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BY ?TO THINE OWN SELF BK TUUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE IIOB'T. A. THOMPSON & CO. iummMmnmt?i?fm*?m)?mm i m j '-_ ^ M I I - - rn Milli II I I I I i i n II irn?ri?. m.mi mniii PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801. NIGHT THE DAY, THOU NO. 5& POETRY. 'Our Cherished Poad TV'b.at, tho'110 rftately column ?. *? '. Their cherished namoi way rain?, T? dim the ?ye and move tho Hp With ?ratit mic and praise I Tin; blue uley, hung with bnnnored clouds, . '' .' Their solemn dmnes sholl be ; AU Heaven's choiring winds shall chant ? Tho anthem of the froo. ?'~>t,. ? - . i '\TPhp spring W.U1) rino-clud arius shall clasp ^ Their hillock's rcrfting places, '. And summer roses droop above With tlushod and dewy faces. For daisie?, rayed and crowned, shall sprln* ' ' Like" ?tars from out of their dyjj? ' Am? look t? kl?dvcU,^^ . - VI uh eyes . x . vainly shall thc witling's Hp?i - . ASMtH with envious dalt, - The (Hine of our heroic dead. " Whoso stronghold is I lie heart, jlio Nation's heart-not crushed, Tho*-each throb be in pain'; For lifo and. Hope m Hst still survive, ' . ?> Whore Love and Faith remain. LO.L.JL-. I , g Bi ?P O L-l T I O ILJ i Speech of C. Chauncey Burr, Esq. This gentleman was serenaded by some of his friends, in New York, when he made thc. following patriotic speech ? Fellow Citizens : You will, I trust', pardon ino for not attempting to lind language to ex press roy gratitude . this demonstration. It is so unlike the kind of demonstration 1 have been in thc habit of witnessing for thc last five or six years, that you. will not be aston ished, if 1 appear a little embarrassed. I dis like to speak of myself, because, in n great Atruggl? for constitutional law and liberty, T consider a ulan's personality lo bo lost, Bo tddes it is not ulwayathc case that a ?min who "stands unmoved and impregnable nuder the fire of his enemies is-equally well balanced under the flattery of bis friends. But, gentlemen, do-not sujipo.se that I take ''?is demonstration for flattery. You arc not tue .clase nf men to practice flattery even'if I were tlio kind of man to bo influmic?d hy it. The class of men I sec before nie is loo literally and too fearful ly pnrt and parcel of our country to fool any thing but the profoundest earnestness and sin feority in the action of public men, and in the drift of public events. Th? laboring popula tion has always the gratest interest ut stake in any country. T>? r'oh !,rc tho habit of thinking thomsons the chief figuro every where, and of OeHfcving that all laws and pub lic nicnsur's ought to bc fashioned for the in crease V1 protection of their wealth. And thi?,l!,? been entirely the scope of legislation M our country for tho last six years especially. lt is a great delusion. For the rich have ro sily less at stake in tho country than the poof. Tho laboring poor arc necessarily as llfupll ri part of thc country, to which they belong, as thc trees, thc rivers, the lakes and the mines', and are quito ns inseparable* from it. These all go with the country, whether it goes up or down. 'J he rich are, to a certi.in extent, in dependent of the country. If the country is ruined, the amount of their wealth may be less, but still they have the means to got o'nf of it, and to nettle themselves in safer end moro prosperous regions, lint the pnor must remain and perish. The rich can say, " I have great iiitt-.re.-its bete j 1 have per cents, profit* und' capital." Hut thc poor can say, ' "1 havo groa tb r interests still, for 1 have wife and children, and ail ? hold dear, which must remain to share the fate of tho country, what ever it may be." Ruin the country, ?ind the millions of laboring men must romain", they and their.