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O2 melcatic 30uP, t j S~j rnV S-rn4tern ai1oth. Jdxi$l ae, luCt ttmtdii nvmc~cw ~ti~. "We will cling to the Pilularn of. the Temple of our'Libe rties, ad it it in t fail, we ilRci1 u~~Pttm fii. SIMKINS, DWRJSOE &co, Provm~e~rl. EO FILs. , JANUARY W~ It5.vL XI.-O1 SPEECH OF MR SPRATT, OF .CHARLESTON, -I the House of 1?resentatices, at the last &s. iOon of the .qulature, in support of is Reso)eationa . ie Re-openinef the Slave lhzde. j Mi. SP;AKVan advance of discussion 'on the resolutiois-'Mve-had thehoilorto present, if they be discussed, I would ask the indulgence of the House wliildX state a little more at length their aim and " ' rt. 'It will be seen at they-do not propose a furthe- importatiok of foreign slaves. Upon the propriety of thatnessure there well may be a diversity of opini 'md as it is a measure which wiO only come i question when the States of the South shall in a condition to act for themselves upon hesubject. Tt.is enough for the present to der of the importance of emancipating slav from the control of Con gress, while ve I ye that question of ulterior policy to the time hen it will come in proper order for investiga n. It would be but fair to say, however, that even in reference to that ulterior policy I have little question; and that. if-iestrjctfons y the General Government should be remo I would certainly oppose thiimposition by e State. I have long been convinced that . th reign slave trade, and that alone, will-solve th .problem of progress.of the South; an'd it will t be out of place, perhaps, even on.the specitqestion now before us, to brieflystate the ds of that conviction. In the first placv, [ ceive that it is the only road to politicaf po , and that without politi-. cal power there is o security for social atid political rights. .. By reference to tie census returns of 1808, it will be seen that tli slave and hireling States were equal in numler and nearly equal in popu lation. Since thattme no slaves have come to the South, but sinie that time live millions foreigners have comiito the North ; and while, therefore,.the South at present has but fifteen 'States and ten millions people, the North has ieventeen States an4 sixteen millions people, ind an increase of atleast three hundred thou -nd per annum frni abroad. In view of these fes it iould seeigertuin that the South has come to be at the iercy of the North in Legis lation, 21\ that t .restrictions have been the At, as eqalityi lost to the South by the s - on of the 'e trade, so would it seem t tithe slave trade would of necegsi ty restore it. 2hat trade re-%pened, slaves would come, j-fn :,the sea-board, at least to the Western fron and for alkho come, the're would be a .lire reaseof riresentatiun in the National s . Thererould also be broader lase th ing race ?estand on; three millions five h ied thousa~slaves support six millions masters 'v. Still more -would give a broader bisis for '11 more, and every slave that coies, ore, ightbe said to'bring his master with and t 'us to adifinore than twice his politi - po itical power there is a ne ity or Stat' well as men, and slaves would quite as sureljive them to us. Ten thousand masters have Ailed to take Kansas, but so would not have hiled ten thousand slaves. Ten thousand of the .dest Africans that ever set their feet upon shores, imported, if need be, in lUtmn ships d under Boston slave drivers would have - wep he Freesoil party from that land. There is not " Abolitionist there who would not have pure a slave at a price approaching the costs importation; and so purchasing a slare, there 'not an Abolitionist there who would not e become as strong a propagandist of slave as ever lived. As they would have take ansas, so if imported freely, would they take cry Territory offired to the West. A nd thus, giving States and population to the Son it is reasonably certain that it is within the er of those rude. untutored savages to deci this'great political question, to restore the th to power, and, perhaps, to save this Unio As hey give a road to power for thme South, so, a , I have thought, they give the only road. To 'crease of' power there must be popula tion, d of such a population as is necessary to ex -the institutions of the South, there is no othe urco than Africa. Europeans w~ill not S co 'They would come to enterprises in con niecti with slave labor, if these were possjble, but *y will not come to competition with our slav and while, therefore, they come in mil lions the North, they will not come to us. -1B if they should, it is to be feared they woul not come to strengthen us, or to extend slav ,but to- exclude the slave. If slaves we abundant, there would be officers of direc tion. which the foreigner could come-if they twere cheap enough to be employed in owm ition with European operatives in the arts, here would be opportunities of enterprise -to 'h the foreigner could come, but not so abu 't and so cheap, the hireling -only comes to tapetition with thern, and to their exclu sion erefore, and thus it is that from Mary Ian 'and Delaware, and from the Northeirn c ou es of Virginia, and from Baltimore, Rlich i'nJ' Gharleston, Mobile, 19ewv Oirleans and. St. $hl laves have lU&en driven from 'almost all1 the unploymaenta to \vhich Uliey were ever ac cus med and -have been sent in thousahds to the ~mal districts of the further South' Through such~a puopulation there is no road to powerm fohr the South... Wit hout slaves enough for cnmbina tion~ibey would Albolit ioniz~e the States they ton strengthen, and would br'dk the very cnof our institution. But gr'ant the con ditiim of abundant sjaves at prices to be used in trad and wye could diaw an :armny of defenders from eyerfi Stato in Euntpe.' .4a the for'eign slaN trade would give pol'iti e4al wer to thme Xouth, so, also. would it g'ive pr 4.ity' and progress. Th'eire is one-thing at thu . uth, thme iiportance of *hich I think Is not sniliciently estimated, and that, is thet ran 'foportitesy. Whena slaves are olffered in our iusrkets, the~y are conipetedl for by planters froma theSouth and. West. To~ us they ar'e worth wvhN the limeof' business open to thern he.re will justify ; to planters from the Southa andi Wa, they are worth the price that is jus~lil by lhight bales of' cotton per annum, at lilty dol lars per bale. A t such pr'ices they can hardly beemployed onjlighterl 'in tud older Statesi a jyich 'pfi'~ * .nierr be'em edy~ b. 1 opdl~ wafi pauper' 'orelse rv wnii - g he higher' prides of habmy 'raise thie