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DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE. AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. JAMES I. Momon, EDITOR.] VOL. 1. To thine ovnself be true; And it must follow an the night the day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlut. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 14, 1851 NORWOOD i DE LORME. IT RUSH lilts. NO?4. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, IS published EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT DARLINGTON, C. II., 8. C., BY NORWOOD &. DE EOUYIE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In advance, (per annum,) - - - $2 At the expiration of six months * 2 At the end of the year 3 ADVERTISING : Advertisements, inserted at 75 cents a ; square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, and 37i cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, inserted at $5, a year. poimcfla. one interest and bestowed upon ano- ■’f'vd. I wenty thousand dollars would ther, as now happens under the Fed- covpr tlie expenses. But we .should eral Government. "Should circumstan-, en l ar P e a,, d ^ ur t ul ' 0 our present Mili- ces, then, force us to keep np the pre- * a _ r . v Academies, as schools for officers. ; sent Tariff rates, we should be every Eighty thousand dollars would certain- i year $5,000,000 better off, with not U’ ^ or ^ 1 * 8 • _ lialf tlie oppression we now bear. ! hor our Naval LstaMishment $1,- But pursue the argument Will not 000,000 have been allowed. But it •$4,000,000 much more than suffice for ma y " c ^ * )e " '‘Y 80 niuc , • the expenses of a separate government " ^ Ones a nation want with a Navy for South Carolina? We have now un ^ e8S 8 ^ ,e l |; ive nliips to pro tec tj— one of the best governments in the ^ ou 0i f arolina has none. But it is world. For its support only $000,000 hoped, she soon will have, and it would are requisite. This is raised by direct he a wise policy in our new govern- | taxation upon the people. Let us now j m ® n t to encourage, as practicable, the calculate the additional expenses of shipping int»et. As that interest ad- the new government. We will use, ' y anL '® 8 80 *110111(1 our Ncry and Mar- what every one, on reflection, must ju®» *nd so they will with anything and toes it without tripping. The latter is an aspirant—God save the mark— forthc Presidency of the Union and all things to all men if by any means he may secure votes. No one, who has ever seen and conversed with the two individuals, would be likely to confound the brave soldier and man of elegant .accomplishments, with the blustering braggart and mere pretender; but as THE PHILOSOPHY OF ADVERTISING. We find an agreeable piece of phil osophysing conveyed in a whimsical manner in our cotemporary the Nia gara Mail. 'Hie lesson is a good one and let us read it “If a chap was to fall into a well up to his neck, I kinder reckon ho might shiver till he shook his teeth out with out any one coming to his aid, unless — or'— I 1 i xmai tin > iriix. v < m 11111 ns ilia mu, uilllfta their names are pronounced alike, when Hie sung out murder,’ or something else (From the Edgefield Advertiser.) SEPARATE STATE SRCESUM. Pecuniary Resources of a separate Govern ment in South Carolina. NO. 1. The question is often asked, can •South Carolina maintain an indepen dent Government? They who support the negative side of this question, urge many matters by way of argument, all of which may be classed under these two heads : First, That revenue for the new Go vernment cannot be raised without the most burdensome taxation upon the people. Secondly, That the State will not have size and strength sufficient to deem large estimates. The following table will serve to indicate: Present expenses of State Government, including the whole Civil List, $300,000 Under the new Republic— President, Cabinet of four Secretaries and Clerks, Charge d’Affairs and Consuls (twelve in number.) Post-Office Department, .Military Establishment, Naval 15,000 50,000 50,000 50.000 100,000 1,000,000 Total, $1,505,000 Some may regard the last three items insufficient But analyze the matter. The whole cost of the mails in South Carolina, annually, is $110,000 [Treas. Rep.] It will he seen by like wisdom on the part of our govern ment. One million of dollars annually would give us a handsome Naval and Marine Corps. More we are certain unless we become involved in war, necessary. During at the same time they are spelt differ ently, the judgment, which the ear might form, is to be set right by show ing the difference that exists between sound and substance. II is letter is dated 31st May-, 1851, and is addres sed to a gentleman of South Carolina. Let the declaration of tins far-seeing and sagacious politician be constantly borne in mind: “In or out of the Union the slatehol ding States will never hare peace or security for their property until they can so’s to alarm his wife, and bring her to rescue. Just so is it in regard to mer chandise. A man may have his shop full of goods, but if no one knows it, what good does it do him ? He may have two or three or a dozen local custom ers ; but to fetch