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against the course they believe right have
been given with no sparing hand and the
course of the journal that represent their
views has almost precludcd the necessity of
the establishment Of special organs by those
who differ from them. They deprecate and
repudiate all vituperation, and ought not to
be held responsible for the heated express
sions of individuals exercising more zeal than
wisdom. Such, we believe, is the policy Of
what some may call the separate State action
party, and we submit that it is one which pa
triotism dictates, and which Caroliniansc an
not err in sustaining. The bitter fueds Of
80 and '32 are well remembered, and the les
sons then taught should prevent reorgani-
cation Of parties that must be even more dis
astrous than that of those days. Butler,
Cheyes, Chestnut, Preston, Hampton, and
other prominent names, are cited to US as op-
posed to separate State action; but we have
yet to learn that they win be found giving
distracting counsels to the State. Let those
who think with them abstain from seeking
distinction by running ahead of such leaders.
South Carelinian.
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To say, therefore, that while wrongs hav
been perpetrated which have placed us at th'
feet of the tyrant, in the attitude of slaves
and then to tell us to endore our chains unit
our neighbors (sIaves as we arc) see ant
feel, rs we see and feel, is in effect to say
that our neighbors have the keeping of ou
liberty, is to place us as much in the power
Of our sister Southern States as in the powel
of those Of whom we would be freed.
God forbid that ever that day should dawn
upon South Carolina, when future genera
tions should point to the graves of our states
men and say: these are they by whose coun
sci our chains were forged; rather let them
kneel around their tombs, and lisp with honor
and veneration, the names Of twenty thou
sand frecmen, who fell because they dare be
free-who fell to teach them the lesson that
while 'the philosophy of liberty is jealousy
the exhibition of jealousy is the unyielding
uncompromising, and stern resistance to eP.
preston.
To be base enough to weigh liberty with
gold, is to be sunk so deep in dishonor that
accumulated insults cannot sink lower. TIC
calculate with fear the cost of resistance
|
honorable. To be Influenced by fear is sla.
wish; to endcavor to influence the brave and
noble, by appealing to such passion, is vile
mean, contemplate! ] seern, thousands
scorn, unborn generations will scorn, with
everlasting contempt, that man, be he high
or low, Senator or Representative, who shall
be the means, by counsel or otherwise, OF
causing South Carolina to submit to Federal
tyranny. Let South Carolina fail to act, and
not ali the protestations of fight with her, or
for her, shall retrieve their names from Ineri-
ted disgrace.
Young men! call upon you, who, is sub
mission counsels prevail, will feel the calling
chains most keenfy, to arousc yourselves and
prepare for action, and never bequcath the in
heritance of your fathers, bought with their
blood, to fear or dishonor.
OTi menr all we ask of you will be to let
US fight this battle; give US your blessing.
Your SONS will never dishonor your names,
by living slaves, when they can die freemcn.
Restrain your fears and give us encourage
ment, and the chains of Federal oppression
shall melt like wax before the blaze.
Butler, Chevcs, and Barnwell: Let South
Carolina restore her fallen greatness, and
then we will ask your counsel and advice to
maintain it. Let us strive to be- free, or at
least let us be slaves because We have striyen
in vain.
Sister Southern states, follow where we
lead, and we lead you to honor; but COUNSEL
us not to pause, for pause IN the hour of
danger stops the pendulum of liberty. For
myself, can only say, without counting the
views of expcdicncy when great princip Pile is
at stake, "Sink or swim, live or die, survive
or PERISH" am for secession, with or with
out the other Southern States;" and may this
be the position Of every true South Caro-
linian.
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The Feeling in Georgia.

