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SINKINS1 DDRISOE CO#, Proprietors. EDGEFIELD S, C., AUGUk'
A PLEA.
Bo not idle, noble brother.
There is work enough to do
Work for heart and mind and muscle,
0 ! be brave and strong and true!
Wealth and pride still walk together,
Yice and crime are blighting still;
But press onward, firm and fearless,
You can conquer if you will.
All around you fainting, dying,
See the sons of sorrow lie,
With their pale, cold, pleading face,
Turned in sadness to the sky.
You can aid them, you can cheer them,
You can calmly bid them rise,
And with hearts renew the struggle,
Till they gain the envied prize.
Tender little babes are weeping
Fathers, mothers in the grave
Homeless, friendless little nestlings
You can shield them, you can save.
All along life's rugged pathway,
Seeking not the world's applause ;
Plead, oh ! plead for truth and virtue,
blan, or. aven's dwn-tramplel laws.
Bow pure seeds of love and kindness,
In the hearts of sinful men ;
"Cast your bread upon the waters
And it will return again."
Brother, thus I bid you labor,
Iy the love yol bear our Lard!
He will aid you, he will bless you,
And in Heaven your toils reward.
An Angry Word.
Withhold the angry word,
Unknit the st'rny brow:
Let passion's vire unheard,
Depart forcver now.
Y.-u little know the woe'
An ireful word may bring,
The ial ant bitter throes
W1ith it. lbirth tusty spring.
While anger rule the mind,
W1itht might combat its sw ay.
Re'ist each conneel blin-l,
In :ilence turn away.
An angry wor: may sever
Our brightest hipes in twain,
An.1 o'er life's path Forever
Stre' misery nod pain.
Early Birenkfast.
Breakfast should be eaten in the morning,
before leaving the house for exercise, er lthbor
of any description ; those who do it will bt
able to perform more work, and with greater
comfort ard alacrity, than those w'he-work en
hour or two before breakfast. Besides this.
t he average duration of the life of those wht
take breakthst before exercise or work, will
be a number of years greater than those who
do otherwise. Most persons begin to feel
weak after having been engaged five or six
hours in their ordinary avocations; a gootd
meal re-invigorates, but from the last meal
of the day until next morning, there i,
:n interval of some twelve hours; hence the
body in a sense is weak, and in proportion
can not resist deleterions agencies, whether
o'f the fierce cold of mid winter, or of the
poisonous miasmi which rests upon the surface
of the earth, wherever the sun shines ont a
blade of vegetation or a heap of offal. Thtis
miasm is more solid, more concentrated, and
hence more malignant, abo~ut sunrise and sun
set, than at any other hour of the t wenty-four,
because the cold of the night condenses it,
and it is on the first few inehes above the soil
in its most solid form; but as the sun rises, it
warms and expatnds, and ascends to a poitt
high enough to be breathed, and being taken
into the Iuntgs with the air, and swallowed
with the saliva into the stomach, all weak and
empty as it is, it is greedily drank in, thrown
immediately into the circ'ulation of the blood,
and carried directly to every part of the body.
depositing its poisonous influtences at the very
fountain head of' life. When in Cuba, miany
years ago, wve observed that the favorite time
for travel was mnidnight:; and the old mer
chants of Charleston may retmember that
when deadly fevers prevatled in hot weather,
they dared tnot ride itnto town in the cool of
the evening, but midd:,y was accotunted the'
safest. We know, from amany yeare' living
in New Orleans, that it was when the eve
inings and mornir.gs were unu-ually ceo',
balmty and delightfu', the cit-zans prtpuzed
themselves for still greater ravages of the
dleadly epidetnic for the first few days fol.
lowing.
If early breakfast was taken in regions
where chill and fever, and fever and ague
prevail, and if in anddition, a br isk lire We
kindied ina tlhe famnily' roon', for the hour int
cmudinig sunset antd -uoris.-, tt~ese troublesome
maladies would dimninish in any onte year. not
ten-fbld, but a thonsattd-fohl, b ecatuse the heat
of the fire would rarely the tmiasmatic air
instantly, and s'end it ab've the breathing
point. Bunt it is troubllesomet to be building
fire's night antd mnornti g all sutmmer, and not
one in a thaousand. who reads this will put the
suggestiont into practice, it being so " trouble:
.sa,'' requtiring'. no vllrt ta .'hliver and shaake
"y the hour. daly;, foar weetks andm months
:togethecr ;suc h is the stu:pi.lityV of the anittal
man.- I allrs d1oura!.
StuonT 32a[tt: I Paav a.--liev. 31r. lI)erwell1.
a~ piu and e.uriou<a a ld 3Mthodist .M in inter,
to visit~ his relative, Ilona. Wmz. Boltona. Thea
maan was not, a religiouas mn:mt, but was a' :er:.
tlemain, anrd invited the aminiter to have fian
ily wvorship every eveninmg. While he was
vi-iting thero, Judtig' Eone andI hi.1 wife, front
Nashville, arrived thtere to pass the, night, iad
Mr. Bolton, being a little ermbarrased, ,'aid to
thte old minister, as lie broughat out the B'ble,
tthat he had bjeter he short as the Jundge was
probably not acustoamedl to stuch things.
"Very well," said hec, and readintg a siatgle
ver se, lhe knelt dlownt :and prayed:
-'O Lord, we are very poor tnd nteedy c'rea
pyall our wants, but Coausin William say~s
that Judge Con and his wife from Nashville
are here, and ate not usel to family worshlip;
.ntI however Dee~d w ve are, there is nso tim~e
to spare in te1ling Thee our wants. Amen!'
