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D CratiXC 3ournal, DitP0d ito il)y Stvutj anlY Soutlen axigIjts, dih~ Catht t s Citaature, oralit, aErtlce, Agrit "We will cling.to the Pillars of the Temple Of our Lib ates, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins. - W. F. DURISOE &o SON, Proprietors. :S-,AU ST2EDOEFIELD,s*(1 ..VL.XinO*E FATHER HAS COKE. -My mother dear sits in her easy chair, And she sews and sews away ; - She washes the cups and the saucers, too, Abd she sometimes reads in the day. And she wears a white. and a pretty cap, And a'eollar trimmed round with lace, And her hair is parted- with niocest care, Just over her smiling face. And she sometimes sings us a merry tune Whilelher foot on the cradle bends, Thesservants she calls to their daily work, - Or a basket of hose she mends. Then she often takes a cookery book, . - To see about pudding or cake, And her ways 1. watch, " for these things," says By-and by, you will have to make." (she, Each day when her morning's work is done, And noon's long hours passed by, I know full well who is coming quick Bythe light in my mother's eye. And she with the baby in her arms, Springs up from her morning seat, And we hasten down to open the door, My father's voice to greet. Ie kisses my mother's rosy cheek, And he tickles the baby dear, And he smiles, though we know he is tired out, - And he bids me stand very near. And then comes dinner, and after that He goes again 'till the night, And when he comes back he is welcome still, And mother and I are bright.. For we know he toils for his darling ones, And thinks of his happy home, - Now, say, is it strange that we love the time, When father dear comes home? THE PALMETTO REGIMENT, From an article on "Scott's Battles in Mexico," contained in the August number of HIarper's Magazine, we extract the follow. ing account of the part performed by this regiment in the affair of Churubusco: " Soon after the battle commenced, Scott sent Pierce's and -Shield's brigades by the left, through the fields, to .attack the enemy in the rear. On the causeway, opposed to them were pl~ne4. Santa Anna's reserve -4,900 foot and 3;00 horse-in a measure protected by a dense growth of maguey. Shields advanced intrepidly with a force of 1,600. The ground was narshy, and, for a long distance-having vainly endeavored to out flank the enemy-his advance was ex posed to their whole fire. Morgan, of the 15th, fell wounded. The New Yoik regi. ment suffered fearfully, and their leader, Col. Burnet, was disabled. The Palmet toes of South Carolina, and the 9th, under Ransom, were as severely cut up; and after awhile all- sought shelter in and about a large barn near the causeway. Shields, in an agony at the failure of his movement, cried imploringly for volunteers to follow him. The appeal was instantly answered by CoL Butler, of the Palmettoes: "Every South Carolinian will rollowv you to the death !" The cry was contagious, and most pf the New Yorkers took it up. Forming at angles to the causeway, Shields led those brave men, under an incessant hail of shot, against the village of Portalcs, where the *Mexican reserves wore posted. Not a trig. ger was pulled till they-stood at a hundred and fifty yards from the enemy. Then the little band poured in their volley, fatally ,answered by the Mexican host. " Butler, already wounded, wvas shot through the head, and died instantly. Cal ling to the Palmettoes to avenge nis death, Shields gives t~he word to charge. They charge-not 400 in all--over the plain, dowvn upon 4,000 Mexicans, securely posted under cover. At every step their ranks are thinned. Dickinson, whbo succeeded Butler in command of the Palmettoes, seizes the colors as the bearer falls dead, the next me ment he is down himself mortally wounded, and Major Gladden snatches them from his band. Adams, Moragne, and nearly half the gallant band are prostrate. A very fewv sninutes more, and there will be no -one lleft to bear the glorious flag. But at this very moment a deafening roar is heard inI thi direction of the fete de pont, Round shot and grape, rifle balls and canister, cojne I orashing down the causeway into the Mex-i. can rianks, from their own battery. Worth' in here-the gallant fellow-just in time." W1AT lDlESEES 1ND SEGARS COST ANALLY. The old and somewhat famous corres- I pondent ofithe Baltimore Sun says: 1e I believe there~are in the United States 4 some 500,000 ladis' spending annually, on I ~an average, *250- apiece for foreign dry *oods.