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DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. saw — Jkm H. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] VOL. 1. To thine ounsclf be true; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any n: .'m.—Hamlkt, DARLINGTON C. H„ S. C„ THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 18. 1851. [MIHIHID 4 DC IIIBSC. H 111 I'Hi B'. NO. 2!». ■SSWBS* THE DARLINGTON FLAG, I« JPUBLISIIKD EVERT THURSDAY MORNING, AT I1ABUXGTON, C. II., $. C., BY NORWOOD & DE EORME. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTiOK i Tn advance, (per annum,) - At tiie expiration of mx montha ' At the end of the year - - - w. a . 3 ADVERTISING : Advertisements, inserted at 76 cents a square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, and 37J cte. for each suhoequeiH insertion. Business Cards, not excelling ton lines, inserted at Jfo, a year. . ,U ■l'"l II] _ , POLITICAL. PREAMBLE AND CONSTITUTION, Of the Darlington Sonthem Rights Association. We the undersigned citizens of Dar lington District, are profoundl;'impress ed with the importatlife of the present crisis in the political affairs of the coun try, resulting from the recent legislation of Congress upon the snbject of slavery and the territories. So well understood are these measures, that a more special allusion to them is unnecessary. We believe the danger we have long fore seen, and whose insidious and steady approach wo have marked, has now become portentously eminent, step by step, the wily foe has wound bis coils around ns, until, as he supposes, we are hound hand and foot, and ready for the great and crowning sacrafice of honor, equality, prosperity, liberty, existence. 'Hie aggressions of the Northern States upon the dearest and most cherished rights of the South, have left us no al ternative but resistance. The Federal Constitution is a dead letter; our rights under it a mockery. The Federal Un ion, formed for intdhral protection, and to hisnre domestic trtinquility, has been perverted; and instead of accomplishing, those high and exalted ends, has been made the instrument of outrages ami in juries, which #e could not, in reason, dread from any foreign enemy. A governmeiit9%roelaimed upon the face of its constitution to Ire Federative in its character, and proved to be such hy the codcureut and undisputed history of its origin, has practically declared itself o<nui|N)tent, without any limita tion in fact, but the will of a numerical majority. This Government, thus prostituted from its original purposes, with nil the 1 towers that have been conceded to it by die compact of Sovereign States that formed it, and those that have been usurped, fans been seized upon by a majority, entirely sectional, selfish, reckless, and Implacably hostile to the most sensitive and vital interest of the Southern States. The vast power of this great consolidated empire, with its corrupting influences, and all its physi cal and moral agencies, Is to he wield ed for our political subjugation and overthrow. And the financial means of accomplishing these ends are to be drawn from the victim. The issne now presented is resistance, or unconditiono! submission, followed by a ruin so complete, a desolation, so appalling, as to begger all attempt at description. We are now in the con dition of unhappy Ireland. Like that bcMtoful hut ill-fated land, we are a componant part of a great empire and like her, we are trodden under foot and mocked by a nominal and ineffectual representation. If we do not, hy a patriotic effort, throw off our thraldom, we will, ere long, he hi the condition of the British and French, West Indies, while the fate of San Domingo in the distant prospective, looms up, a warn- b^l and gloomy beacon. Or, if the fate of the latter country should not be realised, them, as an alternative, we must have a war of races, in which the weaker will be exterminated, leaving the scarcely more unhappy victors in possession of a blood stained soil, and an impoverished and exhausted country. This is the fate to which the fratricidal policy of the North would consign us- Vet these people call tbemselvea our means of protection and self preserva tion, who cannot fail to be successful, if wisely, bravely, and timely applied. We believe that the danger, though great, may be repelled, and if repelled, that the South is yet destined to accom plish a prosperous and glorious career. 'Hiis destiny she will not be worthy to enjov, if she refusses or fails to ward off the the danger which threatens her. CONSTITUTION. Believing it to be the duty of every citizen of the South to do his duty in the comeing constest, and believing that one great element ot success is unity of purpose and of action, we, the under signed, with the view of being better able to act in concert with our fellow citizens, and to put ourselves more rea dily in communication with similarly organized bodies, do hereby agree to form ourselves in to an Association, to lie called the Darlington Southern Rights Association. The officers of tbe Association shall consist of a President and three Vice Presidents, a Recording and two cor- responding Secretaries. The President in addition to die usual duties of the chair, shall have power to mestie consumption. Take, for exam ple, the three Districts of Abbeville, Edgefield and Newberry. In 1840, they had an aggregate population of eighty thousand five hundred and fifty three, white and black. Their aggre gate production in cotton w as nineteen million two hundred and forty-four thousand seven hundred and fourteen I be. | This at ten cents would make f Edgefield with a population of 862, produced 7,613,126 lbs. cotton. Abbeville, with a population of 29,361, lbs. cotton. call the Association together at such "“I!