prflce~ i! laibisions apohi artisans and opera.tives. ThatL stdh iure incr'eases the charges upon lme chamical; haoyments ; them thus comes to be no marin 1ween the costs'of labor and the y diue ofi oduct 4-and no opportunity, there fore, in- luinary lines of business'? Without such op unity, there is no adqntem limpuliaig: Ivitimout adlvancemnentsin popution, there iS ni trof it in lhues olrailroads and steamn boats; mne, ' -a-e in the value ofi.lands and o'thE' pI-O Iknt piroperty ; and so it is, there ire; that huol the cultivation of the soil and -the sale ai r~uasportationi of its products to a foreigtuna t, it is hard to say what. Ilusies there-fi in. -ci enter-prise and capital, can be iniee . thse certainty of succets; and while we with enterprise, while *e pour - imilhoa~s inm ndertakings that never pay, and --at thie enll tblic spii-it are ready 10. pouur many niill sinore, we do not stagnat., as is coinjlacently Lssert!ed by holyday economist forihe reason that we have not enterprise, o failfor the reason that we are simpletons ant sI '. u-ds; but we stagnate for the want of oli po nity, and we fail for the reason, that wi ha lioped against hope, and have staked on :for es upon the achievement of success, wher !su' was never possible. ' is state of facts would be altered by th fo slave trade. The slaves that come coult be rchased at the costs of importation. A an prices, they conld find employment on Qui lig r Foils; the means of living would becomt mo abundant and more cheap. With cheal slat on a cheap subsistence, our enterprisin! t men could compete with tradesmen ii othir sections of the world. Instead of impor. tioi aticles and implements for use, they couk su y themselves; they could turn the tide oi tr back upon the older Sta'tes. A largei po lation would result; a larger amount o0 pr ucts and fabrics would solicit -transporta tion. Hotels, railroads and steamboats would bean to pay; wealth would flow in upon us; imprtance would come to us; and instead ol stagding, as we now stand, in provincial admira tiogof the Hoes and Vanderbilts of the North, reslendent in the prosperity that has con' upoh them, with five millions starving foreigners, we.9urselves could Ataid up still more resplen dedt-in the prosperity that will have been poir edlipon us by the teeming thoisands from the plaWs of Africa. That this is not a visionary %peculation, may be seen from the records of our sea board dis triks. When foreign slaves were introduced, th ural parishes of Charleston District werethe brihtest spots in all America. Slaves, taken irot the marts of Charleston to the lands adja cei, gave td everything they touched the spring of progress. From the labor of one year came as many more the next. They gave drainage to thalands, cultivation to the soil, and provisions in abundance to the citizens and operatives of thl'city; those, in turi, with flour and provi sigs cheap, struck boldly out upon the. field of coppetition. Leather was tanned, cloth was minufactured, shoes, hats, clothes and imple ments were nade for consuimption and for ex poit. The country prospered; swamps were relaimed; mansions rose; avenues were plan ted; pleasure grounds laid out; commerce star te4; ships sailed to every quarter of the world; parish churches, in imposing styles of -architec ture were erected, and sections were replete with progress, and more warmed by liospitality were never seen than were the. town and parish U ot Charleston District. But with the sup re&,ion of the slave trade, their splendors and their glurie left them; progress departed for the North ; swamps returned ; mansions becaie tenantless and rootless; values fell; lands. that told for fifty dollars per acre,,sold for less than [ize dollars; trade was abandoned. Of twenty toW-3ards, not one remains; of shoes, hats and s1l0temttents of industry once put upon the trAde >f foreign towns, now are put upon our own; tnd Charleston, which was once upon the line S'-famu rtowwwotn~ as le; . w 1 e once there r c. is now the unconsidered otiet of a tributary p vince. Such was t he experieice of Charles l )i.-trict-such, to a gireater- or a less extent, I - been t lie history of every other section of o - Southern seabiard, and this, with no other p sof, would seem to be counclusive (.f the qtie.; t n whether that trade would ever again giyc i tgress to the Sauth. So, also, is there reason to believe it would Ve integrity to tie social constiituhioin of the 1auh. The:c ae noiw three inillion five him red thousand slaves to six millions ter, ,d tius, tLerefore, there are I hree millions of asters without slavcs. These. it is .:aid. will itrue to the South: and so they will be. Ii very Ie an evil, " the ulcer is at. least their *n, and they will let no others scratch it. , , also, they would not lc' it be abolished. for t ev, Ito, would share in the ruin of its aboli t n. But while there is not a white man who uld tot own a slave if lie could-and if there 1 re slates at importer's prices, there is scarce a rhite nan who could niot, if hie would--et, ii h4 cannot do so, and at present prices many cau not;' if irced to work in competition with the slavy fro~m the inability to get above him, there is no sirgle white mian who will not feel the in stinct o! repulsion--who will not use his fran chise toiwiden his sphere-who will not elbow slavos ftomn employments, rather tihan bie el bowed from employmients by slaves ; and thus it is that fliey have driven them from Northern States to the South-thus it is that they have driven them from the larger cities of the South to the Spuntry--thus it is that they feel themn selves, and will force the Legislature to acknow lodge, that there is a difference between free labor atid lave labor-and thus it is, and must be, tha nntil Eutopia be colonized, man will evertct from the centre of his own individual inte: T be clear of this, there must be tio confieof interests-no class in cornpetition with ofrslaves. There would bie no such claLss if ther~ were slaves, at ptiices low crnough foi every ine of busiiness. Such as might be im porediuldbe so cheap; atnd it is thus, there ibre, tilat the foreign slave trade, to every huiant ipprehentsion, woutld hiarimouiizbk discor dant inf'erests, and restore integrity the :nost perfect,ito the social -system of the South. -Ini view of''thead consideraions-ih view of the aLSuranuce that the slave trade would restore .politicaljswer to the South, that-it would give pirogre.