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"lWe will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if It must fail, we wfll Perish anuidst the Ruins.
.F. URSOE elSON, Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C., MARCH , 1856.
For the Advertiser. I
THE SOTR CABOLINA COLLEGE.
SALUDA Rrvaa. Edgefield Dis. C. S. a
March 1st, 1856. - I
MY DEAI Nsemew: It has been my habit to re
use you no reasonable request, and you have been
ho dutiful to me, in your general conduct, that I
\vould almost comply with your unreasonable wishes,
tondly beliefeing them to be the offspring, of an
upright spirit. I am truly gratified at the earnest
tlesire you manifest of becoming acquainted with
the Inatitution which you hope shortly to enter
-as a student, and which you expect, at a future day,
to elaim and love as your Alma Mater. You may
'be called upon to defend her from rude assaults,
when your friends will be greatly disappointed if
you display as poor a knowledge of the purpose of
her creation, and of the principles, rules, and regu
lations by which she is governed, as adorns the
paragraphs of many of the scholarly gentlemen of
the up-country, plumed "with the names of Editors,
who so flippantly denounce her, and vainly attempt
to bring her into disrepute with the very people
amongst whom she has diffused a flood of light and
intelligence. The South Carolina College is one of
the noblest Seminaries of learning in the South, and
for twenty-five years her graduates and pupils have
.uniformly ranked among the first men, in the first
tplaces of the Republic. There is no honorable pro
.fession in the country,,but what is graced by some
accomplished men, whose affetctions still linger
around the beautiful Campus and the sacred walls
in which you will spend the four ensuing years of
yoar lie. Some live in the West, some in the
South, and some sojourn on the shores of the Paci- t
fie, but wherever they are, their thoughts for
ever recur to South Carolina, the parent of that in
stitution where they imbibed of the pure fountains
of learning, where their love of State rights, and t
Republican freedom was enkindled into a gererousI
passion-where their manly sentiments were neu
tured with watchful solicitude-where their aspira
tions were taught to soar to lofty and ennobling at
tainments, and where their conduct was shaped into
the most finished models of gentlemen and scholars.
-The pains and expense of South Carolina in foster- I
ing her College, have been recompensed-and
doubly recompensed, in a thousand ways by the love
and gratitude of its graduates, by their services to
.the State :nd to the Union, by the honor refected
upm i lr from the recipients of her bounty, and by
.the pr.-.- conmsciousness she feels of having per
.furmed her duty to herself, to her people and to
God. '1 he ineffectual attempts of the pens of the
Informer can never mar the bright renown of the
darling hild of the State. The education of the
gentlemen who conduct that Journal (if indeed they n
have hail sufficient regard for so pa'try an accom
plishmitient as to bestow any portion of their precious
time ai talent thereon) was, perhaps, obtained in
sonic Northern City, amid a rabid and unwashed a
Demecracy.:nd far, indeed, from the conservatism 1
and #one that feler the minds of Carolinians. I
.say this in charity, for otherwise, their views would
be mo rou, and should subject them to the ani- a
miadlv, r,-i..n of every just or candid gentleman in l
the Suite. h
Let mmc now oppose facts4 to fiction, and, at once.
-satify y.our inquiries as to the various points made 5
in y..ur sensible letter. Allow me, though, to adopt
amy ,m mm order, so as to array the questions in their
trn- c, lors. and nmeet all of the very weighty ob
j--eti.-ns of the Castor and Pollux of the Edgefield e
Informer. fu
The South Carolina College was founded in 1801. ti
It has a President and seven Professors, with a
salary, for the whole Faculty, in the aggregate, b
amounting to $22,200. Add to this $2,000 for the
Library and we have the sum of 824.200, the rega
lar annual approprmtions made by the Legislature0
to support thin Institution. This differs very ma
eially, (amnd this is correct) from the amount of0
$45.000, as stated in the Informer. What right 1
.had lie to tell the people they were taxed, to an ex
tent. to include the Tuition fund, for the support ofe
the College ? In my morality the making of a wrong
impression, when wilful, differs very little, in the j
.nature of the offence, fronm a wrong statemcnt.
But, further--the tuition funid, about $12.000 i*r
annum, is, by acts of the Legislature, to be applhed I
.to the ordim~ary repairs and improvements of thet
College Buildings, &c., and the surplus, by the act a
of 1838, is to be added to the $2,000 appropriated
by the Legislature for the increase of the Library. ~
Occasionally pretty large appropriations have been
made by the State for rebuilding the burnt edifices, C
and for new buildings in the College; but these
have constituted no part of the annual appropria
.tion, partaking, as they have, of altogether a differ- I
.ent character.
The average annual appropriation for the College,
since its foundation, has been (including all the
buildings, apparatus, and salaries of professors, &c.,) ~
about $18,000 ; and in this is embraced the
$11,020 for orphans at College, and $10,000 for 'I
. Insurance. '
I shall now proceed to show the cost to the State
of each graduate ; and will prove the result to lall
.quite short of $8,000. But the Informer has smue
corrected the statemient you saw, and says, that in
ths large and numerous calculations he was com
pelled to make to arrive at his conclusions, figures
were employed, and most un~fortunletly, in his hurry I
and confusion, he put one little cipher too much 1
after the 8. I really suppose, that ho was confused 4
after wading through, in Aie peculiar way, the vastt
piles of lumber he had collected around him. A nd
1f Wp plipulations, in full, could be presented on I
1per, they yid confuse every body else, oven
Sir Isaac Nz~,roy, himself, if restored to life, and I
1by any betnumbing spelj, he could be made to give
f~ull faith and credit tq sitch cumborsome details. The I
/nfqyper- yaa half strucek off, he hayq, before the I
prratun yes disoovered; but I have seen no copy
st all, gf hJgt issue, in which it was corrected. A e
good deed, though, is better done late than never.i
The appropriationis by the Legislatjzrea
in support of thme College from 1801,c
,p to 1845, have been.........,,$698,79,23 I
From 1845 up to 1855, inclusive, have
3een about.......---------------2,72000,00 t
pg sall, the sum of....-...... $970,679,23
OF is sogad. numbers, $1,000,000.
