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hands. The plain meaning of this re-
sponse by the News is that no action
whatever is to be taken within the limited
term of the State Convention. Their
platform is becoming more and more de.
veloped, and, as each successive plank is
exposed to view, it is becoming more man.
ifest that the whole structure will be found
modelled after the Georgia platform
submission. The sooner this is known
tile better, for we then can meet an enemy
without any danger of wounding friend.
Our friends, we think, will see how vain
it is to be casting the pearl of Cancellation
before such party.
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From the South Carolinian:
Cancellation Rejected.

Our good friends in Camden recently
adopted resolutions Of conciliation, and
the Edgefeld Southern Rights Associa-
ton, in their exposition to which we al
luded the other day, called on the CO.
operationists to unite with them in some
declaration of principles, with view to
harmony. Here is the answer OF one OF
their leading organs, the Charleston Eve
ming News:
"Where the end is the same but the
means are so different we know not now
harmony can be produced. The limit to
the duration of the convention has been
indicated in various letters Of the imme-
diate secession leaders, as one year from
the period of assembling ii the spring OF
1852. Now this is the limit also within
which these leaders are willing to wait
for Southern cooperation:
"Therc can be no agreement here be-
tween the actionists, as they are called,
and the co-operationists, because the lat
ter conceive that such limit, being affron:
tive to our Southern sisters, must and
would defeat cooperation. The dictation
implied in thus narrowing the period OF
acouiescence to those who should be our
associates is an assumption of power by
a minority over the majority. Would this
be borne by those who claim equality,
whether in the Union or out of it! Would
South Carolina submit to be thus cribbcd
and con6ned9 Should she not give her
Southern confederates, if confederates
thew are to be, the same share OF credit
for pride that she herself would exact
It is an assumption Of a most offensive
character for any single State to say tc
her associates in interest, in wrongs, ano
should be in remedies, we will give you
inst one year to decide whether or mo-
Won will unite with US. The plain mean
inc of this is that we will force you into
position in which you must either sym
pathizo with us or oppose us, thus divest
inc the other parties to the alliance OF al
independence of Judgment. This is wha
is called dragooning, and the unprece
dented presumption of the proceeding
would consist in one of the parties, near
" the most limited in territory, popuiia
ton, and resources, deciding for all thu
rest. We believe that history is wlthou
a parallel to such an extravagant assump
ton of superiority"
We are rather pleased than otherwls !.
that the co.operationists are showing thcl
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Southern Congress were aIisecessionisss,
and will doubtless select candidates OF the
right faith. We do not feel at liberty to
indicate the persons upon whose shoul-
ders the mantle will fall, butwe can assure
the fortunate, who ever they may be, that
they will receive an overwhelming vote in
our District, and as we think, in the Con-
grcssicnal District. In Union we believe
the future will bear us out in the assertion,
that at least eight-tenths Of the people are
in favor of secession, while we are as
firmly convinced, that one half of the
other fifth will cheerfully gowith the State
when she acts. Yet, notwithstanding this
unparalleled unanimity in public senti
meht, we profoundly deplorey the necessi-
ty of being compelled to make the issue.
The policy of the secession party from
the time Of the first appearance of division
in the ranks of the resistance men of the
State, has been Cancellation and harmony,
union and cooperation at home, for the
sake of cooperation abroad. They have
carefully and consistently avoided course
calculated to drive their cooperation, and
ultimate secession friends from them, be-
lieving and hoping that ere long it would
be apparent to all, that the prospects for
cooperation before secession would van
ish, and that the only remaining hope for
cooperation, would be found in the act Of
single State secession. Georgia has long
since taken her stand for the Union, in
submitting to the past; Alabama too, has
declared in favor of the detestable COM
promise; and Mississippi, before this time,
perhaps, has endorsed the abolition policy
of the Fillmore dynasty. Where is CO.
operation to come from then! How are
we to get it! We answer, by secession,
the single secession of South Carolina.
. That secession will bring about co-opera-
ton, we think there is scarcely doubt.