-familles, to go down in despair'to prettier. Rain the country, sud the few rioh may- gather up their hoarded gains and put off, with their families, for sonic other spot,, where they may still enjoy the blessings of pouoe and plenty. Ruin thc country, and the millions of laboring people Want for broad. Ruin thc country, and tho rich will riot in luxury. Which, then, has the greatest inter est nt stake in this country, the rich man, full of wind and impudence, or the honest, labor ing, poor man, full of anxiety lind despair for the fate of his wifo and bahes?. Who oaks' this question ? li is answered by a thousand voices nf roason bud justice, that tho country belongs airly to all the citizens; but if yon insist orr class distinctions, .then it pre-emi nently b ulonga to tho laboring poor, who have no otnoi inheritance but its prosperity. If they will insist on olass distinctions. jay the country ^^^(gj^y t? iU thotf right and their ?vari' , TCjTfiee that its fate does not pajis beyond their political control. Tho Uluek Republi can panera, for tho last year and a half, have been throwing out feelers in- relntioti to cut ting tho poor off from tho" right of yoting. \ want to doprivo no oitizen of tho right of vo ting, but if tho right of '. franchis?'1H to bo abridged,'! doolaro that jnstiod and safety de mand that it ahould-bc out off'ot tbfl'rieh end of tho line, while tho many, tfie millions, aro" at tho T^Oor end The really great, sAorcd and 1 indefeasible internst? aro qiostly at the poor ?nd of ihn lino. Thor? lie the how? of . tho land with, all their priceless treasures. Abridge thc right'of*. franchise there, und you have, with ono bjow, struck down tho masses of this country to thc wretched place of their exist ence in the old world. Besides, uo country, ever lost its prosperity ?nd itt liberty by the connivance of the poor. No, never ! , In ev ery instance where a country has Cullen, it hus been in consequence of the luxury, the aggressions, the corruption and thc tyranny of. the rich. In every ihstanco of a country's ruin, it was the work bf a-few rich, nitd no where of thc poor many. But th; uw0K !{c publicans, feeling I??*?,of ?orrowifig tho f>ji???! '-yt 30 as to exclude the while poor, was, for tlio present, .impracticable, have hit upon thc scheme of negro suffrage, as an off set to thc poor whito man's vote. They know that thc negro.is a mero blind animal tool in thc hands of . thc party holding lum. Their negro bureau and negro suffrage together is simply "a Yankee patejit invention, and tinny"' be called a Black Republican voling machine. It is a fact which will not be disputed that tho very rascals who aro now plotting for ne gro suffrage, have always been, in their heart, Qpposed,to the suffrage of thu while poor man. Negro suffrage is simply a trick to tuite power from tl?o white masses, and keep il in the hands of the few-Purk mic despots who have no real political capital in this country, ex cept in die poor barbarian negro. A year ago this month, a ftcpublican editor, whom I have known for many years, plainly told nie that thc result of the war would be that the negro vote would oflset rhe Trish and German vote of this country. J replied that, when the irish mid Germans discovered that they had been fighting to reduce themselves and other white men, to the status of negroes, I had no doubt they would feel profoundly grateful to tho party which bed so abused their confi dence. In this groa;.shame aiid disgrace.of negro equality tho poor laboring whito man is thc grcqt sufferer. It is by tho side of the laboring white man that the negro is to stand ns the equal, nod not by the side of the rich politician who places him there. It is the social plane of tho white laboring man that Is to be Africanized, and not tl.c'parlors mid sa loons of thc rich. You. will remember, fel low-citizens, that when about three years ago I asserted that, one of thc objects of thc war was negro equality. .1 was denounced as " an "enemy of the Government." It is not pleas ant to recall those days of violence and of bru tal stupidity. But your call upon me to night is evidence that you consider my positionnas being vindicated by the present!attitude tho country. So,, my friends, withoo* the least spirit of boasting,' I may say ?Ml ?'very ono of the is. \s I made against tho w ir is vindicated by its-results, BM hy tho 1,0 longer disguised treason of tho Hlaek llopubjicnn party. T appeal to jn? to night whether I did not speak tho truth when I told yon the war was not for the Union, but for the negro, and torevolutionizo and to overthrow the free uovernmcul of our country ? [Yondid, you did.] Tho reason I opposed the war was that 1 was satisfied with and loved the free volun tary system of government of our fathers, ?ind despised thc bloody European system of force which the war was meant to establish Now, my f'rioiids, after tho results of the war are before thc country, tell mc which one of my positions during tho war have I to recant. [Not one, not one."J No, you say well, not one.. But I do not" allude to the matter for the purpose of proving that I' am ?ot very lia ble to make mistakes, but for thc purpose of reimprcssitig upon your minds those great arid sacred principles of government in which our liberty and our safety alone reside. 