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From the South Carolinian. I l
To Col. John S. Preston. i
No. 5. I
Sir: In proceeding with the task of cstah- ?
lishing the justification of that portion o I your '
fellow-citizens of Richland, lately in < orres- 1
pondence with you on the great political top- 1
ic of the day. in whose minds the appearance 8
of your Barnwell letter first excited uneasiness j 1
as to the ' soundness of your principles,' it he- i 1
comes necessary to call attention to son e oth- j 1
er points it developed before its valedictory be \
finally pronounced, and, in doing so, tilcon- 1
tradictions to the '"ground they suppose d you ;
to occupy" before its publication become abso- ; }
lutely and painfully certain. j s
I'uquestionnhly, on the 22d of .Marc! last,,'
you and the "immediate State action m< i," as j '
you have been pleased to style them, (nil I they j ;
have no objections to the designation when i '
nrnnotlv understood.! of your own District and ; r
I ? I J ,
throughout the State, stood upon a en union j '
platform, and avowed allegiance to tlx same : s
great policy. That platform and that >olicy ' '
were disunion with the co-operation of th?: other '
States of the South if it could bo obtaiise i; if it j 1
could not be obtained, tlien disunion with i '
South Carolina, alone, actint. tiii oi.iai i I
VIRIt ALREADY ELECTED CONVENTION, 1 ROVI- j 1
DED FOR RY LAW AND REFORE ITS FtNA . AD- 1
joi'rnment. This is Trefutable^tnitli, str lding J-1
upon the record in characters of nnextin ;uish- ' v
able light, and, as such, challenging deni: ; and i J
it is respectfully asserted, that you can lever 1
escape from its persevering pursuit, and. stand j s
uuimpoached in }'our consistency as a j uldic |
man. If additional proof on this subject jould 11
be required by honorable and intelligent men, ; '
..??nr -i /?ini)id review of what lias already been f
adduced, it is abundantly supplied in the Itato. ''
inents of " A Secessionist and .Member o' the j
Legislature," in bis card of nomination In do- i ^
ptities to the Southern Congress of the 2i d of '
May last, a correspondent whom you j tstly ; "
compliment as a 'lending member' of that t cxly, jc'
and 'as noble a gentleman as the onrtl af. j
fords." Of course he heard your speech ii the !*
House of Representatives, and doubtless had 0
participated in your less public consulat ons. 1 o
In ft nned fully, tiicreforc, as to your view s of
the line of policy which the safety and lioix.r of n
the State demanded at the hands of those vho '
assumed the helm of affairs, "A Secessionist.1
and .Member of the Legislature" launched your :|
nomination as a deputy to the Southern Con- 'J
"gress in .May. Now, sir, leaving the courtesy -
~ ? ? -....* "-O.nlA,e i\C miftfiMnn f
UI UH' IllUVt'lllUilt V'lllllV'lJ 1>UI< *?i IUV j a- ,
upon what grounds was the nomination of ytuir- (1
self and your respected co-nominee, Colonel '
Chesnut,' placed and so earnest!}' reeouiended s
by that correspondent? The answer shall be j '
given in tlit* very language of die ca'd itself: }
"If they fail.(that is, in the Southern Congress,) 1
which it is now almost certain that they will do. 1
to accomplish any thing for the honor and sale- '
ty of the South, then 1 pledge my life they will ~
co-operate most heartily with us in taking South I
Carolina single handed and alone out of this j}
accursad I'uion before the final adjournment of j I
the State (huiventioa. To this they are pled- (
ged by their votesof the last session and by tiieir | 1
known disunion sentiments, if not by their p:i- | *
vate declaration"." And a:.ain: "If it the South- i '
eru Congress) fail, then 1 repeat they will help *'
us. Let us, then, foiget that we are divided "
by a hair, and give them a hearty and unani- : 1
mous support for the sake of Carolina?for the 1
sake of the cause?for the sake of the sucks- i '
sio\.' Tins language is not susceptible of two i '
constructions; your elevated moral senses ren- !J
dels you superior to any attempt perversion; j 1
and whilst the people of South Carolina are j
worth} of all commendation of their generous s
I:I.lr\ viid.d -in itOi>rnr<>f .-if ion of if ill Sllll- ! -
i j
port of your consistency, would he an exercise j
of charity that would go far to convict tliem.nl |
a gross imbecility, or the practice of a syeo- !
pliancy derogatory alike to their common sense !
and independence.
