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V ABBEVILLE BANNER. TWO DOLLARS PER AKKUM, " Liberty and iny native Soil." PAYABLE L\ ADVANCE. KY CHARLES II. ALLEN. ABIJEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1853. VOL. IX NO. 51. JOB PRINTING, Of every Description and in the best style EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE: Embracing su<!li as BUfllNKffi CARDS, IIANI) IIILLS, nilV SIZC, RECEIPTS, ; rOSTK^F, 44 11 ? ILL HEAPS, DOOKH, FAMI'IILF.Tfl, IUllKKS, j IILAN KS OF AI L KINDS. IL.< 1 ho Proprietor 01 I lie Anurvn.i.k IJavxku assures liis friends and tho public, that their orders for anything in (lie .lob ]Vinlin<; lino will lie i'Spcuted in Ihe best manner, and at us low rates as ?t any other establishment. POETRY. You tli and Ago. Tlic following beautiful lines originally appeared ill the " Etonian," a pi'iicdical started about twenty yejurs a?i?, hy the bi?vs of Ktnn College, l or truth, tenderness utid melody, they arc iucompur\ able: I often think earh toileting form That linijps a'onjj in life's decline, Once bore a heart as voting, as warm, As full of idle thoughts as mine ! A (If! n.W.I. I1.10 ,lrn ?r - ? """ V' j-.?, lis own unequalled pure romance ; Commencing when tile l>lnsliini{ hoy Pir?t tli ills al lovely woman's glance. And ciic'i could toll liis tale of youth, Would think itn scenes of love evince More passion, more unearthly truth, Than any talc before or since. Yes ! they could tell of tender lays, Al midnight penned in classic shad'-B, Of days more bright than modem days? And maids more fair than modern maids. ' 1 Of whispers in a wilting ear, .. Of kisses on a blushing cheek ; vv^ Each Iiifrs, each whisper, fur too dear, | Our modern lips to give or speak, Of passions too untimely crossed ; Or passions slighted or betrayed? Of kindred spirits early lost, And buds that blossom but to fade ; \r \ , ..Of beaming eyes and tresses gay, ( Elastic form and noble brow, ^ vs- '"Atid forms that have all passed away, A11i?r, it.- I.... .i ? < *??iu ?vifc Uivm imicil ?i; aou UJCIII llUWi And is i*. thus?is human love So very light anil frail a thing? And must jouth's brightest visions move Forever on Time's rootless wing ? r Must all the ryes that still are bright* And all the lips that talk of Miss, And^il the forms so fair to sight, Hereafter only come to this? Then what are eartii's h?vt visions worth, If we at length m;:;.t lo?e them thus? If all we value most u:i eaith Ere long must fadeaway with lis? , COMMUNICATIONS. wr.iytrk for tiik aiib::vii.li: ban nek. Undo Torn'3 Cabin. f TiYsaid thi3 is an ago of progression; linnrw it. norrweni-iU' f..l1/?\v< tliol '( i< nn/i ?f improvement also. Many are {.ho inventions', many are the discoveries, many arc the works written pro bono publico. Still, it must be admitted, many of the latter are worthless trash. From the latter Uncle Tom's Cabin springs, and justly belongs to this class of false narratives. It h:>s created , a quite a sensation amidst the followers of i "Wilberforce, Gkegnhocse, Seward, <fcc. 1 It is destined to increase Northern inoboc1 # # | rasy, fanaticism and open-mouthed, but not heart-felt; pity. It is a wilful, lyinjj tirade against the only great common tie which bind Southern interests; its only aim is to | produce si disruption in Southern feeling; it*is a'thrust at order and scctionsil peace; . it is designed for millions, but especially in* '"tended for Southerners. A natural inference .-V f * is immediately drawn as soon sir, the work is rend. Whilst the author writes alilv and ""ifl-neeoTdance with grammatical and tlieoretical rules, she evidently lacks a knowledge of business transactions, and her comparisons are at once disgustful, so that the apparent falsity of her composition renders her work unfit, and deserves a merited ob I livion. A single fact is sufficient in her belief to establish any general principle, an inconsistency never allowable or relied upon by any intelligent man or woman. Nevertlielfcss she, in her profundity of intellect, has taken a single instance, which admits nf I .doubt, and has applied it to the entire systorn of slavery. Will any sensible person -admit the possibility of a theory or system being established upon the slendei support * of anvinsulafed instance or fact. No; for it" ja contrary to law and renson. Iler ideas of the beautiful in nature devi. ? ate. from the par excellence standard, yet arc somewhat dark, although polished in the negro. The beautiful personified in the "curling hair of the negro, with tiny feet and pretty ankles" is by, no means half so applicable to him, as the " No. 10 go-tof. meeting brogan" will, in nine-tenths, be an : "exact fit." The sclf-ojtiuionated principles sjjo adorns the negro trait with, are . ?? *- " ^ xu-iciyicu, i?UU i?J?