-. T1his is a mnderate estimate, sinice there are toilets~ "ta cost froni -$2,000 to to $10,000. a year, 'aid sinee,.evin white servants spend on..an average of *2(0 tir$30 a ygar in the same manner. Takin the. aboive 500,000 ladies alone~ int conai era-. tion, we have an indebtedness of $125.000,-4 000 a yeatr to England and France; saffiient in two or'three years to produce a commer cia The importaion of these foreign dry goods is far morel tbritius than the impor tation of- foreign eniigrants. The latter "help to prodyde, andc consumnes in turn; the dry goods merely produce toaste. " A little more saving in dry goods--espe cially silks and lace- it,is believed, would do more to restore- the baones of trade than all tinkering legislation on the tariff, without *producing eitiet 'want or destroying the :happinessa of those exquisite oreaturesrwho-. hat' been created for the especial *par-' pse of civilizing and subduing'mini. A cultivations of time, taste~$f music, painting, lithiture, &c., while it produces infinitel more reaL)bappinessis, at the samte tune a. gr...i numg i dry goods. "Ravieg said so much about the savings of ladies, allow"me to remark to the gentle men that segars have risen- nearly one hun-. dred per cent., compared with former years ; that there has not been a good vintage since 1851, and that, consequently, an enormous additional expense is entailed on them, if they do not mend their habits. The best way to do this and to avoid cards is to seek the society of ladies, or to cultivate at home those domestic virtues which alone secure substantial happiness. " "To all the new married couples, just setting out in life, I would say that the most economical way of housekeeping is still pro ductive of more, real comfort, and of the cheerful feeling of home, than living in the most fashionable boarding house or hotel, and that hotel life is a most terrible waste of dry goods, to say nothing of the drying up of all truly generous sentiments." MILE FINCK AND THE BULL. The story of Mike Finck and the bull would make a cynic laugh. Mike took a notion to go in swiming, and he had just got his clothes off when he saw Deacon Smith's bull making at him-the bull was a vicious animal, and had come near killing two or three persons-consequently Mike felt rath "jubus." He didn't want to call for help, for he, was naked, and the nearest place from where assistance could arrive was the meeting house, which was at the time filled with -worshippers, among whom was the "gal Mike was paying his devours to." So he dodged the bull as the animal came at him, and managed to catch him by the tail. He was dragged round till nearly dead, and when he thought he could hold no lon. ger, he made up his mind he had better "holler." And now we will let him tell his own story : So, looking at the matter in all its bearings, [ cum to the conclusionr that I'd better let some one know whar I was. So I gin a yell louder than a locomotive whistle, and it warn't long before I seed the deacon's two dogs comin' down like as if they war seeing which could get thar fust. I know'd who they were arter--they'd- jine the bull again ne, I was sartin, for they were orful wenom. aus, and had a spite agin me. So says I, Dld brindle,~aa ridin' is as cheap as walkin' n this route, if you've no objections, I'll ist take a deck passage on that ar' back 'yourn. So I warn't very long getting istride of him-; then, if you'd bin that yeu'd cave sworn thar warn't nothin' human, in hat ar' mix, the sile ew so orfully as the ritter and Irolled round the field-one dog in one side and one on the other, tryin' to inch my feet. I- prayed-sad cussed, and sussed and prayed, until I couldn't tell which did, at last--and neither warn't of no use, hoy were so orfully mixed up. Well, I reckon I rid about half an hour his way, when old brindle thought it were ime to stop to take in a supply of wind, cud cool off a little. So when we got round o a tree that stood thar, he naturally halted. io sez I, old boy, you'll lose one passenger artin. So I jist clum up a branch, kalkela. in' to roost thar till I starved afore I'd be ,id round that ar way any longer. I war a naking tracks for the top of the tree, when heard suthin' a makin' an orful huzzin' erhead. I kinder looked up, and if thar var't-well, thar's no use a swearin-but t war the biggest hornet's nest ever bilt. fou'll " gin in" now, I reckon, Mike, 'cause here's noe help for you. But an idee struck ne then that I-stood a heap better chance a idin' the bull than what I was. Sez I, old eller, if you'll hold on, I'll ride to the next tatiod anyhow, let that be what it will. So I jist dropped aboard him again, and ooked aloft to see what I had gained by ~hangin' quarters, and, gentlemen, I'm a liar that warn't nigh half a bushel of the stin ~in' warmints ready to pitch into me wvhen he word 'go' was gin. Well I reckon they ~ot it, or all hands' started for out company. ome on em hit the dogs--about a quart truck me, and the rest charged on brindle. .This time the dogs led off fust, dead bent or the old deacon's, and as soon as ild brindle and I could get under way wve allowed, as I was only a deck passenger, nd had nothin to do with steerin' the craft ; sware, if I had, we should't have run that hannel, any how. But as I said before, he dogs took the lead--brindle and I next, nd the hornets dre'kly after. The dogs ellin'-brindle bellerin' and the hornets buz in' and stingin'. Wel, we had got about two hundred