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From :?u- Edgrfield Adcei tiser. V . : ? S The Chairman of the Joint Committee t<> whom t!ic memorials upon the 1 ol" the License Law was referred, has reported unfavorably, and has set forth the reasons fir such a Report at some length. Ti,e fact that this report cornea fro,n the Legislature, veils it in a sort ot invstery to <he common eye, an.I gives it a iiet (ions i .iportance with those who arc ignorant of the details of business, and the trickery of Legislation. Such persons s?-em to be ignorant of the fact, that ibis Report is, alter all, but the production of a single individual;* a man, perhaps, for wn ?s*f opillions us an individual, they have no respect, and to whose authority ?}iey at ail events, acknowledge no deference. Siiip, then of its imaginary importance, 1 will examine this Report, touching its intrinsic merits. Respect for the source whence it comes, but still more respect for myself, forbid my characterising th's Report in the terms which it merits. I shall therefore endeavor to give it a res psctful and candid examination. The Report declares "that any prohibitory legislation upon this subject (retailing) at this time, is not advisable." The. reason assigned for this opinion is, that such legislation would produce angry feeling, and party strife, which, in the opinion of the Chairman, would be a greater evil than all the drunkenness, crime and misery growing out of the retail system. And this opinion is based upon the fact, that the Parliament of great Britain passed an act, in the year 1730, prohibiting the introduction of liquor into the country: and this act could not be enforced, one hundred years ago, in Great Britain! Is this all that our opponents can biing, from their laborious research among the laws of nations and the records of anfiquity, to answer our memorials? Then, truly, may the friends of reform rejoice. Our efforts, then, have the sanction of antiquity; other ages, and other people, i I. l r. j _ 11. f L .-i nave leu a recora, on uie page ui nisior*, of their wisdom and theit virtue, which I ; trust will not be lost upon their descend- < ants in another land. i But what does the very learned argu- t incnt, from the English statute book, i amount to? More, than a century ago, tl?e j s people of Great Britain were so internper-j c utc, that the great moral reform, which t was then attempted by the few virtuous i and wise, did not succeed! Therefore, the . r effort to reform, in the opinion of the.c Chairman, must never again be made.? 1 Less than a century since, Missionaries t were sent to preach the gospel to the f heathen, some were recoived with indif- ti ference?others were put to death; there- " fore, (according to the logic of the Chair-! tl man,) you should no longer preach the tl gospel to one. That ?vy 'lln?tration . e ~ of The "Chairman's argument is not forced tl or unfair, I will refer to an anecdote told si by that great man, John Foster, in his t! work on "Popular Ignorance." About w the year 1730, just at the time this law F was passed, a Minister of the Gospel, in . rt one of the parish churches in England, i pi curtailed the morning service of the church tli so much, as to excite the curiosity of his pi congregation, upon which he explained th the circumstance thus; "Brethren, as qi neighbour ftmtth s Bull baiting comes on es this afternoon, f shoncned the service as di much as possible, that the congregation in might have gyod time for tho sport."? ii< This circumstance urtually occurred in th England, not more than one hundred pe years ago! This was the state of morals, mi and these the people who refused to aban- Bi don their dram shops, and their bull bait- ou ings on the sabbath. What must have it been the morals of that people whose tio Minister was a Bull-baiter? And these | cei are the people who are held up, by the ot Chairman, as our prototype. These are liq the people with whom we are compared, Tl: and whose example the Chairman suppos- Ch es*we will follow. The insinuation is an tin insult to the people of South Carolina.? ten Does the author of this Report, regard of the people of this State, as a set of Bear- ' baiting?Sabbath breaking heathens?? wli A semi-barbarous people on another con- for lincnt, a century ago, refused to submit mu to the restraints of law; and it is taken Th for granted Ly the author of the Report, titi that