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FROM TUB CHARLESTON MERCURY. 1 JUDGE CHEVES' LETTER. ] have been informed, to my surprise, that, in , sequence of a short note, addressed to my fel- , v-citizons of the neighborhood in which 1 live, , i the 4th July last, I ain supposed to be in favor , /f resistance by the action of South Carolina t alone. Such an impression is entirely erroneous. { 1 expressed a dozen years since, the sainc seuti- < rncnts, almost in the same words, and was, at the same nine, as is well Known, uecuieuiy opposed j to resistance by a single State. But I shall now, i with your permission, leave no doubt of the posi- i tion in which i wish to stand, and, in doing so, 1 t shall mingle my opinions and counsels with those of my fellow-citizens, to be weighed for what I they are worth, in "this great argument." >, The farill I consider an act of insufferable and insulting oppression, which ought to be borne only I until it can be judiciously resisted. But this re- s sistance, in my opinion, to bo effective, must unite i the efforts of, at least, a large portion of the suf- i ferers. I do not think one State ought to resist alone. There will he neither confidence nor cer- 1 taintv in such a course. The people of one State, ' standing alone, would not be heartily united | among themselves. It might be different ll the i Stair were ulune in the suffering; hut standing in t ; midst of common sufferers, much more nuuio- | reus than themselves, whose arms were folded, i thu presence of these would oueratc like a moral i ^ ^ t cuticleuiuulion ui itu i' aM, .uJ" cruii l' warm 1 biood, tli?ugh ammo too io so good a cau. e, ml i lite .* :! us m resistum suit i We have no right to anticipate that even'. I In tr . .pinion, it they dn not, tlicv wili li< , .<iuisible to honor and to shame, an<l equally so, to their interests and their danger. Hut we dare not cast this reproach upon them merely because they do not think fit to adopt our measures and our time. If we think they are tardy, we must en- < treat them with brotherly zeal to quicken their < step. If oim* measures be not acceptable to them, i let us modify them, or adopt them, if they lead l to the same end. Resistance will be a very so- ? lemn act. If it be rashly attempted and fail, it i will rivet our chains and bring on us new burdens i and insults. Success in such great enterprises is I not usually the result of a sudden thought or the | fruit of a single day, but of wise and sober deli- berations and protracted action. We are speaking | of the movement of nations?a successful resist- I ance will probably cost some years. Thecircum- ' stances in which we are placed cannot fail to re- t mind us of our first great act of resistance to op- I presslon. Jjci us men uoast less o(Yo*? and U-m < idly of the deeds of our ancestors, and more faith- I fully imitate them. They did not jump in a sin- I gle breath to their conclusion, and talk of single- I handed resistance. They deliberated long, and I they wisely united all who were under common suffering and in common danger. Let us do as t they did. Let associations be formed in every 1 I __!!! . >juuuii;rii, aim, n possiuic, >.n every South West- 1 ern State, and let them confer together and inter- I change views and information ; let leading men, t through Committees and private correspondence ' collect, compare and concentrate the views of like 1 men in the respective States, and when ripe for it, t and not belore, let representatives from these ' States meet in Convention, and, if circumstances ' promise success, let them then delil>erate on the ' mode of resistance and the measure of redress.? ' If not, still persevere; let neither delay nor first failures, should they happen, create despair or 1 faint-hearted "ess T?l!oxiblo perseverance rnr-ly 1 fails in a good cause, and ours is pne that must 1 nevgr in* t'wrtfinee to ?? >? ; public shame for the degradation to which *wo ' Fiave wton brought; let your exertions be not oc- 1 cn-i'>ijui and desultory, Suit organized and incessant; avoid especially all blustering, and put in ' the jilace of it sound sense and forcible reason- ( ing. Vour appeals to your fellow citizens may, | nevertheless, be as impassioned as your sense of injury and shame and danger may inspire, but 5 they ought to be chastened by a regard to the ' moral sense of an enlightened community. Add ] to the proper functions of the newspaper press, ] the circulation of able and well chosen tracts, and let them be found in every hamlet and bouse in 1 the South and South West. Carry your exer- ' lions into the cntnii of the i>nonn/ Tlma <! ?