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DARLI GTON C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 12, 1851. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, is rdlMSItED EVERY WEDNESDAY SORYISG, AT l>ABLl.M.TON, C. H., 8. B¥ JOH^ F. DBi I.OKT1F. TERMS OF srBSCRIPTIOT: In advance, (wr annum,) - - - )|ii 00 At the expiration of six months • 2 ftO At the end of the year ..... 3 00 ADTE»TtStNG : Advertisemests, inserted at 75 cents a square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, and 37$ cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business CxRfis, not exceeding ten lines, inserted at $5, a year. Mr All business connected with the Flag, will be transacted with the Proprie tor at his Office, one dcoi above the Dar lington Motel, or with the Editor at his law Office POLITICAL. REURKS HE HR. Bl TIER HE SOUTH CAROLINA. IX SENATE, FEB. 21, 1851. The .Message of the President in re ference to the rescue of the Fugitive Slave at Boston, being under consider ation, Mr. Butler said: 1 came into the Senate this session wit!i a strong resolution not to speak on this subject at all. But there are some topics involved in this discussion which imperiously call upon me to no tice them. Now, what a commentary upon the Constitution of the United States does this debate present? It is gravely proposed that the laws of the United States shall be so amended as to enable the President, w ithout procla mation, to call into exertion the army and navy and the military force of the United States. To do what? To enforce an article of the Constitution of the U nited States, because I choose to speak rather of the Constitution than of the law enacted at the last ses sion for the purpose of carrying the Constitution into effect. Why, sir, our him|>le ancestors, governed by good -fn'th and a just regard to the constitu tional compact, required no legislation for many years to carry into effect the article of the Constitution for the rec lamation of fugitive slaves. I assert it, in my place, that for several years it was a self-sufficing article of the Con stitution ; and in Boston, Philadelphia, or N«w York, or in any other city, a fugWuc from labor would have been deliverM up on demand and upon proof of identity without any liti gation whatever. How is it now ? A single runaway negro has it in his pow er to call into exertion the very highest jmvers committed to the President of the United States. I will make another remark'•in con nection with this subject. I do it with a tinn belief of its truth. That in Bos ton, in the community of Massachusetts you may throw' as much blame on the marshal as yon think proper, but the said by a member of the othl [ house. Fifteen thousand slaves have leaped, and are in the free States. ID A many of them are reclaimed unde \iii s or any other law ? 1 would just have the law of 17P3 as the law, for any purpose, so far as the reclamation of fugitive said so when this law was cussion. The Senator from Kent has alluded to Indiana and some o er States. What is the fact in relatio |o Indiana! Why, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and some of the other Str have come to the conclusion, w hile prl fessing philanthropy at one breath, exclude these people from their border: •If be true; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlet. seems, is to depend on the physical arm of this Government The army and the navy arc to he invoked to en force an article of the Constitution, be- i soon cause a runaway slave has gone to Bos ton. Now, what is the situation of this Govemmeot when a runaway negro can now produce such a state of things, such discussions as this, and can make such issues ? It is a symptom of the times; and just as certain as I am speaking, the notion which the Aboli tionists are mcalculating is increasing and the power is coming down upon the Southern States with the certainty 1 of a descending screw. We From the .V. O. Picayune. AGIIITITERU mm Ouiinga short steamboat trip a few days ago, w e made the personal ac quaintance of a prominent and well- known South Carolina Planter—one with whom it is difficult to Bold very long converse w ithout acquiring much The presses expenditure of exertion, are made in Memphis. The same machinist has introduced 1 what lie calls a non-elastic tie for the bales when brought down to clipping size, by which they are kept at that 1 size—a result unattainable with the hemp rope. These ties consist of oak, .. , . , . > -i. , liickory or other hoops, held together valuable and practical information. i n t j ie 8 i In p| os i maimer possible. A A few of the items we gathered, are notch is cnt) or better hound with an such as to excuse our putting them in j ron i n;u t t , f or t] )t > purpose, on the up- P”!! 