The Judge was taken all aback, and so wa
Cousin William. They both pressed the oh
gentleman to conduct the services in his owi
way which he did, to their great gratification
How a Republican Got Swindled.
The New York Day Book contains the fol
lowing conversation that recently took place
in the State of New York, between a gentle
man who signed the petition for peace, and o
Republican:
Republican-- I regret to see your name
Mr. -, on that petition for peace. It i
twe duty of all good citizens to support th
government in such emergencies."
Democrat-" Very well, suppose it is.
suppose I have a right to my opinion as t<
how to settle our troubles as well as the righ
to express it. This is a free country, or wa
up to a late date."
Republican-" Yes, but it is opposing th
government, and though I have known yot
for many years, Mr. ---, yet I am a mom'
of the grand jury, and r'y ..r - . m;-.
to place your name bet*e O;:.: hd . .
very sorry to see you in such cr:-pany."
1emocrat---"Well, now as you :a't ex
pressed your opinion of me pretty fre ly, wil
you allow me to express mine of you?"
Republican-" Oh, certainly; I have n
objection."
Democrat-" Well, to tell you the plair
truth, I think you are a d-d fool." '
" Republican (sharply)-" Look out, sir
I feel half disposed to slap your .,e for thal
insult."
Democrat (squaring off and jerking up hi:
sleeve)-" Well, come on ; come on. I wa,
born in the sixth ward. It you want to fight
say the word."
The determined attitude and manner o
the democrat was enough. The Republicar
.ubsided at. once, and went off lookigas mil
as a spring lamb. 1I only needs a little 01
this spirit to do away with all the lullyiing
that now seeks It drown public Opiniontt.
As INIeNr or -rt-: Ilet.i.'s Rex F:,:ur.
'he Lynchbitrg Rl,mblican narrates the fil
lotwin :
" uJri ; the height of the battle, many
of o:r troops, in their anxiety to get a sure
p-p at the enemy, left the rants for that pur
pse, and advanced somse distance in front.
,n,- of these, .lames Woondridge, of Capt.
B3lnintship's comup:mty, who was wounded,
nade for a tree. which would aftrd him ,pro
teetion. but just as he arrived there, a Lin
inite cane up, who disputed the possession
4 the tree with W<ohiridge. The matter
ws, however, quickly settled, for without any.
arley, Wooldridge tau his bayonet through
the Yankee, killhzag hint instantly. A Federal
flicer thet rode up, who had observed the
atfair. and while W oldridg's bayonet wvas
.till in thc body of his victim. ?rdlered him to
surren.ler. The proposition, however, did
not accord with Vuoidridge's idea, for in an
instant his bayonet was withdrawn, when he
let the ofticr ltve the full benefit of it, and
killed Lim instantly also. Two more Lincoln
ites were jt:t thetn rushing upon Wooldridge,
but observiig the fate of those who had pre
ceded them, itutntdiately turned about, and,
tking to their h~eels as fltst as they could,
eft our hero in possession of the much cove
ed tree. Wooldridge wasi subsequently
ounded, no doubt ini conseq~uence of expo
ing hims.elf unnecessarily."
Tur-z1"A1 lts' Dt~tscIrrent AND -riu Ron
n~a.-A farmer living a few miles from East
ern, sent his daughter on horseback to that
own, to procure from the bank smxaller notes
n exchange for one of one hundred dollars.
When she arrived there, the batnk was shut,
ad she endeavored to effect her object by of.
fring it at several of the stores, but cound
ot get her note changed. She had :iot gon
far on her return, wvhen a stratnger rode up tc
hei side of her horse, and accosted her with
o mnuch politeness, that she had not the
slightest suspicion of any evil intention on
is part. A fler riding a mile or two, employ
d in ver'y social conversation, they came to a1
ery retired part of the road, and the
nan commanded her to give him ti. a.
nte. It was with sotme difficulty thatshe
culd be miadle to believe hinm in earwt,,
his demeanor laud bien very frendily: but
the presentationi of a ptistol place i the na:tteri
eynid a doubt, and she yielded to neceal y
Just as she held the nte to him,, a sudden
uff of wind blew it into thme road, and car
-ed it gently severa! yards from themr. Thet
iscourteous knight alighttedI to overtake it.
tn the lady whipped1 her hiorse to get ouit of
his power, and the other horse, which hadtt
een left standinig by her side ;started with
ie. hlis owner fired a pistol, which only
tended to increa:se the speed of all parties
amd the lady arrived safely at hoime with thec
1rse of the robb~er, on which was~ a pair of
i ide-bags. WhLen these were opened, they
were founid to cotain, b~eides a tinanitity of
csun:ea-it bank notes, fifiteen hunxdred d I1
lars in good mtoiiey. '[le hiorse was a goodi
oe, and when saiddled andI b ridled, wao
thonght to be worth as much att least ais thec
hank note that was 'tub'n.
T m lb:rei as': f1tiM::m::-.-The p!!ianat
..vnmt y fir~st and eiti h miade a 11:1w: appear
mee a< they ptaraded tip Broadway yesterday.
Their 1hill l.as bec':me excellent; btut joy3
a.1 d..picted on the ftcct of the brave fe!
ws wiva have~ itu returned to teir wives
n families. and we venture to prnedict that
tey wi i set the gto.i c::tample of detcaring
to t!.eir ft ienis that the war is a cheat anid a
nare, :and that if the'y htad known beforc
hand whither and for what they Were going
o Wash.ingttoii, thety never would hatve shoul
(lered a mustiket, in a cause which, by the
avowal of Gen. Scot t. has been so badly con
tectd. The "plrivate resitentets' which
the veteran comozmander-in-chief has de
,oced~ as th~e principal motive of action of
the Pre~sident atlnd members of the Cabinet
find no re-chi' ini thetiri breatsts. Wouldl to
Uod that all of omur New Ytork soldiers were
Itcre atgai i; nt proc;lamtations, and no fatlse
clap-trtp appeals uonhail again lure themi away~
no darctio.-N. Y. News, 27th tilt.