* i r " # * "v * * ,,,,u colonies in their preparation tor resistance to the 1 mother country. During that struggle we hail I among our friends the Burkes and the ('hathams, ' and others of the greatest names that ever adorn- ' ed humanity. There are in every country virtuous men who hate injustice and detest oppression, though they ho the acts of their own country and government; and their influence, though tliey liuiy 1 not be able to carry a vote, lias often great moral ' and political weight. Their approbation will have great effect in sustaining your own resolution.? But in this case you may appeal to your interest as well as their justice, for the mass of the peo- ; pie, no where, derive any advantage from the op- 1 pression you suffer, and have great and honest interest. put at hazard by the resistance you may he obliged to make. Manufucturca should be the 1 last resort of industry, in every country ; for, when forced, as they are with us, they serve iio 1 interests hut those of the capitalists who set them in motion, and their immediate localities. Commerce is the proper hand maid of agriculture, and agriculture the blessed employment of man. Al- ' ready both arc languishing under the intriguing power of manufacturing capitalists. Without the agriculture of the South and South West, the < grass would grow in the streets of your great Northern cities. What, comparatively, would Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Jtaltinioro be, were the South ami South West, or even the I i South alone, obliged to retire from tlie Union I? What. if our intercourse with these cities were transferred to Liverpool and Havre ! A moments t reflection will Ire sullicient to show how little difficult this trader would he, especially when we consider the present and growing celerity of steam power. These and like ports are the ultimate points of our present commerce, though we are contented (good, easy people as we are when I not trampled to the earth by oppression) to hear the charges of a double transit and to employ these Northern cities as our factors. What, if the tin- i happy event of separation shall he provoked, is to prevent us from doing our own business, as wo have done before, and reaping the profits i which we now bestow 011 others, and which have made the Commercial men of the North and Cast 1 M/twl.o.,* V* t'l I?.? ~~.I 1 . * IIIW0 < vnai ICOU/II <11111 ?7clV<l IIMilM ' would then bo great and flourishing cities. New i Orleans would speedily swell into the present | magnitude of New York, and overy town and in- < terest connected with lliein would increase and < flourish iri proportion. These may he called hy the interested and unreflecting, idle dreams, but I those acquainted with the nature of commerce, , and who have reflected on the concentrating pow- ( er of the union which now builds up and sustains ] the great Northern and Eastern cities, well know | that they aro sohor truths, and that, in the event < deprecated, the result is certain and inevitable.? < Rouse, then, tho proper enquiries, and you will i have numerous friends within the enemies lines, | and these, too, will be the best friends of their | own immediate countries. < Renounce absolutely and unreservedly, during i - ' m .bis contest, all pretensions to the high honors of Jie union. Fill no office under the General Opvjrnment except in the Legislative Halls, Tfris will be no sacrifice, for no son of yours will, wh4tjver be bis merits, ever fill the Executive Otmir jntil your wrongs are righted, until you shall be *cspected as equals in the government, and qptil .he withering scorn of the Legislative Assem^ ihall banish from thcirsfloors your calutnnio nisers. ' ' ? 1 do not say that you ought not to joip,^ tcaloualy and with all your might, in the choic i chief magistrate of the Union; hut let it not ??' 11 support of a Southern aspirant which, ut th ? :iine, will weaken, distract and mislead you.? , 3upj?ort always the candidate most likely to sustain your own and your countries interest. I rpeak not of Carolina ulone, hut of all the Southern States?give your whole and undivided weight to the men and the party opposed to your oppressors, and claim no olfice for yourselves, lty this inambitious course you may gain some weight in :lie national councils?at present you have none. Flic people of the west, notwithstanding some little apparent alienation, which has depended rastly more on the movements of men than on principles, and which, therefore, cannot last long, ire your natural allies. Let the south and the west