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THE CORNER STONE.
JAMBS N.BETHUNE, EDITOR.
©OLyM@miS QgQRQfIA.
Tuesday, December 18, iB6O.
’ SECESSION TICKET.
Hon. HENRY L. BENNING,
A. S. RUTHERFORD, Esq.,
’ JAMES N. ‘RAMSEY, Esq.
Fmtiug ilninilltntioii amt Prayer.
We ee I hat the President has issued a
proclamation setting apart Friday the fourth
day of January as a day of Fasting, Humili
ation and Prayer.
For ourself we think the South has had
days enough of “Humilitation” and we dnt
want any more ol them. W e shall not fast if
we can help it, we shall leave thsttor the people
of the North and doubtless they will have days
enough of that kiud without any Presidential
appointmen'. We are very sorry that tire guil
ty cannot suffer alone. As for jjjie praying
part ours will be lor the dissolution of the Un
ion as they have been for a longtime.
Douglas
It . eaid liiot 81£G &
speech in favor of
V>e supported in this WH^HBuMtblican
party we Imve no cloflß
A FatalArgiS^WißSl*?""”
men is, that it we separate from the North tve
cannot keep our slaves in subjection. This
is a suicidal argument, and one which has,
we have no doubt done great injury in the
South already. The fealty of tlie slave is to
the courage ol his master. No dure either
loves, respects or fears a master that he knows
to be a coward.
Our slaves see and know that there is in
many men of the South a fear of separation
from the North on tlu ir account, and that this
feeling exists chi, fly amongst large slave
owners. We venture the opinion that every
man who feels ibis fear, it afraid of his own
negroes and would not feel himself safe to
spend ono night with them alone.
The manifestation of this dastardly spirit
has done more to produce a spirit of insubor
dination among our slaves than all the aboli
tion emissaries that ever got amongst them,
and one mere act of submission will bring us
into uMer contempt with them.
Just Ist us spend our time making demands
of and compromises with the North and we
shall soon haveto make demands of and com
promises with our slaves.
A Few Words to Submission JYcn,
That there are men now in this State, who
under the pretence of getting a United South
are Beeking to delay the action of the South
ern States for tiie purpose of defeating it aU
together, we have no sort of doubt. It is our
opinion that they hope and intend if they can
succeed to’try to climb into power on the cry
of this “glbtious Uiiioo.” To such wo desire
to make a That-they are willing
to sacrifice the rights and interests of the conn
trj for tho gratification of theii personal am
bition we have no doubt. ‘ But to the sugges
tion. lleretorc-n. , uch e(ror(g i lave “peen
crowned with auceess, but , Lo triu h hag
been short lived. Io *834 theTJhimv ~P
got into power in ,UeL,v, a an d held jt for
several years —but th State.Kigltts party
beat them after a time. In JB5l the Union
parly carried most of the Southern States >
but in twelve months they were routed here
foot and dragoons, and the Southern Lights
party bad possession not only of the Slates
but of the Fedeiai Government,
We tell these Union Savers that they are
digging their political graves with their own
hands—they are burving themselves beyond
the reach of resurrection.
FOR TUB CORNER STONE.
Check to Civilization.
No. 2.
Fkee Tkade. upon its merits, is impregna
ble. Asa question of natural right, it is a
Gibraltar.
The only armament ever arrayed against it,
has consisted of painted cannon, metely;
of bad expedients, backed by worse prece
dents. In truth, mankind, L>r decades of cen
turies, has permitted itself to he frightened
from the attainment of substantial good, by
false shadows of evil, projected before its eyes,
for the baro and doubtful benefit of the “pro
jectors.”
Let us examine their wooden artillery,
Perhaps by spiking their big gun fire l , we can
induce the small arms to disc re t
And here is their long Toss,
“Material independence of one people, in
respect of all other peoples ! ’
A nest of absurdities, which may be ex
ploded by throwing the word China into it,
like a bomb.