yards om the house, and the deacon heard us and urn out. I seed him hold up his band and urn wvhite. I reckoned he was prayin' then or he didn't expect to be called for so soon, mnd and it warn't long -neither, afore the vhole congregation-men, women and chil Iren cum out,.and then all hands went to ellin'. None of 'em had the fust notion bat brindle and I belonged to this world. jist turned my head and~ passed the hull ongregation. I seed the run would be up on, for brindle'couldn't turn an inch from fence that stood dead ahead. Well, ,we eached that fence, and I went ashore, over he old critter's head, landin' on t'other side ind lay that stunned. It warn't long afore some of 'em as- was it scared cum runnin' to see what I was; or allihand. kcalkelated that the bull and I selonged together. But when brindle walk. ,df by himself, they seed bow it war; and me of 'em said, " Mike Finck has got the ust of it scrummage once in his life !" Gentlemen,. from that day I dropped the sourtin' bluziness, .and never spoke to a gal ince, and when my hunt is up on this earth, there woun't be- any more Fineks, and ts all owin to Deacon Smith's Brindle Bull. A FELLOW coming out of a tavern one icy norning, rather blue, fell on the door step. 'rying to regain his footing, he remarked, 'If,as the Bible says, the wicked stand on ipperplaces, I must belong to a different iass,~ fotit is more than I can do.". A .MoDae IIUSRAN.-" Wife," said a epeoked buiban'd, ''go to bed." "I wotn't." A COON HUNT. Really 'tis astonishin' what a monstrous sight of mischief there is in a pint-of rum. If one of -'em vas to be submitted to analy zation, as the great doctors call it, it would be found to contain all manner of devilment that ever entered the head. of man, from eus sin', stealin', up to murderin' and whippin' his own mother, and nonsense enough to turn all the men in the world out of their senses. If a man's got a badness in him, it will bring it out; just as sassafras tea does the measels; and if he's a good-for-nothing sort of a fellow, without no bad traits in pertikler, it will bring.out all his greatness. It affects different people in different ways some it maketh rich and happy, and some poor and miserable; and it has a different -effect on different people's eyes-some it makes see double, and some it makes so blind that they can't tell themselves from -a side of bacon. One of the worst cases of rum foolery that I've heard of for a long time, took place in Hineville last fall Bill Sweeny and Tom Culpepper is the two greatest old coveys in our settlement for coon huntin'. The fact is, they don't do much of anything else; and when they cant catch nothing, you may depend coons is scarce. Well, one night, they had everything ready for a'regular hunt, but owing to some extra good fortin', Tom had, got a pocket pistol, as he called it, " of reglar old Jimma key, to keep off the rumatics." After takin' a good startin' horn, they ivent out on.their hunt, with their litewood torch a blazin' acd the dogs a barkin' and yelpin' like forty thousand. - Every now and then stoppin' to wait for the dogs;. they would drink one another's health till they began to feel very comforta ble, and chatted away about one thing and another, without minding much which way they was gwine. Bimeby they cum to a fence. Well, over they got, without much difficulty. " Whose fence is this I" said Bill. " Taint no matter," said Tom, "lets take somethin' to drink." After taking a drink they went on, won. dering what on earth' had become of the dogs.' Next thing they cum to was a terri ble muddy branch. After pulling through the briars and getting on tother side, they took another drink-and after gwine a little ways they cum to another fence, monstrous high one this time. " Whar upon yearth is we got to, Cul pepper I" sez Bill. "I never seed such. a heap of branches and fences in these parts." " Why," sez Tom, " its all old Sturlid's doings-you know hees always building fencesaud.making infernal.imprvemntisa,* he calls 'em. But, never mind, wes through 'emi now." "Guess we is'nt," sez Bill-" here's the all firedest fence yet." Sure enough, thar they were right agin' another fence. By this time they begun to be considerable fired and limber in the jints, and it was such a terrible high fence. 