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VOL. XVI.--hO 8S;

to drive multitudes of our citizens from the
State, by the crushing weight of public ex-
penditures, l would seek this separate nation
ality. If | wished to rip up the bowels of
the State, and have her torn to pieces by civil
discord, would seek this separate NATIONAL
ity. In short, if wished to do the most un-
wise and calamtous act imaginable, I would
ardently seek this separate nationality. But.
as Iwish none of these things, am unaltera-
bly, opposed to this idea of separate nation
ality.
The Southern States having pronounced
against disunion, common sense requires US
for the present, to aequesce in their decision.
For the future, the North must either cease
their aggressions or renew them. If they
cease, then our situation will be better in the
Union than as a separate nation. If they re-
new them, rs l think they will, the South will
be compelled to unite, and we will have
Southern Confederacy. The great truth, that
Southern Confederacy must be spontane-
Gus matter with the Southern people-that
they are entirely aversc to it now, admonish-
es us to pause. When the fruit is ripe we
will gather ito attempt to do so sooner, is
to court disappointment.
With great respect,
Yours very sincerely,
w. w. BOYCE.
Messrs. John Landrum, Daniel Holland, J. C.
Allen, j. C. Smyly, S w. Nicholson-Com-
mittee.
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CoLUMR;A, Sept. Is, 1851.


Gcntlemen-I have tie honor to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your cordial invitation 10
attend mass meeting o. the co-operaionists
of Edgcfeld. Permit lie 70 thank you for
your kind consideration and to express my
sincere regret that cannot join you.
l believe, gentlemen our people are tho
roughly aroused to tile Gngcrs which threat
en- the State, from to, preciptate attempt
to remedy our almost irtolerable grievances,
md that they will soon conclude that true re.
sistanco is to be foundin wise and prudent
counsels, and not in rasEimpaticnce. Apow-
er has been appointed ly the people through
the Legislature, to whic our destiny may be
entrusted. Those who eek by clamur to pre-
ordain the action of tint organ, are, in my
judgement, forgetful ofihe highest behests of
constitutional freedom and sincerely trust
the present strife amolg ourselves will soon
yield to that calm Judgement, which alone
should influence true ptriots. Let the State
follow out her ong-setlcd policy of seeking
cooperation by all Lnown honorable means
and thus abiding i. the counsels of Cal
houn and Cheves, am your own Butler, and
fulfilling her plcdgesto the other States and
her own people, and she will soon achieve a
glorious remedy for il our evils sincerely
trust such may be hr course.
Thanking you aain, gentlemen, for your
very kind and tlatteing invitation, beg you
to believe me, grattully and respectfully,
YoulFellow-Citizen,
JNO. S. PRESTON.
Messrs. Landrum, Allen, Holland, Smyly and
Committee.
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with more effect than alb their arguments
The people are asked if they are willing to
take step backwards!-tb back out!! Will
you eat your words and now submit, after all
your hig gh-sounding threats and pledges !!
This appeal to the noble aud generous impul-
ses of a high-minded and cBivalrous people,
is not warranted by the facts of the case. /
renture 10 affirm that South Carolina is not
pledged to separate secession, and that her ho-
nor does not necessarily reqaire it.
1t is now conceded, by high authority with
the secessionists, that the resolutions of our
Legislature, passed in lS4S and lS49, do not
pledge the State to separate secession. If
they contain any pledge at 81 it is, that South
Carolina will cooperate with other States.
But it is contended that the last Legislature
pledged the State by the appropriation of mo-
ncy to provide for the defence. Of the State,
and by passing the Convention Bill. The Bill
providing for the defence Of the State was
passed before the Convention Bill, without
any reference whatever to isi and. am credi-
bly, informed, was first proposed and recon-
mended by those who were opposed to the
call of the Convention. Indeed, 'Arming the
State was distinctly indicated as substitute
for the Convention itself; and as the State
can only sccede through a Convention, how
can the passage Of the "Arrping" Bill pledge
the State to separate secession?