We are permitted, (says the Spartan,) to
make the following extract from a private
letter, received by gentleman in this town
from n friend in Georgia. The writer has
been for some years in public life in that
State-a member of the Georgia Legisla-
ture-and has every opportunity of correct
observation and intimate acquaintance with
the feelings and views of the people Of that
State. Read for yourselves, and then Judge of
ofthe falsehnd exaggerated reports which are
industriously circulated, as to the prejudice
of our sister States against South Carolina.
81 have but one idea on the subject now
agitating the country, and that is that South
Carolina holds the destiny of the South and
of slavery in her own hands. If she backs
out then is slavery doomed, and that at no
distant day. But if she will secede froln the
Union, she can save the South and protect
slavery. Either the Government will let her
60 out peaceably and quietly, or will endea-
vor to force her into subjection. If the Ad-
ministration permit her 10 60 out without in
terruption, then three-fourths of the cotton
States will follow suit in less than two
years; for they are only restrained now
through fears of an interminable civil war.
The people Of Georgia do not love the Union,
as sentiment. We'll reason teaches me
that we should be more prosperous, happy
and secure, in Southern Confederacy than
we are in the Union. But suppose the
Government determined to coerce South
Carolina back into the Union, then the South
ern people are driven into the civil war any
way; and when forced to fight, they will
never fight, on the side of the North--for
full well will they know that " the self-same
grave, oppression is preparing for South
Cardinals rights, will be yawning for them. y
l have never heard man of any party here
speak on the subject, but that said, if forced
to fight at all, he would fight on the side of
South Carolina; and every hot-headed Dis
unionist would flock there at once, and with
arms in their hands and means at their CON-
mard they would do or die in the cause of
South Carolina. / have heard many man
of wealth and influence and standing and
reputation VOW, in public and private, that if
South Carolina secedc, and Georgia did not.
they would remove with all their means to
South Carolina. A young man of wealth.
an old friend of - T,,rr.,n, !
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Are there Divisions among us !

It is our province TO watch closely the
workings of the public sentiment, the infuen-
ces that direct it and to distinguish the gen.
uine from the spurious. Beyond questions
there are strenuous efforts now being made
in various sections ofSthe State to palm off
on the superficial observer, both here and
abroad counterfeit currency in this respect.
We are convinced, however, that the public
sentiment of South Carolina cannot be thwar-
ted from its legitimate results by such efforts.
In newspapers North of lis we read con-
gratulatory notices ofsa widespread reaction
ofpublic sentiment perFading the whole State,
that Time has brought healing on its wings,
and that the genial working of reflection have
produced a wonderfully change in the minds
of our people in relation to the issue now be-
fore them. In some ofthcm we read that all
the resolutions, all the, public declarations,
and all the expositionsof sentiment hereto
fore made, have been merely the empty de-
claration of gasconading people, and that
the result will demonstrate oft-repeated pre-
dictions of the Northern journals-That
South Carolina will recede from the position
she was ut least understood to occupy on the
prominent questions before the country.
: Is this change real orfctious? 1t is true
that the people of South Carolina are more
inclined to acquiesce inSthe unjust legislation
of Congress now than they were last year :?
Is it true that the people, who for years past
have presented the most striking example of
union against Federal wrongs ever witnessed
in the country, have come to the conclusion
now, when everything they hold sacred and
dear demands that union and its influence to
be exercised to, save them, to allow internal
a:r;e;ons 10 -,--t-.t c1ttSsS .-,ernins. and to
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From the Mercury.
Secession vs. Submission al. co-opera-

Mcssrs. EDITORS I'm this time of ex
eitement we must endeavor to express ou
sentiments in spirit of kindness towards
those who differ from us as to the remedy to
be applied for the redress of our wrongs
We must, if possible, prevent the formation
Of parties in our State, when there seems tc
be little, if any diversity of opinion, as to
whether we have been wronged, and rs to
whether we may reasonably hope that the
tide of Northern aggressions will voluntarily
cease. Those who claim Messrs. Cheres
Barnwell, Butler and Or as the exponents OF
their views, are avowedly resistance men,
and many of them unhesitatingly declare that
they will not only acquiesce in the decision
of the majority, but will actively cooperative
in the measures of the State. Let us hold
them by kindness to that position. Let US
ever treat them rs friends, though some of
them lose temper occasionally, when their
arguments are too keenly dissected, and then
use very harsh language towards the "Action
Party" Let US convince our brethren, that
we have towards them the confding loving
feelings of generous brotherhood; and in
the conflict we will be found shoulder to
shoulder.
My social position brought me in contact
with the question which has now embodied
Northern hostility to Southern prosperity
some years before it ASSUMED any civil i'm
portance. 1t was only regarded then rs a
moral or religious question. / was led pa
tiently to investigate its scripturalness and
the probable result of its agitation upon the
prosperity and petuity of the Union. Of the
scripturalness of our domestic institution
had no doubts, but my worst fears were ex-
cited as to the consequences of the discus
sion. The present state of the country proves
that those fears were we'll founded, and the
epitaph of the Federal Union of equal sover-
eign States may now be written. The Feder-
al compact is torn into shreds, and we must
either resume the powers delegated to the
General Government, or remain in state of
degradation now, and soon witness the utter
ruin of the land of our father under the iron
despotism Of a lawless majority in Congress.
| say lawfess, because if the will of the ma
jority is law, then that mai"-::.1--- ..:;
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From the Mercury.
The Path of Eonor.

