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mSCULLAI E»D#. )KOM * WOI'S M.IJUM. Till-: PABTISG KISS. BY MIRAIO AU B. LAMAR. Ill* net did noto’ertaka ltii bad intent, AnJ must be buriej but as an intent That perished by the way.—(Shahm-eare. The driver sounded his horn, and in one tnorc hour 1 was to depart in the stage for my native State. The idea of revisiting thu home of my childhood—of returning to the hosotns of my brothers and sisters, and onee •more beholding my aged parents before the grave should hide them forever from my view, tilled tne with rapture that 1 had never expe rienced before. Already transported in im agination over the long journey, 1 received the joyous welcome of the happy family.— My good old father met me at the gate with the kindest demonstrations of affection—my mother, now feeblejwith years and trembling with affliction, tottered half way down the stops to grasp my hand and unable to sustain the shock of joy, she burst into tears, whilst mv little serious sister Clara, ran to my arms, and folding hers about by neck, could not re train even in the midst of her gladness from affectionately chiding me for not answering her letters." Blessed little sister ; l kissed ' her pretty black eye, and promised to do better in future, and thero was pleasure, aye a bliss even in this reverie of imagination, which if it could but last, I would not barter for the wide world’s wealth and all its honors besides. But every bliss has its banc. There is not a glad emotion that enters the human heart hut it is quickly chased away by some obtrusive care. The thought tjiat l had to part with I’anny Mol risen whom Iso much loved, even unto adoration, soon put an end to the glow of happy feeling and spread over my heart a cor responding poignancy of misery. This is the nature of human happiness. The visits of joy are as short as those of the votaries of fashionable life, and the breast that is elated by her transitory presence will as surely ex perience an equal depression at her departure. Her smiles arc like the vivid Hashes of light ning that cast a momentary splendor on the brown cheek of night but vanish in an instant and leave behind four fold darkness. 1 thought of home and iny soul expanded. 1 thought of Fanny and it sank in dejection I lovod this fair and excellent creature, not that the beauty of her whole sox seemed epi tomized in her form and face, but more for the higher brilliancy of her polished mind, and above all because of her unsophisticated purity ©f heart. My love was reciprocated. Daily we renewed our vows of perpetual con stancy, and the green-eyed monster, jealousy, never sullied our minds or disturbed our peace, but mutually confiding, we enjoyed the luxury of tendcrcst affection, unmixed with the bitterness of doubt and distrust; and if them be such as positive happiness on earth “it is this, it is this.” Blest in each others society, we seldom sought any other, and from our first acquaintance we had never been separated oven for a week at a time— to part with her possibly forever—it seemed like death. 1 had already taken leave of her on the cvcningof the proceeding day, but now that 1 was about to enter on my journey almost immediately, 1 could not suppress a rising propensity, that increased in ardor as the lime of departure drew nearer, to gaze upon her sweet innocent face once more—onee more to seize her little white hand and say “good bye.” I hastened to her dwelling, ■■'he was at her piano playing the plaintive air of “Roy’s Wife,” the very tune of all others I most do lighted to hear; and she could play 100, with such enchanting skill—so ja the heart. On my entrance in the ceased the music, hut quickly resumerff irnt my request, and accompanied the instrument with her voice, which possessed the very sou! of melody, and breathed a feeling and a pa thos, ns soul subduing as the magic harmony of IVourmahal. She sang— “ Fare thee well for I must leave thee, “ But oh! let not our partinp grieve thee, “ For I will Eli 11 he thine, believe me,” And there was an applicability in these words to my situation, such a suitableness of senti ment to the occasion, that made tiicm sink “deep into mv burning heart,” and tho’ 1 xtannot say that the music, like St. Cecilia’s, “drew an Angel down,” I will say that she sang like an Angel, and wore all the celestial loveliness of one. Could the song never dose, and her beauty never die, who would ask for a brighter Heaven! As soon as she finished the