'I'om dropped the last piece of the torchand thar they was in the dark. " Now you is done it," sez Bill. Tom knowed he had, but he thought it was no use to grieve over spilled milk, so sez he, " never mind, old hoss, cum ahead, and I'll take you out," and the next minit, kerlash he went in the water. "Hello, Tom !" sez Bill, " whar in the world is you got to " "Here I am," sez Tom, spoutin' the water out of his mouth, and coffin like he'd swal lowed something ; " look out, there's another branch here." " Name of sense, whar is we I" sez Bill. " If this isn't a fency country, dad fetch my buttons." " Yes, and a brancby one too," sea Tom; " and the highest and deepest and thickcest that I ever seed- in my born days." " Which way is you I" sez Bill. " Here, right over the branch." The next minit in Bill went, up to his mid dle, in the branch.. " Cum ahead," sez Tom, " lets go home." " Cumi thunder, I in such a place as this, whar a man haint got his coat tail unhitched from a fence, 'fore he's over his head and ears in water." After getting out and feeling about in the dark, they got together again. After taking another drink, they set out for home, de nouncing the fences, and branches, and hepin' one another up now and then ; hut they hadn't gone twenty yards before they wvere brung to a halt by another fence. " Dad blame my picter," sea Bill, " if I dont think we is bewitched.. Who upon yearth would build fences all over creation this way !" It wvas about an hour's job to get over this one; but after they got. on the top they founid the ground on t'other side without much trouble. This time the bottle wvas broke, and they came monstrous near having a fight about the eatastrophe. But it was a very good thing it was; for after crossing two or three branches, andcelimbing as many more. fences, it got to be daylight, and they fund that they had been climbin' the same fence all night, hot more'n a hundred yards from whar they first cum to it. Bill Sweeney sez he can't account for it no ot'her, way but that the licker sorter o'turned their heads: and he says he does really believe, if it hadn't gin out, they'd Eeen climbin the same fence and waden the same branch till yet. Lucar.-[n the days of the blue Jaws of New England, a shoemaker was condemned to be hanged for something he had done ; but, o~n the day -appointed for his execution, they disjcovered that he was the only shoe maker, in the-place ; so they hanged a woeaver in .his stead; for they had more weavers, than they knew what to do with. - DorrirmaavE KTr-.It is said that, a cat sat lately upon'a half a dozen ducli eggs, and continued ber attentions until the eggs were hatched; andithere is now to be seen a fine brood of si* young ones, half duck and half oat, having duck's heads and cat's tails-; and wvhat is still mnere wvonderfn.I they LETTERS ON KNOW N THINGISM, WE observe . i the ...Char eton mercury the following letters from Ions. A. P. BUT LER and P. S. BRooxs, addressed to the State Rights Anti-Know Nothing Meeting, held in that City on the 15h inst., the pro. ceedings of which me.publ ed-in our last. We commend theni-io the Ottention of our readers. - Letter from Hon. A,1. Butler. STONELANDS, (Near Egefield C. H.) Augau 8,-1855. Gentlemen: Your -tom mpnication of the 3rd. inst., inviting me to attind "a meeting of those citizens of South rolina who be lieve that States' Rights,- uthern Rights and the Liberties of the- P ple are endan gered by the existence an progress of the Know-Nothing Orde?," an -in the event of my inability to attend, req ting "such ex pression of my views as I' y think proper to commicate," has been re ived. . Whilst the state of my.health wall not allow me to be with you o4the occasion to which you have invited; n, I fear in the few remarks which I shall nbmit, I cannot do justice to the subjects ojayhich you wish my opinion. In the threshld of these re. marks, I give it as mig.belif that the fair. play spirit and unbigoted Provisions of our constitution cannot- eassald, with success, by the dagger-power of seieget and irrespon sible associations. To illustrate what I shal say hereafter, I will quote from memory a sentence of Washington Irving: "O . ancestors not only proclaimed but practised a hardy mor ality that feared no contact They trusted to the courage and power of truth in their anti-proscriptive constitutions and opinions. They were willing to trust their destinies on the arena of a fair and . opn trial. They thought they could trust. th. &apse of reli gion, so far as there shou4i be a political jurisdiction over it, to the following clause of our Federal Constitutid: "Congress shall male n law respecting an establishment of religio~ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; 'r abridging the freedom of speech, or of a press; or the right of the people peacesly to assemble and to petition the govern nt for a redress of grievances." - And, by the same Cons tion, Congrei'f as intrusted ivith the p er of e.