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ty OF the governments, wHy -utet-t''cy- NOT,
thoroughly test the conduct of California
Why did they not try this claw of nature
land this decree of God," by the touchstone
of time? If Northern men have no fears,
on the subject, why was the territorial bill for
California, without the Proviso, voted down.
and defeated by their votes? Why has the
country been kept in a fever heat by Abolition
orators, ever since the Mexican war, in order
to prevent Southern men from emigrating to
the new and golden region Of the Pacific, if
their rights, us citizens of this great com-
monwealth had already been denied them by
an ordinance of nature? Has oil this noise
been made, by our brerhren, purely Tor the
love of little harmless, yexatous torture
to see US, the innocent and supplemented
victims Of their wit, writhe under their ele-
cant practical jokes! Has Mr.. Clay too' a
turn for low jcsts $50 keen relish for them'
that he must indulge the vein, at the imminent
peril of his country, and to the burning shame
of the South, his poor prostrate mother that
nourisbed him, in his childhood, from the
bounty of her generous bosom, and' in his
manhood, encouraged and sustained him, with
mothers devoted love, and upheld and
maaniied his growing fame? No-feilow-
Cirizens,LThere is malice in the sport
there is treason in the play. The farce is a
tragedy, whose concluding scenes are all
black with trcachery, and stained with human
gore! STAR hEOooDi'
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cate of South Carolina secession, although
we shall be very happy to learn that he is.
We do not think the politics of the Charles
ton Courier troubles the editor of the South
ern Patriot much. His denunciations are
chiefly levelled at the Charleston Mercury,
the South C1rolinian and the Stale Rights
Republican. These are avowedly secession
newspapers, and it is because they arc so,
and because the editor of the Southern Pa
tatriot finds them rather troublesome and
hard to manage, that he cast about him to see
what he can discover that will be likely to
deprecate them in public estimation. He has
learned that Mr.. Clapp is Northern man by
birth, and he Immediately parades the fact be-
fore the world, as if he had obtained a signal
triumph over him. We have been informed,
whether correctly or not we cannot say, that
Mr. Clapp is native of Kentucky, but where
ever born-and think this not n matter of the
greatest consequence in the world-he is one
of those rare mcn-rare for his genius, schol-
arship and principles.-who confer honor
upon their birth place, but receive none from
it. We cannot say where Mr.. Heart halls
from, but he has long been member of the
editorial fraternity, and is respected as such
for his talents and ability as public journal
ist. Mr. Carew is Charlestonian and Sc
cessionit, as all the editors of the Mercury
arc.
til q great crime, in the estimation of the
Southern Patriot, that the editors of the South
Carozinian are, the one m Irishman by birth,
and the other native of one Of the Northern
States. We do not think the circumstance
of their birth in particular country or cline,
lessons tho estimation in which they arc held
| in his community. 1t their firm and manly
advocacy of the rights and honor Of the
State of their adoption, which renders, and
will always render, their paper respectable
and influential. If Mr.. Johnson is native of
the Emerald Isle, he comes from the land of
great men-who are the champions of liberty
the sons of song. 1t can be no discrcdit to
any citizen of the State to claim for his birth
place the soil that has nourished Burke, q
Curran, a Grattan, Wilberforcc, q Moore
and a Goldsmith, any more than it would dis
honor him if he were born in Massachusetts
the land of Franklin, Hancock, Adams anc
Warren. 1t is not the soil that makes the
men, but it is the men who make the soil o
their nativity glorious. 1t is not the place
where q man is born, but who he is, and wha
he is, that are asked, as the most appropriate
questions at this stage of our history. Th
natives of all States and all nations ar
brought together by the force of circumstan
ccs or their own preferences, in country lik
ours. 1t is no matter where man is borr
if he is true to the State of his adoption, an
performs faithfully his duties rs citizen
We now come to ourselves. "There
another paper in Columbia" says the S0u'"
eru Patriot "now edited, we think, oy
Northern man, with Southern principles
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From the Charleston Mercury.
Keen it before the People.