~to the South, that it would restore in Legrity to the social systein of the Southi-I air free to conmfess that, for uny own part, I would be withri, as a mere ineasure of policy, to re o'peii and ldgitimiito at once, the frinslavc trade. '*oeg *But there is another consideration, apart frolh thle.. piracI ical operation of that. :itensurg which, in iny opintion, rentders it necessary th:ll the Solith ishaN~ take a decided shtand upont it. Antd it h a considlerat ion whtich, I trust, will albhr-ss itself to all who fe?el for the hontor tul importance of the Suth, whatever may .be thenii convictioiis as to I hose ultiimate result-s to whiell I have alluded. .-''his *nion i~s a dematocracy. Of' that, T lpre sijme, thr slizt t'e question. 'it is a ident cescy ini ttanne, and I suippose (liert are itone IC dquht but that it is a demiocracy in ntature. It fa t, thQ soci:il principle thau~t triintihed in liii R , irultion was siiftply this,' thiat R'1.uali'ty i~ f* 'righmt of ian ;" atol it is very r'o:fain that tli~ fz:oi, a.Wa (ie,'il Tiai be'tn att little painl tol isaffirmn it. It etered (te Constitution e (o. .present Gover-inet-it, declared the law t I.tnmajoities shalh govern--that suf fratge shall 4mniersal--that all ulliees shall lie elective, a: ethat alI re-strictionts <>n individuad libterty s I i e removed. It was at the dictate of thi: p eiple that the word slave was not admnitted to the Gouzttution-thaut, ini 17934, as fir as wi d1 xwe lirohibitedl the trntportation of -slaves f n Otto fore ign country to antiothr--thtat, i:1 1 8, we prohibited (lie introtduction of slaves t is country--that, in 1819, we sent armed sia to c.ruise against the slave Irtade-that, it i we. inade it piracy to etngage in' it-that, i821) alo we restricted slavery to the regiot tht of 30 30--that,'in 18S:3, we joined.- Eng la in a miarititacecrutsa'le against it, and ta in 850, we cleansedl (lie national capitol oif thz , itioniii ofiat execrabile t raflic. It is alst us. r thte inhlutenice of this principle that Abo ita pentitinsae cnn to Coness-_.that wi :I rejoice when European people cut the throats r of their rulers, and that gentle-hearted damies 1- and damsels, in shedding tears 'and ink upon - the crimes and horrors of the age, see no single thing so deeply deplorable as the crime and r horror of manl's dominiion over man. - But while this Union is a democracy, the South is not a democracy. It is -so in its ex ternal character, and so in sentiment perhaps, I for there aic very many of us who yetsymhpa thise in the feeling that equality is the right of man, but in its social condition the South is not a democracy. On the contrary, it is perhaps the purest form of aristocracy the world has ever seen. Elsewhere aristocracies have been forced and artificial ; here it is natural and ne-. cessary, and the cases are rare as comets, that individuals of the one class have passed into the C other. The principle that equality is the right of man, is true to an extent, and to that extent we have adopted it. It is true that men of the same race are equal, and they are not divided, therefore, by any political distinction. But it is not true that men of all races are not equal. It is not true that the negro is the equal of t he white nan. le has never been able to rear a structure of civilization in his native land ; he ha.s not been able to sustain the strueiure pre pared for him in the West Indies. Ile has not been able to stand up to the structure sustained over him at the Nort.h ; and neither in his native land, or in a foreign land, in a savage or a civi lized condition, has he ever yet heen able to illuminate one living truth with the rays of genius. Not so eqnal, he has-not been admitted to an equality. He has not been forced to a position which nature has fitted him to claim. The South has been content to act rather on fact than theory. She las assigned him to his true condition-she. has inexorably he1l him to it, and in doing so she has announced in social practice, despite the teachings of philanthropy, what I now would have her proclaim to the world, that "equality is not the right of man, but is the right of equals, only." Such being the social attitlie of the South, I would ask whether we shall not alliin it and prIoclaim it ? an1d whether it is not now tIe timaie, and this the occaSion, upon which we should demand of the General Government the recog nition of our right to be supreme upon the questions which affect it ? Shall we not affirm it ? And why shall we not affirm it ? Is it for the reason that Democracy is right? There is one sense in which'it may be right. It is right, where one section of a peo ple is elevated above another by political dis tinctions, moiely that those distinctions should be done away with. It was right that the dis tinctions between the phlbean and patrician .should have given way in .Ikuo-that thme v:; sal should have risen to the level of the la:d. in France, and it iR right, perhaps, that the Coi ifns should advance upon the hereditary Peers of England, and tell them even, as upon the passage of the reform bill, that they must pass their mreasUres or that.the king should make a House of Lords t pass themn ; and so it is right, distinguish themz, should ciito at length to tile saiue horizontal p1ine of a tienoerde\'s. It is right, at leaut in this, that it is natural :mnd ne eeSary that it shoudl le so. Bt is the Foclial condition that reumlts fromt t hat! l)emoratic plane a thing to be conmniend'ed ? Let te emnluirer loik at the feid1'l11 viJIationiiS fromn anarchy1V to despotismin in oimne. Let him look at the rivers of' blosd that i wed aWUl fliom i freei anUi gl'al "race along th.! streets of Pari-. Let him look aL the brigaz'ige that rn!es in Mexieo. Ltet Ji;m looIk at tihe fiar'fill portents at the Noirth. Let him look at the protration of all that is elevated at the rise of' all tha!. is low. Let him looik at the reptiles that crawl Iroi the sinks of vice to branldish their forked tongu'es abou t the pillars of the Capitol-ar the hands of a thonsanld pa triots that miarp.1h the streets of New Xork, with banners inscrib'ed with "liberty" on one side. " we will have bread" upon thie other. :m111 then s-y whether, if euinality be indeed the right of mani, there be not conditions in it, that renler it. illusory, and whet her inequalities ol some sort, whet her dlistinc~t social ordlers, no matt ter he' w objectionable in theory, are not ofi necessity in: social przactice. is it for the reas~on that slavery~ is wnmy~:; that we ar'e not to allim our1 attituide ? That the slavery of one man