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m DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. JAMES n. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] To thine oimsrJf be true; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou cansl not then be false to any man.—Hamlet. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 9, 1851. [JOHN F. DE LOME, PDILISIER. NO. 19. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, IS PUBLISHED EVERt WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT DARLINGTON, C. H., S. C., BY NORWOOD A DE LORRE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In adirance, (per annum,) - - - $2 00 At the expiration of six months - 2 50 At the end of the year 3 00 ADVERTISING l Advertisement#, inserted at 75 cents a square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, and 371 cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, inserted at •5, 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 POMTIGAXc. with us. Co-operation w ith her in a measure of secession is out of the ques tion, and probably it is better for us that she should not go out of the Un ion along with us.” Thus it appears that Mr. Rhett him- 1 self—the man from whom the Picayune derives the euphonious name it applies to the South Carolina patriots—has published to the world that they do not expect Mississippi “to go out of the Union with them.” On the contra ry, he show’s the utter impracticability of such a movement, and says “ it is out of the question.” We want this declaration to go abroad whenever it is charged that the people of South Carolina expect Mississippi to join them in tne movement they intend ma king, and that their present conduct is based upon any contemplated action of this State. But while this goes abroad, it is proper that the position of Mississippi should not he misumkrstood. She holds sacred the right of secession. It is a right reserved by the States, rec ognized by the Constitution, and she will never surrender it. When the Central Government arrogantly at tempts to enforce a contrary doctrine with the sword, Mississippi will be found battling to uphold true principles of Government against the minions of power. In the event of the withdraw al of South Carolina because of the wrongs which have been inflicted upon her, (in common with the other South ern States,) it is not improbable that the Governmeus sustained and encour aged and sustained by Abolition in fluences, will attempt to destroy her sovereignty and bring her to a colonial condition. If so, Mississippi cannot with safety remain an unconcerned witness of tlie struggle. Her interests, destiny, independence—everything that freemen hold sacred—will be at stake; and will impel her to interpose between the General Government and the se ceding State. A like spirit will ani mate the entire South. The slavehold- iuj; States will perish in the “ last From the Missiissppian. SOUTH CAROLINA AND MISSISSIPPI. The New Orleans Picayune, one of the most zealous and influential among all the Southern free-soil papers, be trays its morrification at the exposure of the silly humbug advised by the Submissionists, that General Quitman and the party with whom he is acting, are in favor of ‘ separate secession.’ It endeavors to make it appear that the position of Gen. Quitman will greatly disconcert and disappoint the South Carolinians, upon whose plat form, it says, the Southern Rights par ty of Mississippi have planted them selves. “The immediate secessionists of South Carolina (says the Picayune) must be not a little surprised at the course which the canvass in Mississip pi is now taking. In all their calcula tions it has been set down for certain, that the pending struggle in Mississip pi is to place that State by the side of Sooth Carolina as a supporter of the right and duty of secession, without an alternative by separate State action immi&tely. In the late debate at Jackson, between Senator Foote and Gens Quitman, the former assumed this to ho the object • • • “In reply, Gen. Quitman renounced, positively, the South Carolina platform, and denied that he had ever advocated separate secession, and thought it ad visable, ‘under any circumstances.’ • • • * # # # “ The Rhettites in South Carolina must feel this to he most unkind for j all their oologies upon the spirit and patriotism of Mfssissippi, and a severg condemnation of their own favorite plan of severing the South, by uividine > and distracting her, under the arrogant pretence of saving her, against her will, by the superior courage and wis dom of South Carolina.” Now, we have the proof before us that all the tribulation which the po sition of Mississippi will produce in South Carolina, exists alone in the im agination of the Picayune editor. The immediate secessionists of South Car- ........ olina will he “surprised at the course i U ' st " lth ^“8 Vg.