Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ EyOTjfl TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. To thine oimself be true; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlkt. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL 2, 1851. NO. 5. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, 18 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT DARLINGTON, C. BY JOH\ F. DE ii. , 8. C., EORHE. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: In advance, (per annum,) - - - $2 00 At the expiration of six months • 2 60 At the end of the year 3 00 ADVERTISING: m Advertisements, inserted at 76 cents • square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, and 37J cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, inserted at $6, a year. All business connected with the Flag, will be transacted with the Proprie tor at his Office, one door above the Dar lington Hotel, or with the Editor at his law Office POLITICAL. Frcm the Edgefield Advertiser. OUR TRUE POSITION. his thought by many of our “ out-side advisers” that South Carolina is on the brink of a political precipice; and that another step w’illjphmge her into a gnlph of ruin. Many of her inside advisers also chime in with this prediction, and lift up their hands in holy horror, at the enormity of our proposed action. One would suppose, from their gloomy augu ries, that we lived under a reign of Ter ror, more revolting than the world had e T°. r . *‘ n ? wn > or e l 80 > ^ a period of semi civilization, where the strength of num- beni overpowered the force of Justice and oyer-shadowed the beauty of Truth. A terrific picture of disaster/of poverty and of disgrace is held up by many as ine familiar and folly recognized conse quence of resistance to oppression.— Even a few of the generous advocates of genuine Freedom, have been led to tremble before the dark coloring of these evil proshepcies, and, like timid mariners when scowling clouds portend a storm, are eagerly crying aloud to their public sentinels, “Watchmen, tell us of the night, What its signs of promise are!” As a reply t > this anxious enquiry, we cannot perhaps express our sense of “ the hope that is within us ” more aptly, than by adopting the concluding lines of the stanza we have just quoted in part— “Mariner, o’er yon dizzy height See that brightly beaming star.” It is the star of South Carolina's des tiny—watch it with unerring devotion long as it sparkles on high, witli is almost demonstrated, that this bill is futile and nugatory. It is, in a word, evident that the Abolitionists have gain ed by this system of measures, almost all that their heart can desire, while Southern slave-holders have lost every |H>int in dispute. We maintain, moreover, thc.t this in veterate enmity to Southern Slavery is not a feeling of sudden and mushroom growth—hut one which dates back many years, and w'hic.h has become ra mified through every grade of Northern South Carolina society, high and low, law-abiding and senes that fate.” thousand ties of identical interests and and of consanguinity, forbid the hor rible supposition. Victimized by the decree of our natural allies! Oppress ed and ruined by the Government of the United States, with their consent and sanction! And that too, Itecause we shall have dared to vindicate the rights of the South! Who can realize it? Where is the dastard from Virgin ia to Texas who w ill dare, in the face of Honor and of Justice, to say “Let be ruined—she de- For each one, using all subjects relating to the elements of sods, manures and plants the analytical chemist knows much more than the practical planter. From a sense of the truth, that we have now reached a point in Southern culture, at which we must begin to unite science with practice, we propose, perhaps in the dared guilty by the jury without their even leaving the box. Bradford was executed shortly after, still declaring that ho was not the mur- derer, nor privy to the murder, of Mr. Hayes; but died disbelieved by all. Yet were these assertions not untrue! The murder was actually committed such craven language, there will be ten thousand who will say “Carolina’s cause is our cause—we must and will sustain her.” It will appear from the above, that we regard the fall of our State, unas sisted and alone, as a moral impossi law-contemning, until it has bacome in separable from their social and political character. It is a feeling that owes its existence as much to the rapacity of Capitalists and the jealousy of w hite la borers, as to the frenzy of fanatics.— This enmity was progressing rapidly to the completion of its nefarious de signs upon our institution of slavery once befoore, although by a different course from that now pursued. This progress was checked by the action of South Carolina in 1832. But the feel ing of hostility only increased in rancor with this defeat, while it gathered up additional cunning for a renewed attack. Seeing that the abolition party proper (for in one sense they are all so) was ' of the South are every gaining strength with wonderful rapidi ty, our cool-headed opponents deter mined at once to conduct the game without seeming to participate in the strife. And even now with the fact collusion proved by every prominent measure of the Compromise bills, they would have us blindly believe that they bi|ity. At an early day w’c will take their necessities may require, a view of her chances of escajte, grant ing as true w hat we