to another, no bet ter thanu himself, is wvrong may be adhnitted. It is a con dition that can only be maintained by force,amnd no condition may be right when 'orce is neces sary to sustain it. Thut is the slavery of the negro to the white man wrong ? To that as little force is necessary to hold oil and water at unequal levels. Is it of injury to the negro ? I venture to affirm that 110 negroes that were ever born have beeni so blessed in themnselv'es and their posterity', as the four hundred th~ousandl Africans imported to this country. Is it of in. jury the white man ? I venture to allirmi that there are no meni, at any point upon the suriface of' this earthi, so favored ini their lot: so elevated in their natures, so just to their duties, so up to the enmergencies, and so ready for' thme trials sAf their lives, as are the six nillion umsters ini the Scultherni States. Is it of inijury' to society ? ii' every state of society that is ar'tiiial-and all .are ar titicial where elaases arc pihuiced in unnatural relations to each other--tlgere .mmst lie collisions of conilieting inter'est,. and the throes of an irregnh~med intue. It is so, tha~t social r'evohlitionms have disturbed thCe onstitun ion of' ahniost ever'ynationi. It is so, that the props of' social order have laen str'icken down inlFrance. -It is so, that IDemocracy advances upon the conser'vatisnms of every European Con slitut ion. But from this source of evil the slave society is l'iee ; ther'e can be i'uimarch of slaves uipon: [lie ranks of mnagers. l'Tey hatve no reacings to a liier' sphere. Th1!ere'es nou contest of classes fin' the same pmositlion ; each is in itIs om' derm blamnced, and 1 have a perfect conuilene that wh len Frmanzce shial I alI ag~iin into the deli riumn of' liberty-when then peer'age of Enmglanid Ishall have, yielded to tihe miasses---wiihen demo crac'y at. the Nort Ib shall hohlI its earn'uival--when~ all that is pure and holy shall hav'e been drag god down-when all that is low and vile sh al Ihave nmant.k'ed to t he surface-when woin shall hiai' Itaken' the phlices' :nd habihinment.s of iniani,'n mmiimau shall have Itaken thei, plaes su l habIlim'ent's tf. womian-whztn Free Love unions amid palansteries shall pou~vadle the landz-wgenm the sexes shall -consort without the restrmaints of' marriage, andI whe'n youths .and mnaidenmi., drunk at noo(n-day, and half naked, shall reel about the market places, the ,Siuth wiill stamnd sceee and erct as shei stamnds now-the .laves will be restrained by powier, the mmaster' lby the Ii'ust~s of a superior lposition ..-shie will miove on with a mneasu'ed dlignity of1aapower and prgrs as conmsicuoJus as it is now ; amid it' there be a hope for the North-. a Ihope that she will ever ride time waves of bot tomnless penhdtion that roll aroumnd her-it, is in tI ho fact that the Somth w~ill stand by lier' and1 lend a helping hand to resene anmd to save her. F Why, thmen, shall we not aflirmn and proclaimn the nature of our institutionm ? And why not -demand oft the tGoverumnent the recognition of our right to be sup~remie upon this~ qutestion ? Is it that such legislation dloes not imnjurme mus? it many be thant to some, if not, to all,.the Soutbernm - Sttesthere would lbe material advantage in a rtmmtheP importaionD of slaves. To sune ths legislation is anl injury. It may be that a firther importation of' slave. would givGplolitiual power to the Soult 1; a'nd to the Son h, t herefore, thi: legislation is a1 injury. Tht mit th'at to neither is thet such a recpfi-s tion, ail still these acts are of irrolaliie wrpng and injury.| They are wrong in that they mrd thq censu re of the Govermncnt, of which aran e(.quad party ; and an injury in the fad .hat Ihey are a1 brand upon our institution. Lhe spread ey slavery may be wrong, and the jfore the1 Mi sonri Compromise; but .laac 'ise/f wust be terung, when the ships antd sen' of ur conn try are kept upon the seas preclIud the neans to its formation. by n' dexterity ran we dodge the logical accuracy if this m.mclu sion. We may show, as we catiihow, that this union of unequal races is right Nhbatit exhibits the best form of society the rld has ever seen; thatitexhibits orderand- le secnrities of order; that it, has raised. the st-e to an aen cy in civilization ; that it has giyen the ruling race a higher point to start from in its reach to nobler objects-still the mind will fllow the wrong to its results; still, if thelrade be liracy the slave i:- plunder; if it be a&rine to take him, it is a crime to keep him i4nd .scnse ail reason tell us that we abandoilaivey when we admit a wrong ill thp mjieans.tp its; fornation. Why, then, shall wIe not deimi~d the repeal of1 these restrielions ? Is it that iti'll precipitate ani issue ? That is thec.one thiin-j perhaps, the. moit devoutly to le wished for. 1Tie contest, is im pendling and iievitabl, unles.we shall escape it ill subimission The Northh seventeeni Statcs and sixteen million people; the South has lifteen States, and but ten milliojr people. The North has thus the power of leqrafation, and she has showin that sh will use it. 'he has used it already to the limits of endnraluee; she enter tains pelitions to abolish slavef'I; she hms put restricions Oil tile slave ttadogshe has fixed limits to the spread of slavery;phe li:is :prohibi Ld the trade inl slaves within. lililiti of tile :upitol ; she haS made an eliflrt to grasp the helil of' governni't ; she ii 1arshallig her ihrees far anotlher gra.p in 180l.4 she proscribes i ihe limen who will not literally cnrry out her evil diets ; and thus, there is re'c:ded already the power and purpose of oppremsion. - But it is mure important still, that there is ol' that aggres ion the necessity. The proclivities of power I tre certain and resistldss, it run*s to Oppression' s naturally and necesmauily ak witers flow or I parks fly upward5. No logic, no.policy, no feel. t hig, ?can avert it. Its leaders, in0called, are as powerless to control it, as tile rebris, the enrr'nt 11)l3n wllieli they float. It is tri, teiy aIlly see he precipie :1n1 may reco'l 'i:ij the ver::e, but Vily to lie trampl-0 by t'1i m1usthat plunges liter; anl we mnlst .iet tilt etirellt, ur wd I ust eroet political barriers ag'Lst it. It, Ien, t is our purpose tLo preser t.,e ,ohrtu'es ail .he form of that society anl Etsunl Providence as commitlcl to our keeping, h issue is ine- r :iLftable, :,id wise and prudent .uient Imust own, he so.o:er it is matle the bettdr. The powerI 11d3 patronage o.f the Governm i.t are already ol tie 111111d..; olfm, .i2.1istiid every hour's J fromi Is flie 'rve a. ,i h( '.4salafC~ Then why notW wemahd rejead ? Is it for the re:son ha11:. it is not pliy 1i iport lmore slaves ? ji so, we will I not imp41. Ilem. The i SeVeral Soiuthern11 States (11 ~i deit !h:t 11 queslioll r tihe m..ives. It Texa-:, w pithIbr broad di) 1ai1, Iwalt. Ohn, she my:jlmit4 them; it . We! may.I not wantl theml WO 1mnV~exeiudrlhe;p it is I],;.