The small amount appropriated, and the
Report which accompanied thei Bill from the
Committee on the Military both prove that
it was intended merely as 6sgiS2ng of that
preparation in relation to 4utu. Southern
Confedcracy, which shows that we are put
ting our house in order, 'not to die, but to live.
| have never been able 10. understand by
what process pledge to separate secession,
could be extracted from the Convention Bill.
The phraseology of the Act itself, both in the
preamble and the body of it, shows that the
first and main object of the Convention was
to consider fany Recommendation the South
crn Congress might make. / The Southern
Congress was to recommend, and not tU act
itself; and hence it was necessary that the
Convention should be called to ratify its pro-
ceedngs. This is also shown by its connec-
ton in the same act with tho provisions for
our Representation in the Southern Congress,
and by the failure of the Convention Bill,
known rs the Senate Bill, in fhet lower house
Of the I.euislature. Tho G1I-,-.s--t;,,, p;n
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If this amounts to pledge, it is in the oplIl-
ion OF very many. Il pledge or direction not
to sccedc. But gentlemen, ! need 90 no
farther back than the May Convention, TO
prove that South Carolina is not pledged to
scecdc: for that very Convention, with all
the previous action of South before them,
and with the assumption that they were The
State "a great mistake by the way) solcunly
and deliberately pledged the State Of South
Carolina to give in good faith 4 fair trial to
any remedy that any of the other States
would recommend to restore our rights with
out Il dissolution of the existing Union. Now
| ask in all candor, if South Carolina is SOL
emnIy pledged to solitary secession, and will
be disgraced if she does not Secede, even
alone, how this Convention could say that
they would try any remedy even short Of
united secession. Gentlemen, the answer is
evident there is no such pledge, and who
could pledge the State. II the Legislature
could do it, it could also seccde Can the SER
want pledge and bind his master. a Conven-
tion were an unnecessary, :; worse than USE
less machine if its action can be forestallcd
and controlled by 4 subordinate body. When
our Convention WAS called we found Missis-
sippi in the position we are now, she had
called her Convention, she had appropriated
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
the defence Of her rights, and after taking
these steps we who only signifed our willing
ness to sustain her, must bear the brunt of
the contest OH her retiring, the wisdom of
such course | nm unable 10 perceive. But
gentlemen, ! have extended these remarks
farther than | intended, and in conclusion
permit me to say that although shared to
some extent in the obloquy that was fecbly
attempted TO be thrown over the first Co.
operation meeting that was holden in South
Carolina, at Hamburg in your District. Yet
that those traitors who dared there to express
their opinion arc destined soon to be partic-
pants in Il glorious triumph. | offer you the
following sentiment:
Hon. A. p. BUTLER: When the counscls
Of such men rs he are unhecdcd, the begin
ming of the end has come
am very respectfully your ob't serv't,
w. A. OWENS,
Mcssrs. LANpRUM, HOLLAND, ALLEN and
others, Committee.
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WlNNsBoRo, Sept. 10, 1851.

Gen'lemen-I am truly sorry that it is out
of my power to accept your kind invitation
for the Goth inst. take occasion to present
you with few observations:
We may assume that the Southern States
repudiate disunion on the past issues. In
view of this great truth, it is evident that Sc
cession will end in the separate nationality of
South Carolina. This separate nationality |
look upon rs nne of the greatest misfortuncs
which could bctall us. If wished to run
counter to the great fundamental maxim of
our policy, (the union ofthc Souh,) I would
urge this separate nationality. flwishcd to
put the priceless treasures of all our individ-
ual and political rights upon the precarious
tenure of entire national tolerance, | would
urge this separate nationality. If l wished
to make sublime submission to all past, pre-
sent, and future aggrcssions, would seek this
separate nationality lfI wished to carry out
in good faith, the abolition policy of restrict
ing slavery. would seek this separate nation
alty. If wished to consume the substance
of the people by enormous taxation, i'll the
prosecution of q suicidal purpose, | would
seek this separate nationality. If wished
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assailed on her own soil. May be pardoned
for venturing to intimate that the incident of
the Knight Of La NlancIla and the windmill,
might suggest itself as Il parallel.
