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' Agent for this-paperd;and is anthorized to - reeive subscriptions and receipt for toe " apdi hitipatronage incident to te goyebrgm pt of our supire, maratmie " and foreign' to all around, With ene tinots in front certainly, ever ready to annoy, and' othersin the rear, in all probability' enghged in like manner. Ilow long will it be before the people niay be ready to imitate others, in like circumstances, that is to say, to sunrender for protection against eternal an. noyance, some of their republican rights te the oTgilanee and energy of the mhtary marm 1i f such should be our position, and tt is not beyond the range of probability, the xecutive power must grow apace. Are don sur that, in such circunstances, your - " resident and his Secretaries, with th~eir d ependants, including all who hunker after the desh-pdts, and the goverment prites will not hti torpid e courtbg do-opio ration, Oye, quite as much so as some now charge -to beo the glaring sim of the Co-op~erationt - ," pniety i Will they be present very enga gmig -quahutes to others even should the pgOle nitble suatos ! But will an or of Sprimary .magstude willmgly consent to afstolits elfulgence in a greater presence to rotate, as a satellite, around another of superior glory, in the creation whereof it. sel' is to be asked to co-operate? If not wil gre r bodies be attracted trom their phere otr sun ? And who shall give + lviturne unapyy balane e o , cetimpe tu [pftwgl tendencies ? Washo ton, kio.3 n .e flush of victory, enough to is at; r disdained a proffered din= an, an et f his electors an illus. p 9ri.b ty eoaceried ronm 'a peeries tiena:.e nlevel ofhis countrymen. - ~ ~r If sch shuld b ou pon, ahos - -sno eonhrneopoabit on to i S feu img poereeusrung aprom Aroe ~-:youur'tnt, wiish hircuwnstance, yigmui hcen berncd i y crextrend i ther - thin whic poul and t y g ia prinwer ato qie aon mucths a prmetee not chunded * ' -~ tobe hearw seline of thuaa naturers,o readty Wl tand obersent vain. ng tqulties, wt othe teenhtantial, jiov niigute suet-ma utt ive nor plourt pesflento ine aconcer h peeopse of thleo gry,-sin terateinonjuncrof it alh oie battraofte eritheare hot o sue owrand hey hallgve shewn i aligendanc iespo~st ngtooe br slaver amonge fush of whicto, imeo sto 6siethrwoudsre a fat reo upon thmslvs.' j'ey otf seethrsa howes. cler.a Partjd~lycecce fromnntua ca~ prte by or ow shumeeoss obundr,aearly. andlat; gealy y te nri n rasg artesi we, the slave oldrae i t itw erless4 mnorty wishvr eaeto the ed;bi isamj rty a ckle siijoity; i * t em reouved by uextna~ the aton ~, ~n hhe opariy cooead pweh there ? pr~ ostre ond deriynuc.plene t sine pejndos rdatte narwsiilast o hn'ion noture, gress thM~e rad andobeedaiornvai.heU & j Jon agana. at i reedetrund sececyanil - conumted au:er rnaure ofa aie rike 'th oerpreeng e, in egna duegrwpe, h.ostihe frsoiler Stte, in co..u':tiun avery all thed astepr~nu0'1ers.I 'hcosule wmermul Ilattmins of the erth, ar suh slavte viw'aeerado tihe dae *.sign a malgnan produced iones o mea riure;ow slaer dearateluhy h Iaalp rpose wch te w i~tth ar oudstie arcdn theml flore-s tselpW forhie dofuture o the ishi~ev w in tearne will in trnin upoe a,. there pow, e an o muetnt cormbin.atlioan ~ator.t tltubbon .irlo csts pmme a by urow sinene and odero, hough b n laeseal by then nontie raspich -~diflult dees the meure eered toer ares we, .a heeetaatecoldersavry-theyi ow are suminrtly isgueeydtoaput at ofu the mtFtide.a wharet. As equantwori if nt, they eold toasseb the pai n as tcaliot hovare yet thon dust pen-l In the oiey~zies c o ere whom h hee -- oe rin eer -unot wtndrfu ihat underb t urostrit umtnesy s theepe he have tedu- ongtor the i unfatuo Coet,. - rcavetnot detected theiruiity nt the noaur ofaii theire euitida cmhance, ata puiedint~ese rave mates om th lie sli'vi,[hadrae g Sitate ~viis pogreas; finasognre .hotle puapeery SArae w eain I lay es - founi aded as te opuini eeti I I sOI wymistrinsto the randh certaenp'pro et~hses , the evew thug shmerflnt'it h tu o wh dgelit retepyf purpote whiund thy, despi benus hers prgreing taideii byoae. t haep stirh the 'wtueigf he iterest cand' at'ou Weli sal be seestn c niain ind ~ hr jut tuorand roplrtions to rile doutote ret whio wnot.der contrhe nee~eaet limit tour riencued, i thgea to e ncuneedtho eincudaitr'esth ut scta t thedan meighes reed tn rone tat a oue-ttqkon sleny othey Womul itue,a a nrate eqIl orthyi cof -otdte wobnton pashed byateai cend are site ho Thdi rever-.nttivo inm biahti hot a yeut thit'ngr cdusen forayd itwllyt bseo wodern--that ner appahrenttancees, tihei pieoe "'lire i.v, I41 N Why, then, teach our people that the fu. hbumt tre. shall be fored Intl the present; to re. he ht eolve, that, at aU esaens, the Convention; a cr it minority Convention, tuuk pL'aCedthis State on a in a posture isolated and forei to all her and I assuociations, in spite of the hazards of tan- naki foreseen disaster, before it adjourns I Is it the c because we have hastily called a Conven- start tiotn, and appropriated