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P(ii|P^|ND SOTJTH-CAROLINA STATE JOURNAL. ' 1 1 am. X1M.J ? .^ . COLVMBM, (S. O.) FRIDAY BV.EMNO, J(Ak 1827. | eolutttttisiSeleacoiic; rnuraftA?? Miutnp kvkrt frm.av av*m*o? DY SWEEXYV SIMS, ,1*5 I'rinitrtt* (As IhuH^ M?pn$$tUmUit<e* of rRHMtti-TliftKtt Uot.LAn* pe rs nnnm, j>?jyaM? inaJ?ant*,vr Fovr OoutM payable at tbe \uvMTUKMUri, it? inserted at the rule of ?eveaty.flve *** law number, fori ?rtrrtwnrtjr HM?; bra! first insertion, ai.ni forty wee. -Thaw front iicn pnnled by (ha oath, or they will nMn VTIIE STUDENTS APOLOGY, ArrMrMMM|Ki?ti. By T. Hvkum, Jr. f may not speak in Invart phrase, Of femnlo beauty, wit and jtrace, I way not with ilia aoieotub's tongue, (Wlierenn *oft (lattery ia hung In tinsel charm ol coo^itaient , Where much is spoken?little meant,) foyinff hue la baanty's ear, Anil dance attendance, ever near, Be ready with (ho flippant word, . To at awer thoughts as vat unHnard, Which in (Na corners of bar eyr, In embryo eapraMMM llei - And,playing o'er bar dimpled ehoek, Is heard e'er yet her llpa may apeak! Tat think not, tho my lip h* clos'd. My leelinparr As atlll compos'd, The *ntdent,cloister'd In bu cell, Can slightly charm?hot little tell, Secret to steal thro' woman'* ear, Howling In soft witcb'ry there. But atlll his ln>*oin feat* a glow, tin warm, so ftarce?bat (a** may know, Tl us tho bright goto hid lit tho sea, With all Its |Hire transloceney, Mny lie forever ne'er espied. 'Neath the deep and darkling tic!-*. From the Athenian. ELEGY, V: to mus. andrew jackson. As down the ttmni of lin?? your parting life ft verging In the brink where sorrows cease, U-?w from the world and ell it* anxious strife, / Should yflu be left to seek your heaven bom peace through bitter cares and trials you have past; Ofi v<nir soft boeom torn with reckless grieti fn liuitly peaceful sighs may you not cast Your aged eyea on heaven** implor'd r^lUH ^an not yoqr age, your sea, your tender frame Protect evening nl a calm repoter* Must the last glimmer of a dying flamo 0? rudely quenched by cold unfeeling F.k s.? let hnso tngrfclftude destroy Ihefumo Of your great chieftain, crown'd with deathless bnys, Boh him of all thn glory of hl? name, But spare the peftce of your declining days. 'Tis m%g's Ot'd doom, of every ill (o drink, By every angry passion to be wrung: Bui lovely woman's tender fame will xhrluk Beneath the sting of slander s scorpion ioiiruo Then spare, 0spore, rude man, tVe lifl|tl?'?wi, Our mothers, wives and daughters all beseech: Let our contending strife*each other vet, Bui place tkU Men beyond detraction'* reach. Can after, power, or guilty fame delight To build its fortune on a fall so dear? Must heaven's tiost gift receive *o dread a hlkht. While torture smilos and wiing* the burning tinrt ?? , J Cnn nothing tliort m frmnfa ruin nid Ambition'* greedy thirst for rank and ixHrerP html alt its fond and pious hopes be Inld Dure to the puttings of nruthless hour' If thu* relentless fat* shall rend thy heart, And V'tr last moments must in anguish end, took r pip tho world?it ean no balm Impart? Uod alono your virtue will defend. THE ATHENS Mi'KSTRKL. From a London Paftcr. THE LVTE RESIGNATIONS Lord Kfdcn, Lord Kldon, * Twas not very wall done, Your vaster to loave In the lurch, And by making him over, To papists, discover Your eeal for the head of the church. Mr. foot, Mr. Peel! Very s?on you mutt feel flint the trigs ot exclusion it jusat} Then to Otford repair, Leave your bigotry there, And in politics make a new east. Lord Bathnrnt, Lord Bathnrsl! Though yon are not tho worst Of the hitler Intolerant crew, I think to our king, We might easily bring, * five hundred as able at you. Wettmnreland, Westmoreland* We can all understand, Why this nuiMtiee at length It abated But we well may defy, Your bett friend* do *?y why, to ?tbt fc had ever been fated. Oh, Dunda?,Oh,Dtmdn?? What n thrice double him Vau aro thought on the hauktof tiie'[ weed, With blockhead* combining, And fondly resigning Your place without reaton or need! Wellington! Wellington! Many Hattlet you've won, then why without fighting retreat' ro your country prove true, Olve to lielanaher due, And with glory regain your lost seat. I.itllu Van, little Van! Like tinners, >atnt? con, Than r? prnl' what a strange horu?pocut! But 'twas woithy of Canning To let such a man in, And reservej?en<feWi? lorui. C*tn observed that a good . ititm ought torn at solicitous about the ytjbl'r n ?bet ?bftttt h^r hive. ;?'