|H*HrS 10 uiose well acquainted with the subject as fiction falsified ad infinitum. "Why did she not enlarge more upon the system of shivery as it is? fc Why dMs' she exclaim with all her patri? otism*that slavery is a sin ? This will not 'J do, for Ihtf expression wan to the proof. She ^|at .once strikes at God's holy ordinance, the ^fceaco of society and the welfare ojf mankind, ffxor what? -a mere pecuniary reward, which J^the Yankee will win if lie hazards his so til' * VBP*1 the die?a sweet consolation to those ose only aim is'gain., Notwithstanding lbdkgain is here endeavored to oleaic&f v I' . i-i ? I %. - with morality, (hy cars will disclose themselves, although the lion's skin conceals the body. Can any Northern minion prove slavery a curse, and contrary to civil, moral, or religious law. No; it is a poser lo them. It has stood the pointed ire of sophistry, criticism and argument. 1 >id she expect the Cabin to affect it' It surely must have been written 1'or some other nation, notI withstanding her appeal to Americans, for f ft 1w' Iti'.f aim.lS/i.tl.l.k (ik Olin tint*/! Lt'cf lilt) The dignity of < har.i< ler, personal beauty, ami astounding intelligence of her |>??i-trayeil negro, is to us remarkable, whibt its falsity is beyond dispute. 11 or instance of tlir? custom of selling a negro baby from its mothers breast is a type of the entire work, which is an opposition to tiuth, enstorn and every day experience. No person need rea<l long ere lie wiil become acquainted with the work and its author?the one is but a type, a rellection of the other. The two living wittie>?.es ??f lalsehood; hence, it must appear distrustful to all lovers of morality, truth and order. Her heroes appear too lavishingly fond of presenting to their negroes free papers, in itself contrary to (he too general absorbing principles of self ami gain. Time will not permit me to enter into a minute analysis of this production ; yet, ere I close, a remark or two concernimr the Inst chapter uf the C'.iliin. Mrs. Stowk supplicates her people, from the farmers of the i'-e-elad Maine to those of the "rich ainl joyous Ohio, and ve of the proud prairie States," to awake and wipe this stain from your devoted land. We have, notwithstanding this formidable array, kept as a general rule our propriety so far sal'!-. We are able j to transmit to our posterity our rights, pro| perty, Are., unimpaired. by for**e of arms if neee.-sary. I hope wur wolk will be the instrument, which will cause in part the fulfilment of what many of us desire?a " general burst" with your independent meddling. slavish, inconsistent Yankee demagogues. It is our duty to guard well the trust (>od has given us. The North lias ! u:row 11 too insolent of late, even her women, I outraging the finer sensibilities of their nature, not satisfied with conventions, must needs figure to their shame in politics. \\ e should be proud of being descendant? of Revolutionary sires, and in all National emergencies it would be well for us to allow their examples to become ours.? .Nevertheless, we :uc callei upon to wait, in soul-stiring appeals from <>i:r stump orators ami prophets. Wo are called upon to agitato, agitato, agitato tliis sectional question. What lias been the result? Where areour Southern A^>"?i::ti"!!>, which were the media through which this agitation was to bo kept active ! They li\ .> cuiy in s'.ory. We have become too hopeful, too inactive. j Let us o::ert ourselves, or the day is not far distant I Tear, when infamy will ho oar just reproach. u ]Iounkt." | MISCELLANY. The Jowiah People. The Jews arc no longer a nation, but they.have not lost tlu-ir nationality. They still preserve the distinctive characteristics j of their race, ami in whatever country, or : i a ....... in wusiiuvcr siaiion, exmtiit, tne same ileep, earnest love for their oM liome. While all that remain of other nations are a few let- j icred pages, or a few mouldered stones; while th??i?