If we ever had misgivings on this point,
, the letter of Speaker Cobb, Of Georgia,
to tue Macon committee, would remove
; them. 1t will be remembered, that Mr.
t Cobb is the submission candidate for Go.
vernon of Georgia and denies the right ot
! secession; and yet this gentleman, in oul
! humble opinion, stands pledged to CO.
S operate with South Carolina, if she Sc
cedes from the Union. Our reason fol
this belief is his answer to the following
: question, propounded to him by the South
ern Rights committee ofNMacon county
to wit: ss'a
# do you believe that State, by virtue
= of her sovereignty, has the right pcacea
9 bly, to secede from the Union2 Or is i
d your opinion that the General Govern
! ment has the constitutional authority tt
. coerce her to remain in the Union? AM
e should call be made upon the militia, t.
!. aid in attempting to coerce a seeding
State, would you, if in the executive office
J. obey such requisition?"
m After showing that such call could no
Of be made upon the militia until after al
10 act of Congress for that purpose, MI
lr Cobb answers as follow:
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From the state-Rights Republican.
Georgia Politics and Politicians

A correspondent, writing from Nacoo.
chee Valley, under date of the 9TH instant,
gives us the following interesting informa.
tion respecting the prospects OF. the South.
ern rights cause in Georgia:
NAcoocHEE VALLEY, Sept. 4,
You may be pleased to learn that the
Southern Rights cause is gaining ground
in Georgia. In the mountain districts.
under the very nose of that scape-goat
OF the Union, Fillmore, Fedcral.pap party
of Georgia-Mr: Speaker Cobb find
sensible and intelligent men, who dare to-
speak in defence OF South Carolina, and to
say she is right. Nothing has injured
the cause of progress, the diffusion of
light upon Federal politics here, more
than the course of the "soidislant" CO...
operation party of South Carolina. Our
"a5 e:l:i;':! E,:SiZ IT. :" ~
'niinenco open inc pa1iic s.,a,.. aae: nien
~ ~, ~ ,.rl;ti,s.
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- ~ - - ~ %
drum-in the very clash of arms--and
who can doubt the result. Georgia will
then cooperate with US; North Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, and indeed the
whole South, for the same reasons, will
soon follow suit, and a second indepen-
dence achieved. Secession, then, it must
be seen, is now the only hope for cooper
alton, and Georgia stands pledged if Cobb
is elected Governor.
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From the Anderson Gazette.
The advantages of Secession.


To those of our anxious politicians
who challenge loudly for the benefits Of
secession, we would say, read the speech
OF the Hon. ]. L. Orr, in to.day's paper
ltis true it was delivered some time ago
before many of the new and astounding
dangers of this measure were discovered
yet, it contains great deal of good sound
doctrine. Doctrine which we warmly
applauded then, and which we are even
now promulging, in our own humble way.
To those who desire to adopt no meas.
ure unless it will pay in dollars and cents,
this argument will be invaluable. Here
it is demonstrated, in that most satisfac-
tory of all modes, by actual figures, what
we would gain by secession. We pay
for the support Of the General Govern
ment $500 per head, and receive in re-
turn little else than abuse, oppression and
rank injustice. BY this Government we
have already lost our equality, and it is
daily subtracting from our pockets three.
tourths of its monstrous expenses. Our
State Government, which according to
our Representative, furnishes all, every
thing necessary for the.security, convent
ence and happiness of the people, costs
Us =! g"n.s - ::G;,7 ~. all
>. -. =
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5niscellnneolls.
A Painful Case.

An account of recent trial at the Old
Bailey, in London, Lord Chief Justice
1indal presiding.
George Hammond, portrait painter,
was placed at the bar, to be tried on an
iadictnentfound against him by the grand
jury for wilful murder, with malice afore-
thought, of George Baldwin, a rope
dancer and mountebank The prisoner
was man of middle height, but slender
form. His eyes were blue and mild, His
whole bearing gave evidence of subdued
sadness and melancholy resignation. He
was forty.one years of age, had a soft
voice, and his appearance and manner
bore testimony to his being man9of dis
tinguished education, in spita cf 4. l..
