The Darlington flag (Lydia, SC) 1851-1852, August 28, 1851, Image 2
a patriotic and courageous struggle.
No! too in like manner will pas» into do*-
now is the day and now is the hour.— olation if we submit now to an un-
~M Red sea‘” and if scrupulous and unlimited government
Rise and rush to the
the God of Hosts will not save us ;
we may yet again praise Him, who
shall us safely out of the power
of our enemies. But it is said there
i» danger and difficulty in going alone.
That separate State action will be lull
of disasters and ruin. Those who say
so, admit that it is ruin to stay. We
have been denied equality as a State
—we have Ixjen spumed and contem
ned. Instead of conciliation and kind-
Talk about the commercial ruin of
Charleston if we act: why in it is nothing
compared with our destiny if we do
not act Besides, when is it that any
I ample ever did tread the path that
leads to independence without difficul
ty and danger I Peace quiet safety,
ease, are the lullibies of despotism.—
Go into the interior of Syria—look
upon that vast and calm sea “sleeping
like an unweaned infant”—visit its
Lores advanced to San Diego, to
cut off the retreat of the Spaniards.—
The people are rising in many places.—
About 500 left Havana to join Lori/,
of whome 50 were taken prisoners.—
There are only 700 troops left in Ha
vana.
The Empire City arrived from Ha
vana, which port she left on the 18th.
Her advices state that the Spanish
troops attacked Lopez near Bahia
SUCCESS, TO THE CCBIN PATIIOTS.
We publish ta-day, the latest accounts
which have been received from Cuba.
It will be perceived that the gallant
Lopez, with many of hia adventurous fol
lowers, has effected a landing on the Is
land, and thkt he has fought and
gained two battles.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the Span
ish government to suppress all intelligence
Honda, and took flfty-one prisoners, as to the number and movements of the
including Col Crittenden and Victor insurgents, yet we have now reliable in-
Kerr, who were carried to Havana and formation, sufficient at least, to assure us,
brutally executed. Some 200 Span- that the efforts of the Patriots to revolu-
iards were killed during the two enga- t j 0 „j 2e the country, and throw off the gall-
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gements. Lopez victorious in both and
proceeded.
BIOTIN NEW-OILKANS.
New-Okleans, Aug. 21.
The Cuban LilMutors, mostly
Western men exasperated by the tone
of the Spanish paper La Patria, this
afternoon attacked the office broke the
ness, our institutions have been deri- const, and you will see one wide spread
dod, ami we have been held up for de- plain of salt and desolation—and no
nunciation, in our moral and social living creature can breathe in the hot
intercourse, befors the Christian and air that rises from its calm, heavy bitu-
inoral world. Our country is one con- niinous surface—that sir, is the dead
slant scene of bitter agitation and gea of despotism and submission,
painful aiixiety. There is not a mother Turn to another picture and look at
or father in our land that does not ask the deep blue waters of these bounding
the question every night what is to be- billows—the spray dashing against
come of us I Is this the fostering care of the Heavens—look at the coast cove-
kind protective Government? This cd with the richest verdure. All nature
itself is odious tyranny and intolerable leaps and bounds under the plastic 1 windows and doors threw the press
degradation. What though there be hand of a henificent God. Cultivation : cases of type, and furniture into the
difficulty and danger in the State acting and refinement rise up to bless audio street, and destroyed everything be-
alone! It cannot be worse than to gladden the heart of man. True, the longing to the office. There was no
stand and bear it. Better to move like waters rise mountain high and there is interference by the police,
freemen boldly for the independensc }>eril and danger to all who ride on its After demolishing the office, the rio-
and rights of the country, for if we stormy surface. That, sir, is the sea of ters proceeded to the segar store cor-
should even perish, wo will fall with liberty. ner of St. Charles and Gravies sts,
our honor saved ami a name unstained He who expects to live a freeman, broke the door and windows, and des-
for the admiration of posterity. But 11 must expect to encounter danger and troyed all the stock and furniture
we stand still, wo shall perish like mice difficulty ; without this, liberty itselt which were very valuable.