China adopted the protective or anti-free
tr&de policy, according to her own calcula
tion, some two or three millions of years ago,
with ample inclination and full time, there is
not a doubt that she has done uistice to the
subject.
She has, in fact wrought herself np to such
n pitch of independence that she can ‘-talk
politics, ’’ and parade painted guns with the
best protectionist alive! So utieily indepen
dent that her barbarian feudatories are in con
stant requisition to blow her nose!
Nor is this result of her unrivalled states
manship to be wondered at!
For we ahould consider that the material
independence of a nation is curiously related
to the personal independence of the people
who compose it; so that by no force of legis. I
lotion, can both be elevated at the same time!
The a'tempt is that of the man who should
try to pluck himself out of l! e mire by the
seat of his breeches! the greater the exhibi
tion of independence, the deeper he sticks i.;-
the mud!
Whereupon our protective enemy revolves
his swivel a point or two, and declares that
he merely means to secure so much material
independence as will keep us comfortable in
esse of conflict with any other peopte.
In other words, we are tc go to war with
all the world, including ourselves , for fear that
“amicable relations” may at some future pe
riod cease to exist! Restrictions on trade
are war! War of the most destructive and
disabolical kind ! War, in which all the wea
pons are of the true Hudibraslie pattern, car
rying havoc at both ends, and especially at
the buttj”
Then our friend loses his muzzle, and pro
tests that he only means to'lndicate the im
portance of “building up manufacturers, “di
versifying labor,’’ “employing the idle and the
poor/’ etc.
“Importance to the community.” If a thing
be important to the community, the communi.
tv should deliberately .inform itself on the
sulj-ct, and^t tax itself to get 1
, rr jili- m ost unwise and unjust to
throw upoift the consumer of (sa; ) Iron, the
extra coster a cdtuft)units: huumOt 1
iiHiv --wtne nt&n who needs gun-jpowder
now, bear the'burthen of the community's
possible need of gnn.powdet hereafter ?
All “building,’’ bv indirection, implies a
somewhat “shady” character in tiie builder,
ns well as a shaky style of architecture.
“To diversify labor V Os course, by creating
an inequality which did not otherwise exist
giving A. something which was not his ; and
taking from B. something that was. ‘
But to give “employment !•’ W#H, as there
is no hospital for infiini manufacturers, and
as this sounds like an appeal for charity, the
community ought possibly to respond. Hut
I can’t help thinking that the charity which
is requested to walk blind-fold, would do well
to walk also with its hands shut !
“Can’t compote with cheap lahot !’’ starva
tion wages won’t run American Machinery !’’
And is not that agm and tiling ? Better than
the whole Chinese policy ? Proving that there
are occupations in which wages do range a lit
tie above tbe standard ol starvation. There
are other protective postulates, but like the
above, they are all irrepressibly self-destruc
tive.
What tbe protectionist does want is cheap
labor by force of law. We revolt against tho
government which gives it to him ; and so may
wo continue to revolt!
I don’t know,my dear General, that I have
exhausted the subject; but a review of the
whole protective policy, and it is about as
rampant in America now. as it was in China,
the above mentioned number of years ago,
leaves me with this inexpugnable conviction.
That the mere non-existence of any parti
cular kiud of manufacture, on any particular
part of .the earth’s am facte, is thfr UimlKfT (bl) •
ceivahle protest agaiusl its establishment there
by force of law.
SOUTH'DOWN.
P. S. —It is the custom in England, when
a mother bears triplets, for the Queen to pre
i-ntj|ier with five guineas!
nr*’ - considered to have done tho State
son* service, It j, a
bc(Bnly on patriotism. YY hereas/TTre—nrrrnr 1
system, so far as it protects, is a tax on patri
otism.
For, if I buy American Iron or Sugar, I
ought to pay only their fair value ; but the
“general welfare,” which requires that the
manufacturer shall receive more, saddles that
“more” on me, instead of on itself! Certain
ly if Sugar affects the general welfare, the
patriot who buys it, should, if anything, be a
little favored over the patriot who don’t; es
pecially as the latter may, ipso facto, be pre
sumed to he denied in that kiud of produc
tion which England honors with a bounty!