hold to he an absur dity, that she will he left to fight the battle of the South alone. next number, to commence a series of by the footman of Mr. Hayes ; and the articles on the subject, in w hich it w ill , assassin, immediately on stabbing his be our endeavor to simplify as far as master, rifled his pockets of his money, possible, the general outlines of scion tifio agriculture, so as to reduce to the caped hack to his own room. This comprehension of the most practical could scarcely have lieen effected, as planter, the most important truths of after-circumstances showed, more than the subject. Not with the view to ! two seoods before Bradford’s entering make scientific farmers, hut to possess the unfortunate gentleman’s chamber, our readers of those general ideas which The world owes this information to re- w e regard indispensable in the future morse of conscience on the part of the progress of Southern culture, and leave footman (eighteen months after the ex- to them their practical application, as | edition of Bradford) when laid on the employed on that side of the case, if I could do so consistently with engage ment—hut you will have to go to some other counsel as I have a standing re tainer from the opposite party ! The itinerant was amazed, piqued and non plussed,—anil departed without attemp ting to suppress his laughter.’ 03“ A friend travelling in Florida, says of the muscjtietoes; Lota man go gold-watch, and snuff-box, and then es- j to 8,W P w ' t1 ' head in a cast iron kettle, and their bills w ill make a wat ering pot of it before morning.—B. Trans. We could not credit this story if it was not confirmed by strong current testimony. We once heard of a Yan kee clock pedlar, who being hard press ed by the musquetoes of Florida, took refuge in an old sugar house, under an flRrUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. BRADFORD THE INNKEEPER, Jonathan Bradford kept an inn in Ox fordshire, on the London road to Ox ford. Mr. Hayes, a gentleman of fortune, lieing on his way to Oxford, on a visit to a relation, put up at Bradford’s. He there joined company w ith two geutle- more interested; we mean, the con- j men, w ith whom he supped, and in nection between the science and prac- \ conversation unguardedly mentioned tice of Agriculture. That our system , that he had then about him a consider- of culture should have attained to its able sum of money. In due time they retired to their respective chambers; the gentlemen to a two-bedded room, leaving as is customary w ith man}', From the Soil of the South. SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. Our correspondent, Blackjack, touch es upon a subject in which the planters day becoming con- of j'rescnt degree of perfection without the aid of science, is not to be wonder ed nf, and that the fact, that it has thus bed of sickness. It was a death-bed re pentance, and by that death the law lost its victim. It were to lie wished that this accout could close here; hut there is more to In? told. Bradford, though the inno- llehorea respectable character, cent of the murder, and not even privy to it, was nevertheless a murderer in was nevertheless a design. He had heard, as well as the footman, what Mr. Hayes had declared at supper, as to the having of a sum of money about him ; and he went to the chamber of the deceased with the same ureadini intentions as the servant. He was struck with amasement on behold- ing himself anticipated in the crime. He could not believe his senses ; and in turning hack the bed-clothes to as- attained it without such aid, should candle burning in the chimney comer. I sur< ‘ himself of the fact, he in his agita- nre influenced in their deeds solely by | have opened to the prejudice of what | Some hours after they were in bed, one don dropped his knife on the bleeding i « aY. ~ CJ . ..aL. ,1 J a! a,. ~ ~ 11J il. 2«, .. a A ~ 1. ~ 1* a! __a1 1 ! 1 aL 1a ! Iiruit’ Lv ii r ni/*n •» »v ti 11 s \ 111 lt!a Vicitxsla not been forced, consequently, as those j less fortunately situated than our- | selves have been, to draw on our ingenuity for contrivances for increas- its present brilliancy, hope for the best and believe that it will come; but when you perceive that its lustre is dimmed and that it is sinking into the low, murky atmosphere, now far beneatli it, then “flee to the mountains” or hide in the depths of wme vast wilderness, if you would not witness the extinction of the only well-grounded hope of Southern Equality and Independence. These are no high-flown expressions, addressed only to the ear—we design them as appeals to the hearts and un derstandings of our dtizens. They shadow forth a truth, which each one of ua should be proud to realize—n truth, which our real fHends at the South will gladly admit, and which our enemies, everywhere, cannot gainsay. And it is this: That South Carolina is of all the sisterhood, the most zealous and disin terested defender of our Government as it now is. And we conscienciously be lieve, that upon the unshrink mainten ance of this position on her part, hangs not only her honor, but the weal of her people and the prosperity of the whole slave-holding country. Let us, for a moment, review the general grounds, upon which we have as sumed this position, and which indictac the paramount importance of maintain ing it to the last We hold it to be a fact, which docs net admit of denial, that the Pseudo- philanthropy of the North, with all the influence it