Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, September 08, 1858, Image 1

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2. Dir*atic 3ournad Deiatie to ije Soutly arn Soutlyrn fligltt& "We will cling to the Pillars of the 'Temple 4 Liberties, and It It must fall, we will PerIah anadst the Ruins." SUIMINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. 0, PTEMBER 8, 1858. eO-x1u1--O 3. EDEIED S. THE BONRAM DINNER LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMEN In response to the invitation of the Committee to attend the complimentary Dinner given to our J. resentative, the Hon. M. L. BONHAx, at Edefidd, S. C., on the 2nd September. REDCLIFFE, 24th August, 1858. -- Gendemen: It would be try pleasant to me to meet my friends in Edgefield, and unite with them in honoring your Representative in Con gress, whose relations with me have been from his early years so intinately friendly, and who has always possessed my utmost esteem. But -I am so embarrassed by other engagements, that it will be impossible for me to leave here at that time. I have the honor to 1^ with great respect, Yours, &c, &c. J. H. HAMMOND. To S. S. Tompkins Esq., and Committee. EXECUTIvE DEPARTMENT, Glenn Springs, Aug. 27, 1858. 5 Gendemen: Yoqrs of the 10th inst., inviting me to attend the dinner to be given to your Representative.in Congress, General BoNAx, at Edgefield, after being forwarded from point to point, has reached me here. it would -afford me pleasure to unite with my fellow-citizens of Edgefield in compliment ing Gen. Boui&x's independence and fidelity. Other engagements however preclude me from joining you. . Much allowance of discretion is due to our members of Congress, regarding the position which the State has occupied, and the pressure against it from many influences. Be sure they are honest, then let them act as they deem best for the interests of the State with such lights as they have before them. With my best wishes for the occasion, I r emain, gentle men, Very respectfully, Your fellow-citizen. R. F. W. ALLSTON. To Messrs S. S. Tompkins & others, Comniittee. LiVs Omc, Aug. 30th, 1858. Gentlemen: I regret very much that it will not be convenient for me to accept your kind invitation to unite with you in the merited coin pliment which you have decided to pay to your distinguished Rtepresentative. I have knowin Gen. Boxanx long and intimately, and no man appreciates him more highly thai I do. " Ie is a gentleman on whom you may build an absolute trust." You have confided, I am sure, in one whose heart will never cherish an emotion incon sistent with your best interests and your highest . honor. Upon the most vital question fo the South, there is no issue before us, which if rightly viewed, should divide or distract us. While the wdrld has beeA madly and ignorantly assailing us, we are Uily standing more erect in the con viction, that there is notling in Southern organ ization, Social or Political, for which we need blush or be ashamed. While the North, in blind fary, er out for " a new God and a new Bible," we daily "search the Scriptures," and in -them find comfort and consolation, both for ourselves and our bondma."' -The defence of the Institution of Slavery as a thing right in itself, was bagun near 30 years ago by Professor Dew, of hirginia. The argu ment was subsequently resumed and pressed to bolder conclusions by Jud-e 'Harper. Then came Senator Hammond, wfose vindication of' the Institution, morally, socially and politicaly, was unansweied, and to this day is unanswera bre. These Pioneers rolled back the current of opinion that was sapping its foundation, anl lifted up Southern sentiment to its present post tion, viz: " That Slavery is a thing that is, and is to be." Can it harm us to go a step farther and elevate it to the higher position that the In stitution did'not originate in fraud and theft ? Will not something be gained if we can root out from the Southern mind the idea of man steal in, which our enemies persistingly associate wii the Institution? There is all the difference in te world between man trading and man * e.ealing. WVhile the latter was condemned, the former was legalized by the Great Law GJiver of the Universe. It would carry me far beyond reasonable limit, to go at length into the merits of' this question. It has, I am sure, vitality enough to survive the oranlareanathemas, which Mr. Speaker Orr, has recently hurled at it. His insinuation that the pupse of its advocates is "to furnish material o Black Republicans," is as absurd as it is con t.mptible. Mr. Boyce contemptuously kicks it out of his path as "a barre'n issue." The people of this State will be sooner reconciled to cheap negroes, than they will to have annually abstract ed from their pockets over a million of dollars for the support of' the Federal Government. 'When he submits his proposition to a popular vote, he will find it to be a very " barren issue." The clouds that hang around this question are daily rising higher and growing thinner. WVheu . these are dissipated, it will be viewed as a great question of labor inseparably bound up with modernecivilization. With her85O000square miles of Territory, all the South wants is the necessary supply of leabor, to secure the monopoly of the great, tropical staples; and with these, she can comimand the commerce, wealth and manufac * tures of the world, Why is it, that the inferior lands of Iowa, with her inhospitable' climate, sell for twice as mueh as the rich lands of Texas with the finest climate on earth? It is because the former has labor and the latter wants it. Emigration to the South Wecst has weakened anzd must continue to weeken us. Upon our worn odit lands, cqn we hope at present -prices, to re -tain qur oratives, " the m4ud ls" of our pros p'erity? Is it 'desirable to sup;.ly their places with 'mull slus" from the North? If' we invite the element, must we got in timoi expect to hear jai our very miidst the cry of "slave ocracy1I' Are not those in whose 'hands are now concen: trated oiur slaves, vitally interested in the diffu ajon of sligerv~? -'Can we hope for this at pres-. pthosies ? .[ it wise, is it. safei on the part 'of hoewho own slaves, to desire to Igeep their pseeC up to a point, that must forever exelqde Ihep lqboring W~jte nlan from owning themn. 