S. D.
FOR TUB CORNER STONE.
Check (o Civilization.
No. 3.
“Excited Industry
An apology is due the readers of the Cor
ner Stone, for taxing their patience with a
continuance of these papers.
The writer believes that the subjects dis
cussed affect the luit'damentals of society and
good government.
He believes that they have been unwisely
and improperly obsevred by those to whom the
people looked for light, while honoring them
with high office and much emolument.
He helieves'lhat the citizens of this country
having for a time, buried their politicians, are
ready to resurrect the long foigotten ptinci
pies of righteous dialing, which it is the end
of government to promote, and not subveit.
He believes that the ground is ‘ good.” He
believes ihjtt the seed he sows are from the
garner of a “tiood Husbandman he only
regrets that arms more strong, and hands
more skilled, are not engaged in the sowing.
A “topic” is not more necessary to a parti
san, than is a “catch-word” to an otherwise
unprovided politician. And it may bejutlg and
that in any conlroveisy, a well-balanced bi
syllable, weighted with a promise of instant
good, will baiter down whatever of bulwarks
the wisdom of the wise, and the beneficence
of the Omnipotent, have erected against the
impatience of a people.
The promise of a jiolitician to-"excite in
dustry,” is a lamentable case in point I A
promise which has done more to turn the *
• minds” of this people f>ln
profile ill” to the cunninj
advantage’’ than all the in
Christendom. , ‘
There is an element of thejWi(A| J( j n
even the sublimest manifustnti<*s of Vncor- 1
rupii.e power of that promjselL^^Jp
Consider the Un
inn, a man to whom the four the
Globe have done no unmeriW reverenc* 2/j
great mind, with half a cetlry’ s culu in
SiSte-craft, can only see theW'aor m Jiffs*
of a fundamentally IrKiidulenWind perilous,
system of revenue, in itself a Ln'nant J bar
barism, feudalism and gross ‘:^n^L auS e
he thinks that in some H|u (
to some admirable end, it ten^^K3
Consider the coief (i r gi H !
(whom the soul of Soulh-Do^i^ M X ° IQ
honor.) Deprecating with all
purely incidental evils of the “BHk
tem,” yet jealously avoiding to lou^B> rooL >•
of the fraud, the banking “F' ia ’^fcj C ause
he believes that some marvello|T lt of
“excited industry.’’ is to grow
Governor Brown 1 gloriously dU tbo
people of Georgia from Bank
annually, tendering the keys .“■
credit and treasure, to >• •''”
Governor Biown kr.ockitdsi - s (Bt
of “King Stoik” in the gs.l’.ißi|B% •
“King Log” un affectionate
bj a single repereursive effort !
Oh ! Governor Brown! ltid this p eo .
pie of both! One trenchant ‘‘meßsB w 'will.
do the business—" Favors to none
1 cannot follow this false light an .'lrgher;
and I need not follow it any lower /t.j e8 t 3
people and politicians! Have they,,
astray ? Is there not one Godly for
seed 7 gB ’
‘Excited Industry!” Glorious wB; 3C 0 f
a world at work ! Could it only bp'jjsjj evel |
at the cost of an “act entitled an aolX, j le jp
everybody at nobody’s expense!
“Excited Industry!” I have calif abnu t
for the briefest term which should
whole catalogue of industrial stiinulK, anc |
I have found none so forcible and prel ant ts
the word, “ Want.’’ f
Let us illuminate it, with a gleal f rom
history, 1
The first unnatural excitant wliicl e ri
can industry received was administere My t [j e
war of 1812. We were absurdly car y j nln
that war under (he auspicious cry olljF, ee ,
lyade and Sailor's Rights!” We vvf
surdly brought out cf it with a total
the one and a no considerably gecu .
rity of the oilier. j
The most powerful effect of the wi|h^ a s
to excite want, and want excited irfatrfffy.