Your relation to the nomination of the 22d of
May is equally unequivocal with the language in
which it is couched, and is as indisputable as the
grounds were explicit upon which it was pre.li
j en ted. It went before the public upon the an
1 thority of a geutlman, as you know, whose
j spirit had been made "red with uncommon i
wrath' by the federal usurper, lustful of despotic
j power and impelled by the infuriated disciples
< of abolition, obedient to the tint of the "higher
law." You knew him, therefore, to be a seeos
sionist, ready himself to stand the " hazard of
the die," wholly uninfluenced by fears, interest
or ambition, and without circuity or guile.?
\ ou weli style him "as noble a gentleman as
the earth affords." Previous, then, to the publication
of your Barnwell letter, how did you
stand before your fellow citizens in view ot tint
nomination? Why, sir, plainly, palpably, and
undeniably, in body and mind, committed and
pledged to the principles and p licy which it
embodies. It is not necessary to remind von
of the maxim tliat "silence gives consent;" it
would be an imputation upon your candor as a i
public man, which all scorn to make, to iuti- <
mate thai yon could he guilty of cunning prnc- t
tices to obtain a distinguished dignity, involving
an io?j o tant political trust. No, sir,?no, t
sir; the platform of the nominating card was (
avowedly your platform?you confessed your '
complete acquiescence in it, as a whole, and in i
all its parts, when you incorporated it in your ;
reply to the recent interrogative note of some t
of your fellow-citizens of Richland in proof of :
your consistency. Von could not repudiate it, | (
because its repudiation would have inflicted a j i
wound upon a irictitt too cruel lor endurance,
and left room for an implication at least, that t
j that friend, with all his opportunities for infor- <
niation, was destitute of sufficient intelligence i
to understand your meaning, ha 1 misconceived (
your principles, had over-estimated your pa- I
triolism and public spirit, and had incorporated i
into your political creed objectionable ele- j
nents without competent authority. Such an :
inputation is wholly inadmissible, and it would |
>e treating you with unpardonable injustice to j
inppose that you would allow it to exist for a
norucnt; and had you submitted that card oi
lomir.atiot} to your follow citizens of the State J
iction party who lately addressed you in an- |
iwer to tfce interrogatories they propounded, j
hey would have hailed if with delight as satisactory
evidence that they had not been mista- J
ion in "confiding in the soundness of your prin- !
iples, that you agreed with them in the main
n your principles, and were prepared to act
vith them." They were prepared to stand by
-nn in rlufonnn of tlm nricition that the (Treat TB*
.istancc party in the State, the people, through
heir representatives in the l:\st General Assembly,
bravely marched up alioost in solid phalinx;
and that platform is faithfully delineated
n the card of nomination; upon it they were
esolved to stand in triumph or to (all in honor,
uid upon ail the responsibilities of their coniciences
they now declare that they regarded
oil as one of their banner-bearers; and in the
irmest convictions of their judgments, after a
eview of the whole ground, voti have abanloued
that glorious standard, which from your .
lands would have kissed the -'ust, had they
lot caught it as you cast it from you.
It is now proper to open the inquiry how far
nid in what respects your Barnwell letter,
viiich gave rise to the late correspondence he
wi'i'ii yourself :111a some 01 your icuow ciu^c.ia,
5 at war with your previous political laith as ,
tamped upon the face of your nomination in i
Jay last, as a deputy to the Southern Congress, j
11 the closing paragraph of which, that faith, as
sir as it relates to the present action and duios
of South Carolina, is pronounced as fol- .
mvs:
" Such, then, gentlemen, is inv belief, that S.
'arolinn should devote herself now, and pa- !
ienlly to seek the co-operation of other States
-to do this by the sentiments of the people
\pressed in their primary associations, by the
,cts of her legislature, and most especially by
he solemn ordinance of the people's supreme
rgan now existing, in all honor to use all argument
and solicitation."
It is not to be disguised that this is taking
lew and totally different ground as lo the aeion
of the "people's supreme organ now exising,"
t.hc convention, from that so explicitly 1
ssumed for you, and so undeniably sanctioned !
py yourself, in the nominating card of .May.? j
According to the latter, the convention was to ,
ip a body of action ?of practical, decided, j
omplete, and final action. It was to perform
he great business of taking .South Carolina 1
. . . ...... , ,
ingle liann?u and nlnno, out 01 uus accurseu
nion before its final adjournment? and that
on would li.'iji lis in this mortal adhio.votnent,
u the event of your failure to ellect any tiling
i>r the safety ami honor of flic* South. The
il'e of your noble friend stands pledged, ami he
talced that life on the ground that you were
dodge (I l?y y niir votes of the last session, by |
rour known disunion sentiments, if not by your
irivate declarations. Vastly, immeasurably
lilleient is the line of conduct you now so ear- '
lestly recommend that that body should purine.