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eff State should secede, it would be
the most fearful issue that ever the people
OF this country had been called on to de.
eide, since the days of the revolution
so momentous, SO vital to the interest Of
the people of Georgia, that should feel
bound to ascertain the will of the people
before | acted. | should endeavor to be
the executive Of the aciH of the people of
Georgia. TO ascertain that will, should
convene the legislature of the State, and
recommend to them to call convention
of the people; and it would be for that
convention, representing the people upon
that naked issue, to determine whether
Georgia rould go out of the Union and
ally herself and peril her deslinics uith
the seeding State, or whether she would
remain in the Union and abide the for
tunes of her other sisters"
Here are the sentiments of Mr.. Cobb,
who believes that secession will bring
about war, and consequently an attempt
on the part of the General Government
to coerce seeding State. In that event,
we maintain that Mr.. Cobb is pledged to
cooperation, and here we beg our CO.
operation friends to remember, that Mr..
Cobb positively denies the right of State
to secede, and refuses to cooperate before
secession, asserting that the question be.
comes practical one only after the act
of secession, and that before, it is an alb.
stractlon and wrong in the theory. Let
US make the practical issue that Mr.. Cobb
speaks of; let South Carolina sccede, and
let us suppose then, that the General Go.
vernment, with all the army and navy it
mas, is brought into requisition to coerce
South Carolina, and conflict, bloody
conflict of arms ensues. Let US suppose
90, that thousands of Georgia. sons have
llready focked to the Palmetto standard,
whose blood is freely minging with that
If Carolinians in the cause of the South,
the cause Of Georgia, and the General
government has called on the State of
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!. ...., .,mns ii.c past with The present hour,
And its brcalll-the voice Of fame.
Then let us sing, as we merrily fling
The slender letters around,
A glorious thing is our laboring,
Oh, where may its like be found!
Print, comrades, print! God hath ordained
That man by his toll shall live;
Then spurn the charge that we disdaincd
The labor that God would give!
We envy not the sons of ease,
Not the lord in princely hall,
But bow before the wise decrecs
In kindness meant for all,
Then let us sing, as we nimbly fling
The slender letters round,
A glorious thing is our laboring,
Oh, where may its like be found Z
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WAS CdiIeu uFoh iOi ''I
The prisonerithen addressed himself TO
the court and jury:
"My lord" said he, "my justification
is to be found in a recital of the facts.
Three years ago, lost daughter, then
four years Of age, tile sole memorial left
Of nv beloved wife, whom it had pleased
God to recallto himself. lost her; ). but
did not sec her die, as | had seen her
mother die. She disappeared-she was
stolen from me. She WAS a charming
child, and but for her had nobody in the
world to love me. Gentlemen what l
have suffered cannot be descrihcd-,you
cannot comprehend it. have expended
in ADVERTISING and fruitless searches every
thing possessed-furniture, pictures
even to my clothes. All have been sold.
For three years, and on foot, have sought
for NV child, in all the cities and all the
villages in the three Kingdoms. As soon
as BY painting portraits succeeded III
gaining little money, returned to Lon
don to recommence my advertisements in
the newspapers. At length, on Friday
the 18th of April last, | crossed the Smith
field cattle market. In the centre OF the
market a troupe of mountebanks were
performing their feats. Among them
child was turning on its head, its legs il
the air aud its head supported by hal
herd. A ray from the soul of its mothe
must at that m ,ment have penetrated m.
own, for me to have recognised my chil'
in that condition. 1t was my poor child
Her mother would perhaps have preciplta
ted herself towards her, and locked her
self in her arms. AS for me, veil pass
ed over my eyes. I threw myself upo'
the chief of the rope-dancers. | moN
not how it was; |, habitually gentle, eve
to weakness, seized him by his clothes
raised him in the air, then dashed him
the ground-then again. He was deat
Afterwards repented what | had dom
At the moment regretted that was olll
able to kill hut one"
Lord Chief Justice Tindal.-Ihese al
not Christian sentiments. How can yo
expect the court and jury to look wit
favor on your defence, or God to pardo
YOU, if you cannot forgive?