* 01 * « f a " d trsilli/Ytx Hzxllawo I tne !/• m I a t irtn i produced 8,626,482 Newberry, with a population ef 18,360, produced 3,106,107 lbs. cotton. Aggregate pop. 80,653, pro, 19,244,714 lbs. cotton. Census ot 1840. the exporting valnc of each inhabitant twenty-four dollars. Supposing the one hundred and thirty thousand in crease of our population to have the same productive capacity, they would furnish annual exports more tlian three million dollars. These would yield, in a profitable foreign trade, nearly four million dollars of exports. Hence Charleston, in the next ten years would have, from this source, an increase of her present mercantile profits on three four times as h&utay deem ex|iedient. In the Mseiiee of the President, one of the Vfctt Presidents shall preside. The reeordlbg Secretary shall keep a journal of the |Mfceedings, and a list of members. million dollars. 1 his calculation might be extended through a succession of decades, showing the large increase of our produce and trade, till, from over population and other causes, the pre sent ratio between production and pop- The corresponding Secretaries, shall ultt ‘ ion l* d ^troycd. c - 1 But the productive industry of the in another rejoiced that the issue No truly South- now mistake the We will no longer suffer for a qjtose venera- iIm discharge love and of the ful that there it safety for fee South, the remedy is in our hands. She has odhr to wm her deliverance, and deliverance h accomplished. Wo have |>ertbrm the duties usually devolving upon such officers. Every citizen of the District may become a member of this Association by attaching his name to the Constitu tion. A majority of the members present shall constitute a quorum for the trans action of business. Officers shall be elected annually, and hold office until another election shall have been held. The meetings of the Association, shall be held on the first Mondays of every third mouth, beginning with the first Monday in November next. (Prom the Edgefield Advertiser.) SEPARATE STATE SECESSION. no. iv. It is easily to be seen, we think, that the commerce and prosperity of the State will be increased, and not dimin ished by separate State secession.— Charleston has now an exporting trade of sixteen millions of dollars, and an importing business of only ten millions do|lars, since she is the mere thorough- (arc for at least one half the imports tliat enter her harbor* Under a sejmrate government, while the imports upon which she derives mercantile profits, would at once rise from ten to fifteen million dHiars (the just imports upon the exports proper of the State) the exports from products of other States would probably not lie much diminished; for Chnrleston, un der our exercise of free trade would luraish the best exporting market for Sonthem aud Western produce; and although tbe government might impose heavy restrictions upon imports from Carolina into the other States, it could impose none upon the exports of other States into South Carolina. Charles ton would still be a fine mart for the produce of the neighboring States, and though prohibited from selling them merchandize, site could direct her ships linden with commodities derived from this produce, to any port in the Union, or to any part of the world, and com- pete in a fair field with the merchants of other eountries. But let us estimate the benefits Charleston would derive from the natu ral increase of the population and pro ductive industry of the State, lake the increase of our population, every decade, to be twenty per cent., in ten years from this time, unless from un seen cutises there will be added to our present numbers about one hundred and thirty thousand souls. Now it is a self-evident proposition, that, in every community, eath member is a con sumer ; and all who live h\ charity, contribute somehow to (iruduction by their industry, their capital, or their land* This is so s^iveiinlfy trwe, that in political ecom-'r ’ '* become a maxim—Jfeerr # .'nuanm- ( Umwwm CwjrKc The productive ii.uaaury, then, of i our State, gradmOly increaaiug every year, would, at the and of ten j -trs, ylelr in annual increase in oar e of more lhaii three million for this would be ".bout the value ef une but ed and •ind inhabitants, « r deducting do- » prod thirty State would be increased way. At present, a capital of some thing like five million dollars, being ! transferred to tbe North, is annually withdrawn from the productive agency of the State. In introducing improved methods in our various branches of in dustry and in facilitating our inter communication, this sum might add considerably