-* u ^ er f ,,e “ which the canvass in Mississippi is now ver - v »™t modification We hear it taking;” because they have all along now very general y sajd, “ Well, Cohh s been informed of the movements and nuud at last Cunning and crafty as purposes of thh Southern Rights par- ,0 Geoigia shrewdness has pene- iy of this State. Hence, there can he h ‘ m - |nd there he stands-a no “surprise.” R. B. Rhett.is of l,a,te,, Consohdat.on.st If ho cant eourso the leader of the Rhettites, and swear out ot it and hunsilf be- we presume the Picayune will take heved ’ ho 13 t,,ro ' v » th,s Un,e ’ ccrt,un ’ hiiu as authority on this subject In a sp&ech delivered at a Southern Rights meeting in Charleston on the 7th of CALHOUN ON SUBMISSION. “Come what will, should it cost eve ry drop of blood and every cent of pro perty we must defend ourselves, and if compelled, we would stand justified by all laws human and divine.” SETTLING OFTEN. When you commence business be ware oflong credits. Sell generally for cash—trust only when there is a certainty that you will be paid. Long credits are the ruin of young merchants. “If we do not defend ourselves, none They wish to do a large business, and will defend us; we will he more and are too apt to sell to those who will not more pressed as we recede : and if we pay for years and perhaps never. How submit we will be trampled under foot can they live trusting? Settling as “I say, for one, I would rather meet often as once a year w ould he better— any extremity on earth that givo up and knowing to » nioral certainty just one inch of our equality—one inch of w here you stand. "^Tln' trouble with what belongs to us, as members of this many is they w ish fo do too much busnes great Republic!” and not having the requisite capital to “Wherever a free people permit their credit, they fan in fears to control them in refusing toviu- ruined. Another good reason THE WEST. Some thousands of years ago, a cel ebrated Chinese philosopher, pointing to the West, prophesied that from thence should come the hope and re generation of the world. The idea, it c may he, gave birth to the line of the poet, “Westward the star of Empire take its way.” Certain it is, whether it he to Chris tianity or to the progress of art, science and commerce, that we look for the march of civilization, the West has steadily expanded into a broader and Vabietibs ok Bad Tkmpbr.—Bad temper is oflener the result of unhap py circumstances than of an unhappy organization; it frequently, however, has a physical cause, and a peevish child often needs dieting more than correcting. Some children are more prone to show temper than others, and sometimes on account of qualities which are valuable in themselves. For instance a child of active temperament, sensitive feeling, and eager purpose, is more likely to meet with constant jars and mbs’ than a dull, passive child; and, if he is of an open nature, his in ditch,” before they will consent to the abaorption of their sovereignty, and become mere municipalities, exercising authority under the inspection of a central despotism. I’DHNALd’yT COBB. dicate their rights, they are ready to be slaves and only wait for a despot who has more courage than they have, to make them such.” “There is one point on which there can be no diversity of opinion in the South among those who are true to her or who have made up their minds not to be slaves; that is if we should be forced to choose between resistance and subsission we would take resistance at all hazards.” Mr. Editor—Tha above quotations are from speeches and letters of J. C. Calhoun, No purer patriot than him everlived-no name shines hrighterupon the roll of fame than that of the “illus trious Carolinian.” Age after age may pass away, hut as long as free men live his name will he honored—his memory revered. And especially should the sons of the old Palmetto State attend to the counsels and follow the advice of him whose life was spent in the de fence of their rights and native land. The Separate State Action party do hut obey the command of Mr. Calhoun in advising resistance. Did he ever say, that because we were not as pow erful as our enemies, we must endure oppressions or injustice ? No. Read the above third and fifth quotations and especially the fourth, and see what his injunctions were. If, then, we heed his advice we will “resist at all haz. ards.” HAYNE. Columbia, June 11, 1855. [Fairfield Register.] a short time aud are «eacmy expandect mto a broader and ward irritation is immediately shown ; brighter held of human dev* . in burets of passion. If you repress ason why you should an< ' tr,om ph, while the East, which these ebullitions and punishments, you avoidance ofdifficul- Wa8 ^ (,ar L dcn of ^ od ,.f nd tl “' ""ly increase the evil by changing Ls- settle often is, the v.r ..........ui- .. . . ties, lawsuits and the loss of friend- P a '. ad,3e f ! mn ’ hasas steadily rece- ship. Who ever attempted to Bettle a dod ; ntadark ! ,e88and J na,,,t J r - r , , long account without trembling for the ‘ ' aiu su , V- v ’ ron ‘ aa f*r buck result? How few have had all the ^ can trace history, the great e.n- articles charged to them. Who can ! I ,,re of tj 16 world has boen tending westward. It has at length crossed AGRICULTURE. Hie struggle in Georgia between the two parties is now fully re-opened —McDonald being the leader of the