-ablisi as I understand it, te now- oting organ ization is to make war upon both these pro visions in their true spirit. I suppose their aim will not be avowed to establish a reli gion or to exclude a foreign immigration; but, under the assumption of Protestant pu rity and American patriotism it is the pur pose of the Order to take voluntary juris diction over these subjects-that is, to put into office thlrnse1res under the names of Protestant piety and American devotion. And, if they should succeed in their designs by the influence of these heterogeneous and irresponsible alliances, they will have sub stituted their conventional obligations for the Constitution of the Confederacy. . I-believe I have left out another one of their avowals-a common purpose to pre servo the Union, as they understand it should be preserved. I acknowledge no piety. that is proscrip tive. I recognize no patriotism that is uni civilized and exclusive, and I want no Union that is not under the control of an opera tive Constitution. The Declaration of In dependence and the Federal and State Con stitutions of the United States were made under auspices and influences to rebuke the bigoted and. conceited spirit that would in vade them in the 19th century, when the different parts of the earth are -as noar as the different provinces of the same empire were formerly. I regard the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitutioni as the great and enduring pillars of an altar erected in this new world to toleration-an altar that owes its construction not to Jews nor Catho lics, nor to Protestants only, but to the uni ted labors of all who had sought here a refuge from trans-atlantie domination. While Protestants may have borne the first and largest share in the work of American independence, others, of whatever religious education, were scarcely behind them in zeal and activity for the hallowed cause. Even the Jew was no idle -spectator of its advancement. I remember to have heard it stated-indeed, ample evidence of the fact was on several occasions before me wvhile upon the bench-that young Salvador was the first person wvho publicly read the- De laration.- of Independence in our '96 Dis trict. He fell shortly afterwards, battling for American freedom. And who wvas this Salvador I A gallant and a dashing young Jew. -But a pertinent enquiry, in the considera t6n of this question, relates to the origin of know-nothingism. Where did it originate? And why i It is certainly not indigenous at the South. There were no such pre-exis ting evils here as could be remedied by its supposed virtues. It~ was, and is, foreign-to odi- necessities, whether social or political. It was no more Southern in its inception than it is in its development. The Nor-th was its birth-place. It arose, primarily, as an antidote to evils which were there brought about by an abuse of the -N'aturalization laws. The introduction, of flireigners was permitted, in disregard of the several con stitutional requirements as to three years' notice, five years' residence, &c. Mischief is now resulting from the- practice. - But it is their own fault. They have mingled- the waters of- the Orontes and the Tiber, and it is theire to drink of them. At the South these abuses have not prevailed. A proper observance of the law has had the effet of. bringing* amongst us a different class of foreign population from that at tlie North -one, at any .rate, of which. we do -not cnmnlain Another reflection here suggests itself Where is the necessity of any suchinterfer once with the elective franchise as' is nov proposed by the know-nothings, when the State governments have, after all, plenary control of the whole matter? Not only have they this control in regard to the' privileg of voting, but the power exists in them ever to determine who shall enjoy the rights o inheritance within their borders. If we.wer really apprehensive that foreign imniigratior was about to endanger us in either of these respects, or in any other, the true course would surely be to- seek remedial actior through the State governments themselves To demand it elsewhere, would be to con temn the rights of the States. 1 shall regard know-nothingism, if intro duced at the South, as but another Trojar horse, brought in by enemies and to be ac cepted only by the shallow and inconsider ate. Like that horse, it comes heralded a: an object to call forth our praises and enlis our adherence, when it is really but the dar ing stratagem of those who care not for oui welfare and respect not our rights. .M conviction is, that the doctrines and tenden cies of Know Nothingism are not only in suiting to such foreigners as adopt our insti tutions'from choice and with the honesb res. olution of rendering implicit obedience' tc the laws we have proclaimed, but they arc in grossly bad faith "with the provisions o1 the Constitution, and especially uncalled for by the South. That voluntary association: of individuals should seek to supersede the Constitution-of our country, is a degree ol gregant assumption which I cannot con ternplate without aversion. Whatever may be the fate of the Union, let not our South. ern honor be tarnished by any the least vio, lation of the sacred obligations of that rev ered instrument. After what I have said, gentlemen, yot may expect a distinct summary of my opin ions. I have no hesitation in giving it. I am neither Jew nor Catholic, but an hum, ble, and, I trust, a sincere supporter o1 Protestant Christianity. In politics, I am no Consolidationist. I am a Democratic Republican, believing in the rights and dig nity of State authority. I am willing, hope with patriotie zeal, to support the Fed eral Government