money to arm the whei State 1 As to the latr if it be judiciously whit spent, I do not know that it should be con. then, sidered as wasted under any course of poli- most cy an future. At any rate, if two unwise TI things have beau done, they will' to be and r transferred to the citegory of wisdom by of c enacting a third egregious blunder. Nor to ol atn I able to peiceive that slavery will he Spar in any worse situation, or less worthy of visit, defence, or less capable of defence, against wens past aggressions five years after the Con- or I vention may adjourt, having forborne the shop extreme measure, than it is today. If our negr patriotism be so volatile that it must evap- few orate unless the Convention shall bottle it a ga up. if the cardinal principle that germinates We in our hearts and brains be so weak andi to a1 rickety, that it can live under no other spe- that cies of husbandry but that of separate Na. pass tionality, die it must, like a summer flower, slave and it is not, in that case, worth cu!tivatinsg. shom I am not so despairing. Nor was Mr. outh Calhoun. In his last speech, he spoke tans thus: "as events are now going it will not fulle require the South to secede to dissolve the are i Union. Agitation w-l of itself effect it." in ti And again in the samo speech: "It is a and groat mistake to suppose that disunion can and be efli'!tud by a single blow. The cords that bind these States together in one con. I. mon Union are far too numerous and pow. of s eriul for that. Disunion must be the work utf t of time. It is only through a lone process, o and gradually, that the cords canIe snapp t ad until the whole fabric falls asunder.- by Already the agitation of the slavery ques- the Lion has snapped some of the most imipor. line tant, and greatly weakened all the others, cou as I shall proceed to show." thei When I turn from the hot-house produc. the, tions of this hour, and resort to those noble iat State papers of that illustrious Contnental live Congress which commanded a lofty cul.i gum from a gigantic intellect in either for louse of a hostile Parliament, I seem an. hin deed to have reached a higher and a purer the atmosphere. White in the midst of the V r most galhing irritations, and in view of and formidable preparatans for w holesale . slaughter by an tnmlacable Monarch, hear nd what that ilmnortal old Congress said to their countrymsaen and consltuents in 1774: Yo "in every case of opposition by a people to ble their rulers, or of one State to another, ditmy thIe to Ainighty Gol, the Creator of all. r.- wi! quires that a trite and partail judigimnt b,- the formed of the me asures leading to such ..p. position; and of the causes by which it h.ts been provoked, or can in any dee'Lne he justified, that neither affecti.om iin the one hand, nor resentment on the other. oen.. pernitted to give a wrung ,we to reasonaa, it may be enaned to take a dinp:ssmnate il view of taill circnistan, es, and to seitle the public conduct on solid fo undatiuns of ais. don andjustice. Froa co suct alns teui. peeed, arise the se~et bIo;ies of Ihe vhem -- favor, the firmest eni cua:a ig' nionam ts .he .it parties engaged, and is- targ:,a renm . ianadaation of their cause to r' " mo i.man. T kind." " ,lny not such admaaonioa,*; , lea i, aiynnage at this day I - - -inir friend and ,-ervnant, -T. J. WiPTHEIW. To Comtmiteec ofIiwvn,ow,, ".gw~. operation M~eetong, Iarunigiona C. H-., S. C. . A Secozud Edsttioa, Estlarged mi burnt ahot Iasape oved. for< The Mercury summons to thet 8eesin" meeting t'or thue 17th. (tilas eveamig,) the advocates of that doctrine unader ereum-.y stantce rather amusing. A great Secession OU demaonstranion wvil be madoe by those who''"" are airaiid to inenation eren its name. Tihe jUfl catizeras are invited, wlho "4re opps'al to rir lar submanijji eyl Sou ht C:ailiuia, to fu pat nt ,ceogs an4 aggressmons ey' the Fe'derau Gore, ninent.'" We happenm to know but very lew who are nOt mealuded ms thas dleariptiona: "Wl1ho lueliere that they are boumi by their allegiance to, the State', to s~qup-rt ani meatasun's sh maty adopt/), in tI'e CO (]maa renition, for the prot ecio uf e'r wpl. ~ \\ kntow anone who are nmot included mi ithi. " prfoposit ion. Under, :lhen, thi m~na.sk, thcy hotape to itnduLce the beiliet, th at in Cirlesto: , theyi comniandl a nmajoirity oft thec votes. A we 'haort tuine bebure th.2 election, thaey call a sne thier m~eeunag. Anid t his. a hey callI e. habiatig t he Seliatimenat cI thle Sate! ul it is not for anr utitiaosph'*.ro thlat this pr ecou pro c.mcltept iota hais been deve~njpeaI. It is II I 5 aff'ect thme State. It is to paroduc mC th le a id counltry the aimressiona tirit . hia rcaon favor 8stt.onM.i. that san ani array o' mn nes has beena pnubashled, which na toua. oth ci usively deamonstrates, tean i any oether thie evidence, the weak anal totthermuy coi.di 1mn5 hunr o1 deceniona. I'ernois nlot enCi Led ha tote; name~is twice, or Lhrice, wrniuien; a goodly anmberuin aoars; anud a lull inppy iii Co. we Operuafz menI, whot n. ere hl to