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Carolina's talented representatives delve.".
admirable speechesrEshich were listened
with marked attention, rs is always
case when they rise to address the Ho,
Colonel Kcitt spoken reply TO Mr.. Stani
of Ohio, who arraigncd tile administrat
on the ground Of the passage OF the X
sas bill. Your readers doubtless know =,
Mr.. Stanton was skinned. Colonel X
was even more severe upon the Black
pubIicans to-day than he was when he III
his famous speech few days ago. II .
were apparently alarmed. They attemp''
to get up Il laugh, but that business
soon ended. Ills retort had the effect
maxim. them sink into their seats.
said, in effect, that from tho exhibition
fore linn, the most effective argument ,''
them would bc made by clowns in the ri;
Col. Kcitt accepted the Kansas issue, as ..
Democracy would accept it, and preser
ma.,, he believed and hoped, who ste
firmly upon it, and who was identified W =
it; and upon this issue lie would sweep
country, and restore peace and harmo
by throwing the a.itators out Of put
life. The Black Republicans have been
tcrly complaining all day of the sarcas
and just dcnunciatons OF the gallant a
eloquent South Carolinian. lie show"
them neither quarter nor mercy, but ute
confoundcd and demolished them. {
Kcilt thinks it of the first Importance
nominate men at Cincinnati, who are
only identified will, the Kansas Ncbra
bill, but who are the most bitterly abus
by the Abolitionists in consequence; AZ
after long observation here and many int
views with members of Congress aud OF
ers, from the South, feel warranted
saying that this preference is common
the people Of the Southern slaveholdi.
States.
If this ilca Of Col. llcitt and of
Whole South be adopted 10y our Nation
Convention death blow will bc struck
agtators and the traitors who keep it
The bitterness OF the ALolitionists kno,
no bounds. In every place, public and p
vatc, they dcnounce the true men OF the Nor
and West who have stood by the rights
our section and the Constitution of Il
country, and especially the President, &c
Cuslin. (who is one of the trucst Stat
Rights men in the Union) and Judge Doug
las. They deny them the commoncst hi
manities-lhcy are, according to them, ty
rants, dough faces and incarnate devil:
Now, the question for us of the Soutl, ali
the Constitutional men Of the free State
to answer is, shall our action crafty thes
Abolitionists and bctray The true men VIII
have never faltcred in tho battle for on
equality and peace? Let the conservera
tives everywhere answer through their del
cgates at Cincinnati!
The other speecl, to which referred ii
the opening OF this letter was that deliver
cd in the House by Col. Preston S. Brooks
a gallant soldier OF the Mexican war, upor
the OCCASION Of offering bill granting [;
pension for life to widow who sent he
husband and three sons to battle, under til,
speakers command. 1t was a truly elo
qucnt and beautiful appeal for the poo
widow, which the House responded to b,
passing the bill and increasing the amour
to twenty dollars per month.
Col. Brooks is considered the handsomes
man i'll the House, rs well rs one Of tn
most eloquent and influential. This is ill.,
first time this season that he has occupie,
the floor, and all, especially tho new mem
bers, were anxious to hear him. None wer
disappointed. He fully sustained his repu
tation as an able debater and an eloquen
orator, and the reputation of the Stat
which glories in her Pinckncys, her Lown |. &
her Cheves, and towering above the age il
which he lived-thc ilIustrious Calhoun
The fervid patriotism of the soldier orato,
who led the husband and sons of the patri
otto widow, fell, in clear full tones of music
most gratefully upon the hearts of all pm
triots present, and caused even many of tn
Black Republicans to forget, for moment
their traitorous fanaticism. I am happ,
to bear testimony to the applause which fol
lowed the remarks of the gallant soldie,
and hope to hear linn, at no distant day
in set speech. Well may noble old Soutl
Carolina be proud of her noble son.
Correspondence Baltimore Republican.
"DocroR, Kin you tell me what's Il,
matter with my child's nose? he keeps
pickin' Of it,
"Ycs marm; it's probably an Irritation
Of the gastric nucus membrane communi
eating n sympathetic Utilization to the epi
thelium of the schnocrian -
"Thar, now, that's just what I told Becky
she lowed it was worrnmsw
SUlcIDE.-We learn that valuable ne
gro man Belonging TO Col. J. w. bucket
hanged himself yesterday. It is though
he committed tho act rather than be sent
Arkansas, where Col. Duckett has a plan
ation.-Ne,o6erry Mirror.