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RKSOLI'TIUNS Of THE SOl ffiEBS
RIliUTS CONVENTION. *
Mr. Grkoo from tlieSelect commit-
lee ofTwonty-one submitted tho follow
ing Resolutions as expressive of the
sentiments *f Convention, and an \d-
ilress to the Southern Rights Associa
tions of tho Southern States:
1 Resolved, That io the •pinion of
this ntteting the State of South Carolina
cann * submit to the wrongs aad ag- , . . . . , ,
Kressions which have been perorated ^ Ant } now ; ^ we . h * ve
Federal ttaumiMnt and the ex P rewd our k ‘ l,ef th,it there 11 no
ding for the election of Delegates to a
Southern Congress, to whose meeting
she still looks with anxious interest.
In all these proceMings, we think
that the citi|pns of South Carolina have
ev inced all proper anxiety to avoid the
appearance of arrogance or dictation,
to act act in concert with the citizens of
to act in concert with the citizens
of the other Southern States, and to
do nothing separately or precipitat-
Jf'
she
i>v the Federal Government
Northern States.'without dishonor and
ruin and that it is necessary to relieve
herself therefrom whether with or with
out the co-o peration of other South
ern States.
2 Resolved, That concert of action
with one or more of our sister States
of the South, whether through the pro
posed Southern Congress, or in any
other manner, is an object worth
many sacrifices, but not the sacrifice
involved in submission.
3. Resolved, That we hold the right
of secession to bo essential to the sov
ereignty and freedom of the Stntos of
tills Confederacy; and that the denial
of that right would furnish to an injured
State the strongest additional cause for
its exercise.
1 Resoffld, Tint this meeting looks
with with confidenee and hope to
the Convention of the People to exert
the sovereign power of the State in de
fence of its rights at the earliest prac
ticable period and in the most etfectual
manner and to the Legislature, to adopt
tho^nost speedy and effectual measures
towards the same end.
ADDRESS
1'lOM THU DeLROATUS OF THE SolTH-
eun Rich rs Associations ofSocth
CAudlnsA, Asse.mui.kd in Ciiak-
LI'STON, TO THE Soiri’HEUN
Kiohtk Associations of the
other Southern States.
Having met to take counsel together
and having agreed upon that course
which we* think
hope for the South in the existing
Union, we are prepared to give a
trial, fairly and in good faith, to any
effectual plan which may bo proposed by
any sister State of the South, for obtian-
ing redress for tlie past and security
for the future, without a dissolution of
the existing Union, if there be a possi
bility of such a consummation.
But we find ourselves forced to con
sider the ulterioifcAjuestion, what we
are to do, if we find that there is norca
sonable hope the co-operation of any
other Southern State in any effectual
plan of relief, and the alternative is pre
sented to us, of submitting, or acting
by ourselves. And, reluctant as we
are to separate ourselves from our na
tural friends and allies, we have made
up our minds. Vie cannot submit.—
We know that South Carolina entered
this Confederacy as a sovereign and
independent State and that having been
wronged, she has the perfect right to
withdraw from it. Her sons must ex
ercise tlie right and meet the conse
quences. If no other State will join us
in releiving ourselves from the wrongs
already indicted, we see no hope in
waiting for new outrages to arouse a
higher spirit of resistance. 'Hie new
outrages, we are well convinced, will
come in due time; but we feel no assu
rance that the spirit of the vassal will
rise in proportion to the indignities
heaped upon his head. On the contra
ry we see that the South has already
borrlfc what it would not for a moment
ht anil and necessa- hfiw submitted to ten years ago, and
to pursue, we wish to lay before you w " n ^ would not then have
the considerations by which we have vo, d un -‘d to per|»etrate. We an' not
been governed, with that frankness will * n » to tr y the experiment how long
which our respect for you and our do- j* Ik* before our spirit is completely
sire to merit your good opinion, re
quire.