a crowd he must call a crowd, and the only way to call ’em is to sound the news in that trum pet the newspaper. Advertising goods is jest like the snorin’, or takin’ a eryin’ baby to church. If yon sleep in church and don’t snore how’s folks on the seats on the gallery to know that you are there would not be WAsniNGTon’s Adminstration, the practically demonstrate that they United States Naval Establishment did defend their right by arms and that an ,l i n r( .;r; lr( l t 0 the babv, folits would not cost, in any one year, over $100,- other saying of his in respect to South never know vou could raist one, if, when The first two years the cost was j Carolina; “Let it not be said of her a nurse takes him to church, he didn’t be seen maintain respectability among the na- the Congressional Documents that the tions of the earth, or to protect herself Post Office Department usually sup the aggressions of her neigh- against bora. Let us briefly examine these points. What will be our probable revenue under a separate government f Some thing like a fair estimate may be made, by considering the amount wo con tribute annually to the General Gov ernment, and to private individuals at the North. The annual exports from South Carolina are from twelve to fourteen millions of dollars. In unre stricted trade or commerce, the imports text than the Northern people, we yet of a nation always equal and often ex- bear the heaviest burtheru of the Post ceed in value the erjKrrts; and hence,; Office revenue. There can be no under the 30 per cent. Tariff now in doubt, that the largest |>oitinii of the operation, our imports, or which is the Post Office receipts arises out of the same thing, our exports, add to the J mercantile transactions of the country; annual revenue of about $4,000,000. and it is evident, that a large share of But according to the estimate of nccu- the commerce of the land, both foreign rate writers, the use of our exports by and internal, springs out of the great Northern Merchants as a medium of \ staples of the South. It is equally cer- exchatsge between this country and tain, that all expenses incurred in the ports itself. For the year ending June 30,1850, the receipts were $5,552,953; making an excess of receipts over ex penditures of $340,018. It may he thought that this excess comes out of the Northern pocket, by- reason of the extensive mercantile bu siness at the North; and this seems plausible on first blush ;—but, on pro- i per inquiry, it will be found* if we mis take not, that while we of the South enjoy mail facilities to a much less ex- i 000. $570; the next $53; the next $01,- 409. The whole United States Navy and Marine Corps of this day require for their aimuai support $5,523,722;— [Treasurer’s Rep.] One fifth of this amount would give us a larger Navy than we should have use for in time of peace. That the above may not he deemed and underestimate of our expenses let it be compared with the annual expen ses of the Government for the thirteen original .States under Washington.— The following table* will exhibit the expenditures in each branch of the Government, as well as the sum total expenditures: begin to let off steam. But when he yells out good and strong, everybody parson and all feeling mighty good they look at him and say to themselves. ; Fine baby that by hookey! a regular young rhinasseicrow by gum!’ The more he hellers the more people know it—the more they think about it. And I on the same principle exactly the more \ noise you make in a newspaper’s col umns the more people think about you they read, mark, learn and inwardly digest, what you say and then go and see yon. One would imagine that a chap who never advertises his goods Europe, gives to Northern citizens a profit of 10 per cent, on our exports. This takes from the .State annually about $1,200,000. Add to this the profits of Northern merchants from commissions, freights, storage, wharf age, Ate., in the shipment and tranship ment, to and from New York, of our interchange of Southern commodities for Northern and European merchan dize, fall upon the Southern producer; and the expense of Post-Office com munications is ns much to bo taken in to the estimate, as that of freights, com missions, storage, wharfage, &c. With the increased trade and corn- exports and imports—and the whole merce of our State, under a separate ti 3 . ^ 3 o ** JO Is _ E C3 -5 > £ SC ~ ♦s .2 ”--3 cfl C * j- | ^ F f § S3 a. amount yearly taken from South Caro lina industry and added to Northern wealth will not be less than $5,000,000. Of this large amount, not $200,000 are re-imbursed within the limits of the State. Nearly the whole is a clear loss. For more than twenty years, this draining process has been going on, and not less probably, tean $100,- 000,000 of South Carolina wealth have, under the unjust operations of the Government, been transferred to the North. Had this money been expend ed within the limits of our State, how like a garden spot it may have been, adorned with Schools, Colleges, Rail Roads, and all kinds of Internal Im provements ! With a separate Government these $5,000,000, now transferred to the North, would be kept within our own