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THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL. VOLUME
XVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MOtgHNG, OCTOBER 16, 1855. NUMBER 42..
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From Sartairis Magazine.
OUR BABY.
BY riKEDE CARET.
XVhen the morning, half in shadow,
Ran along the kjUand meadow,
And with milk-White fingers parted
I Crimson roses, golden hearted:
Opening over ruins hoary
1 y:tj purple morning-glory,
An outshaking from the bushes
Singing larks and pleasant thrushes;
That's the time our little baby,
Strayed frm Paradise it may be,
Camo with eyes like heaven above her,
0, we could not ehoose but lovo her I
Not enough of earth for sinning,
Always gentle, always winning,
Never needing our reproving,
Ever lively, ever loving;
Starry eyes and sunset tresses,
White arms, made for light caresses,
Lips, that knew no word of doubting,
Often kissing, never pouting;
Beauty even in completeness,
Overfull of childish sweetness; *
That's the way our little baby,
Far too pure for earth, it may be,
Seemed to us, who while about her
Deemed we could not do without her,
Whon the mortiinor. half in shadow.
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Kan a'ong the bill and meadow,
And with milk white fingers parted
Crimson roses, golden hearted;
Open over ruins hoary
Kvery purple morning glory,
And outshaking from the bushes
Singing larks and pleasant thrushes;
That's the time our little baby,
Pining here for heaven it may be,
Turning from our bitter weeping,
Closed her eyes as when sleeping,
And her white hands on her bnsom
Folded like a summer blossom.
Now the litter she doth lie on,
Strewed with roses, bear to Zion;
Go. as past a pleasant meadow
Through the valley cf the shadow;
Take her softly, holy angels.
Past the ranks of God's evangels;
Ta?t tlio ?nints and inartyri holy
To tho Earth-Born, meek and lowly,
We would have our precious blossom
Softly laid in Jesus' bosom.
jllistfllonrnus.
The Presbyterian ChurchWe
find the following in the Spartanburg
Express from which it has been extensively
extracted in the newspapers. The vindication
which it contains must he entirely satislactiory
I to every candid and unbiassed mind, and the
insertion of it is but an act of justice to one or
the leading denominations i?? our land, a de
nominatteui remarkable for its intelligence, for
its uniform love of free goverment, (eminently
displayed in the American Revolution.) and.
at the same time, for it? total exemption from
impertinent interference with party po itic<. We
have beard it often observed and we think ju?t
ly, that such a thing as Presbyterians uniting
as a body, in party elections baa never been
'known in this country. I hey confine themselves;
as a church, to their appropriate province
of matters spiritual. Why, then should
they be arraigned before the public? When
they are thus arraigned, the following article
hows how able they are. by a fair exhibition
of facts to defend themselves. The calm and
dispassionate tone of Mr liatro * remains is
admirable:
The Politicians and the Clinrclies.
Te "heap your dust on quick and dead."
suakspcark.
Hon. L. M. Keitt, Orangeburg, S. C.
Sir: The maintenance of t lie cause of truth
and righteousness frequently imposes on men
unpleasant duties. The application of this fact
to the case before me I will now state:
In comomon with thousands of delighted
citizens, I had the pleasure of listening to the
addresses delivered at the Complimentary dinner
given recently in this village to tJol. Orr,
the worthy Representative of this Congrssional
District: When, that day, I took the position J
of hearing nothing could liavd been farther from
my mind than the duty which now devolves
upon me?that of calling your attention, and
that of the public, to certain statements made
in your speech- Had you confined yourself
to politics proper; or, as an episode had vou
been content with the humane act of interring
decently the remains of the supposed defunct
Know Nothing organization, you never should
have heard from me. With matters of that
sorti have nothing to do. In the language,'
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however, ot the "aeainiess onaitspeure ?uuu i
I quote,from him as a compliment to yourself j
and your honored compeers, tor I noticed that i
several ofyou drew largely frorp his rjch treps- !
pres?in Ins language,! gay, ye ''heap your !
jlust on quick and dead." In other words, your
statement respecting the Presbvteiian and the
episcopal Churches as regarded their alleged
^connection with abolitionism, although wholly
without intention on your, part to do them
jnjustice qrjnjqry, ponsignetj tfyeir no\v strong
Shd compact organizations tq a speedy djssyju
1101) II IIUI O" imaiiivus {?K?"C.