1 - |>er side of one end, and on the low er The present imjiortant crisis in the affairs of the South, and the necessity screw. >Ve may for a while he still, as long as the persons I cast no censure on their policy, 'llieii interested may make the arrest. We policy is to keep out all colored peo-i We may sleep fora while in the appre- ple, bond or free. It is a matter orthension and the hope, hut it is a delu- policy that they have consulted more feive hope. He w r ho looks no further than any thing else. They have avow- \uni the present into this question choo- ed it to be their policy that they w ill al- % to disguise from himself that we are low no black man to enter their bor- waking upon a precipice. These ders here after; and the time will come duteous people have acquired a when every black man who has eseap- (►oArful control over the public mind . ed from his master into the State of in y non-slaveholding States. In ff t * n, h , man, so very \alunlble in eastern Oluo will be expelled, not for any thing somd^espects they have acquired the ! cou,l * T ' es Hs animals ol draught, have side of the other end of the hoop; when the hoop is passed around the hale in tor rondeliug ourselves, as quickly as p reS8 an iron link, similar to the links possible, independent of every other of a common truce chain, is slipped country in manufactures, supplies, over the hoop, catching in both notches; stocks, fruit, &c., led us to Mr. Davis’s importations of 0nshmero goats, among the rest. These are described as beau tiful animals, perfectly hardy in South Carolina, and likely to prove of value. They are being crossed upon selected when the pressure is removed from the , bale the link holds the ends of the hoop without a possibility of slipping or giv ing in any way. The hoops and iron links, all ready for a bale, are supplied at thirty cents per bale. And there is specimens of the common goat. I he ,| 0 nagon whv any planter should not swamp hnflaloes imported by the same ■ - halanl of power, and many of them aspire V) the highest honors of the countrVnd attain them, Am 1 to he told in y face of all this that our in- stitutionaLre safe? I do not believe a word of \ And I should not have been true \ my position here if I had not proclaiy<l my convictions on this like a regard for the black man, but from a policy, and a policy w hich I see is likely to be introduced into Califor nia. These persons w ould have been far better to have been left as slaves than to have been seduced under this philanthropic advertisement that they will lie free. They have been in the nominal position of freemen only to be subject crushed, and excluded, from employ- As regardVhU matter of recovering ment fugitives, l wcVj Ha y, injustice to I’cnn- Gentlemen speak of the case in sylvania, that Vlieve site is the sound- Boston as a mob of negroes. Gentle- ost of all the Vi-slaveholding States men may speak of it as they please, put on this subject e\ e pt the Northwestern it is a symptom thus far, that they w ill States. I believeY This law has never take the part <ff the fugitive slaves as been tested in the \jtertor of New York, they can, not with a view to , and other non-slav become readily and perfectly acclima ted, quite at home in the salt marshes of the sea coast, keeping fat upon the coarsest of herbage. They seem like ly to prove of such permanent value that one gentleman is about importing fifty this winter. The cost of import ing including the original price, we think was supposed to Ik* about forty dollars a head. Our informant, who has had very extensive experience in the continued improvement of his stock, finds that the sudden sickness which so often at tacks northern cattle brought to the south, generally terminating in ddath, is invariably cured by saw ing off the make his ow n hoops—another step to wards independnnee. T. A. COLD, UR CATARRH IN SHEEP. Flock masters should take particular care of their sheep w hen affected w ith a cold during the winter months; for if neglected, it frequently becomes so deeply seated as to be incurable, and ends in phthisis, or consumption. The best remedy for a cold is, first, place your sheep in a well-ventilated, dry stable, comfortably littered; and second, giv ing it any slightly purging medicine, w ith a moderate allowance of hay, and a bran mash, one-fifth of which should he oil meal, ("olds, or catarrahs, are not only epidemic but endemic; la* care ful, therefore, where you winter your sheep, that there la- no predisposing long as they can, not w ith a view to , and other non-slavttpiJj„g States. Ithas ** mvarianiy cureo o\ sawing on uic sheep, that there In- no predisposing protect them ultimately when they are been enforced in tliWy of New York, ' ,orns > c ‘ 08 °; enough to the head to cut cause in their locality; and when they free, but to exclude them from employ- and there •ras real, f or that. The a sufficient portion of the pith to are attacked, remove them instantly raent. This veiv act in Boston will city bad more intimmintercourse with bleed freely? As the head is the part f rom the Hock. By following these have been communicated (through speeches delivered here, through speech es such as have been delivered by the honorable Senator from New Hamp shire, which have excused the act) to every Southern State in this Union.— among the blacks. I do*, Q t gay that | working animals, tractable active a Whv, gentleman are absolutely hold-’U will become very fomirA,! 0 , or that • they endure a degree of faug Why, gentleman are absolutely hold ing a spark over a powder magazine. I do not know that they can succeed in exciting the slaves of the South to insurrection, hut it w ill dissatisfy them, and the creatures are becoming every day more dissatisfied with their condi tion; although it is absolutely certain that their condition willbe worse under the system of policy andmiserabl philan- throphy which has been preached and practised In some of the free States— R infinitely worse. 