borders. This scarcely admits of doubt. It is a settled principle in Po litical Economy—indeed it is a cer tain law of trade—that imports, fteed from artificial restrictions, will always follow exports. Our $12’000,000 of Government, the Post Office would support itself, although our mail facili ties might be greatly multiplied. But we have allowed $50,000 to begin the system. Many, doubtless, will think $100,000 too small a sum for a military estab lishment. We cannot think so. For many years the United States army did not exceed 7 000. It is, at present, not 10,000. This can scarcely be called a standing army, in so large a Commonwealth. It is very sure that the wise framers of our Republic, care- full)’ excluded from our system a stand ing army. They saw the danger and ex|>ense, as well as the general inutili t- ® l- 3D O O r c -t rt ;c ® . “ 3) ®_ O ® 33 ®’ ® O* W — t- — o o ca CS ® IC « U5 3D -T r* r-i n -f Ci "N o n c~ es u? SS8 .a t- ® —■ o r* 1 5» ? 1 O — x sa w * ** a, o — S o S o 2, o ef pf (- ps’ ?s‘ -f 3"’ P5 P* P5 P5 t— t— O X pi .3 -Mp — pi pf •-<*-« — i- ® x t- lp 3! O es o ps x o -r P4 t «.p -P O ps -n* pi ef t- p> © x es © o s © © T PS_ t~ PI ri » x i; © A © 2 © i- r- i- c- i'- r- t- , that her resolutions are strong hut her resolution weak.” This letter of Gen Huston, should be printed in letters of gold, and hung up in the capitol as soon as the Legis lature meets. In the meantime, it should lie spread broad-cast through the land by means of the newspaper press. The following is the letter; “1 earnestly hope that South Car- 1 olina will strenuosly adhere to her re solution to secede without waiting for the tardy co-operation of any other ; State. If you fail, 1 for one will be I ! compelled to believe there is some in herent evil in slavery, which produces Ihe monstrous anomaly of a people as 8aw them advertised, claim piring to be masters without the cour- | KT ty there may be such a ; age to avert being slaves. “The North have besieged the South for years—they have taken position around us, bought off’ our allies and made breaches our in defence, and a lodgment within our lines and now the 1 only difference amongst them is be- of it he is either a big tween those who would storm our works and those who would proceed by the more certain and less dangerous means of blockade. “In Mississippi the feeling is gradu ally verging to the South Carolina pos ition. I am satisfied, as 1 am one who does not expect an agricultural people to from a great public sentiment with that promptitude which charac terizes commercial communities day by day we are gaining strength. Yet we have much to apprehend not in the success of General Quitman, but in the character of the Convention to be elected. “Mississippi is now the battle- ground and 1 am well assured that the whole funds of the administration and consol- idationists will be lavishly expended to On Thus it may lie assumed that the : .. „ • , . . I whole cost of the new Government i cfeat ‘. he South f ra Rl B hts P^* , will not exceed $1,500,000. Of this 1,0 n ? n,n ff ou,u . ls > . w t e arc ‘ l,vmcl ,k '7 $300,000 are now by direct taxation ; ,, . u I t the ^.rnssiomsts are trying to d,- leaving $1,200,000 to bo produced by v,d , e « 8 ^ /he mode " TT' > a judicious Tariff. But South Caroli- ri ‘ (,r{ ’ ss ; I . ftl ' c Southern States get ho has imported three different batches | na is actually paying every year to the tan ? ,ud B P 1 ". the ,nc ® he8 ? f tlie tl ‘ ousa " , of foods within a year from Europe , General Government in the way of had stolen ’em somewhere and was af raid the owner would as soon as he his pro- thing A man afraid to advertise is afraid to look an honest public in the face; that’s vemao.ity ; and they are feered of him. I’m always suspicions of a chap that has a store full of goods and never spends a cent in makin’ people aware fool or a big knave. When such a ‘coon is lucky enough to get a good customer, he’d ort to take a daggrytipe of him sure, for it ain’t likely he’ll see him again in a hurry; for you see the man that don’t advertise never sells goods twice to the some person; he sells so little that lie has to charge like thunder to be able to live. He is so stingy that he would let his baby out to a beggar at a penny a day, and if he ever gave a blind man a cent it would be sure to be a bad one. His store smells as musty with his six year-old, moth-eaten, fly-specked old- fashion goods, that it is enough to knock a negro down to go into it let alone a lady. You see goods is like gals, they must go when they are in the fashion and good lookin’ or else a yoke of oxen wouldn’t draw’em after wards. The man that advertises most does most business, because he don’t make one stock to last a lifetime. I know a merchant of this district revenue, $4,000,000 as shown above. There could, at once, then be a reduc tion of the Tariff from 30 to 10 per percent wlich would give us the desir- i ed revenue. Upon this reduction foreign imports would enter the ports of our State 20 percent, cheaper than they door than they would enter the |>ortsof the Uni ty, ofsuch an institution in a country ted State8 . What would be the effect like