They~e page been, up to 1855, of gradu
ates ebopt......-.,,..,..-............ 1,530
Of otliers is the College who did not
grade~q~p, hemt receivs4 th~eir eduespion
obiey type.........,.........:?:.1,000
Total. 2,530
Now if ynm count graduates ouly, each will have
cost the State $640. If you estimate all who have
been ai the i'otlee. each will have cost the State
bout $400. But even this is not accurate result
or the College property belonging to the Stat
hould be taken into the value and deducted, say
ialf a million of dollars, or 8300,000, at least, foi
he College Library containst near 30,000 costly
'olumes. The graduates will then have cost, escli
460-and all who have been at College $27f
ach. A wide difference, my Nephew. from the
trtling re- ult of the Editors of the Informer, even
dmitting that result to be but $800. at
But who would or could estimate the value of a
oble College in money-one that has given general
atisifaction to the State, aud spread a broad stream
r knowledge throughout the whole South. If tha
natitution has been the occasion of calling into the
ouncils of the commonwealth 'one such a man a
EOaG E MCDUFFIe, or Wm. C. PaasTON, the peo.
le have been amply recompensed for all the in
reased taxation it has subjected them to. The
entlemen, though, will contend (for they are ingen
)us in finding fault) that if private or Sectarian
,olleges can produce these wholesome results, why
ave one exclusively under the control and patron
ge of the State. The answer is ready. We have
ever yet had any of these private Colleges to ans.
eer the ends of education so well-they are still
n experiment; and as we know the South Carolina
;ollege has well subserved all the purposes of its
rection, we wish to sustain it, that the youth o
he State may always have a Seminary of learning,
) which they can resoet with the full assurance of
meeting with as competent and accomplished in
tractors as can be found in the United States.
The Gentlemen of the Informer, just now, appear
3 have conceived a wonderful affection for the
,ilitary Academy. That I admire too, but will not
xtol to the disadvantage of an older and a more
enerable, and an equally useful Institution. I
ought that one of the co-editors of the Informer
-as reported, in the newspapers, to have sneeringly
id, in one of those happy efforts, in the House of
tepresentatives, which he alone could have made,
at South Carolina " was married to the College,
ie Military Academy, and the Lunatic Assylum.'
[e then seemed willing to tear down, and demolish
very memorial of State pride, and State munifi
ence" at one fell swoop;' and for the proniotiqu
f some visionary theory of progress which none
at he could hive entertained, or for the gratifica
pa of the senseless clamors of low-minded and
arrowly contracted misers, to obliterate every ves
kge of Carolina glory. I am glad, though, that the
entlenman now sings to a different tune, as to the
lilitary Academy. I feel the same pride in it that
e does, and glory in its promise of success and re
awn. I care not for the expense, while I ai satis
ed that the Institution is managed with care and
delity, and the money is disbursed with integrity.
Vhy, thouah, was the Informer silent as to the
inual appropriations for the Academy ? They
nount to $27,000, while those for the College
uonnt to only $24,000. A nd the appropriations
r the Free Schools amount to $74,000 per annum.
do not complain of this-would to God we were
>le to give ten times the amount. But I wish to
sow that the State provides for her poor as we'l as
r rich. The gentlemen admit, that from fifty to
venty-five poor young men are being continually
>arded, clad, and educated, in the Military Aca
!my, at the cost of the State. lie will also admit
V large annual appropriation made entirely for the
lucation of the poor. It addition to this, I can in
rsm the Informer, that there are about six scholar
ips in the South Carolina College for the educa
n of none but the poor. There is always one or
ian taken froma the orphan house, and educated
the College. Each debating society generally
s one beneficiary, and all the classes would take
e eatch, making, in thme aggregate, eleven or
r' lvc poor young menc, who cars have thre benefit
'a thorough education in the South Garohisna Col
ge, whenever they think proper to avuil them
lves of the generosity of those who would never
ren claim their gratitude for its bestowment.
Thus, you see, that the poor of tire State are
retty well provided for (though not as well asI
ould wish) in regard to education ; and if thae rich
o have some advantages afforded them in te Col
ge, are they not, I pray, enatitled to them, from
20 large amount of taxes they pay ? It would be
singular state of affairs if those who pay the most
r the education of the people, should reap none
f the benefits of their taxation.
But as the Informer has introduced an invidious
omprisoni between thre College and the Military
Leademy, arid the private Colleges, you will require
remark on that subject-especially in rdfareace
the support the College receives from the people
fthe State. The avera.ge numaber of students in
ollege, for several years, has been about from one
undred and sixty to one hundred and eighty,
nd the graduating class for each year, I presume,
ave ranged from forty-five to sixty in number. The
rportiomn of students from other States has been
amething like an eighrth, arid their average for
iny years has been from fifteen to thirty, and, in
:eneral, no more. Dues this look like there was a
ecssity to elect a stranger to the Presidency of
ire College, to obtain foreign patronage ? The
asertion et the Informer to the contrary was a
asty assanption, and I defy him to sustain it by
he facts. I would thank him also, though I tove
he Military Academy myself, to prove by any kind
flogie, or positive facts, that it is likely to out-stril
he Colleger in the amount of its private incourage
net, or in the nurmber of its graduates. I venture
hat the South Carolina College has graduated
tadruple the number of scholars it has since its exis
eaee commenced. For I learn that all its gratdu
tes, since its foundation. were laid, number but a
ittle over one hundred men. .But, I soy, succesi
a all the Schools, Academies, and Colleges, by
rhatever name they may be called, and by what.