JeblevO tiarh, mi signong the liit, Lhey were sagng a Co-oaperation call, all combtaoe to swell art' array that could no smore be broughtz tol the in r support Oa Secession, tfiana the adopijtion oR a , miatter which they adhlorred. Whaat thaai par mtore conclusively ashows, that the of C death knell 01 Secession has been soiuded, pub anad is naow rmnging in the ears of those, co-a who, Iroma bemag its chiei priests, must now become its chai mourners,! What rebuke Mu mnore pointed, (hant tht now s~elf-ahnmn- Peo; latered, when their coniduct shows that ' they dare riot, oven utter, the sentiment had they professd Where is tihe lofty psatrioat Im wichi leads must to act boldly wheni they r act rightly? Cast it be found ina this "t. attempt to lure tuen on to a course, which haivi cannot be revealed, e.xcept to smaake thaem l1At start back withl horror frosm the precipwee toA which they have appihroached~, antd utterly ' overthrow, an their retreaut, those who tus "" played towards, thesm, the part or guides thei and teacher,? lint, well as LI cauat.ously No designed, as has beeni the gaaane, no hiumn . skill could play it oaut, aaa as to colsaand stccess. Tio mnislead a peopale, is a task aga wthichl seldom Clan be motre~ thano hair done, icdri Saomo circumnstanace will reveal thie plia- thle amid witheisng is the rebuke that faills on the fect heads of those, who, whens they play with I thie passions of the people, ihonkd learnhe caution, from his fate an the sable, who arat handled the thunrderholts of J upiter. $l,( Let the Co-operaation men, wtho is in donht, dhitic attend the meeting; arnd we' predict, athat however revoltoag to huimt miay htave lie appeared the doctineo of time party thtat no ithou coveortly labors for its aidoptiona, lhe wvil p/cs oly see it ira those vehemencts, wvinch wvil thus forever devote him to its exteridniation, . when exhibited by those whto clauim to be is juthorized expositors. - to 1 ....- it ? Aflot:To? OUTRnAGE tx i1.tos.-The hlot Cape Girardeau (Mo.) EaTgle, says: W A negro of Mr. Sherwood, of New temni Madrid cc., ran off mnot inang uinice, arid in th telligenco was received that lho was atth Sparta, in Randolph countfy, Ill, a little guibI towni abouat twenty miles back of Chester. ed by Mr. 8. sent hi. son to briag imn nego .heir -but when he arrived near the town, 1 ard of the rough treatment. some oth in had received who- had gone over similar business, a short time before, se concluded he would return without P ng known his errand. It seems that il wner of the slave arrested hiu, had A d home, and gone. but a few mile, b s lie was overtaken by a parcel of men, who rescued the negro, and it with the aid of the slave, beat him, re cruelly, breaking several of his ribs. a aey left him lying on the ground eturned. Dir. Sherwood and a number thers went over some two weeks ago tain the negro, but thi6 abolitionists at a La, having heard of the opject of their ( armed thenselves, nnd a large crowd t ,out and met the Missourians a mile wo from town, and threatened to them if they attempted to take the K i away. The Missourians being too t n numbers to contend with so large f g of these negro, but returned home. understand that Mr. Sherwood intones ply to the Unisted States Marshall of1 State to entorce the recent law i d by Congress relative to fugitive 1 -s. It, in d.schiarging his duty, lie. Id be resisted by these hypocritical aws, we promise he shall have assis e sutflicient to carry out the law to its f st extent. We understand that there several negroes belonging to persons is part of Al ssouri harbored in Sparta the neighborhood by these villains, ftIin't should be made to recover them. ,iVE FOR SOMETHING.-Thousands uen breathe, move and live-pass he stage of life, and are heard of nore. Why ? None were blessed hem, none could point to them as means of their redemption, not a they wrote, not a word they spoke, d be recalled, and so they perished; r lght went out into dar kness, and were not rememnbered mre thanui cts of yesterday. Will you thus and die, 0 man imniortal ? Live something. Do good and leave be I you a monument of virtue, that storm of time can never destroy. ite your name by kindness, love mercy, on the hearts of thousands come in contact with year by year, you will never be forgotten. No, r name, your deeds, will be us legi. on the hearts you leave behind, as stars on the evenihg. Good deeds shino as brightly on the earth, as stars of heaven.-Dr. Chalmers. tudy to bee snort consistent in prin. -", n.1d in'ine umifoosn in practice, and peace will be imure unbroken. Sumterville, So. Ca. ;HN T. GREEN, Em-onT. ESDAY, -SEPTEMBER :28, 1851. : M.n rs. A. WurrE . Co., are nit'o L'.1annitr'in Sumtorville. There is one ,onf on wvh~l thee c-an be no rtity3 9f opinion in the -South among those aire t use to her, or scho have made up their ds not to be slaves ; Shat is jf wee shoutd be ed to choose betwceen resistance and submission should take resistance at all Aa:arda." .11OUN. To do, that , onert of action must bie necja. ant to stare the Uinion, for at ucould then be uste, bust to save ourseLres. ThAus in my view, -ert i the onie thing needful.."