? v PROM WEST Extract of a Utter fro tlmore, dated Wet i The examination day for three week*, anil la iumI sifting that you strictly impartial, the ments of the Cadets arc 1 Inent relief, and their dcficl posed. Mathematics, Mineralogy, French,Cheat*, Istry, Tactics Natural Philosophy, Military tuid Civil Engineering, History and KthlCa, arc all embraced in the range of their stu-1 dies. It requires a high grndt of Intellect aod intense application to obtain in four years I the extant of acquirement in those branches which Is indispensable to enable them to graduates and it is not surprising that at least I iMthn of the whole number fail to attain it - The calculation 1st hat out of250, an aver-1 age of 100 resign or are dismissed Ktsal proud eminence for the successful aspirants ?and amply rewards their diligence, by qual ifying them for any situation.* life, civil or| military. The military school presents a most Inter-1 eating example of strict order and high state of discipline| every duty* whether oft he sol dier or thr student, la performed at its ap pointed time, without the least confusion) and every hour, from reveilleo to tat-too, has its | appropriate employment. The precision and correctness oftheirmil itary evolutions, their scientific attainments, I uml their exemplary moral deportment, re flect great credit on Col. Thayer, the super intendent, Mai. Worth, the commandant, who, distinguished a* omcers and accompli*-1 hed as geutYemen, uniting mildness with firm ness of purpose, are universally respected ami beloved. While the professors, gene rally, many of whom were educated at the institution, afford the best evidences of its high state of improvement. I The localities of West Point arc highly I interesting, its scenery enchanting, u/id the views froqvits-lofty heights sublime. Thejtfrade ground comprises a space ofI seveprt hundred acre*, nearly level, elevated ubydt '200 feet above the river, whose banks fth! precipitous?this plain is enclosed by the] river on two sides, while to the west and south it is bounded by steep rocky ridges, forming {tarts of mountain* that rise to the height of I ront 1200 to 1500 feet. From the plain, a view presents itself utmost unrivalled In beauty and extent. The Hudson river Is first seen, confined I between rocky mountain*, through two ridges of which It seems to have forced its way utl some former period, yet still presenting a channel of more than a thousand yards navl gublc in every part for the largest ships; be yond this it spreads into a wide bay,ana bend ing towards the east, in lost to the sight; the shore of this bay next appears studded with! populous villages, and rich with cultivation, ovcrwhichare aeenu succession of woody em-1 iuenecs and fertile vales, until the view Is 1 bounded by the distant, lofty and picturesque I summits of the Catskill mountains. Steam-1 hunts, thickly crowded with passengers, and I vessels of endless vnrifcty, moving upon the I river in quick succession, are nattily lessl interesting than the natural romantic scenery,! which we fully enjoyed last eveniug by moon-l light, floating on the Hudson, accompanied I by the delightful music of u full band, led by I Willis' inimitable bugle, reverberating I amidst the lofty mountains on each side of its I banks. West Point is distinguished in the annalsI of the revolutionary war, h? affording a final! and Uisupcrable barrier to the favorite plan of the British ministry, which contemplated, I simultaneous movements from Canada and New York, todividothc eastern and southern | states. At West Point, Arnold commanded when I his revolt ho<t nearly furnished the means j of overthrowing the ba/ rler; and in the] .casements of one of Its fortresses the unfortu-1 nate Andre was confined, in the brief andl melancholy period that elapsed between hial capture, trial and death. At West Point, too, Kosciusko, not Icssthe | champion of American than of Polish liberty, long resided^ and hla favorite resort, is still I shown, hanging like a shelf of verdure from I the precipice, midway between the plain and the river. The Pittsburgh Volunteer Lesion left this place on Monday last for Washington. 1'lieir appearance was creditable to the city. They passed near the lodgings of Mr. Clay? the music, playing the patriotic air of "thk tar rarhel. It mu?t have been gratify ing to the Secretary, to witnees their departure a dny or two previous to the contemplated dinner?-ami the recollection* awakened ?