under an exhausted receiver—with no loses much of its essential worth. They then proceeded to the office of gressions areTnade liy the North and the
consideration save the pity of the 1 think the prohnlities are that we the Spanish Consul, and destroyed federal government, on the rights and
world. will have to act alone if we act at all. desks, furniture and property of all honor of the slave holding States, there
Mr. Chairman, has any man thought | hope however we will do nothing kinds. The sign was broken down and is not the remotest possibui
seriously of the terrible effects of abo
lition when brought to our homes and
our firesides ? Three millions of black
slaves, turned loose upon the communi
ty would present such a scene as the
world has. never conceived. They
would come directly into competition
with the white mechanic, artizans, and
common laborer* of the whole coun
try. They would work for nothing—
a bottle of rum, and a twist of tobacco,
what would become ol the tree aiti-
wius, enterprising mechanics, and in
dustrious laborers of our country ?—
Brought down to a degraded competi
tion with three millions of slaves made
free. Now they are regulated, and
labor in an entirr
Who then could
white man feels freedom to be his
privilege and rank,—it separates him
from the cast below him. He will
then have the black man put up as bis
rash—wo must take proper time and
be prepared before we strike. We
must do nothing to offend even the
pride of our sister Southern States.—
We must do something under an idea
of compelling them to act. If we are
driven to it we must make our own
carried in triumph to the meeting in
Lafayette square.
New-Ohlea.ns, Aug 22.
Two thousand men this morning
surrounded the City Prison, where
the Spanish Consul has taken refuge
and threatened to demolish it unless
issues according to our own interests,
independent of them if they will not the Consul is delivered up to them.— ,ort a f revolution on the part of South
counsel with us. We must not force About fifty police are on the ground.— Carolinia, solitary and alone.”
sn issue for them. Alter wo shall have The segar shops keot by the Spanish leaders of the Co-operation par-
acted in the most moderate manner, were nearly all destroyed during last l y this District endorse these eenti-
all will readily perceive sliould the Gen- night Minute guns have been fired inents? If you really believe, gentlemen,
era! Government attempt to usurp the since sun rise in honor of the murdered with the editor of the Patriot, that there
power to decide and tender us force to liberators. The bodies of Victoe is not the remotest possibility of uniting
compel submission or to hinder or an- Kekr and Colonel Cbittbkdex at- the South in resistance on account of
come out like
disguise tell the
tees of the two parties, in this District
It will be seen that the co-operation com-
mittee, by their communication handed
in eight days after their peremptory if not
discorteous refusal to accept the proposi
tion of the Secession Committee, now cry
“ peccavi”
It will also be seen that the secession
committee, have invited the Co-operation-
ists to dine with them on sale day, in Sep
tember next, and pledge themselves to
give the co-operationists a fair opportuni
ty to discuss the political questions which
now agitate the public mind.
Whether or not, this latter invitation
of the secession committee has been ac
cepted has not yet transpired—judging
however from the latter part of Dr. Zim
merman’s letter we judge that that invi
tation has also been (fedined.
BAIN! Ia’inT IAIN!
Tuesday—Nearly every day for a fort
night past, we have had showers of rain:
and on Sunday morning last, the flood
gates of the Heavens were opened, and
streams of water descended, accompanied
by high winds, without intermission, for
many hours, causing all our water courses
to overflow their banks, and doing great
injury to the growing, and heretofore pro
mising crops. The Pee Dee river, is now
rising rapidly, and from the fact that the
most of the corn and cotton stalks, have
been blown down by the wind, and the
additional fact, that the embankments on
, the river were swept away by the fresh
remotest possibility of uniting , . . . . .u .
, or a ringtone of the South- of la6t B P r, »* we ,,avt ‘ reaf,on ,0 fear that
even a small freshet would be death to
the hopes of the planters, and would
cause great distruction of property.