* greatness and their glory have boon swallowed up, so that wolves howl where monarchs feasted, and wild (looks i pastured where towered palaces .arose,?the Jew preserves his old identity, and lives in I the present a thing of the past. Eiioonn \ terone of the Jewish people in one of the j crowded thoroughfares of London, meet him in a Parasian square, 011 the Venetian Rialto, or in one of the quarters of the Kternal City ; or on the suu-hurnt coast r>f At' rica or amid the toil and trail!'' of New i York; or in the busier scenes of Australian gold regions ; and his peculiar countenance, his sharp piercing glance..tell unm^talcablv I 1.:. - . 1 ' 1 1 uis origin, jinu you kiiow mm lor a Jew as j well as though you saw him mourning over the relics of his people's l.vgonc glory, as j well as though you saw him weep over the i ruins of 'Zion. I ft whatever light we view the Jewish people we cannot fail to he poneratcd, with j feelings of intense interest on their behalf. They have ever stood forth conspicuously in the very centre of the world?a pharos, i the light of which was reflected on the j | glooin of surrounding polytheism, superstition, and idolatry. While the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Romans, the Carthaginians, the Egyptians, the Goths, have each in turn played their part in the world's drama, and disappeared from the thentropf the world, the Jews still remain a*people dwelling alone among the nations. For eighteen hundred years they have been ip?a state of oppression and exile, the ob- j ieOtS. in nilltiV illsL-inpos <>!' nvofi*nli/-.r> ?n<l -i - - ' ? J "WW? W* Vi.WV.'.WWW ....V* scorn. A wonderous history is that of the Jews, far away in the ]>ast you recognize the falliei of the nation in olil Abraham. The nomade condition of the people at that period is briefly told. It is more the history of a family than the history of a nation., Those men who arc busy in rearing Jiugc Egyptian structures, and are themselves ca6t down and heldin brutal slavery, are the Jewish people. The wondrous doings of that wondrous time, the marching host that quitted a land of bondage to found a nation on another shore, are recorded with an eloquence almost as wonderous as the theme,?wandering after wandering, ^jour-* ney after journey, battle after batJtle, victo-" ry after victory, till the lanj of Palestine became their home. The land was a holy lan/1 flm ? i' T>?A </i?uu, v?IVI ^vvvilillJUIJb H UlCUUrHCJt JOUl I they rgwrw -weary pf tliia government, and sought * king like thtfother nations. King! m^M-.GUa^ihg?cunmng man. Their roll | *fkirfg? betrays na-g^wit sagacity, f. I r'*^ ' -* ' 'Some (jood, pome bail, Of 1>;m1 tin: larger scroll." Every false step brought fresh disasters in its train ; the people became weak before their enemies, and in the Babylonian eap' tivity they hung their harps upon the wilj lows, lor how coiiM they sing the Lord's j song in a strange land ? I A strange and melancholy record is the ' story of thpir captivity. A grand thrilling romance of reality, in which we recognise an intense theism, l'abylon with its lofty wa!U and hundred gates, its broad streets, its public squares, its noble palaces, its i hanging gardens?all uniting to constitute a won.Wr of the whole worl'l?to the Jews was but a prison-house. Surrounded by the constant and unbounded ninguiHccncc. j' l>y the glories of ait, and all that was eal- | 1 eulated to impress them with the power'1 and the riches of their conquerors?they 1 ! sighed for the hills, and dales, and plains of ' their own well loved Palestine; foritsvincelad hills, its stately palms, its dear old 1 'memories. What was dearer to them than J their own homes, their own happiness, their ' . own lives, had been dispoiled by their one- ' niies. The House of (Jod was laid low.? The treasures of that house, the holy vessels, j had been carried away?and they wept j when they remembered Zion. Truly they ? . had suffered before, and suffered bitterly, ' j but the old Kyvptian bondage was in the 1 infancy of their nation. Since that period 1 they had been led out in triumph, had coil- ] jtnred every foe, had established themselves in the promised land, and in Solomon ' it siM'lllcil aslhotl-rh their irl.irv Imrl ' ii:ttc< 1, and their star was now in the decline. The prophet of llezelciah's time, Isaiah,bad j told of a coming deliverer, in the person of Cyrus, and Je\vi>h hopes were raised when 1 the i'er.