But the wir terminated, and the gistto£our
politics has sinco been-to keep up
inent! The t.tuff was a ciuel substitute for
tbe war ! L
Whence we may gather that the legisla
ture which multiplies want, solves thiproh}
letn of “evoked industry/* It the
poor, Tftlle’ Toesn, naked, empty
‘'minuses,” are involved in tbe production of
one prodigious, portentous and apoplectic
“ Plus.” ‘’
Leaving vhtch latter sentence for a week’s
digiersiou—l ain as yet, .
SOUTH-DOWN.
* What n comfort, when a Chief Magistrate
proposes ‘‘indifferently reforming” the irrepressi
bly “bad,” Could we explode Under the Execur
ihe advice of llaiulet to tile player*,
Oil I itPuliair-rr .c 1t ,■1 op |>
* • i
FOR TUE CORNER .
Clicck Io Civilization, \ N
No. 4.
What Profit 1
A small evil which affects a great j' s
| more dangerous than a great evil whiA a (.
sects a small thing !
The hurricane which extinguisliss a
is a minor evil to the spark which explu, s
a magazine 1
There is in Europe, a country, which L
been risened from the sea. The latienfa
bor of centuries has erected great
the included waters have been pumped J
Here, great cities lie below the lejei 0 /
ocean, and the manifold pursuits <1 rnerW.
place the contests of the monsteA-'of the
deep. \
Exquiste care is required to k<ep ik S a,.fy
ll at which has been so arduously an\.r/ lr p
ously won.
It is written, that on one occasion aiide
school-boy, pacing one of these A eg
as we may suppose, quite willingly
school, discovered a small thread of wSL
Bunking its way inland from the Ocean. 1\
TSere was a chance, now for erecting'"tlUi
ter wheel, or other ingenious conliivan;i
school-boy manufacture! But the little felhl
knew the danger ! There was no help at himM
So, sitting on his satchel, he patiently, threuj
the long watches of the night, held out til
Ocean with iris hand!
So small a matter may subvert an emgj
so small a man may become the father o If
country!
1 wish I could apply the fable, without
verting it! but alas! our men have not
quite so continent as the boy ! What tod 4
was a leak in the Constitution, so long as t( n
could run their little flutter-wheels, therel 1
What to them, that “power” was cumuls r>
; as the Ocean; and parchment as trencher is
as the sand ? What to them tho inundat r,
if they could monopolize the squirt f or tier
own souls, it they could gain an appreciably
pinch of the whole world!
A good government is a great thing, and 1
whirligig is a small matter, but the wniligi
has had the best cf it!
Let us pump out Ibe water and try again.
’ SOUTH-DOWN.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEK&
Boston Custom House.
Boston, Dec. 8 —The receipts at the Cuss
tom House during the last wetk were thirty
thousand dollars. The receipts were insuffi
cient to pay the monthly salaries of the offi*
cers and employees. The requisite amount
had to be forwarded from Washington.
From Washington.
Washington, Dec. 12 —In the Senate to
day, the House relief bill was reduced to three
million dollars, and passed.
Senator Powell’s resolution was theu deba
ted until the hour of adjournment.
House —About a dozen Union saving pro*
positions ware introduced, and referred to the
usual committees.
Several unimportant bills were passed.
Mr. Bonham, of South Carolina, tendered
his resignation, to-day, as a member of the
military committee.
Mr. Cobb’s letter of resignation, and the
President's acceptance, were published to day.
Appointments.
Washington, Dec. 12. —Frank Tboinas,
Esq., of Maryland, Commissioner of Patents,
has been appointed, and confirmed by the Sen
ale, as Secretary of the Treasury, vice Hon.
IloWeU.Cobb, resigned. s
joints .BBfr California, has been con-
to m exico.
n, ‘ii 7*—
“Minar.
UtlPiH i ‘• ‘n n
bave gen€\forne—the latter to attoud
the Mississippi Stale Convention.
Ex-President Fillmore Declinesji’
mission.