ver inrfuence they may be brought into being.
rould pay higher taxes for institutions of learning
ad for the education of the people than for any
ther object on earth, except to defend my country
.gainst the invasion of an enemy. I would lmoest
Gee to pay titlies to scatter knowledge abroad ii
he lan4. A cheerful readiness to contribute to the
hissemiation of intelligence amongst all classes, i
he highest characteristic of a people worthy the en
oyment of freedoma. Liberty is a boon that re.
uires intelligena. for its support and apprepiation,
md the nation unwillirug to pay its price is incapabhi
>f being free. To * man who understands the
rinciples of our government, 'the Idea of our beini
Sgreat Republic, without a well-informed people i
n utter absurdity. When he pays his money foi
~dcation, therefore, he feel. that he is payingi
r the freedom, the honor, and tire glory of hi
m....r. Ir aln power and ant ho~itV emi na tes (rot
the people in the United States, nothing is truer
than that if the people are incapable, ignorant and
vicious, the rulers they select will partake of the
like qualities, and the system of government for
i which patriots have so nobly struggled, and for
which our fathers so profusely shed their blood, will
result in miserable failure and abortion.
I have now not orly given you my views as to
the financial management of the College, but I have
dwelt at some length on the character of that in
stitution.
I will next consider it as "a political machine"
and how such a notion entered the brain of the In
former, I am wholly at a loss to understand. It
crept in, I suppose, with the thousand other speck
led notions with which that journal has lately begun
to amuse or startle the people. The President, the
Professors, and the whole College Faculty, together
with the Trustees and visitors, not only entertain at
this time, but for the last twenty years have enter
tained amongst themselves, almost every shade of
political opinion believed in the Republic. They
have had no unanimity of sentiment whatever, as to
polities and government, and their views as a body
on snch subjects, have never either been sought or
regarded in South Carolina. Mr. Pxzs'ox, when
elected President of the College was a Whig, whilst
the Democrats ruled the State. Dr. LEziza hits
been a Whig, Federalist, or of some other indescrib
able creed nearly ever since he has been in the Col
lege. He has been at variance, in political faith,
with the dominant party almost continually from
the first moment he entered the State to the present
time; ond in a'I the exciting crises the State has 4
passed through, in twenty years, be has remained
undisturbed and secure, with his. salary and profes
sorship, until the tremendously absorbing question i f
giving the election of Presidential Electors to the
people is brought before the Legislature for about I
the fiftieth time; when alas! the poor old man is I
thrust out of the College as unceremoniously as if
he had been a fat beggar teasing a knot of Jews
for charity. The truth is, Dr. Lutssa is in the
College yet, and may remain there for life. I think
the Trustees only were the proper persons to judge I
of the qualifications of a gentleman for the Presi
deney of the College, and they had a right to elect
a man from the State of Maine or Massachusetts to
that post if they deemed him best fitted for it, in ad
ministrative talent. There have been several
younger professors elected President of the College,
since Dr. LEPmia has been there, and yet this is
the first time the political machine ever ground to
powder the learned, and good old German for opin
ion's sake ?
But further, as to the political influence of the
College. Was Dr. ELLETr with the State in poli- I
ties? Was Dr. 1IawaR generally? -las BENJA
miS PERir, one of the Trustees, ever sustained any
of the most cherished doctrines of South Carolina,
or stood by her in trial and difficulty ? [low has f
Judge O'NEALL become one of the Trustees, 'Ien I
he has dared to oppose the ruling party in the State,
in all great political exigencies, and in the most try
ing hours of her existence? Now if the gentlemen
of the Informer will point to a single instance of
proscription from College influence, or to any gen
eral Act passed by the Legislature from this same
constraint, or will introduce a train of facts or reason- t
ing remotely shadowing forth such a thing, then
I will not only acquit them of factiousness; but
agree to follow them blindly in whatever they di
rect.
But I regret, exceedingly, that the gentlemen (for I
the article signed "South Carolina" bears their liter- v
ary ear-marks and is virtually acknowledged by them
perhaps, that they may lose none of the fame of its
production) should have felt justified in speaking so
irreverently, not to say harshly and pertly of a man
so reversed as Dr. TitosawstL., nut only for his
piety, but for his learning, his elentuence, his powvers
of reason and analysis, and for his entire devotion
to the honor and welfare of the young men whom
the parents of South Carolina, delight to see placed
under his guardian care. But the other day, when
the to'wn of Columbia was put in consternation, by
two armed companies-one of the College, and the]
other ol the citizens, in the midst of the greatest tu- I
mult ad peril Dr. TUORNwELLt approached the boys
of the College, and by the dignity of his character,
and his paternal admonitions at once ealnmed their
rage, ad marched them from a theatre of furious
strife in silence and order to within the peaceful en-I
closure of their College grounds. Is it becoming
and tasteful in the gentlemen of the Informer to
ebaracteriz~e such a mian,'as " the Columbia dictator,
whom the Lord once called to Charleston, but1
whom selfish ambition, and proscriptive fanaticism,
soon afterwards called back, to infuse the poison of4
sectarianism into the susceptible minds of the
young." To many intelligent, good men, this sen
tence will sound like an hyperbole of presumption.
But as the Frenchman said to the man railing at
Bonaparte, I have no doubt that if Dr. TIOaRSt ]IL
should hear it, he would be very much grieved at
the unfavorable opinion entertained of him by the
Editors of the Informer.