4. piranlts for publio lonor have been~ thretenmed with associated influence, because they have * taught their slaves the mechanic arts. Is it not better that the white mechanic should be able to own a slave at a bvingy price, and thus, by the strongest of human motives, interest, be eon-* verte into a friend of the Institution, than to have him chafing under what he now considers an unfar competitiOn between free and slave labor ? Can the Institution in the long run, sus tain itself as an oligarchy ? 'If the coast of Africa were to-day thrown open to us, where is the capital to conme from to buy, and whiere -the-sltps to transport that inigh ty horde of lMarbarians with which we are 'told we would at once be inundated? WVill not the *gmat law of supply and demand regulate this commerce just''as 4 does all trade ? The idea a en'iffget 4oidh te 1 reduce tjhe bus eitatfnf. i!cePtW sen extraneotus c54que4 bave operated to depress it, the niore cotton we have prodnced,.the higher has been its pric, 7He is-a'far-seeing man who can fix the limit of -d world's waitof-this mighty fabric: Ititsjhe cheapest article with which to clothe the poor. of the earth, and their nakedness is beyond our capacity to hide for centuries to come. Why does England hate slavery? She daily manu factures and wears slave grown cotton. She consumes slave grown sugar and rioe; she chews and smokes slave grown tobacco. It is because she dreads the commercial domination, which t4e monoply of these tropicalstaples must inevitably bring to us. Her Statesmen of the present day, as they survey the deplorable con dition of her West India Islands, must in their hearts look upon Wilberforce, Clarkson and Brougham as the veriest Mounte banks that ever successfully played off sentimentality against common --ense. If the sudden withdrawal from market of three millions of bales of cotton (and I believe it) would cause " England to topple down," in- what security will we not repose when we shall grow ten million bales, and the world shall still want more. It is a magnificent destiny to which the future invites us. Let us oil and trim our lamps for the feast. It is true, as has been recently announced, that the South has for thirty years been laboring to undo pre vious blunders of Southern Statesmen. Wash ington emancipated his slaves, and Jefferson was the originator of the ordinance which dedi cated the North West Territory fo Free Soilism. The South to-day repudiates hy legal enactment the example of the former, and dep!ores the blunder of the latter. I was taught in the nurse ry, that Slavery was wrong, and to look upon the negro trader with horror and disgust. I have lived to see men in high places-men selected to make our laws-trade for them by the hun dred and hurry them offas fast as steam could carry them, to the far West, where fertile lands reward the husbandmen with abundant harvests. Virginia and Maryland, without shock to our moral sensibilities, enjoy the humane privilege of breeding and rearing Chxistianized slaves lbr the Southern Marcet, just as the Kentuekians do mules and hogs. Now as "trading in human flesh" is inseparable from the existence of slave ry, some little forbearance should be extended to those who are so "impracticable, visionary and foolish" as to think that the trade should be conducted oil something like Free Trade prinei ples. Some charity should be manifested to ward those who think there is no inore wrong in going to Africa to buj a slave than to Virginia or Maryland. Even Seward, Giddings, HIe and Wilson admit that if slavery is right, then the slave trade is righi. Seward declared on the loor of the- Senate, that he preflered the foreign to the domuestW slave Tade. The South on eve ry sale (ly, witnesses with composure, and guards with all the sanctions of law, trading in slaves, and still. without even the formnality of protest. She annually pays her quota of $70f 00-money absolutely wasted in an abortive effort to enforce the ridiculous enabtment, that slavery is piracy. The emperor of France boldly sends his shiips.to the coast of Africa for his needed supply of cheap tropical labor, and when called to account in the English Parliament, silences their impudent interference, by compla cently denominating it free contract and hired labor. England rues her deed of folly, and in her restless anxiety to repair, without the candor to aeknowledge it, quiets her conscience with the euphonious Coolic system. Those in the South, who have ventured to look these truths fairly-in the face, and fearlessly to titter them, are straight way set down as extremists-"as pestilent fel lows and as movers of sedition." When Southern Statesmen voted to close the Slave Trade in 1808, they committed a "blun der," and I am not afraid to say so. When they voted the Slave Trade piracy, they not only coi mitted a " blunder," but they fixed upon us a stain that ought to he wiped out. lien they voted for the Ashburton Treaty, they committed a "blunder" and the offensive articles of that Treaty ouht to be repealed. Every compro mise on Slavery has proved to be a " blunder" and we should Qot out the very word. The Pass Word, hereafter, it seems, is to ho ational Democracy-to *hich we are indebted for the PnocrM.A-MAro--Foiex Br.t.-Vbor.AToN F TARIFF COMPRoMIsE-PRESENT TARiFF-AP LICATION OF WVILMoT PRoyiso TO OaRo ABO.rrON OF SrLAvE TRADE IN DIsTRICT OF Co ,MRA-Loss OF CALIRnsIA--DISMEMnERRMENT F Tm'xAs-AxNUAL, EXPENXDITURaE OF S11-ENTY ILLIONs-SURMISSIoO(F CoNsmTb'roN TO Pso L OF KAtxsAs-(the black catalogue, in hot aste to be enlarged and embellished by the) tMsSroN OF KAxcsAs wviTHi LESS THAN Nmxtr 'iIES Taousax~n IxIIABITANTs. Whenever I get my consent to apologize for the authors of such wvounds upon Southern in terests and Southern honor, ' May my tongue leave to the roof of my mouth, and my right and forget her cnnning." I have the honor to be with high regard, Your obedient servant, _J. ii. ADANS, o Messrs. S. S. Tompkins, E'immet Selbels, J. B. Griffin, Loudon Butler, J. W. Hill, Comn. mittee. Cor.uMnhA, Aug. 25th, 1858. Gentlemen: I have had the honor of receiving your invitation to the dinner to be given by the Citizens of Edgefield to Gen. BoNHAa, on the d of September next. My engagements at ome will deprive me of the pleasure of attend tug. But I desire'to join with you in rendem ing the high honor which he deserves as your Repre sentative in Congress. He has borne himself as ecomes a Representative of South Carolina. nd on the perplexed question of Kansas, in which, from the apathy of the South it was so difficult to discern the least disadvantageous way f dealing with a had piece of business, and onsiderations of expediency were so doubtfully balned, he exhibited the true spirit and true wisdom, by following what lie believed right in