>y tin; music mufct have hern delightful. PHttburgh Democrat. Uurritburg Convention.?Speaking of the anpoiotificnt at H"stnn, ??f drleeuteil to the llairishtirg cVinverttioii, the editor of |f lto*t<<?i St4tuhinuu of Wednesday fast murk*: ??VVe regret to ?co Mr. Everett the iitticr reasons (Im-hwIos that ot hi* Iteing a member of Cougrtw*. We think it would have hren more consistent in him, since hut a short time ago, /it tvm ofthottd to the tariff, to take .?less active part in it nowj and wr al?o think, that the <piest)on would have as sumed less of a political aspect, if delegates had been tent tici/unlnted with the subjcct, in the r??>m of mere partisan fiolillelant." .1 merit an Sentinel. Ccneca observe* that Alexander had two friends, Clytusand Lysamaclnw; the one he exposed to a lion) the other to hitnselft he wlio wee turned Ioom* to the beast escaped. | but Clytus was murdered, lor he wm turned] l<vwa tp an angry man. v, I -JL..J 1 At a meeting of th? inhabitant* if the rown of Columbia and the i*lanter? in its pr frown Melnlty, on Monday July 2,:.1#27, at the Town Hall ia the Town of Colombia, for the purpose of Ukiqg into coAdcratlon the Tariff of fkrotcK'ing dutk*, Oo*emor John Taylor in the chairs on ipoMon of CoL Blakdikc, it wai unanimously resolved, that Dr. Thomas Coopkr bp requeued to furnUh a copy of hit speech on thii occasion lor publication; including therein the history of the acta of the British Parliament in rela tion to the woollen SPEECH OP OR. cbOPER 8iit??1 hare'the honor of fjfeppling to this meeting for adoption, the raOiUtlons relat t to "the larifT of protecting duties," blished In the Tklrscofx of wt Friday. 1 say the horny sir, because) consider it an honor to be the proposer of nieasure calculatedtopromote the interest if the state to which 1 belong, or to ward off the attacks meditated against her pi usnsfiy. In this light sir, 1 view the resolutjonwnow under duty to them consideration) uyd it has b< shew why I thmh it right fbryouranloption on theprcMdlfoccasion The City of Charleston, attVe to the ne cessity of exciting public adpntion to this subject, has published her welMrawn inemo on the Tariff, and has invited the co-ope ration of the towns in the intdpt of the state We meet now to aid the eftMlot our fellow citizens; and I hone this meeting will pro duce a salutary effect, by shetrfog that we have not lost sight of the rtthts secured to us | under the constitution, and that we have not lost all feeling of the wrajgfc mil 1cted on us, j by fraud, injustice,and oppression. The resolutions have been previously pob lished, that oar citisens may be fully awnrc of their import; and not tiken by surprlz", either in the support they may be called on to afford them, or tne objections they may think fit to make to them. Indeed,it is high time should *'upand be doing.". The exerdpns of our opponents arc of no common charitrtct: every day adds to the force of the enemy, and to the number of those who nre iu higfi expectation ct ob talnlng their share in the contributions of the south. We thought it quite enough to have to combat the impositions in favor of tV cotton manufacture-., the woollen manufac ture, the iron manufacture: hat now there is to the swamps of the Patapsco, Who is not pressing forward to the plunder ;and whomay not be expected to worry Congress with petitions, memorials, and querulous state ments for permission to put his hand into the planters pocket. Permit me sir to read the following advertisement cut Out of the last Baltimore Patriot. "A national convention, for the purpose of adopting suitable measures for protectlngthe agricultural and manufacturing interests of tne l'. States, has been invited by the state the of Pennsylvania, to meet on the 30th of July, at Harrishurg. Massschusctts has already appointed delegates to that convention, whose names we have on a former occasion given. New-Hampshire has followed the example and appointed her delegates. Ver mont is about to do likewise?a state conven tion for that'purpose being summoned for the 37th Inst, and, by the pspers from the inte rior of New-York, received to day. we find that several of the counties have already held, and others have railed, meetings, to ap point delegates to the state convention, who arc to designate, if they think proper, dele gates to the lfarrlsburj; convention. The counties of Dutchess, Hcnscelaer, Washing ton and Essex, bavc taken the lead in this measure, and it will, doubtless, be followed through the sute.?JV. American. j A meeting fur the same object irto be