Yon would now strip <t of all its ctfieuut y
and dignity; you would now have it pass
in ordinance of so'tcitimi instead of secession
? to register an august, argumentative decree,
nstead of "taking South Carolina single hand- 1
d and w.onk, out of this accursed Union"?
t is imagined that the style of the preamble,
iikI title ci the most imposing decree which
on would have the " people's supreme organ" J
o promulgate might be Mimcthing like this:-- ,
Whereas, the other Southern Slates hocr, by the t
entiments of their people, "She acts of their Lc- j
fislalnre," ootl ordinances of their conventions,
> . ' ? J - , ? l_ V
IIO.Sl snienimy resmrrn urn to vo-iiperiu; nun o.
? (irnjinn iii the effectual Measures of' resistance, f
n the encroachments of an abolition Federal \
lore rumen', but to submit thereto: Ho it tliero*
ore ordained by the People's Supreme Organ j
>1 this Slate, that it becomes her, to use. all or- i
nnnriit and solicitation to ejfrrt a change in t'icir j
opinion, anil then?to adjourn. How arc the !
nighty fallen! How have the injured, iusul'ed
rave suc< ninhed! Sir, none of your fellow itizons
are ambitions of the glories of martyr- .
loin, "if indeed, glory can he predicated of;
martyrdom at all;" hut there are thousands, j
vith 'no piohility about tlieiu except of heart '
ind soul, of mind and spirit, who are ready now
o meet its bloody or burning tortures, and the j
Irene of its cruel and revolting death, rather
ban he what they are and what they must ho
11 an early future, to a more damning degree i
?the degraded vassals of an infuriated, domiiceiing,
and usurping Central Abolition GovTurnout.
Depend upon it, there are those who
ivill not permit that Government to "bestride '
lie narrow world" of their sovereign State, |
i
" l.kc a CoIosm-s ; <ml tlicy. petty tnen,
Walk under its huge legs and peep about
To find themselves dishonorable graves."
And if they be compelled to strike vour ,
lame from the catalogue of such glorious sons j
f South Carolina, the eve shall be averted at
lie inauspicious moment of the erasure.
It cannot be said with justice that any por- i
ion of your fellow.citizens of this State either
lesiro or intend, as \*ou seem to imagine, to
'give strength to the weakness of our foes, to I
nvito or drive our friends to join them, or by ;
toy means to make a glorious, a vital cause, i
ho sport of chances which are all against us."
Such they deny to be their motives or the ten--a'
.?I: _..a ;r .in0ichm5iti.lv .HIV I
j "i iijcii |ium;y , ?'iiivi ii v ""V
jf them 110 blind with liu v, or in:ul with "rage"
? il tliey, or any of thorn, aro ready to encnmi :
er the fa to of martyrs, whether it be glorious !
ir ignoble, (and yon seem to doubt w! tth -r it
.voidd be the one or the other,) you cannot es .ape
from your proper share of the responsi)ility
of producing such a state of the public
iiind. You cannot point your linger at them
ind cry out, "Ihou canst nut say I did it."?
They "confided in the soundness of your principles,
admired the briliancy of your talents,"
trusted to the invincibility of your political
courage, and rejoiced in you as one of their
most reliable and available leaders. Ion assisted
to launch their little vessel of State on
the waters; and if the element is about to become
enveloped in storm and darkness, and to
1 engulpli it, tlioy have a light to expect you to
| stand at the helm till the final catastrophe shall
occur, bravely and heroically sharing their
fate.
I'pon an occasion well remembered by your
fellow-citizens of ltichlnnd, your one our a genus
eloquence inspirited the timid, anil brought
hack to hoary years the patriot tires of youth,
when you declared, with impressive solemnity,
that "we were enacting history," atitS that our
forms of procedure should he characterized by
a corresponding dignity. In you was then recognised
our leader and our tower of strength,
from which should fly in triumph, the colors of
siNOLb-M andkd secb-ston, on tile failure of
proper efforts io secure co-operation. Sir,
where are you now ? Where has your Burnwell
am! othe>* letters carried you ! Where
has your letter of reply to some of the citizens
of Richland carried you? in which you declare
that "von deem it due to yourself to say th?t
yon believe that the convention may honorably
and patriotically terminate its own existence
without perpetrating the act of secession."
You have answered for youself. You are a
co-operatiomst?that is your party now, which
will sweep you on irresistibly from position to
position; and planetary motion is not more
certain than that vonr destination is but I
forbear; I will not spf!fk the word.