this. They supposed—and it is a principle which lies at the bottom of our government—that citizen soldiers would answer all purposes of defence and protection; and wars of conquest and invasion never, perhaps, entered the haads of these wise aad honest men. They, at all events, deemed them highly dangerous to Republican institutions. Excluding then, a regu- imports (and if our trade he profitable, .a larger amount) as the 100 bales of leur tprmy, they introduced a small mil- cotton sent to market by a planter, re- itary force to take care of our milita- tum to him their equivalent in mer- 1 ry posts, stores, die., and to protect chandize, dec. Under the present Tar- our frontiers from the depredations of iff, then, we should have a revenue of the Indians. Time has proved the wis- about $4,000,000. And if our citi- I dom of their designs. There can be zens should, engage in •the carrying trade (as they surely would) it would keep within our limits nearly $5,000,- 000 evoiy year, which are now most unjustly taken from the State and dis tributed at the North. It is worthy of remark, also^Jiat while retaining the present Federal stout hearts, by the aid of the officers Tariff of 90 per cent wo would, we may always have among ns, can scarcely feel the oppression; for the ' soon lie turned into disciplined troops, no more dangerous foe to liberty than a large, employed, well trained sol diery. Let us not forget the wise les sons of our virtuous fathers. We want no standing army in time of peace.— If our borders be invaded, our citi- sens, with their strong sinews and of this upon our commerce and indus try ? These would increase beyond calculation. From the large amount of capital set afloat the application of the principles of free-trade a spirit of active improvement would springupin every branch of industry. Agriculture trade, the mechanical arts the facilities for Education,—in short all kinds of Internal Improvements would multiply and flourish far beyond what they have done in any period of our history. RUTLEDGE. (From the State-Rights Republican.) 61RSIAL IH’STONS LETTER. The opinoins of public men are im portant at the present crisis particular ly when they are on the right side of a great question, and such are the opin ions of General Huston. (We have spelt the name right) We publish and one projects of redress, we will be lost. South Carolina must cut the Gordian knot. Rely upon it, you will be sustained in a decided manly decis ion. If force is attempted, you will have the aid of thousands, who will not come as burdens to the State but with the means of support War may not ensue at once, hut it will soon er or later. IN OR OUT OF THE UNION THE SLAVEHOLDING STATES WILL NEVER HAVE PEACE AND SECURITY FOR THEIR PROPERTY UNTIL THEY PRACTICALLY DEMONSTRATE —and none of your small schooner load either each time—and now he’s nearly sold out again. How does he and his partner get rid of so many good things? They advertise more than all the others put together, that’s the how 1 can prove it. If you want to borrow money—if you want to lend money—if you want a farm to rent—if you have one to sell—advertise- If I your boss pig cow, colt, sheep oxen, or husband, go astray, advertise them right off’and not run the chance of log in them altogether or having to pay as much as they are worth in charges for THAI I HEY CAN DLIEND their keep. If vou are a shoemaker, THEIR WGHTS BY ARMS. Ifthe tailor blacksmith, waggon-maker, or South cannot look this great truth u80 f u l mechanic, show |>eople that you boldly in the face, they will more cer- are no t ashamed of being a mechanic, tainly tall iH-lorc the machinations of foy advertising. If you keep a hotel the North than (ireece did betore the n.ake it known. When people see a deep laid policy of Philip of Mace- man advertising they know he is a don. “South Carolina acts right when she establishes arsenals and prepares arms. Let it not be said of her that her reso lutions are strong, but her resolution weak.” revenue would be reimbursed among our own citziens, and would bo a spur to their industry. Taxes become odi- ous and oppresasive, mainly, when they are levied in one section and dis- tribited ia another, or when ta* on from prepared, at all times, to defend them selves against any force tliat can get fiMlfcgld in their territory. A^hw hundred men, therefore, to take care ef our military stores, arse nals, dtc., would be all that we would Defining his Position.—“Get up —get up,” said a watchman the otlier night, to a chap who had fallen a grade below the door step sleepers, and who the letter or rather an extract of the had taken a lodgment in the gutter.