strain, she clos ed the lid of the piano, and turning her beamy face with her “ bonny blue eyes” towards me, she said, “1 now have a task for y'ou to per form, and it is a compliance with your promise made a long time ago, to write an original 4>iece in my album. The evening is favora ble to poetry, and I nni3t insist upon your wri ting.” At first I thought this was merely in tended to divert my mind from the melancho ly which she perceived was gathering on it ; for I was so far from ever being guilty of wai ting poetry, that 1 could not sot a moment suppose she believed me capable of perpe trating the crime. But before 1 could make her any answer, she hastily took from hci piano drawer, a neatly or rather elegantly bound Album, and spreading it on a table Where pen and ink were previously placed, she invited me to the task in a manner too serious not to convince me that the request wus made more in earnest than thro’ courte sy. What should Ido ! 1 had not the heart to refuse* nor _the genius to comply. My brain was as “ dry, as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.” Never did I stand in need of timid or deplore, its want so much, as on this occasion. ’Tis true the evening was se rene and beautiful, and might have warmed the breast that had the least B|*irk of poetic feeling about it, but mine had no dormant energies of that kind to awaken, and neither the kindling influence of fine weather, nor the more inspiring power of Fanny’s pre sence coifld remove my constitutional inabili ty to rhyme. Should I attempt it, 1 knew very well that the failure would be so com pletely shameful, that I should lose much of her esteem, and not to do it, must inevitably incur her most serious displeasure. 1 deter mined however to risk the attempt, and seat ing myself by tho table, I seized the fieri in despair, dipped it in tiie stand, and turning mv eyes (not in “ fine frenzy rolling ”) to ward the ceiling, 1 began cogitating on what to fix my fanciful effusion. Suddenly my mu lugs were interrupted,— The whole family were iri busy uproar—all engaged in cleaning and decorating the house. Fame were hanging new curtains of damask | GEORGIA TIMES, AND STATE iUGfgtVF ADVOCATE. over the windows —some replenishing the flower pots with water and fresh roses, and Fanny’s youngest sister was fantastically or namenting a pair of plated candlesticks with paper leaves. Tho Turkey carpet was re moved, and the floor dry-rubbed—and indeed all the preparations usually made for a dan cing party, were going on, and apparently for that purpose. 1 thought so then. Presently a servant girl came in w ith a bundle of ever greens with which she commenced decorating the rnaiitlepieCe, and then proceeded to a large mirror that hung on the opposite wall in such a position tome that it reflected to my view, the image of Fanny as she reclined on the sofa in a thoughtful and pensive manner. Her countenance was frequently tinged with a slight melancholy, but now it wore a deep gloom. 1 certainly had never seen her beau tiful face so clouded by sadness before. It was pale—her eyes pored upon the floor— she appeared abstracted in her mind, for she took no notice of what was going on un til the servant enquired of her if she intend cd to have the walls of the room festooned with the vines. “Do as you please” she re plied,and risingfromiierse.it, she left the room with a tear, as I thought quivering in her soft blue eye-. What was the cause of all this, 1 was at a loss to conjecture. 1 enquired of the maid—her answer was as a dagger to my heart. “Why, have you not heard” says she “that this is Miss Fanny’s wedding night?” I could hear no more —iny brain reeled, and I sank into a state of insensibili ty. Suddenly, however, 1 was aroused from this apathy by the entrance of a tall, young man, of handsome deportment and-splendid ly attired, “ with a broad felicity of face,” bespeaking a light mind and a happy heait. It was for his coming that all these prepara tions were made, for he was my rival, who was that very night to be married to the fair Fanny. Prompted by desperation, I rushed impetuous upon his throat—the villain fled, he was my friend. We were born in the same village—educated at the same school— had been intimate from our boyish days—“ I wore him in my heart’s core,” and not a cir cumstance had ever transpired until the pre sent occurrence, to weaken the band of friendship that united us together. Os all my friends lid tvas the only one to whom l ever imparted ilie