combine with the democracy of the other parts of the Union. The west have at present abundant cause to open their eyes to the evils they sutler from tariff and abolition .. combination, for <- o-ers. e oh'sely urate J, aiui together have w 1.1 i out the lamentable result to which I al<: ii!1. ?ji. .utoA. of -.v^at would five Oiem j-~ ?i? a " we 'i!? m,d security nnf' power, they onrhttohave 1 desired T -ras. - jjut they see tl:"Tr*sclvea by these unholy combinations entirely and heartlessly deprived of these groat blessings. All the South Western States (by which I mean all South and West of the Ohio River) arc of our blood and lineage; their Institutions are more or less Southern, and their interests arc really the same as those of the South. There is reason, therefore, to hope that ere long we shall stand, as we were wont to do, in our country's more liberal and palmy days, side by side in our political movements, liy this natural alliance in former times was the highhanded power of that same people that now oppress you, put down. This was the policy of TeU'orson, and this formed the great Democratic party of the Union. That great bond is now fearfully shattered, ami almost severed by tariff ind abolition combinations, and will soon altogchcr perish if these combinations be not resisted, kook at the great Democratic family of the North Vlast, bow it bobbles along in a spiritless paralytic movement, like that of the halt and the lame ; look at the great and good old dominion, how it lias sunk and fallen, how its glory has gone down ; look at your own shameless Southern desertions. What is the cause of this deplorable condition of diat general gloomy discontent and uncertainty which prevail among the people concerning their political movements; of the infidelity so shamefully exhibited by their representatives, who have substituted the little schemes of faction and personal resentment for the great interests of their 1 X" Cf .1 ?.' - f juuimj i iuu sit ouumern oenaiors voting tor i tarilF which they themselves have repeatedly condemned and reprobated, and Western Senators against the annexation of Texas, which their constituents, to a man, anxiousiy wished to acpiire. What is the cause of those gloomy clouds which lour in the political sky; of that fearful dread which all good men suffer of a fatal disruption of our nohle Institutions 1 Dark as this picture may he, and .c^tamjy is, exclude hut a "imr!** iet he Ji. A J.o.u the suafffl a few hit ^ut-grown capitalists, the gover-! nor* of power looms and spinning jennies, and a very small mimhef'of reckless, fanatic abolitionists, md all will be light and life. We shall immediately seo the sky brighten and the clouds disperse. We shall discover a free and profitable md increasing commerce, feeding and sustaining i prosperous agriculture; high prices for the proluce of the soil, and cheap supplies for its cultivators, with union, harmony and frutcrtnal love binding together the people of the whole country.? The good c>1<1 Democracy triumphant, and the motley hand of Whigism?"Here a hit of blackitonc, and there a hit of white"?hiding its head In feebleness and defeat. The whole Union flourishing, and ihe South, loyal, contented and hippy. Texas bounding and strengthening our birders and increasing our wealth and greatness. In the name of (Sod, what fatuity has come over the tlmv ilr\ n/tf tlw? nnlft' nio4 I?I?. J ? ?- J"-"J odious thraldom in which they nro bound and by which the; greatest boons and blessings of Prowilence nro threatened with entire subversion, nno. Bvcn in elfect, turned into curses. J?ut, to return from this too long, but interesting digression, in which we have looked with a kind of prophetic vision, we think, on what we hope to see realized at no distant day. When three or four States shall arise with unflinching front, and unite heartily and resolutely, otheis will speedily .join them, and our relief will, in all likelihood, be peaceably accomplished, and the Union preserved. Vet let not this blessed hope be relied upon with confidence, but anticipate a worse result, and be propared to meet it. I>ut shall we put at hazard that Union which we so much love and honor, in which w e purchased a partnership with so many sacrifices, and be forced out of it by that very people against whom we have heretofore defended it? It is, in my opinion, a lamentable truth, that that hazard must be met, and it is idle, and even dangcro to hesitate in avowing it as the possible residt. however much we may deprecate it. There arc woiso evils than disunion, and we can hardly doubt th<iV we