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 12—Ex president
Fillmore has declined an invitaiion, signed by
three hundred prominent citizens of this place,
to go to South as a messenger of peace, His
rqplbn for declining is that he lias an engage
ment to participate in a State Union meeting,
and is bound to wait the result of its action
sm
From Washington.
Washington, Dec. 15.—The Hon. Dan
iel S. Dickinson has been tendered the post
of Secretary of State, in the place of Gett.
Cass, resigned. Great icgret is expressed in
all circles at the resignation of Gen. Cass.
Gen. Scott lias expressed the opinion that*
additional forces should he sent to South Car
olina for the protection of the public property
A Politcal Straw.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Much importance
appears to be attached here to an article in
Lincoln’s Springfield organ, relative to Lin
coln’s calling to his Cabinet two or three
Southerners, opposed to him politically. The
question is asked whether such Southerners
would accept —if yea, then upon what terms
do ihey surrender to Lincoln or Lincoln to
them—or do iliey expect to enter the admin
istration in opposition to each other.
Fueling, Humiliation and Prayer.
Washington, Dec, 15.—The President lias
published a proclamat on ibis morning, ap
pointing Friday, the 4th day of January next,
as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, to
avert tiie alarming immediate political danger?,
and tho fearful distress and panic in the land,
tie says that ull hope seems now to have de
sorted the minds of men, and in this juror of
*w.| ..j. —-1 |w.rjl- IO
rciiCTmTl to Gmt Hrurre, Mlis omnipy fja arm
only can save us from the awful effectVof our
crimes and our follies.
Address of Sontlicru Congressmen.
Washington, Dec. 15.-4Selow is a relia.
hie copy of lire Southern spdress :
To our ConstitlUenfs.
‘‘The argument is exhausted. ,, “Ail i lf)pe
j for relief iu the Union, ihrouji the agency of
committees, Congressional legislation°or con*;
stitmional amendments, is extinguished ; and
wo trust the South will not he deceived by ap
pearances, or proteiice, or guarantees.
In our judgment the republican party are
resolved iu their purpose to grant nothing that
will,fir ought to satisfy the South.
We are satisfied that the honor, safety and
independence of the Southern people require
the organization of a Southern Confederacy—
a result to be obtained only by separate State
secession—aud that the piimary object of each’
slavebolding State ought to be its speedy <fnd
absolute separation irotn a Union with'bostile
States. Signed:
fMtftiaiHa- —James L. Pugh, J>nvid Clopton,
ydenham Moore, Jabez L. M. Curry, Jas. A.
Stallworth.
; Georgia—J. W. Underwood, Lucius J. Gar
trell, James Jackson, John S. Jonos, Martin
J. Crawford, Alfred Iverson.
Florida—George L. Hawkins.
Arkansas—T. C. Hindman.
Mississippi—Jefferson Davis, Albert G,
Brown, Win. Batksdale. Olho ft, Singleton,
Reuben Davis.
North Carolin—Burton Craige, Thomas
II uffin. S
Louisiana—John Slidell, J. P. Benjamin,
J. M. Landrum,
Texas—L. T. Wigfall, J. W. Hemphill, J.
H. Reagan.
South Carolina—M. L. Bonham, Wm. P.
Miles, John McQueen, J. D, Ashmore,
ILATEST FROM EUROPE.
ABRJVAL frSBS* of THE
KUDAR.
Interesting Foreign Intelligence.
New York, Dec. 12,—The steamship Ke
dai, from Liverpool, has arrived. She sailed
on the 27th Nsv. ller new*- u^ n ,
anticipated. .
China—On two occasions thirty thousand
of Tartar cavalry were completely routed, two
thousand of whom were killed and fifty guns
taken. The allies had only eighteen wound,
ed.
The correspondent of the London Times
says that Consul Parks and three officers were
taken prisoners, and conveyed to Pekin, and
were well treated.
Lord Elgin demanded the release of
ors before entering into negotiations.
The Emperor’s brother was appointed chief
commander to make peace.
Quiet prevailed at Shanghai.
The latest Government dispatch from Chi
na says that the allies were within six miles of
Pekin.