the people of south Carolina, whom Mi lie regards, I suppose, as equally barba- art rnns. will evince the like resistance to the dip laws. Is this an argument worthy of the' cot high place whence it comes? Is this the! fin answer the people had a right to expect,: fin from :he Chairman of a Legislative Com- pre inittee? We "asked for bread, and he has shi given us a stone." Is it the spirit of a int man to conceive such an argument? Was am it a spirit like this, that actuutod the great brt Reformers of the worl I, and that has col achieve;! all that is great and glorious in set time? Tn the Huh century, the suhlime tac truths of the reformation burst upon th< tin vision of Martin Luther. Did ha cower lav and quail before the Pope, because John thi JIuss and Jerome of Prague, but the ten- W tnry before, had perished at the stuke, for vei proclaiming the like truths? No. With a wi . . . r 7 . .7 I .. .7 ,.r jlctT'i inai tovea imiu ocucr rnan uje, witti Uri a soul that defied tlie malice of powers ea< an J principalities, he burvcd the cannons,, do and hurled defiance in the teeth of the Pa Pope. With the craven spirit of the pre- pr< ccnf- day, Martin Luther would have (tied ii.( a*i:mnfc, and the world might still have nv been buried in dark idolatry and supersti- of tion. So But let us return to this act of Parlia- tin mm;, which the Chairman refers to with the socii a complacent and triumphant air.? sul Let 113 see what is the una logy between gn the set of Parliament which was passed gu -In the reign (?{ Ceorgc the If, provides; "That upon all spirituous liquors, which any retailer thereof, should, from and after the 21th day of June 1730, be possessed of, there should be granted to his Ma*jesty, a duty of twenty shillings per gallon." 1 quote the very words of the act as found in R:tpin's History of England, Vol. XX. page 3i)2. This act applied to all spiriiotiH liquors as well domestic as foreign. Here then w is a duty of one : pound sterling, (which in our money : amounts to four dollars and forty four j cents.) which the consumer had to pay to I government, upon every gallon of liquor j that he purchased. In other words, the | law was, in elicet, a total prohibition of j the use of ardent spirits. And this is the law which the Chairman gravely referred to, as a measure similar to that proposed by the friends of reform at this day, and from which we are to learn the lesson of experience. " Mark now, how a plain tale has been put down." What are we to infer? Can it be that the Chairman was himself, ignorant of the provisions of that ati, wiui wun'ii nu was ur.iMU^ a puny ei- 1 I fort to damu the caiise of temperance! Or did he, knowing it himself presume upon i he ignorance of others? If the Chairman ' was acquainted with the whole history of this act, this argument, I am forced to say, was in the highest degree disingenuous and unfair: better becoming the prejudiced ail vocals of a party, than the digniHed position of a Legislator. If he was ignorant, I hope the Chairman will be belter informed, when he next undertakes to legislate for the enl ghlcned community of South Carolina. He is a very young man I understand, and I trust, will profit t by experience. a If the advocates of reform at this day, c had proposed passing a law prohibiting the introduction of all sj.-iritous liquors in- I to the country, or forbidding the use of it in a man's own house, then there would have been some analogy in the law refer- tl red to. and some propriety in introducing it it in the llcport. But what is the fact? w v\r? 1.. * u:i * .1.. ii? HU jjrcjjiuscr, bnnjny, IU juumuu, iioi uic filing even of a gill, bat the drinking in ui i public d'am shop; not interfering either tli with the price or quantity sold. Now, is ta here any similarity between a law prohib- d: ting the use of liquor entirely, and one uj limply preventing a man from getting Irunk in the streets' But I have not yet ? old the whole story; and I am much in- j lis lebtcd to the Chairman, for the opportu-l iity afforded mc, of bringing this histori:al fact before the people of S. Carolinarhe Chairman informs his constituents, hat the bill became "odious and conemplible," and was repealed, leaving us to o infer that it was repealed because it was i ze oilious and contemptible"?omitting, ci-j pc her through ignorance or design, to give j Pi he true reason of its repeal. The avow-'es (J wiih the Ministry for