1 am the friend of tor from New Hampshire the black man compared, with them, and he is a hypocrite w T ho undertakes to preach in favor of a degraded race when in fact he takes less care of them than I would, 1 do not know how far this law is to operate, but I will say that if a slave of mine escap ed I would not go through any course of litigation to reclaim him; and if he federal officers will find it impossible, had escaped at a former time and ac hy their mere exertion of power, to car- quired a status, I would let lum stay ry into effect this article of the Constitu- sooner than disturb him. 8,i far as re- tion, and the law referred to for the pur- gards the free pe^/pie ot color who have pose of giving force to it. If they can- ( gQne to the North, the most of them the South, and it wa»i 1( >i r interest to preserve friendly and V nilie rcial rela tions with it As I ha\ said, jt j 8 not this mere case, hut yon ^ sowing the seeds of dissatisfaction ad of danger most affected, the cure seems plausible. Dr. Davis imported some of the lieau- tiful Brahmin cattle, which also prove well suited to the climate. Their meat is fine, and they are invaluable as and It will become very the dangers are likely to vqmre any great influence, but it i»»roverbial among our overseers that Very day and every year the mauaLnent of these poor creatures is becorUir more and more difficult. It is nox ious in my ow r n State* We say the Federal Govertoont is bound to protect us, and we saUncen- diary naiuphlets ought not to beseem mated. Why, the speech of th is an not call out the posse comitatus, the very highest power which a sheriff' or a marshall has, it is in yam for them to resort to federal agencies as a limited and important means to perform the duties of their office*. Why, you are now attempting by auxiliary legislation would be gift 1 to come hack. I know it, because I have had some ex|>erience on the subject I was the means my self of sending some fiffecn to Ohio, and I think they would be glad to come back. The consequences of such an act as to do, w hat 1 To breathe life into an this in Boston is not limited to the j»ar- ex/fnet article of the Constitution ofthe Ucular act itself, but its consequences United States. You are to supply are now'pervading this community and from time to time, from session, to ses- creating a disturbance and dissatisfac- sion, acts of legislation to compel peo- tion among these poor degraded crea- ple who are opposed to the Constitu- tures which gentlemen cannot measure, tion to observe it; to resort to the army My friend from Virginia has very prop- and igivy, to military force, to compel erly said that when the States w ill not , citizens to do the duty which honor, execute this law, that when the people ''honesty, juctice and good faith had pro- of the Commonwealth of Mns-swchu- \ jously imposed u|Min them. It is p.r- setts are averse to it, is jierfectly vain ytly in vain, os has been said, m con- to rely upon Federal legislation to sup ply what the Constitution imposed upon them ns a duty. I will never give up that it was a duty imposed on the peo ple of the States themselves to surren der fugitives from labor. Never was it expected tliat we should have to resort to the army, to the navy, or to the mil itia, and to proclamations, to supply this piece of legislation and that piece of legislation, ami preach to the country that the law* will be executed. I say the/e will ena- cen- diary pamplet and we publish it lour own expense and it goes all ovdthe country, and it will be read by w authority. You may go throngli\, e Northern States and you w ill find th ands who applaud his sentiments, wl there w ill be scarcely one in a hundrl who w ill sustain the honorable Senat from Kentucky in denouncing him do bot h.i v *tliat this is the case in al\est rains from communites. I wish to be qualified inyneath, answer my remarks. But i overheard a re mark the other day by a Senator that the universal sentiment at the North was in opposition to tills law. I do not undertake to arraign any man’s motives for being opposed to slavery in the abstract; but I say he is the very worst man, if he had the courage in w arm climates, which no other kind of cattle could exist under. The bull haif been bred to Durham cow s, pro ducing a handsome useful animal, like ly to be more valuable for draught than either of the parent races. His views on the necessity for tho rough aceKmation in fruit trees, result ing from many years’ experience, agrees fully with our own. That the grape may be saved from lotting by being trained so far within the eaves of a house or portico as to precautions,and keeping them well fed, sheltered aired, watered and salted, one may bid defiance todiMB * among his flocks.—American Agriculturalist. 'Mi! eezTmmmmis. BY A LADY. What an immense difference it makes who squeezes one’s hand! A lady may tw uie her arm around your waist, press a kiss on your brow, or, holding your hand in hers, toy with your fingers to her heart’s content, but you are perfect ly calm and collected, and experience no unusual sensations, either disagree able or otherwise. Perchance a gen- , tlcman whom you dislike, or feel hut .