have been long suffering under their. J?ut if the dissolution of the Union he a great e ii, and it certainly will he so to the American people, and would be so to us, if we were permitted to enjoy its benefits, the guilt and the reproach will rest upon those who wantonly provoked it, and those w ho have xvantonlv suffered it to fake nlaco Vea wantonly, for the historian must record the fact, that "the sacrifice of that glorious institution, which might have secured and perpetuated to a distant posterity, the happiness, prosperity and greatness of twenty millions of people, at this time and of more than an hundred to no very remote futurity, was made to gratify the inordinate avarice of a few score (not more) of great capitalists in a small section of the country, and the furious madness of a smaller number of fanatical abolitionists, who combined together to oppress the interests and to destroy the peace and happiness of the people cf the Southern States, who; to the honor if humanity resisted ami overthrew their wicked lesigns. Hefore CJod, we do not wish disunion. Lot the TJovernment be justly administered and we will ^lory in the Union, and give it our whole hearts and strength in peace and war, us we have done bofore, when some of its most noisy eulogists, at the present lime, were not in the ranks with us,? when they were almost in the ranks of a foreign enemy. J?ut who has heretpfore spoken of disunion 1 whence did the odious term originate]? not surely from the South. It came in the chill blast of the North and Last. Jiy what description >f persons has the idea at any time been put forth it the South? What iiiun of note, what grout pub ?T L?l?..l mH'.i.LUU ...t 1 ?? lie assembly oltbe South baa heretofore spoken of disunion! Buiamong those who havo recently taken it undefUxir peculiar guardianship the greatest men 'Coast have repeatedly and flippantly uttered^: When the great and invaluable acquis"' vi Mi tna was mode, did not one of t%~ -sd men on the floor of Con*ould be followed by their ?" . v. >Sjs ''nion, "peaceably if they oo hr ?i-f -4(P Tnuatt" When the Trea' / f "* t ; avV^A**s (no, leas important *ed, theifc greatest men fi ,w I *?? . I v iiPttitfltlnea Vinaf?t tn nffnr <-.)>> .i auge. Rietfcently, one of their grcut? : .est, ana gravest legislative bodies modestiy proposed to expunge from the constitution tiie mosttacrod articb in it, by which we were wooed into the compact} and without which wo would have had nothing to do with it. And what would this have bee/ but actually and faithlessly perpetrating disunion? Yet these are the people who vociforouslr accuse you of a desire of disunion, when the "lead and front of your offending" does not amoun to a tythe of their own guilt. If, indeed, there b the shadow of guilt on your part, in complaining if the great abuses of it, and if, under the sore ilHictions you softer through its forms, you propsc to calculate the value of it, and the dangers of . too, for the threatened dangers of it arc more aim ning than all we actually suffer, [ great as that rnay he. The Tariff "u wily an exponent of the power and the disposition to abuse cud oppress us under the toxins of,ike <J< institution. l)o not the halls of unfrater.ml ami ?t?d humanity, and are we a free ptissVP*; wh?> am their equals in every mo al and rrji llectual quality, to hear this? l>o wo not hcanominous threats of their interposition in our domestic concerns and with our tenderest interests, as f we were dependent or conquered provinces? Do wo not know that those who thus raise their t lices under the privileges of the con stitution, an the niuutli piece of foreign fanatic associations with whom they correspond? Vet those pcopl eat the bread taken from your own mouths, of I lat labor which they reprobute, and stint the con Torts of that class of persons of whose condition tliiy affect to be so fastidiously tender, for among flie very highest duties which they impose, to i<cr:nse their extravagant gains, is that on the clothipgof the slave. The heart of fheir humanity is in heir strong box und in their balance sheet of tleir profit and loss account. They lira Ic*aw/s iitnoiis, with less motive of virtue than the Furic. whom the National Convention of Franco vonjutei upon St. Domingo, to scatter death amonly tlioir white brethren, and everlasting misery amoTJ&tfie'blacks. These were honest, erring and unhappy enthusiasts, who know not what they were doiiy^ but our assailants arc cold blooded calculators/ with this awful example before their eyes, steslng upon their victims, under the forms of the coistitutioc, which