From the Southern Guardian.
s Evacuation of Fort Saunter-Secrel
1! History.
STAT. OF SoUTH CAROLIA,
Headquarters, August 3, 1801.
I have every reason, from information re
ceived by me in the most confidential manner
(not forbidding publication, however,) and
through one very near the most intimat(
counsels of the President of the United States
to induce me to believe that the following ar
tiele was submitted, as a proof sheet, to Mr
Lincoln and his Cabinet ; that a proclamation
in conformity with its general views, was t<
be issued; and that a change in the decision
of the Cabinet was made in one night, wher
exactly the contrary course was adopted. II
is asserted in this article, (which in all pro
bability is a proof sheet from a confidential
New York paper,) that if the President de
sired to excite and madden the whole Nortl
to a war of extermination against alavery
vl in favor of the absolute plunder and con.
.- - the South, he had only to resolvt
..:lhjor Anderson and his garrison at Fort
Sunter should perish, as it appears was~well
known would have to be the case. Major An
1 dersou and his men were to be used as fue
to be thrown in to kindle the flames of fana
cisi, and to fbrce the Northern people into a
united war, which would give the abolition
lenders absolute control over the Government
and country. What must be the feelings of
the civilized world, when it is known that
the President of the United States and hit
Cabinet did so act, and with a view expressly
to carry out this policy of exciting the whole
Northern mind ?
!Major Anderson had officially informed the
former Administration that he could hold
Fort Sunfter ; and, of course, if the object of
that Administration was to betray the Gov
ernu'nt into the hands of the secessionists,
as is charged in the article, then Mnjor An
derson must. have been a party to the treason
and if he informed the new President. on the
fourtb of March, as is said to be the case, that
he could not hold the fort, then he acted out
his part fully in aiding to place Mr. Lincoln
and his Cabinet exactly where they were, and
to compel them to evacuate the fortress, or
to use the garrison as victims, to be slaugh
tered on the unholy altar of blind fanaticism
and mad ambition.
I know the fact from Mr. Lincoln's most
intimate friend and accredited agent, Mr. La.
mon, that tle Presidentof' the United States
profled a desire to ovac.uate Fort Sumter,
and he (Mr. Lannon) actually wrote me, after
his return to Washington, that he would be
back it a few ~days to aid in that purpose.
Major Anderson Was induced to expect the
same thing, as his notes to mme prove. I know
the fat that Mr. Fox, of the .nited State'
navy, after obtaining permisi-on from me,
upon the express ganaran.ee of a former gal
lant ass elate in the x::', to vsi M1jur Au
dlerson " f'r paci fii purp-as," planned th
preteied attempt to relie'v: an:s r--in;f'&rc the
garrison by a fleet, and that Major Andlers'on
protested against it. I now helieve that it
was all a scheme, and th .t Fox's disgrm'ii
expedition was gonet up, iu c.jneLrt with dir.
Lincoln, nerely to deh:de the Northern pub
lie intlo the belief that iher intended to sus.
tain and protect M!ajor Ande'rson, when, in,
fact, accordirg to. the article now pubi~lted
for the lirst timeC. tihev. de'cide(d to dlo no such
thing, aud acted with the deliberate intentmioni
to let the garrison perish. that they might
thereby excite the North, and rouse them to
unite in this unholy and unnatural war, by
which the desperate and proihlgate leaders of
an infuriated anid lawless party might gratify
their vengeance and lust of power over the
ruins (If their country, and1( amid the blind
passion~s of a maddened peol1e.
The document now published, and the pe.
culiar circumstancees, show the basest and
most infamous motives that have ever aetua
ted the rulers of any people, except, perhaps,
in the days of' the first F~rench revolution,
when history shows that wh~olesale murder
was often platmned by insurrectionists ini Pa
ris under the deliberate guidance of mnalig
nant leaders, whose whole objects were uni
versal plunder and murder, in order to exter
inate one party and ride into power them
A mIome'nt'5 review of the line of argu-~
mment pursued in the article, will show that
the policy finally adopted in regard to Fort
Sumter was intended and desired by Mr.
Lincoln and his advisers to lead to a war, not
to b.2 regulated by the ru!es and usages
antm n civiliz~ed and i nligt en-d poopie, but to
One of rapine, murder, and utter exterumina
tion of the peole against whom it was in
tended to be waged, founded upon no princei
ple of right, seeking not to re-establidh anly
disputed authority, or' accomplish any other
obiject than to gratify a lust f'or power and
r 1evenge.
F~or the purp'lose of' directly proving the
motives and im~puil's of tile United States
Go;tvernment in the inaugur ation of this war',
it is only necessary' to mlake several extracts
from the article in qfuestion, as they will serve
also to direct the special attention of thme
publie to those plortionas whic'h most vividly
prove thte unhtallowed purposes of' P. este
Lincoln and his advisers.