-lightly acquainted with, ventures to press your hand; you snatch it quickly | away, the indignant blood mounts to protect them from falling water, has your forehead, and, w ith flashing eyes, been before suggested to us. We are assured that even the Isabella grape may be grown thus entirely free from rot Wh}*, not then, tin* fine# and richest sorts? Would not a narrow r*>of on top of the treliies posts, extend ing just far enough to shed the hcavi- the fruit trained 1k*- a like purpose ? That ne southern fruit, the white Scupper- ong grape grows and bears abundant- w ithout any extra care or attention, ■y rarely failing in a full crop. A new cotton gin has been put in S Vessful operation on one of the plan tains of our informant, it is the in- vei\on of a gentleman named Park- v XUy ir Yenc ir pence of the sentiment which «b- in some of the Northern States, specially in Massachusetts, with DA Anted number of officers, and the .power which they exert over Amuiiity, to enforce this article ‘Constitution, Sir, they are re- ?ilcd by a mere casuistry to see Cduetf; they are reconciled to it by the pulpit; they are reconciled to it by designing politicians; and so long as the question of slavery forms an ele- it is but preaching. I say ment of political agitation, you might ' he hut vary few cases iu wh to look at the consequences, who could make ft one of the elements of his am bition. While he may sport w ith it as part of the political game, it is one of those things that have brought this Con federacy, once devised by w isdom and preserved by good faith, to the peril from w'hich the patriots of the country have in vain attempted to rescue it— ITie debates go on at the North all on one sided** ith no one to combat them. The late law', I think, in some measure has given rise to a freer scope of dis cussion, and to some extent it may produce a pause but as I have before said, it is only tlte pause of a day. It is only the suspension of the machine tliat is coming down upon us, and I look upon my part of the country, un less there is some mode to aijest it now as a doomed and destined portion, and that too, not originating from an enligh tened-policy or from the principles of true philanthropy, but from hypocrites and demagogues who choose to sport, with safety to themselves, w ith the ele hurt Instead of saw's, cards are used 1°^ Nnoviug the lint from the seed; it is Ui^ blown strongly against a close wire (cylinder, which revolves, and from Ai c h the lint is taken by vibrat ing or Wolving rods, coming off in a solid a| most perfect roll of batting as well attempt to hush the winds by reclaim a slave, for the reason tliat you saying to them “cease. A* I said the t cannot detect where he is, because, per- other day, you might as well expect to sons in the free State*will conceal him, keep a maniac quiet by singing hiHnhies, will throw all impediments in the way as to undertake, in this way, to com- of his apprehension; and after his ap- pcl a reluctant people to do their duty. ' prehension, you have to go through a It has been said that this law has yourfte of litigation to reclaim the pro- bcon executed in good faith. Allow perty "which the Constitution required me to. make one remark in this connec-! the States themselves to deliver up. lion, and I repent it from what was ' The recovert? of the property, it Tin vorki ueh you can toents of an agitation which is likely egro her to involve tliis country in ruin. Original Anecdote.—A g man passing a field where an old ne woman was at w ork inquired of what she was doing ? " Planting rice massa,” was the prompt reply. Rice! “said he” what sort of tiling is tliat? Ki massa, “ she replied,” you dono wat Rice ? ft do berrv beat kind o’ homnv. ready- press, trash pa: der. feet w Tliis w tage posse ry otlier cotton; the onoe from th chine; niiinjur machinery an ed with, in bri cotton, taken point ht which you wonder “ how the impertinent fel low* dares to do such a thing!” Ra ther an antiquated s|K>eimeii of human ity squeezes your hand; you feel mor tified for yourself mid him, mortified that a man of his years should make such a fool of himself, that he should think you can really like such nonsense, and above all, that be believes it possible that you can like him, vexed at what he has done, nml determined that an opportunity shall never be offered him of doing so again. “You place your hand confi dingly in that of an accepted, acknow ledged lover: you are not excited or confused, you have ceased blushing continually in his presence, you experi ence a feeling of quiet happiness, a “lit tle hnaven-upon-earth ” sort of feeling, you are perfectly contented with every thing iu tliis terrestirnl world, especial ly your lover and yourself; and yet; withal, it is a foolish feeling, as you sit the spinning machine or with his arms tw ined around you—that ery particle of dust and manly arm which is to guard and sup s through the wire cylin- is not a doubt of the per- of the machine. 5 another great advan- by the South, over eve- ntry, iu manufacturing t may he carried at ed to the spinning ma- by damp or wet, much anipulations dispens ing the raw ginned m the bale, to the ould leave the cai-d fT" \ In this c<*nectiib we are reminded of another adminble improvement noW making its w ay rapidly in Missis sippi, McCcmb’s lab»r saving press.