principle, in spitegf all inducements to swerve ~omi it. That on such a question he should have deliberately separated from Gen. HIAusMONP, a enatorial Leasder, whose advice was justly en ided to the'most profound respect ;from Gen. MeU~uueN, a State Rights Colleaguie, then, and sill, as ever, implicitly to be relied on ; from all the South Carolina Delegation, and from the al ost unanimou~s Southern vote, shosyi that he is m nanfor whom the corrupt Capital ia no 1o: iical sedluctio.ns, and is whion the old State Rights Party inqy repose their trust. if thierp is any hopo of our.ever pecgaining our freedom and independence, I b~elieve it must be by our public men following the examuple set to them on this recent occasion by your Rlepreoen, t-tive, anmd by Gen. QVrIT..AN, that Statesman anid Soldier, in whose untimely death the South has sutfrred so heavy a loss. In the times of the ullification struggle, there was a favor-ite motto of the State Rights Party : " Do your duty, and leave the consequences to God." it would be better if this were more held in remembrance it has long been a prevalent and fatal delusion a the South, to rely oii party management for protection against the increasing preponderance f Northern power. Rtare occ-asmons may arise, when thme State Rights party of the South-, by net ting with perfect independenice, and holding the balance of a closely divided vote in Congress, may succeed in imposing their policy tipon re; iietpt forthermn -Associates. Subb- *as tie case t'o a~ greilt etent durmig the uduitrto of Mr. VAN JlprEN. But from the nlature of hings it cannot often occur, And to expect fom this time forward, such unanimity and ieit m..ongst Souithern politicians at Wash.1 ington, that they will act together on high prin ciple, and by controlling Northern party associ ates, reform the corrupt and plundering Govern. ment, re-establish State Sovereignty, not only i1 party "Platforms," as they are called, but in thct, and make the South secure in the Confed. eracy, is to expect of Southern politicians gen ermly more wisdom and perfection for the time to come than the past has ever witnessed. Ur to the present time, we have seen a continual process going on, by which the rights and inter ests of the South are compromised away, for the sake of preserving party ascendaney, and a equivalents for the honors and emoluments en joyed by Southern politicians. I perceive ic reason to anticipate a cessation of this process, so long as the Southern people look to party management at Washington for safety. To the great majority of that class of men, whom a moderate degree of intellectual power, nnited to fluency of speech and popular address, qualifies to take the lead in the contests of popular par ties, the objedts of ambition, though they may be intensely sought, are not of high order. Not to do something worthy of remembrance, but to stand well with party, and to attain the prefer ments bestowed by it, is the aim of such men. Send them to Wastitigton, where in place of be ing suitors for popular tfvor, they find themselves courted for the power of dispensing otlice and profitable jobs of all kinds which they possess; and where their social position, as members of the governing body, is such as to flatter and please theN, especially those to whom such so cial circumstances are new. Give them a sala ry from the Government, sufficient for their wants and their amusements, and it will not be surprisina, even if many State Rights men, who went to the Capital as veritable Catos, yield to the allurements around them, grow reconciled to their position, and come home much tamed down, and far better subjects of the Government than they went away. The party which is commended to us as the kind protector of the South, through whose de voted friendship all our rilis are to be thank fully enjoyed, is the Democratic party. The price for which this protection is to be afforded, is our amalgamation with that party. The iiane is a bad one. The party is the degenerate sue cessor of the old Republican party. Mr. CA i. iiouv, for reasons which to his clear andi power ful intellect were suilicient.. studiously avoided calling himself a Democrat, evenl when acting for long periods in alliance with the notlern D)mnocratic party. He acknowledged himself a member ol the old Republican party, but never consented to nmerge State Rights in Denmocravy. It would ie betlter for State Rights men to fol low more cartfidly his exariple in this particular, and to eschew the iame which was so distasteful to him. To commend the name of Democracy to us, the appellation " National " is added. The ad dition is still worse. The " odor of Nationality" ought to be an aboinination to every State Rights mai. "National" and "State Rights" are terms of necessity contradictory and incompati ble. If the GeWernment is "National," the States cannot be Sovereign,, except according to that fraudulent gibberish suited to what is called in the dialect of politicians, a " Platform." Mr. CAnorN carefully avoided applying the terms "Nation" and "National," to the United States. He uniformly said, "Confederacy " and "Fed. eral." It would be safer for State Rights men to adhere to his example. When, in the decay of the old Republican party, a popular name was wanted to cover the advances of con:,lidation, "National Republican " was the term selected. If there is any reverence left for the State Rights lessons of Mr. CALHoUN, "National Democracy" ought to be execrable in South Carolina. But of late, the policy of abanding our State Rights abstractions atnd solitary position, to amalgamate with the Democratic party, and set our hopes on everything coming right at laist in the existing union, is dignifiody favorers with the name of " Conservative." " Conservative," is a good word, and the innovators should not he allowed to usurp it. The true Conservatives in South Carolina are those who desire to preserve ur State InstiLutions and political usages as hey have been ; to re-establish, if possible, the rightful sovereignty of the State, not in the " phitformi " sense, but as our safeguard in reali t against the preponderant power of perfidious 'onfederates ; and to avoid being drawn into the ownward progress of Democracy through mob-. government to anarchy, which has already pro. eeded so far in the Nrthern States, and which by this time would have approached nearer to he final goal of military despotism, but for the reat Western outlet, checking temporarily over opulation. The true Conservatives in South arolina abhor the