You will not understand me to de?y either
the right or the propriety ofieferring publicly to
the Church in any of its aspects conditions or
bearinnga even in political speeches, It was j
your right. The Church also plants herself I
boldly before the world and invites?ar.d chal- I
lengcs?investigation of her character her con- !
dition and her works. What I regret is that
you had not informed yourself more fully of
r..??D in relation to the Churches of which
M'V IflVIO ?ff V,..., _
you spoke. AncJ what I cprnplain of is that your
statements, uncorrected, plqca those Churches
jii a false H??ht before the world and thus ?j"
them great ihjusfice and injury.
' Irt'support of your argument in favor of 3
Soofbefn organization, you pronounced (he
' of (|io population nor*, of tb.e
slavery limits, with the rarest exceptions,
"thoroughly and hopelessly nbolitionized!" stated
that their conversation their teachings, their
hooks and their nursery lullabies, were all
deeply imbued with these excerable senlimeats
that in consequence of this state of things
division had taken place years ago, in the
Methodist and Baptist Churches, Unit (lie
Presbyterian and the Episcopal Churches were
in a slate of deep agitation, were indeed on the
very eve of division, and that division was inevitable!
Now while I freely admit that the fanatical
element in that region is large, that portions of
it are so far gone that no reasonable hope can
be entertained respecting them; and while I
agree with you that their spirit and course of
action arehighly censurabe, I dissent wholly
from your inferences as to what must be the
" ' * If
inevitiibi result of their fanatical course ;auu i
protest agaiimt the occupancy, on the part of
the above named Churches, of tho position in
which your statement would plcace them. You
spread out before you hearers those loathsome
masses, and represent them as abounding equally
in all the churches. But the Baptist and
Methodist Churches, years ago, cut loose from
their portion of those contaminating hordes
and of course have ever since stood forth before
the world purged, commendable and glorious
while the Presbyterian and Episcopal Uhurchca
are still in the odious contact?still fraternizing
or striving to do with those on whom politicians
not always very fastidious in their moral tastes
spit only venom, and from whose touah their
purer spirits instinctively recoil ! This; sir, is
the position in which you have placed us !
Now in relation to those divided Churches,
I say blessing on them in their deed! They
chose their own course?had a perfect right
I to do so?acted no di-ubt from conscientious
[ motives?pursued the only course which, as
they supposed, could he taken. We took a
different course ; and 1 shall show reached the
same it'not a more desirable result.
As ragards also the Episcopal Church, I
have in the above mentioned respect, nothing
to say.- Its proper defenders will guard its
honor. Hut as a minister of the Presbyterian
Church located also on the ground upon
which you spoke, and in the midst of the
Community before which your statements were
made, I consider it incumbent on me ?due also
to yourself?to state the facts as they are respecting
said Church, and thus afford you an opportunity
of placing yourself right with this
1 community, and also before tbe Church at
large in the South.
As long ago as 1837 the Presbyterian Church
commenced it6 reform and made its division
?not by a sectional line, but in relation to
doctrines and cliurch order?separating at
one time a I ante portion cf that loose, floating
fanatical element to which you have referred.
Since that period our duty as regards that mat
ter has been evsy, and generally pleasant.
Here and there a few obstreperous spirits for
a time remained. Most of these have since
gone off?some in one direction, sonic in another
?thinking themselves holier than we. Others
tt little fractions, have under conservative influences,
been restrained. Thus has the process
of reform gone on until now?ny, nnd for
years past?we have, as a Church, been wholly
fre>- from agitation on mat snnjeci, not ouiy
in I he meetings ol our General Assembly, but,
sc far ns i know, in all the subordinate judicatories!
The tires within have died out for
i wantotcombustible material; and all attempt*
to introduce firebrands from without have so
signally failed, that agitators have abandoned
the hopeless task.
There were two points to which \ou gave
great prominence in your speech. 1st The
imminent danger, nay, the certain ruin to
Southern minorities, whenever Northern majorities
obtained the sway. 2d. The utter impos.
sibility of Southern men holding any sort of
fraternal intercourse with men on the other side
of the line! Well, I do not know what you
politicians may find possible or impossible; but
your Atuteiueiits have led me to look narrowly
into this matter as I wished to he prepared to
meet ths danger should there beany, and cut
off also all intercourse, should it be found at
once hypocritical and dishonorable. But on
turning the historic pages, I find, 1st. That so
far as the Presbyterian Church is concerned,
We at the South have from the first been in the
minority 2d. It appears from the Minutes of
the General Assembly that of our present Synods?
thirty in all ?only twelve are in the
slave States, and one other is divided by the
line.