— We have examined ilosely into the principles of construct’on and w orking of t)i| machine, and think it likely to supefceuc the great majority of thnsv. now ii use. It is chea p, durable and effieieit and of vast power. One horse easily trings a 450 pound bale down to shipfng size in eight revohitions of the wiiAlass—a vast saving #f travel to the orse, and without any extra | —Home Journal. port you through life; a soft, rosy,hap py tint suffuses your face, as your hand is clasped in his, ah, it is a blissful, foolish feeling! But let some one whom you like very much, not an accepted lover, but one who may, perhaps, be one, one of these days, gently enclose your hand in his own; what strange, wild, joyful, paiuful feeling thrills through you! The hot blood leaps, dancing, tumbling through your veins, lushes to your tem ples, tingles at your finger ends! your heart goes hump, bump; surely, you think, he must hear it throbbing! for the life of you, you cannot speak. Af ter letting your hand remain in his just long enough to show you’re not offen ded, you gently withdraw* it; hut per chance it is taken again, after a faint “ don’t do so,” which K» answered with a still closer pressure, with downcast eyes and blushing cheek, you let the little hand, this first bright earnest of other things to come, thrilling and bur ning w ith tliis new ecstatic emotion, re main all tremblingly in its resting place. NO. 2. EDITATION. An education is a young man's capi tal ; for a well informed intelligent mind has the host assurance of future compe tency and happiness. A father^est gift fo a child then is a good education. If you leave them w ealthy you may assure their ruin, and at best you only leave that which may at any moment be lost. If you leave them with a cultivated heart, affections trained to objects of love and excellence a mind vigorous and enlarg ed finding happiness pure and elevated in the pursuit of knowledge you effect an insurance on their after happiness and usefulness. Unless 3*ou bring up the young mind in his own way, you cannot with any justice, claim for its {Mjssessiir iiidc|>cudeiice. Your chil dren must be virtuous or they will not desire it. They must be intelligent as sociates us they must have habits of in dustry and sobriety to make the com pany of the industrious and sober agree able. It is in your power to bestow this virtue this excellence and tliese golden habits. Present them a good model in your ow n life and give them every opportunity to cultivatt the heart and the understanding. Spare not ex pense's on your school, and put into your children’s hands everything that may encouraire or assist them in their mental or moral improvement PLEASURE AM) PAIN. All sensations are divided into class es—painful and pleasurable ; the latter have a decided predominance, ns all those which are not positively painful may be set down as iKloiiging to the other class. The use s of pain are to act ns a safeguard in giving warning of derangement of the vital functions; some diseases are much more fatal than they would be, from the fact, that no pain attend their origin and earlier sta ges of progress. The consideration of pleasure and pain enforces upon our minds conclusions of the most impor tant character. It shows that God has ordained that his creatures should alone suffer pain for their own benefit amt protection, and that every other act of their lives should temfTo a pleas urable existence. If man follows out tbe same principle, be will perform the duties so specially enforced by Christi anity—he tvill he kind and merciful to all organic creatures; ho will do unto all men ns he would they should do unto him; and he will, in all resjK’cts, do everything that will 'alleviate pain and tend to the happiness and welfare of his fellow-creatures. DON'T COMPLAIN. A merchant w as once returning from market. He was on horseback and Ik* hind his saddle was a valise filled w ith money. The rain fell w ith violence and the old man was wet to the skin. At this time he w as quite vexed and mur mured lieeause God had given him such weather for his journey He soon rea ched the border of a thick forest.— what was his tenor on beholding on one side of the road a robber, who with levelled gun was aiming at him and attempting to fire; but the powder be ing wet w ith rain the gun did not go off and the merchant giving spurs to his his horse fortunately had time to escape.— As soon as he found himself safe he said to himself— “How wrong was! not to endure the rain patiently as sent by providence. If the weather had been dry and fair, I should not probably have been alive , at this hour The rain which caused me to murmur came at a fortunate mo ment to save my life and preserve to me my property SUFFERINGS. The sufferings laid upon us by god do all lend to happy issues the progress is from tribulation to patience from that to experience and so to hope and at last to glory. But the sufferings we make for ourselves arc circular and endless; from sin to sufferings and from sufferings to sufferings again and not only so but they multiply in their course every sin is greater than the former one and so is every sufferings also YANSEE^flERTSHIP. A love lorn swain broke a wish bone with his “ heart’s queen,” somewhere up in New Hampshire. “Now what u’you wish,Sally ?” de manded Janathan, with a tender grin of expectation. “ I wished I was handsome,” replied the fair damsel—“ handsome as Queen Victory.” “Jerusalem! what a wish!” replied Jonathan—“when you’re handsome 'nuff now! But I’ll tell yfcr what 1 wished, Sally, / wished you was locked up in my ar.n^and the key ’cat lost'"