-ian army beleaguered the city, and j the tremendous words of warning spoke of ! coming desolation to the impious Belshaz- 1 i zer. The last days of Babylon were at band. The coming act of impiety bad been per- j ' pet rated. The banquet at which t lie great ; men of the time had assembled, bad wit- 1 | uessed the holy vessels of the Temple pol- 1 luted by the. revel, had witnessed, too, the : lingers of the hand write on the wall the ' sentence of condemnation, a sentence which 1 none but a Jewish seer could make plain. ! And then the end caino on. 1 We read the wanderer's return ; of tbe I ruined temple re-erected ; the story of the ' Maccabees or Antioeinis Kpiphanes ; of the 1 i marvels which stirred the hearts of the poo- 1 pie when Christianity appeared among 1 : them ; of the revolt agaiust the Romans; 1 | the fierce siege; the struggle without ami ' ! the struggle v.ithin ; the final overthrow of ! ; .k-i ii-ah in, and the (instruction 6f the tem- * p!e; and then again . >mes the dark, melan- 1 vl.oly cloud, and Zion': song is hushed, ex J j cepi here and ih re a plaintive strain arises } . from some Jewish home?homes ot*. e 1 j wanderers scattered far and wide. 1 J A story of glory and shame, of joy and 5 ! sorrow, of Mumhine as well as darkness, is ! j that of ancient Judaism, but all glory and } i joy and suushineare taken away from their ' i modern history. There is still at ltome a 1 I triumphal arch; erected when the captive 1 I Jews were brought thither by Titus,?an , arch on w hich is sculptured the Roman sol- : diers, carrying the golden candlesticks, ta- 1 hie of shew-broad, and other vessels of the 1 Tabernacle. The Jews were the builders of ' the Colosseum, and the victims slain within 1 1 it< walls. Held in detestation of nil na- ' ! tions, persecuted on groundles charges, vie- ' | tims of popular fury, as well as legal in- , j justice, hanged, burned, tortured to death, f | ?the history of the Jews is a martyrology, J and their perservation a miracle. In Kngland hut a few centuries ago, the ( most extraoidinary notions were entertained * respecting tlie practices of the Jews. Old ' ' 'hau'/er apj>e:irs to have believed that the 1 Jews were capable of any cruelty, nnd wo 1 must remember that he*only represented in ( ' this mailer, the popular opinion ; in his j time iL was thought a good Christian thing 1 ! to spit on n Jewish gaberdine. In the "Can- \ terbury Tale.*" he makes the prioress relate 1 | that in an Asiatic city, where there was a ' | "Jewerie," a place where Jews dwelt, that * a child having to pass this place on his way to school, gave hLhotlence by singing "O Alma Mater redrmptniis for which they fell upon him and put him to death, but the words of the son<? were still continued from the pit where his mangle body was hidden : search was made, the murder was discovered, and then? "Willi torment and with shnmcful death, cach ono The provost these Jews did serve, Which of the murder wist. Therefore with wilit horses lie did them draw, I Anil 'tcr tliut he hanged them hy tho law." 3 At the close of the poem Chaucer refers 1 to another case : exclaiming-? [ ' o "Oh, young Hew of Lincoln ! slain alee , By curxed Jews, as It is notable, For it was hut a little whilo ago." These accusations were not uncommon : the people entertained a horrible belief that the men of the gaberdine were willing to commit any amount of treason against common humapity ; that they were in tho habit of stealing away and murdering Christian children, in order to use their blood as,leaven in preparing some-of the substances to be eaten in the course of their ritnc *1-~ -'1 -1 ? -*- 1 ? . i..niign, mo uiu urainausi, nn? given { us a fearfuj autobiographical skctch in the j character of Barabbas, the Jew, when he , makes lijjpv say? ? , - "j^^my^lf.