The viva voce mode of electing Trustees, and
some other matters, I must postpone thes considera
tion of for a future communication, with which I
hope to entertain the editors of the incomparable
journal.
My dear Nephew, we cannot spare the time to
notice the bad English and Latin of the Informer.
I am ever your affectionate Uncle,
PAUL LOGAN.
A CARD.-The undersigned takes this method
of correcting the mistaken impressions of some
in regard to the sale of the Greenville Motun
taineer ho the Southern Pattriot. It has been
referred to as a transaction in which the under
signed was a party. This is erroneous. He hnd
nothing to do with it. The Mountaineer was
never his properly in whole or in any part, nor
had lie any agency in its various sales and trans
fers. His only connection with it was editorial
and temporary. The truth is, the Mountaineer
was sold by the mortgagee of the concern, and
that so suddenly, the editor was cut off from
saying good bye to his readers. He did not
cire t~o interfsre in a mere business transaction.
where his own principles and motives were not
concerned, and in which he had no interest, and
lie has no desire to do so now. His only object
is to have the matter truly understood as one ini
which he took no part whatever.
(G. F. TOWNS.
PEACE Naws ix RussIA.--The New York
Journal of Commerce, of Friday, Is in the re
ceipt of reliable private intelligence, from St.
PPetersburg, to the Ist. of Febriay, which says
that all classes have become reconciled to pease.
The feeling of hatred to the English is still vio,.
lent. The war has developed the resources of
Russia, and it is thought shu will be stronger in
Ievery partietlisr ihan when the struggle com
mene4.
lETTER FROM ION. F. 8, UUK0 ON THE CI
CINNATI CORN TION.
My Dear Sir: "In replyfto your letter I hav
o say that the opinions hi*berto expressed bi
ne relative to the sending of delegates fron
South Carolina to the Convention of Democrat
it Cincinnati, are not only unchanged but hav
ieen strengthened by repeated conferences wit!
ending Southern men, and confirmed by the twi
ast and glorious messages.of the President." I
he entire South fails to ehodorse, sustain, nn<
o demand the re-ch~cttionof Gen. Pierce, it wil
>e guilty of suicidal ingrathude.
The chief and only plaitsible objection whicl
ma been adduced in our State to its representa
ion at Cincinnatti is, that such Conventions ar
nknown to the Constitution. The very objec
ion admits that there is no Implied constitutiona
rohibition ot nominating Conventions. A Con
Pention is but an nrrangenient of convenienee
where by a suitable pers'$n; is selected as thi
-epresentative of certainM political principle
which principles are not co-ifi ned to any locality
>ut permeate the entire confederacy and for thi
ime obtain, or do not obtain in the administra
ion of the government, in accordance with thi
uccess of the candidate wpich the party repre
enting these principles may nominate. In:
ountry of the extent of ours, some arrange
nent of the kind is unavoidble. If the peoph
-efuse to nominate throughstheir delegates, thi
ominations are not thereby prevented, but fail
nto the hands of and are dictated by a fem
>rominent and sometimes irresponsible individ
ials. It this in conformity with the theory of re
lublicanism, or is it oligarchy ? Formerly, nom
nations for the Pre-idency were made by a Con
ressional Caucus, but .no system was aban
oned, because of its corrupftions. Which plan
hink you, is most " dangerous" to the interesti
if the South?
Should the Electoral Co ege fail to elect, th
ponstitution provides in t contingency tha
he election shall be made be the House o
tpresentatives. This prdsion was made fo
he benefit of the smaller States, as in this elee
ion the representation froi-each State has bu
ine vote, and by which atrangament Florida
rith her single Representative, is invested witl
.a much political power 4 New York, witl
hirty-three Representativds. The time hai
ien when the South could have trusted thi
ciwer House of Congress with its dearest rights
mit that time has passed a'way, and may God
leliver us from any President who is the choict
if the present House ! Talk to me about thi
trength of the South, when the 'voting is b)
tates! Why, by this rule. Delaware should bt
ountod a Freesoil State, for her Representativ
she has but one) deliberately voted for a Free.
oil Speaker in the late election. There are six.
een hireling States and fifteen slave States
lifornia now votes with Us, but Delaware ih
gainst us : so that Freesoilism has the strength
a the House even now, without putting int(
lay the mighty levers of money and promise
f office. It is an ominougfact that Maryland
oat one Know Nothing &eesoil vote in the
lection of Speaker, and that other Know Noth.
g votes were withheld, uAtH it became mani
ust that Banks would beeqd without tbeei,
nd then-giQ t'o Mr^*Aivlen. - *- .
With these facts in view, will our people
azard an election by the House of Representa.
ives? I trust not. And yet this mode of elee
ing a President can be surely avoided only by
uncenrating the united strength of the South
i tie nominating Convention at Cincinnatti.