1 sec no other way to save our country but to return fully to tho old landmarks. To bo as free, hsppy and prosperous a people as wo were, wo must retrace every step we. hnvq taken since tho negro party came into power. If there is n single act of theirs touching thc character of tho Government that is not wrong, that is not a violation of thc Constitution and spirit of tho Union, what one is it? I challenge tho editors mid praters of that party to ppint out a single one of their party measures which P cannot show to bc a violation of thc Coi.sti t ut iou mid a crhno against liberty. [Some one in thc audience said they saved tho Union.] No, they, have not saved tho Union. Anu President Johnson himself says that tho Union shall not be saved. That is just tho fight be tween tho President and thc Black Bepublican party. Tho party is consistent-it-bas not changed its course a hain It is contending now Vor [B^yjj?t it wns fighting for during tho war- for$o ovWto^-0?,^0.1/1""? W for a centralized Amorican despotism. Do you call this abomination n Union, which is held together by tho bloody point of tho bayo net, and witera-one-half is plotting to koop thc bloody heel permanently upon hie nooks of tho people' of the other hnlf ? T.f there is any man"in this crowdi wh? is fool enough or kuitVo'enough to onll'this accursed product of this Abolition war a Union, I wont him td stand out there, so that I may seo how he looks.. Why, if. tbia aboioinntion, as. it now stands, is a Union, then hell may set up for r placo of virtue und happiness ! I will go fur thor and say, if there is in any world a worm hell limn thia, then Ippity the condition of ! thc Black Republicana her?ii?er. Dives bowl- | lug for a drop of water tojcool his burning tongue' was to be envied xor contrast. Read their newspapers 1 Bead their .speeches in Congress! Nay, r"?d thc prayers of their olergymon 1 Aud where, out ?f Beelzebub'* kingdom, was there ever sucnipn itiferoul spirit .before I Hatred, spite, malice, revengo, all larded with such iiioomprc?ft?nsiblo lying ! And this is to be called ? T^ott-afrec,'h?p ?..:tut country ! God bdVo mmv/ ?po? us if wo ?re such tools as to think so ! Look to the once proud and honored Capitol of our ! country, and behold it now, after this Aboli tion war, degraded to a bandy den of negroes, absolutely unlit for tho *. residence of decent white met) and women. The cushions in the galleries mid.saloons of tliOrCapitol arc actu ally swanning with vermin, thc natural pro duct of thc " wards of tho nation," a: thc ne groes an; poetically called, and thc morals and polities of thc leading members are ns lousy as the cushions 1 Only last week ono of the Congressional mouth-pieces of the negro party de : bl red that They would never consent that Congvcss should put liberty to sleep upon any Procustcan bed made by the fathers, binon less slrnr-glo it; in'the cast-off garments of its own ohildhQod." What dors this moan ? Why. in plain language, that the government made by our fathers was a Piocustcaii bed for the inglorious sleep of liberty, and that the negro party lins stripped the government of its original clothing, and determined that it shall never bc put on again. This same con fessed traitor, Patterson of ?Hew Hampshire, calls the principles of the Constitution of the United States "musty precedents," mid says they hold them " in healthy cf tl tem pt." Such is thc present language and ittilude of Con gress And this, my fclbw-citizeris, is the same party, and those are tilt same principles that 1 combated during tho wir. During thc whole war these traitors were niming nt the very thing they are doing ntw. It was for this that the war was innugunted mid carried on ; and it was for this that Jdcnounced it ns a crime, not only agni**' iAorwi?v??n ciple of government, tnit against christian civ ilization. It was?1 wnr ?f conquest and plun der. Thc partpwMoK carried it on. as still represented i? Congress, now admits lt to have been a war of conquest, and they are so fur from denv^'g't to have' been a