One of the chief ends of the article seems
to have beeni thme proof of treason on lime part
of Presidlent lBuchnlan, and thtrough all of
it rUnas the of'i-repeated "alternative" left thenm
by him, of " p'ermitling Major Andlerson and
h iis commanl~hd to starve within fif'teen days, or
of ignominiously abandoning it to a nest of
tr'aitor's," &c. Tlhis "alternative" is dwelt
upon as if to dir ect spteciail attenitioni to it;
and this very "I alternative" proves, above all
the rest, the purpose which they hlad in view
wheni they adopted their /inal policy. It is
argued, nnd very elaborately too, that the
pups of Presidenit Lincoln was to " pre
serve pleace-.nt to " mamke war ; "to pro
tect the sacred Constittution" confided to his
keping ; and to gain over, by his avowedly
peacefuld objects, those who had delie~d thlat
"Const itutionI" amnd broken its~ laws. It is
asserted that President Lincoln could not
signing the order for the evacuation of Fort
Sumter called forth ; and it is said, too, that
he desired to "discharge his duty to humani
ty;" and yet he has chosen to " discharge"
that "duty" in the singular way of resolving
on a policy which, in Ais own words, he knew
would "raise throughout the mighty North
a feeling of indignation, which in ninety days
would have emancipated every slave on the
continent, and driven their masters into the
sea."
The sacrifice was made; Anderson and his
command were forced to become liable as
victims to fanaticism ; Fort Sumter was wrayt
in flames-; and yet, forsooth, they tell us that
the only man who ;could- have prevented it
"resolved to dischatge-his dutyto lkumanity,"'
and that his purpose was."-peace't-his aver
I sion " war." His " purpose" was chariged,
and he resolved to bringon this unhallowed
war. It is a Government actuated with (hess,
feelings that we are to defend ourselve4
against; it is /his kind of war, then that thg
people of the South are to meet; and under
these circtumstances it bfcolues my duty to
f publish the article in question for the infor
mation of the-. peos' of the Confederate
States, and for thcool and unbiassed con
templation of the civilized world.
A war thus inaugurated-from such motives
and under such circumstances-surely can
never meet with the favor of Heaven. A
people educated and trained up to constitu
tional liberty can never, for any; length of
time, sustain such a war. -
F. W. PICKENS.
Abandonment of Fort Sumter.
Kecessity Knote' no Lar.-There are pe
riods in the history of nations and individu
als, when the force of even- tis Proverb, is
illustrated. The Law, or rather the demands
of .fuctice, self-respect, National honor, and
the vindication of our Nationality in the eyes
of Europe, all demand that we should.retain
possession of Fort Sumter at any and every
sacrifice; and no man in this Nation is more
deeply impressed with the paramount impor
tance of doing, than is Abraham Lincoln, the
President of the United States. le feels
and recognizes his duty in the premises; but
the Law of necessi/y steps in, puts at defiance
hi- wishes and his duty, and sternly forbids
his attempting to hold or relieve the nolile
Portres; so promptly snatched from the bands
of the Rebels and Traitors of Charleston by
the timely action of Major Anderson. Bu
chanan and his Traitor Cabinet, had- delibe
rately planned the Robbing of our Arsenals
under the stuperiiitendence' of, and yith the
eenniviance of the miserable fellow Fid
whose portrait-now hangs so conspicuously in
the Rogme's Gallery of our city Police, and
we all know, that when Major Anderson took
possession of Fort Sander, Floyd demanded
its restoration to the Rebels, and Buchanan
actually yielded to the demand, until threat
ened with dhangeutr to his person if he ventured
p,-; ani -n i -t ,if treacherv. iHe yielded
to :t .-t:rt ier.--'t ; but in yicldiing he deter
mained to a:rp lish I by mu:migenent and
;ins-"e. what he had not thi courage to do
openly. 1ie aecordingly refusei to permit the
1'o to be reitlfurced u.s it couli have been in
th) e days. with the n.e.essary i. n and stores
to enabl: it to htohl out for a year at le:at,
aintany 1hree whticht could be brought
agtintst it ; and it was tnt unt ii after .Morris
Island had beenf fortifled, that lhe sanctioned
the abot tive aittemipt at succor molae by the
SarIe of 1ie Il'est: and even counte.rmatded
that order before it was carried into elfect.
From Christtmas until the fourth of March,
the Traitors and Rebels of Charleston and the
Cotton States, received every coun)tenanuce
and support from Mr. Uchanan whicht could
be afforded thtem; atnd when hec retired from
oflice on the 4lth intst., he gloated over the
conviction, that he had fostered Rebellion and
Trreason unitil they had become so rampant,
that they were beyond the control of his sue
cessor. And the one great source of his glo
rifictation was, that Fortsumter was withont
provisions; and thtat, of necessity, the gar
rison must surrender from starvat ion beforeI
it would be in the power of the ltiepul ican
Administration to relieve and reinfore' it.
Of course, Abraham Lincoln could know
nothing of this treason; and when in his
inaugural lie .spoke of occnpying the public
Forts and collectintg the Revemue, he little
dreamed that his Predecessor had treasonably
arranged to make the abandonment of Fort
Sunmter a political nzecessity. He was soon
apprised however, that the Treason of his
Predecessor, had ctuningly devis..d for him
the most serious mortification that could be
inflicted ; and that he had presented to him
te altornative of permitting Andersotn and
his comand to sfturc or promptly to with
draw them, anud ignomitniously permit the Fort
to fall into the hands of the Rebels. To rein
force the garrison or to supply themt with
Provisions, are egnally impossible, because
Jamies lBuchanan and his associate Traitors,
dsigntedly refused to do so while it was in
their power to do it ; and compelled thte comi
mandment, of thme Fort quietly to permit the
cosruction of~ works int his immtediate vicin
ity rand .mnder the range of his gunms, which
- .aeffectually prevent his beitng relieved
when an honest man assutmed the Govern
umtnt ott the 4th of Match. liucluyuan's final
act o.f Treason has been consummated. H~e
prevented the late Congress passing a law
givinig power to the Executive to call for vol
unteers to occupy and recapture the jiiie
Forts. and Arsenals; atnd he designedly left
Fort uum/er ini a position which rend!ers re
lief physically impossible without an army of
from ten to twenty thousand men, atd the
employmenut of a naval force greater thtan we
can command ; and Ite and his myrmnidons
now exultingly and tauntingly say to the Re.
publicant President-" Do your worst. We
have designedly withIheld from you the mac anms
of relieving and holding Fort Sum/cr, and we
invite you to the pleasinag alternative of per
nitting Anderson and his cotmmand to .iturre
withitn fifteen days, or of ignomninionsaly aban.
donuing it to a nest of Traitors and Rebels
whom we have nursed into existence as the
only certain muode of destroying the Republi
n Party.