- nowt pr)iy to :lilit, dwliintroti on or 1 f1r% n! r.It, :l we n1-0. ex'hdIJe thelmwimit ill a: 1 f t'1.3 res . ,lso, eenkt we Ixhd '1 till! l:ve. Is it that it. woluhl nIu bt 61t1iht to iti port. them'? It s), ar. we nt. 1hle tit r.ti.rain ' ourselves ? Nbist % e have aid 1f Con -.re.s to ( keus fi.33m the wrolg ? Is ti):i Congre34 mr i.0 wemore prudent, more vir-iflus. 11han1 ourl selvei' 11.> !n-v know b-tii thim we do what is lone-st a mi1- ni iii.- ? And 'are we willigiir to conifess, nt11 onlly that l. ursletI aIre p11i er 1 :,il that ther% come to u3 throuh piraIcy, but, that suich is w'Im state! of lielpls.es5 .1d leAra dation, if' it w,er e itt Cohr the (-nIelilral Covelrl ment, we w,utld rush agzaini, wita inebiat alaet. rity, tol the crIiminal3: imlfiigence? .et sley' tIe 333 'outhern'l St ll 1):imy wan;' thun, or1 m:;y. ever impo33rt 1them-al yit is it. (of ::or-m l* imp. '. tance'3 tha1t wVe slusu~hd beo lsuprene) upon tIs 'fpa-' tion. T'he pmverli as:mned1i3' by no~ tGeneral Gov er'.lli(ent to) legisfanie upon31 thii.sniet, ii supfr'me' albovt')! .ta1t3s, will he a1s supcome3. at so)'3ne t hem11 ouit ; and31 will auny-say thlt. it is saf'e, :mnd righit, tu. bie up onl h.th queplstione at thle m1ery o'1 the Genera0!'l.1O''3 iovernmet; that wvhn the SoulthI shall be retduIced to the cond).itio~l of1 a coinerel~'d shatllave let us; wl1'he 'ltrtr and) fa31 shion shall hlave Iihllmved to t he Noithl ; wvhenl there wti~fll belno hlopei of plitical poul rd frm ai frho'r im3por1tation ol s1lves : 3no aszurance tha:t weL shall lhave. the phyisical ability' ;tO contoll them), to 0'o I owa seenr.(ityad order,'i, that theli it wiill not lie of initerca4li oite Norl'th to f'ore them: ins am133 that thlen it wtillI not he of'th very lasI' im-) plortanIce to till) Soth to keep t'10m oult. If' thilsI he! so, it iis10 no time 1ar the' Souith toI <h rm!'Ilin wvhether' slie wifill) el snjuri5 afon this vil:l sub-' ject, and it nolt preparedlL'( twil333 '333ur1 inttution3 at thea mercy''I (o1 the North, it Ii 33a3 'uhe time)3 to2. s'tr'ike lthe indepemnch1e. y'ieldf1 tour delmand 'I 'fis' is not to be a15ssum3ed. : It is truel tine Nor3th IWill nolt allo3w the: Soiuth ai roadl to poe it she3 can~ help1 it. Bait it nm33t. lie rememCIIbered0 thlat the exinoee of' thle Norlh depends upjonI the Un1ion2. 11er every inters is pa:ra1sitie'. 11er citios are1 dlependenlt on thle Mouth for enstoml. JIm factnries nure depiendentI 03n thel South for a1 malirkut. Thecyt wouild have~ our tra;de nnd33 culstoml ulpon their O'wn term's; 1but tor'ims wvill fa1il, anid NewY Ybrik wld'li lbeSiled l33 up1 to lihe d1imens13ions of a101 com 31 non town. .II the thiem; thel Souithl woIIhl tr1le direct t3) lor'eign 3 con131 r;l'5; 33ponI Iireigi Ihrica 51he wuldh exae1(L. 333 hilgher' lins than11 on fabries f'rom 1he Nrth. It' t he factories ot thle North1 1enn haruelv -s'land no(w. whien proiteted'3 byv an aver'ag implliSt. 313ly3 of twen~lty-five "~ per lr., Ithey col:l not thll 511t3 am lilun nehui a (com1.pelition i and23 Ihe sla:ke, I tereltir', is one1 of exiilstenc e i th1e Norithi tcliion uer 1isk on snch a vture. Thle Nor31lh1 woul331d pi eserve: doi11mil, but 'it, is impera''.tive3 upo(n1 lher to pr1esrveI' thel Union... Thle m311iness5 o1 the North I increas'es;05131 ad te ~l ime L m-'y3c1m' conltro(l her' actionl ; but Lit h~s lnt COlie ,'et-and no0w 1 beievei't t here is nlot a1 demian~d to hI nmdeil~i 13y the Soulth, 133 mlat ter how exl rava'gan1t, whikch, if mlade as5 thl)eIonditioni ot' this Uion,03 wouldl nlot lie accepted by the North.. 13ut say thlat it, is so. Sa1y that, thIoughI we' repudiate restictionls on thle slaveu trad1(e, and13 de mn1d the repeal of them, then Nor'th shall not, assent to it. Thenl an issue0 will'hiave bieen madel3' and-1if nlot c033ceded, it. is plosible the~ Suth may bie fired to thle intrepCI:dity. of' acting thr hler.<'!l'f up~on the subject. But if not, -he will a1t leastI hlave putL hl1ell right up~on thme recor'd. She will have averted the reproac'h of becing a. fparty to thle cenlsur' oif her' own' ioistitultions.-ot ('03 eulrrinig ill her) ownt~ conder nation-no' meanly I) pra'lctisinlg wha13t she does notJ dare to plreach'l-of holding to the worhld a1 ent mlient, whlich in theo every action of -her life sheo contradiets-and it is time' that she should do so. It is timel that we should speak an net like mei ipi this sub jct. If we pr.iwtice slavery. let. us avow it-let Ili own it as a right,. ralher thanl alHor it to be imputed 11.4 a wrong. Let us dcimand or our commein (overnment that it iill depart from the ollic of diserimination, and let us hare our in stititions inl their proper aspect and condition to the world, or let its hnrv them. Is it for the reason that we would shock the moral sentiment uf other cutintriesi ? It is con venient Ior tILe NIortlh to execrate our institution ior she finds her profit in keeping it at a discount. It is convenient for England tb execrate the in. stititiona, for she regaris it as a principle of trength to the North and as the prop, therefore, A. her most imperious rival. it it is an error to srppose that any of these States are temder >n the score of humnian rights. England crushel India; Frunce, Algeria; Russin, Prussia anmd Austria have posted Polaidl--all march to op. )ortnnity; and if ihreed to look for European nortlitfy in the history of European States, we ,vill find(] everywhere an iuncquivocal assertion of he one great principle that strength is virtue, mnd weakness only crime. Nor is it true that Suropeani States are hostile to the spread orf ;hvery at the South. They are hostile to ihis ;Inion', perhaps; they see'in it a threatenoing ival in every branch of art, and they see that -ival anieiid with one of the most potent prode-. ive agents the worldl has everseen. They woul-l -rush India and Algeria to make an equzal sup. dy of cotton with the North, and failing in this, I hey avould rush slavery to bring the North to a I boting with them ; but to slavery without the 'orth tihey have no reptignance. On the con. rary, if it were to stawl out fbr itself, free front lie control of any other power/ and were to olter o all a fair andi open trade in its conm.odities, t would not only not; he warred upon, mt the onth woul ie singmuirly filvoreid, crowns would 1.md before her ; hingdoms and empires wouki nLer the liss lir her approval, and 1uitiing her .ee es! itt., it would be in her option to become he bride of the world, raidwr th1am reintiiili as ow, the miisrable mistress of the North. The limIIILgnainc to Sout hera slavery, therefore, is not Ltu to its nature, but to the relations only in rhich, by the accidents of its history, it has ieen phced ; and if there he a neasure which rill t.