Southern Rights party—Cobh, of the Constitutional Union party. We are much pleased to hear from many sour ces, private as well as public, that McDonald’s prospects art rapidly brightening. The language generally used a month ago, when speaking of the coming election, was, “Ah! Cobh rules Georgia—there’s no chance to heat him!” But since the selection of McDonald by the Southern Rights Con vention as their chieftain, and since certain issues have been pressed home upon the consideration of the spirited people of Georgia by the determined attitude of a neighboring sister, the tone and style of referring to this con angmg pas sion into sulkiness. A cheerful, good tempered tone of your own, a sym pathy with his trouble whenever the trouble has arisen from no ill conduct them. Who can ''“V 1 T ""T "« 5 , on lus part, are the best antidotes ; hut remember what he purchased after the .W'*' & would be better still to prevent, lapse of a few years ? “Long credits < us 0( ian * < iscoverei t ie taithest beforehand, all sources of annoyance, make short friends:” Remember this! Iic »!'»phere, aid goon, pushing itsr-lf Never fear spoiling children by and on no consideration w hatever suffer pause and i i-e making them too happy. Hap- your accounts to remain unsettled for a 1111 !^. ence an( . s I' P ador piness is the atmosphere m which all twelvemonth. m all that is ennobling and g good affections grow-the wholesome The cash system is altogether the I m ‘ m ’ suc 1 as * 10 1 ° 1 10 ! warmth necessary to make the heart- best. It is hotter for the purchaser as iasntur no " n * ^ ( a - v stai ^ blood circulate healthily and freely; well as the seller. When a man is to and of nations is no longer in unhappiness—the chilling pressure pay down for what he buys, he willbel j .' ,lsL 1 r !8' ,ter dl!,n 1,10 sun tho which produces here an inflammation, careful to take only what he needs.— ^ : a ?V , d ‘ e '\ eBt re ‘ there an excrescence, and, worst of Trust a man aud he will double the mount ofhis purchase. PATRICK HENRY. When Patrick Henry, who gave the first impulse to the ball of the American Revolution, introduced his celebrated resolution on the .Stamp Act into the House of Burgesses of Virginia (May, 17(55,) he exclaimed, when descanting on the tyranny of that obnoxious act, Ctesar had his Brutus, Charles the 1st his Cromwell, aud Goorge the 3d—” “Treason !” cried the speaker; “trea son ! treason!!” echoed from every part of tiie house' It w as one of those trying moments which are decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant, hut rising in a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye flash ing with fire continued—“may profit by their example. If this he treason, make the most of it VALUABLE AND EASY. A cure that cost neither money nor trouble is valuable. Chambers’s Jour nal says of ‘corns.’— ‘•There is, no doubt, some quackery in the corn-doctor’s trade, hut there is more ignorance. For the benefit of both him and his patients, we w ill now disclose a secret which will relieve hu manity from a load of misery, not the less difficult to hear, that it is unpitied or ridiculous. The cause of corns, and Y eal ! ils ,!:- ht - which is ere long to all, “ the mind’s green and yellow sick- ness”—ill temper.—Bray on the Edit- ! cation of the Feelings. react andillumine the whole earth MEN AND WOMEN. A woman is naturally gratified when a man singles her out, and addresses his conversation to her. .She takes pains to appear to the best advantage, hut without any thought of wilfully misleading. How different is it with men! At least it is thus that women in general think of men. The mask with them is deliberately put on and worn as a mask, and wo betide the silly girl who is too weak or too unsuspicious, not to appear displeased with the . well- turned compliments and fliittirfhg at tentions so lavishly bestowed upon her j by her partner at the hall. If a girl lias brothers, she sees a little behind the scenes, and is saved much disap pointment. A’he discovers how little men mean by attentions they so freely bestow upon the last new face which takes their fancy. Men arc singularly wanting in good feeling upon this subject; they pay a girl marked attention, flatter her in ev- cry way, and then, perhaps, when warned by some judicious friend that they are going too far, “ can hardly ( believe that tho girl could lie so fool- ish as to fancy that anything w’as meant.” The fault which strikes women most How blest tiie farmer’s simple life. How pure the joy it yields! Far from the world’s tempestuous strife, Free ’mid the scented fields.