while exercising its fune tions within constitutional prescriptions. As a citizen, I am proud of the deeds whicl have been achieved under the Star.Spangled Banner; nor shall any influences either o1 popular sentiment or of party dictation, over divest me of that feeling. I have the honor to remain your obedieni servant and friend, A. P. BUTLER. To Messrs. J.. Seigling, Jr., W. G. De. Sissure; Tos.Y:-imons; trand C; Miles-Committee. Letter from lion. P. S. Brooks. LEASIDE, Ninety-Six, Aug. 9th. Gentlemen:-I regret that the season of the year and my engagements will prevent my -attending the proposed meeting at Char leston, on the 15th inst. In your letter -of' invitation you say tha "States' Rights and Southern Rights are endangered by the existence and progress of the Know Nothing Order." I think it demonstrable that Both are endangered. The purposes of the order can be legally attained but in two ways-by the action of Congress, or by the States in their sovereign character. If Congress have the requisite power, then,. indeed, are all our rights in peril. Conscious of their inability fairly to alter the Constitution of the several States and the Federal Constitution, the Know Nothings propose to over-ride the supreme laws of the land at the ballot box. It is evident that such a precedent will be dan gerous for a minority section to adopt, whose every interest is inseparably connect ed with an institution which the Constitu tion alone has protected (feebly though ii be) against the assaults of a fanatical ma. jority. In every Constitution provision is made for amending it; yet, with a legal mode of procedure open to them, the Know~ Nothings, with professions -of devotion to their section on their lips, are circuitously but deliberately undermining the foundations of the temple of our liberty, which, in its fall, must bury them and all of us in its ruins. M~any of the order have, in ~times p)ast, been furiously loud in their complaints that the North wvas untrue to the Constitution. Now they offer to out-Herod Hlerod, and, by indirection, to violate, not only the Fed eral Constitution, but that of their State also. It will be dillicult for the order to show that they wvill bear either the test of consistency, method, sincerity or patriotism. In every republic there will be parties. In this wve have had two~ leading, intelligent and respectable parties, which heretofdre have hone'stly differed upon the policy ol measures, and in their construction of the fundamental compact. Those partids had their origin in the convention whic~h drafted our Constitutio'n, and at the head of which stood respectively Mr. Madison and Gen. H amilton. The leaders hai'e passed away, but the principles which divided them will live forever. The partiles wvhich represent their principles have, under different names, successively triumphed and controlled the government. At the last Presidential elec tion the Federal or Whig party sustained an irreparable defeat--was almost annihilated. A feeble effort was made to rally, but old isms were unavailing aind a leader was wvan ting. The sagacity of the party, howvever; suggested that there was, another element of cohesion, inherent in every republican government, to which an appeal is neves made in vain-the opposition of those who are oul to those who are in offce. Legiti mate warfare concluded, recouric is bad to gneral skirmishing. The standard of op. position is raised and old wbigs, disappoint. ed democrats, diseharged offiee holders and voracious offlee seelierg rally to it, and the association naturally and appropriately take the namn of Know.Nothing. At Philadel'phia they aflect- to aarreL Kn view of the success of their plans it ivaa .ece.sfh and convehient Ln qnnarreli for the different wings of the party knew that each would be asked questions, and these troublesome questions could not be answer. ed .without a quarrel. That difficulty -re moved, the party could co-operate. North and South they agree to ignore the Consti. tution-to vilify the democratic party 'and the present Administration. In this at least r they are consistent; for the democratic par. ty under this administration has been true to the Constitution. How long it will re main so neither you nor I can tell; but while it is true, we of the South are eon strained by policy and justice to sustain it cordially. So long as a Democratic Admin istrttion is true to the Constitution it will have troops of friends . ut - the South, and should it become untrue, we should be ready to oppose it by holding ourselves united. Know Nothing principles may distract and divide us in prosperity, but they can never unite us in adversity. Had the South been always united, we'could have controll ed this government. Were we united we could do so now. At this juncture particularly, there is neither excuse or sense in our people taking up strange doctrines or running after false prophets. We have but one great question in American politics-the question of