war of plun der, tlii1' they aro still, .after the war is ended, ?live?'lng all kind of schemes and excuses to ,t?nt?lino tho plunder of the Southern people. Their thirst for plunder is not yet satiated. Their cannibal appetite for blood is not yet appeased. And, if 1 speak of plunder, fel low-citizens, you have had a good taste of the ge ti Pus of the negro party in this respect j for I see here bolero me many who had to mort gage your little homestead to buy substitutes to feed the insatiate devil of Abolitionism. Once you owned.n peaceful home, which you had gained by your own daily toil ; but Black Republicanism laid its mailed band upon your shoulders and said : " Conic ! your money or your.life ?.either go yourself to be shot nt for the glory pf negroes., or mortgage your homes and get money to buy those who are to bo shot in ymir stead ! This was tho only alternative tho Black Republican party ive the poor of this country. This party h?..- mortgaged not only your homestead, but it has mortgaged your muscle and thc sweat of your brow, to pay a debt 'heaped up in murdering and plun dering the Southern people. Well, gentle man, I take no moro pride in seeing thc South ern people plundered than' I should in seeing tho Northern people plundered. It is truo that I was born herc in tho North, but that consideration renders mo, if possible, still more keenly' sensitive to tho mortification nnd shame of witnessing the spirit of conquest, plunder aiid'despotism that ha? disgraced the placc of my birth.. If I leavomy children no other inheritance,'I shall nt least proudly leave them the name of a father who, in a time of | great corruption, tyranny, nnd brutnl insanity, I never for o single hour suffered his integrity | to bond before tho furious storm. . If I have suffered persecution in this cause, I am proud of it. If the place where I wu? born is stamped with n great wrong, I am the moro ashamed of it. I look upon these Abolition tyrnnts with ns gront horror and hatred ns the'proud nnd virtuous man does upon the d?filer of; his home. . N.or?hayo I any moro intention of ever abandoning.my opposition to nil ifteir nbonii nable deeds and principles, tl??? I should have of letting off n scoundrel who lind violated tho _san.ctity of. i})y..horao. To acquiesce in tho Tesu.lts of* this war, ns they pow stand, is to give up thc land of our birth to tho raviges of ? thc funntio, ?nd tho foot of tho spotlor I Is to turn our bick upon tho graves of our a ri cas tors, nnd to hedonia a traitor to ovory: princi pio that justly bears tho name of liborty I Acquiesce in this abominable, thia, ncgroized despotism ! God Almighty forbid it ! Sooner may thc land bo divested of its human popu lation} nnd become tho homo only pf the cocka trice, tho owl and tho bittern ! . Sooner all this wild waste, with tho sublimo prayor hov ering nbovo tho desolation, tl n.t. God would repeoplo it with a rnoo of mon moro worthy of the fair inheritance than wo (mould bo if we V did acquiesce in this despotism I To acqui esce, fellow-citizens, is to consent that the' White laboring mau should bc brought dowe, to an equality with tho negro. That is wlr.it it means. Aud it means inore. ; it m tan s that the white laboring man shall be taxed to death to feed and clotho his newly ehViatencd blnck brothers, .iu idloncss. Tho expenses of the negroes' bureau for tho current year will not bu a tuill nuder fifteen millions of dollars! And what is this negro bureau! Why it is ?fniply the iio.<?ro'? ?iew liinstPi" Von have sulfured tho-nogro to be taken from bis lawful master, and giveu to a bureau of Yankees, spiritualists, free lovers, hutt fanatical vaga bonds generally. Practically the negro is not us froo under thc control of thc bureau as he was under thc control ol' his lawful muster. Tho meat difference in his condition is, that formerly he supported himself, and now you have to support him and the horde of official scoundrels who are appointed to take charge of him. Morally, ana physically, poor Cullie is n thousand fold worse oiT than bc was be fore. Indeed, before, bc was tho best off of any negro nu the face of'tho earth. Now he is" thc worst. He is perishing nt thc rate of fifteen per cent. annually-, I Thc poor creature Iltis been freed to death. Why will not the wretches, who have compassed his ruin, nud thc ruin of 0Uf 60U"try, inflict the same bles