Wednesday Morning—From informa-
just received, the Pee Dee river has over
flown its banks and the rapidly increasing
flood already covers the rich corn and
cotton fields.
Wednesday Evening—A gentleman
has just informed us that the waters in
the river are at a stand, we fear however
that immense damage has already been
done, and that hundreds of Bales of cotton
and thousands of bushels of corn, which
ing yoke of old Spain, is encouraged and
largely participated in, by the native inha-
biteuts; so far, the Patriots have exhibited
a fortitude and determination which is
ominous of success; and now that they
have for a leader an experienced and
skillful General, we have an abiding con
fidence that Cuba will acheive her inde
pendence, and take her station as a sover
eign State among the nations of the world.
THE TBUeTsSUE.
The senior editor of the Greenville
Patriot, (which paper has heretofore been
regarded by us as one of the principal
organs of the co-operationists of this
State) through his editorialcolumnsgives
expression to his sentiments, as follows:
“ We now declare that until further ag-
submission. The actioniste are faomogr.
ncous. Ttaftgthcr wing are necessarily
piebald in tMrpolitical complexion, being
composed of lime resistance men, sub
mission ists, government men or tederal-
isls, abolition it ts, dollar and cent politi
cians, &.c. reflow citizens oi the true
resistance stamp, u cnme up higher”—
“advance to the front,”and we will follow
you to the end of the chapter, come weal
or come woe. Rally, then, in all your
strength, on Monday next, and let us dis
appoint our enemies, by showing that w’e
are still an united people, resolutely deter
mined to make “ a long pull, a strong pull,
and a pull altogether, for our cherished
rights. A Citizen.
[for the Darlington flag.]
Mr. Editor: An anonymous commu
nication in the Flag, in relation to the of
fer, or challenge as it has been called, to
the co-operationists, to hold a mass meet
ing for public discussion on the first Mon-
fey in September next, seems to require
~ i fa i
is not the
the South, or a smgl
ern States, in any attempt which South
Carolina may make to dissolve the Union.
There is no hope of getting the slave
holding States, or any one of them, to
meet us in a Southern Congress. The
true issue seems to be submission to the
compromise, in company with all the oth
er fourteen slaveholding States, or an ef-
at my hands a brief notice. The facts 1
stated ar» correct; as to the inferences, I
have something to say. The gentleman
whom 1 suppose to be the author of the
article, I know to be incapable of misrep
resentation.
The invitation was handed by me to
the committee of arrangements, who after
consultation thought it was best, under
all the circumstancee, to decline. The
respected chairman of the committee I
suppose thought it was sufficient to indi
cate their conclusion in their card ot gen
eral invitation, and briefly to mention
their reasons for doing so; I am sorry
these reasons were not deemed by the
opposite party to be sufficient; I can as
sure them that no disrespect was intend
ed, and that the commfeee, in declining
their invitation, were not at all insensible
to their courtesy and civility.
Before the invitation came to hand, the
co-operationists had ma^ie publication of
their meeting in every part of the District,
and arrangements made for it as such.
It is well know n, too, that the secessu^i-
ists had been holding meetings in the vil
lage since the Convention in Charleston,
and had been zealously engaged in propa
gating their peculiar views through the
Flag, from which every thing had been
:Tuded that favored the co-operation
eartily concur with all lovere of
v are regulated, ami noy us that then in reality a new issue is tract many visiters and produce much p ast f ede r a l aggressions, cc
itiroly different field.— made by the Government, and what feeling. 1 , ., ®
d live here? Now, the ,„av be our lot must finally he the lot : men, and without any disg
illy
of every Southern State. Like the
victims that Polyphemus singled out
for each repast, the lot of all will be,
to lie devoured by the same voracious
equal, and they will sink togethe’f into jaws, We may be the first victim, but
a common but degraded level. The
wealthy man, if he is mean enough and
base enough to desert the country,
may be able to save something and do
so, hut the poor man whose fate is fixed
from necessity in the doom and destiny
of the country, is here and here forever
there will be no escape for the rest un
less they pass out together with the
flock.