We regard the position of the .South
ern States in this Confederacy as do
graded and ruinous. The manifest
tendency of those systematic aggres
sions which they have suffered for ma
ny years past, is to subuertthe institu
tion of slavery. If those acts of hostile
domination, which have boon rende
red more insulting by mockery of lan
guage, under tho term of a Compro
mise, were final in their nature, and
were not to he followed by any further
aggressions, we should still regard
t hem as outrages, to which sovereign
States, ponoosing the spirit of freedom,
on glU never to submit. But those
measures only form part of a system,
gradually commmced, steadily canied
forward, gathering strength from devel
opment, and proceeding with fatal mo
mentum to its end. That end is the oho-
lition of negro slavery in the Southern
States, and the lowering of the free
white population of tho South to the
same level with that agrarian rabble
which, already strong and dangerous,
seems destined, before very long, to bo
the oon(foiling power in the Northern
States. We see no remedy and no safe-
tv for the South in tlie present Union,
tint we know that in this we differ
from very many citizens of the other
Southern States, spirited and intelligent,
having the same intereste, and suffering
under the same wrongs, with ourselves,
and who cherish the the hope that the
rights of the South may lie vindicated
and secured without dissolving the
existing Confederacy. In this differ
ence, it does not become us to dictate,
and wo hope to stand free from that
charge. Up to this tin.?, tho citizens
of South Carolina, aware that peculiar
ity of political position, arising from
past events remlered a certoin reserve on
their part prudent and proper, have stu
diously avoided evrey thing which might
look like assuming tlie lead in the de
fence of Southern Rights. They de
sired to act ceaause they believed that
safety and honor required action; but
they hoped that they might find leaders
in other States whom they might follow
iu defense of the common cause.—
When the ancient Commonwealth of
v^inna, the proper leader of the South
declared her deteniunation to resist, at
all hazards and to last ext remity hostile
meaaure then threatened, Soutli Caro
lina with all alacrity, stood ready to
support Virginia in carrying out her
high resolution. When Georgia,—
whose former resistance to Federal
usurpation, under her heroic statesman,
Tkoup, gave promise of unflinching
firmness in any contest in which she
might engage—proclaimed her deter
mination to make a stand for the rights
of tthe South, South Carolina rejoiced
at ths prospect of rallying under the
And when her
rMissiaaippi,pro
wise measure of a South-
s.for the purpose of endeav-
the Southern States io
maintaining their constitutional rights
and at the same time preserving if poa-
.sible, the existing Union, South Caro
lina heartily entered into
and she hflu carried out the
dation of the Cdhventkw so
At the instance of Missis^p|ii
broken by gradually and continually
yielding to slow and gradual but un
ceasing encroachment. And if the cxer-
1 else of the right of secession is to be met
by the attempt on the part of the Gov
ernment of this Confederacy to subju
gate South Carolina, it is better that we
should meet that attempt while wc still
have some power of resistance loft. If
! we are to submit to the condition of a
conquered people, we we think it less
i dishonorable not to Ho so until we have
' first been conquered. And if anything
could add to the necessity which we
believe exists for a withdrawal from the
existing Union, it would be the denial
of the right of secession. For the de
nial of that right indicates of itself ex
treme danger. The right of secession
has heretofore, and in better days, been
regarded as unquestionable by all South
ern politicians, with the exception of an
inconsiderable number of consolidation-
ists. And if ever that right can be de
nied without arousing the whole South
to sustain it, the South will be ripe for
the most miserable fate which has ever
befallen any people. It will then, as a
pied houses : Uiere are many now in the
South who would take pride in becom
ing South Carolinians. This
whose heats beat responsive to hers and
whose hope and expectation is that this
proud State will pursue the even tenor
of her way in the discharge of duty
fearing no consequences.
Southern.
Mobile, April 23, 1852.
Darlington flag.
DARLINGTON, S. C.
J H NORWOOD, Editor!
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 14.1851.
“We stand upon the Principles of
Everlasting justice, and no human
power shall drive us feom our position.
* * * actuated by these principles
AND ANIMATED BY THESE SENTIMENTS, WE
WILL CLING TO THE PILLAR OF THE TEMPLE
of our Liberties, and if it must fall
WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUIN!”
—McDuffie.
AGENTS FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG.
S. D. Hallford, - Camden, S. C.
Charles DeLorme, Sumterville, S. C.
Mr. R. W. Burgess is the travel
ling agent of the Darlington Flag.
(Himanent sectional minority, have no
defence against the Tyranny of a Gov
erngfeut combining all the vices of the
cerrnptest democracy and the most op
pressive foreign despotism.