There are, in reality, but two great parties to
lbe Presidential contest-the Democratic and
lack Republican-which are respectively the
ypes of the Constitution and of anarchy. Un.
er one or the other of these banners, every
ian in the Union must rally. He may call
imself by any name which pleases his fancy;
ut he will be a Democrat or a Black Republi
a1 as lie votes.
it is fashionable in certain quarters in out
state to sneer at Northern Democracy, and some
vould have us believe that deliverance and lib.
rty are to be found in the Know Nothing or
anization. We!l, in the last vote for Speaker
he Know Nothing party dwindled down to si,
otes, and every one of then) a Freesoil vote
r. Aiken, the'Democratic pro-slavery candidate
id not receive the vote of a single Northerri
[now Nothing, and he did receive the votes of
eventeen Northern Democrats and the cordial
upport of Mr. Richardson, who could not at the
ime vote himself as lie had paired off' with
~restiler. The circumstances an i facts c~n.
eted with the recent election of Speaker mus'
ilence the sweeping denunciations which some.
ies are insonisiderately and ignorantly made
gainst the entire Northern Democracy. Thu
forthern Democrats of the House have shouwi
hat they care not where a man is from, if hi:
ariciples be right, by giving to Mr. Orr the
amne vote exactly which they gave to Mr. Rich,
rdson, of Illinois. And by voting for Mr. Aiken
ie largest slave-owner in the House, they have
irtually declared that slavery is not incompati
tIe with their principles. How will these men
ho have been true to us, stand before their owrl
onstituents, if they are deserted aid repudiated
v us, whose battle they have been fighting
Vithi which party, the Democratic or the lai
lepublienn, shall our State affiliate? Whcit
ill it aid and abet ? If we cast away our vote
n the Presidential election, as did certain Knov
0things from the South in the Speaker's eee
ion, will it not be to do precisely what they
ye done, and that is indirectly to contribute t<
ie powe:- of Freesoilism, and aid in the electioi
,f a Black Republican?
The meeting of the Convention at Cincinnati
as certian as any hnman eve'nt can be ; ani
he appearance, or non-appearance, of delegate
rom South Carolina, will in no wise: affect thi
icurrence of that event. In truth, what mat
er it if its arguments against, and objections t<
he Convention are as plentiful " as blackber
ies," when we remember it is the establishet
node of nominating a candidate, and trust what
uver candidate, is named, will receive the vote o:
uvery Democrat in every State in the Union.
Gen. Pierce, I believe, is more acceptable t<
tur people, than any man now living. I prefe
tim to anybody. But what would it profit us o
tim, if every man woman and child in our Stat<
ahould nominate him if he be not the nomine<
f the general Convention ? South Carolin
vill vote for any man who is nominated by the
)emocratic party. (ceare not who he may be
[nchanan, Douglass, Dallas, Hunter, Pierce o1
mybody else she will vote for him, and just be
~ause anybody is better than a Black Republi
uan. Every opponent to the Cincinnatti Con
~ention that I have met admits that the State
ili vote for its regular nominee, and in the
amie breath insists, that it is degradation ti
mite in the selection of the man, who is mos
eeptable and just in his political sentiments t<
ur people. If there be degradation in the mat
er, it seems to me that it is when we vote for
ntan who is not our choice, and aecept the nomi
ee of a Convention which we affect to despise
Ihe line of argument adopted by the opponenti
f the Cincinnatti Convention, if applied to erim
na judgments, would consign the accessory tu
nurder to the gallows, and permit the principa
o go scoL free.
In the name of evorything that is sacred ani
inorable, let our beloved State be consistent
and if she rejects the Convention let her rejeel
t nominees, be he who he may. To be consia
.ni .he shouldals ensnure her entire Aela
tiou in the lower liouse of Congress, for voting
in common with Northern Democrats for Rich
ardson, for Orr and for Aiken-in all one hun
, dred and thirty4hree times. To be consistent,
I she should do more and recall her entire delega
tion in Congress, for I assure yqu solemly that
if our political relations with Democratic mem.
bers here were to comform to the relations which
some persons desire our State to bear towards
r the Democratic States, the moment we set up
for exclusiveness and turn our backs upon such
Democrats as Glancy Jones and Cadwallader of
Pennsylvania, (who I would trust as soon as if
they were slave.owners, and because they inter
pret the Constitution as we do and obey it,) that
inoment we become powerless and might as well
be at home on our farms. But in the matter of
consistency, we are told that our State has uni
formly declined all connection with National
Conventions. Is this historically true ? In May,
1843, our people assembled in Convention at Co
lumbia, and appointed delegates to attend the
Democratic Convention at Baltimore, and for the
avowel purpose of promoting the nomination of
Mr. Calhoun for the Presidency. The two dig
tinguished gentlemen selected to represent the
State at large, went to Baltimore. But before
they reached that city it was clearly ascertained
(no clearly that the District Delegates were not
appointed) that Mr. Calhoun could under no
circumstances get the nomination for the Presi
I dency, and therfore they declined to take their
seats.
Does any man in the State believe that if Mr.
Calhoun's chances had been as good when the
Baltimore, Convention met, as they had been at
the time of the meeting of the State Conven
tion which appointed the delegates, that they
would have hesitated about uniting with Nation.
i al Democrats and of nominating Mr. Calhoun ?
They would have been immolated over the firer
i of public indignation had they dared to do so.
1 But was not South Carolina virtually repre
r sented in the Baltimore Convention ? Are the
facts not that two delegates were chosen to go,
to Baltimore-that they appeared in that city
while the Convention was suggested by our
own delegates-that they made speeches in his
behalf at different points of their roite on their
return home-that district meetings were called
to hear their report-that the State of South
Carolina endorsed the conduct of her delegates,
and approved again the mission upon which they
were sent by voting for the nominee of the maid
National Convention I And if this be not
" tampering" with Conventions, I would like to
know what is. Why, sir, the mission to Eng
land was offered to each of the delegates in
I reward for " services rendered" in their mission
to Baltimore, and was magnanimously declined
by them both.
Ours are a gallant but peculiar people. They
cavil about "squatier sovereignty," while the
Abolitionists are taking possession of a Territo
ry which has been re-opened to slavery. They
fiddle while Rome is burning. They profess
an earnest desire for the re-election of Gen.