The operations of the human mind are, in '
' < >.,! ?!?/? ciirinnrc nl" it?J action
nre often so sulitio llint t!i??v escape its own
observation. Influences not uufrequently in
trude themselves upon it unknown to itself, operating.
however, with n power equally hidden
and controlling; and if unhappily yours has
been seized upon bv such occult agencies,
whoso effect h:i? been to render you oblivious
of the past and to mislead you as to the luture,
the broad mantle ot charity must be
thrown over your errors whose sudden and
unlucky mischiefs our reinvigorated energies;
will struggle to repair. 1WLMKTTO.
NO. 5.
" nothing extenuate.
Nor set down auglil in malice
Sin: I am about to relieve you from my intrusive
addresses, and at parting have only a
word to add.
The liimiib'ty of my position, as well as of my
fMwlnwrnoiit*. murht well have deterred inc from
entering upon the tank of exhibiting what appeared
to me to be the irreconcilcablc iricon-i>tencies
io wliieh yonr short, hut by no means
unattractive, public career abounds; and considering
the very extraordinary advantages of
social relations, wealth, connections, and abilities,
of which you are possessed, and all of
which, in my best judgment, 1 thought I saw
were about to he suddenly and unexpectedly
lost to a glorious cause, nothing could have
induced me to employ mv pen as I have in ad- j
dressing to yon, arid through you to the public, i
my previous communications, except a strong i
and overmastering impulse of duty. I I'raniily
confess to von that your divergence from that
line of policy, which your countrymen had every
ground to believe von had firmly adopted at
the present perilous and all important juncture
of public a flairs, previous to the appearance ofj
your ill-omened Barnwell letter, was so manifest,
and at the same time so alarming, that I
thought that even one as little fitted as myself
might easily expose it, and thereby avert in
some degree its threatened mischief.
If I have succeeded, I have real cause for
rejoicing, as I seek no other reward for my la-1
hor than the approbation of 1113' fellow-citizens
and of my own conscience; and if I have failed,
the superior intelligence of the former will
* * -on-i ? 1.. ,i i.e..:
IllinillUIV SU|?|ny UIU m'licil'licica UI injr aijju- ,
nient, so that you cannot finally escape from a
just retribution. It would lie in vain for you
to attempt to vindicate your consistency, for
the array of evidence against you is command- i
ing and ovenvelming; it stands invulnerable j
and ineffaceable in the solidity of the record :j
it is found in a force and power which defy j
overthrow in your public writing, public speaking,
and public acting?in the whole tenor and
spirit of vour private conferences, consultations,
and conversations, up to a certain period already
designated. Until the advent of vour |
Barnwell letter, by the undisguised and loftytoned
committal of all these, you were a re- \
cognised secessionist, standing on the platform
of your December speech, on the platform
of the resolution of the Richland Southern
Rights Association of the 2?d of March last,
and finally on the platform assumed for you,
j and, I eyondall disputation, sanctioned by you,
in the card of "A Secessionist and Member of
the Legislature," of the 2'-M of May last, nominating
you as a deputy to the Southern Congress
This body of evidence you can neither
overleap nor undermine. Its stability puts at
defiance alike the ingenuity and desparation of
attack, and has carried conviction to all minds
of all parties?co operationists, snbmissionists,
and secessionists?which no appeals, no tropes
or figures, no promises, protestations, or sophistry
can in the least disturb. The celebrated
limine mi <inf> occasion. iustlv remarked, that
"a question once decided was no longer open
for argumentand in this light the question ol
your consistency must ho regarded by a just
and enlightened public opinion.
It is to be sincerely regretted, therefore, that
yon made the question of your consistency at
all before your fellow.citizens in your late correspondents.
A far higher and more independent
ground was open for your occupancy, as
I am sure, on reflection, you will at once per
ceivc, anu one wmcn a generous puoiiu wuwu
readily liave tolerated. Deeply implicated as
you were deemed to be in the doctrine ol secession
by the convention provided for by law,
and before its final adjournment, whilst support
would certainly have been withdrawn, no one
would have denied to you the right to change
your opinions on that subject upon any evidence
satisfactory to yourself, and a ready
rebuke would have been administered to that
proscriptive illiberally which might have questioned
that right. Had you placed yourself before
your fellow-citizens in that attitude, its dej
fen-ibility as a personal privilege would have
j been admitted at once ami by all, and the war
- ? ' J.I 111 J *.L~
liCiween vnu nr.u mem wouki navf zibsuiucu uio
complexion of an elevated am! honorable contest
concerning great principles of public policy.