The English lion is in his lair, trembling
with fierce joy at the prospect that in our
rashness he may overthrow slavery and Re-
publieanism at one fell swoop. Let the
demon of discord rise in Southern counscls
which has had life given to it by our prema-
ture action, and then truly will despotism
settle again slowly on firm foundations. We
would be wise if we ewould take counsel from
the Texas experiment; the tyrants hand
which our fathers paralized, was stretched to
throttle her in her isolation, but the great
Caroinian STEPPED in the breach and she was
saved. But Painurus has indeed left the
helm, he is gone to his grave, and the ship he
always guided with honor and in safety is far
on the breakers. Will any one pretend after
what has transpired in Alabama and Missis-
sippi, that the secession of South Carolina
will produce cooperation. Three-fourths,
nay. greater majority in both States have
decided that they will not only, not dissolve
tiS OhioH, oub ttlsit tHcN VIII HOG iCSlSL III
any manner the recent action of Congress,
and this decision has been made in the face
Of the action of the celebrated May Convcn-
ton, which according to the press of this
State was making out such glorious results
We could scarcely open paper but that we
were met with the statement that the action
Of the May Convention was producing CO.
operation, ad li6itun., and how has all this re-
suited, in deriding South Carolina, and the
defeat of the Southern Rights party in Ala
bama and Mississippi. The people of those
States are like people everywhere who have
intelligence and courage, not TO be driven to
take course Of action their judgments do
not approve, and if one-twcnty-eighth of the
Southern people are determined not to ad-
lourn this great issue TO period demanded
by the other twcnty-scven twenty-cighths,
they can reasonably expect to realize nothing
but discontinue and defeat We must not
take it for granted that there are eleven OBJ
stinate men on the jury, and that we must
have always our own way or make mistrial.
If we ever expect to have Southern Union
we must concede something. These over
whclming and excited majorites will cling
much stronger to the Union in our attempts
at this time to force disunion on them, than
- loft to th"n,enlw"s in r;"w nf .c.:c~
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but to as his memory is still holy, his name is
still sacred.
South Carolinians, have we proved true to
his dying charge! Have we guarded our
Palmetto Banner from dishonor? We are
answered by the Carolina war, closed so glo-
riously by our own FEyWIcK, echoed by the
heights of Churubusco-that bloody battle
from which 80 few of our Palmetto boys re-
turned, and those few an orphan band. Car
oIina, thy flag that day was stained with the
blood ofthe noble BUTLER, thy Palmetto Ban
ner formed his pail. We'll did she deserve Il
place in the picture, and the name she won,
.The Harry Hotspur Of the Union" Nobly,
right nobly did her gallant sons defend her
colors, and we can unfurl our standard, un-
stained and beautiful as when MARIoNs men
bore it through the cypress swamps of
Charleston, or SUMTER waved it on the high
hills of Santce. And when darker time shall
come-darker than "Old '76. or Young 'l7'
still, Palmetto boys, remember the words
of our patriot martyr, "Dcath to submission,
Il grave to chains and seryitude," and with the
motto, "God. and our sacred rights engra-
ven OIL your Palmetto shield, 60 forth to vic
tory, or a grave. With ''the blood of the
murdered HAYSE upon the soil;" the sacred
dead of II, sleeping beneath her red earth
the ashes of CALHOUN reposing within her
borders, South Carolina dare not submit and
become slave. While we remember the
words and example of our mighty statesman,
who is gone, the freedom for which he lived
and died, must and shall he ours. Let 9TH
ers sncer ut our glorious little State, and seek
to def;,me her, we will cherish her, love her
and defend her to the last. When that dark
dny comes, and come it surely will, the words
of every South Carolnian will be, millions
for defence, not cent for tribute"
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BARNwEL1, C. H, S. c., Sept. l3, 1851.