Of the one hundred and forty-eight Presbyteries,
only fifty-eight belong to the South!
Moderators of the Assembly have the appoint
ing ot most of the committees?consequently
they have great power over all the business
transactions. There have been sixty-seven
meetings of the General Assembly, and each
has had its own Moderator. But of these sixtyseven
Moderators, only eighteen have been
from the South! All this looks very alarming
in view of your recent picture! But yet it
is also true. 3d. That instead of being overrun
and driven out of the church ?they of the
North having more than double our strength
?S'.e have, with lb* aid of good men and true
<>n the other side of the line, turned out the
fanatics!
As reg.irtjs fraternal intercourse, I need only
.u . r_?. .i.?? ? n. 1 \ 1.1..
IlieilllUll ujc lllii|? UUI wontitU .I^aaciuui*
is the cummon bond of union among ail the
churches. It covers the broad area of the
United States and the territories. The dele
gatiqi) is in proportion to the number and the
strength of the Presbyteries. There may, then
in Ally Assembly be twice as many members
from the North as from the South. The meet.
r.i ..?? i.^i.i
] lllgi Ul Wic i?#ac?in?ij ??io uciu ^ ituuuv io^^cu
j to iatude. In 1859 it met in Charleston; and
nevor, probably, was there a more harmonious
and perfectly delighted company of men found
on the earth, Dr. John C. Lord, of Buffalo?
I oi e of our strongest defenders against rabid
! fanaticism?in the chair, as Moderator. I
mingled much among the members of that Assembly
and I know that their expressions of
fraternal regard for their brethrn of the South
and their grateful feelings for the warmth of
their reception in that Southern emporium,
were most cordial and profound?and that,
not ftnly while they were in the South: for
J saw pf tny excJmdge papers?for I was then
editor of the Southern Presbyterian?a large
number of letters published by the members
of that Assembly, in the Northern and Western
papers after their return home strongly expressive
of the same noble sentiments. Even
to this day also, there is a familiar and pleasing
correspondence kept up between many of
.! till tlioip frinlliU In* vvliitlll lb??V
uiubc iiiviihm-io hum vuvm iiivi.mv ....w... ...v
were entertained in that city.
Since that the Assembly has mot in Philadelphia,
in Buffalo and Nashville in all of which
places there have been the same harmony of
action end the same cordialty of social inter
course. I was myself a member of the Assembly
which met in Philadelphia in 1853. There
were many delegates from the South and I deny
that any discrimination was made against
Southern men in that Assembly. I am persuaded
also that no members of the Assembly
from any other part of the country were more
cordially received, more respectfully treated,
or more kindly entertained by the citizens, than
were those from the South. The same, I have
been told was the case at Buffalo.
A member of the Assembly which recently
met in Nashville ha- related to me the Mowing
incident, which occui red in that body, in
direct conflict with )nur statements: An over
zealous delegute from one of the Congressional
Associations down Kast being admitted to ihe
floor as a corresponding member, so lar forgot
his whereabouts as to undertake to lecture
Southern members upon their "sins and duties!'
Instantly a dozen or more Northern members
sprang to their feet, each eager to cast the first
stone at him. And among them, they gave
him very much such a ''letting down" n$ the
old innu did to the young intruder whom lie
found robbing his orchard. '*&lo.?t handsomely
and ably," says my informant "were the South
cru members defended by their Northern brethren,
without the necessity of a Southern mail
saving a word?sncli men as Dr. Boardmen of
Philadelphia, Dr. Durnont of Newport, and
Dr. Rice of St. Louis, taking the lead in the
defence!"
Instead, then, of its being true that we of the
South are in danger of being overpowered, and
driven out by these avalanches of abolition, of
which you sjioke in so earnest admonition, the
fact is w? have put them where they deserved
to l?e? on the outside, while we remain secure
within; have swept them from our whole arena
and there they will be compelled to stay?not
a fragment of that disturbing element left to
annoy. In stead of ceaseless and intolerable
dissiMi.-ions as you stated?wc have perfect
peace! Instead of impending and inevitable
division, no such tiling is even in the distance
contemplated. Indeed we have nothing about
whicii either to contend or divide! Sueli are
briefly the facts in relation to agitation, frater
nizatioli and the prospects of division. But
there are other facts.