-ch the North that the South is to be no nger the passive sulbject of oppressim-which .il teach the world that the North is not the I Inion, and whieb.herefore, will not only shocl he world, but will inspire a feeling of respeetful onsideration-it will be that which leelares Iut. lie South will heiceflrth he supni- e upon lie quest ions whiih afL-et her own paeuliar ia. titu tions. Is if froam an inwillinaignss in this State to uIi ;ain in aildWI ot puli opinion at. thi, Ih ? I lknaow there ari. athoase who have been :Iaic srieken :at tihe tearful intrpidity of soic I iur paoiliCIal ilovemaentls; hut they amay be lieved of apprehension of any evil from it. outh Carolina li:s been too far advanced for *laCemIen ad politians, if we have such Char eter4 among is. But, she lis never been too ir advainicl for liberty andu the re-speC. of other -w..vn Sm-ipq~ Rho hias m ide .np ealunm ee Fm :vntn in-m- amif-oettsrtmr, onTIe--11IM ion; noi- aimt tie Souti, to the best of her bili yv, ha< not ahina lev miswered: and if tlere 2 a Sw.1et inl tis l'iisi di.;iiingished by the siect :'1l coience of oth.:r States, whose nores-iu r itioned who:.( prinicilelfs, re re:Ire a uthrity, ami whoie delegates, dinthher to th NaLioial Ieillare, or to a-on itionsi ut it..t owil political .etn are r.eCivei -ith hig eo-ltition, aml wto are' leoked p1in as h.unwr- in e.-r just uni hiao. atble (atse, Ilat State is Soith Carolim. 'hat she is so distinaguislied, is for the reasoii nly that her pirincipleS h:ive alw:iys Ien pro ic-meed ; tamt her actio:a has always Leen deci eil ; that sli! 1:;I., vteivs Iineii re-ly er em-r 'encies without colis01twatiili-s of expeliellev: aid if we v.oddl m ala th1e deeds off ho.<e who I ave .oai t boe li Its, At- woIiad melrit .ilA trals lit thi li honmars ald their lirttes, it is now for 14 to folow their e-ap: M%[r. SpIker. it ii IaSiIle that the1rIt ntever my Ie a fi;eC. siuliti Ion to IIlt jiesti.1ns at iseveeni thaes saiet elms. Witina this L'nion liere art, dislitt pincaiple~s of inationality. :inii1 ii; paai tiat t they amay an.ver he ltorn apam~rt ,ithout~ tht thar..s ofi revlmtiion. It is anor aeofnature, wisn tun-l. right -is natdur's air inanctLes ahltaIys are. that tI a. -'aruts uf aial (etm onmly comen thirough hiemoirhage :1 idi fututre Iio e: islitnce Andi it imay be tan ordi .miiae of nturie aliso, that tile ''Irms o~ society anonyemethiroutmh haemirrhage -ad rupture f the primaci pla that e- 1uality i.s the right of inanu ras deliveredl nii mithrlg thei re-voltin This 'nion, liregnLat ot tie gre ten prtiiple,, the .jimalaay i~s the righit if eI.: un- inly, ma eed nt.iher revmahi. to 10h:liverance. JUut i it hen assihi t <at peaa~i thatt trial ;if it, b.. l~i d ir the MouathI to nome, ai sl v ~ ] coe, to th iiinct i f hir soial iatIuim with::a the .oe mat: of exist ing~ lit:-, wiithoutm the riapaltae ofE ri itioans tl1.tar, still thinlly elherishedi, wiIhmout muinmg lawr hand1 iin time bloo:1 if kiatlrned, it aast it: ian the~ wa thaJ we pn-pa~se. It aim: elby goiing ;'liy tio the elent:tnt.; iof !wr' 5Vy.e-m, y pe-ruiming, oif the sitbjieit rlane, enugmimh to ie..hir r-eqiitionsi, by *i iing hmer ihusi a pa.thl a political pramr, aid thrua a poil lihticaml l ant-r ii thme senrity of hiier raithtea:0 withlm.'t thi, hero i~s no~ ltua-r imt arth to a ihmi is Uion iid ir theret wvera-, ten- wouhmil lie mno coni h,*i ' allamily sam riidltt a.: ils preist-rv .iion. If slavery stiand and it. omst stand--lar -Iit i I uo abun dtant of hiless..ing and~ taoo prii gaul of ironmise to' he imvent ip-iat. imumt sLtrt. fromi iils 'epoise--L itast take the moraml st reangth of an iggaressive at titude. IThoug'h sitriing, st rong -as I lempeust sltumhler ig, withI Iatenit. energies5 ut nailhinm :aama endumranme to miaet the! world ini baums, ita is still am. aibi withouti~ i ahse- enegies a re ni ailed Iionetlioni. Tr passive subjpttof aln-n autillha-nt. it. lmbis lit-em listi ha'i-g alt-;idv. It wit' is ilit. slavem i-Il ira b I laoniiiiuto tt tl ad1 tmnamii.;t . t. ia thimt tllat. it. ata:my lIl ilma t2.da. ml u'jh a id r mist, for lhtre~ :tha-raly tile teojls ilnu-e I lg-awn ayaund -. it is proserihei ad wl em~a aad-l-its tion-i'an iiources' ofi supplit :we (alt away from it -the a-eias of its g~overwnimat.t are held biy other hitads hanl its .oiwu-its ownt -.jpeiry is uisetd to cor .up~t is owm paeiple. Mu-mm. ihtilieal of ius endam tn-ne, imovey away li-iimi ii. Its pioims hi-leha aren mstimucti-d tom depilor-e it. Ifs wuomen aind childre~n ~re tanagbl. i to lamra -against. it. Its fi-imals who peiakt Ihrt its inutegritmy, andl who eliim thlae mas o its extenisign, are liiiokedl uipon aa a15gitatorllst omd I anow, whoi spmeak trutly what I believet ihr ts adivaneamenat and the adavac-aemenit iof hni mianim v, inm wl-hih, mitder 1lteavenm, I belrieve it is o bei tle maost pioteant agenit this world has ever ;ean-am sture that, scar-a a woamamn's hieart in i this lamil responids to what I say, or tht', ronm thie pions and pure, whiia miost I wonl vish to please,, itf to please t hemn were conisistent with nay duty, will mise on~e payer fhr the imn-as mitt- we proposi.e. These t1hiangs beinag so, it is tin that slavery shoul lie truiseid to a comnsem masnesAs if repmnsalibility Ilhe its own-i preser-~i utio ; that it smhuld becomia :an u ar ina thte dra mitnaiof its own fote ; that, it shaouhal speak fo;g tself uaponi this great qutestion. Jt ntevet- yes hams spoiken. Thme wmrld spentka of' slavery, the Noth speamks of slav-ery, we speiak of slavery as athaing mpar fromaa us, limt slavery never vet hats spokeni, oil it is timea that it shioald speak. 