secret of my attachment to Fanny. He abused tlmt confidence to sup plant me in her affection. Ami must I bow in degrading and hlmliliating resignation to the wrong? No, rather let m*? perish. Guis ed he the coward whose arm falter;* ln 8 J 1 revenge. With imprecations on my t>V a * s bead, I flod tho habitation. All idea of my journey was now banished from mv mind. My every thought was devo ted to revenge—my heart was a furnacd ff ex asperated passions—my blood boiled for ven gence. Retiring to my room I whetted my dagger and reloaded mv pistol. “ i •will mar his mirth”said Ito myself. “ 1 will burst up on him in the midst of his anticipated heaven like an unexpected Aballino.” Ami let no mistaken piety denounce all human vcngcnce as unrighteous. The serpent is crushed in the earth because of his guile that converted the bloom of Eden into a wilderness of woe, and so should the demon still he crushed, when forsaking his reptile shape, he assumes the human form, and spreads over the paradise of the heart, a wintry desolation. Reader, when you shall love as i have loved, and he sup planted by a wretch calling himself your friend, but whose smiles are “the very fiend’s arch mock,” tiicn will you be ready to ex claim with me, “ Who'll steep in safety that has done this ' wrong.” 1 know not how the time rolled off, hut night full had now come on. Dressing my self in apparel,suitable for the wedding, thith er I went, sternly determined to “ speak dag •gers” to the bride, and to use one on the tftjacherous author of my misery. 'The par ty was assembled and the nuptial hour was almost arrived. The hridcs-inaid was plac ing the last flower in the brides head, and as she twined it in the shining curl, 1 heard her distinctly singing tho beautiful verse by Mrs. Homans “ Bring flowers (rest; flowers for the bride to wear, “They were born to blush in her shining hair, “ She is leaving the jilnce of her childish mirth, “ she has bid farewell to her Futhor’s hearth, “ Her place is now by another’s side, “ Bring flowers lor the lochs of the fair young bride.” 'l’hc long parlor was splendidly illuminated. The silver chuidalicr suspended in the cen tre, threw around a brilliant light which the mirrors augmented by reflection, whilst the warm flashes that glanced from the spaiking eyes of the laughing girls, added to the bl tze and made the loom glow wit!) the lustre of the skies. The. light of Heaven was there, and merriment was there. The voiipg voi ces mingling in sprightly conversation were so many separate tones of melody—and mirth was in all—all was gladness, and to those whom despair had not rendered impenetrable to joy, it was sweet to look upon the im.oeent faces, and to witness the unaffected vivaci ty that prevailed. Once I should have en joyed the scene, but the chord in my bo som that might have vibrated in unison, was now snapped ns under, and amidst all the splendor and gaiety and joy, that encir cled me, mv heart retained its midnight dark ness, still brooding over its ruin, and nourish ing its gloomy wrath. 1 mixed not with the joyous company, but retired to the remotest corner of the room, and folding my arms, im patiently waited the coining of the bride groom and his bride, when 1 might take even to the altar of Hymen, that sanguinary ven gence which despair prompted, and my wrongs justified. They soon came. There was a sudden si lence in the hall—l raised my eyes, and the happy couple wt re standing on the floor, their attendants arranged on either side. The whole company pressed forward to look upon the lair young bride. Never hud one shown so beautiful—never had Fanny appeared so lovely to my eye as then her countenance seemed illuminated with unearthly animation —a silk vail east a thin shadow over its bright ness like a milk white cloud limiting before the evening star. She blushed, and the ear nation on her cheek shone like the glancing sunbeam" on “ the hill of Ben-lotnond.” Her tresses were blacker than the raven’s wing— they roiled down her neck and spread upon her ivory shoulders. Formed by the hand of elegance her figure wore tho perfection of human symmetry—she was the statue of Medici, animated to life by the warmest, brightest fires of heaven, exhibiting a constel lation of beauty where every charm mingled its light in one unbounded blaze. I gazed ujKin ber, and the recollection of .former times came rushing on my soul. 1 thougl t of the many evenings that Iliad spent with her in this same halt, under happier circumstances —of the many protestations of eternal love, that wc used to exchange as we walked arm in arm to church of Sabbath mornings, and of the times that wc have loitered on the banks of a neighboring river, and sitting be neath the umbrageous oaks, would speak ol the fair prospects of happiness before us, when wc should he united in marriage as wc were in affection. Often has she told inc iii these delightful ramhics.that Heaven design ed us for each other, “ I for her, and she for tne.” And little did I dream, that 1 should ever he the victim of her perfidy, and behold her the bride of another. 