Mrssps Ep1ToRs:-The Forts in our har-
bor are unnecessarily crowded with troops,
and very much, we are told, to their own dis
comfort. And why should this be? There
,re other stations on the sea-board now un-
occupied, and others but poorly garrlsoned'
vet some six or seven companies must needs
be stationed in Charleston harbor. About
one sixth of the whole United States Artllle-
~ is crowded in Fort Moultrie, which cannot
conveniently accommodate more than two full
companies; into Castle Pinckney which can
illv accommodate one, and into Fort Sumter,
which is but an incomplete pile of Masonry,
and totally unfit for the purposes OF garrl-
son. For this unreasonably and uncomfor-
table as well as unnecessary and premature
srowding of troops in our harbor, there are
two leading reasons. The first is deter
mination to coerce South Carolina by militia.
ry force, rs soon as she attempts to secede
The second is hope of preventing the ne
cessity of coercion, by preventing secession
that is to say, by cooperating with the Sc
called cooperation party in confusing ant
bullying those classes of people, which are t'
be found in all communities, whose politica
pole star is fear, or Government pap.
In this connection there is n mortifyin!
|
fact which people should constantly keep be
fore themselves. There is party in Charles
ton which co-operatcs with the Fillmore ad
ministration in this scheme of intimidation
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VOL. XVI.--NO. "a

We thank the Patriot for the information
that "there is another paper in Columbia"
We occupy so humble position, that we
should, perhaps, have forgotten it otherwise.
That paper is the State Rights Republican,
and the editor referred 10 as "Northern
man, with Southern principles" is the very
editor that is inditing this paragraph. He
was born in Massachusetts, educated at Har-
ward University, became a citizen of South
Carolina in 1924 and has been twice married
here. His children are natives of South
Carolina His grandsire, a STAKEHOLDER, was
native of slaveholding State. He was
the founder of Dartmouth College, and spent
the best part of 4 large fortune, during the
Revolutionary war, in furnishing munitions
and clothing to our suffering soldiers. His
father, at the head of hundred of his parish
oners, marched twenty miles, to erect the de-
fences Of Dorchester Heights, during our
second war of independence. From these
ancestors, he has inherited love of liberty
and independence. His first entrance into
political life was in South Carolina, as men,
Der of the State Rights school, whose prin-
ciples he adopted from thorough conviction
of their truth and their conservative charac-
ter. His first step on the public arena was
ns chairman of the Committee of st. Paul's
Parish, in 1882, 10 draft series Of resou-
tions advocating the notification of the tariff
law of 1928. While editor, for several years,
of the Southern Quarterly Reuie'o-a period
ical which he established by his own efforts
he maintained, whenever occasion called for
it, the principles and doctrines of the State
Rights School, and if there is any reason why
he should not now edit, in conformity with
his own pleasure, and consistently with the
principles of his whole life, Southern Rights
advocating the secession of South
Carolina from the Union, he would like to
Sr,s, = 7. 30 moro -crcditable. he humblY
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From the State Rights Republican.
The Editors of South Carolina.


Under this imposing title, the editor of the
Southern Patriot has poured out his vials of
indignation against two or three of the news
papors of the State, because they have gen.
tlemcn connected with their management who
are not natives of South Carolina. Strange
to say, he includes the Charleston Courier in
this category, which, he says, acame out for
disunion, last fall" The Charleston Courier,
as is well known to the editor of the Southern
Patriot, is not party newspaper. 1t is un-
derstood by every body, who knows any
thing of its character or its history, that it is
a commercial print, and occupies neutral
ground in politics. Without taking sides, its.
columns are open to free discussion. COLI
King, one Of its editors, Pennsylvania, as
we think, by birth, but who, from his boy
hood, has been living in S. Carolina, avowed
his determination, last fall, to sustain the
State, whatever course she might pursue
Mr.. Wilmington, one Of the proprietors of the
concern, gentleman of great responsibility,
wealth and position, is, by birth, a Bostonian,
but has long been citizen of Charleston, and
heretofore, one of its most highly esteemed
Members of the Legislature. He does not
write at all for the Courier, or but very sci.
dom. Mr. Yeadon, another of the partners
is South Carolinian by birth-for long
time the able and ;r1.; .r...'.. .,'i,' = ~
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from dangerous disease, and was already
very much prostrated. He was glad to
see me, and seemed to be in good spirits.