Union, because they see in its continuance a long prospect of further hanges from bad to worse. The sentiments which I now avow, are tho-se which prevailed ini both the Secession and the Cooperation party Ia the contest which termina. ed in 185'2. The people of South Carolina in onvention assembled, in April 1852, solemnly elared, " That the frequent violations of the Consti ution of the United States by the Federal Gov rnment, and its encroachments upon the re erved rights of the Sovereign States of this ~nion, especially in relation to slavery, amply ustify this State, so far as any duty or obligation o her Confederates is involved, in dissolving at nce all political connectiou with her co-States ; and that she forbears the exercise of this mani fest right of self-government~rom considerations f expediency only." This Declaration was adopted in the Conven tion by a majority of seven-eighths ; and of the small minority who voted against it, a large pro. portion were Secessionists, who could not ritona ch the adoption of what they accounted so fee ble a measure, as the Resolution, and thme ordi nance declaratory of the right of Secession. The greatest and most venerable of the States men who opposed and preveiited Secessiomn, pro nounced the Government to which we are im sub ection " a Vulgar Tyranny." I know not what has siiee occurred at Wash ingto~n1 to peo.ne jl us ith this "' Vulgar T~y ranny~- leyo.94 goimo new p.apty tricks amn pompromises, such as we hadl beeni tong before accustomed to. But causes have bieen ut work amtongst oupschyes, powerful enoumgh~ to prodnwee change1 hath in ihinkinig mon aiid in thamt class of arabitious puliticians to whom Ii referred ho fore. It was natural to ex pect gradual acquies onco among the mass of men, in an order of things apparently established and too strong to be resisted. Amid to tbe ambiiious politicians, abstention from the prizes of thme political game, and resistance to the allurements of Washington life, were likely to prove a greater sacrifice than submission to the " Vulgar Tyranny." It is true that on a refined calculation, an independent po sition of the State Rights p arty of South Caro lina miight command from thier allies, the Dem orats, a larger share of honors andI promotions, an would lie accorded to ,a small and entirely subservient section of the great Democracy. But then, while the entire amount of favors be stowed might be greater in such aii indepenident position, each aspirant would imagine t4at his own individual chance of beinfselected fr . i vrd yuId'lie'hdaFsd l i riiiinsoli' 4s greale as possible to the t'uliing power. Ad sam the tendency was a natural one, to be come reconciled to the Union anid the Democrat i party and to desire to throw olf "oxtrewe" Sa Rm unotions;- that is- the Faith 'which is in earnest. And it . ril to expect, thatI Fat first timidly and i th ifications, but by de grees more and -morebo I and broadly, Regard and Love for the U id be-professed, un til in fulness of tic" ion chorus may again be raised; as strong, tljit which first assiled the Nullifiers at the 66noencement of the long dontest against Federal: ations ; and as that which is still raised 04 Re occasions in most of she Southern States. against this danger that seven years ago- tinguished Statesman, who held himself aloWft&m the contest between the Secession and Co-oration parties, sought to guard, when hel p1ked in the hands of a friend, his plan foilutiting on common resis. tance ground, to be preganted, if it should prove acceptable to the 'tw 'ties, in the meeting of Delegates from t thern Rights Associa tions, held at Cha in May f851. That plan proposed to kee State in an attitude of readiness for resis tthe first favorable op portr'ity; and it mo important provisions were directed towaidsh drawing our citizens from the means of tion, seduction, and a] lurement, wielded by General Government. After the defeat of the:6e'ession party, it was my hope that. the sin 'resistance men of the Co-operation party, wou4l bring forward and sup port in the Conventi f the people, the wise and far-sighted plan ot e Statesman referred to. It was not doite; we now see the ope ration of those pernii' Union and Submission influences against wh that plan was directed by its sagacious authrr" I do not see in the pihent head of the Deno eratic party anything-te crease my confidence in the body which he lei&. I can never forget that Mr. BucnAxAx, byris casting vote in the United States Senate, passed the black Tariff of 1842; being one of theiwo or three. Northern Democrats who did tlw act' of perfidy-just eiiough, without requiring -any more to comn:'4 the offence against the South than the number absolutely necessary. InMr.I BuiA\Ax's whole course on the Kamisas question, I see nothing but the duplicity suited to his function as manager of the machinery by which a sectional confliet iigit be so dealtl with,.4 to avoid a disruption of the Democratic )rty ,' The object could on ly be accomplished by giving to the North the substantial aidvanltI ge, Ind enjolinlg the South with delusive appearance5 of victory. Accord ingly, the President allowed Mr. WAM.:n1 and Mr'SrA '-r to do tile necessary work in Kan saa, to his affeted dislheisure, while by his pa rile uf impartial perflormance of Constittional duty, he s-iucceeded in the Southern purt or his game. I have no doubt.that if party necessities had required the substantial advantage to b given to the South, and the delusion practised upon the North, the President would have played the game with equal deteriination and skill. In the equi-ocal instructions sent to the Naval 0H cers on the Coast of Central America against Gen. WA.KEa's expeditioh, I see the perfection of Governmental duplicity. The instructions equally warranted the officers in doing evjary thing or nothing; and left the Administraion equally at liberty to avo'i or condemn, accord ing to the subtlest caleul'ons 'e.policy, what ever they mighL do I e l e' to accept tidri a bility; censure the oficet, but avoid bringing him to trial, and make no reparation of the wrong. There is another matter, in which, perhaps,- t from not making due allowance for the downright blunders which are sometimes committed by Cab inets from mere oversight, I may suspect a sub- C tle policy which was not really sohemed, But v the invitation given by the Secretary of State to I the British Government, to blockade the Coast of t Cuba, if they wished effectually to suppress the t slave-trade, was felicitously adopted, if it was not @ designed