Such are the simple facts or the case as
they are presented to the new President upon
his assuming the reins of Government; and
we speak advisedly and from knowledge when
we say, that while the country has been wick.
edly made to believe, that the time of the
Administration has been occupied with the
disposal of offices, fourfifths of all the hours
spent in consultation by the Cabinet have
been devoted to the consideration of the all
important question--how to save Fort ,S'umter
and avert from the Government the dishonor
of abandoning it to the miserable Traitors
who for months have been in open rebellion
against the au'nor ity of the Government?
Generals Scott and Totten, and all the mili
tary and nrval chiefs at Washington, have
been consulted ; every plan which military
science could conceive or mi!itary daring sug
gest, has been attentively considered and
maturely weighed, with a hope at least, that
the work of the Traitor Buchanan, was not
so complete as he ann his associates supposed.
But all in vain. There stands the isolated,
naked fact-Fort ,S &nntr cannot be reliered
because of the Treason of the late Adminis
tration : and Vajor ANuransox and his com
mand must perish by starration unless with
<1rawn.
What, then, is to be clone? Could the
President leave them t3 starve? Cui Bono?
Would the sacrifice of a handful of gallant
men to the treason of thieves and rebels,
have been grateful to their countrymen ?
But, says the indignant yet thoughtless Pa
triot, "think of the humiliation and dishonor
of abandoning Sumter to the Rebels !" We
do think of it, and weep tears of blood over
the humiliation thus brought upon the coun
try by the Traitor President who has just
retired to Wheatland to gloat over his con
summated treason. And we are assured too,
and do not doubt the truth of the assurance,
that when Abraham Lincoln was compelled
to yield his reluctant consent to this most
humiliating concession to successful treason,
he did not attempt to suppuess the sorrow and
tears which it called forth. But he had no
alternative. "Necessity knows no lawx;" and
to save the lives of the gallant men who have
so long held Fort Sumter against an over
whelming force of heartless traitors and
wicked and unprincipled rebels, whose treason
has been steeped in fraud and theft, vulgarly
known as " Southern chivalry," the President
of the United States in the discharge of a du
ty to humanity, has signed the order for the
evacuation of Sumter.
- Had war, not Peace,. been his object-had
'e desired to raise throughout the mighty
North a feeling of indignation, which in nine
ty days would have emancipated every slave
on the continent and driven their masters into
the sea if needs be-he had only to have said
-" let the garrison of Fort Saumter do their
duty and perish beneath its walls; and on
the heads of the Traitors and Rebels of the
Slavery-propagandists be the consequences."
Such a decision would have carried joy to the
bosoms of Phillips and Garrison and their
tanaticai ac'eeiates, who so justly consider
allitionium and disunion synonymous; but
it would hare bruught upon the country such
scenes of horror as the mind shrinks from
contemmpating. Verily, the blood of the mar
tyrs, would have been the seed of "..%fro
~nancipaion.' For every patrioit soldier thus
sacrificedl to the revival of the African Slave
trade arid the establishment of a hideous
Slaveocracy at the South, ten thousand negro
slaves wvould have been emancipated and as
many of their masters been driven into the
ocean to .:pla~te their crimes onl earth.
But Mr. Lincoln desired to rouse no such
feeling of revenge amior.g the people of the
Friee States. ie knew-no man knew bet
ter-t hat he had but to hold on to Port Sumi
ter agreeably to the plainly expressed will of
L'he people and~ leare its galkmnt garrison to
the fate prepared for thenm lby rebels aind traci
trs, to insure an uprising which would at
once have wiped~ out Slavery from the face of
thc coiutry ; and wth it, all engaged in this
atrocious reb~ellio~n against the Government.
But his purpose is Peace, not War. Ihis ob
jet is to restore. to, rebuild and to preserve
the Governmentj, and the Constitution which
enacted it; and his great aim is, while main
taining the Constitution and enforcing the
laws, to bring back good men to their allegi
ance, and leave thme thieves and rogues, and
braggarts who compose the great mass of the
Rebels under the cognomen of "Southern
Chivalry," to the uninterrnpted enjoyment of
their own precions society and the reflections
which thme tnutt awake even in them. Hec Is
mindftil of his oath " rgiste~red in Ucaven,"
to preser-ve the Constitution and enforce the
laws; and he feels that his mission is to re
claim and not extinguish ; or most assuredly
he coal have left Fort Sumter to its fate;
and that fate, would have been speedy, cer
tan, and nbisolute annihilation to the traitors
now in rebellion Igainst the Government, and
to the very existence of the institution of Slia
very ott the American Continent. But he
has been faithful to his oath of oflice and to
the Constitution ; and~ by yielding to 'the ne
cessity of the case and listening to the cry of
humanity, Slavery has had accorded to it its
last victory over freedom and the Const.: tu
tion of the United States.