—Everett. SIGNS OF A PROSPEROUS FARMER. When light are seen burning in the house before the break of day in win ter especially, it shows that the day will never break on the breaking in of the w inter of adversity. When you see his barn larger than his house, it shows that he will have | large profits and small afflictions. ; likewise of the torture they occasion is f ort .j|,| v meu selfishness. They ex When you see him driving his work j simple friction ; and to lessen friction j )CC ^ {q 0 muc | 1 j n everv W av, anil he- instead ofhis w’ork driving him, it you have only to use your toe as you come impatient if their comforts and shows that he will never be driven from do in like circumstances a coach-wheel peculiarities are interfered with. If good resolutions, and that he w ill cer- —lubricate it w ith some oily substance, the men of the present day were less tainly work his way to prosperity. The best and deanliest thing to use is elfish aiu i gelf-indulgent, «„d more When you see iu his house more a little sweet oil, rubbed upon the af- w illing to he contented and happy upon lamps tor burning lard or greese, than fected part (after the com is carefully moderate means, there would be fewer candlesitcks for more expensive purpo- pared) with the finger, which should lie causes of complaint against young ses, it shows that economy is lighting done on getting up in the morning, and women undertaking situations as gov- his way to happiness and plenty with just before stepping into bed at night that light which should enlighten every In a few fanner in the world. 1 Rnd in When you always see in his wood wdien the nightly^ application may he I ment for the improvement of the fe- liousc a sufficiency for months or morcit discontinued. The writer of this par- male sex ; and most cordially do I shows that he will he a more than nine graph suffered httni these 1 horrible ex- concur in the schemes for this desira- lays, wonder, in farming operations, crescencesforyeftrs. He tried all sorts I |j e purpose laid down iu “ The Ladies’ - .1 it At ! _ _ A - I * * I* 1 j-v4 I II 4.1 I I I I . I / t +1.11.19 C* n « w i . afrSsw! 4 y-v aa a a aa a An Affecting Appeal.—A learned counsellor, in the middle of an affecting appeal in court on a slander let fly the follow ing light of genius : “Slander,gentlemen, like a hoar con structor of gigantic size and immeasu rable proportions, w-raps the coil of its unwieldy body about its unfortunate victim, and heedless of the shrieks of ol agony that come from the inmost depths of its victim’s soul, loud and re verberating as the mighty thunder that rolls in the heavens, it finally breaks its unlucky neck upon the iron wheel of public opinion, forcing him to desper- ation, then to madness and finally crush ing him in the hideous jaw of moral daeth. Judge give us a chaw of tobac co. A Truth.—As a general thing the less a man reads the more loquacious he is. Put a dozen ignoramuses in a room and they w ill wrangle the whole night about “the constitutionality of a saw -mill. Great thinkers talk but lit tle. “ V\ ell, Mr. Jackson,” said a clergy man to his parishioner, “ Sunday must he a blessed day to you. You” work hard six days, and the seventh you come to church.” “ Yes,” said Mr. Jackson, “ I works hard all the week, and then 1 comes to church, sits me dowui, cocks up me legs, and thinks of nothing.” A correspondent at the South, tell* the following anecdote: An old Dutchman toow a job of hauling cotton across the country to a certain nver, and one day he stopped (tore stepping into oea at nigiit. e rn0 sscs, when they w are wholly unfit the team about noon for the purpose sw days the pain will diminish for so responsible an office. I feel the of eating his dinner, and giving refreah- a few days more it will cease, deepest interest in the present move- ment and rest to his horses. Perceu . It is rumored on this side of the river that ho will make such an attempt— And indeed some traveller, passing April 1851, in favor of the immediate t | ,rou 8 h ° 1 ur | ,ttle ^ bieh. dropped secession of South Carolina, Rhett the remark that “ Cobh could tear any plank from tins platform he pleased, b:i “ Her people (the people of Missis- I iind a,ako 1 a ,ar n« P"* "‘' the Georgia sippi) certftfniy appear to be actuated by a deep sense of the wrongs , of the South, and a resolute will to resist them. But Mississippi is practically a land hound State. She has no seaport suitable for transatlan tic commerce. The depth of water on her bar does not exceed six feet.— For this reason, if for no other, she cannat secede from the Union without her eoterminmis States. If she secedes without Louisiana or Alabama, reciv- ing all her supplies of foreign com merce through them, she would still be in the Union, so far as the taxes on her foreign commerce bythe General Gov ernment are concerned. The citizens consuming goods imported from foreign nations, would pay, in the con sumption, the taxes levied in the ports of other States. Mississippi would thus l»V fiot practically independent— not independent in that greatest func tion of the Government, the greatest test of liberty with our Anglo Saxon race—the imposition of taxes. She rrill, therefore, not go out of the Union |)eople believe that it had never been there.” We do not, of course, credit such idle assertions. Facts and cir cumstances, now transpiring beyond the Savannah, prove their absurdity and falsity. The able and intunid Press of that.State are hemndj^nis Cobb-ship w itliin a very uncomfortable enclosure. To escape will he as des- perate as to stand his ground, acknowl edge his creed, and fight it out. What ever course he may select, the day of his dethronement draweth near. 99 Cheers for McDonald and the Southern Cause ! Look out Cobb-y, Lest you and Bob-by Make a bad jobhy Of it [Edgefield Advertiser. Tall Damages.