sing upon themselves '( Why do such men as Thad. Stevens, Charles Suinnrr, Pen. Wade, Stnnton, and the lecion of such devilish spir its live? Wo will not seek to fathom thc mysteries of divine Providence : ?? "If stormi* nml earthquake's bron it not lloaren'? design, ' Why tlicn a Uorgia or a Catnlbie." Lot them live; but let us reserve the eter nal right to despise and denounce them. In proportion as wc love our country wo must talco care that thc bloody, the brutal, the.des potic deeds of tho Abolition war, arc not per mitted to be precedents for the future. All that lias been done tn this new march of despotism, must be undone. To say. that we cannot un wind this thread of despotism.is to say that L>ur counny can hevoruu ni? ..??u ?"nv ?gain. Who says that ? Who says that white men mus?, sit down content to be only the equals of negroes ? Who says that the land if Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, of Pat ric k Henry and of Lee, shall become the land A Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Pen. Butler,a?d old John Prown ? AV ho nays that the immortal Revolution for white men and liberty, in 1776, hall be obscured or washed out by a rcvolu ion for negroes end despotism iu 18(50?' Not yotl, fellow-citzens ; for if there were a chop of such craven blood in your veins, you would not have done inc thc honor of this too Hattering demonstration. Your presence herc is proof that, in your political principles, you ire white men, and that you aro determined that the Government shall be preserved "for the' benefit of white men and their posterity forever." Your presence herc is proof that you will stand for the VJ ti ?Oil as it was, and for tl)C Constitution ns it was, before either was tinkered by the traitorous hand of Black Re publicanism. Thc Union our fathers made '"hat is your plat form, and it is mino. We stood together upon this platform during thc war in opposition to tl o Abolition traitors who were spoking lo overthrow lhegre.it American principle ot consent, and to establish the old despotic European principle of ? fore? H Wo !iro Democrats of the same school ns ...ic wise mid patriotic founders of our Government. Wc, feffow-oitxons, arc Democrats without the Black Republican improvements. During tho whole of that black and bloody time be tween thc. years of 1801 and 1800, wo stood upon precisely the same platform of principles tho Doinooratie party had stood upon all thc way from 17i>8, to 1800. If others got offthat platform we did not. If Jefferson and tho foun ders of the Union were right wc w?re right. If the immortal platform of prioiplcsknown ns thc Kentucky mid Virginia Resolutions, on which the Democratic party was brought into exis tence, were right in 1798, they were right, in 1800. They aro right now, and they will bc right forever. They involve ho funda mental orgftn?o principles of our Government If thoy havo been overthrown, their overthrow is n crime, and wo must treat it as a crime. To aquiesce in n crime is to bc n party to it af ter the fact. If we aro honest in wishing tho Union our fathers made restored, WQ must re turn to the principio on which our fathers hosed it. The Democratic temple of self Gov ernment and liberty can novcr bo modo (o stnqd upon tho foundntion of Block Ropubli oan despotism. And ovcry Blaok Republican stone or plank putin thc foundation for tim Democratic edifice will boasouroo.of weak ness and danger. We havo seen some strange campaigns We hnvcsovcral timessoena queer looking nag brought on to the political course with a Domorniic body and Black Republican head and tail, but' wo- have never known ? great rnco to bo won by suoh an animnl. iWe. probably never, wjil. I bay this; not ffarh arty ndpiiration of moro porty names, hut fron> a profound conviction of tho virtues of Btemo orutio principles^ Jf tho Republican party should change its revolutionary oharftcter and adopt Democratic principle.