to bring about an iterference with t American commerce, without which the blek ade would he nugatory, and the occurrence of which wotild arouse a stora of indignation in the United States, and give the Administration t a chance. by *a great display of warlike spirit, to retrieve its popiirity, and effect a useful diver sion from the Krnsas difficulty; while a long headed Statesman might well have foreseen, thati England, with her embarrassments ia Europe I, and Asia, could not afford to go to war with thet United States ; and would not find in the terra~s I of'the invitation to blockade Cuba, sufficient evi dence to sustain a direct chatrge of perfidly against the United States Government. As for those persons in the South, who expecta to repose under the protection of the Supremet Court, their reliance appears to mue as well- a fone sthat of a traveller on a Mexican a highwa, whobeing beset by bawpditti, shoul-l de pend upon saving his purse by the exhibition of a the ten commandm~ents. To ine, the movement in South Carolina for c an amnalgamation with the Democratia party,u seemas portentous of all evil. If Southern unani-v imity is only to be attained in that way, it will be unanimit in submission and voluntary abuse- s ment. Sueh "moral victories" as have beenti hitherto gained, will make that condition no bet ter. If, in consequeuce of a " moral victory,"t public sentitment had int reality so far ebanged in the Northern States, as to totlerate slavery for the ability which it gives to the South to paye tribute, consolidation with Northern D~emocracy, under a National Government, would still be ut terly muinous. Party consolidation is the grand engine for converting the Confederacy into a coni-a sohdated Nation. Against consolidation, andt " National " Parties, the State Righte Party has been contending for long years. In that long struggle, our great and pure leader wore out his life. The monument to his memory has not ypt, been built. Wheni the znarble vises'ta attest our veneration, shall its legefnd be false ? Shall all h'is words be effaced from our hearts, and shall I we suffer an inferior strain of men to undo thea work of his life? Honor, consistency, self-re spect, and whatever of pride in South' Caroina is lbift to us; forbid it. - G~entlemten, I beg leave to olier the old Sta* Rights senatimenit which the conduct of your high-minded Representativehaasuggested to .nme. " Do your duty,'and lev the conseqjuencs to God.'" I am, Gentlemen, very respectfully, Your obd't. serv't. MAXCY GREGG. L..oudoi Bunler and J, W. Hill, Esq'rs., Comn 'mittoe of Arrangements, Edgetield, S. C. CoLUMEa, August 28th, 1858. Genutlemeni: I have jhe honor to acknowledge your kind invitation to be present at a dinner to be given to your immediate Representative I in Congress, tbe Hon. M. L. BoriNAE, at Edgc field C. HI., on Tifursday the 2nd of next month, and at the same time to express my mortifica tion on account of my inability to accept it. An extra Court of Equity sits hecre on Monday the 6th prowv. on which my professional engage ments command mc to attend. Many causes conspire to make my disappointment hard to bear. I was boirn on the banks of the little. i stream tbat washes the Southern base of your! hill, spint maajy h6ogra af ea-ly studfiti the gi-ote og your Agadey, and bie aslies pf dear lindred repose wittoin your yillage boundapes;' and' I cannot describe tihe pleasure it would afford me to joini you in extending a cordial a' well done" to your honored guest andlRep resentative whose first Session was signalized bya vote which will -cover him with glory as ted with him, shall survive. It is probable too, were I to be with you. that your too kind con sideration for me, would induce you to call for an expression of my own views concerning pub lic menand affairs, and although my tastes and interest alike lead me away from politics at this time (I am hopeless in regard to Southern politicians,) I must acknowledge it wLuld be grateful to my feelings to have it in mny power, on the spot of my birth, once more to deliver a solemn warning to the people of our State con cerning the delusions as to their fdture policy and destiny which leading public men are weav ing into their hearts. But I must content my self with the expression of my sentiments in the form of a letter. I said that !eading public men, given over to trong delusion themselves, are endeavoring to delude the people. I am sineere in this convic tion. It is their intention to bind the State to the National Democratic car, and merging her in the great overshadowing, devouring organi ration of the National Democratic party, to destroy forever her political identity. It is their design to obliterate her past history and ncient political land-marke, and from henceforth to give her no power, no honor. no glory, no vitality beyond that which she may derive from her affiliation with that party. They intend to ubjugate her unqualifiedly to the dominion of that party to whose rule no voice of opposition shalle heard but at the risk of political dis ranchisement and death. These men intend that that party shall sway a sceptre of univer ml empire, powerful to pull down and set up nei and States, sections and institutions. It is to overturn "principalities and powers," to break down all other organizations, to sway Lhe public mind, publie press, aid public.coun ,ils, to thunder forth edicts that are to be the higher law"--and, moving under the mighty mnergy of a common desire and ain for Federal ytlices and honors-finally to deliver over the. ountry to public ravagers and spoilers. It is o "know no North, no South, no East, no West." Its avowed mision m. to natoutnakt:e Lhe Governinent, the States, th. people anI he Constitution; to modify and reform the ;reat principles of State Rights and State Sov wreignty into fashion to suit ambitions leaders, n], careering onward in the path of the Pro lamnation and Force Bill, and surpassing the tcievvment.s of that memorable tine, to lead apitive South Carolina and the whole country, mil place them in confiling smihtision at. the tot of the Presidenoial thrn1. S':ch are to ,4! ti.e reultis of its protracted domination. xill the constituents of the unlamnted BoIni' ,end themselves to such abhorred consumia ions? I do not believe they will. The ghosts ,x the-great dead whose living voices inthuned ,hem to fiery madness against the accursed yrany of that party in the past, will rise up to -estrain them from such foul apostacy. *But it appears to me that the power of that >arty has