Pierce, and are yet reluctant to make the oily
move which can, by any possibility, benefit
him. That they are sincere. I do not doubt,
but am sure thel are influenced by motives of
I have deliberated upon this question with the
deepest solicitude, and have reached the conclu
sion that we have every thing to gain and noth
ingy to lose by going into Convention. We
should be there to unite our Southern brethren
in demanding a platform of principles, and a
candidate we can trust. We should be there to
encourage our friends, and urge them up to the
highest point of Southern seniment. If no
other good results from the association, it will
relieve our State from the charge of desiring to
dictate to her equals-from an alleged assump
tion of superiority which is always offensive.
Waiving every other consideration. I would
have our State represented, in order to promote
Southern harmony.
Since the opening of the session I have made
it my duty to confer with every leading Dem
ocrat in Congress from the South, &nd all con.
cur in regarding the representation of our State
under the peculiar circumstances in which we
are now situated, as a high moral obligation.
The legislation of the last Conigress wats in our
favor. and the present administration as true to
the Constitution as the needle to the pole. Be
sides, we stand committed by the last Conven
ion of our people to co-operate with the South.
Many gentlemen who cherisn the extremest,
South Carolina views-who earnestly desire
that South Carolina principles shall pervade
every Southern State. shall be engrafted upon
every Southern heart-tell me that it is all im
portant to them, to their principles, and our
principles, that the South should present an un
broken front at Cincinnatti. They tell me that
" South Carolina impracticability is a stumbling
block in their path, and in the onward progress
of South Garolina doctrines." Shall we strength.
en or weaken the hands of our friends?
I have observed with painful regret the want
of unanimity in our State in regard to this
IDemocratic Convention.
1It will require the achievement of very much*
good to compensate us for diatructioni at home.
in all internal States issues, however the will of
the majority must prevail and it in the duty of
the monority to acquiesce. Government itself
is a compromise between the strong and weak,
and I truest that a compromise may be effected
between our friends of opposing opinio~ns. The
contest for the Presidential nomination will be1
between Pierce and Buchanan. The antecedents
of Buchanan are good, but those of Gen. Pierce
are better. Gen. Pierce is thie choice of the
South, and in our own State I do not think that
one man in a hundred objects to him. The
strength of Buchanan lies in this fact that he is
backed by the large Stats of Pennsylvania, with
her twenty-seven votes. His friends urge his
.nomination upon the ground that he is certain
I to carry Pennsylvania, and that it is doubtful if
-that State will vote for Gen. Pierce. If the
South is firmly united upon Pierce, Pennsylva
nia must yield. Now, the compromise I pro
>pose to the people of our State is, to send dele
s ates to Cincinnatti selected from our ablest and
- bet men without regard to past party differen
ces. and thitt they be instructed to vote for
Franklin Pierce for President, and to use all
Shonorable mean. to secure his nomination from
Sfirst to last. The condition upon which our del.
,egates will enter the Conivention, will give
rstrength to Gen. Pierce: and if other Southern
.States imitate our example, his nomination is
secure, and that is equivalent to his eletion. If'
he is not nomninatd some other sound Demo
c rat will be; and as to support another nominee
Sthan Gen. Pierce, I think I have shown that we
Swill do that in any event, rather than embrace
tthe other alternative and vote for a Black Re
Spublican. By the pursuance of this course, the
-escutcheon of South Carolina will be preserved
Sin its pristine brightness, no bolt denoting the
-desertion of a friend will rest upon it, and the
,act will harwtonize with her profession, that she
sustains the man who supgorta and defends the
.Constitution of his oountry.
I have the honor to be, respectfully, yours,
I&c., P. S.BROOS
Thon. P. Slider, Esq., Newberry C. H. S. C.
PosTOFFIeE CHANiGEs.-*A new Post9nilee has
been established at .Jamieson, Orangeburg Dis
.trict, in this State, and Andrew Inabinet ap
nointed Pnstaate
SEINTER IUTLER-TIE CONHVTIUI.
We take the following letter from the Rising
Sun of Newberry :
CoxmmIEE Room, Feb. 8,1856.
Tp MEssRs. SLIER & CRohsoN
Gentlemen: In yours of the 4th, and which I
have just received by the mail, you requested
me to give you my opinion "as to the propriety
of South Carolina sending delegates tothe Cm.
cinnatti Convention."
In this request you ask my opinion on a mat
ter that is now under the decision of a foregone
conclusion in South Carolina. I do not say that
it is a conclusion that -has been attained through
the deliberate and responsible judgment of the
people of South Carolina. Butenough has been
done to commit the State to some representation
in the new Convention at Cincinnatti-a Conven
tion that shows where the Star of Empire is go
ing. Such a representation cannot be preven
ted; and being a fixed fact, we must deal with
it as such, and as well as we can.
My judgment is, that if South Carolina is
giving up her strongest position-that of doing
as she pleases in reference to the nominee for
Presidency-in keeping aloof, as she has here
tofore done, from joining in Conventions, IW vol
untary and irresponsible Conventions, Ae has
occupied her true republican position-her eon
stitutional position-that of a sovereign 43tate
in a Republican Confederacy. This, originally,
was intended to be a confederacy of Republican
States-the States being the parties to'apesk
through their responsible organs-avoiding the
amalgamation of mass meetings, in which demo
cratic numbers must move stronger than consti
tutional weight. I wish South Carolina could
have rutained her constitutional Identity-main
taining doctrines that could survive a Constitu.
tion that should give security and equality. It
was the position of a promontory in the deep
standing firm amidst the waves of agitation that
were beating at its base, and resisting the storms
that have assailed its bosom. The tide of events
and the current of popular opinion, emanating
in the North and running to the South, has
brought to bear upon us a force which our peo
ple cannot, 1 suppose, resist.