--C Ai.noeN, it heat is the remedy ? I ansarrr secession, ead seesseion of the vlam-cholding States, or a 'e numbiner ol them. Nothin ri.'ese ,rdt ibe wrise ring else rdl be prterticabfe."---v.csgs. CO-OPERATION TICKET. FRtn 'nE SOUTHERN CONGRESS, I-. JOhIN S. PimlSTION, of Rtichiland. L. i A'S. Clll-:SNtTT, Jr., of Kershmaw. 7'''h Th Hnner haes bieen delaived th;i t inighat hi~ive an opp.~ortiinity of maiking hi com nients u poin thL- de ussion of thie arate Srcessin) p~mrty at their meetmy edi for :hiis da~y (23rd) as miighat --ieema er for t he ir~nformti of our frienid. hae onily to say m hat tiaeir meeting, ough~ small, was orderly. WVe wonld upoun iour own, amnd the judlgmient nf rs iiore competenat thanim ourselves, thati innmiher paresent diad mnot exceed three dreal, if it rmached that point. Iensrsm. Owr.zss, AUuts,- and G~irE~n e' thae speakr.. Mr. Pauuiding's Letter. 'tie letter at this Newv York gentleman, eply to a Commiaittee of the SCeiessin y inviting him to adldress the citizens harlestonm on the 17th inst., has been lishied lby the Caroaliniana and other Se. ion pa pers with such commients n they >soed woultl arrest the attention of the ile of this State. /'e had supptosed that our people have eniough of Northern .Men with South. Principles. The case oft Mr. V.is Blu. ii. ft esh in their imeinories ; anid they rinot forgotten that this saime Mr. L1.NGs was a imember of his Cabiiei. lie peopale of Sumiter remember wveil igh that Mr. P'Aci-iso accomvpaniied I~x-P'residenit, the Northern Man with thiern Principles, in his visit to Cot. sLErON of this Dist riet, onlty a fe w years Whly should they go North tio get ters I Will the Seeessionists mn torm people how Mir. P'Atu.ntso is to be ii. aid by the fit'e of South Carolin~a I Will cIp to defray the expess of her Sep. governmnt 1I llow~ much oft the 4)0,000. will he pay ? Would tier con. n lie finmally that of a Bankrupt, wd'l< Iare it I Do thosio who thus command I a Northerni Men aintd Southaern Pri nti. to our citizens, saiuxmso that they are to be duped I t d the Committee wvrite to " Mtty' \Vhat was his reply, anid where is Hlow much .will "Maltty gie far deh go for Seceussin dosh "gv? o warn our friends against these at. t ta to holster tup 8 tottering cause with uthority of persons, however distin.n icd, who cannot and will not be nfli l atn event whmich must inevita bly prove j t i ruin. q 4 . Albat the Carolnian thinks mil about Co-operation. . - pr It Ilhigks that "Co-operation doctrine is wi alitically unsound, ant is antagonistid o 8 iat'of States' Rights,because it merges the td Mate--a - distinct and .sovereign political ha >dy-into a section. It is not only false er itheory, but it is so practically, because it ac quires an impossible condition even to the si: tion proposed under it." th We say that the reason which the Caro- to iian gives for, thpi unqoundness of Co- io peration doctrine is in fact untrue, because m o-operationists have uniformly maintained to ie doctrine of States' Rights in the sense which its enlightened expounders under Land it. They no more seek to merge o Ie D;stinct and sovereign existence of ar outh Carolina " into a section," than they 1. ould the distinct personal existence and th intity of one Co-operationist into that of " lie Carolinian. As a party, the Co-opera. vi onists hive for their object the assertion d ni intenance of the Rights of Souh arolina as a distinct mnember of this Con- ht ederacy. They have never tailed so to o scrt and an to maintain them. And this , he Carlinian might very well know, and at nust know if it had the candor to hSay so. But the Co operation doctrine "is tint Ic nly false in theory, but it is so practically, q' ecause it requires an impossible condition o ven to the action proposed under it." We a rave shown that the Carolinian has snia- y tted the theory of the Co-operation doc- 8 rinse, and that the doctrine of States' Rights v eing its very basis, its theory cannot be else, the Carolinian itself being judge. ~ [ut how is it practically false! "Because c t requires an impossible'condition even to r he action pirop)$ed under it." Now the Ca olinian is doit g itself great injustice in oncealitig the fact, that from the com-r nenecment of the present agita-ion, the ae.ders of the Co-operation party recom mended union " of the Southern Stairs or a arge number rf tiem," which of course is the " impossible condition" referred to, not as a coniditiun upon which South Car., lint held her right of seceding, but as the wise and practicable condition, npon which c she was to eircise that right. Neither the lc:iders of the Co-operation party, nor the party itself, have ever held that the rght of Secession depended upon the joint action of t vo or more Stetes ; but they have uniformitly contended, that " united Secesson of the Slaveholding States or a are -isnher of them," was the only wise irni practicable remedy. This has ever heen: the poh-y of the