reached its culminating point and hat it must fall off rapidly-at least, froin its Aresent organization. It is true it was but re ently successful in a Presidential election, but SIave bad; ,ion to say before, in my ipnion, Mr.I ic iannai ai trmAmp a was just onlY ot a defeat, and I suppose. that it is now uni erally admitted that he was the only man ho could have carried his party victoriously brough the contest of 1856. When it is ro nembered t.o that his rival for Presidential onors was a miserable scrawn, remarkable hiefly for the facility with which he appropri tod other men's labors Undl for his power oC ihysical enunance, wholly destitute of any of he proper elements of a statesman, what hn he Democratic party to hope for when a really ;reat man, possesing every necessary inteliec unl qualification, shrewd, calnm, cautious and nibitious, is presented to the coutry by a arty compactly knit together, resolved on the riuimph of a single great idea which has kindlh-d he tires of fanaticinm and seized uupon and ways the public mind ol three entire sections f the Union with the power of a storm? It, easy to answer the question. The contest of 860 is certain in its result. The South with' ter enfeebled Northern allies will then be bea en and will remain beaten forever thereafter. t is plain that such is the conclusion of sonme f the leaders of the Democracy in the free' ates who look upon their party at home as n the verge of ruin. Mr. Douglass, the idol f some of our National devotees, and whom hey recently commendecd to our confidence and fections as a"wearing the scar~s rf hmile," is an dmitted apostate. What a pregnanmmt comumen ary upon the sagacity of distingui.,hed Nation-I s in South Car.glina, who two years ago pro laimeod their preference for the " little giant" ver Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency, and rged upon us the policy of going into the con ention at Cincinnati. WVhy, do the favorers of: hat policy suppose that the people are blind or tup~id ? Do they imagine that Washington is le only point of political prospect and obser ation? If they do, they err, and what ever ey miay say concerning the movement oif lenator Douglas, the interpretation which comn on sense at home gives to it ins that he is es aping from a falling edifice, determined not to: e crushied in its ruins. Mr. Orr has styled the efection of his scared warrior of tihe North rest as an "aberration" to be repented of nd forgiven, but that gentleman well knows hat it crashed like a thunder-bolt through his sational party, dashing it into fragmenits, en - osing hiim to consumingl vidienle5 and over-i rhening %is apheme of amalgamatiog. " But i; 14, purpose to ret urn to the Democratic fold!" pity that public man, the exigency of whose liical. relations or the selfishness of whose litical ambition, conipells him to becomue the pologist of the traitor and renegade. Ahead of the defoction of Mr. Douglas, as minous of the fate of the National Democracy1 ,t the North, I point to the fnet that her great ntellects and men of genius are no longer sent o ashington, but men of low tastes, fanatics nd brawlers, a horrid crew. Looking at the haracter of free soil abolition representatives, here can be no doubt but that the noisy demna ogue and brawler, aided by the ignorant fa matic (more signally in some localities than in tiers) have succeeded in driving patritism, onesty anld intellect from the public service, d in their place have elevated a selfish .and ime-serving mediocrity. It cannot be long! herefore before the organized political power of he country will have passed into the hands of mnen destitute alike of the ability and inclina ion to eon' Met public affauirs upon great princi ,les of justice add thme constitution. " Comning vents cast their shadows before," and the bale il shadows of Free Soil A bolition ascendency ire now being projected into the South. Look t Virginia and mark the signs there. Is it nul ppareunt that her politicians are ulready trimt ning their sails to the Frmee Sa breeAe, and are >reparing to. gQ intu ppy under t'tee Soil pilo.. .age The indications are unistakable that aralsis is creepuing up>on the limbs of tlre' reat'lf)etyocracy im the free Soil regias which ire to be yanquished (or all imue by Black Repub ucanisin in thae conltest of 1860. When there 'or we see Southern mnei in Congress exhaust ig their powers in Mormon speech-making and n deflvering stale platitudes about " Free Ex hanges," rather than stinmulating and organi zing their section in view of an event~ just .i.,ea ofus which is tn shake the whole fabric of American civilization and liberty to its cen tre, in order to restrain our rage, we are com pelled to call their treachery simplicity, and laugh at it as we would at the idle fancy of a man who persists in building his ox stall while his dwelling is on fire. As they have done be fore, such men will betray the South in the hour of her most immanent peril; and, drag ging her down beneath the feet of a great con solidated Government, controlled by a great National party, will become the charioteers of that government to drive the car of its power over their prostrate section; and, confounding the Constitution and liberty with the Union and party, will hurl their bolts of destruction at all who may presume to bewail its departed glory. According then, to my reading of the signs of the timee, the defeat of the National Demo cracy in 1860 is absolutely certain. Before this State therefore rushes into its embraces it is wise to consider what will be the effect of that development upon the Democratic party in the Free States? Is it not evident that for all practical political purposes the effect will be to kill that party stone dead? That result must utterly disorganize and break it to pieces. There would no longer be any leaders to point its course or preserve its orgaization. Subse quent to a defeat, it would be out of the ordi nary course of things to suppose that the Demo crats of the Free States would consent to re main in a minority at home to accommodate their friends abroad, especially when they agreed .with their enemies and differed from their friends on a most grave question involving sentnment and conscience. Such a conclusion is repugnant to all reason and experience, to hold which is fully blind as midnight; and al though in a succeeding Presidential contest, in view of the spoils an effort might be made to reconstruct the fidlen fortunes of the Democra cy, that effort could not be made on any grat question, principle or