Gentlemen: am in receipt of your favor
of the 9Th inst, inviting me to address mass
meeting of the friends of Cooperation, of
Edgcfeld District, on the Goth inst. ltwould
afford me great pleasure to be able to COM
ply with an invitation coming from such q
source, and for such purpose, although l
am we'll aware that my abilities are far from
being commensurate with the position which
you have in your communication so flatter-
ingly assigned me. But gentlemen the plea
sure of meeting you I must be denied, in
consequence of a prior engagement to ad-
dress 4 portion of my constituents on the
same subject, and at the same time.
You request my views if / cannot come,
such as they are they have been heretofore
given to the public and their repetition will
scarcely effect any good to our cause, but as
You desire it, will briefly Indicate some Of
the leading ideas that have occupied my mind
OIL this question.
The people of South Carolina have before
them an issue involving consequences more
tremendous than any that has ever been SUBJ
mittcd for their decision. The secession Of
SoutIt CaTOlllla, ii IL pIONc d laliule, Ni' eh-
gulf in that result every thing we hold dear,
and it becomes US rs patriots to look well to
the consequence before we embark in such IN
enterprise.
l assume that our primary object in all we
do, regarding the position our State ought to
take, is to give security to our domestic III
stitutions, to give protection to African slave
ry--an attempt has been made to present
other issues rs being more or equally PROM
incnt. apprchend incorrectly however, for
when it is admitted as it universally is, that
our own downfall must ensue with the over
throw Of slavery, it appears to me to follow
necessarily that in adopting course best cal
culated TO give protection and security to
slavery, we directly and positively uphold all
the elements which combine to create and
pcrpetuate our happiness as people.
Will the separate nationality of South
Carolina add to the protection of slavery? l
have not yet seen the mode pointed out by
which such a political change will conduce to
that end. What privilege, liberty, or fran
chisc is now denied to slavery that will be
increased or extended, when we become Il
separate nalion-we can 60 to no spot on
- Ill - - ut excluded, when
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mind, Is conclusive; but II II were vtIvi " isv,
how could the Legislature, by calling Con-
vention of the people TO deliberate upon and
determine matter for themselves, Piled &C the
people to any particular decision in the prem
ises! 1t is Il solccism in terms. The Leg
islature could not scccdr, for it has not the
right to do 50. The Legislature called Con-
vcntion to determine whether the State would
act or not and it is absurd to assert that the
Convention by the mere act of being called
into existence, is plcdned to any particular
line of action. The whole subject will be be-
fore the Convention, and | believe that it may
unite the destiny of South Carolina with her
sister Southern States, without defacing her
escutcheon, or furnishing her honor.
Spirit without prudence and wisdom, is not
a safe guidc-it often leads those whose in
tcntions arc pure and honorable, into failure,
disaster and ridiculc.
Ii South Carolina now srccdes, think that
she will not have the aid of any one of the
Southern States. She will have then taken 4
step from which she cannot recede. and which
must lead either to the establishment of an Ill
dependent nationality or utter and complete
ruin-eithcr of which should be avoided The
establishment Of an independent Republic of
South Carolina, would be withdrawal from
the Southern States as well as the Northern.
1t would give our "peculiar Institution" the
scvercst shock that it has ever received, and
postpone for years, if not forever, the foun-
dation of 4 Southern Cunfcdercy. | cannot
pretend 10 predict the consequences of sepa-
rate secession. and will not attempt it. Suf-
flee it to say that it will let tal curtain, be-
yond which no human eye can look.
Very Respectfully,
Your Ob't. Serv't.,
TIIOS. C. PERRIN.
Mcssrs. ]. Landrum, Dan'l Holland, Jno. C.