Mcssrs EDlToRs:-I am plain man, un-
accustomed to appear in print; by the sweat
OF my brow eat my bread, and thank Heaven
that have never been in want. AnXiously
have watched the course of event, for some
years past, and have been for some tune pre-
pared for the crises which has arrived ex-
pect, sir, it would be difficult to find man,
who has so little sympathy with politicians,
as a class, from Demosthenes down TO the
present generation. mould my own opin-
ions-have my own views-read my own
newspapers-and "pay the printer" You
will not refuse me n brief space in your paper
thc invaluable exponent of State rights,) to
offer few plain remarks, disencumbered of
political logic and all that sort of stuff, which
does very we'll on paper; but which, az some
one has said, don't touch the question.
five read the speeches of our "great men,"
plain man like myself would be very apt to
conclude that South Carolina had gone stark
mad; while, on the contrary, if we have been
accustomed to watch the proceedings fthosc
very men, for the last five years, we would
be forced to conclude, that South Carolina
should not, under any circumstances, have re-
manned in the Union until the present time.
One thing, sir, is very certain, and according
to my calculations equally demonstrable, and
that is. that South Carolina ought not to re-
main in the Union. That if she ought to
como back to her allegiance; and il she ought
not, she ought to break off entirely from the
General Government. And have come to
these conclusions from good and sufficient
reasons the first and most considerable rea-
son is, that Calhoun, Butler, Cheres, Barn.
well, and all our statesmen have taught us.
l regard Mr.. Calhoun as the purcst statesman
the world ever saw, and am confident, were
he alive, he would sooner die ten thousand
deatha on the field of battle, than prompt, by
q single word, "one step backwards" How
A. cihc-c r!--.- ,----..;n-c1 "cr ~ tho fana nf
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We hear nothing of these things in those
presses who take pride in abusing South Caro-.
lina-who seem to forget that she is not even
contending for a share Of the soil her yalor
helped materially to win--but an inherent
right-a guaranteed right--a right she ne.
yer surrendered, nor never will-the right
to regulate her own internal affairs, and
protect her institutions from being cor.
rupted by either foreign or a domestic
foe.
If we cannot agree with South CaroEna
IN principle, we have no right to condemn
her-as she came into the Union voluntarily,
she can 60 out so-but then will be no time
for recrimination, it will be one when better
feelings should be aroused-and if We are
not mistaken, one would be, that might unite
the whole South in common cause.
But South Carolina will not sccede We
trust; honest counsels may yet prevail in
our National Assembly, and a genuine COM
promise be effected that will lleaf all dissen-
sions. But the rights of the States must
still be guaranteed. If Vermont and Massa-
chusetts wish to secede, they have right
and let them go!-Lincoln, IN. CO. Courier.
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Calhoun on Submission.