wishing : ne ic repeal of the act of 1730, was to raise i ii0 applies for supporting the war which j ot ic King was then carrying on, in league 'nu .1 .1. _ ..i ii i .1 , nil me <^?euu ui iiuugury, against gi? ranee. The historian thus explains the tin ?peal of the act. "The exigency was po ressing and it was hard to find out a fund i on lat could supplj' it time enough for the sus irposcs of government. An alteration, eb ereforc, of the duties upon spiritous li- sp< tors was thought of. It was a dangerous atu rpcdient &c." " This act (repealing the pos ity on 1 quors) in the House of Lords, not et with an unusual and rigorous opposi- cy, >n." Again he says. "In the course of a ti e debate the friends of the bill (for re- anc aling the duty,) did not give themselves the ueh trouble to justify it up<?n principle! per it they contended that the government froi ght to avail itself of the passions which Ion could not restrain, and that the opera- glei ms of the war depended upon its sucss." Here then we have the true cause ( the repeal of the duty upon spirituous pus uors, given by the Histurian himself.? Ext le duty then was not repealed, as the Hai [airman would leave us to infer, because can ; law had become "odious and con- pro! nptible," but because "the operations will tfie war uepenueu upon lis repeal." i LSut There was still another cause at work!in t lich militated against the successful en- he cement of the act of 173G, and had slav ich weight i i causing it to be repealed, a ol e merchants of Liverpool sent up a pe- ren. 011 to Parliament, selling forth that the inte iscovado sugars constituted the chief cau1 icle of trade, with the British West In- ror s, three fourth parts of which sugars er. lid not be consumed without being re- less ed, and a very large portion, in the re- that ing process, turned out Rum. They thei icecdcd to declare that "a duty of 20 hole llings per gallon on Rum would be the slav ivitable ruin of the sugar plantations, Har J destruction of the two most valuable ing inches of our sugar trade to the British I gini lonist and the coast of Africa." We! I) ? then that numerous interests were at- j riso iked bv this law, and onoosition washivl js aroused on every hand. Ilere was a iug v ruinous to the mercantile interest of Ii ; country?destroying the value of the Indi .India plantations?cutting off the re- a C< nue of government t?and arbitrarily torj ihholding the bottle from the lips of the to C .inkard. 1 have now shown, beyond all prat ril, that there is not the slightest sha- dina w of resemblance between the act of titer rliament of 1730, and the measures Stat >posed in Carolina at this day; and that Indi >re is still less similarity if possible, be- yeai een the rnwal character of the people ritoi (i. Britain in 1730, and the people of Ii nth Carolina in 1830. The argument, as a ircfore, attempted to bp drawn from tive j experience of Great Britain on this ther ">ject is purile and false, and falls to the unc junil. The Chairman had as well ar- cipa e that because Pharoah and his host Stat were overwhelmed in the Red sea, wc should never again undertake to navigate the ocean. I have devoted much more time to this pait of the Report than it deserves, 01 should have received, but from the fact, already alluded to, that it cornes forth under the imposing name of a committee ol the Legislature. I shall close my comments upon this part of the Report with the words of that wise and sagacious statesman, Lord Chesterfield?a man most profoundly learned in all human knowledge, and above all in the human heart. Upon the discussion of the bill in House of Lords, to repeal the act of 173G.? Lord Chesterfield delivered this aoble sentiment, "For my own part, my Lords, I think the bill now proposed, (the bill to repeal the duty on liquors) much worse than the tax invented by Vespasian's ways and means men; it is not only mean and sordid, but it is vicious to the last degree: because it will encourage and promote that vice which is the parent of every other vice. If your Lordships, Therefore, should reject that motion, and proceed in the committee, when you come to the preamble. 