I have hopes in Georgia. And if
McDonald, the noble standard bearer
of justice and right shall succeed tins
Fall, and a majority to the Legislature
—there is no escape. Ia‘1 no man hug jg elected with him, I feel that we will
to himself the fatal delusion that he is have friends there. And any propos-|
too |wii)r to feel the withering blight of jtion that might be made to us from
that dreadful curse, if it should ever them, I would respectfully receive and
come. There is none so high and consider it as from our brethren. So
none so low, but he will shiver under of Mississippi. Theere is Quitman,;
the howling of that dreadful blast.— from the storm of battles, as brave as a
There will be no peasant cottage, that Knight Templar from the holy land it-'
bangs upon our hills, however humble, self, and the gallant Davis who waved
but will fall before that midnight as bright a sword as ever flashed over'
storm. There will be no sign upon tlie perilous ridge of victory. These
the door posts or lintels of any chosen are men who are able at the council
and elect, by which the destroying an- board as as well mighty captains in the ,
gel may know to pass by. field, and if they carry Mississippi, as 1
Gentlemen, many suppose because feel assured they will, we will greet
slavery has been extinguished in other whatever proiiositioii they have to make i
lial ai
DARLINGTON, S. C.
^rT^iirrN<nrwooD,i:dito^
Sesda^
. , . , , . . era of our river planters, now lie rotting
people that the true ,ssue is, subrmssion the ul)fripildly watere .
to the compromise, or resistance by south I m * o
Carolina unaided. Do this, and then ! We hereby give notice that all
though we will give you credit for youi communications intended for publication
candor, we predict you will not get many in the ''Flag;'' must be handed in by 10
of your fellow citizens to range them- o’clock, of Tuesday in each week, or they
will not appear until the issue cf the suc
ceeding week.
ERBATL
In the first article in our editorial col-
ums of last week, for“Fedrick of Russia,”
expluded that favored
S pace in the hope that however we may
nd it to be our privilege and duty to dii-
fer in opinion, that neither party n ill al
low itself to indulge in “angry discussion
and embittered-feeling.” Ijet us all re
but for this infliction of 1 rovidence, would remember that if we differ, we have a
shortly have been gathered into the garn-
selves under your banner.
SELF DEFENCE.
R will be perceived by our readers,
that in a communication published in this
paper, signed J. P. Zimmerman, the writer
make use of the following language: “It read “Nicholas of Russia,” for “system of
can he done here. But the cireum
stances are totally different. In the
Roman republic the slaves were of the
samocolor and of the same race.—
Many'ofthem were learned and refin
ed. They were taught those things
that were supposed to be effeminate by
their warlike master. They merely
changed as the Government and laws
and sod •At changed, and were gradn
AGENTS FOB THE DARLINGTON FLAG.
, S. D. Hallford, - Camden, S. C.
countries without a convulsion, that it with a cordial and hearty welcome be-; q hari es DeLorme, Sumterville, S. C.
cause we know they could make none [ 4 f r
but what were compatible with the vindi-, y FI RH1N.
cation of our rights and our honor.— \ , , ’ .
I am for co-operation if it can be ob-; " e are P' Ra * e ^ t0 see * ia
tained in any reasonable time. I will newspapers in this btate, have nominated
do anything but yield principle to ob- this ripe scholar, humble Christian, yet
tain it The election in nearly all the able theologian, to fill the Professorship
States take place before our Conven- i in the South Carolina College, which has
tion can meet Congress has to meet been vacated by the resignation ofProfes-
Ohio has already elected open aboli- gor Thorn well. We know of no son of
ally lost in amalgamation—the races tion Senators,—so has New York, and : Carolina, who is better qualified to occupy
all being the same. So in England.— so has Massachusetts. They are opeu-
Vnd although the followers ot VV illiam |y f or a repeal of the fugitive slave law
the Conqueror looked for ages in con- —and declare there was, in fact no
tempt upon the Saxons; yet their color j Compromise. The two parties in Penn-
and physical attributes were the same, aylvania have recently made issue upon
True, when one of their kings, at last, precisely the same points. If ^lov j SONS OF TEXPERANIE.
