The Shasta courier., 1861-07-06
SHASTA COURIER.
A South Carolinian to South Carolina.

The "Partizan Leader" is the title of
work recently issued from the press, and has
very naturally created much interest, in view
of the great national drama now being enact
ed. and calculating the fact that the scenes
now transpiring have been predetermined
r.. " the leaders of the rebellion.
Recently, in looking through portion of
the private correspondence of the late Hugh
s. Legare, of South Carolina, for many years
a leading member of Congress- and colleague
Of the present Governor Pickens, of South
Carolina, we were struck with the views
enunciated By him on the course of South
Carolina in relation to notification, and
when disunion was talked of and urged upon
the people of his State. Mr.. Legare was not
of Mr.. Calhoun's school of politics, but was
true son of the South, and had as much State
pride as anybody, and a reproduction of his
views at this time may not be uninteresting
to our readers.
The letter from which the following e1-
tracts are taken was written from Brussels
in November of 1885, when Mr.. Legare was
United States Minister there, and treats of
dissolution of the Union and Southern Con-
federacy.
Not only is it truly affecting, for
one so much under the influence Of local at
tachments as am, to think of the old fami-
lies of the State leaving their homes in it
forever, but there is still more serious and
deeper cause of regret in such state of facts.
1t shows what have already felt, how ter
ribIy uncertain our whole existence in the
State is. Alas my dear friend,
the Judge is right, as very much fear, and,
;ndeed, have more than feared, ever since
saw the success of notification in demoraliz
ing some of our best people. In America,
ysu are not aware of what is going on about
you, or are too familiar with it to appreciate
its fearful character Seen from Europe, and
examined with reference to the experience of
mankind in this old seat of their follies and
sufferings, have already limited to you that
it is thought as bad as bad can be. Nor is
this opinion confined to any one party-it is
literally universal. | enclose you half
newspaper, in which you will see extracts
from several others, embracing all the varie-
ties of political sects. | beg you to observe
particularly, as Southern man, and to call
our friends attention to it, to what these re-
marks relate. Depend upon it, if you go out
of the Union on that subject, you are gone
without remedy or hope of salvation. Look
at O'Connell, the great agitator of England,
and representing the party that is already in
the ascendant here. He never lets slip an
occasion to denounce us, with Nicholas, ''the
murderer of the women and children at War
saw" as objects of adherence and ven
geance. So. as soon as Barton took his pass
n.I.y- L
ernment paper at Paris, opened against you,
and said it was high time for Europe to speak |
cut on that subject, and encourage and
strengthen the abolitionists in the work they
had undertaken. A French feet goes out to
the Antilles, without doubt, in contemplation
of war; and should such an event happen,
you will see to what point they will direct
their attack, and with what arms they will
carry on the contest. The age in which we
live is more than all things else, the age of
great empires and woe to the people that de-
iiberately throws away that advantage, un-
der any circumstances whatever, but, most of
all, when the first effect of its doing so will
be to isolate it among the rest, with institu-
tions which they all denounce-with half
its population at war with the other half, -
with a government yet to form, and spring
ing up las it must) in the midst of ultra
convulsion and excess. In short, whatever
some of us may think of the expediency of
having originally established Southern con-
federacy instead of the present, the day is for
ever gone by-all the mischief, whatever it
be, is done already-and things can only be
made worse, and desperately worse, by an
attempt Ia vain attempt besides it would be,
for the South will not make united people)
TO rectify the mistake now
My pen has literally run away with me, for
it was not my intention to have touched upon
this subject in this letter to you; but you
have set certain chords vibrating in my heart,
that make me utter such things in spite of
myself. The thing which you call tyranny,
is not so; the most unbearable of all,-that
which has made men to run for refuge to
any other form of society, however CALLING
and odious. What makes the cause yet more
deplorable is that, by an eternal law of ma
ture, the only way by which such evils, when
they once become serious, can be mended is
By making them too bad to be borne. That
is the rub, ,-restitia aul}a retrorsum,-every-
thing must be shaken down and washed
away,-society must be supplanted by CON-
plete anarchy, and men have supped full of
horrors and misery, before they dare to ar
rest such things :. and then, great God /! by
what remedy are they compelled to arrest
them! And it is wonderful that we, the
haughtiest of the free-the most enthusiastic
lovers of the blessed order of things under
which we We're born and educated-that we
should feel our hearts breaking as we survey
the appalling prospect around us!
Only think of the false position in which
that noble colony, of which we still love and
admire the last ruins. was placed. in the pes
tilential swamps of Carolina? What peo-
pie would it otherwise have grown to and
how should we have shown among nations,
had our now almost exhausted strength have
borne any proportion to the politeness of
manners and generosity Of spirit which has
ever distinguished our race?
PROGENY OF MULE.-The San Jose Mercu-
~ of the Goth June saws:
A mule passed through this city on
Sunday morning last with foal by her side.
which from unquestionable evidence is the