We know the consequences which
will follow a failure in our effort to
maintain our liberty. We sec clearly
that a triumphant exertion of the power
of the Federal Government, in subjuga
ting a State, will vastly increase that
power, and greatly accelerate the
change, already far advanced, of our
Federative system into a Consolidated
central despotism. We see, also, that
South Carolina will not suffer the con
sequence* of this change alone but that
the rest of the Southern States must
suffer iu an equal degree. They will
iiave do safeguard against the Cen
tral Government strengthened by crush
ing opposition, and rendered, by tri
umphant force, what onr Northern en
emies have long been-endeavoring to
make it by fraudulent usurpation—the
supreme Govemmentof a coesolklated
nation. The sovereignty of one South
ern State cannot be destroyed, without
the loss of their sovereignty by all the
others. We are aware of the respon
sibility of doing an act which may has
ten these consquencea. We feel the
respect which we owe to States having
a common interest threatened by a
common dange , but not equally per
suaded with«Mselvea of the necessity
of action. J^Pkothing would induce
us to take, without their concurrence,
a course which is to involve them in its
consequences, but a thorough convic
tion of the necessity which urges os and
ol our right to do so.
Addressing citizens of Southern States
associated to maintain the rights of the
South, we cannot imagine it to be ne
cessary to argoe about the right of ee-
cession. We liold it to be the great
State rigid, without which all others
art nugatory and incapable of being en
forced; anavour position assures us
that your faith cannot be different from
Mure. Ner can we regard it as neces-
H , any further, to disease the wrongs
h have 1**11 inflicted on tlie South-
! cm States. They may be denied by
♦ho4e who shut their eyes'to tliens; bat
you do not belong to that class. South- I will predict that if she secedes
ern and State Rights men may difler as will have no vacant farms or unoccu
to the necessity of exercising the right
of secession at a particular time, on ac
count of these wrongs; but, as certain
ly ns the right exists, each State must
possess the right of judging for herself,
as to the occasion and time for its ex
ercise. If South Carolina decides that
honor and safety require her to secede,
she has the right to leave the Confede
racy, peaceably and without molesta-
tation. If the act of secession is not
permitted to be peaceable, it will be
from usurpation of power by the Fede
ral Government, not from the nature of
the act performed by South Carolina.
Accustomed, as we nave been, to viola
tions of the Constitntion, and the rights
of the Southern States by the Federal
Government, we have to look forward
to the probability of another outrage by
that Government, in the attempt to force
the State to remain in the Union. We
suppose the attempt will be made if the
other Southern States permit it These
States must decide for themselves whe
ther they will permit it. South Caro
lina must decide for herself whether it
is necessary to secede. Her sister
States of the South will have no right
to complain that she forces them into a
position, where they must either inter-
jiose to prevent her subjugation, or by
consenting to it, abandon their own so
vereignty, and lay themselves at the
mercy of a despotic power. In seced
ing South Carolina will simply do an
act which all Southern men xvho be
lieve in the existence of State Rights
at all, must admit that she has a perfect
right to do, and which fhe regards as
absolutely necessary. She will be ac
ting on her sacred right. She will be
acting Ra she would have to act if none
of the other Southern States were in
existence, and she were the only object
of aggression by the Northern States
and the Federal Government. She is
not answerable for the usurpations and
injustice which may be committed
against her. And for the sister States
of the South to ask of her to refrain
from an exercise of the right which she
regards as indispensable for self-preser
vation, would be an interference w ith
her free action of a far different charac
ter from any with which she can be
charged towards them. Sovereigns
are equals. In seceding alone, South
Carolina would be placing her sister
States of the South under no constraint
If they should find themselves in a po
sition of restraint, it would come from
the action of the Federal Government,
not of South Carolina. But if they
should insist on her refraining from the
exercise of her right, and submitting to
a condition which she regards as into
lerable, they would make themselves
parties with the Federal Government
in placing an unjustifiable restraint
upon a sovereign an equal.
We wish that the necessity for sepa
rate action by South Carolina which
we have contemplated, may be averted.
We confide in the gallant spirits whom
we address. There may be some hope
of the assembling of a Southern Con
gress, to devise measures of redress and
relief, upon which some of the injured
States may unite. We have heretofore
been willing to sacrifice much for South
ern Union. We still are. We do not
desire to lead, but to follow’. Propose
any effectual measures for vindicating
our common rights and providing for
our common safety, and w’e will hear
tily unite with you in carrying them
out. We should regret most deeply, to
incur the censure of friends, xvith whom
we have the strongest desire to act in
concert But, we feel a deep convic
tion, that we have not acted heretofore
with any precipitation, and that w'e arc
in the right, in the determination which
we have formed. The self-abasement
of submission, appears to us unworthy
of men—still pretending to be free.—
The gloomy prospect of inevitable ruin,
to follow submission, appears to as
more formidable than any dangers to
be encountered in contending alone,
against whatever odds for onr rights.