platform relating to the rights of the South, for if it should be, a second defeat more disastrous if possible than the first, would follow. Satisfied with what they had done and suffered for the South, on the first disaster in a Preszidential contest, the North ern Democracy, carrying with it the entire liar ty everywhere, would abandon forever all at tempts to uphold the rights of the slave sectimn, and, ever fruitful in inventions to obtain am retain power, before we were aware of if, would ouitstrip lie Mhick Republicans themseives in' riginiatingschemes to limit and confine the in stitItion of slavery. And all this, let it be re--i mieibered, would bie done in a manner so hand some as niot to give offence to their Slavq-hold ing friends. To fail in this would be to ac knowledge that they were yolitical bunglers, diestitite of the arts necessary to achieve an essential point of policy. To my nind, one of the most alarming fea tures in the condition of our affair-s, is that the National party in the Slave States, both in and out of Congress, has a perfect knowledge of the game that is in progress, and yet will not cry out against it, but by silence and inactivity sanctions.it. Scene after scene in the drama of s iLbiiiOn is'unfalded aid as'soofras uifol ed is expainedby Southern men. The unity of party, fealtylo party, the triumph and con sequent spoils of party are the ruling considera tions potential in all sections, and to ppularize their position they claim to be par excellence the Union-lovin-, Union-saving party. Here is laid the foundation of National Democratic rganization at the South. There motto is. "the V ion must be preserced." Tn my early days T saw an ensign flying with that inscrip tion while the stormy breath of the National Democracy kept it waving and the shouts of the standard bearers were as the voice of many waters. I have not forgtten,-it is impossible - that I should forget the war of extermination i wvaged by the National I)emocratic party of: 1832 against the great and glorious principles of States Rights and States Sovereignty, and it s equally impossible that I should forget how South Carolina won honor as undying as truth n their defence. ' But it is claimed that the National party of his day, purged of its errors, are our friends ad admit that we are right on the prese3.t greati qestions. But is it not true that the party ofc 32 admitted that the South was right then and he North wrong, but at the same time decided tat the South must go down beneath the ti-end Ii f an army with banners rnther thant that the Union should be disrupte-d ? Will it, the Na- i ional Democratic party, not do the same again ? The leaders and the rank :md file of that party,. re proitectioniists and friends of internal imt rovements, practically, I care not what theyt ay be in platforms and resolutions. Suppose hein that they should actually pass a protective ariff like that of '28 or '42, what lo.ibility ould there be for the escape of the South I rom its intolerable oppressions arid exactions ? None, none, absolutely none. Could the South rn wing resort to nullitication ? No, that ~vould be a measure of disunion against which he wtiolc party is pledged ; besides, the South ould be told that thme secure enjoymient of her lave property depended upon the integrity of! he National Democratic party, and to it there ere she must remain faithful., Looking then to the certainty of the triumph f Black Rlopublicanism in 18610, and the con- i equent disintegration of the National Democ- ;1 ay, as well'as to the incongruous elements of.: hich that party is composed,' I repeat that . he idlea of preserving its organization on a basis 4 avorable to the security of the South is abso utely preposterous. In what then does the I profound anxiety manifested by certain politi cians in Congress for an unconditional amalga- ;:1 ination of the State Rights party of South Caro- j lina with the granil National organization origi- i ate ? Ever since 1837, the State has unilormly i oted with the Democratic party, but she has, one this without surrendering herself to its i anagement or domination. She proudly' stood i pon her ancient principles and voted for the Democratic nominees because she chose to do'j so and not because she was forced in to thei easure uder the obligations of party alliance.I ~uring all the while no commonwealth of an cient or modern limes occupied a more honora- I ble or infduential piosition. Her public men of1 till that periodl were the glory of the C~onfedle racy ; and her people, animated with State prie and profoundly versed in the true princi pes of their government, though weak in polit al elements, wielded a moral power in its ad ministration that absolutely amaaed corrupt party leaders at Washingtou. Again I ask why do certain p->liticianls insist on pulling down the1 State from her proud position of independence where shte remains mnistress of her own move ments ?~ Is she terrible in her virtue and there fare must be debauched ? Do they distrust the ldelty of her people to their own groat princi-' pIs so long cherished lby them? Or do they' fear that the peoplec, holding steadfastly to thise' prinines, way obstruct their path to Natiojial lice and power ? May we nlot ask those eager polticians what better service she could render the government in its efforts to uphold the Con stitution clad in the ar-mor of a national party ttan in her own ? When her identity had been lost, could she do miore in the cause of the Constitution and for herself than when she stood out distincely inhron political dividality 7 The cause of this struggle to whelm the Ste in the slough of National Democracy in to se. cure her co-operation in keeping the South in the Union under all circumstances and in all contingences. The effort is to drive South Carolina from her safe isolation in order to de prive her of the right to think and act for Tier self, and ths to secure her aiAgn Nationali ing the government and in ruling it absolutely by the law of party instead of the law of the Con stitution., Here lies the danger to which the South will be eminently exposed when SoutV Carolina (one of the principal bulwarks of its % safety) shall have been won to the embgces-of the National Democracy. Thes nuptials cele brated, the destiny of this State at least willbe unalterably fixed. Thenceforth she will have no voice of her own. The Democracy of the Free SoPi anti-slavery region, ever dominant in Convengon, through it will command her alle giance and claim the right to point her conrse on