'Wheln it does, its first utterance will be, " We mmust be tre-f..ree t aor nand neonrdinig to our own nia I tm-e- free of the touch of anyhostile hand upon us-we are right in that existenice which it has pleied Alinighty God to give us, and we can atlinit no decla-tion of a wrong in the means to our adv:neement." Mr. Spealcer, we have been elected here at the South to a fearfnuHy Inemntons trust. It is a trust of moment to have liberty and hopes at stake, with the himdol' power n!ready stretched to grasp theim. ut there is a trust for time and man o1 even greater moment. It is the precept of huinman experience that equals must he eqal, and that poliltical distiictionis mu1st therelbre yield to that necessity. But it is the precept, also, that to power and progress there must be separate orders in the State, and to us, the first -in human history, has been committed a society cobnhiiing these conditions. There has been egnIality in France, blt despotism has been a welcome refuge from its enormities; there were slaves in Greece and Rome, but they were the natural eqns of their masters, and the .relation, therefore, was "orced and transitory ; but here there is a perfect compliance with the requisition -there is, among equals, equality the most per fet, and there are orders that can never merge; and in this the Eternal Ruler of this world has coninitted to its a sacred social trnth, which we are under the mo:l. solemn obligations to trans mit to other ages. To that transmission we are coiniitted by the highest sanctions that were ever iienibent upon any. people. If we do I raismit it we will find, as our reward, a career of greatness and of' gorv more extended than was ever opened to the hopes of man. If we io niot, if' we bend in the execution of that trust to the requisitions of another not so Charged with that responsibility, and so fiil, we will leave to our land and posterity a heritage of calamity and crime, the darkest that ever fell to aly 'peo ple. States have been subjugated, and Rome . a t was plnlered by barbarians, yet.carnage ende.1 with resistance; but here, with subjugation comes a war of races, band to hand, that will noct end while. a renmant of the weaker race re mains. In view of these considerations, then in view of the hopes and glories of success-in M t view of the critmes and calamities of failure-in view of the blessings to be conferred upon other lands and other ages, and of the smiles of ane approving Heaven, it is incumbent upon us to start now upon the performance of our duty, and It is not an indiscreet or an unbecoming act in that performance to tell this goveriment that. charged with this momentous triust, we cannot yield to them the oilee of determining its con- 3 ditions-that that of right, belongs to us to be eetel by them, and that upon the rights and obligations of thAt e'llice we oan take no judg ment bitt l mtiy own. ''o io this is the object of the resolutions I have had the lionor to present, and I hope, therefore, that they will imeet the apiprobhiation.i of the Ilouse. GATHERINGS, A Di-rcuAN's heart-ending soliloquy is described thits: "She lofes Shion Michle so 3 nitich petter as f, pecan-se lie cot koople dollars j more as I has !" .the...astbiasrq had C Well, my dear, '1 wouldn't try ; nobody wants you to."1 Er Ax Trish judge said, when aldreoing a prisner: - Yon are to be l:uiged, aind I hope it will prove a warning to yon." Z, A whoe military company in Dayton, r Ohio, tell ina love with a beautiful young lady, I a Jewess, atl a;s they couldn't all have her, C they cornpromised the matter by selecting her as their Iel:iH. . -' Loqacions mouths are like badly nan aged bmiks---they' nake large issues on no solid Capital. E People are all the sniner learning to f leave a door open, and the whole winter learn- t in" to close it. -:'The young lady who caught cold by drinking water from a damp tumbler is coi valescent. Z23"Alheetions fellow, beeing very anxious I for the' acqulisit ioni ot' Unkl:, S:iys lhe i4 willing C to hellp pay 1.or it, tio helpl Iihat 1Ihr it, nnd1(, ifi that wont. do, he'll go for it nueaoding to law. r 3* A rude ho~ 's mtuonth is like the town .1f \\orcester. It's where the Sanice coumes -f The hvj' iimns deat h drieth up the tears oft his Ifamtily. ;-'We love' the mnanth r mmmuier and winter, who never lbe'gets tu~ pg~ the priinter. j:K f-r istrppraed shat the inaui who~ threw the iirebr:rInd of 'iisunion, bonut his tingers. s -7j The greatest biurdlen in the worl is suersitioni, not only of' ce'rieonies in time ehiiieb, b-ut of inmaginary and .-c.urerow sins at 3- Seigrates5. seeing a scoludiing wife whit hail tliugedl herself' 'n it olive tree. e:Nht:lued ( h,. tat all tree.; won'Id beL-wsehd fruit !:" oii :aii'I enullid, is a gelnt Itithitui. whimther he be - learnmed ocr itmlearnedl, ridh or p." d:. 3 g It i~s stated as a ceiriots fuet that more moogey' is expended aninally in the IUnited Staites him uis, t hium i-u exendedlI the alh the iinmnin sehlsl ini the Uniioni. 3' lla~u.4 thion riches ? Ihist thent beauty ? 1a4t thou tailenuts? l[ist thon dower? IRe care&ful niot to pieovoke the giver bcy atbtismg tho gil'ts. gg T tastes of nmn, as exhuibited ina thaeir' habdits of pltea~nre, are I te indlexes of the-ir pasions. . iurerietrs do. noit wear roses in their~ btut- hoes : villains schduim, if ever, train, Viine over e'.ut tag~e-dhoors ; the be'uties ot tre iid tun s*y mplathliing ebiot-d in their fg Mn-chit haieeni .said ab'opt~ feats of stuiegt hi, but, it is :in actuah fact that, a few days ago, ai iinan ot but ordinary strength kinoched doewn an elephaint (to thme highiest biddher.) 33s"Is iVirmont, recently, a famii inaig lI 'gged his brother seve'trely lior preenig his hfai em lromi huaninjg himiselt. On) being reiinon i-ratedl wiithi fer- whippmug his brothier for sauviing hi-s hlie's life, he replied ; " t wanted him to gnoilw that it wa:. hiis businiess to let fatheer have us ownt way" ' U.ssi.~:n -ro( Giv-.