We have come to the conclusion, that
if it be our fate to be left alone in tho
struggle, alone we must vindicate our
liberty by secession.
had no intention to cast any rcflectiins on the exercise of that liberality and kind-
Society Hill; not iGod forbid that we uess of heart for which l^ is distinguish-
should; her nams is connected with rex', ed, collected together (her young people
olutionary reminiscences. We love and , of that neighborhood, and when wc ar-
o - noble j i 10ll0r jj cr; rnany of the happiest hours rived, late in the evening, we found a
State has her strong and unwavering our etr j c ijjui 100t i alu i niore mature i large table spread beneath the venerable
y* arB have been .pen. a.eund ,he | ort. in hi. y „d, „hich U.er.11,
ides of her citizens; she was the birth- groaning beneath its loipl of good thingf.
place, home and burial spot of many of We found a large nundber of good took-
our ancestors. How, then, could we ing young men and boye, who were pre-
COTTON,
At the latest dates is quoted at from
to 11 cents.
ji'me‘evans.
The retirement of this excellent judge
from the bench, has, we learn, been de.
termined upon. It will be difficult to sup
ply his place, in every respect.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
We are indebted to several friends who
in our absence have sent us presents.—
Mrs. James Green has sent us a plate of
the largest and most delicious strawber
ries we have seen this season. Mr. Gib
son Sloan, a turnip measuring 16 inches
in circumference; Mr. A. Gandy, an Irish
potatoe 10 inches in circumference; our
old friend, R. R. Cannon, a turnip mea.
suring 19 1-2 inches in circumference,
and a mustard plant 10 feet 3 inches in
circumference, and 3 feet 7 1-2 inches in
diameter. Our friends will please accept
our thanks, individually and collectively.
We begin to think it would be policy in
us to keep bachelor’s hall.
I3f r ’ The Columbia Transcript has
honored us with a notice of some length.
We have read it carefully to see if we
could find an argument worthy of a re
ply, and having found in it no argument
of any kind, we beg leave respectfully to
decline any further notice of it. We
might reply in the same vein in which
the article was indited, but our time is
too precious toAe wasted in such unprof
itable warfare.
JaiU In our absence last week at the
Charleston Convention, the proper credit
was not given to several articles which
appeared in our paper. The piece head
ed, “ The Southern Patriot and President
Fillmore,” should have been credited to
the Gseenville Mountaineer, and that
beautiful tale, “The Old Indian,” to the
Charleston Evening News.
THE WANDERING MINSTREL.
We have neglected until the present
to acknowledge the receipt of this maga
zine. It is published iu Gramville, 8. C.,
quarterly, and edited bt tffo pupils and
alumnae of the Green™c Female Col
legiate Institute. It promises well; may
success attend the enterprise.
sneer at her! It is impossible.
SOLTH CAMLInTcOLLEGE.
We are indebted to several of our
young.friends in College for copies of the
Address of their Southern Rights Asso
ciation to the Students in the Colleges
Universities, and to the young men
throughout the Southern States. Our
views as to the propriety of such a step
have already been expreseed, and we
have heard nothing to change them in
the slightest degree. The address is in
our estimation an able exposition of the
question, and would do honor to much
older heads. We are satisfied that the
work of redeeming our beloved South
from the degraded position she now oc-
paring to relieve the table of some of its
precious burden. The ladies had eaten
and retired into the house. W'e joined the
young men in their philanthropic enter
prise, and after having discharged our
duty faithfully, we sought an entrance in
to the parlor where tlie young ladies
were seated. We saw no crowned head,
for they were all Queens on ttyt occasion.
A promenade was soon proposed, and
after strolling over the grass-plots and
flowery fields in that vicinity until night
began to draw around her sable curtain,
they retired again to the house, and soon
the sweet notes of the violin gave warn
ing to the youthful beaux to select their
partners for the first cotillion. The room
was cleared, and soon the brave men and
. ... . . . own LAAt UA1men t&nu
cup.es will rest mainly upon the young beautiful women of that portion of our
mpn nf flip rnnntrv iinnn Irzxartc: . rx- * • . ... . .
men of the country, upon whose hearts
the timidity of old age and the love of
mammon have not had time to settle.
THE LATE CO.StIDN IN CHARLES
TON.
