizen,v JNO. S. PRESTON. h Messrs. Landrum~Allen, Holland, Smyly and tI Ninhlonsn-Conmnittee. BARNWELL, C. H., S. C., Sept. 13, 1851. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your favoi f the 6th inst., inviting me to address a mas! ieeting of the friends of Co-operation, oJ ,dgefield Distriet, on the 20th inst. It woul iford me great pleasure to be able to com ly with an invitation coming from such i ource, and for such a purpose, although I m well aware that my abilities are far from eing commensurate vith the position which ou have in your communication so flatter igly assigned me. But gentlemen the plea. ure of meeting you I must be denied, ii onsequence of a prior engagement to ad. ress a portion of my constituents on the amne subject, and at the same time. You request my views if I cannot come itch as they are they have been heretofore iven to the public. and their repetition will carcely effect any good to our cause, but a, ou desire it, I will briefly indicate some oi .e leading ideas that have occupied my mind i this question. The people of South Carolina have before lem an issue involving consequences inore remendous than any that has ever been sub itted for their decision. The secession oi louth Carolina, if it prove a failure, will en tiff in that result every tiing we hold dear nd it becomes us as patriots to look well tu ic consequence before we embark in such at nterprise. I assume that our primary object in all we o, regarding the position our State ought to ike, is to give security to our domestic in. titutions, to give protection to African slave. r--an attempt has been made to present ther issues as being more or equally prom. tent. I apprehend incorrectly however, for lien it is admitted as it universally is, that ur own downfall must ensue with the over. irow of slavery, it appears to me to follow ecessarily that in adopting a course best cal lated to give protection and security to avery, we directly and positively uphold all te elements which combine to create and erpetuate our happiness as a people. Will the separate nationality of South arolina add to the protection of slavery? I mve not yet seen the mode pointed out by hich such a political change will conduce to mt end. What privilege, liberty, or fran lise is now denied to slavery that will be icreased or extended, when we become a parate nation-we can go to no spot on -.-.-.- - ,t excluded, when sult in any tling but disaster and cruel isappointment, will be separate nationality. 'he Republic of South Carolina, an end hich may hold to be the greatest possible vil. Is it not remarkable that a policy which eets not the approbation of a single promi. ent Southern from the Potomnc to the Rio rande, which finds not an advocate of repu tion throughout all the vast borders of our ster States, should commend itself with ich power and such force to many in South arolina whose patriotis-imi and intellizence e would not question. Yet even in our idst we find the names of those " who have )unded all the depths and shoals of honor," Ad whose voices have never before fell un eeded upon the ears of Carolinians, become >some extent impotent to save. Whenwas that the counsels of a Butler led to the ath of dishonor. But I ani writing to the people of Edge. old, and-on this question I need not dwell. repeat the question, how is the nationality r South Carolina to give protection to avery? Am I answered, that it will remove it burden of taxation under which slavery ists, and thereby give it the best protectioii I newv life and increased activity. Gentle ten -it is a recent, a very recent discovery, lit the tariff of '46 is oppressive to slavery. ihen did John C. Calhoun express his dis )probation of it ? When did a single states an in Southm Carolina propose resistance to ? WVhen did the Legislature of South arolina utter a discordant note in regard to ? Never. I repeat it never. But to meet ie difliculties by which separate nationality hedged in on every side, we are told that ec rebound from our down trodden commer al1 condition would be marvelous to behold. it not remarkable that it was reserved for i present amge to dliscover that weakness is rength, isolation is expanision, and the pro r way to remedy an evil is to confirm and arpetuate it. I ask you in truth and sober as if these are not legitimate deductions om the line of argumenit adopted by our sparate secessioni friends. Why should otth Carolina secede? ecause she is no >nger safe in the Union. Granted it nmy 3, will she have greater resources to defend arself in her lonely isolation than she now is united with her Southern sisters-can ie better defend herself when forming a >rtion of a common army-or when consti ting by herself alone that army? South Carolina should secede because the ~end of slavery has been circumsribed ill she expand it by that net-wvill she get e square inch of territory of which she nowv deprived-will she have restored to ar even the probability of one lost right in gard to slavery ? [ have never seen it in nated that she would. But it is affirmed that in secession we pre rye our sovereignty intact. We present to e world a fact that we fea'r has been lost ght of, to-wit: that we are a sovereign and dependent State. I presume that exhibition old not seriously disturb thme repose of ankind, and the mere exhibition would do Slittle good; the world might inquire with >mething of a business-like air, what good e proposed to effect by it, and might per. ips be incredulous when told that our object as to take our place among the nations of e earth to vindicate our honor and protect r institutions. What! A State who there Sbecomes the peculiar exponent of an in tution, against