all questions of discussion and action in Con gress and out of Congress, and she must be ubinissive, though that question should be the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the demolition and reconstruction of the Federal Judiciary the refusal to admit a slave State, a protective tariff or the dection of a Black Republican President. Should these measures be foreed upon the South, and South Carolina amalgamate, f; is a fore-gone conclusion that we must submit and fight their authors in the Union. Who -dreams that the Democrats of the free States will ever join the South in resisting Black Republicanism in aiy other way than the antagonistic arrayof par ties at the ballot box? Is any one so fatally blind as to suppose that free %l abolitioni De mocracy will ever join the Sonth in revolution? No. There is not power sufficent on eat th to ]rive them to such co-operation. They will wage a warfare of voting against Black Repub licanism to secure the spoils. They will do no more; and they will call upon theirallies of the South to uphold them, prescribing the terms of the coalition. Our public presses, public men tmd people with all our resources will be mvoked' to the rescue of the National Democracy-for what? To give it office and spoils. Nor could the invocation lie resisted. The South would 3e told that the North had stood by her shoulder to shoulder in the day of their m'utual anil vic toriou power, and that to desert the North in ier adversity, brought on by her efforts to serve mn save the South, would be recreancy and lihonor. Th'e South would therefore be corm ielled to remain in tl:o Union, to niako war in :onjunction with the Democratic North, against Black Republican domination, all the. victey.. 'if iideed victory should be won) would enure wholly to the betiefit of the North, as a section, Lnd to a few brawling advocates of Nationalism LttheSoutlh. Every movementof theleaderspdnt n this direction and they are resolved upon it. L'he great workshop at Washington constructs, 611 its engines with this view. The wholepow r of the Federal government will be wielded or this end. Every dispensation of its it6u ge looks to this consutumation. To eff ect the uiquiteus measure of thorough a gnatn,. nginery as artful as powerful hasen pig in4 iperation.in this State, c'using.51:de ti& after? lefection to stain her political escicheion. .Her oublic men, forgetful of ler honor anid.iifaitih ul to her principles, are perpetutally givingway efore its conquering pressure. The recent liou f the second Congressional Distric, a whiile ince the vehement denouncer of National Do nocracy, who refused to go into itt caucus at Vashington to votejor the nomination of its weaty leader in South Carolina for Speaker, mnder alternate lashing and petting has tamed town into its disgusting apologi-t, declaring that of its fidelity he should entertain nb doubt in dvance." Oh shane! ahamo! From his con tituents, heretofore unterrified and uncorrupted, he moveless bulwark of "State Rights and itate Remedies," will not some chosen curse, ome hidden thunder, red with uncommon wrath, ill upon him ? To being about this -darling urpose of absorption some of the very best & terial South Carolina ever possessed has been: uried amongst Custom House ledgers at home r in Ministerial furs abroad. One of fier *elegation in Congress, caressed for his working bility and convenient facility, as a. reward for is " catholic patriotism," wears the soiled rohes f Speaker of the House of Representatives. La another flattering uniction, the Spoilers'Con. ention to notuinate candidates for President nd Vice-President for 18630, is to meet in your sommercial Metropolis, and in sight of Fort loultrie, whose guns were pointed against its itizvns by the National party of 1832, and of he grave of your Calhoun whom that :party enaced with the gibbet at the samne priod, are he fiinai bolts of that coinnection to bedriven thich is to make us the vassal-subjects alike of overanent amnd party. But 1 fear I have wearied you with my pro racted protest andt warning. Pardon my tree ass to an all-pervading desire to aid in saving he State from j~ihe loss of pier honor and long herished principles, and to keep her out of the eilled hands of National politicians, who, I oleminly believe, are bent on reaching place and ewer over the ruins of both. Allow meo to assure you that I confide in$+}e iolitical integrity and sagacity of your &ist~i uished Representative whom you propose to onor. I would help him if I could in his glo ious purpose of upholdiing t~he rights of the outh and the honor of the State at Washing on. But I am powerlese. It is his duty how. ver (and he will perfurm it although he may e almost alone) to preserve as much of our onor, liberties and Constitutional franchises as eo can. Let him husband all that exalted pub ic virtue and sentiment, (the proper product of tis State) which he ca:-ried with him to Wash ngton (a very charnel-house of everything good nd putre and true in politics) the frults of which hall crown him with honorable fame and bless he land of his birth anid hopes. Let him be usured that the frowns and flatteries of.the fuationmal gorerniment and its National party will iot be wanting, first to auwe and then corrupt aim, let huim feel that to repose under the uxurious shadow of that government and that iarty, will poison him politically as surely as ho lies naturally who sleeps under the shade and Iroppings of the Upas. Kansas will go to N~ashingtoir during the next session or the ession thereaf ter with aii anti-slavery constitu ion, demanding admission, tihe English Bill not vithstapding. She will be admitted, and with ho aid of National democrats. Let him war Lgainmst the measure pith unflinching fortitude; Gentlemen, I pray that my gloomy anticipa .ions oneerning the fate of our State 'and see ion may never be readixed; but in alliance with tad ini subserviance to the National-Democratic Linion-governmment party I see no ground for lope that South Carolina can be anything more 'or the fnture than a province of a colossal con olidatcd empire-" an insignificant bit ina vast nosaic of despotism." Such being my convic tions, I have locked up thme storehouse of our sommnon glorious recollections, " for every kind ling word drawn from the .past would fu'll with the burning toneht of satire upon the present." I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your obedient Fervant, JAMES D. TRADE WELL. To Messrs. S. S. Tompkiiis, KEamet ilbels, J. B. Griffin, Loudon Butler, J. W. Rill,~ae