Many of our readers have been inform
ed through the medium of the Charles
ton papers of the actings and doings of
this Convention. But for the benefit of
those who have not, we will give a brief
account of its proceedings; it would be
impossible, though, for us so tell all that
our eyes saw, our ears heard and our
heart felt. The Convention assembled at
Military Hall, on Wentworth street, at 4
o'clock, P. M., Monday the 5th inst., and
after the names of the delegates present
(amounting to 431) were enrolled, it pro
ceeded to the election of a Chairman,
which resulted in the choice of Ex-Gov-
ernor, John P. Richardson, who, being
conducted into the Chair by a committee
of gentlemen appointed for that purpose,
addressed the meeting in a speech of
some length, which was replete with el
oquent and spirit-stirring sentiments.—
We will not attempt to give even a sketch
of his admirable inaugural. We will,
however, mention one or two things he
said. One was that our institutions were
crumbling, and that the time had come
when we must decide to give up our in
stitutions and remain in the Union, or to
give up the Union and cling to our insti
tutions. He said there were no amateur
disunionists among us; that he had been
and was still a Union man; he was wil
ling Jo sacrifice much for the sake of Un
ion, but it was for Union among ourselves.
The worthy Chairman closed by saying
that lie \vou|d not anticipate the action
of the Convention, by suggesting the rem
edy. A committee of twenty-one were
appointed to report an address and re»*<y
lotions for the adoption of the Conven
tion, and the meeting adjourned for that
day. The next day the committee report
ed the resolutions and address, which ap
pear in our columns to-day. They were
debated for several days with much abili
ty and good feeling on both sides, and
finally adopted almost unanimously.—
The Convention was opened every morn
ing with prayer, by the diffident clergymen
of tlie city. We have never seen a body
of men so large and so enthusiastic, and
yet so orderly and decorous. It was so
much so that the venerable Chairman, iu
his closing address, remarked that he had
been a member of every Convention
which had assembled in South Carolina
for the last twenty-five years and that he
had never seen such unanimity and such
decorum preserved. We commend to
our readers the address of the Conven
tion, to be found in another place. It is
From the Montgomery Advertiser.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Mksshs. Editors: I feel disposed t°
congratulate the South that we hav®
snch a State in onr confederation.—
She now stand* forth the proud and
dignifirtl example of what every South
ern State should be. When I look to
other Southern Stats* I feel shame,
mortification and humiliation; but when
I tnm to South Carolina I feel an emo
tion of pride, which indue rs me to pav
her this poor tribute. Show me her first
infraction of the Constitution, or laws
of the land. She has always been loy
al. Yet with that vigilance and sagac
ity which has ever marked her course
QUERY.
Will tlie Southern Patriot, which
speaks so contemptuously of unnatural- .
iied foreigners, tell us something of the R bort, but places us in our true position
birth-place and history of La Fayette, hpfnr ‘* J “
Pulaski, De Kalb, Steuben, &lc., &c.
J — — •■V'S WUIBV
she has taken the high and manly ground regard resistance to Federal aggression
of the Constitution and equal rights and) m a disgrace and charge tlione who are
is not to be driven from her position byl battling in the cause of State Rights with
JT’.SES ^- >»pn * -y ■>« -w
or seduced by proffered benefits. No
ble State example, worthy of imita
tion.
We hear it said by some at the fore
tellers of coming events and political
wiseseres, that if South Carofino sece
des she will lose some of her beat citi
zens. Amasing! wondaffcll South Car-
olina would gladly get rid si tons of
her Glorious Union men, doubtless ami
before the other States; we have not de
sired to lead, but have used every reason
able exertion to secure co-operatfon; we
now despair of success iu that desirable
object, but the wrongs and insults to
which wa have been subjected are still
unredressed, and we can see no philoso
phy in the doctrine that an accumulation
of wrongs will make ue any more die
posed to resist History dots not teach
that doctrine. Ruin, we think, wilbs be
the consequence of procrastination, and
we prefer to see our State act now, even
though she should be conquered, (which
we do not think possible.) If her sun is
to set let it set in glory and not in shame.
If we are to sink to the level of slaves
let our bondage be forced and not volun
tary. We would have our honored mo-
ther act on this Mission as did her gal
lant representatives in the bloody charge
. ... - „ on Uhapultepec, who, when several rejri-
SOME OF THE SPOILS.
How pleasant the reflection that Uiough
absent, we were not forgotten I We have
tangible evidence of this fact in the shape
of a nice piece of cake, from one of our
friends at Bradford Springs, for which we
return our Aearty thanks.
mEmTSiu.