Allen, Jas c. Smyly, S. W. Nicholson
Committee, &c.
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EDcEFrELD C. H., S. CO.

Sept ~, 1881.
Gentlemen-I am much obliged to you for
your kind invitation TO be present at your
meeting tomorrow, and engage in the politi-
cal discussions now before four people, bat
my official engagements do not permit. me to
leave home at present, nor does my notion of
the proprietics of my station allow me to en-
gage in angry debate. In a late article in the
Edgefcld Advertiser, I have expressed my
opinions frankly and fully, and I beg you to
accept that as sufficient compliance with the
call of duty in the matter
With great respect, -.
:. Your ob't. serv't.,
FIJI. WARDLAW.
Dr.. Jno Landrum and others, Committee, &c.
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AID TO MEMoRy.-When travelling,
put your watch and wallet at pight in
one Of your stockings, and then place
the stocking under your head. 1t will
then be impossible to leave them, unless
you have been accustomed to 60 barefoot
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'i;ls shaken un ,'o
other States have submitted, it is boldly
preached that South Carolina should coop
crate with them in submission. What is
bringing about this change! Who are sha-
ping this course as the final destiny of the
State?
We will tell you: The protesting COOP
erationists of last winter-the men who
said when all reasonable hope of feo-operaton
w;s gone they would act with us. These
are the men, aided by the submissionists in
GreenviIIc and elsewhere throughout the
State, received aid, too, from men who do
not intend to give any aid and comfort to
submission, but who have been entrapped
by the share of co-opcration-these are they
who are now seeking to fasten the policy of
non-action upon the State. Let all true
men unite in rescuing their beloved State
from the degradation that must follow such
policy. The stake, the salvation of our
rights, of State rights and State sovereignty
is worth noble effort; and surely the peo-
pie OF South Carolina do not require any
extra quantity of solicitation to stand up
manfully in defence of their own cherished
principles?
The blindest devotec of cooperation sees
now that there isno hope forit before the State
has acted and yet the learen of submission
ism seems to be leavening the whole lump.
The only fixed principle is opposition to
secession, and, no matter what may be lost,
that must be opposed-evcn rights, honor,
and interest must all be sacrificed 80 that
object succeeds. The people of South Car
olina are not prepared for such destiny.
South Carolinan e. Telegraph.
GOLD TO Buy AND OFFICE TO RETAIy-It
is q fact, against which our eyes cannot be
shut-human nature is full Of errors. We
are apt to discover the mote in our neighbor's
eye, before we cast oat the beam from our
own. A great deal has been said lately with
regard to the effect of Federal bribes upon
certain "great men, and States; and even in
our own "itte Nation of South Carolina"
there are divers dark shrewd whisperings
touching Federal Gold. All We Gun dare say
is, let the matter be cautiously looked into.
South Carolina is the last chance in this grand
rafflc. The bids will be higher, the gold
brighter, the office sweeter; and mortal man
will be solely tempted. Let every Carolinan
therefore recollect the fate of other States.
1t is bad enough to have priralc gold turning
the elections Of such vital Importance as those
which have disgraccd the South ever since
the compromise. And it is a melancholy sat-
isfaction to know that Carolina has heretofore
experienced but little benefit from "Philip's
gold" in any respect: and even now, it can
have but slight foothold within her limits
Yet IF there is any, we trust and believe our
people are not so far engulphed in its charm
ed eddies. as to sacrifice their birth-rightfor a
mess of potage. No, we feel convinced, this
evil at least can never extend far into South
Carolina The very knowledge of its ap-
proach will prove "tho day-star Of reviving
hope."-PalmeLto Flag.
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Oolitical,
FOR THE ADVERTISER.
Proceedings of the Cooperation
HEcetiu2.--COntiM

THE following letters were received by
the Committee of Invitation. at the Co.
operation Meeting, held at Capt. JAS. DoEs's,
on the Goth ult.
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" 4 FOOL is full of words.