-I walk abroad a-nights, f And kill sick peoplf^groaniug under wall# ; Sometimes J go abouJpL))* prison Wills! y And now andthejiito^nci^Jphristian thieves, ( lam.content a6mo of hi * < Tfcat^^y.wxil^Ui my gaUSy^ 11 Seo'm go pinlon'd hlonp bj, my door. ? Being young, I studied physic, and'begaft,* 1 Fiis^io practice , '* ?" \ I Th*f? * enri^Yd th?pr}j?l#fc?fe burials, r I * And always kept tliu sexton** urir.s in use. Willi digging graves, anil ringing dead men's ku And uftertlnit I was an engineer, And in tlie wars "iwixt Franco and Gerniuny, Under pretence of serving Cliuiles V., Slew friend and enemy willi my stratagem?, Tlien after lliat 1 was an usurer, And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging nnto hrokery, I mica iiiegaoi wiui imnuriipts in u year, Ami with voting orphans planted hospitals, And every moon made some or other mad ? And would sometimes hang himself for grief, Pinning upon his breast a long greul scroll, How 1 with interest had tormented him." Those are the sentiments and those 1 doings which iih.ii in Ma How's day aserib Lo Jews. S!i:ike.^))caro in his Shy look j?:i tiers to (his prejudice; the storv of t pound of flesh was tho soil of thing tl iiu-n believed respecting Jewish dealers.i'hecharacter of his Jew arouse in o minds and instictive avers, n, although 1 may have some pity for the man : li Shakespeare's .low was spotless innoeen onipared with Mallow's. \v ncn lint nower 01 rair?>penn elmai eft their own l:m<ls and started forth t*.? < Kittle with the Turk, tin: Crusaders' swon jrew red with Jewish blood. The knigl . ommenecd their labors for the Cross I nassiiereing tin* Jews in every fity throiu ivhich 111oy passed. Conversion or dca verc the silternative proposed. Cologi Worins, Treves saw the fearful work begti V band of Jewish women at Treves we o the hanks of the blue Moselle, and ha ng loaded their clothes with stones, thrc hemsclvcs into the river and perished.VVliile the crusading mania lasted m iv similar scenes occurred. At the coronation of Richard I, of E (land, ordei-s had been given that lione lie Jewish race should approach his palai gnorant of the order, some of the leadii ncn went to the spot with presents for tl xv nut ciwuru. J\ J Ullior SJirUS hat the king ha<l san?'iio?w'd ii masaere he Jews througlit his dominions. The it iginary order was put into opcration. roin city to city the blood-news wen lie most deplorable scene of till took pla it York. There the Jews shut themselv ip in a tower, and were l<e4eiged by tl fopulace. Finding no means to esca] hey resolved to fall by their own hands.ivicii head ot ti family took a razor. \vi vhicli he slew lir>t his wife and childre hen his domestics, and finally himself. I' her in this fearful manner, or by thchar.< >f the populace, every Jew in Vol wished. Still later,seven hundred we ilnhi in London because a Jew had demau :d cxhorbitant interest. In 127-1, evei Tew who lent money on usury was cutnpr edto wear a plate upon his breast signif ng that hi- was a usurer, or to quit tl ealui; iti 1277, two hundred and sixt even Jews wer? hanged and quartered < ? charge of clipping the coin ; the san rear, upon a pretence that a Christian chi tad been erii'-itteil :it. Vorwii-li vero hanged, anil every synagogue dc royed ; in 1287. all the Jnvs in klnglai ,vcre apprehended in one day, their goo< md chattels confiscated to the king, at hey, to the number of 1 G,GGO, banished tl ealin. They rem mied banished 374 yeai ingland is in this matter, a fair sample >ther countries. In 1094 they were dnv< >ut of France; in 1492 were banish* rotn Spain ; against them the Iu<piisiti( ,vas first established. Recent times lur iceu the grosscts cruelties enacted again hem in tne face of all reason and justit Hie old prejudice still to some extent intl :nces the ])iililic mind ; though no lire >word are employed, they are still under tl >an of the. law, until comparatively late ,vere rendered incapable of the privileges Mtizonship, and even now are denied soli >f its advantages. A bye-word among the nations, the Je -li people have been preserved amid all tl imitation and tumult of the world. The s something very striking and impressive he idea. The legend of the wanderii lew seems hut a type of the nation :? "And eighteen centiirics now tinvo sped On the dark wrocks of Roma and Grcoci They have seen the aehes trattered Of ihouxand shifting dynastipB ; Seen good, unfruitful good, and ill Prolific while the tempest roll'd ; Seen !wo new worlds the circle fill, Which one world occupicd of old. Evt<r, ever Earth revolved?they rest tliem never." Jews have been compelled to turn the ittention to the accumulation of mone [n every age tlioy have been celebrated f heir wealth. - Rich as a Jew, has becon i proverb. , Their supposed wealth h nought upon them cruelty and persccutio rheir real wealth is a known fact. IT nodern Jews cap do something more th: njike money. The melting music of tl 'Midsummer Night's Dream the mcla holy strain of "Elijahthe solemn mus )f "Paul," owe they- origin to Felix Me lelssohn?