The deed has been accomplished ; the sac.
rilc has been made; Traitors ancd lebels
are again triumuphant ; and the Stars and
Sriems are again to be dishonored in the sight
o the Nation and of' astonished Europe. The
flag of the Union is to be pulled downm, and
the bloody banner of Pirates, Freebooters,,
Rebels and Traitors, is to be run up to wave,
triumphantly over Surnter and be saluted
from hundreds of guns in the Rebel camp,i
amid the cheers of thousands whose sense
less gasconade and bragadocio vauntings, hat e
long since disgusted brave men and honest
citizens. And yet, we approre thee act. A
traitor President rendered it a necssity; and
hunanity demanded that Abrahiam L incoln
should sacrifice all personal feelings, and
gracefully yield to that necessi/y and the de
liberately planned treason upon which it is
based. His countrymen will sustain him in
ths discharge of an humiliating but an im
neratie duty -lhnt with him they7 feel. that
the acount is now closed with Treason. There
is nothing now to yield to Traitors-nothing
more to sacrifice in order to give to Slavery
and the Slave trade the odor of Nationality.
In future the President of the United States
has only Laws to enforce and a Constitution
to sustain; and woe be to them who thwart
him in the performance of his duty, and to
himself, if he. dares to shrink fpm the per
formance of his whole duty.
From the Toronto (Canada) Globe, July 26.
The Civil War in the States.
It now appears manifest that the estimated
loss suffered by the Union army at. the battle
and in the retreat from Bull Run was greatly
exaggerated in the first accounts received ;
and the direct mischief done is far less than
have been anticipated. Had General Beaure
gard possessed even a small number of well
drilled troops with which to follow up the
enemy, there is small room to doubt that the
Union army would have been well nigh des
troyed. But as it is the Federal forces have
received no injury of vital importance.. The
regiments got mixed up with one another in
direct confusion; but having arrived in a
place of safety, the men were at once able to
range themselves under their proper flags.
No estimate whatever has yet been given
from Northern sources of the number of rifles
thrown away in the retreat. That coming
from a secession authority in Kentucky, which
boasts of the capture of 25,000 stand of arms,
as mentioned.by the telegraph this morning,
we must,'.believe greatly exaggerated. Ac
cepting the figures, however, the federal gov
ernment will find little difficulty in replacing
even so lerge a quantity of rifles before an
other movement in advance is made. The
cannon lost have already been replaced. Eigh.
ty thousand additional troops are said to be
ready to reinforce those now in Virginia, and
every hour brings from the loyal States some
additional tender, of men andj means for the
purpose of suppressing the rebellion.
The effect, then, of the defeat has been
limitedwithin the smallest possible compass.
The federal army is within a few men as
strong as ever it was; ;the enemy have not
gained one'yard, of ground. They have re
pulsed an attempt to drive them from the pc.
sition they occupy, but nothing more. Of
course the success will give the rebels more
confidence, increase their ardor, bring addi
tional troops to their standard, confirm waver
ers and induce greater sacrifices on the part
of the people to sustain the cause in which
they are eigaged. The influence of Generals
Beauregard and Johnson will be increased
no unimportant consideration, when it i- re
membered that one of the first requisites to
success in military matters is that the soldiers
should h-ve confidence in their leaders.
Hitherto necessarily untried men have been
employed on both sides. The result of the
first serious encounter indicates-we cannot
say it proves-that the best generals are
those on the side of the South. A great
moral gain is therefore with the Confederates.
They are stronger now than they have ever
been since the contest commenced.
They have however, done good service to
the federal cause. The people of the North
have been too confident. They imagined that
the'ir enemies were to be swept off the face of
the earth with the greatest possible ease.
F-oreigners have never seen any reason to be
lieve that American citizens of the South
were to any greatt degree inferior in courage
to those of the North. Yet the Unionists
have, by repeatedly reiterating the accusation,
convinced themselves that all the traitors
were rarrant cowards. That they were greatly
mistaken in these and many other matters
unnecessary to mention, they are now con
vinced. We apprehend, however, that the
North retains sulticient of the old British
leaven to see in 1he way of suppressing re
bellion, reason only for greater exertion. The
heart of the people of' the loyal States is set
upon preserving the integrity of the repnblic.
They will endure nmany hardships, make
great sacrifices, submit to heavy taxes and
lavish their blood for this purpose. The check
received at Bull Run lasa convinced them
that the work must be done deliberately-and
they will wait in patiemce until their most ex
perienced military oficers themselves pro
nounce an advance desirable. We shall have
nto more Congressional movements, as Gen
eral Scott is said to have pronounced the one
which resulted so disastrously on Sunday.
The volunteers, too, will submit with patience
to the needful military training, and public
opinion will enable the General to o!!icer the
troops as ho may think fit.
Ety's EvperincemC and Good 1Promises.
There are a great many prisoners in Rich
mond, among them Ely. a Congressmnan. He
says lie had no idea of being on the battle
ground, but Foster (a Senator,) camne by him
in a carriage and asked him to ride, and he
went, and the first thing he knew of it the
carriage run against somel artillery and broke
down. ie jumped out, and the bullcts hailed
so fast and thick that he run and got behind
a tree. Presently some men came along, and
thinking they were United States, he hailed
them. Said one of them, who the h-I are
you. I anm Ely, a member of Congress. The
h-I you are-come go along with me, Mr.