The principal religious newspaper of our
denomination is published in Philadelphia?a
large and ably conducted paper called the
'Presbyterian." 'I hat paper is liovT on tho
25th year of its age. It circulates throughout
the United States. It is one of the most conservative
and reliable papers in the world. I
have never yet seen in it an "infected"' article,
nor one in any other way, offensive to the
South. We have aUo a book publishing
establMiment, called the Board of Publication.
The members of that Board are elected from
year to year by tlie whole General Assembly.
The majority of the members are always Northern
men. Our Publi>hing House is also in
Philadelphia?within that vast region whence
you have supposed nothing " clean" could ever
issue. The publications of that Board amount
now to about five hundred different works.?
Large and repeated editions of many of them
have been for several years scattered all over
our country. They embrace a vast variety of
subjects, and are adapted to persons of all
classes, characters and conditions?tracts, chi I -
dren's books, and "nursery lullabies" forming
no inconsiderable portion of their issues ! And
yet, sir, if you c:m point out a single paragraph
in any one of them which directly or indirectly
inculcates abolition sentiments, you can do
what it is believed the whole South has thus
far been unable to do ! Indeed, it was precisely
011 these grounds that the " Simon Pures"
who now constitute the "Free Synod" of the
West, left UsS. Our Assembly was firm as Gibraltar
against their seductions and assaults;
and they could pour none of their lava streams
through any of the presses of either the Assembly
or the Synods. They left; and f?>r the
" ieformatiou" of the rest of mankind, they aro
now doing their own publishing.
With little if any qualification, I believe that
tiie same may be said of the millions of books
published by the American Sunday School
Union, the Anieiican Tract Society, and the
Episcopal Church?ay, and of their newspapers
and children's papers also, which linvo an
immense circulation. And yet all these are
published North of the line. Indeed, nearly
all our books, of every kind, come from the
Morth. Large, then as is the mass of rabid,
fanatical publications, vastly greater is the
strength, ai d incomparably more numerous
are the works of those millions who have not
bowed the knee to the modern Baal. Nor do
I agree with you that in regard to any of these
matters is there anything portentous cf n worse
state of things in the future. So far as the
Old School General Assembly is concerned,
the South may have the fullest confidence in its
future character and action. For not only are
its spirits and its principles thoroughly conservative;
but it is all powerful, as tegaids ability
to keep out or suppress fanaticism or error of
whatever kind or under whatever name. And
8<? determined have its members been that agiIntinti
mi VftVttH niiil fruit l/wa cnhitwfa wh/mM hn
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excluded, that they have in several instances
broken off all correspondence with prominent
foreign bodies with which they formerly held
intercourse, on accouut of their attempts to
cast firebrands among our churches, or distract
our ecclesiastical councils. The New School
Presbyterian Churcli, a large and respectable
body of christians, is also, from year to year,
becoming stronger and more united. Their
approach is 6teadily toward the position which
Ufa /tPPiinv Ita mivtnru of iin/win<runitil furnirrti
" V VVV-|/^ .Minvuivwi iw.u.^l.
elements is working off. TMr tpii(|enuy is to
greater compactness and order. In their last
General AssernWy theif qcdoq \yas decidedly
conservative; and, so far as I know, satisfactory
! to their membership in the South. Even asj
J regards that body tlieie is less probability uP
| division than there was years ago.
j No one. it seems to me, can douhl the con- {
I servalivc spirit of the Episcopal. It is one of!
; the last bodies in which we should expect to '
find fanaticism of the rabid stripe of which you!
spoke. "Order" and 4 unity' have ever heen i
i their boast. And so far as I can learn, no di- j
vision on the sniijoct ut' slavery has Ik en an- !
tieipatcd, or is likely ever to oceur. Hut those '
several bodies, taken collectively, con>titnte n!
' well oidered conservative phalanx of prodigious!
I strength. And they are actuated l?v a spirit j
I wliicli will neither Hag in duty, t:nr suffer itself
I to l?e overborne.
Thus ?ir; have I, as in duty bound, laid the
facts respecting these several points briefly be
fore yot|; nod hoping that it will meet your
approval I shall through the press present them ]
to the Southern public.