Tears came into his eyes when took his
hand, and he wished a fellow passenger
who was a clergyman, to read portion
of the Scriptures to him. 1t was the first
time had seen him low-spirited, and it
was the last. The clergyman came and
read a solemn psalm to him, and his sad
ness left him-even he was joyful-hearted.
The next morning was shocked to
hear the surgeon say that he could not
live forty-eight hours. went to him
Alas! the surgeon was right. The change
that had come over him in a single night,
was miraculous. His fair brow was
covered with damp as chill as death,
and his auburn hair was clotted with mois.
ture. But his pure blue eyes had not al
tercd-they had the same afiectionate,
halfsad, half:joyous expression that they
had always wore. The flush had disap-
peared from his cheeks, for his anguish
had been great during the night. took
his hand in mine, but dared not speak, for
fear of betraying the emotion Of my heart.
He said with singulary calm and
Gear voice, "I am going to die, my friend,
but am not afraid" A pressure was
gone from my spirits at once. He went
on" | have few things which | wish
to give to my friends, a few triAes-and,
if you will call the captain, | will tell you
to which wish them given"
| called him, and he continued calmly:
"My gold watch wish my sister Emma
to have, and my silver one-sive that to
Georgy, my little brother Georgy; and
my rifle let it be kept Srhim until he is
old enough to use it. Give to Meggy the
ring on my little finger. To my mother p
His voice faltered when he came to her,
and tears crept down his pallid cheeks.
Z" All, she was good mother! Give back
the Bible that sheegave me, and tell her
that her boy did not fear to die"
All else he bequeathed to his father, to
dispose of as he pleased.
The captain left the room, aud the
Young man continued -i--'-.'- =
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Spunk and Peril.

There is a story, and which believe
is a fact, of two boys going to jackdaw's
nest from hold under the belfry window
in the tower of All.Saints' Church Derby
England. As it was impossible to reach
it standing, and equally impossible to
reach that height from without, they re-
solved to put plank through the window
and while the heavier boy secured its
balance by sitting on the end within, the
lighter boy was to fix himself on the
opposite end, and from that perlous stu
alton to reach the object of their desire.
So far the scheme answered. The little
fellow took the nest, and finding in it
five hedged yound hi"r'~ l5. -
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4)oliheal.
FOR THE ADVERTISER.
OUR CAUSE OF QUARREL.

FELLow-C -C1r1zENs:-The admission of Cal
ifornia as State, under its present constitu-
ton was even moreobjectionable, than would
have been the direct passage of the Wilmot
Proviso. 1t was tie indirect enforcement of
the same principle, under circumstances,
which aadded Insult to injury"
The great question of the Proviso was be-
fore the country, waiting for q decision. The
opponents of slavery, dreading to meet the
issue, but determined to accomplishment aim
at every hazard, encouraged a floating popu-
lation, composed s. 7a ali kindreds, and
tongues, and nation and identified with no
spot of earth, to organize government, and
knock at our doors.fora a fraternal reception
to our hospitablc rites. Andit was urged,
that we must shake file bloody hand of the
Bandit, the highway Robber, Of the spaniard.
the Negro, and the Indian, with the same cor
diality that welcomesone of our own family
and kindred! 1t was the grossest outrage ever
attempted to be perpetrated under color of
Law, and it can be supported neither by law
nor precedent
If thereis any righsor power most clearly
belonging to the CopsfsssofS the Confedera-
cy, ms the agent of alIahes States, it is the
power to organize Territorial governments
to control, legislate fot,and to form the ter
ritories into conyeaieat States, and admit
them into the Union.
Why, we can trace lie birth of this right
even into the proceedilSs Of the Congress of
the old Confederation where it's, not only
fully indicated, but maSt Clearly asserted.
In the address of th Assembly saf Mary
land referred to, whleehssslIad most palpablc
effect m i'>---TT: - y-s... e. ..a..
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1flisfella11eons.
Death on the Ocean.
BY d. C. BARTLETT.