slave. ry. The gathering of the opposing hosts who are to encounter the shock of real bat tle on that question, is even now murmuring in the distance, nor will it be long before they meet each other "witha clangor, whilst the meadows resound." Would to God that some Nestor in wis dom and authority might arise amongts us, who would say to the people of the South, in the language of Nestor of old, "Let us no longer waste time in words, nor put off the performance of that deed to which op portunity invites. But come, let the heralds of the mailed Greeks, by their proclama. tions, assemble the people at the ships, and let us thus in a body walk through the wide army, that we may sooner inspire them with the keen desire, of fight." And may soie future Homer write, that every son of the South proved himself an Agamemnon in obedience and valor. It is impossible todo more than indicate my viewsupon-so grave a matter as thatwhich brings you together, in the proper limits of a letter; but I have had occasion to send an address very recently to my constituents on the'subject, and to that I respectfully call your attention. Your obedient servant. P. S. BROOKS. . Messrs. J. Seigling, Jr., W. G. DeSaus sure, 'T. Y. Simons, Jr., C. 1.. Miles.-Com mittee of Correspondence. TilE PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTS OF THE ADIERI CAN PARTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE STATE CoUNCIL, HELD AT CHARLESTON, AUG. 14, 1855. 1. Resol-ed, That we ratify and accede to the principles of the American Order, promulgated by the National Council of the organization, held at Philadelphia in June last, subject to the modifications herein contained. To this ratification we attach the following declarations: 1. That with reference to the organiza ion of the American Party in the United States, the American Order of South Cara. hina is an independent body, whose self. government is supreme, and acknowledges no obligations and duties other than those imposed or adopted and ratified by its State Council in due form of constitution, ritual, platform or resolvers. 2. That the primary and fundamental principles and-objects of the order were and are-to the. consummation of. the end " the essential moditidation of the naturali zation laws, with proper safeguards to~pres serve the purity of the elective franchise; that citizenship shall be constituted the basis condition of the privileges of office and suffrage; and, incidental toi these, the. re striction, by its influence. through suffrage and in official appointments, of all politico sectarian .designs, and of -all other than native civil influences. That the jurisdic tion of the Order does not extend to and over the political or private opinions of inidi vidual members, or the political -action of subordinate Councils, upon - any other-sub jects, political or religious. That any agree. ments upon the latter can only be binding to an extent which good faith mny impose. *3. Tha~t the judicial "power of the United States extends to all legal questions under their construction, treaties and. laws; but that the States, like other sovereign parties to a compact, are the finmal judges of the nature and extent of the~ federal compact, and that " each haa an equal right to judge for itself, as well of its infraetion, as of tb mode and measure of redress." 4. T hat constitutionaal liberty is the su preme object of our.- republikan .system. Subject to this princip~le, do we construe and accede to the third article of the Phila 1delphia platform, to wit: 11I. TIhe nmaintenance of the union of *these United States- as the parainount politi 1eal good; or, to use the language of Wash ington, "the primary object of patriotic desire." --And hence 1st. Opposition t6 all attempts to weaken or subvert it. 2d. 'Uncodipromising 'antagonisms to-every principle .of policy that endangers .it. 3d. 'Tho advocacy of an equitable- adjust ment of all political differences which threat en ita integrity or perpetuity. 4th.- The suppression 'of all tendencies-to political division, founded on "geographical discrimination, or on-the. belief 'that there is' a real difference of i'nterests and views" be tween the various sections of' the 1%nibn. 5th. The full recognitidn' of the rislid~ of the several StatA, as expe(d, arid ris ,~ in the Constitution, anid a careful avy by.the General Goverunisnt igi r enece with their rights by -legisltivesor. exe butive action. .-e . .. & That we hold nn obigaton-inta whieh we havo'e'ntered, anid espsseislet todswbleh -have relation to tie U~nion- te binebasis tent with our allegi'etmc0 'our' S#ten -with aow Andaiv:mdnel. either i SfatdreKarbekt Constitution, with -the rights .and powers reserved to th. States osectial. pr the -people," or with our rights as freemen under the latter to'resist'" wrong: Add injury. That those. obligations have ~sole reference, to a Constitutional Union, and. we holdiodb. other to be binding. upon us, either as mem bers of the American Order or as citiens. 