It is due to all parties concerned that this
!>huuld be done. Facts and investigations arc
what good men always desire. It a (lords me
unfeigned pleasure to be able in these disjointed
times to present so gratifying a picture. And I
doubt not that yourself and all other true patriots
will rejoico with us, whose battles have
been (ought and won, and whose pence now is
like the placid lake. You politicians know
best what can he done in the political wot Id;
hut until 1 shall be convinced to lite contrary, j
I shall indulge the pleasing hope that you may J
yet be able to adopt and carry out the prittci- j
pleon which we have acted?insteadof dividing,
hold on to your Constitction, and send out from
under it those who plot its overthrow !
Very respectfully, &c.,
WASiinvnTnv rtvinn
Spartanwro. S. C., Sept. J. Ifl0f>.
From the Carolina fyarU'.n.
Loiter from Col. Koilt.
Messrs. Editors: In your issue of the 13th
instant I noticed a letter addressed to mc by
the Kov. Mr. Baird, to which you editorially
invite attention. My disinclination to eeclesi
aslicai controversy arises from my studios, taste
and habit, and I cannot be induced into it; but
I will relieve myself from an erroneous position,
Imvever unintentionally placed in it.
An inference legitimately dcduciblc from the
letter is, that 1 charged the Presbyterian Church
South with lukewnrmnes" or indifference upon
tho subject of slavery. 1 < mpliatically disclaim
any such inference or imputation.
To put myself right, I will re-state my propositions,
and adduce a particle of testimony.
I said that we were upon tlio eve of uncoiljeetnrabl-j
events. That a struggle of unequalled
fury was swiftly approaching us, and
that if tke ties of the lTniou came out of it
nnrcnt, they were made of sterner stuff than
the history of the past assured. That the bands
. of the Union had resisted political agitation,
j but could they withstand religious fury ? That
I ..i? : i.?a r.
II MUIIIH'IIIMIJI 11?I vj iiiitviK'kl 11 w?11 |r'iiviw?u mi
ion to religious convictions, ami had infected
the whole mind and heart of the North. That
under its palsying touch some of the strongest
cords which held the Union together had snapped,
and that others were assailed, and, I believed,
would give way. I said that the Methoi
(list and Baptist Churches had divided upon
I the slavery question ; that the agitation was
! il.a Pi-mKt'O.rimi nint Uriiscnnul
Iiiiinn.iiig ml. .1. --J-.
Churches; and I believed they too would he
I rent in twain l?v it.
I alluded to the Presbyterian Church, as to
other churches, because I know that the No thern
members of that particular church were
not beyond the reach of Northern sentiment,
fthich I said, and which I now believe, to be
radically abnlitimiizcd ; and because I had a
distinct impression that it had not been intact
from agitation. This impression I had obtained
from passing events, and from a grave and specific
declaration of Mr. Calhoun. 1 have just
referred to the speech of Mr. Calhoun which
contains the declaration, and find it ample and
conclusive to my vindication. Speaking of the
effect of the abolition agitation upon the religious
cords which aided* to hold the I'nion
tru'otber. lie said:
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' The first of these cords which snapped under
its explosive force (abolitionism) was that
of the powerful Methodist Episcopal Church.
The numerous and strong ties which held it
together are all broke, and its unity gone.
"The next cord that snapped was that of the
Baptists, one of the largest and most respectable
of the denominations. That of the Presbyterian
is not entirely snapped, but some of its
strands have given avnnjP
This was uttered by Mr. Calhoun in Ids dying
speech, in the Senate Chamber, on the -Itli
March, 1850. In this, his last legacy to the
country, who will charge him with perversion
or careless statement, or want of information
upon the slavery question ?
I have the. In-nor to be, your obedient scr
T.WVftFACF M IvFTTT I
?
Oranceuurc C, II., Sept. 18, 1855.
A Carolina Quef.n.?Frequent rumors have
reached us of late, from over the waters, of the
people of Naples towards their king, and into
such disfavor with his subjects has he cottio that j
there is a talk of dethroning him and replacing i
the Mural (Napoleon) dynasty. In that event
Lttcieu Murat will become the king of Naples,
an-l will seat beside him his Princess, a fair
daughter of the Sunny South! The Mercury
says: The Princess Lucien Murat, who is allu
ded tons the "Yankee Queen." is an American.
