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A Refreshing Southern Speech.

Senssor Hammond Of South CarolinS
was Irestsl TO public dinner by the peO-
pie Of the EdgefrId district, on the ED,
and made q speech iu which be said some
very good things. 1t h gratifying to
J know that senator Hammond has made
up bis mind TO submit 10 q Republican
administration ir 1850 and that be Soss
not propose to take South Carolina out of
tho Union, unless We repeat the offence
BY carrying the Presidency Of 1885,
Such patience and fOrbearance on the part
Of the most infammsble State Of the Un-
ION ars remarkable and prsissWOtby.-
Senator Hammond b reported To hsys
said:
Our battle and triumph was q mora
one, in sismming and checking the false
and absurd philanthropy Of the civilized,
void on Africsa slavery. He did not
beed, ther, Ills boast, Of Senator Seward
Of northern supremacy. Yet be would
say to the people Of the South, be prepared;
Tor il tbe North, 10 order TO subserve her
purposes Of ambition or faBatieisu, should
attempt 10 organize federal courts Of Law
on the representative basis snd thus destroy
the conservative nature Of the court, and
thereby get the government into their own
haDds, theu the people Of the South must
dissolve the Union. We must dissolve the
Union if they effect any one Of their az.
gressive puTposes--tarifs, banks, or direct
tamperibg with slaves. But be did not
think today the North could. Even j:
at the next Presidential election the North
should, BY cowbiOation elect an sbolaion-
ist, be did not think that on that issue the
great body Of the South would 90 out Of
the Union. But Il this were followed By
a second election Of the same kind, be
thought they would.
Al the opposition measures Of which
the South has complained 10 the last thir-
iy years, she herself inaugurAtsd. Wash.
ington and jefferson, in The matter Of sls.
very, set the evil example. The North
borrowed it from them. The bank Of the
United States originated with the sOlth.
rhe South, under some Of our lsyding
men, was godfather Of the tariff And il
was the came with the internal improve
meuts. Then, il the south has done these
things aud undone them. has she not the
power, if still united, to control! Hence
he had hope for the power and position of
the south iu the Union. A substantial
issue should not induce Us to secede alone;
with four OF five states it msyt While
remaining in the Unicn aud striving man.
fully to bod our own, We should keep the
alternative steadily not only in our view,
but ih the view of the whole county,"
He took occasion to express himself ve-
ry freely in regard to the doctrine Of pop
ular sovereignty, as embodied 10 the Kan
sas>Nebrsska bill. Among other things
the Senator said:
"Whsn be went to the Federal Con-
gress, six months ago, he found the ad-
mission, under the Lecompton COnstitu-
tion, the all absorbing and exciting subject
before the Representatives Of the people
and the Government. To him tie whole
theory and scheme Of squstteI sovereignty
was matter of disgust. The Kansas. Ne
braska bill was a deIusion and deception
from the beginning He felt satisfied that
on that basis the south would never unite.
The President plead and tried to do bis
best, north and south; but it was evident
that it was a subject frsug ht With trouble.
He (Mr H. was ever opposed to this
Kansas Nebraska bill; and if there was
single good feature 10 it. it was that it 81 |
lowed the people free from interference, TO !
frame principles for themselves after their |
own fashion. Il was snare to those at
the south. It was rotten With fraud, and
those who made it ainched from its eOnse. !
quences."
The Charleston Mercury sums up the
scope Of Senator Hammond's address g
follows:
l. That if we we're we'll out ofths Un. |
ion, with our constitution and political in.
stitutions established aud acknowledged
the South would be more prosperous than
she is now, or seems likely 10 be, in the
Un;on. z. That We are not likely 10 dis.
solve the Union until some very sabstan-
tial issus is made, viz, the North ruling
us BY confirmed sectional majority, or q
renewal of the tariffs, banks, &c, or direct
tarnpering with our slaves. 8. That We
have already achieved great victories over
the North, and that il We would unite and
stand firmly, watchfuly, with our arms in
order, on the Constitution, truth, justice,
and our rights, With the alternative Of
dissolution, there is reason 10 feel conf
dent that we can, not only sustain our.
selves in the Union, bat control the coun
try, and through it the world. 4. That
the South should review minutsly and an
aIytically the ground of the prevalent Opin
ion that we want expansion Of slave terri
tory, and should also ascertain wheIhar
the thing be possible for the South With
our limited supply Of slaves, which the
Senator intiInates be is sverse to increasing {
BY re-opening the slave trade, and which |
be regards as wholly impracticabls. L
WOODS HAIR RESTORATIVE.--t'