Co-operation party, the trie 'esisince party. They adopted this policy upon the weighty and. impregnable consideratio, Ilia-t Suth Carolina has sustained no inju. rY-ng ipgresjon of any kind or in a' y degr-ie.Awhich has not been .equally Jha'red n'hgjiiqer ~nurthern States: fnd that she is tihreatened by no danger, ime. '.iate uor remnote, wi-ch does not equally tbreaten the other Southern States. Our injuries anid dlangers being coin anon, our re-dress anid line of deifenrc2 should be onie.. The Co-operation party hav-e never heard one sahisflactory reason fromn the Se pa rate Secession party to change their >olic-y. In the a'isence therefore of all rcason for a diererent course, they must ~tai be pernirtted to pursue tire one adopted in the begirmniing, and to urge upont thre peo ple of south Carolina and the other South ern States, that it is tire true policy. They tlink that there is an obligartioni resting iipoin therm as rational and conrsiderate men, to defe-r mutch to their neighbors, and to .lsitam fruomi thre exercise of a right which hey*j bel;cre would bring disaster niot only to themirselves, but to that. cause which all >)arnecs reg ard ais a common onie. Trhe Cuaroliunian having designated con -ert amonng the Southrn States as "an injiuessile condition," must be -presumed 10 have asb ndonied the idea of whipping hemi ihto they traces -tby the Separate isensa5mioni of South Carolina. It must hrefrore advocate the Separrate Natioanal.' my -ol Sonih Carohnia. This .niference is alearly warraunted rrm what it adda, "thatu hie othier .'outrn Stau~s haze setleld th ut~stionm for thremselaes." Iiamg tarkenr ihir positsini then, conce. ing to thiem the firmness only of ordinary nenr, thre Separate vecesssion of South Tairoinarm wail not mnake themi recede from hat position.4 lint tbis gives the Carolinian another op orrtunmity oh expressing its thoughts abont Lo-opemrioni doctrine. For it says, that the .reseniCo-operationa doet rane~inr repudisating state act ion, is uniworthy and degrading in . Is tenidenicy. Anid why ? Because it vonld prohdbit Soarth Carolina trom doing ~hat hrer sister Strites have done-that is, settling thre question for herself, and in jew if hier own State character, pride and oiror." Can the Carolinian be in earnest hen it uses such language ? In what iangie imaianed has the Co-operaition party hoiwn air unwidhneneassfor "the State to ettle 1he qreti4 (n for herself ?" Does not t he fJaroliaun know that such is not lire fact? )oes it hot knowv that Lire Co-operation amrty obiject only to this--that the Sepiarate :ecessiaon party wishes itself to settle the nolstion for the whole State? 'That an irroganlt aind udictatorial body of private in hiviurnaba, who~ are hbut men lhke thremselves, aive nnude-raren to be South Carolina Y gaima the wishes of a large majority, we 'aeve, ut tire State I Wheon theo blinori ' Cominittee in tire Charleston Alay Con. i Clntioni proposed to the AMajority to leave I lie whole martter of State wrongs and rem- a alen in the hands of the Convention call- t i by tire Legislature, wiry did the hMajori r eject so fumr a proposition 1 What was aore ini tire Minority Report, tuworthy 'duisdgradling inl it's tendency 7" Did net .1 ec Dictators manifestL by this act Wlen " reir ishi arid dotermatin " to saettle thre is estion for the State P" But we up)ght re- /1 '4' 1. Ub nd- the Caroliniss, of the subsequent )eedings of its iiarty, or its Ditstfor, rich still more palpably proves that the parate secessIon party ,have no idea that ! State shall "iettle 'the question Fr reell" We might remind It of their se it and mystertitus movements--their ox. t and studied care In suppressing discus n among the people-and their rejecting a nomination of Co-oporalien candidates Southern Congress. In this Congress. al District Messrs. PRESToN and Cass. r, avowedly and notoriously belonging the Co-operation party have been drop d, although nominated on that very ound by "a secessionist, and a member the Legislature, and Messrs. BARNES d OwENS, extreme action men, "men, ho," in the language of the address of e Richland Southern Rights Association, 3o for a dissolution of the Union, by me rig in front"-these are their men, and ese are the principles they are to carry th them in a Congress of equals, who ve been nominated in the place of Co. rrationists. They wish the people to nd nien who will threaten and dictate, id not such men as will conciliate and aeon and persuade. Does not all this ok as if the Dictators desired to settle the testion in their own way And is there at much in it too, which "is unworthy id degrading in its tendency ?" Pray, il us what is there in this game of the eparate secesssion party calculated to ele ate "State character, pride and hnor?" The Carolinian again, among other fallacious and sophistical" objections, Iarges the Co-operation party with mis !presenting " the opposing doctrine of the tates' Rights and State action party, by aserting that this last prrty repudiates r-operation." If the party to which the Carolinian