-a Jew. "Who has not been e :hanted with the beautiful fictions of lyr poetry, and charmed with the graceful m< xlies of Ileipe ? The pictures of Bend nann, the Jew, are described by connoipeu js worthy of all praise. Liberty has four i freo spoken apostlo in the Jew, Boern Rossini was a Jew ; Mcmerbcer a Jew.rhere is an earnestness, a spirit of'poet wd melody in the outcast people that w itill do greater and mightier things. The world owes much to the Jews. Th< were the librarians of its revelation ; ;heir laws we recognise the grand outlii if moral* obligation ; '?# their poetry v s i t ' . i .1.. iiiu tuu ui^ucob cAucjicut'u j mill in iiu ithiwl aphorisms, body. of 'the sou rule iraqtica! j*t&]omr^Tff$re are deeper oblig JoDswhicb^ierowe tcfrthe Jews. Chris laity T&d.otigipalty; professed, at ' " ' ^ ? , g / " i ' * ? ' ''flik "" propagated by them. There are glories vet clln in store for that pcoj>lc. Their history is yet to be eventful. There is :i bright light resting on the future?a heaven across the melancholy seas?a heaven they must I reach at last. All history is something more than a record of facts. The facts of history are connected ; and to trace and expound the principles of this connexion, to exhibit the history as one organic whole, is the highest oil ice of the historian. Nowhere is this connexion belter seeu than in the annals of Judaism. According to the most recent find exact statistics, the Jews number at this very mottlOllf VIHlf lln .llif ll./. ......... .1. I?" ?l *: left Egypt under Moses?somewhere about ! 0 three millions and a half. They have used every dialect, have wandered on the banks u! of tiieNiie. by the waters of liabylon, the ial Jordan, tlie Tiber, tin* Thames tlie .Missi: sij.-- > pi; they have mingled, but never united 1,1 with other nations ; arms, climate, genius and politics cannot explain it. We turn to 1,1 our recoids to tind out the cause?their his00 tory is prospective as well as retrospective, and leads us forward to a time when their 'J wanderings shall be over, and they shall j , recognize in Him, whom they now reject, the brightness and glorv of their race. J1" There is evident purpose in the prcserva'j (ion of the Jews. W? disregard the idle ' ' curl of the wave, but when tvery wave is 1 1 moving in the same direction, when the ,e? tide is clearly seen at work?we find a law "j of nature, v e seek a cau<e and find it in the " slues. .^O :s it. wiih all history?but more A" especially iti Jewish records, old and new? :VV there is design in ihein all?every eircunistance is eonncelcd?it is no chapter of :i" aeeideiit;, but the development of a great and glorious plan. Interesting Revolutionary Reminiscences. c' A few days before the adjournment of Congress, the telegraph announced to the l0. public the passage of a bill for the benefit of " Major Wigg, of South Carolina. Ourreadt:" crs, perhaps, like ourselves, knew nothing of n" the circumstances upon which the claim was ~ based. If so, they will find themselves in L ' lerested in the following extract from a com( e municatiou which a Northern l:uly, Miss ''s Anne C. Lynch, has furnished to the National Intelligencer. This lady was in the House of Representatives, accompanied by ameinT" bcr of Congress from the North, when a motion was made to suspend the rules to "take up a Senate bill lbr the relief of Wil"l* liani II. Wigg." She writes: * I must confers this mere motion, so much, I presume, within the routine of the ordirc nary business of the House, would not have attracted my notice, but from the stir of aetivitv which it occasioned, and the extraor'* diuary excitement among a nlimber ofgentlemauly looking members, whom I observ10 ed were moving with busy industry about - ~ the House, obviously canvassing for votes to 1,1 sustain the motion. I asked my companion who these personages were who seemed to manifest an intervs est so intens? and excited? They sue, said !f>" he, the South Carolina delegation, among ' the most intelligent, modest unpretending, j and least asking delegation on the floor. 