intermarried with a Saxon, it produ- Johnston and his friends carry Penn- 1 The Quarterly celebration of the Dar-
ced a shock to the conquering race yet gylvania it is upon the ground that lington Division, Rio. 24, of the Sons of
it was the beginning of that amalga- there is no Compromise, and that the Temperance took place in this village on
maffion which intermingled the two fugitive slave law must be repealed.— Saturday last.
races until the distinctions were lost [ If they succeed then there will be no | The members of the Order, clothed in
that important station, or who will fill it
with more honor to the State, or more
advantage to the rising generation.
and forgotten, and slavery gradually alternative, we must strike and strike
fell without a convulsion, and without immediately although the Union should
oven a general law in relation to it.— fall, we must strike and strike
Not so here. God himself has made
such distinctions of color and other
physical as well as moral attributes, as
forever forbid the same termination.—
No! no! gw forward In this wild scheme
of mad fanaticism and whining philan-
throphy, and you convert this land of
happiness into scenes of universal blood
and thou, finally into a barbarian wil-
nlone, if none will will strike with us,
be the consequences what they may.
(From the State-Rights Republican.)
FURTHER FROM CUBA.
New-Orlea.ns, Aug. 21.
A letter to the Picayune states that
General Mamzaria has returned to
derness. It will dry up all the sources Santiago abandoning the field to the
of prosperity and refinement, and «•« Patriots who retained entire possession
wHi have nothing but a melancholy of the country surrounding Puerto
and deserted land with, perchance here Principe.
and there a solitary inhabitant, to point The steamer Pampero appeared off
out the graves and the monuments of our Havanna oitthe 11th, and was signal-
onle heroic race. And this is done in a i ^ ?ke Moro Castle- She took
far shorter time than many of us imagine. ! two from a schooner and procee-
Look at St. Domingo—the very name west, landing at Mariel, 12 miles
curdles one’s veins—look at all the from Bahia Honda and taking posse*-
West Wads of F/snce and England— ^ ^ town of Las Posos.
L«ss
tteatl
than twentetilve years ago—cul-! The war steamer Pizarrn, and two whok , (|eart
Ion, refinement and the arts held
their mingled sway ever those fair
est regions of Go<fl(ft>eaUomand where
now are they ? ' LaH low th ruin and
desolation. Vagrant labor, set (tree,
stalks in lean and hungry ferocity
throughout a deserted land. And, we
merchant steamers, with 800 troops
and «0 horses, left Havana on the
morning of the 12th and attacked Lo
pez oa the the 13th at San Miguel,
■ear Las Posts. The J^lterro got as-
hon aI Bahia Hotels, and Loras ex
pected to capture her.
their regalia, together with many interest
ing boys who have wisely determined to
govern themselves by the dictates of
spare temperance, formed in procession
in front of the Temperance Hall, and from
thence, inarched with Banners waving, to
the Methodist Church.
Notwithstanding the clouds gave indi
cation of rain, many persons of both sexes
were in attendance at the church, shew
ing by their presence, the deep interest
felt in this community in the objects which
the members of the order are striving to
accomplish.
Rev. John Culpepper, read a chapter
in the Bible and offered up a solemn and
appropriate prayer, after which, Mr. F. F.
VVarlev, the chosen organ of the division,
delivered in address, and nobly did he
ad\ 'cate the cause of temperance. He
Exhibited by his earnestness that his
was in ins subject, and by his
graceful elocution, Ahe soundness of hia
reasoning and elegance of his sentiments,
enchained the attention of his audience.