guarantees the rights which tiny seek to destroy. Remember! On the inviohhility of the Institution, which is thus threatened and assailed, depends, not our prosperity aloue, hut every blessing under heaven which we enjoy. Every thing Southern must necessarily perisl with it. Houses, lands, stocks, monies at interest, and other species of property must go down with it, and share a common fate. Let these people be unchecked, and we shall have cor country uorhome, nor fireside nor civilization, nor social charities, nor life itself. We shall be blotted from the face ?f the earth. The beautiful, and prolific South will exhibit nothing but scathed and blackened ruins, vtith a remnant of the Afri I c:t*t ^lindst ibem ill ill. il ' i:i;>> \ ! of d^oL'tlpjtI nT^^Jossnoti- Jho wngtrd by trtjv bztiiFpeop.fp, The b;.y< * ? of r?r as?ut!u.its pointed ngaiusl oui b ro.it> r.s ?i ilei jjJ*" haraiVss than Jicii counsels,??(lu this atfbjeci tno Meihwdisl KpiacopW Church of tl 5 South have set us a nol>le example, which, if ou opponents persist, we shall be obliged to imitate, iv 're the Tarifl'out of the question. Vel they invoke me Constitution, appeal to the sacred name of Washington anil call upon you in his words to frown upoiwhc man who shall endeavor to weaken its ties. Would it not ho enough to return the chalice, wih its poisoned ingredients, to theii own guilty li|A 1 But let their guilt be what it may, we arc ntot and never have been the enemies of the Union. J What union did that groat and good man venom!# t It was the Union as it came from the hands ofllic Patriots who framed it. It was the Union w* consented to.# An Union of ecjual riirhts and o?\ 4$ f >tfrWh ns. in Union in which wo were l 1" cij ally respecti <1 and honored with out breth- n, ?;J ou" peculiar institutions sacredly I nroti-iloii % - r- Union of Strife, mid tribute, and ! ii> till, rind ilnverv, on our parts. But would lie ! ist and <vise, u'dcr the form''- of the Constitui tiot, have re nmmended submias'on to theuueons; :itn:ionol op irc&sio iusnlf ':d injury under wliicli '; groan ? (reneral Washington was a sincere Chtistiau and would have called upon his fellowcitizens to frown upon the man who should endeavor to subvert the holy religion, in accordance will whose principles he had formed his own, and under whose influence lie walked during the whole of his good and glorious life. But if its Professors, regardless of its truth and fearless of their (Jod, had introduced 77m Inrjuixitinv into the Land, would he have )ooke<l with approbation on an oi/fo da f\ i ii i .i i ? . ? - ? - i nun c.iiu-u iijiwh iuu peupiu iii support iinu venerate it ? It was a righteous government in which lie sustained and not one of guilt and oppression. lie would, according to the whole tenor of his life, have been among the first to resist it; and so ought we. while, fi*a|h: ,1, we venerate it, in its truth and purity. No, our ot.me is not disloyalty to the Union >> t otrf 1 for if.'U'to great a veneration f?n 'ft. and, if we ear;^~u?at veneration much further il will in an rv?dcoc? ef unparallelled stupidity or un\ blushing 1>hs? aer;. Preserve the Union, if you car.- appeal to t e ,'rcut Democratic party to save the onion, whii.tr t. canon if it will. That partv though shattered and confounded and bctrayco, embraces a large majority of the people, almosl the whole conservative class, almost nil of ever^ sound class, opposed only hy manufacturing capitalists, and their defendants, abolitionists and theii deluded followers tnd the adherents of personal cabals and unprinc pled factions. Let them unite in a "'long pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether" and the Union will be safe utul not only safe bul purified. Jiut if tley will not, neither the preservation of tho Union should induce you to continue your submission to tho spoliation, ignominy, and danger of which under the abuses of the Constitution, you are now subject. This language may be new and strong, but it is not the language of violence. There is a wide difference between enrn estness and 4pC.i9ion.and violence. The Inst is folly and weakness* Alio first is the sublimation ol truth and sober reafcon. I warn you that anything short of what this language intimates will be trilling with the subject. lib not deceive yourselves by supposing that the only struggle before you, or the greatest is that of the Tariff. That of Abolition is at hand (how Bear we cannot distinctly see) and ol ten times the importance and danger. The Abolitionists aim diroclly at your destruction and indirectly at the submersion of the