•’ - 1 “ T" 11 1 —; —: ; ”
The Londoh Times in its review of tbb se
cession movement, reiterates its belief that the
American Union will be maintained.
Col. Flalant has been appointed French
ambassador at London,
Holland —A bill baa been introduced for
anew tariff, increasing the duty on cotton
goods, >sn, iSzc.
Tbif whole of the diplomatic corps, at the
request of Francis had quitted Gaeta for
Rome.
arrival of the steamship
EUROPA.
Halifax, Dec. 13.— The steamship Euro
pa has arrived here, with European advices
to the Ist inst.
COMMERCIAL.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool on Satur
day. the Ist inst., amounted to 6,600 bales ;
niaiket quiet, prices steady, aud demand ir
regular.
Consols quoted at 03 5-8.
The provision market was quiet.
Tho Europa brings upwards ol 8100,000
in specie.
She Persia had arrived out.
Special Correspondenceof the rienyu^e.
Mexican Political News.
The Liberal Army Surrounding Ike Capital.
Vera Cruz, Dec. 7, IS6O.
We are without any news from the interior,
as all communication with the city of Mexico
is cut off, by order of the commanding general
of the Liberal parly, whose (forces are sur-
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Bv oiTTeTot/MiNamrir^iill^raiiinoJPß^gPP
lars belonging to the BritishToondholdilrs
been tokeiPpossession of, and of which l>v an
Nofficial account, 0250,000 have
spent for the defence of the city. The rest is
not to be touched unless necessity compels
the government of tiie city toapropriatd it for
the further expenses of defence.
All the foreign ministers bave fled from the
city, and are now at Jalapa.
The Liberal forces, amounting to about
thirty thousand men are concentrated near the
city of Mexico, and the next fortnight must
give in some great results.
The Juanz Goverment entertain no doubt
of a complete suceess, and is actually prepare
ing for the trip to the city, which, we doubt
not, will be a triumphant one ift every re
spect.
This gives hard fighting for the place
shows perseverance, and they now look lor a
reward.
Tiie British mail steamer touching at Tam
pico took in the four hundred thousand dol
lars originally taken by Mr. Degellado and af
ter waids refunded to bush up Mr. Matthew
aud satisfy the English demand.
Through the interference, however, of the
American, French and Spanish Consuls the
money has been distributed prorata among all
the interested parties, giving about 30 per
cent., much to tho satisfaction of all concer
ned.
latest from tub capital.
The latest advices we have from the city of
Mexico by this arrival are dated the 28th.
The positions then occupied by the Libor
al army were are follows:
Gens. Traconis, Morena, Alarsaste, Carba
jal and Cuellar, then occupied the towns of
Cuanlitlan, Guadalupe and San Cbiistobal,
with tbeir several commands. These positions,
command the road from Gaudalajur i, Quere
tern, Tampico, and direr cities of the North.
Gen. Aureliano occupied Tacubaya, Mix-,
r,”T“- ‘i'inli>iirß„amt, J.irdiimiLag
I rose positions cfonnnml all tiie roads totliß
South, leading to Toluca and on to Morelic. F
Jhe road to Vera Cruz was, occupied by]
Gen. Diaz, at the head of tbe troops of the
Eastern Department.
The investment of the capital therefore was )
fully complete on the 28th. The main army,
however, under Gen. Ortega, from Goadalaj.t
ra, had not yet come up.
The extraordinary which should have leji
Mexico on the 3d, with six days later
had cot arrived when the Tennesseai?s'7ect
It was four days behind, an j had
caused considerable anxiety. '*
Latest from yra Cruz.
A private letter, w-rtfen the moment the
Tennessee left Ver- Cruz, says
“The expre*- ’ )as j ust arrived fronr Jalajia
Mr. McLa"*’ anc * Lallrentrie will return home
by the- ffext steamer. The French Minister,
and Mr. Hargousareat Jalapa.
/nr. S. will advise Miramon to capitulate to
the Liberal forces.