@Come what will, should it cost every drop
of blood and every cent of property, we must
defend ourselves, and if compelled, we would
stand justified by all laws human and divine"
aIf we do not defend ourselves, none will
defend us; we will be more and more press
cd as we reeede; and if we submit we will
be tramplcd under foot"
II say, for one, l would Father meet any
extremity on earth than give up one inch of
our equalty-one inch Of what belongs to
us, rs members Of this great Republic p
"Wherever free people permit their fears
to control them in refusing to vndicatc their
rights, they are ready to be slaves, and only
wait for deposit who has more courage than
they have, to make them SUCH"
"Fhere is one point on which there can be
no diversity Of opinion in the South among
those who are true to her, or who have made
up their minds not to be slaves that is if we
should be forced to- choose between resistan-
cy and submission, we would take resistance
at all hazards"
Mr.. Editor-The above quotations are
from speeches and letters Of J.. C. Calhoun.
No purer patriot than him ever lived-no
name shines brighter upon the roll of fame
than that of the "ilustrious Carolinian." Age
after age may pass away, but as long as free
men live his name will be honored-his me-
mory revered. And especially should the
sons of the old Palmetto State attend to the
counsels and follow the advice of him whose
life was spent in the defence of their rights
and native land.
The Separate State Action party do but
obey the commands of Mr.. Calhoun in ad-
visi1,g resistance. Did he ever say, that be-
cause we were not rs powerful as our enc
mics, We must endure expressions or injus-
ticc? No. Read the above third and fifth
quotations, and especially the fourth, and see
what his injunctions were. If,then, we heed
his advice, wc will "rcsist at all hazard"
Columbia, June IL, 1851: HA?NE'
Fairfield Register
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EDGEFIELD, SC, JUNE 26, 1851.


question of what is; best remedy? Shall we
war with each other,+when the foot of the
oppressor is being plaeed on our neck? Shall
we raise bitter stifis and cripple each other
in the house, whleithe incendiary applies a
torch outside to consume ALL Shall we not
stand shoulder to shoulder in the hour of
peril? IF we dividesnllis is lost. That man
can have but little patfi6h 6hsm, who would get
up bitter politics andsparty strifes among his
countrymen, at time like this. If you d.
vide, you are doomed. Set your faces sternly
against all partizan organization. United we
standardized we fail.
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Then weave the chaplets of flower and
strew the beauties of nature about the grave
console thy broken spirit, if thou canst,
with those tender yet fertile tributes of re-
gret, and take warning by the bitterness of
this thy contrite affliction over the dead, and
henccforth be more faithful and affectionate
in the discharge of thy duties to the living.
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w. F. DURIsOE, Proprietor.
From the Augusta Republic.
MIDNIGHT MUSINGS,

My heart is very sad to night,
It Graves for rest and peace,
For it has beat too quick and vain
When will its sorrows cease !?
have been thinking on the past,
And upon coming years,
And find, alas! there's much in both,
To wiring forth bitter tears.
The Past-its buried joys and hopes,
Now haunt my breast with pain,
Oh! could l soar to yon bright star,
And meier know care again.
y n
I've been thinking of the future.
There's not to cheer the gloom,
feel this shadow on my brow,
Foretells the early doom.
On earth Ihave no hope of JOY,
No thronging visions, bright,
Fit now before my anxious eye,
To fill me with delight.
There's sorrow here, but there's 4 place,
A bright blue Heav'n above,
Where aching hearts may find Arrest,
a home of light and love.
III not despair as once I did
While there's promise given,
Ofrest, ard hope, and joy, and peace;
Oh! may I find this Heaven.
Father above! pray to thee,
Thou'lt heed prayer sincere,
Cleanse, cleanse my soul and take me there
I'm weary, weary, here.
Augusta, May 18th. E. T.. l..
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4 CHARLESTONIAN.

SPURIOUS BANK NoTE.-A spurious note,
purporting to be One Hundred Dollar bill
Of the Merchants Bank Of South Carolina
ut Cheraw, was received at the Bank of Char.
lesion yesterday in remittance. The sig
nature of the officers are bad limitations, but
we deem it unnecessary TO- go into a further
description, as the Merchants Bank have
never issued notes of the denomination of
One Hundred Dollars.--Courier:
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HARD Hrr.-the Boston Post says OF Sum-
ner. what will do to read much nearer the
EQUATOR. "Love for the Union is very ma
tural and becoming in person chosen to
the United States Senate for six years. If
the Union does not last, the Senator's occu-
pation's gone."
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VOL. XVI..-NO. %
Our Prospects~