Union. That neither our destruction, nor the misery and desolation of the I? ace they pretend to save, much less the preservation of trio Union will restrain them in ilit-i'r endeavors to establish their principles, is bill jL ik to clear. Theirs is not a work of love J>ut of hate. They hafo you more than they love the African llace. But whet I mean to say ia that they aim at speedy abolition end to force it npon you. Now, is there any sober man of common sense in the nation, who can believe if they advance one step further but that the Union must be dissolved. They cannot advance one step further without ontering your territories and controlBling your laws. This 1 think will appear by statthe advances they, have already made. They >e not indved actually exchanged credentials and entered into a Treaty in diplomatic form,' with Foreign nations, but they are most directly cooperating with Foreign associations and, at least, one great Foreign Govornmcnt, all pledged to univer t .! rr*i f -t sui emancipation. a no proois ore, among otners 1st. The existence of abolition Societies of great weight and lumbers in Great Britain. 2ndly. The Cooperation of the Government of Great Britain with their own Socictys. 3d. The cooperation of our abolitionists with those foreign Societies. 4th. That these Foreign Societies have their agents and orators, with whom they correspond, on the floor of Congress. 3th. Thut they have a political party in many States, organized and distinctly designated. Gth. That this party forms one great clement of the great Whig party of the Union?at least in power if not in name, so much so, that if the Whig candidate for the Presidency be successful he will owe his success to abolition votes, bc - l' S les *.<isu votes are necessary to lb'- u >, \ev. \ ork, for example, the Whigs, without the votes of the abolitionists, will be in the minority. These Foreign Societies will thus, if H?Ht result happen, have had g eat tnfltfeecojn the election of our Chief Magistrate. r?tb. G|?rt JJritain has already interposed with our cvfc government in a manner to countenance the American Abolitionists, by declaring to it views in coincidence with theirs, and which our Executive Government lias very properly protested against. 8th. There is the hostile act of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, which in itself would* if executed, be a subversion of the Union. 9th. The temper of I) Iwil if tnoicf u noinen'o tlio ooiio/iioitaiinoo ?f" tKoif wuvxh.viaigic, V ? ?IIV?I ? V. Wi IIIC VUllOValUUOIiCOa U? IHWII power, of which I shall give but one proof. That, is a letter of the Anachartis Clootes of the United {>tates. In this letter, after abusing, in the grossest terms, the President of the United States, the present Secretary of State and several of his predecessors, and denouncing generally the conduct of the Government of his own country, and showing himself in heart and soul devoted to the unfriendly views of a foreign country, ho comes down to the late letter of remonstrance of Mr Calhoun to the British Minister and says, "we arc yet to learn with what ears the sound of the trumpet of slavery was listened to by the British Queer and her ministers. We are yet to learn, whethci the successor of Elizabeth 011 the throne of England und her Burlei gli's and Walsinghnm upon hearing, that their avowed -purpose to promote universal emancipation, and the extinction of slavery, it to he met hi/ the nam rohhers of our oirn country with exterminating war ; will, like rrave/7 cowards, turn their haeh and flee, or rat their own words, or dis claim the purpose and object which they hare avow c<l." I now ask if the abolitionists can go one step further without entering your tei ritories and controlling your laws ? Whether they do noi now shake the union, and whether if they can pro ceed any farther they will not destroy it 1 These are the allies of the Whigs and the manufacturers i May it not now be asked, with some hope that th< , people will have opened their eyes, who are tin enemies of the union ? and what will stop the ubo litionists from going on f not certainly their discre : i'.iti. *ioi tTn-i_ H it of scenes of horror, nor thcii i love -of tb?ir whi|e brethren, nor of then count rj . - a;.: of i - - e-tfciM f ami yet you lMNj? seen a great 11 yvmen nicy cooimi. noware IK mrm is a trit1? . to this danger. Hut 1 have forgotten, in the oxhi . bition of the power and , pn.grr % oT the abolition [ ists to montion ' succetso*the rejection of the treaty for theannexation o | Texas, in which they have triumphed over tin interests of the whole