Prisoner-"I know, my lord, what wi
be your Judgment and that of the jur
but God has already pardoned me; fe
it in my heart. You know not kne
not then-the whole extent of the e'
that man had dope me. When son
compassionate people brought me n
daughter in my prison, she was no long
my child; she was no longer pure al
angelic as formerly; she was corrupte
body and soul-her manner, her languae
infamous. like those Of the people wi
whom she had been living. She did n
recognise ne, and no longer recognis
her myself. Do you comprehend no,
That MAJ, had robbed me Of the love a
soul Of my child. And IL have kill
him but once"
Foreman" Ny lord, we have asre
in our verdict"
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NEVER despair in adversity. Work
and persevere. When wheel is going
round, the bottom must turn upward
some timo.
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y -
UNION D1sTR1cr:-Ata public meeting
held at Padgett's Creek, Union, Hon. W.
H. Gist and Hon. Dan. Wallace addressed,
the meeting. Invitations were extended
to any present, who differed from the
views of the speakers, to address the
meeting, but none accepted the invitation.
The following declaration was then unan-
imously adopted:
owe, the people of the western portion
of Union District, being in our primary
assembly, do solemnly declare that we are
unalterably opposed 10 remaining longer
in this Union, as at present administered;
and that we will uso every means that
God and nature have put into our hands
to effect its dissolution and assert our free,
dom-due regard being had to the senti-
ments of our brethren of the other South;
ern States; and, in flrtherance of this,
object, do pledge our prompt support to
any measures OF redress that may be or
dained by the sovereign people Of South
Carolina, in convention assembled, be
they ever SO speedy and ever SO indepen.
dent in their nature, and be the mode of
action what it may"
Mr.. BURT on Co-OpEnAT1oN.--We
have understood from several wh6 were
present at dinner given at Bradley's
Old Field recently, that Mr.. Burt proved
to the satisfaction of his hearers that all
hope of cooperation in resistance to the
aggressions of the past was in vain. A
writer in the Abbeville Banner corrobo'
rates the statement, and says that the
gentleman took up our co-States seria.
tim to demonstrate the correctness OF
his opinion on this point.
Here then is testimony from an &C,
knowledged leader of the cooperation
party, that cooperation is out OF the
question at prcsent-Columbia sou'a
Caroliniau.
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A FIRM faith is the best divinity, a good
life the best philosophy, a clear conscience
the best law, honesty the estpolicy, and
temperance the best physic.
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.o&a. ~; n,.t
ta ,,.....,.s, - > ;;}Ijj-,:. .s-~
$. ,a~.,a g, ~ s.,'f.d y =;
.av.s 20. ,a.al~ .r .':is LII: NJ -
r.,-.h., .,l... viii :. sharp .a'rs'
~. -. .,.3 ~. i, .,a ~ :, ra.':nr -
Ky temper.
Auguss.-Thc man will be ambitious
and courageous he will have two wives.
The lady will be amiable and twice mar
ried, but her second husband will cause
her to regret her first.
Sep.cmbcr.-He who is born in this
month will be strong, wise and prudent
but will be too easy with his wife, who
will give him great uneasiness. The lady
will be round faced and fair haired, witty,
discreet, amiable, and loved by her friends.
Octobcr.-The man of this month will
have a handsome face and florid COM
plexion; he will be wicked in his youth
and always inconsistent. He will prom
ise one thing and do another, and remain
poor. The lady will be pretty; little
fond of talking; she will have two hus,
bands, who will die Of grief--she will
best know why.
Norember.-T'he man born in thi:
month will have fine face and be gay
deceiver. The lady of this month vii
be large, liberal, and full Of novelty.
Decem5cr.-The man born in thi
month will he good sort of person
though passionate. He will devote him
, self to the army, and be beloved by hi
wife. The lady will be amiable and hand
r some, with good voice, and well pro
portioned body; she will be twice mar
i ried, remain poor, but continue honest.