After all that has been said and written
against the Charleston Convention Of Souti..
ern Rights Associations, both in and out Of
the State, denouncing it as a meeting of Ja.-
cobins, and attempting to throw all sorts of
odium and contumely upon it, we are rejoiced
to see it is doing its work handsomely. Even
the candid anti-session or model resistance.
men, rs they would have themselves regarded,
are rejoicing at the bright prospects of CO.
operation which are looming up in the dis,
tance, since the action of our Convention has,
been made public. Hon. A. P. Butler saws
in his letter to the Hamburg meeting 81 be-.
lieve that the great State Rights cause and
principles are stronger in the Southern States
than they have ever BEEN" And what, we
ask, has made it stronger? If the effect Of
separate secession by South Carolina is "to.
bring about hopeless isolation of civil war;
why is it that now she has signifed her de-
termination, to secede, some symptoms Of
this isolation does not manifest itself in the.
Southern States? Why as Mr.: Butlerssays,
have issues been made and are now pending
in Blississippi, Alabama and Georgia, that !.
We're never distinctly presented before 2" We,
answer-reason and common sense will an
swer-because the impression that South
Carolina will act has strengthened the cause
of resistance throughout the entire South.
Let it be known or believed by friend and
foe that South Carolina will secede next
Spring, with anything like unanimity, and!
we would stake ou. judgment upon the re-
suit that there would be at least two States.
prepared TO go with us in twelve months af.-
ter she had taken what some have been.
pleased to call the aabsurd and disgaceful;
STEP" but let the doubling and diseontentcdi
politicians get up few more Hamburg and
Greenville anti-secession. meetings, say hard;
things, stir up strife, create divisions and
heartburniugs throughout the State, and fin
ally prevent secession by raising popular.
alarms, and our cause, the cause of the South.
of humanity, justice and freedom will be, if.
not oyerthrown, retarded another half centu--
ry. The friends of secession and resistance.
in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, will be.
completely paralyzed and disheartened, their
associations disband, their stains--77i i'esPaif,
-, .l,s,l,!. J.! :.is'l(is
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DoeeIsn ADvERT1sEMEsT.-A Kentucky
editor advertises as folews.
"Wanted at this Office, bull dog, of any
color except pumpkin and milk, of respecta-
bio size, snub nose, cropped ears, abbreviated
continuation, and bad disposition-who can
come when called with raw beef steak, and
will bite the man who splits tobacco juice ol;
the stove and steals the exchanges"
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The Graves of those we Love.
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

The grave is the ordeal of true affection.
It's there the divine passion of the soul mani
tests its superiority to the instructive impulses
of mere animal attachment. The latter must
- .,',tinnallu rAfreshed and kent alive by the
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Extract Of letter from gentleman in Mh,
hama. dated llth juno:

Extract OF Ietter 1ToW SSeHtIeHaH III IAIu1
bama, dated llth juno;
aI write this letter from the city Of Meat-
gomery, where / have been in attendance
upon the Southern Rights Convention of
Alabama. Our meeting was harmonious
We passed resolution, " neaiae coniradi.
eente," that of South Carolina, in Her sover-
eign capacity, chooses to secede from the
Union, and the Federal Government attempts
coercion, we pledge the State Rights Party
of Alabama, to resist, force by force. We
are going into the contest with prospects
Frightening. The hopes and the liberties Of
tho South are IN the hands of your noble
Commonwealth. We wish the question
precipitated. "Delays arc dangcrous.--Co.
h,mbin Telegraph.
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Unsophisticatel manners are the genuine
ornaments Of yirtuous mind,
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''."r-"i rt'i go bal 90; ui Icy or SKY
n K 'ts..s:s,- .:::.gas @a were u!..i: recently
residents Of this city, only two were regular.
ly employed as laborers. Many of them gain
ed preearious livelihood as runners to hous-
es of prostitution, and the majority were sup
ported by charity. Such, we are also in
formed, is the general condition of fugifives.
who have taken up their residence in our
large towns and cities, where, be it observed,
they chiefly congregatc.
"In Canada, also, they are regarded by the
inhabitants with distrust and version. There
are two towns in Canada West, in which a.
negro is not allowed to set his foot, through,
fear he may become burden upon the tax;
payers"
Is it not cruelty then to them to tempt:
slaves from the South thus to degrade thems
at the North?