cdh bring to bear, is deter mined npon the destruction of the insti tution of slavery. This is their manifest policy, which, in the pride and insolence of their growing power, they do not pretend to disguise. We farther ladieve that it can be said with perfect truth, that the politicians of the North, as a body, have given irrefragihle proof of their disposition to pander to the n ishes of tliis fanatical faction. For it is un disputed by Southern men, that the late Compromise measures were studiously represented to that faction as answering friendship to the South and devotion to j is called theory, is not more to he won- the Union. Thus have they added du- deredat. Our country is yet, compara- plicity to malignity in their op|K>sition, lively, a new one. The virgin soil is thereby giving another evidence of their ; yet undisturbed in many places, and it demoniac determination to annihilate is known to hi- a fact, that almost all our power and prosperity. One other development there is to which we will briefly allude in this con nexion. It is the manifest disposition of Northern politicians to run into con solidation. Here is another cause of distraction, which must tend most pow erfully to complete the disruption of the ing the productiveness of our soils.— few remaining ties, that hold together When we had cultivated a field until this confederacy of States. The creeds we had worn it out, we permitted the of the two great divisions of the Union, fences to rot down, or else removed are, upon this point, utterly antagonis- the rails to enclose a new one, where tic and as deeply rooted on cither side ' as long cherished convictions ever be come. The right of peaceably dissolving the ' Copartnership, by the single action of any one of the States, is hooted at by the highest authority of the Northern Unionists, as an absurdity. Can there he a doubt in any rational man’s mind, so siognally and wonderfully punished, these events furnish a striking warning against the careless, and, it may he, vain display of money or otherproper- as to the determination of the Northern wing of the American Union, to reduce the States, as States, to comparitive in significance? He is a dolt, who can believe otherwise. Almost every sys tem of measures proposed in the Nation al Legislature, from that quarter, evince the taint of this doctrine. If there be any truth in the views above taken, it is clear that the hopes of the Union are gone forever gone. Dissolution or Consolidation is the only hope for the slave-holding States is to he found. By consolidation the triumph of Free-Soilism and Abolition will lie effectually secured, the inevitable con sequence of which must be the over throw and degradation of the Slave holding portion of the Confederacy. Believing that, as parties now stand in the Union, we will bo compelled to succumb before the overpowering num bers of our opponents, assisted as they are by vile deserters, from our own ranks, and feeling convinced that thel lure, odds against us are rapidly increasing, the freemen of the independent State of South Carolina have determined to leave the Union, which has ever brought them more of evil than of good, and to hoist a new Flag, for the world to won der at Upon it should be represent ed the sovereignty of South Carolina in the shape of a goddess, trampling of the gentlemen being awake, thought ( body, by which means both his hands he heard a deep groan in an adjoining ! a,u ^ the weapon became bloody. These chamber; and this being repeated, he ! ‘’■rcumstances Bradford acknowledged softly awoke his friend. They listened to the clergyman who attented him af- together, and the groans increasing, ns ter sentence, hut who, it is extremely the cropping of the South, thus far, of one dying and in pain, they both in- j probable, would not believe them at the has relied upon the natural caparities stantly arose, and proceeded silently to time. of our land for productions. We have j the door of the next chamber, from Besides the graver lesson to be drawn which the groans had seemed to come. , * ro,n •his extraordinary case, in which The door being ajar, they saw a light ] behold the simple intention of crime in the room. They entered, hut it is impossible to paint their consternation on perceiving a person weltering in his bed, and a man standing over him w ith . „ _ » - a dark lantern in one hand and a knife •}' in strange places. To heedlessness in the other! The n.an seemed as "ii this score the unfortunate Mr. Hayes much petrified as themselves, hut his a victim. The temptation, we we could crop to more advantage.— terror carried with it all the appearance I i iave seen proved too strong for two Lands were abundant and cheap, and of guilt The gentlemen soon discov- , persons out of the few who heard his it has thojefore been almost universal- ered that the murdered person was the ill-timed disclosure. 1V the custom with our planters, as soon stranger with whom they had that night as they had exhausted their fields, not supped, and that the man who w as to attempt to restore them to the origi- standing over him was their host.