In the city of Mexico, on the 28ih, there
was a great scarcity of provisions, and much
distress in consequence. Corn was selling at
06 the bushel, and lard at $lO tbearroha of
25 pounds.
The main army from Guadalajar was ma
king forced marches for the invested city,
which has doubtless ere this been captured or
the investing army has been repulsed.
From the Columbia Southern Guardian.
AN APPEAL TO THE SOUTH
NO. IV.
A few reasons now why the South should
quit this Union, and a few answers to the ar
guments against it, and 1 have done,
A secession of the Southern States icill in
sure to them domestic peace nnd security.
This is a consideration of infinitely more
importance than it is generally taken to be.
Let it be remembered that disquiet has made
its way into our families, and has been increas
ing for some time past, while ice are in the
Union, and where it will end, if we remain in
it. God only kno.vs. With every recurring-
Presidential election it is to be renewed, if we
tuke any part in the contest.
It is the everlasting stump-speaking in be.
half of rival candidates for Congress and the
Presidency, the indiscreet table talk which it
naturally suggests, the inflamatory extracts
front Northern speeches and editorials con
biTng'tfWV.aio*l hi the Southern N press, which
things said and cKW4f>_9 ur families; not the
Now, all this ends where the'iwp.tica.. afar off.
The force of this argument will be tested’ Ht
the next meeting ofCongro3S. Maik, if you
plea-e, the change of tone and manner which
the rnnkets and most defiant Republicans will
assume in that body. If one anti.slavery
measures is proposed by any of them—if one
threat, or taunt, or dare is thrown out by the
rudest and most rampant of them all, in con i
tempt of‘‘the peculiar institution”—call me
no prophet. Our Congress Halls will no more
resound with this topic. Here is a dangerous
leak stopped. But I have a better argument
than all this. It is universally understood
mong all classes here that South Carolina
■ Ttßfc
will secede from the Union; and the effect up
on the slave in this section of the State (l know
not how it is below) is just what I said it
would be a year ago; and just as it has been
in all ngea, (soe Professor Key nobis’ admirable
article in the last DeBow;) and just as it ever
will be, if We treat our servants as God’a
Word requires 4 !!* to treat them. Beeing cock
ades mounted every where, • and continual
parades every where, they think that war
is coming certainly; and numbers of them
are inquiring whether they will not be
pemilted to fight with their masters. If
not, they propose to accompany their mas
ters as waiting-men, cooks, &c. 1 suppose
they think Black Republicans are negrots, (no
great mistake, seeing they love each other des
peratly,) and the idea of a parcel of negroes
coming here to fight‘‘white people” is ngaigst
all their notions of delicacy, decency, anc (
common sense; and, having internal evidence
that they are certain to be whipped, they de>
sire to take this honor off their masters hands;
Bo this ibis as it may, all is quiet beie. The cho
ral hymn of several of them has just died up
on mine ear, and 1 would have no more fear of
intrusting my wife and daughters to their care
than I w ould have in committing them to a
brother’s care. Get us away from Republicarl
’nflences, and we shall dwell together in peace
on earth, and mingle hymns in heaven. Is
there anything on this earth, not to say in this
Union, which could compensate me for one
week’s alarms of the tender olio of my house
hold? And yet it has been the undisguised
[aim of the Abolitionists to stir them in every
{Shindy in tfor a week, or a year
not dor a ween.
tale !!” w'dBjBBHBRm beginning, and if
dias been For what pur
pose ? For (bwipSHle (openly avowed by 1
them) which is jusl|b|eginning to be accom
plished. One wouMi,(oppose that this side thd
infernal regions thl<6 could not bo found n
being capable of B#ch a plan~a plan which
visits with the sorest atllictions tbe most inno
cent. But they cpuld not only concoct sucti
a plan, but chuckle over its most terrific exe
cution at Harper’s Ferry, and draw witticism#
from it on Virginian courage. Again, they
bad the pleasure of seeing it carried out more
extensively in Texas. “But Virginia and
Texas are both satisfied to remain in the
Union, and why do you complain I com*
plain of neither I accord to them the privi
lege of shaping their own course in their own
way; hut neither ot them approves the acts
referred to, and I bring them to notice as overt
acts in those States, which are calculated to
disturb the peace of families in all the States’
between them, and to warn them ail (against
remaining under the government of the de
mons who could conceive ami perpetrate such
deeds. “Ther’s no uneasiness in my family,”
says one. It may be so, but I assure you, sir,
it is in many tuber families; and if you have 1
no sympathy for them, you are little better
than un Abolitionist yourself.