1 They Tire Representatives of a State that ie never appears here as a prctitioncr for the lS* bounty of the Government. Her prayer ? usually is to be let alone. Among the ten thousand private claimants, South Carolina docs not present in a proportion more than one in tliis number. There are not three ve of her citizens occupying office at the seat st' of Government, and her sons seem to he c* willing to rest nt home on the rich harvest 11" of renown which her statesmen have won, or from the time of the elder Rutledge, to the 110 more recent history of her Calliotin, Cheves, y Lowndes, McDuffic and Ilavne. Yes, I replied, I know something of the le history of this wrong-headed yet noble State which struck so fatal a blow to some of the iV" manufacturing interests in my own section ie of the Union in its insane and quixotic crusre ade in behalf of free trade. Hut tell ine 111 something of tho merits of this cumj, which serms to have engaged so much of the ar dent zeal of these gentlemen. You must know then, he remarked, that f ? this is anew and striking case, growing out of the law of hostage; the only one in the revolutionary histoiy of our country. Indeed I doubt whether there is one hearing even a remote anolagy to it, for the sanction of which this could be quoted as a precedent. I regret that I have not a copy of the report made to the Senate by the Committee on Revolutionary Claims to give you, which >ir contains a narrative of this deeply interesy. ting and pathetic episode in therevolutionor ?'iry history of the country. But, as I have if> irleaned them from the reoort. and from :is some of the members of the South Carolina n, delegation, I will give them to ycu as sucut cinctly ns possible. in Iu 1780, when South-Carolina was aljo most overrun l>y tho British and tories, and n- the safety of Charleston was seriously men- . iic aced, Gov. Rutledge, who exercised as comn mander-in-chief dictatorial power, with a n- wisdom and justice never surpassed, issued ic his proclamation calling on her citizens to >1- rally to tho defence of their metropolis. At e this invocation thousands of her sons rushed rs to tho rescue. But, after a gallant resisid tancef want and starvation compelled n cap10. itulation. Among, tho prisoners was the _ grandfather of the petitioner, who at various rv times during the struggle had served with ill gallantry and distinction in the cause of his country, both in South 'Carolina and at the ?v siege of Savahnah, in Georgia. in Tho prisoners were placed on the parol, ae and under the article of capitulation, wliilrf ve they abstained from any infraction'of fftf ;ir terms, their property was to be pxeirifttefl :st from injury or confiscation. 1 fy** ' ' a. About thi^Uifnoihe celebrated execution ti- of Major An'ffe toot place, under the stern1 * id <fl(l infldtible Wiiie ofjttetfce of Washington.' ? * r ^ . * *-J * ' \ #. ' * *? .." V , ;. ~ * " ' * , .. - y Yes, I replied, a life so glorious, and an end so lamentable! I have often, in dwelling on the fate of tliis gallant, amiable and accomplished spirit, wished that the Father of our Country had yielded to the mercy which it was well known lived in his manly bosom. It might have spared a congenial sacrifice. But proceed. As soon as the execution of Andre took place Lord liawdon determined to exeeuto the lii-^t ollicer of his rank which the British made prisoner. Under the capitulation of Charleston, the gallant ami unfortunate Ilavne was a prisoner, and was the selected victim of retaliation, lie was the uncle of the Il.iyne who, as the champion of ttio South in his memorable contest with your All*. WiiliJiti?i' 'w.mii'rwl ior to thai of his great antagonist. It scnns, when brought out lor execution, M.ijor Wigg, the grandfather of the petition?r, stood :it the loot of his gallows, and indicated a grief ho could not conceal, and an indignation he could not suppress. Poor Hayne met his fate with the heroism which marked the conduct of Andre.