1 could not behold it. A thousand times would I have rather gone with a sprig of rosemary in iny lingers to yiew her in the ruins of death. Ami here let me beg the reader to be charitable to my weakness ; mock not my misery with unhal lowed merriment; if ve cannot sympathise with mv affliction, let us part. 1 sVrite lor those of softer mould ; with more cl the “ milk of human kindness,” in their natuie ; who can feel another’s woe; who delight to bind the broken spirit, and to calm the agon ized bosom of despair. There are such, and ve generous few, the tear that you have for the w retched, 1 ask it in behalf of him whoev er lie may he, who has experienced the blight of ruined affection. Soothe him. by your kindness if you can, for Ins heart has become desolate and he stands in need of all the consolation to.be derived from the tcndcr cst sympathies of friendship; the virtuous will ever impart it; the vicious have none to be- stow. But to return to iny story. who was to unite the happy couple together, now assumed his proper station on the floor, and in a moment all was still. Whilst he was addressing to them in a feeling manner a few prefatory admonitions, I arose from iny seat, pressed my way through the crowd, and plant ed myself at my rivals back. 1 laid mv hand upon my dagger—-paused a moment —’twas strange, iny heart began ,to falter m its stea diness. Then it was that the enormity of the act which 1 was about to perpetrate, flashed a cross my mind in all its horror. He still looked like the friend of iny youth—to imbrue mv hands in his blood—-to murder him—it seemed too horrid. My every joint trembled,and a cold sweat bedewed mv forehead. And yet must he triumph in my ruin ? Revenge is iny due, and justice demands punishment for his trea chery and shall 1 shrink from the blow ? There was a mighty conflict in my hear; for mastery, bp twccil Us .angry passions and its gentler ini'- guloeS* But veiyy.-nue-a.lxiumollftd- l thought my rival saw me, and in the look which seem ed directed to inc, there was an air of haugh tiness and exultation that re-iuvigoraUd my i lc ,yes r oa|ii:nated my resentment. Again he stood before m Q in all the blackness of his guilt, the perfidious who had incrci lessly defrauded me of my “ life's .if". -Flic, aged Minister proceeded in the marriage cer emony—if any know a lawful reason why this couple should not be joined together in the holy state of matrimony, let them speak.” Now was my time. I touched the bride upon the shoulder—she turned—“ Be not alarmed,” I cried, “for I meditate no injury tovou. Ol Fanny, when I admired the diamond bright ness of your beauty, I did not think your bosom had the diamond’s hardness too. 1 could say no more—utterance forsook me— iny mind lost its deliberation, and in the pbrenzy of despair, twisting my fingers in the locks of the bewildered bridegroom, at one convulsive efl'ort, I felled him on the floor and bent my knee upon bis breast. The whole company were petrified to marble.— Before the attondiuiUt from their panic, to render assistance to the imploring victim at my feet, 1 snatched my pistoi from its belt, and cocked it at Ins throb bing temple.—At this moment Fanny caught mo by the hand, and giving it a geqjde pres-, sure, she said, “ come, come, arc you not go ing to write in my Album ? it iins almost' been an hour since you s it down for that pur pose. ’ “ Write in your Album fair crea ture,” saitl I—“ why yes, 1 will write in your Album,” and arrousing me from {he reverie into winch I had fallen froiri the time 1 tool* mv seat by the table, I was much relieved on finding that the above dreadful circumstance existed only in a dieam of imagination. A gaiit I dipped"mv pen in the stand, and .bal ing nothing poetic about me, 1 wrote the above. The stage-horn summoned me as 1 finished, and 1 just iiad time to print on Fan ny’s lira, the parting hiss MOBAL. . From