union, and the will and pow | er of all the Southern and all the Western States . Hut wo must pass on. All admit our wrongs, al acknowledge our danger, hut as often ns the tongin ! lisps resistance, you are tnet by the eternal cry o . the Union! the Union! the dangers of the Union , and you are subdued by it. Until you can tlirov , off this tliraldrotn, anil cherish the vital truths, tint | your first and holiest, allegiance is due to you ( State Institutions?that the union ought to bo alto ( gcthor secondary in your thoughts and hearts? I that all governments ought to be loved and sus , tained only for their virtues, and that their vice . should he watched with jealousy, and resisted a r the threshold, yon are unprepared for resistance I If tlio union must-be imperishable, though estab lislied on the usurpation of your rights, the inse curity of your social peace ami your insignifi cance as a people, away with all thoughts of rosis { tance. (Concluded in nur next.) Tub Cotton Chop.?You ask about tlio Cottoi crop; I can only tell what I have seen ami heard 1 I passed through Orange, Richland, Fairfield, Un ' ion, .Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens, Newberr and Lexington, the heart of the Cotton country ' 10very where I saw the same appearance, thoug! in different degrees. The plant was uriusualh ' small?hud attained its full growth near two mouth ' earlier than usual?flfcd suffered at the most ini portant season of its fruiting from extreme drought and had consequently scarcely any bolls on the up ! per part of the stalk. The rust too, has prevaile< 1 almost universally, in many places ruinously. Al most the whole crop 4s matured and open, and ' very large proportion of it picked. There cui ! no longer be any doubt of its extent?no mon bolls can be made, and it will in some district scarcely reach lialt'j| crop, in others but little ex coed it, and on the whole will not reach the croj 1 of lust year by probably a third. This opinion i ( not confined |p the Districts 1 have named above J>ut from information received from all other part ' of the State, in most of which a like condition c things exist;' it extends to the crop of the Stat ns a whole. The grnin crops are also short, tin drought has fallen with peculiar severity on Oat and lute Corn; the Pens are an almost total failure ' The intensity of the drought may bcilldgftl C when I tell you that liefore the rain of ^l^tek the creeks branches, springs and wells along ,<h - roads of the upper country had been dried up be yonnl nny thing known before. The Savannah Itiv er was reduced so as to be daily forded at Ati ' gusta. The rains of last week raised it fifteen fc? in one night, but it has futlcn almost as rapidly a : it rose. The earth was so parched and thirst; that it absorbed ond retained nil the rain tha did not run immediately off.?Mercury. r Swift ReTtinuTioN.?The New York Rcpub ; lican says that, on Friday evening, 19th lilt., 01 ; bonrd the packet boat Onondaga, a man died ii ' a very sudden and awful turner. lie had takei i the liberty to avow himsd^Ki infidel, and to pou i the most norrid anathem2^%pon Christianity an< r its author, and was exceedingly enraged agains . any that dared to j^jirov* him. While engugei . in this wickedness, and "whilo in the very act o . cursing the followers of Christ, he fell upon thi i deck of the boat and instantly expired. All pre sent, says the individual who gave us the fact i in the ease, were admonished of the truth of tha t declaration, "liod is not mocked," THE SPARTAN. RP^RT^MAITBH .WRDNBdl il TO OUR 1 It is very seldom wo occrpv a-y u? ?/ "* , : dressing our Patrons, and we r*y few words to them in earnest, 'k wc hn c ? from time to time conversed with some as intelligent as any, yet in order that we should at once, ^ without distinction of persons, deliver our feelings, views, and intentions, we nsk your attention. In the first place, we tender our sincere thanks to our friends for the interest they have taken in the prosperity nnd success of "The Spartan,'* particularly those who have lent the aid of their pens, and all wc have to say to them is, "be not weary in well doing." There is enough talent antotigst^individuals of both parties to furnish material for eccH successive issue. We would respectfully ' emind you that, though the success of the cnteHijU'. has exceeded our most sanguine 4 expectation, there is yet grcut room for improvement. We ask our readers if we have not fulfilled our promise, so far] Have we not even exceeded the promises made] Where can a more elegant and tasteful newspaper bo