: AND WHAT NExT?--A gentlema
: riding near the city, overlook youn
= man, and invited him to a seat in his Cal
n riage.
v And what" said the gentleman t
II the young stranger, care your plans ic
the future %
o al am a clerk" replied the young maj
l. "and my hope is to succeed, and get int
e. business for myself
y "And what next?" said the gentleman
"Why | intend to marry and set up a
re establishment of my own" said the yout
III "And what next!"
III "Why, to continue in business and a
N cumuate wealth"
"And what next?'
i'll "To retire from business, and enjc
y, the fruits of my labor"
el "And what NEXT"
W "lt is the lot Of all to die, and
Vii course cannot escape" replied the youn
nc stcr.
~ "And what ncxt?" once more ask
er the gentleman but the young man HI
I'd no answer to make-he had no purpos
ID, that reached beyond the present lille.
re-,
tn A FIRM faith is the best divinity, a 60
ot life the best philosophy, a clear conscicn
ed the best law, honesty the bestpollcy, a
v! temperance the best physic.
nd -
ed NEVER despair in adversely. Wa
and nerseyere. When n wheel is gol
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4)oetrY,
GO AHEAD.

uU huEhUt
Go ahead-and do not tarry,
Nought is gained by standing still;
What though you at times miscarry,
Let not tears your bosom fill;
Search the causes of your errors.
Gather wisdom from the past,
To tile wind give idle terrors-
And you'll get ahead at last!
Go ahcad-in useful daring,
Letyour motto bc-"I try;"
Hc, who is ever despairing,
Bankrupt heart and hopes is nigh.
What though wealth and you are strangers,
Onward, onward be your aim;
And those real or fancied dangers,
Soon you'll put to flight or shame!
Go alicad-thc World reforming,
In civil, moral, freedoms name,
All those forts and outpost storming,
Which your enemies may claim;
Yield no bulwark, take no quarter,
Compromise no cherished right,
freedoms treasure nevcr barter,
But stand for them with your might!
Go ahcad-don't defer it,
Life's short span soon fits away,
If you'd finish ought of merit,
You must ply your task to-day,
Set the ball in instant motion,
10 keep it going strain each nerve,
No doubt, ultimate promotion
Will yield the laurcls you deserve!
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THE PRINTERS SONG.

Print, comrades, print! a noble task
Isthc one we gaily ply;
'Tis ours to tell to all who ask
The wonders o' Garth and sky,
We catch the thought, all glowing warm,
AS it leaves our editors brain,
And nlann tho s,nr>~ -.r -.,Ir-:,,~ r,---
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4)olihfal,
From the Unionvile Journal.
Separate Secession.

We publish in another column the pro
ceedings Of public needing held on Fri
day last, at PadgePs Creek, in the West.
ern portion of this District. We had not
the pleasure of being present at this meet.
ing, but are informed it was most enthu-
siastic in favor of the secession of South
Carolina, solitary and alone, as soon as
it was ascertaihed that:no other State
would join her. The number present was
estimated at from one thousand to twelve
hundred, and not single3voice was heard
in opposition to the resolution or declara-
ton of rights and duties, which we pub
lish. We are informed, also, that the
meeting was one of free discussion, but
that none attended for that purpose except
seccssionists. The meeting was address
ed by the Hons. D. Wallace and VIM. HI.
Gist, both taking decidedgrounds in favor
of South Cardinals resnlning her rights
delegated to the General Government,
with or without cooperation.
To this we take pleasure in adding
second demonstration in Favor of seces-
sion, made in the Court House on-Mons-!
';lt i:ss' ~. s,r";IsE CO, X. 4.
sic ia'F~F Gi;ina, aa5r ;.;s,si.;ss.t;.
f:"r .:e:..>i'. :: Maaulsa;:,, IL" Sc5:i
-. ,-'s''a'Hsr 8: ~ - -" ,'.i>
..af,:s
- f'r.,:
- -. g.. l.--;..
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W. iiS otCSo.
On being called OF
soner admitted that b.,
and he deplored the at
that on his soul and CT,
believe himself guilty.
8 : .tr.tt!
Indictment Vas then r.
the act of killing adj
ment rested their cas-
was called unon for hi
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We will cling to the Pillars the