held at the Hall of the Maryland Institute in Bal timore on the 26th ins?, agreeably to the no I tlce of manufacturers and other in this days | Patriot Butt. Pat. That meeting hut taken place: and It was moved and strongly supported that the claim Cor protection should l>e extended to every manufacture in which Maryland was con cerned. You hoc then, that this is it combined at tack of the whole manufacturing interest, anxious no doubt to encourage n?'1 support the agriculturists, a* tlic wolf promises sue* cour to the slu-cn. i The planting interest, refusing to become the dupes, have at rny?th after a series of successful attack* upon them during the last ten years, become the victims of manufactu ring monopoly. The avowed object now is, by mcana of u drilled and managed majority in Congress, permanently to force upon ua a system, whosr rffirrt will he, to sacrifice the south to the north, *?>? converting us into colonists and tributaries?to tax w* f.?r their own emolument?to claim the right o? dis posing of our honest earning*?-to forbid ?s to buy from our mo^t valuable cust-m M*r?--to Irritate intoretsliation our foreignpim-h:i|er*, and thna confine our raw material to the home m irkn?in short, to impo? crish the planter, and to stretch the purse ol the manu facturer. This may be regarded aa common place declamation, and it iw so. I'nfnrtu nstelv for u?, the eases that have forced conviction on our minds, occur so fr*:l qurntlv, that like all well known and undeniable truths, they have become mere matter* of common place obNorvatinus ac ceded to at once among us, whenever the* are mentioned. We are met to day sir, to conakter whether we ou^ht to continue to bear the burthens imposed, and patisntiy submit to ethers that arc mcdiu tcdi whether {we are to r^st satisfied with a state of huw' talkm which ire are too Impotent tochanf. , . r, i' or make our final appeal to the nation by ex posing our grounds of opposition to the mea kure we complain of, and our detertntnation to resist them. Notwithstanding the daring and uncom promising feature* of the mono|>oly that op prcwea and that threaten* us, I can admit that the views of tho north may be honestly Intended! that Uke many other*, the manu facturers there, deceive themselves before they deceive us. They view objects through the distorting medium of self interest; and they readily advocate those measure* as right, whloh they arc anxious should be deem ed so by other* ns well as themselves. Among the instance* of self deception, 1 can easily believe that a'rumoured Investment of #50,000 in the Lowel manufacture, may have conquered the heterodoxy of Mr. Webster1* former opinions, and brought him over to the' , true faith: similar reasons may have operat ed as Inducement? to other learned gentle men to abandon their heresies, however deeply and deliberately they may hsve here* I toforf avowed them before the public. It is I true, the disappointed public looks with as tonishment at these sudden and almost mi raculous conversions; and suspects that the only true and natural excuse is in the words of Horace,?/ mUii filaudo ifttc domi. llut 1 wish not to impute any motives but that of mi'taken opinion: we have matter of fact enough to work on, of a character too mani fest to l>e mistaken. We had fully hoped sir, that by yielding continually during ten years discussion of the Tarifrprinciple,tlie pretensions of the manu facturer* would ere long come to a close. Prom the year 1810 to 1824, we never com bated on the pretence that money was im properly taken out of our pockets; but on the principle that the laws complained of, were mfractious of the constitution: that the power of cnacting them, was no where clearly, undeniably and expressly given; hut w.ih assumed under forced and strained, constructions, ot expressions too broad and gct^vml, too vngue and indistinct, to jus tify the usurpyxlorrr^hnt the construc tion given tojne clause of regulating com merce could not extend \n the protection, of home u{uuufacturc never thought of in the convcadon?that such a construction operat ed so unequally that it could never have been the intended meaning of our constitution, or could ever have been considered ns in har mony with the spirit of fairness and equality which dictated and pervades that instru ment We hoped therefore, during thU period, that the very dubious right of laying protecting dutlea would at length lie given up. Hut our hopes were In vain; and wo l ound it ns we Kill And, that the voracious