— They seized Bradford directly, disarm ed him of his knife, and charged him with being the murderer. He assumed by this lime the air ofinnocenee, possi- tively denied the crime, and asserted that he came there with the same hu mane intentions as themselves; for that hearing a noise, w hich was suceeded by groaning, begot out of bed, struck a light, armed himself with a knife for his defense, and had but that minute nul value, but^ to pull up stakes and seek a better place. In older and more densely populated districts, the case has lieen different Every foot of land was appropriated, and the planter felt that when his fields were worn out, his all was gone; his source of income was lost The consequence has been, that all sorts of expedients have been resorted to for the purpose of preserv ing the soil, or for its restorarion when destroyed. The brain of man has been taxed, the laboratory of the chemist has been ransacked in search of mensa whereby the planter could impart to his soil, a fertility which nature had not bestowed upon it, or by which he might renovate it, when it had been exhausted. The result is before our eyes. In England and at the North, discoveries are consequently being made in the best mode of husbanding and applying measures, the best mode of drainage, the best kind of plows,|uui other agricultural implements. In short the wit of man is constantly on the qni vice, to supply the deficiences of na if ere we cut down or deaden the trees, break up the soil, deposit the seed, cultivate the land any way that will keep down the grass and weeds, and nature docs the work for us. We have been content with this plan, lie- cause we have made money by it But elsewhere, it has been far different— WHO ARE YOUR ARISTOCRATS. Twenty years ago this one butchered that one made candles sold cheese and butter a fourth carried on distillery an other was a contractor on canals others were merchants and mechanics. They urcarquainted with both ends of society—as their children w ill be after them thoughts it will not do to say so out loud. For often you shall find that those toiling worms hatch buttarflies and they live a year Death brings division of pro|>erty and it brings new financiers immense sugar boiler. For a time he felt quite secure; but presently, to his utter astonishment, he discovered that they were penetrating the bottom and sides of the metal boiler in every direc tion. With the natural shrewdness of his class he drew from his coat pocket a small hammer, which he parried for the purpose of setting up his clocks and amused himself by clinching the protruding hills, as wrought nails are clinched. He had occupied himself in this way for some time, and had made fast the hills of some hundreds of his blood-thirsty assailants when he dis covered that the immense cast iron ket tle, weighing something in the neigh boring of a ton, began to move. The next moment, to his utter consternation, it rose from the ground and was borne off by the musquetoes in their efforts to release themselves from it. Our informant did not state whether or not the pedlar was devoured by the musque- toes that remained. The probability is that he perished, ns no patent right has ever been taken out for a musque* to trap.—Sarannrh News. THE HOmToTTASTE. How easy it to be neat to be clean ? How easy to arrange the rooms with most graceful propriety ! How easy it is to invest our houses with the trues elegance! Elegance resides not with the ujiholsterer or the draper it is not in the mosiacs the carpeting, the rosewood the mahogany the candelabra or die marble ornament H exists in the spirit presiding over the chambers of the dwelling. Contentment must always Ite most graceful it sheds serenity over the scene of its abode ; transforms a waste into the garden. TYie home ligh tened by these imitations of a nobler and brighter life may lie wanting in much which the discontented desire hut to its inhabitants it will lie a palace far out-vying the oriental in brilliancy and glory. entered the room before them. These the old gent is discharged the young assertions were of little avail; he was gentleman takes his revenues and be- kept in close custody till the morning, > ghi to travel—towards poverty which and then taken justice of the DISSIPATION. The world is not so barren of beauty and bliss that we must, to recreate our spirits drink of the foul sediment of cor rupt pleasure, when every sunbeam is winged with glory, and every rain-drop falls as if it were a benediction from the when in our daily walk so much gladness meets us at every turn—when even in our labors of hand and head before a neighboring 1 he reaches liefore death—or his chil- peace. Bradford still do- ‘Iren do if he do not. So that in fact s ,ei nied the murder, but with such appa- ll' 0 there is a sort of moneyed rank it is rent indications of guilt, that the justice not hereditary H is ^esrible to all ; ^ ig ^ ^ led mucll of ^ hesitated not to make use of this extra- 1 “'ree good seasons of cotton will send ^ . happinesa-when in onr ’ will bring them all down and send ' ^ « r 18 80 Ml of love and ordinary expression on writing his mit timus, “ Mr. Bradford, either you or myself committed this murder.” This remarkable affair became a top ic of conversation to the whole country. Bradford was condemned by the gener al voice of every company. In the midst of all this predetermination came on the assizes at Oxford. Bradford was brought to trial; he plead not guil- 4 changes it into leaves and blossoms, | ty. Nothing could he stronger than the evidence of the two gentlemen.— They testified to finding Mr. Hayes murdered in his bed, Bradford at the side of the body with a light and a knife, and the hand which held it bloody.