Xo motives would have been inquired after
! ?r.o alien and controlling interests would have
! been alluded to? \oti would have been believ*
j ed entirely sincere upon your own declaration,
! and your former political allies, though parting
j with you in sorrow, would have commended
your truth and frankness. The controversy
: between us would have been a manly warfare,
j worthy of intelligent and enlarged minds, capai
hie of appreciating and handling momentous'
! questions involving the very profoundest public
considerations; and if you should signally fail,
j as you heritably will, in the effort to sustain
I your consistency, it will, after nil, afford to ho*
j nornble men with whom you have come into
i rnlltcinn tin rnrtl ticfrwtinn f~n KnlinM nnn cn
valuable to the State broken and disconifitted
| at tln'ir feet, were it not tor the consciousness
j that in prostrating you they had advanced the
great principles, upon which, in their estirna'
tion, the public honor and welfare rest. They
J can find no other ground of*gratulatton in j*our
misfortune?no other source of exultation in
: the extinguishment of your well founded ambi,
tious pretensions; and you are entreated to allow
lliein to indub'p the hone that the onnortu.
i uity " ill nnt be long deferred of healing the
mortification they may have inflicted on you in
the performance of a present paramount pub,
lie duty. In the indulgence of this feeling be
assured all of us delight.
You have the respectful adieu of
PALMETTO.
Distance of the Sun.--Imagine a railway
! from here to the sun. How many hours is the
' sun from us? Why, if we were to send a baby
| in an express train, going incessantly a hundred
miles an hour, without making^any stoppages,
the baby would grow to be a boy?the boy
! would grow to be a man?the man would grow
old and die?without seeing the sun, for it is
distant more than a huiulr?Ml years from us.?
But what is this compared to Neptune's disI
tnnce? Had Adam and Eve started, by our
railway, at the creation, to go from Neptune
to the Sun, at the rate of fifty miles an hour,
they would not have been there vet; Neptune
is more than six thousand years from the centre
of onr system.?Household Words.
One of the Witnesses.?The late J. S., a
man of infinite wit and humor, and who had
probably seen as much of life in America as any
one, useil to toil the following stnrv, which is
too good to ho lost, though probably no one but
ho cculd do full justice to it. II we err not, it
ran thus:
What rail road stock is in the east, steamboat
shares are in the west, and as almost every
body owns more or less, if is impossible to
procure a judgment against any company lor
injury, carelessness, or even loss of life. Such
suits are yet very frequent, and give rise to
some strange cart/re temp*.
Not long since, it seems, a steamboat called
tho "Old Kentuck," blew up near tho Trinity,
at the mouth of tho Ohio, where it is a well
established fact, that a great many of the mosquitoes
will weigh a pound, by which accident
a lady rejoicing in the name of Mrs. Jones, lost
her husband and her trunk, for both of which
an notion was brought.
There was, strange to say, great difficulty in
proving that Mr. Jones had been on the boat
at the time of the collapse, that worthy having
notoriously been very drunk on the wharf boat
just as the steamer left Trinity.
Many witnesses were examined to prove the
fact until finally a Mr. Dietzmar, a German was
placed on the stand. Our friend J. S. was attorney
for the boat, and elicited from Mr. Dietzmar
this testimony:
"Mr. Dietzmar, did you know the Old Kentuck?"
"Yah, 1 was blowed up mit her."
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" \> ere you mere wnen sue cnuapsea ner uue?
"When she hust tie bile? yah, I wash dere."
"Did you know Mr. Jones?"
"To be sure?Mr. Jones and I took passage
togedder."
"You did? When did you last see Mr. Jones
on board the boat?"
"Well! I did not see Mr. Jones aboard de
last time."
J.S. fancied his case was safe, and with a
most triumphant glance at the jury, said,
You did not? Well Mr. Dietzmnr, when last
did you see Mr. Jones?"
" Well, when de schmolce. pipe and me was going
tip, we met Mr. Jones coming downl"
CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.
Ofbeautv just enough to hear inspection;
Of candor, sense, and wit, a good collection ;
F U A.lA H.liA
TjIlOUgll l?l IUVP VIIV liV IICCIIO UlCTL I IUI1|
To scorn the words?"I'll keep her in subjection;"
Wisdom t? keep him right in each diiection,
Nor claim a weaker vessel's imperfection.
Should I e'er meet with ?uch in my connection,
I ?it Itim nrnnn?5P. I'll nffpr no nkippfinn
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03~Vanity not malice, is the prevalent r??ason
why men take so little pleasir_> in the praise
and gilte of other*.