-'-The sun in the~ heaven scatti.rms :br-oad his beamus. The founitainm ,cends for'th its life-givinig waxters. TIhie earmth teemis with its various prodnctions. Time birds sing for oiir pleasure. Main should copy the exanmple, and live fir the guod of others. lie is time baii piest who dis most to make otbers happy, Experience veiifes the words of our Savior, " It is muore blessed to give than to receiV. Oriental Unp~tist, A c'ieix went into one' of our fashioniable refreshlmient roomis iiot long since, and wias much, suirpriseid at seeinig nothing on the table. "What ill you have?" said the waiter. JTonathian stared ab~out him-" I (lull know," " Wonld you like a bill of fare, sir ?" " Thank ye," he replied, ".1 don't care if I do Sa. a sm..al l niean." REYOLUTIOBIY STU . Here is a story of the Revoltiodary war, where the indigiant and- dignified -rebuke of a patriotic matrOn f; met by the hardened, and unrefined self-possession of one of the braves o England. It is from Viryinia IPlusitwed ; "In one of Tarleton's marauding 4xpeditios into the interior of Virginia, hidtroopa-p~ to breakfastat the plantation of old Major Har dy, the father of- the present squire. All those of the household that dreW The sword were with' the armies of their country, but they had by no means carried with them all the pluck ind patriotism." The 'good lady received her visitors with much spirit that it seemed she still considered jer house her own, and she still appiared to ive with haughty hospitality what her unwel -ome guest would have taken as a matter of :ourse. The officers who breakfasted ii the ouse were awed into respect by her manner, nrid her house and barns were spared a fate hat hefel many others. But the passage of uch a troop was like a visit of the locusts of ,gypt-Fodder stacks had disappeared, grana-,. ics were emptied,.meat houses rifled, piggery" mtd poultry yards silent as the grave. The ma ron cont einv,!ated the devastation with swelling ndignation. All gone-all. If they had been Vahington's troopers, she would 'have gloried a the sacrifice, but to be forded to feed tte' ost of the oppressor-$o give nourishinent and trength to those who might roon meet her hus and and .sons in battle, that was hard indeed. "The negroes hail returned from their hidin laces, and stood grouped around, with eyes ixed upon their imistreis, but not daring to reak the silm-nee. Preiently an old Muscovy rake crept out from beneath tho--corn-houso rhere he had taken refuge during that reignof rror. The sight of this solitary wid now use :ss patriarch was the feather that broke the aineld's back; the matron's patience gave way nder it. "Jack," she screamed, " catch that duck !" With instinct of obedience, Jack pounced upon ie wheezing waddler. "Now mount that -mare-mount inatantly P With countenance of ashy hue, and staring yes, Jack obeyed the order. " Now ride after' the troopers, ride for your. fe. Give my iompliments to Col. . Tarlton I iind, to no one else, the officer on the black orse; give him my compliments and tell him our riistress says he forgot to take that duck," Away went the messenger at full speed'aftor lie retreating cohort#, "Well, Jack, did on deliver that mim-age ?" " Sartin, Missus." "And what did he say ?7 "le put duck in a wallet, and say he much >iged. KNOW TilE RIGHT IAN. In a.Southein city lived a young aspiring outh, by the name of Kinson, who possessed iore pride and insolence than wealth or sense. Fnerstanding that there was a farmer- living bout sixteen miles from the city, by -the name. f hieKeever,9 im us~elth - dthe isther;, r two in rra esign of becom qn, jigmy not ultimately one of its members; conse uently one fine day he decked himself in his aye.,t externals, and started for the rich far ier' i iusion. On the w.ay his mind was full f .jpectlations upon the prospects before him';' pon the manner in which he should conduct im-elf before Mr. Mcever; upon the style f his ainiableness whi he should assume be >re the Misses McKeever: and upon the mode s which he should use lofty and entertaining mguage generally. Evening had nearly dis ued of the sun in the west, when he arrived i sight of McKeever's; the scene was expan iva and delightful; extensive fields and lengthy nces and lanes covered the landscape as far as le eye cduil reach; while the dwelling reared a painted front high among the tall and branch ig oaks, which grew around it for shade and rnament. Kiison's bosom swelled with glowing antici ations at the wealthy andti magnificent prospect efore him, and he was anxious to fornm the ac naintance of the whole McKeever fihmily. See rg a shabby looking mia feeding hogs near the. cad, he rode up to him, when the following onversation ensued: "lHeh!ow, Mr. hog-feeder, is that McKeevers .welling 7" "Yes, sir," humbly rep~lied the hog-feeder. "i Ar~e von his ovr-e? "No sir." " What in the D~evil do you do then'? " Oh feed hogs, and do other littlo tlhiuga bout the farm." - " Well. Mr. hog-feeder, old McKecver has Lme daminedl fine looking danghit-rs lusnt he?" Ves, they arc tolerable good looking gals." "Thley would like to mary too, wouhd'nt hey ?" "l.ni't kno.,-,' but expect they would, if they a' a g'o ulchiance." ".\ gesid clian:ce' ! Itiey can get me--don' - -on ihmk I'd bie a good chaance ?" -Wll they maight think so,g.> and try them." "' l)-.nd - if I don't too--good evening . Kinsena t hen rode up to the gate and alighted, ceing the oldl lady in the piazza wa~h her' 1aaughtrs, he thnus addressed her'; " Good evening madam ; it is getting late and shiouldl like to have the permission to stay all ight with you." He was informued that he could do so, and ho rery gladly took his seat till the old gentleman ould comio in, as she informed him that ho tould soon. lie had not becen seated but a few momeonts, ven the old hng feeder came along looking aer thinugs, and finally cattne in and sat dhown, the olal madl then began to make hiimself per cly at home with the females.' Kinson wa*s stoishaed at what lie consideredl the hiog-feed r's insolence ; but this atonishnwet was much neteasedl when lie heard one of the youlng la lies call him " pa!" Just as he heard the old hog-heeder alfiection ity 'called "'pa !" the boy was about to takw ds horse, and lie involuntamrily said: " Boy, don't take that horse, 1 think I will .ide, it' it is late--good evening to all." "Oh stay all night," coolly said' the hog 'eder, " don't, be in a hurry." " Thank you sir, [ must go, mumbled Kin on, anmd soon hec wais riding away. from the'. uansion of McKeev'er, cursing all rich men with, laugh ltrs, who did not have the ways of rich' nent with marriageable daughters.. LIvzr.'s S.u.Tr-Riches have made more men' :ovetous than covetousness hath made rich. 'As ach ag you exeel others in fortune, so much yught you to excel thorn in virtue. Let great motions encourage greater ; and let honor' 1o four design. Recreation is a second creation, inhen weariness has almost annihilated 'one's 'piits. One hundred hours of vexation, isaya the Italian proverb, will not pay a ihrthing of debt. False wit, like, false money, only pasas current with with those who have no means of comparison. The clouds that intercapt the. heavens fr'om us come not from the heamqs, bt from the earth. - ' Capt. HAumr.'os' wit a largos body oE'~ts perate mn are. committing degredationtunm southrn sA .