The youthful orator has, by this address,
given to his fellow citizens an earnest oi
his future usefulness.
is well known too, that the secessionists
had been holding meetings at the village
since the convention in Charleston, and
had been zealously engaged in propaga
ting their peculiar views through the
Flag, from which every thing has been
excluded that favoured the co-operation
policy.”
Now, although the Editor of this paper
who is now absent, in his editorial, in the
issue of the 23rd of April last, after invi
ting contributions from those who were
opposed to him in opinion, did say:
“ We pledge ourselves not to make
strictures upon any communication, with
the sentiments of which we may differ,’
yet we apprehend he did not intend to
deprive himself of the right of self defence.
We who now stand for a time, in the
position of our absent friend, take this oc
casion to deny the truth of the assertion,
“ that every thing which favoured the co
operation policy, has been excluded from
the Flag.” On the contrary, as the pub
lic well know, the columns of the Flag,
have always been open for the discussion
of the great questions which now agitate
the country, and we have many reasons
for believing, that no respectful communi
cation whether by a secessionist or co-
operatiouist, has been denied insertion.
In this, we think we cannot be mistaken,
for Mr. DeLorme, one of the proprietors
of this paper positively states, that every
opportunity has been offered to the mem
bers of the co-operation pfcrty, through
the columns of this paper to present and
propagate their distictive views. For the
truth of this statement, we reter our rea
ders to the back numbers of the Flag, and
appeal to all candid men of all distinctions
of party.
We know that there arc individuals
who are so blinded by party rage, so de
mented by the excitement, which faction
generates, that they take every feet for
granted which happens to suit their pur
poses, every tale however absurd as
true, which would have a tendency to
advance the interests of party. We are
convinced however, from the hife moral
character of the gentleman, who Mthe
author of the communication referre^h,
that he would not have made the asser
tion of which we complain, without hav
ing been throughly convinced of its truth,
and we trust that it will only be necessary
for ua to point out to him his error, in or
der to have it corrected.
comfort,” read “feeling of comfort.
[for the flag.]
Mr. Editor: It is passing strange that
so little effort has as yet been made among
the people of this Congressional District,
to bring about concert of action, in the
nomination of suitable individuals to re
present us, in the proposed Southern Con
gress. This election is now near at hand,
and surely it is of sufficient importance
to awaken us from our slumbers, and to
urge us to put forth the necessary efforts,
to concentrate the public voice upon such
individuals, for that high and responsible
post, as will sustain the character of the
4th Con^rcsisional District, and truly re
present its views and feelings.
Permit me through the columns ofAhe
Flag, to suggest the propriety of the ap
pointment of as many delegates from
each District, composing the Congression
al District, as it is entitled to in both bran
ches of the State Legislature, to meet at
Marion Court House, on Monday the 15th
ot September next, To nominate suitable
ble persons to represent us in the Southern
Congress. If there should be no regular
nomination to concentrate the votes of the
people, it is probable there will be but little
interest felt in it, and perhaps but few
votes given, which would be wellfelcula-
ted to dishearten those who may be elec
ted, and to paralyze their efforqLm behalf
of Southern Rights.
fgf* We call the attention of our rea
der* to the correspondence which has re
cently taken place between the Corhmit-
[FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG.]
THE MEETING ON MONDAY NEXT.
Fellow Citizens of Darlington! a
momentous issue is upon us. Rights,
dearer to us than life, are to be manfully
vindicated, or disgracefully surrendered.