1 shall propose an amendment, which I think a very necessary one. for the sake of truth as well as religion. In :hat part of the preamble where it is said 'By and with the advice and consent of ,he Lords spiritual and temporal," I hope our Lordships will leave out the word ' spiritual;" for it will bring a scandal upon he religion of the age to have it recorded n our law books that the reverend bench (ave tneir consent to such a wicked bill. I iesides, it is false in fact, for some of hem have appeared openly and avowedly gainst it; and I do not And that any one if them will advise or consent to it." I must defer further comment on this teport till another day. Jerome. * Sinco writing the abovo I have as cartaincd that lis remark is peculiarly applicable to the Report i question. The report was drawn by the Chairman, ithout consultation with, and in opposition to the a own opinion of several members of the Commit, liltco: and, contrary to all usage 111 such cases, 10 Chairman moved to lay his own report upon the ble. Theso aro the facts, I leave the people to aw their own inferences. This statement is mado >on the authority of a member of the Committoc. t Before the act 1^36 the enormous amount of 70,000 (about -S310.000) a yoar wont to tho civij t from th0 dut'cs on spirituous liquors. TindaVe Hist, of England. From the Charleston Courice. GEN. HARRISON. In compliance with our determination deal fairly with this distinguished citi- < n, now again regularly presented to the ople of the U. S., as a candidate for the esidcncy, and in order that the South peciallv may iudtrc of every thi <r con cted with his position on the slave qnes- i >ii, wo publish the following evidence i abolition hostility to him from a recent tnber of the Emancipator. We are id to perceive this movement, and trust ? it Gen. Harrison will take an early oprtunily to declare his present sentiments the subject of slavery, to do away all il ipicion arising out of the exceedingly s jectionable passage in his Cheviot ^ ;ech, which we cited a few days since, 1 to confirm the abolitionists in their op- 0 sition to him. By so doing, he may promote his elevation to the Prcsidcnbut he will certainly fulfil the duty of <J rue patriot, alive to the best interests jc 1 anxious for the continued harmony of' pr Union. We hope ihc abolitionists will! form tneir threat of complete isolation m both political parties, and thus no 0J ger have any shield against the unmin- tl d scorn and detestation of the whole From the Emancipator. ieneral Harrison.?Many havesuped that it might be expedient for the icutive Committee to interrogate Gen. j. rison, now that he is the recognised didate for the Presidency, with some *1 spcct of election, to learn his views tf 1 respect to the abolition of slavery.? where is the use? It is true we rejoice Q he rejection of Ilcnry Clay, because. . is a slave-holder, and a defender of. v,< cry. Gen. Harrison, we know, is not! fei Rcc-holdcr, Neither is Mr. VanBu-'si But no one thinks it necessary to: rrognle Mr. Van Buren. Why? Be-j 5e his principles are known to be in faof the ascendancy of the slave Pow- 's But are those of Gen. Harrison any cu so? He is the man of his party, and fl( party have shown the absoluteness ef r subserviency, by nominating a slave- . ler, a peculiarly bigoted devotee of 1,n ery, on the same ticket with Gen. by rison, and now by electing a nullify- tin slave-holder, from slave-breediug Vir- t0 a, tor opealter. lut we submit, further, that Gen Har-i n's principles arc already well known {. lis deeds, of which wo find the followsummary in the Rochester Freeman: do i December, 1802, while Governor of cit iana Territory, he was President of invention of the people of that Tcrri-. r, held at Vincennes, and transmitted; longress a memorial of the Convention,1 nu ,'iug that the sixth article of the "Or-.sal ince of '87," which prohibited slavery, eai e, might he suspended. (See Am.j e papers, 1803.) Ilis efforts to niakej T iana a slave state were prosecuted for rs while he was Governor of that Ter- . ry. sir 11819, Feb. 16, Gen. Harrison voted, *er member of the House of Rcpresenta-j Co s, against clause prohibiting the fur- [ pe introduction of slavery in Missouri, j Jj against a clause lor the further eman,tion (at 25) of slaves born within that c. Two days afterwards, he voted vo ! against a clause prohibiting the future in troduction of slavery into Arkansas, ant against the futme emancipation of slavei > born in Aikansas. So basely did he b>;v to slavery, tha p even Ohio was shocked. He was indig nantly rejected at the next Congressiona f election in 1S22. The National Inlelli genccr of October 20, 1822, says:?"I i.