— , can show your whole establishment to letter of General Huston, but it is You must not lie here.” business man. The world is full of folks who want Some want to sell, some want to buy; and the only way to way to meet these w ants and make money is to advertise. Advertising is 1 like honesty—it pays well if followed up. Merchants think nothin’ of payin forty dollars for one sign with nothin’ but their name on it. Well, w-hat do you think of havin’two thousand signs a week in a newspaper ? In it you \ on ? Y oil'll never be any nearer hea- than you are now, you old brute.” “Dolphus, Dolphus,” hoarsely grow led the old man, “Dolphus, bring tno my cane and let me lamp her once more before I die.” thTlioid. Had there never been a cloud there had never been a rainbow. In Paradise there was none; in man’s innocence there was no need of any. Had there been no sin, there would never have been any sorrow ; any gloom; but one clear, bright day of unbroken sunshine. But then we never could have seen the Father—have beheld him in all wisdom, power and love exhibited to us now in the face of Jesus Christ, nor ever have attained that eternal height of glory prepared for us by union with the Son of God. W ithout the tremendous darkness of the fall, the rainbow-crown had never circled the Redeemer’s head; so now, without clouds, we cannot behold the rainbow, and the darker they are, the brighter it appears. “Through much tribulations ye must enter the kingdom of heaven.” Where could we have seen, what could we have known of our Father’s mer cy and our Saviour’s love, the com forts of his spirit, and the powers of his grace, without those intervals of gloom and sadness, that put them to the proof, and bring forth their strong est coloring < Can we find it in out- hearts to wish our clouds away ?— If ever, at the approach of sunset, we have seen the pure, bright di«k without a vapour near it, while above it and around it, tipped with burnished gold, rolled the broken masses of a dis persing thunder-storm, and in the op posite heavens, the rainbow arch drawn on the dark bosom of the receding shower ; just so will he the aspect of our griefs and cares, when the ran somed soul is taking its departure to another world. An awful glory will light up the part; in deepened shadow, and in stronger light, each little cir cumstance of our past lives will l»e ex hibited ; tilings that went lightly over at the time, will gather substance and importance at the last; our escaped perils will ho seen more fearful, our vanquished foes more terrible, our sins a thousand times more black ;—hut it is not then that wo shall w ish our day of time had been lit up with Italian sunshine. lawTeks. It is a vulgar prejudice that lawyers, and other professional men, live an easy- life c ’ with otlier people. It seems a very pleasant thing in freezing weather, to sit in a warm office, and peddle out one’s opinion at a stiff’ price, or pocket five and ten dollar hills for scratching a few words w ith a pen— compared with grappling in the frosty air w ith stubborn realities of physical toil. But they who have tried Imth ways of getting a living, know that there is litttle to choose between them. When a lawyer gets fifty dollars or more for arguing a case, few think of the many years of intense labor, which he has sj>ent in preparation for his pro fession, during which he reaped no fruit of his exertions. The London correspondent of the New Y ork Albi on, speaking of this subject, has the following remarks, which shows that in England a lawyer, still less than in this country, treads the “ primrose path of dalliance.” A judge looks very grand upon the bench, but few who envy him his full- bottomed wig and robes, know what his previous life has been. If in youth he had had more than bread and cheese, the probability is he would never have been a great lawyer; and as to his pleasures, they were in all likelihood limited to the dissipation of going once a year to theatre at half price, and taking a walk round Lincoln’s Inn Fields, or in the Temple Gardens be fore dinner, and in one of the parks on Sundays. With these habits, vast ap plication, and great good luck, he per- hajWgot his first brief when he was almut five and thirty, and began to make money at fifty; after which he accumulated a pretty good fortune, then m.arrie<t ail( ^ now ' n bis old age is worried to death by whiskered sons who are in*the guards, or idlers about town, quite ready to S|>end any amount that their father may yield on being well squeezed. What future lawyers the letter of General Felix Huston, not of General Sam Houston—a very different character, and who rejoices in no such happy character. The for mer has a reputation for real bravery, the Utter for mere bullyism. The for mer ia » thorough-going State Righto man who comes fully up to the mark “Lie! you’re another! y-you lie yourself! not lie here! I tell you w- what old fellow, tliat may do to tell in them slave States, but 111 let you know,” said the agrarian, sputtering a mouthful of mud in the watchman’s face “that thia ta/ree tile.!” Cincinnati ffoujiarciL i the country every week. If you are , ma y be, under the modern system of wise just rub your eyeaand go to work homing made easy, it is not safe to and advertise. I say » fonnejly they worked like horses a w » w — and lived like hermits.” Lord Thur- Loving Dialogue.—“W’ife I am low’s advice to a rich young student shortly to leave you. The doctor tella | was, “ Spend your own fortune, then me that I an: to live but a few hours marry and spend your wife’s, then shut I at moat I (shall sooa be in heaven. t ’•ourself up and read hard, and you “YVhat you soon ba in heaven l— 1 may do.”