Upon recent voyage from Liverpool
to New York, became intimately ac'
ouainted with young man, a fellow pas
senger, who was going on Visit TO
America When l first saw him, was
struck with his appearance. He was OF
slender make, with glorious forehead
and eyes of delicate blue. His hair was
light auburn in its color, and his counte-
nance expressed nobility and frankness
that is rarely found. We were introduced,
and from some cause became quite init
mate. | soon found that we possessed
mutual friends in England. He had come
from one of the best families of the up
per.stratum of what is called the middle
class of English society. ltis not strange
that we became Intimate, for loved his
native land and he loved mine. Upon
the pleasant moonlight nights, we sat
upon the quarterback, conversing about
the land, the homes, and the friends we
were leaving-of England's poets and
statesmen or, shifting the scenes, of our
own New England, or the broad expanse
West with its everlasting prairies. Often
the unwelcome sounds of the midnight
bells broke upon us, ere we had finished
our conversation, so pleasantly had passeo
the evening away He was not long ii
gaining the friendship of all his fellow
cabin passengers.
After we had been oct few days,
missed him one morning from his accus
toned place at the breakfast table. dit
NOT see him on the deck during the morn
ing, nor at the dinner table. When
,;sited his stste.room, to my surprise
found him lying on his berth quite ill, witt
tho surgeon in attendance. He had ex
ner;euced i'll the night a severe attacl
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part of which has beensgiven, after stating,
that tho territory rclinqpished by the different
STATES. shall be settled, and formed into dis
tinct Republican States, which shall become
members # the Federal Union, it Resolves,
that, sThc said lands shall be granted or
settled, at such times, and under such regu-
lations, as shall hereafter be agreed on by the
United Stales, in Congress Assembled" The
Ordinance of 1857, for the government of
the territory of the United States, northwest
of the river Ohio, is the fullest exercise Of
this authority by Congress; and the princi-
pies of that Ordinance were specially affirmed
by the Constitution.
The Constitution itself, further enlarges
and establishes the same right, by declaring
that, "The Congress shall have power to
dispose of, and make all necdful rules and
regulations respecting the territory or other
property belonging to the United States"
If there should yet be any dissent from the
position am stating, and any question Of
its correctness, assert, that it is in accord
ance with the understanding of all the fra
lncrs of the Constitution, and has been prac-
tcally illustrated and sanctioned, ever since
the establishment Of the government, not
only by its early Legislation, but by the whole
legislation on the subject of territories and
new States.
1t is only since the late discussions on
slavery have taken place, that a serious effort
has been made to distinguish between the
territory gained by the war of the revolution,
and that obtained by purchase, and by other
wars. Mr.. Cass has expended incalculable
labor, to justify the lawless proceedings in
California, and to reconcile its admission into
the Union, to the Constitution, and to the
duty of the Legislature.
If Congress had not the exclusive right TO
legislate for that territory, it never had the
right to legislate for any; and it has commit.
ted continued series of usurpations, from
the adoption of the Ordinance of 1887, down
to the cnacting of the Bills for the Govern.
rnent of Oregon, Utah and New Mexico. Fol-
one of the principal reasons urged, in favor
of the cession of the territory covered by the
ordinance alluded to, and of the territory
ceded by all tile States, was, that the title o
any particular State or States, exclusively, te
it, was imperfect; that the only adequate
title was that, which was won by the SWORD
of the whole United States; and that, there
fore, it should inure to the common benefi
of all the people of the whole Confedcracy
1t matters not how the Governmen
comes into possession of new acquisitions o
. land, they become, eo-instanti, public proper
; ty, and under the lawful control of Congress
, Otherwise, the Gypsics: or any other wander
ing tribes of barbarous men-mere "bird
of passage" like the present migratory popu
, lation of California, might alight upon III
choice territories Of the country, in whic
: they owned not an acre of land, and in def
ancc of superior claims, ightprococd, undt
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EDGEF1ELD, S. d SEPTEMBER II, 1851.

the law of nature, to the organization OF
Government, and to the settlement of Con
stitution. Such an act north of SO deg. sc
min., if the trespassers carried slaves with
them, would be deemed invasion: and they
would be called upon to make profert of their
deeds, or to defend their possessions, with
force and arms. But, when governments
under like CIRCUMSTANCES, is formed, and that,
too, partly, in Southern territory, with a Con-
stitution hostile to Southern rights, the act is
perfectly defensible, by the law of nature,
and by the Constitution of the country.