She however comes not from Yankee Land,
nor tiio Everglades of Florida, but from our
own city of Charleston Should she become
Queen of Naples we are assrred she would
grace the position and command the same rospect
and admiration which is now accorded
her in Pans, as the Princess Mural."
Think of that! genuine Southern girl
i fiiAin (hn rlamAneiilin inflnAi?nfte e%(* Ka ^lia/ltr
|| villi WIIV lllljUCIlVW4 V'l IIIU OHflVJJ
gide of tftng Street transplanted to a European
throne! A South Carolina Queen, with the
overpowering- witchery of hprown home-graces
winning the loyal obedience of the master and
\yenriug the faithful allegiance of the subjects
of an Italian Kingdoipl Qlear the way for
the Universal Yankee Nation.?but alas for
oitr rii{\pso(iy ^vho of u$ js out of danger?
Yorh'IH? Enquirer.
Senator Butler's Lecture on Slavery,
The following passcil between the llisto-i
i c ..i..i c,.,...t,., ,ti. I
JUipTdllV V??MlllltMVV IMIVI UVIIlin/l i/u>?wi \f |
Carolina, previous to the one in wlikh he sent
the points lie wished to discuss, a copy of which
has a I ready .appeared in the. Intelligencer:
Boston, July Mth, 185.").*
Slit: Nearly two month's since I transmitted ;
to you an imitation from eight of our citizens,
b 'longing to all the political parties ??f the day
to lecture in this city, January 3, 1850, upon
slavery, leaving it to your judgment to determine
the doctrines that you might promulgate.
To that communication I have not yet received
a reply.
An intercommunication of idet:s between different
sections of the country will be likely to
d i much toward lessening the ignorance I hide
to prevail in dilivrcnt localities, each concerning
the oilier.
Our citizens would he delighted to hoar your
exposition of the political questions now agitating
the country, and particularly their bearing
upon that of slavery, which now seems to be
supplanting the others in the public mind.?
You are looked upon in no slight degree as the
successor to Mr. Calhoun, and an expounder
of those views which, for so long a series (ti
years, lie elaborately presented to the public.
Hoping soon to roeeive a favorable response
I remain your obedient servant,
j ' JAMES W. STONE, j
| To lion. A. P. ClTLKR.
Itrpi if of Senator 1} a tier.
EooKFiF.T.n, S. C. July 21th, I800.
Dear Sir: My delay in answering your let1
ter inviting me to be one of the lecturers from
the South on slavery, has not arisen from indif|
ferenco to the compliment implied in your >
1 communications. I have been quite unwell |
: ami a good deal absent from home, and have
1 put asido many letters, to be answerd at leisure
I Among others, yours written some months
I ago, has been placed in that catalogue.
! The frank and very cordial tone of your letter
: I a?.stire you, is fully appreciated, and I am i
strongly tempted to go to Boston and deliver
my views on slavery^ and doing so I think I
may say that I would not offend the audience j
that would likely lie assembled to hoar me.?
Taste and historical propriety would be guarantees
that I would be heard.
This will he answered by my npphew. I:
am not well enough to answer you f.illy now.
But I think I may have a right to ask vou
1 |
! one question, ,11111 a.? ? ??I.-III.,VIIMIU uiiiiitMig ......
| acting tinder sanctions of your represent.!I
live position, I am confident of a frank an1
swer. Could I do any good liy delivering a
| lecture in Boston on slavery ? Yours, most
respectfully. A. P. BU'ILRR.
To Die. J. W. S'Xonb. i
j
Mr. Stone's lie ply to Mr. Butler.
Boston, Augu-t 4, ISJio. J
j Dear Sir; In your favor of the 2-ltli ill t. you
! make the inquiry, "Could I do any good by
delivering a lecture in Boston on slavery V
I answer unhesitatingly, yes. In part you
1 I..,? ? .i?ni i<i..l n?' mu vi.tua nn thi,j
! point from my communication of the Mtli tilt, j
! Much of value and interest can always he said '
on holh side? of every important question.?
! Your audience here, though on a rough esti- j
! mate, composed of one half ami slavery and re- j
I mainder of inteliigciit conservatives, together
! with many whose opinions are in a measure !