— There the planter had not only to break They stated that, on their entering the :ne pi; the soil, deposite the seed, and keep j room, he betrayed all the signs of a guilty man: and that, but a few minutes under foot a torn parchment on which down the grass; he had to do more The land had to he enriched, and could he traced the words “violated compact,” and holding aloft in her right hand a banner, upon which should he emblazoned, ‘•The South and her institutions against a world in arms!” This is our true motto. The con flict is coming with speed and witli certainty. Our oppressors have pur- sued and goaded us already beyond the point of reasonable endurance.— homes enjoyment —when music, in hooks, in innocent sports and games, in the social festivity such am|Je and variousmeans are pro vided for all reasonable exhilaration ; who would in his better moments wish to plunge into the giddy world of fash ionable dissipation. H H HpH toe sIToVSlood spread them abroad in great glory shed | Wherever the descendant of tho Sax- them off to fall hack to the earth again on rac e have gone, have sailed or other- to mingle with the soil and at length | wi(je mat | e t h e ir way even to the re- to reappear in now trees and fresh gar ! n1ote8t regions ofthe world they have ' been patient persevering, never to be ! broken in spirit never to be turned aside ! from enternrises on which they have | resolved. In Europe, Asia, Africa, their children again to labor. The father grows rich his children inlierit the pride and go to shiftless poverty their children reinvigorated by fresh plebian Mood, and by the smell of the clod come up again. Unis society like a tree, draws its sap from the earth niture. A LAWYER S RETAINING FEE. The Boston Post has an anecdote of Mr. Burchard, tho revival preacher had to his own energies and ingenuity had to do the work, which nature docs for us. Well, this state of thing is changing with ns; we have roohed our fields of their first value. They must be helped of the deceased. Bradford’s defense on his trial was tho same as before: he had heard a noise; he suspicioned some villainy was transacting; he struck a light, snatch- noy must be netped ed up the knife, the only weapon at now, in order to do w hat they once did hand, to defend himself, and entered preceding, they had beared the groans w hile he was at Lockport N. N which of themselves. Common How shi sense says, by i we do it? a resort to Mouth Carolina has turned upon them I those means which have proved effec- and holds them at hay. Will the rest ' tual elesewhere. We must turn our ofthe herd desert her to her fate. A | nttentffth to artificial fertilisers, and the room of the deceosed. He averred that the terrors he betrayed were mere ly the feelingi natural to innocence, as well as guilt, on beholding so horrid a scene. The defence, however, could] is something of the same character with that which has recently been published by a Providence paper, it was Mr. B’s custom to go about the villages to enlist the wealthy and influential to at tend his preaching, in order to give some eclat to his meetings. ‘In the course ofhis perambulations, one day he feU in with Bob 8—,’ an attorney of som? reputation, and very famous for his wit and readiness at repartee. Good morning, Mr. 8—,’ said the Evan- their designs, to all intents a>ol jiurfioses, j No—our Southern Sisters will not, by il not, by special enactment, legislating this ungenerous and unnatural conduct ♦heir will 'Hie gilde* pill, which was call down ujhui themselves such eternal |administered to the Sooth in the sha|ie «>l the Fugitive Slave Bill, is alreadv disgrace. Ev en should they not fol- _ low ns out of the Union, they could jrowicbig ‘he nausea of di-gu t; for it no* Mifler ns “fo •x 1 vi< *imi7Ci>" The brute that “lacks discourse of reason” i in this work, jtracticc must loan upon not hut he considered as weak contrast- gelist understanding that yon are one ftf would teach them a noble lesson. But j science. Science never can make a ed with the several powerful circum- the loading men of tins town, and a cotton crop; that is very certain ; but stances against him. Never was eir- lawyer of high standing I have called up- we are fast reaching that point at which eumstantial evidence so strong, as far on you in hopes to engage yon oa •* u * practice, without tho aid of science, as it went. There was little need for Lord’s side. YYiank you replied Boh, will he equally at a loss. Depreciate comment from tho jndge in summing w ith an air of great sobriety and w ith as much as we will, the “follies of up ft'.** evidence; no room appeared for the most professional manner possible- theory," i‘d%j , '' v, 'rth<’le«s true, thst on extenuation; and the pri«oner waa df- thank yon, I should l>e most happy to Ik* America the whole wolrd over; in the desert, in the forest, or the sea: scorch ed by a burning sun or frozen by ice that never melts: tho Saxon blood re mains unchanged. Wheresoever that race goes, there law and industry, r’nd safety for life and property, and all the great results of steady jierseverance are certain to arise.—Dickens Hous- hold Words. A WORMO MOTHERS. In the evneing when your children have prayed for pardon and peace, en deavor to infuse the spirit of that beau tiful expression in the Psalmist, “I will both lay me down in peace and sleep; for thou, Lord, only makest me to dwell in safety.” At no time is the ii>* tluenae of a mother more valuable, that when her chidren are retiring to rest.