wvhleh every civilized Go ~rnment on earth Is making war, take upon ~rself the defence of' this institution, and at without a ship, or a sailor, or the re mrces to vindliate her honor,.unless whn to drive multitudes of our citizens from the State, by the crushing weight of public ex. peuditures, I would seek this separate nation ality. If I wished to rip up the bowels of the State, and have her torn to pieces by civil discord, I would seek this separate national itv. In short, if I wished to do the most un wise and calamitous act imaginable, I would ardently seek this separate nationality. But as I wish none of these things, I am unaltera bly opposed to this idea of a separate nation ality. The Southern States having pronounced against disunion, common sense requires us for the present, to acquiesce in their decision. For the future, the North must either cease their aggressions or renew them. If they cease, then our situation will be better in the Union than as a separate nation. If they re new them, as I think they will, the South will be compelled to unite, and we will have a, Southern Confederacy. The great truth, that a Southern Confederacy must be a spontane ous matter with the Southern people-that they are entirely averse to it now, admonish es us to pause. When the fruit is ripe we will gather it-to attempt to do so sooner, is to court disappointment. With great respect, Yours very sincerely, W. W. BOYCE. Messrs. John Lndrum, Daniel Holland, J. C. Allen, J. C. Smyly, S W. Nicholson-Com mittee. EDGEFIELD C. H., S. C., ) Sept. 19, 1851. i Gentlemen-I am much obliged to you for your kind invitation to be present at your meeting to-morrow, and engage in-the politi cal discussions now before 'our people, but my official engagements do not plit-me to leave home at present, nor does my notion of the proprieties of my station allow me to en gage in angry debate. In a late arti'le in the Edgefield Advertiser, I have expressed my opinions frankly and fully, and I beg you to accept that as a sufficient compliance with the call of duty in the matter With grieat respect, .- our ob't. serv't., - F. H. WARDLAW. Dr. Jno. Landrum and others, Copmittee; &c. The Yinal Destiny of thI ftate. T e call for our late meeting Aid for that ha~s snaxen un ... other States have submitted,-it is boldly preached that South Carolina should co-op erate with them. in submission. What is bringing about this change? Who are sha pingthiscourse as the final destiny of the State? We will tell you: The professing co-op r:tionists of last winter-the men who said when all reasonable hope of co-operation ras grone they would act with us. These ire the men, aided by the submissionists in Greenville and elsewhere throughout the tate, received aid, too, from men who do lot intend to give any aid and comfort to mubmission, but who have been entrapped >y the snire of co-operation-these are ther vho are now seeking to fasten the policy of ion-action upon the State. Let all true nien unite in rescuing their beloved State romt the degradation that must follow such policy. The stake, the salavation of our ights, of State rights and State sovereignty s worth a noble effort; and surely the peo. >le of South Carolina do not require any extra quaintity of solicitation to stand up nanfullv ini defence of their own cherished >rincipl'es? The blindest devotee of co-operation sees low that there isno hope forit before the State ins acted ; anid yet the leaven of submission smn seems to be leavening the whole lump. ['he only fixed principle is opposition to ecession, and, no matter what may be lost, hat must be opposed--even rights, honor, mud interest must aill be sacrificed so that >nbject succeeds. Tihe people of South Car alina are not prepared for such a destiny. -South Carolinian & Telegraph. GOL -rO Bnr AND OFFICE TO RETArN.-It s a tfnet, against which our eves cannot be hut-humian nature is full of errors. We ~re apt to discover the mote in our neighbor's ye, before wve east out the beam from our >wn. A great deal has been said lately with egaird to the effect of Federal bribes upon ert ain "great mecn" and States ; and even in >ur Own "little Nation of South Carolina," here are divers dark shrewd wvhisperings ouching Federal Gold. All we can dare say s, let tile umatter be cautiously looked into. 3(outh Carolina is the last chance in this grand afile. The bids will be higher, the gold >rightr, the office sweeter ; and mortal man vill be solely telmted. Let every Carolinian herefore recolleet the fate of other States. t is bad enough to have prirate gold turning he elections of such vital importance as those vhich have disgraced the South ever since lie compromise. And it is a melancholy sat sfationm.to know that Carolina has heretofore xperienced but little benefit from "Philip's told," in any respect ; and even now, it can myve but slight foothold within her limits. f~et IF there is any, we trust and believe our leopile are not so far enguiphed in its charm id eddies. as to sacrifice their birth-right for a neCss of potage. No, we feel convinced, this evil at least can never extend far into South Darolina. Tme very knowledge of its ap 3roach will prove "the day-star of reviving Iope."-Palmeuto Flag. AID TO MEMoR.