Ely. They carried bim (this is Ely's story
told to Pryor) to Col. Cash, I think, and he
aiys Cash nearly frightened him to death,
telling him, damn hinm, he believed he would
hang hinm there and then, and let it he
thought he was killed in battle. Ely sent for
Pryor, cried and hung around his neck and
begged him to get hinm out. Said he never
made a speech against the South, that lhe was
always opposed to the way the admiinistri.t'on
was doing, and that if they would let him go
he u-ould hare our- prirateers released, that
theU should'nt be kiung, and that he would
vote and speak right.
When they marched Ely to jail into the
room where the common soldiers were, which
stunk like a jail will, crowded, he stopped on
the threshold and said gracious mercy, you
are not going to put moe in with all these
common soldiers, are you. The sentinel fixed
his bayonet, and said, get in or I'll stave this
ayonet throngh vOA.
le sent for Wigfall and askedl him who,
he supposed would he done with him. Wi
fall said "hang you, ( -d d-n you, han
you.
Address to the Army from Gebeal
Johnston and Beauregard.
The following eloquent address of our ger
erals to the army under their command wil
excite the patriotic emotions of every South
ern reader:
HRAnQrARTE:S ARMY OF TILE POTOMAC.
MANAssAs, July 25, 18S0.
Soldiers of the Confederate States :
One week ago a countless host of men, or
ganized into an army, with all the appoint
ments which- modern art and practiced skit
could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia
Their people sounded their approach witl
triumphant displays of anticipated victory
Their generals came in almost royal state
their great ministers, senators and women
came to witness the immolation of our army
and the subjugation of our people, and to eel
ebrate the result with wild revelry.
It is with the profoundest emotions of grat
itude to an over-ruling God, whose hand i
manifest in protecting our homes and ou
liberties, that we, your generals commanding
are enabled, in the name of our whole conn
try, to thank you for that patriotic courage
that heroic gallantry, that devoted daring ex
hibited by you in the actions of the 18th and
21st, by which the hosts of the enemy were
scattered, and a signal and glorious victory
obtained.
The two affairs of the 1Sth and 21st were
but the sustained and continued efforts o
your patriotism against the constantly recur
ring columns of an enemy fully treble youl
numbers; and their efforts were crowned or
the evening of the 21st with a victory so com
plete that the invaders are driven disgrace
fully from the- field, and made to fly in disor
derly rcuts back to their entrenchments,
distance of over thirty miles.
They left upon the field nearly every piece
of their artillery, a large portion of their arms
equipments, baggage:, stores, &c., &c., and al
most every one of their wounded and dead
amounting, together with the prisoners, t<
many thousands. And thus the Northert
hosts were driven from Virginia.
Soldiers ! we congratulate you on an even
which insures the liberty of our country
We congratulate every man of you, whose
glorious privilege it was to participate in t'
triumph of courage and of truth-to fight in
the battle of Manassas. You have created an
epoch in the history of liberty, and unborn
nations will rise up and call you " blessed."
Continue this noble devotion, looking al
ways to the protection of a just God, and be
fore time grows much older, we will bo hailed
as the deliverers of a nation of ten millions of
people.
Comrades ! our brothers who have fallen
have earned undying renown upon earth, and
their blood shed in our holy cause is a pre
cious and acceptable sacrifice to the Father o
Truth and of Right.
Their graves are beside the tomb .f Wash
ington; their spirits have joined with his ii
eternal communion.
We will hold fast to the soil in which the
dust of Washington is thus minged with the
dust of our brother.<. We will transmit thi:
land free to our children, or we will fall int(
the fresh graves of our brothers-ia-arms. WC
drop one tear on their laurels, and move for
ward to avenge them.
Soldiers ! we congratulate you on a glori
ous, triumphant and complete victory, and w
thank you for doing your wchwle duty in th(
service of your- country.
J. E. JlonssroY,
General C. S. A.
G. T. BE.WREnARD.
General C. S. A.
PosT~wE os LFEIRS OF SoI..ERs AOn
MEMnEumu OF CuN R Ess.-Congres's has passe-d.
in secret session the following bill, which will
be of interest to our readers:
An Act relatingq to thec Pr-epayme'n/t'f P'o~etage
in certain easts.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact: That all letters
nd other matter authorized by law to be
transmitted through the mail, written or
ment by any officer, musician or private of
the army engaged in the actual service of
the Confederate States, may be transmitted
through the mails to any other place in the
Confeerate States without pre-payment of
postage; but leaving such postage to be col.
cted upon the delivery of said letter or oth
r matters. Prod'ied, nevertheler.s, that in
il such cases, the letters and other mail mnat,
er so sent shall be endorsed with the name.
md shall ho on account of the individual
sending the same, and shall contain a de
icription of the party who sends the same, by
edorsement of his military title, if an oflicer,
or of the company and regiment to whic~h he
belongs, if a musician or private.
SEc. 2. That letters and other mail matter
sent to any officer, musician or private in the
Confederate States army, at any point from
which the said officer, musician or private
may have been lawfully removed, shall be for
warded to the person to whom directed, at
the post ollice nearest which he may hav
been removed, free of additional postage.
Sse. 3. That on letters transmnitted bya
member of Congress, with his oflicial signa'
ture endorsed on the same, pre-paymnit of
postage shall not be required, but the saum
may be p~aidl on the delivery of the lette'
thus transmitted.
SE. -4. Any person attempting to violatC
the provisions of this sct shall be guiltyo
misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay th(
sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered before
any Justice of the Peace having cognizane
thereof.
First Bale of New Cotton. .
The first bale of new cotton in market this
season, was received on 310th ult., from the
plantation of Samuel P. Davis, Esq., of this
county, at Ware-House of Simm & Rust. it
weighed 500O pounds, was clean, well handled.