be. >ngs, favor Co-operation, why do they op ose Co-operation candidates' But still furthor, some leading Co-opera onist ha' ing deniod that the doctrine u itutes' Rlights was involved in the presen ontro'-rsy in ihis State, the Carolinian reaks out in the following exclamation o razencnt, " States' Rights not involved #ok to the facts. Did Georgia, when or convention was elected, base her ac on on the attitude or position of any other tate ? Did Virg:nia ?" Will the Carolinian inform us whethei here was in either of those States, or it ay other State in tie Confederacy, an it esponsible body of prirate men, who under uok "to settle the g.estion" for those States nid to diffi'er with whom was treason I But the Carolinian finds fault with the o-operation party, because th.'y have the uthority of Mr.9 r~noux for their uppot Very wrong this: The f(ooperth.n pyr y ought ntot to be blamed for this. DIf he' (u rteatgse theE Coerauo aarty with using the name of Mr.'C.ndnaj1 as a deception. It is but lost labor for th Carolinian' or anybody else to attempt s to pervert ; or to bolster up their schem af Separate action upon the non-expresi on of opinion on the part of Mr. CAl nous in favor of this measure. It is enoug For the Carolinian to know, and for ever body else, that he has said, "in my vies :oncert is the one thing needful." But h sas never been known to utter one worn thrat we know of, favoring State secessioti In conclusion the Carolinian honestl believes that the success of the Co-opera ion party will be a poclamation to th L nrld, that South Carolina has surrendere the doctrine of.States' Rights forever. Th rcasons for this daring declaration we wil recapitulate that their merit may be mani Feet. It believes all this then: 1st. " Because the doctrine of the Ce >peration party merges the State into 'ection." This we have proved to be a very strang mod unaccountable mistake for the intelli rent Carolinian.. No body ought to knot ietter, that it is not true. 2d. " Beca.use Co-operation doctrine e i inworthay and negrading in its tendency.'' This we have shown not only to be ; udge, hut we have fastened the charg, ipon rhe party to which the Carolinian be 3rd. " Because the Co-operation doc rine misrepresents the opposing doctrine c states's Rights and State action party iy asserting that this tast party repudiate .o-operation." We lave shown beyond any reasonabli loubt by the acts of the secession party hat Co-operation La a hateful thing to theni 4th. " Because the doctrine of 8tates tights is involved in this controversy." As between the partie- in thiis State, w, imyc shown that thre doctrine is niot inrolv d in the present controversy. 5t anid last. "Because Mr. CAItoUNi I n the side of the Co-operationists." As this wa the last reason given by lb darolinian, we suppose it intended this a he climax. But we think every body wil dmit that this is a great deal in favor c Ie Co0-operat ionists. We are glad to hiavi uch good authority. In conclusion we do honestly believi tat if the party, to which the Carolinia; elongs and of which it is an organ, mauc eeds in directing. controlling and deceiv ig the people, it will tnot only settle th~ itstionr In its own way, but substitutin1 self for the wholo State, an idea whici as taken strong hold upon it, it will re. alve itself into a despotism the most abso. te and terrible that eyer tyrannised over i enslaved and degriidfrr people. Loolh it people of Sumter. In the last uttmber of the Wesekswa a 1i1 by the'Upa~rate SecogsbtItas A si assnmeeting e ld hero 6in the bd at., headed. baijnst' appeam. his call lis a by aomntleman who ts 4- 14 1 ~ -4ii el. in earnest. ~. .,': mlests, a 2"' one after littpn is finishaed. 4 enino you are' you nmust prve by' your-t -old all other es tions sh If you become united, and In earnest, the No t will ,e a pause, And to a calcuIspl m sequences; and that wray of measures, andithe adoption ot ss policy that may quietlya nd Poc if r ! minmate this long conlict between, tem mpj, sections. If it should not nothin .would remain for you but to stand, up in defence' of rights. involvng all-your property, prosperity, equa, ty, liberty, and safety, As the assailed, you would eta ld justilied by all laws, human and - divine,,; mn repelling a blow so dangerous, without looking to consequences, and to report to all means necessary for .diat se. Your assailante, and not g bi e r reipinsible for constequeriCO - = Enteruuning thee epimuons, we earnestly entreat to be united, and for that purpose adopt all necessary measures. Spyond thin, we think it. would not be proper to .go at present. This address was signed by the felrng members from South Carolina. JOHN C. CALHIOUN, - A. P. BUTLER, ARMISTEAD BuaRT, J. E. Hof.1aEs, R. BARNWELL RuETT, R. 11. Snarsov, D. WALLACE, J. A'.' WOODwARD, Mr. Calhoun then (in 1848 we believe the address was published (advise the Southern people that to be unied as the first and indispenbable step, without= chich nothing could be done. Does any man believe after this that he ever could have counseled