The conduct of California has been illegal,
and, in some of its aspects, rebellious, and its
admission into the Union. by the last Con-
gress, was such an Infringement of the. Con-
stitutional rights of the South, as no free
people should passively acquiesce in.
But, MS a reason for justifying the irregular
precedent, which will thus be furnished to all
the world, that will condescend to seek our
company, and shall think proper to apply for
admission into our Union, and for yindicating
the unjust policy of the Abolitionists towards
the South, it is triumphantly asserted, that
slavery is inhibited in the country Of the Pa
cifc, by an ordinance of nature, and by the
decree of God.
Mr.. Webster, in speech, in the Senate,
equal, in Argumentative and Oratorical skill,
to any speech, of any statesman, on an occa-
sion so great, whilst he denominates slavery
ga moral, political, and social evil" and bold
ly proclaims to the South, that she can expect
nothing at his hands, does have the generous
liberalty to declare, that he "would not take
pains to re-af1irm an ordinance of nature, nor
to re-enact the will of God" for the exclusion
of slavery; and would, therefore, not vote
for q Wilmot Proyiso, to apply to New
Mcxico.
Others urge. that if California had been
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-H- -----acf Hall Suiio oo
-~...,nury about her forehead. Poor
Meggy! And--and-thereis one of whom
| have not spoken; Mary -; / was
engaged to her-give my best ring to her,
and tell her that hope to meet herr in
heaven"
Becoming exhausted, left him for a
short time. When came back, he said,
"I wish once more to see the ocean, in
whose depths my grave will soon be made;
let me gaze at it once more -
Alas, he was too weak to be raised
upon deck-poor fellow! And then he
wished bucket of sea-water brought to
him. His eyes were sulfused with smile
when he saw it. He put his hand in it,
and bathed his forehead, saying, | could
hardly tell whether sadly or joyously,
"Soon shall my body be in the dark blue
sea-" There was something magnificent
in that selfbaptism of his-his fearless.
ness was so triumphant over death.
All the day the wind had been increas.
ing in strength, and at night it blew a
hurricane. Towards midnight the sea
became frightrul-the waves dancing over
us amid ships, or striking our side, sound
ing like heavy thunder. Many of the
passengers were frightened, nearly all.
They were up, and, when the captain
came down into the cabin, they gathered
about him with anxious eyes and earnest
questions. | was up all night with the
DIVING one-some of the time holding him
in his berth; part of the time he lay in
my arms. He was perfectly calm, and
his fearlessness was rebuke to those who
were pale with fright from the storm. Al
daybreak it had reached its height; al
daylight the poor young man said, 81
thank you all for your kindness to me
farewell, forever~ and died.
The storm went suddenly down, and
the next morning there was perfect calm
and the canvass was idly Tapping in tho
air. The sun shone calmly upon the
beautiful sea, the air was balmly, like thai
of the South but we were all sad, for we
were to see what few of us had ever seer
before-a sea burial.
| will not describe the ceremony, fo
ADLER pens than m,ne have done SO.
will say nothing of the little band tina
sadly stood at the lee gang-way, and saw
the corpse stretched upon the death. plank
of the horrid plunge of the body into tn
mysterious ocean-nothing. All tina
gentle day little parties were clustere'
together, talking about the poor youns
! man. All of US were sad.
, When the evening came on and the fuI
, moon shone upon US, with lustrous pu
rity, went out upon the quarter-decs
and unused long upon the young man, hi
English home, and those who dwell there
| His mother, perhaps, was praying at tina
moment, a safe voyage for him. happ
soiourn in the New World, and happ,
oh! how happy return; but the Sc, sea wa
b his mother now, poor woman! His dei
:. Meggy, "with her hair curling beautiful
k ly about her brow," lay at that momcn
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Not only approving in silence all that has
been done, but actually seeking out, and play
ing messenger, for the lame apologies of Of
fcers who have no further duties to perform
than to obey orders. Let the people keep
this fact constantly before their eyes, and
they will never be duped into submission
There is Federal Cooperation party in
Charleston, small but active and vigilant.
EYE-OPEN.