*, I should folio* t?io principle? whatever name they bore. On the other hand, should the Democratic part/ swing off from its principles I should not fol* low it. I am not one who would accept mer? party .success by the Sacrifice of thc principles of Democratic liberty. Success on such ground is tho most ruinous defeat. .Tl-ut motto of shallow politicians, that " half if loaf is better than no bread," docs well enough for beggar? and mendicants, but it is a shame in tho mouth - of a statesman. Liberty is not ft quality } it is ono-mid indivisible. It is Uko virtoo, and cannot be halved and quartered and ?nutch/vl nt und scattered about in fragments. It must' stand or fail, ns a whole. Tho man who ia willing to noccpt half a loaf of liberty deserves never to bc freo. If thc immortal principle did exist in halves, then I am for fighting for both halves at once, and for never gi Ving up the conflict until we ate either dead or victorious. - Xow, fcllow-citzciiF, let our simple platform ' continue to be : Thc Union ! our fathers mndo thc Union ns it was ! the glorious old UnioiT?* thc Union without one of those Black Repub lican improvements 1 it will take time to Work our torn and bleeding country all thc wny baok to that glorious first estate, but if we nre faithful wc shall reach it. At any rate, that must bc our platform. On no other cnn the Domocrntio party ever be united nnd victori ous. The man who talks of acquiescing in any part of this Blank Republ ionn revolution is \ traitor to Deuioernoy and liberty, nnd is llrcndy half way over to Thad. Stevens and lohn Brown. Let not the craven wretch call himself n Democrat, but let him nt least hnvo tho decency of Judds, nnd ** go to his own place!" Fcllow-citzctis, nguin I thank you for this manifestation of your confidence and re? ?pooh Revenue Stamps Wc publish the following from tho "Now ?ork Herald," of the 20th ult., which settles .li jUcstion whether or not it is necoessnry to iflix a stamp on all receipts of money-^over wenty dollars. Thc case was tried before tho United States District Court, New York, L.SSUJNU ???.^<LPr?sidii?R--- .._ PttOP?R STAMPS. Thc United Stales rs. Daniel P. Peters. This was an action under the Internal Revenue aw of 30th June, 1864. The defendant, pro motor of a hotel on Broadway, corner of twen y-first street, was charged with having at s?v irai times issued seven separate receipts for he payment of money, without affixing the iccessary revenue stamp. A witness testified hat the receipts woro accepted by him under irotcst, but that Mr. Peters said he would bo lauincd if he would put on any stamp or pay my money to support thc Lincoln Govern nent. The defence was that defendant hud no in put to evade the law, and it was put on tcsti notiy that Mi:. Peters was in thc habit of ceeping stamps on hnnd, but it was not shown lint he ever made usc of thom. * The jury rendered a verdict for tho Gov ironient in $1,400, the full amount of penal ies in seven oases in which tho defendant vas charged with .having evaded thc law. KdT Tho " Memphis Avalanche " makes onie wholesome suggestions to tho people of he South that aro well worthy of serious con sideration. Thc remarks of that journal ar? is follows : "There is but ono remedy for the South, o far as We can seo. * It is for us* to begin to urn our attention to tho manufacturo of all he cotton fabrics we need. This will bo ? ilow advance toward independence, but it will ie euro. During the oont?hunriod of tho wa/ housands of spindles and looms were etnrted n the South Machinery for tho manufac urc of cotton goods was slowly but surely get ing a foothold among ns, nnd our people took >rido in being soon in "homespun dresses." [f wo onn but begin this improvomont, in oarn ;st, wo cnn. in a few years, snap our fingors at di the impositions of New-England. Nations lo not oount their existence by yoars, but by lecades and centuries ; and if wo but begin ?bis work now, tho next generation will find is able to manufacture not only all the cotton ?ve need, but all we can desire. This procos* viii cramp us. IC will compel us to live with, rigid economy. It will copipol us to discard ill tho present ruinous mania for luxuries. We must raise all tho food wo need as well as nnnufacture all tho cotton goods we woat\ Wc must depend more upon ourselves and our mn land, for whnt wo eat and wonr than wo Iiave eyer done bpforo. Iii doing this wo shall perhaps prolong our yeats of poverty and toil,, but wc shall have won our true and. lasting iU? icpendchce.!' . ' - ?* ' "MOST of tho Southern S?at#$ ar$i laking Bteps to establish orphan associations fbr tho" caro and education of those mado orphans by tho disasters of the lato way, They aro, cot ton op by privato; charity, tn Mississippi they arc to havo Otfo O? Laudo nhl o Slprin?oj^ io Tonn?$*<?Mt ClarVsvilU, 4