separ ite State Secession. Co-Operition Meeting. The citizens of Sumter District, opposed to Sepnrate State Sccetsaon and favorable to the Co-operation of other Southern States are insi ted to convene at Sunmter Court House on the first. Monday in October net- Addresses will be delivered by Colonels CuEssur anl Parasroa, the Co-operation candidates for the Southern Congress-and other distinguished persons are expected to address the meeting. A Barbecue will be provided. Rosmzar M LDaow, ManCes REYNOsvn, MATrw P. MATES, WM. BALLAeD, Joinx E. Dzxsas, 1. J. Kox, WILLIAM HODoERS, E. M. Azsaazos, J. D. Asaisoar., Jaxua E. JRuxslaar, JOuN W. STUCKEt, J. N. Farmason, JAs Fr W:TVrurlasooa, F. J. Mosrs, Josiu F. MuLaow, Jous H. Drzror, R. F. hItcasos, llaxav D. Ga._.. EzxKE. KaLS, I. G.WTurasreos, Jotx J. MooaE, W. IL Evaozas, Joux B. MaLL"r, W. J. i&sLNoLas, F. Senwra, WAaan A.MUamesw W. At. DLoau, Joens o.- t, Wss.ria Wa .a,' TuouAs J. " DavID Dufloss, ..Bzsaau TPsez, Jonx L. Maxrcano, -Rramnaan P. M.MieNsa R. C IeAanson,T4R. F/ Baa, Ma- EDIron:-Or self-eottitut die. tators com poeiodgheICentmal' -'~o of the immediate Secessaionista having w claimed their hostility to the eletio~f Messrs. CHsNgUT and PaESTON, as gates to a Southern Congress anio ted candidates Jp oppose them, pulf~ the ground of their opposition to Stato Action under present circumati. CeF, it becomes those who agree in opiam. ion with blessrs. CHESNUT anid PREz. TON, and who dare oppose tlhe; is of this most puissant Conmitte'e to be on the alert. Our would be lord and masters pro. claim their determination to make this election a test of the strength of their party. Well be itso. I for one fear not the re. suit. It would be diflicult to elect in the State purer patriots or more talented gen. Ilemnen than JASIEs CHESNUT, .JR., anid Jonas S. PRESTON. Defeat, could I sup. pose defeat possible, in such a cause, and with such leaders would partake more of .triumph than disgrace. The Co-operation -party, I feel fully confident have been at all timuea the majority in 'Stamter. 'Tis true our opponets elected theit ininees to the State Convention, but by armiserably poor and meagre vote, their highest candi. date getting but little over four hundred votes, (I allude to Claremont County,) f where are generally polled over athosanad. > Unwilling to create division in the ranka of those opposed to Federal usurpations we have heretofore ats a party forborne to 5 move, hoping the separate actionists would (after letting oil' some of their extra strai in speeches, toasts &o.) upon sober conuid. erat ion, settle upon some plan of action to which we might give our suppoiW These hopes have, I grieve to say, failed,.'instead of modera.ting they daily be iore vio. lent and dictatotial and in ilais!EfftboIhc down the gaunitiet and challenge a 1 tretngth. Under these circa t~i remain longer inactive would W&I 1criminal, the move so a. I unders~ii of their leaders, has declar ed thr determination to sec<ede should Ni a majority of even one vote in the Cd nm9 tion. All on earth, near and dear to i as Carolinians, or as husbands anid fathep., 1.4 in-olved in thesissue. Should they age ceed in placing our beioved State, alone and unsupported, In opposition to l.omh the. North and Sonth, which t he ir avowed course, if unohecked, inevitably does, un. mitigated ruin and misery, must and wilN follow. Thank God, there is yet tin o (ti barely time) to arrest the fatal catastrgphi Up then all who love your Slate, yoep selves or your families, and to the tShow your atrengtk at the polls e secon4 Monday in October, apd your ads' - taken brothers (for brother, they te, a. though at present uinder "strong deleg~on';) rnky getb induce toipause -ad 0a% eauf atteitioMs to the adveteeQna in $i a day's Issti f Mevstw,) no-tn & .\veie *A ..,w well known to be the -PresKh t of the Southern Rights Asiocratiop'v Claremont; and, we desire to say in advance, that in he remarks we propose to make upon tsat call, we intend no disrespect to that gen tileman; for, though we regret to see him in the position he occupies, we entertain for him personally no sentiment but that of respect and esteem. The readers of this paper who are Co. operationists and who are members of the Southern Rights Association of Claremont -an Association formed for the purpose of uniting the, South, and in no aspect favoring the sepalcO secession of South Carolina have the right, we conceive, to have the following questions answered, and we know of no one whose duty it is to answer them except the President of the Associa tion Why has the Southern Rights Associa. tion of Claremont not been called together since May lost! Has it not been because the spparate secessionists-willing and de. siring that it should be taken for granted that they were in the majority-were afraid of Free Discussion ? Have not letters, circulars, or other documents-marked, or not marked, private and confdential,-com. ing from persons styling themselves the Central Committee of the Southern Rights Associations of South Carolina, or