-Major Wigg attended to leceive his remains. Ilayne and himself, bosom friends, liad married sisters. Jlaynels execution created a great sensation, not only in South Carolina, bu*. throughout the conlinent?a young ami heautiful widow in despair a large circle of bereaved friends, and the glorious promise of one of the finest men Mouth Carolina ever produced nipped in the l>ud. Immediately after this blood-thirst execution, (on. (Jroene openly announced that the first lJriti-h ofliicer of llayne's rank who was takon prisoner should, in retaliation for the execution of Ifayne pay the forefit of his life. No sooner was this annunciation made than Col. Ihdfour, who commanded tlio British forccs in the occupation of Charles ton, ordered fort)' ot' the most distinguished citizens of South Carolina, then prisoners of war under parol, into close confinement on hoard of the prison-ship s!oop-of-war Pack Horse, and distinctly notified them tliat they were hostages, and that in case of the execution of one of his M.-.jesty's i-uhjeets, or on the perpetration of any acts of barbarity towards the Loyalists of South Carolina, they should swing. You may well suppose what an excitement this produced in that colon)-; nor was the deep sympathy felt for the prisoners in any degree diminished by the fact that in reply to this threat they addressed a letter to Ccn. Greene, then coin 1 - i. I * i' * - ? ' luuimer-in-ciiici iti notun Carolina, earnestly soliciting liiin not lor one instant to pause in executing a just act of retaliation for the murder of llaj no, as they were prepared to meet their fate, and only regretted they could not render a more signal service in the cause of their country. In the then state of public feeling in South Carolina, Col. Balfour, probably apprehending that the Pack Horse would he carried by a night attack and the prisoners rescued, ordered her round to New York. On her voyage, when off Cape Fear, the prisoners rose, and, by an act of valor unsurpassed in naval annals, captured the Pack llorsc, and carried her into Beaufort, North Carolina, by which, in r fining their liberty, they terminated their character and service as hostages. It was during his confinement that tlio estate of the grandfather of the petitioner was devastated, who was regarded as a leading spirit among the prisoners, and probably wrote the letter to Gen. Greene, which, with his known connexion with the morL'iwl ^..wvv. U.n.nt.1 .illll ?J1 UIJCV.I, of vengear.ce? An expedition was filled out from Charleston, which sailed around to tho Oketty river, one of the streams of the plantation of the petitioner, abducted about one hundred of his slaves, seized his crop, cattlo stock, and every species of moveable property on the plantation, and what was not, susceptible of removal was wantonly destroyed. His slaves were carried to Si. Augustine, Florida, and in the end were lost to the owner. In this expedition Major Wigg'4 was the only plantation ravaged. It is contended, not only 011 every principle of justico but by well recognized rules in tho law of nations applicable to hostage, the Government oflhc United States is bound to make a compensation. The former explicitly predicts that where an enemy in flagrant hello devastates the property of a hostage during the time he is held as such, his country is bound to indemnify him fully for his loss, as by their acts he was placed in such a situation as to be incapable of protecting it by his. presence and exertions. I should think tliis very clear, I replied that the claim moreover, by public g:atitudo * and every recollection connectcd with the honor and glory of the country, is incontestible. Yes, he replied, Major Wigg was a hostage, was daclarcd such by Col. Balfour, and made so by the tlrreats and actsjf his Gov- > eminent. Standing with a l|nter around his neck in his floating dungpffi, ho was dis- " / abled from protecting his property. 1 am / * r fi! .M ?i i ? i ' * not iamiiiiir wiui mo aocirme 01 nostage, / but you will doubtless hear it most ably yr discussed by moro tlian one gentleman oi/ r ,t the South Carolina delegation. It will be a norel discussion, fori doubt'whether tRre is another case in the whole historythe ^ revolution where a hostage, whilst-'neld as such, had his property devastate* Allioatok's Skins.?miv^rVV. Benedict, of Galveston, has mgaufacUfred some, of the most beautiful boots apiKhoc^ that w^ have ever seen with leatj^tnade of Alligator ^ ijkins. The skins..1^0 tanned and prepared _ . * so that th^v resepible tlio finest calftkin m pliability, and pre beautifully mottled, like . ccruuwrto/ieinifl r prpinium ior ^nqngjiiaww ^ WSWSSWI^W^:; .- < r,WAru(v?c; ' WmM -.? <-^ * v- .=' &&je*S ; . 3&?av* v V," 'V Jf