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this right is not revolution-i seeks change in
the organic law; the very reason it has been brought
into exercise 10, that that organic law has been vio-
lated. But say some, secession is revolution for
the moment State secedes from the compact, that
she places herself in hostile array against the Gov
eminent Now this is about as lame conclusion as
the other; for the hostile attitude is not necessary
attendant secesson-she does not become belllg-
erent In fact, but only in apprenticeship provides
| no means for attack, but only for defence; and all
this she does, from CHOICE but from well found
! ed fear that she may herself be attacked. AND no
wonder she entertains such fear, when you nave IL
openly proclaimed from the highest seats In the SYN
agogue that the federal Constitution Is actually su-
perior to the reserved rights of the STATES
The States who have refused to carry out IN gooo
faith the Compromise, we have before said you have
no means of reaching, only through the General
! Government Bear with them while ionger-shoot
| no "souibs' - at them; for you have shot In the
whence comes all your ills. The other is but the
effect but that :. Pandora's boz" is the cause.
Speak out then, and say to the General Government
in firm but respectful language, "hat the encroach-
ments of the North tine domestic institutions OF the
South have already proceeded to the farhes allowa-
BILE point.' Let them know that from henceforth
there must be ED of these things, or that North
Carolina will fall back upon her reserved rights,
and withdraw from Confederacy which seems
likely to become rather curse than blessing 1es
proclaim this determination from the highest pinnacle
Of your Capitol. Let it reach Boston, and even the
blue hills of law-defying Vermont. After you shall
have spoken, authorize and empower your Gov
ernor to announce this your determination, to the
Congress of the United States and clothe him with
the further power f the occasion calls for N 10 call
Convention of the people, who alone have the right
to dictate all future movements. Do this, and you
will have done your duty; but stop short OF this, and
you only invite repetition of the aggression
! In conclusion, let it not be thought that we wish
to weaken that ardent attachment with which you
cling common Union. By no means; for the
Constitutional Union has the highest seat in the attic
story of affections. Ue have not yet given 1t up
for like the ivy encircling the stately oak of the
forest, we still clasp 1t around and refuse to unloose
the tendrils of Affections although that oak has
been riren again, and yet again, by bolts forged
under its cooling shades PEDEE.
A COMMENTARY. Bishop Capers, of South Caro-
lima, gentleman of great piety, was the owner OF
large plantation and one hundred slaves. few years
ago he was seized with the emancipation fever, and
resolved to them free. He gave up to their use
for three years. the plantation and all that was upon
it; horses, cattle, farming utensils, and all, telling
them that if they succeeded well. at the end of that
time, they should have their freedom and all they had
made. When that time had expired, he found that
they had made nothing, that the stock all killed
for their use, that all the farming implements were
destroyed, that the horses had died and not been
placed that there was In the courthouse, or
cotton at the gin, and that they the point of
starvation. He became satisfied that they were in
capable of shifting for themselves and very wisely
took them once more under his own charge.
EleTe we nave uluSlTduOn Oh In6 way III WHICH
the chimercal schemes of abolitionsts and emancpa
tionsts would work, could they be carried out. The
African not fitted for liberty, either by nature
education They prone 10 take, in too enlarg
ed and literal sense, the injunction OF Scripture that
men should take no thong ht for to morrow.
The difference between them and the whites in this
respect. is not the result of difference in education
alone, but it natural difference. The free negroes,
who have enjoyed, rather who have been cursed
with iberty-some for half a century and others for
shorter neFlO1. az i'm aS slaves
Their having been thrown upon their own resources,
has wrought no change in their nature, for the
worse. 1t has only rendered them more indolent
and depraved. 1t may be said that this is the result
of their remaining amongst slaves their associates,
and being compelled TO occupy position in which
they exercise none of the rights of citizens. In some
of the free States this is their situation and yet their
condition and character there, better, is it
good as they here. We verify believe that Afri-
can slaves are just in the position for which Pro-
violence wisely designed them, both for good and
theirs. To him who would change their condition,
by cursing them with liberty, strongly inclin
ed to say.
- Go teach eternal wisdom how to rule,
Drop into myself and be fool.''
That slavery has the sanction of Holy Writ is too
clear to need more proof than has been freqenty
exhibited of late by the most learned dvines and
Indeed, some of the viest abolitionists
have been forced TO maintain their consistency by
jectng the bible, because it sanctioned slavery.
Communionism in France, abolitionsm, Fanny
tion OF Union the offspring of common
moon-struck parent, threatening in their mad march
10 overthrow society," to destroy the relations Of hus
band and wife. and servant to make an equal
distribution of property, and to remove all incentives
to honest industry and virtuous conduct.
What will save the South from these evils1 AZ
rcan Slavery-good negroes well treated and proper
y managed in the place OF the vicious of the
tries, who, escaping from the iron rule of tyranny,
arrive daily in orthern free States, mad with
liberty, defyng all restraints human and divine. He
who would destroy it it exists in the Southern States
would remove the and true foundation of our
publican institutions; foundation which will sus-
tain the Southern portion of magnificent political
abric when the Northern end of it, resting as it were
upon sand, shall have toppled to the earth, and left
"a rock behnd.'' May country be saved
from the mad rawlings of fanatics, and the machina-
tons of wicked men! Fredericksburg Recorder.
PENNSYLVANIA AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. A. L.
Russell, Esq. Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Pennsy lvana, and ex-oficio Superintendent of the
Common Schools, in his annual report the Legsla-
ture, offers the plan of State institution, for special
instruction in the theory and practice of agriculture
and for general instruction in all the branches of
high school course. The propriety and usefulness
OF such institution is ably argued by the Supern-
possible facility to the advancement of agricultural
science is strongly enforced. The plan in its details
embraces institution large enough for the insruc-
ton of 500 pupils at time, three hundred to be sup.
ported by the State, and two hundred their own
personal The State pupils selected from every
county, in the ratio of three pupils for each member
of the House of Representatives the selection to be
determined by the standing of the candidates in the
common schools, that admission to the State nsti-
tuition should be the highest reward of merit. The
term of instruction for the State pupils should be not
less than six years, commencing about the age of