—Dr. Wm. R. Win ston was tried lately in Eaton, Ohio, for seducing Harriet Keever, aged 19, and adjudged to pay her father #15,- 000. Winston is a married man and a doctor. Miss Keever was residing with him as a patient. and that he is not sleeping in his house after a drunken frolic. When he has a house separate from the main building purposely for ashes, banish themthe more they w’ouldn’tgo and an iron or tin vessel to transport them it shows that he never built his dwelling to be a funeral pile for his family and jicrhaps himself. When his hog pen is boarded inside and out, it shows that he is “going the whole hog,” keeping plenty inside his house and poverty out When his sled is housed in summer, of infallible things, and submitted to | Companion ;” hut I could not resist the manipulations of the corn-doctor, lhc temptation of lifting up my voice hut all in vain; the more he tried to in testimony against some of the every or if they did go (which happiness once or twice under the strong prevnil- ment of caustic,) they were alway sure to return with ten-fold venom. Since he tried the oil, some months ago, he has had ntrpain,and is able to take as iubcIi exercise as he chooses. Through the influence of this mild persuasive, one of the most iniquitous of his corns rce^. ing indications of a spring a little <Ub> tance from the road, he left his son in charge of the horses, and carried his tin pail over to tho water. It proved to be a hot spring, and the old Dutch man, on n|iptying the boiling water to his lijis, cried out in terror to his son, with a loud voice: “ iiaunse! trive on! dcara, for Got’a sake! trive on te Hell ish not day faults of men, to which I think many of the follies and weaknesses of : women are mainly to be attributed Mr. Thackeray is the only writer of von mile vrom dish playshe!” the present day who touches, with any , severity, upon the faults of his own Longmore says tliat women always ! sex. He has shown us the style of want something to lean upon. Like a women that he thinks men most ad- fe' ra i ,€ vine, they are nothing without a mire, in “ Amelia,” and “ Mrs. I’enden- support. For tins reason, he says, a nis.” Certainly, my own experience husband should he placed by the side and his farming implements covered has already taken itself off entirely; the agrees with his opinion; and until men of a young lady the very moment she both winter and summer, it plainly i others he still pares at rare intervals; are sufficiently improved to he able to comes out What a stick is to sweet shows that he will have a good house suffering no inconvenience whatever appreciate higher qualities in w omen, peas, so is the masculine gender to the over his head in the summer of early he has not thought it necessary to have an( j to c J, 00 se their w ives among wo- woman, life, and the winter of old age. | recourse to caustic—which sometimes, | u0 ^ |, ien w |, 0 possess such qualities, I do When liis cattle are properly shelter- ' if notfcarefully used, and vinegar and ed and fed in winter, it evidences that water applied at once to the toe, cau- he is acting according to serpture which sos almost as much smart as the actual expect that the present desirable mo' - ' The i says that “a merciful man is merciful to his beast.” When he is seen subscribing for a newspaper and paying in advance, it shows tliat he is speaking like a book reapecting the latest improvements in agriculture, and that he never gets his walaing papers to the laud of pover- Mosquitoes are very small insects but one has been knows to move a man weighing two hundred pounds, and keep him moving all night cautery. Heavy Damages.—Bilore the Com mon Fleas, at Springfield, on Saturday, D. D. Warran, of Springfield, recov ered a verdict for five thousand dollars, against Charles B. Starkweather, a |K>- lice officer of this city. It was an ac tion for slander,.Starkweather having stated in SpriiigticW,.Jhut Warren was a wholesale dealer in counterfeit mo ney, and that it was he who had sup plied Milo A. Taylor, and others.— Boston Post. inove- ment will make much progredH The jm- pioMRient of both sexes must b.» si- mulnmeous. A “ gentleman’s horror” is still a “ blue stocking,” which un pleasing epithet is invariably bestowed upon all women who have read much, and who are able to think and get for themselves. A YOUNG WIFE. | Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions. The wantol it makes most people’s opinions of little value. Nombnclautb.—The new style of Ladies dresses is called PeUiloons. to a another. I shall die like when u wa shaH mix w ith the fools, your I Weak dyses of ted English recommended by phv “Thank you ' who i “Herein J patients, ~ physician my dear sii, i , - - . , have all the fools, and you are welcome eiwed by a^trong preparation of tro-m- to the rest of the practice.” ^ tuw. my dear sir," was the reply. “Let me | men troubled in the same wtoy, can be