appetite of monopoly is insatiable: the more we give up, the more we are required to abandon. We have experienced nothing but a succcssionof irritations: claim succeed* ing claim, and encroachment treading on the heels of encroachment, without mitigation of the past o^terininatiou In prospect. Revenue duties were laid in 1790, 1793, 1800, 1804, 1812: most of which l>cing laid upon import, operated in! faut, ns bounties on the home manufacture. Wc deemed them necessary to meet the govern ment ; they were revenue laws, and wc m(mc no complaint. The protecting duties came on in 1816, 1818, 18-0, ami 1824, to mi amount well calculatcd to alarm us; nnd forming a tax altogether on the State of South-Carolina moderately estimated at half a million of dollar* a year. Indeed, our cltl seas arc not aware of the vast amount ol taxes we pay. Repeated calculations have satisfied me that if 25 per ccut on the annu al income of all who hear me, should lie a trifle too high, it Is near enough to the truth to be assumed. But the proceedings of the last Congress, and the extensive and avowed combination of the monopolists at this moment, demon strate, that while there is a manufacture in existence in the United Sutes it will be in Its turn, a persevering applicant for that kind of protection which the pocket of the planter is expcctcd to supply. Missionaries of every kind and description, theologrcul nnd manufacturing, look to the'south astVclr harvest Held; and I regret to say, that they have done to hitherto without disappoint mcnt. Our good niitnre has ndinitted the giant foot of impositico; until lately witho?tt resistance or repining i the whole foody will wwn follow; and with it, a system of tributary exaction withoutntcroy and without eml. Nor is their expectation of success du bious. Our l*>ld and aide representative Mr. M'Duflie, found himself obliged to de clare in the last Congress, that although the south was represented In due form, yet her voice wan not heard, and her Interests were not regarded within thoftc wall*. No won der, if a drilled and managed majority occu pies the hall of the House of Representa tives, and wielding the power of the nation, determines at all hazards to support the elniiiis o! the northern manufacturer*, and to offer up the planting interest on the altar of monopoly. \Vc know from the facts that inadvertantly leaked out, at the late meeting of manufacturers at lioston, that there i* a mongrel kind of lobby legislature attending at Washington, that operates from without on the member* within: giving such state ment* (uncontradicted) to the various com mittees, as may best aeeure the interest of tlte manufacturer*, anddirectlng rmlmantg h?R the votttti, a* the occasions winy require. It will he reasonably expected that I should 'furnish Mime proai of these assertion*)and hero it is. I beg permission torexd the fol lowing extract from the Charleston Mercu ry 0( June Jl last, with the will founded re maik<?af the editor upon tbo pM*age cittd: which I fancy, tbl* meeting wdlconu&cr a* Justified l?y the fact .. | fionfon moHUfmturinf; mretitp. ?It ap atar*from the proceedings of this meeting fist published, that the munufiiutnrers deli - fi?ei t* were charg*"! n* *.H#t ?, meeting with not "netlug in food fafch" to warda the grower* of woe*. in nptwer to this charge, a Mr. Brown of Boston, (who wu one or tht/odd v member*, who** tondxt wns thus arraigned,) rone to defend falmiMfr and iaid?* "He hud the honor, during the Into sea son of Congress, to represent in part the in terests of the manufacture* of wool In Mas sachusetts, before tl focturcs both of the tire* and of the Senate of the United He and hie associates had been eent there M( .' the manufacturer*, and not by the VOOl grower*. The memorial to C|inp?i% ,, adopted at a large mcctinr of ttftfiulkcturetv^ *% heldinthi* city* set forth, ** one great cause of their depressed condition, the high dnliae on foreign wool. The wool grower* to Vlr- \ .. ginia and Ohio, *?BLd?legate* to Wa*hliq? ton to represent their latere**) they , heard before the committee en manufcnture*, and proposed a prospective annually Incieaa Ing duty uf two per cent. This was all the wool grow*)? asked. The committee toV* ever, thought that UUa was wot enough, and ' m%de i bill which laid the duty at thirty-five per cent, to tale effect one year after the duty should go into operation, tin d4a*-'.fj gates from this state, nrgaed In vain before the committee, that prohibition of foreign wool would not benefit