2. Resolved, That the term "Catholic," and all semblance of a religious test,. be stricken from the official records and oblige tions,of the American Order of this State, and that all.natives be eligible totihe.Oidr.. and capable of its suffrage, who ..sall re nounce all foreign temporal and eccl~esiasti. cal jurigdiction and influence. - 3. Resolved, That uhile we deprecate Romish politico-sectarian influence in Amer. ica, we are inexorably opposed toasny "'law respecting an establishment of 'religip~ei' prohibiting the free exercise thereof," or any law which applies "a religious tesL" Thltt our opinions as men, however,:approve ouly.; the principle of self-government in Cht as State, and we do not approve an eceiesi. astical polity which has its source ahd-u. thority in a foreign land and single poten tate. And that we forbear to sustain- thole; who, from either political or iectarian mo tives, oppose our contemplated reforms:. - '4. Resolved, That we. disapprove of the adoption of any law which shall affot disturb the previous existing legal privileges conferred on naturalized citizens. 5. Resolved, That in view of mobocrapi.4 tendencies and radical doctrinesand-prabti= . ces, we shall ever seek to maintain i oi serve "law and order,"-.in consonane with our American republican system. . . 6. Resolved, That we renounce and repu. diate all connection with- those Councils (State and Subordinate) or memberis i' the non-slaveholding States, who have . rejeo.ted the American platform of the National Council on the Slavery issues;'and :hold that they no longer constitute a part of' the Order or party which adopted it. " GENERAL POLITICS. 1. Resolved, Titat rcw, as formerly, we' stand by and will maintain the well-knowi State Rights Rep lillcn principles of South' Carolina, which have been declared in'heV official resolves; we .approve the'pfidiplee. of free trade, and -insist upon a reduotina 6 the tariff; we opp'ose internal impioveaniets by the Federal Government; .we :condemn the Administration ,of President Pierce, for the appointment of Foreigners to represent our country abroad; and. for appointing and retaining free soilers in office; ands tha' while we would cordially' afliiate 'wit A i State Rights parties at the Sourly -wee ' J 't rthose-~oek r' factions in the free States, to secure Fr ' domination and spoils. 2. Resolved, In the language of Gen. Quitman: That the institution ofregro sfavery-is not only right and proper, but the natural and-normal condition of the superior and inferior races, when in contact. That as the chief element of our ooun try's prosperity, it constitutes a great inter est which is entitled, like other great inter est, to the fostering. care and protection of the federal government, within: the sphere of its powers. = That legislation or -action, directly 'ox indirectly hostile to this interest, it at'wn with our compact of Tnion and should be resiste,.dby the States and th'liople'affeeted by it at all hazards.. That the preservation of the institutiomn of slavery in Cuba, which-en only-be effected by her independence and separation fvomthe malign influence of Europoan-governmentei is essential to the safety and preservationof our own system. That upon all matters~ ~ennected~ itkh ou . peculiar domestic institutions,, the. Souib must look to herself. Trhat no-national~ pm ty: organization will fnlly protect ee. - Resolved; That a -Committee of. Three' be appointed to superintend the publication of the platform adopted, and to. subscribe and verify the same. JOHN CUNNINGHAXy Charlesteu J....S. RICHARDSON; Sumter, T. 5. Srs-rRUNK, St. George Colleow4 A North Caroliiiian stood gaig s tiie large bill outside a wild beast show;. or'taav~ oling menagerie, beginniig widhL the liner " The Grand Caravan," aliading,.of course,' to the van or vehicle which contained the animals. He paid his shilling, and-went in. After some little sojourn, he returned to-the doorkeeper, saying, " Mistee, I've seen your nozzycross,.and your eilifinA, and your bab boons, and your sarpits,-but l'ms not to be swindedy nohow you eafs it. L moan to keepvyou iq. your tracks-nowy whar is the beast you calt the "grand c..-tav-van.7" ON Tsus Wuorro TBMN.--.A fon igt sifice some- young men, going frein Colmg' bus to Cincinnatti, in the cars, were gettig ather noisy and profane, a gentlemna a white eravat, tapped one. of them on-the shoulder withi the remark, "Young man, do you know you are on the road to perdition." ." That's just my luch," sai one o th party, with an appeerancewof r'egret;"Itook a ticket for Cimnsetii -nd I'#epgt osthie wrong train~ _ " aare born in a hfaery," say3s ant Anleri ean writer;.:" we-are edsntetd with speed; we make a foi-tune with. a wave of awand, and lose it in-like manner, to resmiake ad relore it in the twinkling of an eye. '~ leiomtilre, trae a t a an dhor;.oF sgrit' is giine. our ,3ig rss~lqeib ~ tI,, death surprises us like aWu~.i - arp the ge h lo).ATact:Tenb~ ed ph~S 191;a