to the exporting capacity of the State. An annual saving of five million dollars would give, at the end of ten years, exclusive of interest, a fixed capital of fifty million dollars. Allow one million of this to lie unpro ductively consumed by the State Gov ernment, there would still remain for ty-nine million dollars for productive agency. The re-productive power of this sum, invested in the usual occupa tions in our State, would furnish ex porting produces to the value of two million dollars. Thus Edgefield Dis trict, which by tbe recent Census,* has an aggregate wealth of sixteen mil lions dollars, yields exports in Cotton alone to the value of eight hundred thousand dollars. In addition to this, there would be, under a separate Government, several hundred thousand dollars of commodi ties for public consumption, which would go to swell the imports of the State, From these data it will be reasona ble to estimate the exports proper of South Carolina, at the end of ten years, should the State be allowed to enjoy the fruits of a peaceful independence, at about eighteen million dollars, and her im|ierts at more than twenty mil lion dollars. This will add to the pre sent business ot Charleston, mercan tile profits on ten million dollars of im ports, which now merely pass through her streets, adding a mi re trifle to the wealth of the city, while her exports will be equal if not larger than they are at present And this increase will gradually go on for centuries accor ding to population and production. From her facilities, moreover, in combining skill aud capital, Charleston would become a considerable manu facturing town, not merely of Cotton, but of various and useful commodities, especially of implements and machine ry for mechanical, agricultural and manufacturing purposes. With her genius and capital properly directed to this branch of industry, she might add immensely to her wealth and prosperi ty. Only a few towns and cities, whose natural advantages for Com merce, pour the wealth of nations into their harbors, become very protfpbrous and wealthy without manufactures.— Charleston should look to this as a source ef great prosperity. What now are the prospects of the State at large ? The increase of its population andj^luctivc industry, the ‘ ^ of tho Mist gains of it# citi- from the plunderer*the North, and the low rates at which the com modities of other nations would enter would hugely augment the of tbe State, and add infinitely to the comforts, improvements, and re- uetive ; finements of civilised life. To this pi grestive advancement, we enn see Hmit within many centuries. Our lands with the old state of things! What has it done for yont How have your interests boon promoted? You liave been imposed upon. 'Hie fictitious monied interest of England, and New York, (her agent) have monopolized vour seaboard, tbnr trade, your every thing. You are subject to all kinds of imposition. High commissions, enor mous expenditures, tremendous charges for what you consume, unreasonable interest and insurance, constant and iinex|>ected, aud ruinous fluctuations. From what wealth do these marble palaces rear themselves in the North ? Why should you not possess it ? What natural product of suppressing value is it that keeps in motion those “ iron hands” of English poorer and British iristocraey ? You have been deform ed politically, morally, and socially. Your State credit, your personal cred it, (yes, ye sons of Southern origin, jcpresentalives of manly honor) your personal credit ruined, almost through out Christendom. By whom I Who are your agents? Friends? Have they proved so? Has not tbe wealth of the North (wealth acquired at the sacrifice of your interests) already its representatives in Congress? Yes, to rivet the chains that bind you. Grad ually and by degrees you are beingen- ! folded by the mighty arms of Northern enterprise. One arm already extends from Maine to California, aud the iron fingers of the other is extending aud grasping the wealth of your beautiful Ohio—your magnificent “ father of wa ters.” Suppose, for instance, that New York and England should, by inven tion, supercede the use of your great staple? Should yon not be in a posi tion to defy her? You liave other re sources. Y our climate and soil is all productive. “ To he idle is to be vi cious,” says Johnson. To be idle (as regards the South) is death. Wo must irork. Yes, put our shoulders to the made by th§ government and the North, wheel ami labor. Labor, human labor. are susceptible of high cultivation, and onr products are of the most valuable character. Our labor, also, whatever the deluded enthusiasts of Europe and the North may interpose, is the cheap est and most productive of any on the globe. In what section of tbe world can a peasantry be found that produce equal to our slaves t Is it not a kmvop fact that the white agricultural labor ers of most countries are usually an in dolent race ? They labor little more than half their time—contenting them selves with a moderate means of sub sistence, and often directing their la bor witlmnt capital or skill. And what is worthy of note, while the slave la bor of the South, under the control of intelligent planters, is more productive, it is also highly useful and profitable. It is directed almost exclusively to the creation of utility. All our products are actually necessaries in every quar ter of the civilized globe—not furnisli- ing luxuries for the consumption of the rich alone, but comforts and conven iences, likewise, for the middling and poorer classes, among whom the great bulk of consumption takes place.