Staple good, and classed as fair cotton. We
are glad to report that this first bale of the
c..p tooke a ferid oa n same Ana. in nassen.
< ger train to Macon, and will, in a short time,
return made into snbstancial goods, which, nn
dcr the nimble fingers of the Dougherty
counly ladies, will be speedily transferred in.
t' clothing fur our patriotic soldier:.-Alba ny
Patriot.
The Battle at Manassas.
1RICHMoND, VA., July 29, 1881.
- To the Editors of the Dispatch: Among
the many incident of t';e battle of Manassas
which have been 'reported in the city press
since the fight, there was one important fact
which should not be pas3cd ovcr in silence,
- and I am surprhied that it has not before
. this time been mentioned, viz: the share
iyhicli two South Carolina regiments had in
the affair.
These regiments (the' 21 Soitth Carolina,
Col. Kershaw, and the :.I South Carolina,
Col. Cash.) reached the scene of action about
17. o'clock, p. m. Just before they caught
sight of the enemy, they were met by at
least fifteen hundred of nr men-many of
them womdlcd-coming away from the Reld
of battle, who told them "the day was lost l'
that " Col. Hampton and all his officers were
killed, and the enemy were driving our forces
hack?" This was the tenor of the informa
tion received by these two Palmetto regi
ments, who had already gone over four miles
of hilly and broken ground at the double
quick step, and wore of course, in no plight
to plunge into a contest with twenty times
their force, probably flushed with the pros
pect of victory, and excited to madness by
the contest. But the gallant Palmettoes, al
though believing they were marching on to
certain destruction-upon a worse than for
lorn hope-never faltered. a moment, except
to inquire the nearest way to the scene of
combat, and hurried on. They soon heard a
sharp volley from a wood in front, and the
balls whistled through their ranks, cutting
down many of their number, white the air
overhead was alive with the hoarse scream of
shells and the hum of cannon shot as they
crashed through the branches around.
Charging through the -wood, they came in
sight of the enemy-the N. Y. Fire Zouavee
and the Chasseurs-and with a cheer that
was beard through the din of battle rushed
upon the foe, firing as they went! The en
eny immediately broke and fled across fields,
fences and ditches for about a mile; but five
or six regiments of them rallied on a high
hill opposite. The Palmettoes made at them,
but were ordered to halt. Why this order
was given we could not at first see, for ou
ranks were being rapidly thinedl by the long.
range Minnie and Maynard guns of the Yani
kcns. But while asking each other what it
meant, we heard the clear voica of Col. Ker
shaw ringing over the field, " Boys, lie down,
and let the artillery lire over von!" We iam
mhediately fell upou our ftces, and the artille
ry (consisting of Kemper's Alexandria batte
ry,) sent death and desolation among the
well-drawn-up lines of the foe on the opposite
bill, while our men picked off the officers or
individuals occupying prominent places among
them. They began to waver, and a few more
Dhots from Kemper and a volley or two be
tween the pauses of the artillery from the
deadly Mississippi rifles of the Palmetto boys
completed the rout. ald the enemy fled in
confusion. Their own artillery (six splendid
tilled pieces of Grillin's battery) was turae:l
upon them, and lent additional terror to their
flight. But the fact to which I referred in
the beginning of this slight outline was this :
These two South Caro lina regiments, togeth
er with Kemnper's battery, and a detachment
of the irginia Black Ilorse Cavalry, pursued
I he ene-my for :six miles beyond the field of
battle and captured over twenty pieces of ar.
tillehry, biesides armsi and .stores innumerable.
which o:.herwvise would have been entried off !
P.orJmKTO.
A PI.LcrY W~ovA.--We know ofa North
ern horn and Northern raised lady, who mar.
ried a Southern plant,-r, and who,, w t er
husbanud, makes her ahede a: a p .int j *.w z.:
of a certain city on the M:ssissippi river, aat
a hundred thonsand miles above New Orleans.
Thbis lady has nyver let an occosion slip on
which she conld abuse and villify the South
ern Confederacy. A short time since slhe
was on board a steamer, going up from New
Orleans, and was, as usual, wagging her tongue
at a 2:40 rato against our sect ion. Among
har anditory was a lady of the true Southern
grit, who listened to the harangue, while he-r
cheeks grew pale and red by turns, and her
teeth made deep indentations in her coral
lips. At last, when she could stand it no
lnger, the Southiernt matron rosc from her
acat and walked over to where the female
speaker was letting off her abolition gas, and.
shaking her finger in that, lady's face slowly
and distinctly caid:
" Madaine, I have a husband. two sons and
three brothers in the army of the Southern
Confederacy They are fighting for their
country, and if' they are killed, they will die
like gallant men, and however great the loss
may he to me, I shall have the consolation of
knowing they fell in a good cause. You are
a woman, and you talk as you do, because you
know that no Southern gentleman will force
you to stop. I am a Southern woman, and I
now tell you that you shall not abuse my
people in my presence. If you say another
word against the Southern Confederacyv, I
shall whip you in the presence of those pas
sengers!"
The Southern blood was up, and there
would have been an awful wreck of de laine
and crinoline if that Yankee wvoman hadn't
been immediately struck dumb. To make
safety doubly sure, she also retired- to her
state room, and locked the door with the key
inside.
That's the style of woman for Louisiana to
swear by.-New Orlean~s Delta.
" LIFc SETT.EMETs."-The Richmornd
irl~g thus gouges into the New York Times
with a quotation from its own columns:
" The thousands of our soldiers who are
anxious to make life settlements in that miag
nificent dominion (Virginia) have already
had their wishes gratitied. They are im
proving the lands about Bull Rtun, and will
soon render them the most productive in the