A.’ B. LONGSTREET.
Fioni the Southern Guardian.
AN APPEAL TO THE SOUTH.
’ NO. VI.
The Southern Sla r,s should leave, the Un
ion, because it Costs finitely more than
it is worth to them.
What is ihe Union worth to the
<ier ? Will some honest, intelligent,
man answer this question ? It is nsnally aH|
svered by rhnpsocii, sand florid
but these me times for something graj^B
jcraHt that ii is a—
..i 1 Wk
T;iy too uiuvU • ‘ “WT
it i <>r Iht tohe South,
J • nvH un bloodsucker fa r
o to;ly years. Do ypn say that you can g, r ,
-over all Us vast lrfe, and he under lawsT./i
j your ojrn .atViiig ? In ail thru tinu.—J
have never l>e*n able to make ;i s i r
but by siitr. r .m-t* of tl.o AUrth. vl
her representatives chose to
m : IrOpO'etil ; 1 1 ’ dH
J lei.'ed 1,, u/iiie, wiiei! the higher i I
“I tiie two recliu-v-rne in
slruegle. for most rd’ that tiint’,
seen e the election of men at the
would jirotect us from oppression anMHBHj
‘■‘"o. As to receiving at their
great bo.u Unit would cost the North aSHHj
we long ago CckciJ to look for such
If we could get a Pieshlont \vho would vStml
South-devouring measures, and give or poss- ’
tieians-, and througli them our people, office,,
why we gloried as though we had all Yankee
dom under our thumb. But so far is Irnttom
being true that yon can travel over the Uni
ted States with all your home-born privileges,
the troth is, that there is not a civilized couiu
try on the face of the earth, in which you may
not travel with greater privileges thamyou
have in the Northern S’ates of this Umcn.
A few years ago, a man was travelling
his slave in Prussia. An attempt was made
to emancipate the slave; and a Prussian
judge decided, that according t* the law of
nations, the relation of master and slave could!
not be dissolved by the mere temporary so
journ of the two in that country. So all Eu
i ope would decide’ Hardly a year has rolled
over our heads, in the last thirty, in which
some tourist in the Northern States has not
had his slave taken from him and set free-.
Many years ago the brig Enterprise left
Alexandria with sixty or seventy slaves co
board, bound for Charleston. She wa3 driv
en by stress of weather into Bermuda, and
the author? ties of that Island set all the ne
groes free- Cur government demanded re
paration of the Btitish government for the in
jury done toihe owner; and the British gov
ernment made reparation. A few years ago,
some eight or ten slaves were shipped from
some port in Virginia, for New Orleans. The
vessel for some cause touched at New Yotk,
but the feet of the slaves did not touch the
soil of New Yorkr They were taken from
the vessel and set free. As this case did ntt
come within the pale of the “personal liberty
law ’ of that State, the courts condescended
to hear the master’s plea for his slaves, They
decided against him of conrse, upon the prin*
mde. j suppose, that the Constitution superse*
the Otjnsitt-o/ nations, and they superseded
is as boldly invaded, as the rigEf 6TAiropeny
in those States. In every church where raa*
jorilies ride, they have usurped papal power,
without observing papal clemency to South
ern Christians. With all power—civil and
! eclesiastical—in their hands, what is to be
come of us ? The Union has nothing in it to
endear it to the people of the South. How
muon has it cost the South ? I will not an*
swer in round numbers, because you would
not believe me; and cannot answer it fully,
without worrying or bewildering the reader.