An unscrupulous and domineering cen
tral despotism is to be overthrown, or suf
fered to sap the foundation of our very
existence. Aggression has followed ag
gression. Insult has been added to in
sult. Jeers and taunting sneers have
been the uniform responses to our earnest
complaints and solemn remonstrances.—
We cannot lift a finger in resistancegor
hint at a remedy for our grievances, wHR-
out being scoffed at as madmen, or blus
tering fanatics, too weak to strike for our
liberties—or, madly striking, too weak to
triumph in their defence. How much
longer shall we bare our backs to these
burthens, already, “ too grievous to be
bomeT Shall we still listen tefthe syren
song, “ Watch and wait ?” Heaven for*
bid! Resistance men of Dadpigton, let
ua not fell out by the way about modes
of resistance. Can we not yer, like bro-
thrs fall into line, and shoulder to shoul
der battle for our rights ? We would re
peat the question of the Edgefield Adver-
tiser, “ Is it Jkot easier tor the resistance
wing of thECo-operatiou party to ‘ march
to the front,’ than for the actionists to
whimper out their recantation, and mean
ly retreat to the rearr Part
always leads to extremes,
may lead to submission. Submission
right to do so without having our motives
impugned, or our patriotism questioned.
But it is also said that the co-operationists
declined the challenge on last sale day!
In regard to that l think I may safely af
firm that the meeting was advertised as a
Southern Rights Association meeting,
and that it was proclaimed as a common
meeting, just a few moments before the
Association was to have assembled. The
co-operationists were taken by surprise,
and were not ready; and it must also be
allowed that but little time would have
been afforded to any one disposed to res
pond, as Chancellor Pargan consumed
the greater part of the evening in con
cluding remarks begun by him, but inter
rupted by a storm, at the Pleasant View
meeting, a few days before.
Perhaps it would be as well for mo to
conclude this letter without further re
mark, but I will venture to say that tho
author of the article which 1 am now no
ticing, is entirely mistaken in insinuating
that the co-operationists are afraid of dis
cussion. Is this intended to operate on
the proposed meeting in September—a
sort of appeal to the people for -uppoit
and sympathy? I had supposed that the
secessionists had argument enough and
to spare, and had no need to use any in
direct or collateral appeals to the pa.-
sions and feelings. I will remark, how
ever, that co-operation has nothing to lie
ashamed of; that it aims at the country’s
good and the country’s honor; that it
goes for effectual, certain and successful
ttefetance, and submiss ton forms no ar
ticle in it* confession of feitli. A cause
tlidt Cheves, Barnweu^Bi’rt, Butler,
all our Judges, (but my respected friend
and relative, Chancellor Dargan,) and
almost all the experienced and wise men
of the State, long distinguished for their
talents and public services, endorse and
embrace, has nothing to fear. “Truth is
mighty and will prevail,” though it may
meet with temporary reverses.
The co-operationists at the earnest re
quest of friends from both parties, on last
Saturday made a proposition to their op
ponents, in the following language: “Up
on a reconsideration of the matter, the
friends of co-operation have determined,
through thoir committee, to propose an
open discussion of the questions before
the people on sale day next. If the pro
position is accepted we will meet your
committee, to make the necessary, ar
rangements.”
This proposition has been declined by
the secessionists, and as a matter of
course, both parties ||in have to meet in
the village on the first Monday in Sep
tember. Jno. P. Zimmerman.
are certainly co-operating with the
They have no affinity for the front rank.
Let us then get as rar I
ly excitement
Co-oi>erte»on
nbmissionists
■rear.
aj we can from
[for the DARLINGTON FLAG.]
TO PE FREEMEN OF DARLINGTON.
Tfe co-operation party have called a
ntePfng, to assemble at Darlington Court
House on next sale day, of all those who
are opposed to secession under Existing
circumstances. The call is anflguous,
and calculated to mislead the people.—
The language employed in making the
call implies that the secession or State
party, are in favor oi secession at this
time—at the present—durifig this year—
within six of nine months/^-all of which
is untrue, as it is well known that the se-
ce^stoilists of this District have, in a card
calling a public meeting, announced that
they feeire co-operation, and advocate
separdffi secession as an alternate to sub
mission. It is also known tint the se
cessionists arc willing to submit to the
decision «f the Constitutional Convention,
untrammelled by instruct knife the ques
tions of what is treasonable time to wait
for co-operation, and the expediency of
separate State secession.
The call of the co-operationists flso im
plies that those w ho were prominent in
gibing up fbe greeting would airocit*