(is confirmed to us, that Mr. Gazcly i: elected in opposition to (Sen. Harrison.? tj A friend informs its, which we are sorrj | to learn, that he was opposed particularly | on account of his adherence to that piiuci i.plc of the Constitution which secures it ; the people of the South their pre existing frights." It seems, then, that tien. IJar| rison claimed for the South the right t, | fasten slavery upon ant soil which the ; nation might have or purchase. He has had but little opportunity to ari i in a public capacity, upon the subject ol ! slavery since that time; but, an address j from his political friends in Virginia, in 1836, says: "he is sound to the core, on the subject of slavery." Under these circumstances, we submit I that conscientious abolitionists are bound j to regard the two parties and their candidates, as standing precisely on the same i ground?that of unlimited subserviency | to the dominion of the Slavoeraey. It is true?Gen. Harrison's personal demonstrations are less recent than Mr. Van Buren's. But, they are much stronger, for Mr. Van Buren helped to send Rufus King to the U S. Senate, to oppose slavery in Missouri, and he has never attempted to extend slavery to regions where it was already abolished. And further, the demonstrations of the Harrison party are more recent, than those of the other.? And, it is said, that we should give the old General a chance to repent of his proslavery, we reply: that it belongs to the man who repents to exhibit his own repentance. Certainly, there are no circumstances in the case, which warrant the slightest presumptions in favor of his repentance. Let him, or his friends, if they choose, show wherein his views now differ from his actions in 1802, and 1819, and 1836. And, in default of this, let the friends of human rights come at once to the conviction that the cause they have espoused, is, by Divine Providence, entrusted their own guardianship, and that for its success or failure, their country and posterity will hold them responsible. THE JOURNAL. CAMDEN: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1840. WANTED, A Journeyman Printer, of sober and ndustrious habits to whom liberal wages ivill be given, if immediate application is nadc. i riJE HON. JOHN P. RICHARDSON,' Has been nominated in the Charleston \Tcrcury, as a candidate for Governor, to ucccd Governor Noble. The Charleston ourier and Patriot both warmly approve f the nomination. Despatch Extraordinary.? A consi- ] erable sensation was produced in our ! < ommunity on Monday last, by the arrival otn Charleston, of Boyd's Boat, Belle, j apt. Jack, in the unprecedented time of; ?e hundred and forty days, having left ' le city on the 23d of August last. *] CONGRESS. E The Senate have been employed princi- j; illy in discussing Col. Benton's ilcsolu- t Dn against the assumption by the Gencr Government, of the State debts; and ^ :e Bill for the armed occupation of Flori-! l. Air. Wright, from the Committee I n Finance, had nlso reported a Bill to pro-' tie for the collection,safe keeping & trans.! c rof the public money, in other words, the jj ib-Trcasury Bill. No doubt is enter ; c ined of its passage early in tlie session, j] In the House, the New Jersey Question s; etill cmrrncsiniT cnliioct amt lific nn- .. ?"?* V"0 ui.%. ?jUt? w |j pied nearly all its time, with the excep- )( >n of the passage of a Bill making ap- j, opriatior.s to pay the members The imediate passage of this Bill was urged Mr. Etans, of Mc.t on the ground that et ey were out of funds and had not enough w pay for their board and washing! a O The Charleston Courier, cf Monday it, boasts of on assortment of handsome j)( wcrs, which have been preserved in thct $i y from the "pinching frosts of winter." ot ; a preservation equally remai liable, wc in ticed in our streets the other dat. a mbcr of fine large water melons for sj le.?They were sold at twenty-live ccn:.s n ch. p:i HE TEMPERANCE MEMORIALS. \:U We promised some two three weeks i ,. ? a i ice, to notice in what respect we ibf-i., ed lrom the Keport oi the frpoetal fu mmiltcc. Wc begin, however, to rc | nij having made the promise, as ihej'11 j Committee have been so severely 1,1 ni ndled by others. The Temperance Ac!