A partial representation at Cincinnatti would
be mischievous. It might control the State
without representing it. It might hitch as to a
car that might pass over and crush confiding
worshippers. The principles of common law,
when fully examined, are wide and even honora
ble. And those of one which maintains an hon
orable relation between landlord and tenant: and
that is a tenant entering under an acknowledged
title of his landlord shall not be allowed to dis.
pute it. Whether the title be good or not it is
treason in the centinal as tenant to botray it.
So of these great nominating Conventions
that have become, not the third, but the necond
estate in the government. Their platform and
resolutions commit all who join them to act un
der them, and never allowing them to dispute
their authority.
I would much have preferred that presidential
elections should have gone through the process
prescribed by the Constitution. As to nomina
tions in some form they could not have been
avoided, and the old Congressional caucuses
u .. vpo rejsnible.aopreek
of nomi t, v'olinairy meetings of rep.
resentative delegates-such as frequently have
scarcely any constituents, and such as cannot
represent the opinions of the people. I have no
aversion to see our State take laer responsible
office as a unit in the House of Representatives,
-she wounId count then as one in thirty-one in
the Democratic Convention-she may yet have
the moral influence which intelligence and reso
lution may exert through her delegation. But
in more numerical power she will be absorbed.
Now after what I have said, I will give you
my conclusion. As the State will be represent
ed-putting the question aside whether she
should be or not-let the State send her very
irst men-such as Gov. Richardson, Col. Pick
ens, Gov. Hammond, Mr. Barnwell, Mr. Rhett,
Gov. Means, Gen. Wallace, Mr. Woodward, Gen.
Thompson, Riehard Simpson, Gen. Rogers.
These gentlemen have reputations of something
like Currule dignity. But there are many oth
ern that I might name, and there Is one gentle
man whose name, on this occasion, I ought not
to omit, for while he has some notions in which
1 cannot agree, yet he is a gentleman for whom
I have always entertained an unfeigned respect
-1 allude to Col. Perry, who har been promi
nent in the Convention movement, I would be
perfectly willing to trust the honor of the State
mn his keeping. But in any thing that is likely
to be done, do not let us de-Carolinaise our
selves.
A bove all, I would say, let our delegates go
untrammeled and uncommitted as to the nomi
nee for the Presideney.
I have said more than I intended.
Yours, A. P. BUTLER.
A DVENTUR E WITH A Woz..-The Kansas cor
respondent of the St. Louis Republican tells the
following story :
A few days since, while riding in the rear of
our town, in a small ravine, through which a
streamlet takes its quiet way beneatn its crystal
covering, and whose irrigation has produced tall
grasses rand shrubs that make a hiding place for
game, I came suddenly upon a large black wolf.
He was scratching at a thin place in the ice, and
seemed almost famished for water. When he
saw me he started in full run for the forest in
the river bottom. I kept upon his heels and
tried to ride upon him. I e was almost ex
hausted, and just as I supposed he would give
out, he slipped into the hollow of a large coton
wood tree. I stopped the hole through which
he entered, and came back to town and got an
axe and the dogs, and the assistance et Frank
Mtahan and W. Palmer,and together we returned
to cut him out.
The dogs were anxious, and we were pre
pared with our guns to receive him. When we
made a large hole, about, four feet from the
ground, the dogs jumped at it on the outside and
the wolf on the inside, and such barking, growL
ing, snapping and howling I never heard before.
It made the woods resound for a great distance,
and brought several to the spot. Things eon
tinued so for a while, and we consulted what
was best to be done. We could not shoot the
wolf through this opening without too great a
risk of shooting the dogs, for he only appeared
at the inside while the dogs were at the outside.
We finally concluded to atop the hole that we
had made, and fell the tree by cutting a narrow
gash around it. The tree came down a little
sooner than we expected. Frank had the axe
lifted for another stroke as it went over with a
crash. The wolf, with bristled back and glaring
eyes, and glittering teeth, leaped at his throat
with terrible ferocity. The descending axe met
him, cleaving its skull and layingj it dead at his
feet. We had no time to express our wonder
and congratulationa at his narrow and singttlar
escape, before our attention was called to that
which amaxement, if not dread. It was a hu
man skeleton of medium sixe, and of a female,
hidden in the cavity of the tree. Its posture
was erect, and the bones were held together by
a kind of clear integument, that seemed to soy
er, like a transparent skin, the entire frame.
The, jar of the felled tree severed several of the
joints, and we drew threm all out and placed them
again in form. The proportions were perfect and
the limbs straight-Indicating a canlour, when in
been that thus perished y7eats ih st 9u
forest; and how case her death thim
placet were queries that were, IMnedaVly
geste. Cold it have been soine m M A-1
like the brie in the "Mistleof Degh" had em
eaied herself fre. her lever in Aeet o Ms
old tree,and become -stened 91eo and died!
all YR .
Cold feet are the avenues of death oe
tudes every year; It is a sign of ip*erfet
culation, of want of vigor of ce-nstutln
one can be well whose feet are habitslt4,y0K
When the blood is equally distuibuted I '
part of the body there is gerneral go :,e
if there be less blood at one pela ere is A
coldness; and not only no, there mist be uses
thanai naturalat some part of theele , a
there is feier, that is,annutural beast oer p
elan. In the eoe of sold feet, She
blood wanting there colleet" at some etier
of the body which happens to be weeatS, toM
least able to throw a barricade
rushing- enemy. Hesee, when
weakest, the extra blood gathers there an 4he .
shape of a common cold, erp .gd, *
Clergymen, other publis csakeru, singss,
by improper oxpesures, es reader $6e throos
theweakest part; to "ee, sold fe0t ges
hoersesesa, or a saw boosng 4.sase *flt
at the bottom of the neek. To oers -
whose bowels are weak through everesting .ro.
drinking spirituous ligsora, cold feet gives M.
ions degrees of derangement, from, esese
loonness up to diarrhua or d aeutory; ahd*e0 .
we might go througb the whole body, but os
the present this is saufielsat for illustratie.