— Hence, there is with us little danger of over production. We may reckon upon almost a perpetuity of our com merce and trade, while our power of production will be limited, centuries to come, only by the extent of our territory, after every acre of land shall have been highly cultivated and im proved. What is to hinder us from ri valing England, in her prodigious ac cumulation of capital? While wo remain in the Union, bear ing the burthens which, for the last tweuty-fivc years, have been imposed on us, we must content ourselves with a very moderate advancemegt in wealth and prosperity. Charleston will im prove slowly ; and a heavy drawback will be felt by the State on account of the immense drains from her industry. No bright visions of future greatness and magnificence will occur to the minds of her citizens; but in the gloo my vista of the future, they will be hold only the toils and dangers that beset their career. They will be doom ed to wage |ierpetual warfare with the elements of fanaticism and oppression, while the fruits of their labor will be seized from rude hands is the great lever of power—of nation al greatness. No ninn, no State can thrive without it. It is a necessary and divine institution. The sweat th.-it falls from the brow of honest foil is tbe rain; blessed by Heaven, which fer tilizes and enriches the laud. Let our young men take a pride in useful nursuits. Let pursuits. Let the talent and before their eyes by the energy devoted to politics and the pro- of an arbitrary govern- Cessions, (now overstocked) be coneen- ment, to feed and fatten the greedy monoiiolists of the North. RUTLEDGE. From tlie Southern Press. TO THE PLANTERS OF TIIE SOUTH. Is it your desire to establish commer cial Independence f Are all your as sertions mere idle boastings, “Like an idiotVtale, All sound and fury, sifiuifying nothing.” What good will secession, disunion, or anything of this kind do you, if your great interests still remain in the hands of your enemies? Would not a Convention of planters, subscribing cotton bales for the basis of some good practicable commercial movement in relation to continental Europe, bo a greater and surer pian lor independence dirkct tm adk-™i*olixii than fifty Nashville conventions, that leave no traces of action or advance ment behind? You liave the power, the means, the elements of commercial and political supremacy. Why do you not use them? Suppose you electa Southern rights man to Congress in Mississippi, but qpnd your cotton to New York, or through Northern agents in your own ports, to your other groat enemy—England I Suppose you car ry the whole ticket in Alabama, yet deliver over yonr wealth to the North? The excuse tliat you have no money to compete with these opiKincnts, is frivo lous. Yon do not need it. Your cot ton is money. Is not the whole Liv erpool and New York cotton ope ration based upon a fictitious capital, made available alone by its connexion with your cotton. You have friends upon the continent of Europe. Money is plenty there, and if yon will only invite it, it will be at your feet .Money, too, from people who sympathize with yon, who have never interfered with your domestic institutions. People, who are jealous of, and rivals of, England ; people who have the metuu of rescuing you from the grasp of oppression. Tbe planters must move. You must meet, and not for passing resolutions, t I (except those of commerce and instruc-1 tionr ur agents and merchants,) but ust meet aud act. frieoua, iiout distinction trated upon our agricultural and com mercial interests. An action of this sort would do more to strengthen this 1 Union, and to give the Fouth what they demand noir.nnd quiet agitation, than all the compromise bills ever pas sed. Virginia in September will strike a blow’, mu it is a meeting of mer chants. 'iTien let the planters attend the mass meeting at Macon, Georgia, and so let the ball keep moving. Mis sissippi will follow, with Alabama— ! Texas, with her wool and cotton. But remember, that unless you, unless the planting Interest acts directly, individ ually, and with combined determina tion and firmness, every other ofljprt will fail. Then let the cry lie “ indk- I’KNDKVr ACTION OF TUB PLAKTBK— At. KUUALITY.” | Private Chau actor of a Loco motive.—People who may see n loco motive tearing up and down the land at the rate of forty miles an hour— making the vert’ earth tremble beneath its giant tread, and the heavens them selves reverberate with its fearful clat ter—scaring nature with its unearthly din, and frightening all creation from it-, propriety, almost—people who only ! see it in its activity have no idea what eminently social virtues it is endowed I with, flits is their public character. Their private one is another allair.