- U( cote, at Columbia, has reviewed the He- ce [port in a most luminous and masterly man1 nor, and exhibited the fallacy of its asser3 lions and arguments, in such a light as I must, we think, prevent their repetition at - any succeeding session. Our object in 1 referring to the subject notv, is to beg the attention of our readers to the article from . the Edgefield Advertiser, under the signa. ture of Jerome, which will be found in our .columns to-day the whole argument of the Report is here stated, and ably met ' i and refuted. Read it. > i The scones which are sometimes enacted, in both Mouses of Congress, would be I j ? . very amusing, if it were not for their humiliating character. On the 3d instant, in _ the Senate, as well as in the House of | Representatives, some evil genius seems ( to have taken possession of the members, i The "passage of arms" between Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay, which will bo found on our first page, appears in any other than a dignified light?particularly when the character and influence of the combatants are taken into consideration. It is nothing but justice to Mr. Calhoun, however, to say that the report here given, is from,the National Intelligencer, and is said to be very imperfect and unjust to i that gentleman; and we have no doubt of j the fact. The Globe, containing a more j full account of the debate, did not reach ' us until after we had it in type. In the House of Representatives, on the | same day the proceedings were of a most | disgraceful and mortifying character.? j Messrs: Jenifer, of Md., and Bvnum and | Stanly, of N. C., each indulged thera: selves in strains of abuse, more becoming I such a bar room as the town authorities , would refuse'to grant license to keep open, than such a body as the American Con, gress ought to be. I Humiliating as these scenes must have been, we could not avoid a smile at the self-complacency with which Mr. Stanly, in the course of his remarks, says: "when I came here, sir, a little more than two years ago, I brought with me the determination to he civil and courteous to every member if ihc House, i resolved never to be guilty of using offensive language unless provoked." We have no knowledge of the character and disposition of Mr. S except as exi,i i... r?... 1._- i? i? 1 ........... vj ins itn 9|>veriiv? nc Mas mane in Congress, but it certain1-}* argues a very mild and amiable temper, that he should be civil and courteous unless he was provoked. To bo serious, however, such a resolution by any one, making the slightest pretensions to the amiability which should characterize a gentleman, appears to us about as wise, as to resolve that he would not eat unless he was hungry. A Large Dividend.?The Merchant's Bank at Chcraw, has declared a dividend if six dollars per share for the last six numbs?equal to 1*5 per cent per annum. Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, on the 13d of November, formally announced to icr privy council, her intended marriage. Che following extract from the annonnccner.t, shows that her Majesty understands irccision and perspicuity:?"li is my incntion to ally myself in marriage, with lie Prince Aleer! of Saxe Coburg and iotha." LADIES' COMPANION. Wc have, icceircd the January number f this beautiful and interesting publicauj). it i:; embellished witli an cWsmlw 0. .>J xecutcd engraving of Washington's louse, at Mount Vernon. We cannot ly more in its praise, in relation to its terary contents, than that it fully sustains ic high character which it has made for self. Confession of a Murderess.?A wretch- '"T 1 female, named Pliocbe Ann Simonson, ^ ho stands charged with the murder of >hn Flocr, a butcher in New York, on unday week, has, we learn from the ourier and Enquirer, made a confession. "She was met in the police office by ;r father and mother, when a scene enicil which hnffles description. She full i her knees before the magistrate, and all the agony of despair shrieked out, trill confess all!?1 am a murderer!!? be thru, as if relieved from an oppresvo burden, 1 era me comparatively calm* ;d detailed all tl.u circumstances of the :nid liarsnctinii. Khc said that she had read her Bible iring f e whole of Sunday, from which / e had been convinced that she must die, ' ;] that it was belter for her, as a preparr.ry step to such an event, to make a II disclosure. She then went on to state that she had 1 i n marrie d to Floor for about two years; at during that time he had noglected her, id had often kept company with other niien, which had excited in her an unniqucrablc jealousy: that she had till rc? J