If you are well, let yourself alon.. st a
those whose feet are IWA to be cold, we
suggeat:
As soon as you get p is whmorning pa
both feet in a basin of cold watetraras to es
half way to the ankles,- keep them is halfais
ate, rubbing them vigorosly ; wipe the
and hold them to the are, if eonveienis sz
weather, until every part of your feet feels as
dry as your hand; thea pat on year seeke
stockings.
On going to bed at might draw ofyar'eteeh.
ings, and hold your feet to the uese er Me
minutes, until perfectly dry, and to 6o
This is a most pleasing operatio aJ Ial Mps,
pays for the trouble of at. Noone sa- is
well or refreshing with cod feet. All ledissie
and hunters sleep with their feet to the Are.
Never step from your bed withthe aked fest
on an uncarpeted door. I have keown ii e
the exeiting cause of months of 1ises.
Wear woolen, cotton, or ilk tnekink., whih
ever keep the feet meet comfortable; do mot le
the experience of another be year gvids be
different persons reqaire dierest articles; whAt.
is good for a a whoe feet are asrally
dampgainnot be good for e -whose feet ar
dr. P'Ie donkey who had his bag of sealtligh
ed by swimming a river, advised his eespedls,
who was loaded down with a seek of wool, Ge
do the same, nd having no more ese thas
man or woman, be pluaged in, and in a mesmet
the wool absorbed the water, inereased dh ba.
den many fold, and bogs him to the bettm...
Hairs Jl u o
M'b"r AMP WA? N13 M RNM,"7I
number of workmen i New York City on Mon.
day the loth inst. cal ed a publie eeting in the
Park of their fellow.laborers, to take into eo&
sideration their abject eondition. They state
that there are tens of thousands of men and
women in that eity without means or empley.
ment, and that this winter has been to them as
severe and distressing as the last. The asmoek.
tion for improving the condition of the poor has
in its books nearly fy thousand persona.
They complain that the conventions of the
various political parties lately held in Northera
cities have entirely ignored the claims of the
free workmen of the coontry and lavished all
their sympathy on Southern slaves, This toeb.
ing appeal, we fear, will meet with cold support
from Northern citizen. The sad condition of
the industrial classes in the North, bwever, is
to be attributed chiely to the seliAhness of their
employers, who whine over the lot of the well.
fed negro in the South, and at thesmm time es.
tort from the necessities of the free laborer the
greatest quantity of work for the meanest pit.
tance, and when trade slaekene east hMe ruth.
lessly on the world.--Chronisle & Sentinel.
FiABWELu.ADDRss or Parscs Goarcesuwr
o mas ARNT.-Prince Goriehakef arrived ia
St. Petersburg on the 14th ultimo. On quiting
the Crimea he issued the following address to
his army, dated:
" Hznquaazas,Bakshl Seral, Jam. 12.
" At the moment that I hasten, In obedemc
to the command of my Sovereign, to snether
destination, I take my leave of you, my valiat
comrades. I make over to my worthy sueesee
an army that has been hardened in battle, that
has been the shield of our country and the joy
of the Emperor. Your bravery and self-denlal,
valiant warriors, will ever remain indelible in 'my
heart. 1 thank you from my heart for the ideba.
ty you have showen me In thIs conflict, so fell of
vicissitudes, in theyear 1855-a struggle that
will ever remain memorable, and in which you
defended the Crimean Peninsular aginst a a.
meruna enemy, that had the commndof meas
unprecedented in Use annals of war."
The overseer on the plantation of Mr. Joha
B. Lampkin, in Hancock county, Miss., was kik
ledby one of the negroes, a few dayasinee.
The murderer dragged the body some distianee,
andcut off both his handr. He then saerted
'for th. houseeof Mr. L., and met at the deor
Mrs. Lampkin, and told her with an oath that
he had killed the overaser and intended to kill
hor, at the same timse drawing a revolver, Nr,
Lampkn waasick n bedunableesorise. Mrs,
L ran Into the house and got a double barrel
gun, and told the nero if he moved a foot alhs
would shoot him, an kept himshadg is the
yard until she sent for some of tsihe bors.
Tey soon eame to her asistanee, caght the
negro and hung him.
A Naw MOlri I-We learn from the Sehaa
(Ala.) Reporter, that the Stream of water from am
artesian well in that city has been tarned ape.
a large wheel at the Central Warebosse to
draw up the freight ear Ikom the river to the
top of the bluf.,Th pewer wan seceaet t.
draw up the lnaded ear, and the bsrter anti.
cipatas that the proprietors will And ths espeui,
ment entirely sccesefuL. This enterprise of
going down ive or six hundred feet isis -moth.
er earth" to tap and bring up orne of her nstq,
ral elements wherewith to work macheaery, iis a
Thr sa w7 Cha awhedisage
still larger volume of water, and It was at on.
time intended to operate a fastery by its streem,
bet we bellieve that It has met 'yet bees ag.
plied to this purpos,
Smzracx or Dzhhw.-Yesteuday, the ales.
sentence of the law was prornoueed by Jug
Wardlaw, on James MeCombs, eeneipted iet
murder of William T. Cross, a masball of sar
oity. The ad duty eas performed Is.a deeply
impressive manner bythe Judge, and ihs wieteb.
edoconviet wasurge with maheeln to give
the few remainin dashe ha. s ea t to pre..
pare for the judme'st for eternity. Ti1e day
Axedfor he iof theiaw Is Fabisy, the
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