-When travelling, ut your watch and wallet at Dight ini >ne of your stockings, and then place. ;hie stocking under your head. It will hen he impossible to leave them, unless rou have been accustomed to go barefoot, f& A FOOt4 is full of words. assailed on her own soil. May I be pardoned for venturing to intimate that the incident of the Knight of La Mancha and the wind-mill, migrht suggest itself as a parallel. The English lion is in his lair, trembling with fierce joy at the prospect that in our rashness he may overthrow slavery and Re publicanism at one fell swoop. Let the demon of discord rise in Southern counsels which has had lire given to it by our prema ture action, and then truly will despotism settle again slowly on firm foundations. We would be wise if we would take counsel from the Texas experiment; the tyrants hand which our fathers pa.dlized, was stretched to throtle her in her isolation, but the great Carolinian steped in the breach and she was saved. But Palinurus has indeed left the helm, he is gone to his grave, and the ship he always guided with honor and in safety is far on the breakers. Will any one pretend after what has transpired in Alabama and Missis sippi, that the secession of South Carolina will produce co-operation. Three-fourths, nay, a greater majority in both States have decided that they will not only, not dissolve the Union, but that they will not resist in any manner the recent action of Congress, and this decision has been made in the face of the action of the celebrated May Conven tion, which according to the press of this State was making out such glorious results. We could scarcely open a paper but that we were met with the statement that the actioin of the May Convention was producing co operation, ad libitum, and how has all this re sulted, in deriding South Carolina, and the defeat of the Southern Rights party in Ala bama and Mississippi. The people of those States are like people everywhere who have intelligence and courage, not to be driven to take a course of action their judgments do not approve, and if one-twenty-eighth of the Southern people are determined not to ad journ this great issue to a period demanded by the other twenty-seven twenty-eighths, they can reasonably expect to realize nothing but discomfiture and defeat. Wo must not. take it for granted that there are eleven ob stinate men on the jury, and that we must have always our own way or make a mistrial. If we ever expect to have a Southern Union we must concede something. These over whelming and excited majorities will cling much stronger to the Union in our attempts at this time to force disunion on them, than If this mnounts to a pledge. it is in the opim ion of very many, a pledge or direction not to secede. But gentlemen, I need go no farther back than the May Convention, to prove that Sonth Carolina is not pledged to secede; for that very Convention, witi all the previous action of South berore them, and with tle assumption that ithey were ithe State (a great mistA-e by the way) solemnly and deliberately pledged the State of South Carolina to give in good faith a fair trial to any remedy that any of the other States would recomnmnend to'restore our rights with out a dissolution of tle existing Union. Now I ask in all candor, if South Carolina is sol etmnly pledged to solitary secession, and will be disgraced if she does not secede, even alone, how this Convention could say that they would try any remedy even short of united secession. Gentlemen, the answer is evident there ii no such pledge, and who could pledge the State. If the Legislature could do it, it could also secede. Can the ser vant pledge and bind his master. A Conven tion were an unnecessary, a worse than use less machine if its action can be forestalled and controlled by a subordinate body. WVhen our Convention was called we found Missis sippi in the position we are niow, she had called her Conventiont, she had appropriated two hutndred and fifty thousand dollars for the defetnce of her tights, and after taking these steps we who only signtified our willing ness to sustain her, must bear the brunt of the contest on her retiring, thte wisdom of such a course I am unable io plerceive. But gentlemetn, I have extended these remnarks farther than I itntended, and in conclusion permnit me to say that althonght I shared to somne extent in the obloquy that was feebly attempted to be throwvn over tihe first Co operation meeting that was holden: itn South Carolina, at Ihamlburg in your District. Yet that those traitors w~ho dared there to express their opinion are destined sooni to be partici patnts in a glorious triumph. I ol1er you the followving senltimnent: lIon. A. P. BUTLER : When the counsels of such muen as he are utnheeded, the begin ning of the end has come. I am very respectfully your ob't serv't, WV. A. OWENS, Messrs. LAYDRUMs, H~OLLAND, ALLEN and others, Committee. WNSnon~o, Sept. 12, 1851. Gen/lemen-I am trtly sorry that it is out of my power to aiccept your kitnd invitation for the 20th inst, I take occasion to present you with a few observations: We may assume that the Southern States1 repudiate 'disunion on the pa:st issues. Ini view of this greamt truth, it is evident that se eession wvill end ini the separate nationaility of South Carolina. This separate nationality I look upon as o'ne of the greatest misfortutnes which could befall us. If I wished to run counter to the great futndamtental maxim of our policy, (the union of the Sotuth,) I would urge this separate nationality. If I wished to pttt the priceless treasures ot' all our individ uni and political rights upotn the precarious tenure of entire national toleranee, I would urge this separate nationality. If I wished to make a sublime submission to all past, pre sent, and future aggressions, I would seek this separate nationality, If I wished to camrry out in good faith, the atbolition policy of restrict ing slavery. I would seek this separate nation ality. If I wished to consume the substance of the people by enormous taxation, itt the .prosecution of a suicidal purpose, I woutld I scek this separte natinnality. If I wviehed