— Now and then one of these lingo-mon sters, in whoso iron bowels slumber more than a thousand giant power, comes rip and stands under our win dow and smokes away as gently as the most exemplary cooking stove, its huge steam pipes singing a strain as soft and as dulcet as the most amiable tea-kettle, and its lungs of steel brea thing ns sweetly as an infant in its slumbeis. But the demon of power is there. Let any one but pinch its ears, and up venerable cat, will spit more fiercely; let him gripe those iron hands and the pipes which wore tuned to so soft a strain, sent forth a yell ns if heaven ami earth were coming togeth er, aud those lungs which first breath ed so quietly, cough like a volcano— and oft’ it goes, darkening the heavens with its dense volume of smok . [N. If. Telegraph. A Clergyman in Scotland desired his hearers never to call one another liars, lint when any one said a thing that was not true, they ought to whistle. One Sunday he preached a sermon on a parable of the loaves and fishes and be ing at a loss how to explain it, he said the loaves were not like those fiow-a days, they were as big a< the hills of Scotland. He had scarcely pronoun ced tbe words, when he heard a ioud whistle. ‘ What’s that?’said he, ' who calls me a liar ?’ ‘It is I, Willy McDonald, the baker.’ ‘ Weel, Willy, what objections ha’ye to what 1 told ye V 'None Master John, only I wanted to fcntnv what sort of ovens they had to bake those loaves in ?’ H ard Drinking.—An Irishman be ing requested to define bard drinking, said it was sitting on a rock and sip ping cold water. Tin* Jco with tub Bottom orr.— In one of Dr. Tyng’s travels he had met with an emigrant, journeying with bis family to tbe fertile regions beyond the Mississippi. He had all his world ly goods packed on wagons, aud on one wagon there hung a huge jug with the bottom kuocked out. He asked him why he carried that w ith him.— “Why,” said he, “that's my Taylor jug?” he, “I had a son with General Taylor’s ar- army in Mexico and the old General always told him to carry his w hiskey jug with a hole in the bottom ; and since that 1 have carried my jug ns you see it; aud I find it is the best in vention I ever met with.” j.. H . “And what is a Taylor asked my friend. “Why,” said ALABAMA. “It is a pleasant sight to sec every thing smooth and suiilling within the same walls. To have no separate in terests, no difficulty ofhuinor, no clash- of pretensions to contest with: where everbody keeps to his order and en deavor to make himself acceptable; where envy and contempt liave no place, but where it is a pleasure to see others pleased.” Don’t Gkcmhlk.—He is fool that grumbles at every little mischance.— Put the best foot forward, is an old and good maxim. Don’t run about and tell acquaintances that you have been unfortunate. People do not like to have unforunate men for acquain tances. Add to a rigorous determina tion spirit; if reverses come, liear them like a philosopher and get rid of them as soon as you can, Poverty is like a panther: look it steadily in the face, and it w ill turn from you. Of the population of the earth it is computed that one dies each second.— at every beat ofyour pulse, with every 1 1 tick of the clock, a soul passes into I eternity. Too Observing.—The Husband of a beautiful wife upon returning home, was met by one of his .offspring, all smiles clapioug his hands aud saying “Pa, Mr. B has been here—he is such a nice man—he kissed us <*H n- rouud, and mother tool* Principle and Practice.—Is it right to inflict a slight act of iujoatice 1 is it right to bear one i, Every mau of courage and independence will at once answer. No! The same princi ple which leaves me doubtiug and un certain ; when 1 tamely submit to one wrong, w ill utterly abandon me, when I suffer another, and so by do grees, 1 shall become the veriest of slaves.— What! shall a freeman admit that he is oppressed, and counsel submision. because forsooth, the odds are against him. Away with die dastard thought! It is idle to talk of tbe best inode# of action, when the assissin’a knife is at a man’s throat. All that remains for him at at such a moment is the use ,ot his own right arm. He must up* wait for his friends to pome, and help him or cry “co-operation,” till he sees Lis children levelled with the iruid-colored sons of Africa. A \Y OMAN. A Quandary.—A baker wife bmli anus in dough up to his elbows, aud a * Sav. Pc-'lt! tlF'-nrom/ • Edgofe-U Aiwrtleor. ads I Fonu your foreign alliances. EsI lish yoor correspondents. Subscribe vow ootton, and invite capital. You can get advancer, and even extraordi nary facilities Or, are you satfeded Smart Rbi*ly.—A Commercial traveller left an article belonging to his wardrobe at an inn and wrote to the flea in the leg ol his trow’sers! Meet as j chambermaid to forward it to him by of party. J the coach; in answer to which he re ceived the following IV - - “fe-WTfc! r*- “I hope, dear sir, you 11 ifeUeei hurt. I’ll frankly tell you sBabout »t ; I’ve made a sbiftjtith y<*r old tiurt, , . , - , And jou roust » dd* without ft ’ of wire* Good.—It is threatened an ex- I change piffter, that if the ladies intro."" : duce the Turkish fhshion of trnwoers, feat the men wiif' introduce another t Turkish fashion, which is a m»)tiplicity