found in the State,?or even in any State] For this we clainv but little credit: this properly belongs to tlie Printers, and therefore we feel ut liberty to speak concerning it. And though it requires a large amount to defray the necessary expenses attendant, yet wo still hope for the best?we still rely upon the rc- ' t sources that Spartanburg possesses both mentally and.pecuniary, for making h6P own paper pcrma nent. We labored under many difficulties at ourcornj rncncement which were calculated to dishearten . both Editors and subscribers; all of which wo ! hope, by the beginning of another volume wil b? surmounted. Wo have had frequent cause to re. gret that from some cause or other, our paper did . not reach regularly some of our subscriliers. Wo i flatter ourselves that now there is no cause to prc" vent, unless through the inadvertence and ovcr' sight of those whose duties it is to deliver them. . * , Our thanks are due the various Post-mnsters who . have acted as our agents in procuring subscribers, and we respectfully solicit continuance of their ; j aid. In short, kind patrons, we request one and ^ all of you, still to hold us under reciprocal obligation; and though we feel certain that we render > you an equivalent for your patronage, yet we have . deemed it expedient thus to address you. ! Judor Cuktrs* Letter.'?We lay before our readers in this week's paper a part of tliis able p document. It is fraught with 'much that will inI terest ou'i readers. Though we are neutral in polM ?"fy. ? ' affirm that it gives * e\TJe<*6e of a'pow erfu! mind; and considering the stylo, which froin the nature of the subject upon , whirl, hr treats, is vcry'senter.tious, we must pro nounce it ofte of the very ablest documents exf tant. Our Correspondent in this week's paper touches upon some interesting and singular subjects; a' nrongst which is his conBrmation of the report j- (which was looked upon some time since us a hoax,) that the Siamese Twins had taken each a t "better half." This, to say the least, is very rc1 markable: and though our correspondent, on good authority, asserts that the ladies are "amiable and industrious," we opine their tastes must have been . somewhat vitiated, and tin; humps of xrlj-esteem s rather small in comparison with others in a more 1 occipital region of the head. '* The Lsaurf.l ?A n??nt Tunmnranr?r? rvntxam ------- ? ? - r- i r1 of tho above title is before us?published weekly . by Isaac T. Brown, in Charleston. Subscription Si 50 in advance. ^ Thanksgiving.?Thursday, the "a of October |t next, has been set apart by Governor Ham. mono, to be observed throughout the State as y a day of Thanksgiving, Humiliation and Prayer. 1 Arthurs* Lady's Magazine.?The October ^ No. of this beautiful Monthly is before us. Its j. table of contents displays unusual richness. It is embellished with two elegant engravings?"The ' Lake of Jvillarney" and "The Wounded Plica* ' sant." Price S2. K. Ferrei, & Co. Publish* crs, 101 Chcsnut-st. Philadelphia. n q Gen. Jackson has written another letter upon s the subject of Texas, which wo cannot lay before * our readers this week, for want of room. The ' Spectator says: "Perhaps it is not saying too much to express 1 the opinion, that this is. after nil nnn ?t.? p forcible, eloquent, and conclusive papers that has u yet appeared upon the subject. Every strong 0 point?every patriotic view is presented in the fewest possible words, and with a force and truth , that gannothe resisted. It makes the young heart ij- of freedom beat with a stronger throb?it makes the warm blood course with a swillor current?to see p the aged chieftain, the hoary patriot, after, "filling the mcasuro of his country's glory;" standing on ,m the verge of the grave, full of years and full of ^ honors, his generous heart Wlt'> ttndy t ing patriotism and his vo^MtiTTld^Hip to admonish and to counsel hiscotW^ymlW?* y Elections.?Maine?Tho roturns, so far as 1 heard from, aro cheering. Tho democrats have doubtless elected iheir Governor, by 2,000 or . 3,500 majority. Vermont.?Tho Whigs will n doubtless carry this abolitum State, and they are n welcome to it. Slade, the Whig candidate for n Governor, it is supposed, will bo elected by about r 2000 majority. 1 it Government Express?We understand that Gen. J Durr Green passed through this city yesterday, as if a Government Express trom Washington to tho c authorities of Mexico, in relation to Texan affairs. It will be recollected that an article copiedyester* day from tho Richmond Enquirer, it is stated that t a government express had loft Washington for M u xico?Put riot.