Me feel that it is flue to our many
friends, personal and political, who reside
in and near this ancient village, to make
a short explanation in reference to our
reply to the correspondent of the South
ern Patriot. In that reply we used the
following language: “ That there are any
beyond the vicinity of Society Hill who
District were mingling in the mazes of
the merry dance. The party was kept
up till about 12 o’clock, when all adjourn
ed to their homes, much better pleased
with thamselves and with each other
ihan when they met. We like this old
fashiorod way of spending an evening.
M T e are tempted to expatiate on the charms
of some of the fair creatures who came
more immediately under our observation,
but where all were lovely it would be in
vidious to institute comparisons. We
hope some one else will imitate the exam
ple of tlie kind gentleman and lady by
whom the party was given.
AN INSOLVENTDEBTOR’S SCHEDULE.
The following, we believe, lias never
been published. A scliedule of the ef
fects of W , liable for the payment of
his debts, (the will of the late de
pending on a contingency, and a marriage
settlement barring every other claim.)
To wit.:
Books.—Riley’s Narrative, Garden’s
Anecdotes, Percy’s Anecdotes, disconnect,
ed numbers of the viospel Messenger, and
Phillip's Law of Evidence.
Leather.—One pair of boots, worn
out at the soles and peeping at the toes,
(may be foxed, however, and made use
ful.) Two pair of old slippers, (one ha*,
ing ribbons in them.) ♦
A silver pencil case. A tooth-pick,
made from the quill of a goose.
Wearing Apparel—(two years old)—
consisting of six old shirts, (good for lint)
sevennew ones, not of Northern manu
facture a blue coat, that would look
better were it brushed ajgd had jp a new
collar; a coatee, (15 llonthsold) not
worth the soap to clean it; six breecli-
hUfos, six waist-coverers, and six neck
protectors (from the sore throat.) Four
pair of new stockings, a* 2t cents per
pair, 01.00.
One gigM&id harness, net paid for; one
saddle and bridle, and a rope halter. A
set of glass, part broken; f 2 silver forks;
8 piotures, bought at vendue; same 4 or
5 basins and bowls; 5 or 6 dozen
empty bottles; a syjall machine of Hurt’s;
six oxen, (one of them with half a horn,
and respected for long service;) one horse,
cream color, and galloping on three legs;
four hounds and a half starved puppy;
an a la Blaze dish, and a coffee strainer
Two clarionets that blow the tune
“Yankee Doodle,” and one flute, which,
w ith good repair, might play the tune “Be
gone, dull care.” Four candle-sticks, on
recollestion, omitted, (bought from a ped
lar,) and half a dozen cider jugs, M. T.
An old white hat, forgot tern There may
be some articles of less value which I
have acquired, but w’hich will been given
up on proof to conviction.
W .
of
of
tact.” Lest it may be inferred that there
are many there of the stamp of the said
letter writer, we take occasion to esy that
we have learned from a highly respected
citizen of that place, that there is not
more than one or two men, at farthest, in
that whole neighborhood who entertain
th extraordinary seutiiuento contained
in the corumimication referred to. We
commander to take the lead, which they
did, and led on to glorious victory.
MAT PARTTAniT. ILON.
It was our unexpected pleasure to be
present at a Party on *he evening of the
2d inst., at Mt. Eon, in this District. Our
friend, with whom and by whose kind in
vitation we had been indued to spend a
[for THE DARLINGTON FLAG.]
MAI FESTIYAL AT RRADFMD SPRINGS.
“ “end bright
The lamps shone over fair women and
brave men.”
Mm Editor^ Through tlie partiality of
a fair daughter of Darlington, we were al
lowed the pleasure of attending the “May
Festival,” at Bradford Springs Female
Institute, ’ on the 2d inst. Tlie company
was larger than any we have ever seen
assembled on a similar occasion. 11 Trim
gallants, full of courtship and of State,”
were drawn from a distance to enjoy the
promised pleasures, and revel in the pre
sence of ths reputed beauty of the young
ladies of the Institute.
The coronation of the chosen “ Queen”
commenced tlie pleasures of the evening.
The young ladies deserve gr$gt credit
for the refined taste displayed inthe deco
ration of the room {foppared for this cere
mony. We obtained a position very near
the “throne,” and were admiring the beau
tiful appearance presented by these deco
rations, when the sweet notes of thA pi-
ano, heralding the approach of the pro
cession, bade us direct our attention to a
scene still more beautiful The young
ladies entered, and ranging thenisrlvm
from (lie throne to the doer, turned with
• a. * I ^ * ivi nrou win
night on our way to ( hariretoo, had, in ! wreaths an Arch pswagt for tlieir Qheer