the former. If the manufacturer was unprotected. A ma Hem, was what the former wanted. Protect the manufacturer, and there will be a market and a price for wool, fie was surprised to hear the gentleman come before thl* meet*." ing, nnd accuse the delegates froqt this state ?' of acting in bad foith towards the wool grow- >. res. One of them was a wool grower himself ' from the western part of this state, and.'' though sent there by manufacturers, lie un derstood the interest of the wool growers, and truly represented it. He perfectly on* Incidcd with ine in tlie sentiment* 1 have jnst advanced." a Now with the merits of this defence, we have nothing to do. It matter* little wheth er Mr. Brown and the other delegatea to Congress from the manufacturer* of the State of Massachusetts, acted in good faith or not, nnd his rem.irks are now noticed merely to cull the attention of the public to the fact here disclosed, that the manufacturers are n regular organ bed community?acting in per fect concert. That they are represented by delegates in Wnshington?who are suffered to make propositions before the committee* V < of Congress, and must, very naturally, Infln- '3 cncc the proceedings of that body on tSUU nuestlous, touching the interestsot the manu facturers.?These btu hnvo etmkifflOt- ' been generally known to the American pen pie. They go far to account for the peculi ar attention paid of late years by Congress, to the demands of the tnanufecturera, It la easy to conceive what a decided influence must he produced by the daily and constant importunities of agents, whop}to Washing ton charged w 1th calculations and statement* > artfully prepared, with a view to present the claims of the manufacturers in the most Hi^ posing form?no one can foil to perce tve\at once the decided advantage* which the manufacturer* possess over the merchant* ? and agriculturalists of this country, while pursuing their interests with such fte*U con- - cert, and unanimity. It is now manifest, that a great struggle is to be made at the next session of Congress?in order " to give com-, picte and efficient protection to manufac tures'?or in plain terms, to give them a com/itrtc mcnofioty of the heme market. It is foreign competition that is deprecated, and foreign fabric* must, therefore, be prohibit ed.?Mercury. v Thin is not quite upon ko mean a scale aa * iW? the lobby-legislation which baa much noise in the itate~of New-Yorkt bat fe is equally unconstitutional, and much more dnngcrous. The bargaining for votes, the selfish compromises, un partial statements, the kupprewiio veri, the aaggestie falsi, the promises insinuated, the threats intimated, nnd the varioua inaccurate and objectionable , practices to which this kind of external leg* islatlon?thia influence exercised on the measure* within, by the marttlnationaof the lobby delegation without, can easily be imag ined, and do uot require to be. specifically proved; for the sec recy which will usually at- f, tach to them, does not admit of ft. Have t not well syd in my former address en the Tariff to our representatives in Congress, % that the manufacturers were a combining, club-iiicctliiftjplanning.ftcheining,petitioning, memorialising, complainiaft statement making, worrying teasing, boring, persever ing class of men* Is it any matter of surprise, that they should get the better of the far mers and planters in every struggle? The citizens of this last named class, five at a dis tance from each other; they do not enjw the facilities of Associating that a town af fords ; hen re thev are never alive to danger till it is just ready to burst upon themi they are usually behind hand with the Information of the day) they are too apt to procrastinate; they do 'iKit act in convert and en maaaeL when public meetings are called, it Is at a distance from their homes; they attend with inconvenience and reluctance; unused to con* sulfation, and t0t?MtC4NPt in action, their dee|H jj est interests *cem hardly to affect (fence the agriculturist* have no fl delegates to take cure of tfutr interests'; f have no oportunities of being heard f t ommittcs in reply to maftutacturfai01 saltations; the)' have no concerte of <>ppositlon to a concerted attack; however powerful the their representatives, thoy are where It is determined to vote gnments that eapnot be umari it is tfiat <ho sooth if |p?? - wfiteht of taxes and Imj sure ami withont end. be- driven to AM some "dtuww.. when the fioner U gane frfftt v?. Wl?l be tts&rf'^rnd to thn n^rth,,