other persons acting'or professing to act for the separate secessionists of the whole State, been addressed to and received by persons in this District, the object and design of which Was to rTIFLE THE VOICE Or THE PEoeL and prevent FREE Discussion ? Has not the President of the Association for Claremont received one or more of those documents, and has he not acted upon the suggestions they contained ? Han it not been.the secret policy of the separate secessionists since May last to discourage Free Dliscussion, and why has this change so suddenly coeic over the spirit of their dream ? These questions are not founded upor matters within our own knowledge, but upon ruiors that have re:'hed us frrn various quarters and upoo inferencos drawn froni the conduct of the separate secession. r ists Ard when the questions we have put shall have been answered fully and with. out evasion-when all ;he secret letters circulars and other documents shall have been made public-and the conduct o1 the separato secessionists explained, it that we shall see that the rumors we have heard, and the inferences we have drawri are without foundation, we shall then, bua not till then, be willing to meet the sepa. rate secession its in Fire Discussion. We cannot consent to meet a party in frec liscussion, who when in a (supposed) ma. jority did every thing they could to discour age and prevent free discussion--who really and truly are afraid to see the people en. lightened-who, to rush them blindly and madly into separate secession, hoping that a ter the deed is done they will stand by it We ask in all candor, if the belief under which we act is true how can the Separate secessionists expect us to vneet them i:1 discuspion beforq the people? We wiflagree ~ to meec o opponent,- under suh circun. rate becessionits tip to this time-a policj persued inthe dark with secret circular, ' letters & documents-has been to keep tht a public mind in darkness-how can wve con. .tido in their assurances that, they now de. - ire to enlighten it-that they really w~an1 fre l, fair, honest dircussion. FIFE DISCUSSION is a new born idet with the Separate secessionist.. If they wantod free discussion, why did they not postpone the election of delegates to the Convention until October, the usual tinmc *for holding elections in South Carolina .Reflect, citizens of Claremont, when the r fact, that, the election was held in Februa. ry-in less than two months fronm the time the Act was passed. * T'o the Co-operationists of this District wi I are bound to say, have nothing to do witl the meeting of the 23d inst. it is not i meeting for free discussion-we are a least bound so to conclude until the secre - documents are published or until we arn assured by honorable men that no such do. cuments exist. It is a meeting of the Se parate seessionist. and 'tnowing that theil party is in a small minority, they hope b) calling ineur meeting a mass' meeting ani a free discussiou meeting to get Co-opera tionists to attend who as soon as they en ter will be counted as one of their party Of course then thu news papers will clos with the account of t e tremendous de monstration in Old Sumter. VWe saysto the Separate Secessionista if you truly and in good fa th want us te meet you in Free Discusstion, but satists us upon the subject of those secret doct mets. If* such things are in existec or have been in existence send us copies c themn all for publication, if we choose ti Spublish them--keep none back lot us hav' them all-and then, if we are satisfied up eon reading thenm, that your party hae, pursu i ed no suc h policy as the above question indicate we wi.l meet you in fire discus sion on any day y ou mtay fix. We would addt as a further and obviou: Sreason why we should meet the Separat: .Secessiomists, they are not sincere whei ethey say they desire it. if they really de sure it why did they not consult with u before hand! WVhy is it that the first no tice welihad of their proposed mnass meetin - was through thte columns of the Watchmaan And again we would ask why is it thia Messrs. CnIIA's BARNWEL.L, and WITH Ens, are the only persons named as invites and expected to address their mteetiun Was it not well knowvn that these gen tlemnen would not attend, and wvere no their names inserted as a mere blind? The disg'uise is too triusparent. E very siner of thaet Free Discusuim call is a violent secessionist. P. 8.-The abovo iwas written for the last number. 9 The Somlaer Adres. We call the attention of our readers to the concluding paragraphs of the address of the Southern Members of Congres to their constituents. We, then, are of the opinion, that the first and indispensable step, without which nothin can ednadwt hc everytiing sny e tar y th which yourselves, on this great and moat vital qnustion. The trsnt of union and eenucerl in marce to t he, brought the South, the odd ourstem of (Governinent to th~f " tjeyts conditin, Instead -on it~ Gbove na t llfe lonte, not tomere Sti a"!*# ,butt tQ seev~ot as hl d 1br mtceer, Jfrei1 themn ubonrliniste to tat aid e