1 unsettled upon this subject, yet would necces-j
I sarily he of those who have heard chiefly but
: one side of the Question in full, viz., the anti
slavery one. I will not conceal from you that
1 believe this side of tl.c q icstion to be the cor
rcct one. Hut it seems to me that no one can ,
ever fail to bo benefitted by a thorough investigation
of all sides on every important and living
j controversy.
Many here are not sufficiently familiar with
the views which the inteliigenco of tho South
takes of this topic, vital, from its influences, to
all parts of the community. None better than
you as a representative of that inteliigenco and
more especially icprcsenting a commonwealth
I exerting 110 slight degree of influence upon its
| sister states can exhibit ??? us the true basis on
| which the defence of slavery is founded To
1 such nil exposition your audience would eager!
ly and respectfully listen disirous of gaining
1 information from every source, and especially !
I from one whose associations and facilities linvoj
I enabled him to be thoroughly versed on the i
I 0 "
j subject.
i I rejoice that yon have favorably, received j
; the invitation, and will endeavor to make your |
i visit to Massachusetts a pleasant one. Ho so J
, good as to favor by informing me of the par- .
' ticlar branch of the subject yon would propose
' to present.
With an earnest desire that vour health may
be reinstated, I remain your odediont servant, j
! Jam kg W. Stoxe. !
Hon. A. P. Butler.
I ^ I
j Dvisa fhom Emotion.?The father ??f Tucker 1
man the Boston defaulter, was well known as '
n gonad man, with a sinilo ami a pleasant word j
for every one. Since llio news respecting nis
son's swindling transaction was known, all joyful
expression left liis face and his stolid features'his
eyes fixed on vacancy, and his ghastly pallid
color, all showed that deep grief had taken
possession of him. Some ten days since, without
any inaiked cause, ha died from shame?
the viction of his son. There may have been
no rupture of the cardiac organ, bat tho world
recognises it as a broken heart. If the son is
unmoved by the thoughts of the orphans anl
?' ?? wronnreiL will bo touched bv tbe
WIUVM-7 m. .
patricidal results of his wilful wrong-doing?
The death of Mr. Hellioker, .1 well-known '
merchant, who resided 011 Monday, under very
peciiliar circumstances. Ho was in perfectly ,
good health and had just returned from the
country where he had left his wife, who was re
covering from a recent illness. |Jc had but
reached hoifle when a telegraphic massage was
* -* < -- '-e .1
brought to lijlll announcing ins wires trenui.
lie ^nuk i?t? U ch.qiron renting t!io sad news,
said he felt very ill,and requested that a |ili)*si
caq -should he sent fur, and died immediately.
The influence of the body ever the mind i*
mysterious, and its effects are startling. The
above intar.ces are not untisal, but none the less
note-worth v.?X. Y. Heal J,
Sympathy Seeker*.
By this torm we chose ta designate h class
of jh-ixous who make a business of disclosing
ihe long-.11 id doleful story of their misforltfhfw
in the bu mess relation* of life, and in the yractico
of social and moral \ irtin*s.
It is :t uatnral characteristic of the human
family to desire llio sympathy of otir follow
creatures ; and many of the class to whom wj
allude may lie so very tiucero ill the manifest:!
lion of their desires in this respect that it would
be unkind to speak discourteously concerning
them. 13ut by far the larger portion, we fenr
arc actuated oi.l v by a mot bid desire to l-c c?>usi
tie red frank and open hearted ?among those
who consider concealment n negative virtuo
as though a tilent tongue concerning our own;
private atfairs and internal conflicts were a posi
tivo evil that needed a speedy correction. The
? ..t
IJicaciiiU ??l nuv.11 |wj??c in "uiuiij uiAfV'ii"
They are the must unmitigated bores, not easily
shaken off. They care little whether you have
the faculty of keeping secrets or not; if they
Cf?r; only detain you as a listener they will unburden
themselves of their mountain of sorrow
and penitently look lor a cruntb of condolence.
With all our hearty hatred of the Katuhil-mongers,
we can but believe these wretched egotists
sincerely desire aid to vivify them in order that
they may bo considered greater objects of commiseration.
But leaving this class of persons, with little
hope of their amendment, we will conclude our
article by offering a few words of advice to those
who sincerely yet indiscreetly seek sympathy by
unburthemng their troubles of sou I and body to
nil. We have no desire to wound their sensibility,
yet we must say that trust persons, except!
it 1* n near and dear bosom friend consider them
vexatious intruders upon their time and patienc*
and that many, philosophers even, class thenn
along with those whom <>ur Irish friends denour.
inate "little innocents !" We ndviso tliem ;u
all candor to be cheeiful and dignified?self-reliant
and bravo even in the fiercest storm of adversity?always
wearing an undaunted front
that does not seein to oeg sympathy of any.
