The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-07
From the Greenville IS. CO. Southern Patriot.
Some Good Things.

We were greatly amused the other day with
some matters told US, and think they worthy
of being repeated.
In a neig hboring district plain, though strong
minded man, went into the printing office to dis
continue his newspaper. The editor seemed greatly
surprised that any one who had ever been a cub
scriber to his paper should wish to quit it, and in
quired the cause The countryman informed him
that he did not like his politics, and that account
could not continue his subscription to the paper.
Then, said the editor, who has been persuading you
to this course? "N0 one,' was the reply gwen.
Who has been talking to you against secession, and
trying to scare you into submission? "N0body,"
the laconic answer. Then what newspapers
have you been reading2 'None but yours was
the reply of the honest man. al have been con-
WINGED by reading your own paper that you are
altogether wrong" This produced such conster
nation and indignation in the mind of the sapient
editor that no further questions were asked. We
have no doubt hundreds have been convinced in
the same way.
A gentleman from the lower country-perhaps
of those little parishes where they poll thirty
sir votes and have the same influence and repre-
sentation in the Senate that Pendleton district has
with four thousand voters-was returning this sum-
mer from C1sar's Head. and fell in company with
a citizen OF the mountains. political converse
ton was commenced between them, and the lower
countryman held forth with great eloquence on the
wrongs and expressions Of the Federal Govern
ment, and the absolute necessity the part of
South Carolina to resist by separate State action.
The mountainecr, who had been reading some anti
secession documents and newspapers-perhaps the
S,uthern Patriot-put a few hard questions to the
eloquent gentleman, to know how and in what way
secession would remedy any of the wrongs of which
he had complained? Whether it would extend the
area ofsavery, abolish the Mexican laws prohibiting
slavery in Utah and New Mexico, divide Caliior,
MIA, restore the dismembered portion of Texas re-
peal the District laws of Columbia, enforce the
Fugitive Slave law? These were hard questions,
and not easily answered, and therefore not at
tempted. But, with burst of indignation, the
gentleman said, 81 wish to quit this Id Union
any how. | am tired of t." Well, said the Union
man, s'you can do 30 as soon as you please. pre-
sumo there is no law compelling man to live in
the United States. He can go out and stay out if
he wishes. But don't think it right for him to
carry others with him who desire to live in the
Union" This broke up the conversation.
A friend of returning from Georgia the
other day, before the election, and when it was
thought South Carolina would certainly secede,
a man lying in the road the Georgia side
of the Savannah river. His wife, and children,
and wagons, and horses, all stopped, waiting his
movements. Our friend rode up and inquired
what was the matter. He ascertained that they
moving from Chester district, South Carolina,
into the upper part of Georgia, and that the old
had taken too much of the ''over Joyful and
would not bulge step. He listened TO the expla-
satisfactory to his mindj but the old man was not
in condition himself to enter into particulars.
Raising himself up, however, he was able to say,
with a most profound sense of gratitude, " Thank
God am more in the United States" Itseemed
that he was fiying from secession and on crossin g
the line had determined to celebrate the event by
hearty rotations TO Bacchus. "Once more in the
United States thank God"
We think the whole people of South Carolina,
since the recent elections ought to return thanks
not in the same manner, but in the same language
Thank God, zoe in the United States. ,