Such a course woulJ not be the occasion of losing
a true and generous frienJ, indeed it would gainninnv.
v/hile at the same tinn. it, would be a
protection against the insults of enemies. Let
all such refrain Irom relating their crosses promiscuously,
since few will be found to lend an
interested ear to their recital?the best of one
man's friend can always stand in one spot (f
sunshine ;whiist on the other hand those bitter
enemies? and they arc too often in swarms liku
locusts?who envied them in prosperity will be
ready to fall upon them, now that they are feeblo
and crush them to the earth with the very int..
plements which their own openness supplied.
Ay freo aft-ham' yer Biory tell,
When wi' ycr bosoin crony,
II... -.Ill I e/.n
uuu mill auvji nuiiii'imu iu h'ui cv??j
Ve scarcely tell to ony.
Conceal yer' soil as weil a' ye can
Fra' critical dis?se*tior,
But keek thro' every ither man,
Wi' eliarponccl, sly iti?jrction.
S > said Burns, and po say wo.
Spirit of tl<Jt Agt.
?
(,'hkap and FxfELi.nsr Candlks,?The'
following recipe 1 Iihvc tried twice, nnd find it'
nil that it is cracked up to be. I have no doubt
that it would have been worth more than
to me if I had known it twenty years ago.Most
farmers have a surplus of stale fat and'
dirty grease, which can be made into good cutu
dlus at a trifling expense.
I kept both tallow and lard candles through
the last summer, the lard candles standing
lho heat best, and burning quite as well, nnd
giving a9 good a light as the tallow oner.
Directions for making good candles from
lard:?For 12 lbs. of lard take 1 lb. of snlfpctre
at d 1 lb. of alum; mix them and | ulveriz ?
them : dissolve the sslrpetre and alum in a*
gill of boiling water; pour the compound"
into the lard before it is quite melted; stir the
whole until it boils, skim ofTwhat riser; let it
simmer until tho water is all boiled out, or
till it ceases to throw off steam; poor off the
lard as soon as it is done, and clean the boilec
while it is hot. II tlio candies arc 10 ne ruii'n
you may commence immediately, if to be
dipped let thj lard cool fir>t to a cake, ial
then treat it r.s you would tallow.
Co're*i)on(lcncc Xcw England farmer'
T?? Pkeskrvk Sweet Cohx.?Allow the fcer
nel to assymc pulpy state; do not pluck toosouir
then the kernel is watery, defer i??.t too long?
it will be too hard and dry. When plucked ar.
the right point of growth, boil on the ear till
tit fur table, remove from the cob with a tables
knife, and spread them on a sheet, in a good
sunny exposure; ascalFold of clean bright board <
is desirable; stir frequently for one or two day*
keep from the dew or rain and when well-dried
hanir up in bags in a dry place. It will be almo-t
as good as when served up in the regular season
if care is observed in dressing. It should stand
in water over night, and be boiled gently until. soft
nnd plump, n:ul served tip acoording to taste
It is n palatable :n tide, exceedingly nutritious,
and serves to enricli the table during thb*;
months in which the good housewife is put to
her wits' end to know that vegetable beyond tlio
potato, shall adorn her table.
American Aoricul(uriat,Srpt. 2d: .
A Good Reasos.?A grand jury ignored ii
bill against a huge negro for stealing chickens,
and bebwe diseharg'ng liiin from custody, and
Judge bade him stand reprimanded; he concluded
as follows. t
"You may go now, John; but (shaking his .
finger at him) let me warn you never to apj?eur
??
IICIU
John, with delight learning from h'w big
white eve.<, :ind with :i brond grin, displaying a,
row of beautiful ivory, replied:
"I wouldn't bin dio time, Judge, only the.
constable fotch tnel"
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Tiik Mayor of New Orleans has directed th?
. e !...? tli? most riffiil
i'OIICU UI llliU *'IVV iu riiivuc r,
manner the law pawed at the last session of
the Louisiana legislature prohibiting tbe<;n?
rving <>f concealed weapon.^