the N. Y. .Mas. “ On a gravestone in Worcrster-Cathetkal is this emphatic i(ißcri;>liort—‘ Aliskrrimus;’ with neither name nor nor taxt.” Such is the peculiar title-page of a peculiar and most striking piece of composition re-published thik week by Mess.s. Harper. The force of the. epi taph, and, consequently a due impression of the author’s subject, is lost to those who are unac quainted with the meaning of tho single, but thriee-cxpressive Latin word which marks tire monument, —Here lies a perf.it a-rclrh : With such materials, and unrestrained by any limitations ot time, or place, or circumstance, the reader may Judge with what offect a powerful pen might sketch the. scenes which aif excited imagination would readily find, scope for. Such a pen has been employed, and the result is a,short, vigorous, and impassioned tale, which has secur ed to the writer the highest prise abroad, ami promises the like fame oil this side of the-Atlan tic. The production is anonymous; Jts style much resembles Bulwcr’s Monos .Sr. JJiainonos, and other imaginative writings : whether he can be justly suspected of its authorship-, we do not know. Oftlie character of the voluulp—which, we ought not to omit io say, the publishers have issued in a beautiful form—wc need only here ob serve,that it assumes to be the auto-biography ot a victim of passions intense and unrestrained, alid lending, as such guides must,'to the most despe rate consequences. The moral of the work (which forms ,t distinct, concluding section) is so forcibly expressed, that w-e quote it —although,- by so doing, we tender this notice more extended than was our purpose at the outset. “ l’jlty years have passed since that day ; one half ot them in the indulgence of overy ruthless and desperate passion. 1 deemed existence an injury ;J thought [myself aggrieved in having been created ; and 1 felt evil tow ard . all my race, in the profligate court of Charles, ami afterwards 111 that of Louis, I found an ample so ld for mv | misanthropic impulses. Like Isbmael, ‘my hand | was against every man, and every man’s hand against me-’ And yet 1 prospered ill the world, and earned in it those distinctions of renown which others only obum through the exertion of willful an I systematized ambition. At tie head of armies, i.i tin. strife of courts, in the dan gerous intrigues of internal politics, in foreign di- i plomucy. in private faction or in popular tumult, Burred- iiivariahlv uiieudt I me. During this Song career, I -.vis the envied ol the many; and even now, I could direct universal attention to my obscurity, by reveiling the desig nation under which I drew upon myself the eyes of Europe. But, neither wealth, power, nor homage, softened the agony of my remorse ; with in me was the worm that never ifieth. As I advanced in life, the fiery restlessness which had hitherto involuntarily propelled me into energet ic-exertion, forsook me ; and the last frve-&-tiven ty years of my guilty existence have been past, 1 hope, le-s errtugly than two first. In solitude and in penitence, in prayer anJ self-imposed pri vation, have I striven to subdue the strong wick edness of my heart; but, hivret .uteri lethulis a runrfo, it goads me night arid day, and an ocean cf tears coald not wash out the memory of the one great crime of my bad life. For evet r and ever, ihe words of Adoni-bezcck recut to me, — ‘As I have done, so God hath requited me," No human effort or power can restore me to tranquillity. t-iuce the hour of lu-r destb, the curse of Heaven has beetqon me and lpiue: my sisters have died childless, and 1 live the last of my race. In the morning I wish for the evening. The heaven above- mu is its brass, and the earth beneath me is as iron. Above, below, man’s wo and joy, I prowl over the face of the land alone amongst millions; an alien to the com mon passions of my race, 1 can neither weep with the mourner, nor smile with the happy.— And yet 1 fear to die! Existence is mv bane, the future ismy dread; I loath,what is, but I trem ble at what is’ to be.—May this expi ate—May the Almighty be merciful toa wretch who cannot forgive himself! " . 1 do not hope that this gloomy career of crime and misery can interest, but it may instruct. Though I cannot bequeath a moral legacy as striking as that of the Moorish King, 1 will yet strive to contribute iny mite, though a posthumous one, to ‘tho- welturo ot man-kind. I have perpetrated and. seen so much ut evil; have so writhed beneath the horrors of remorse, that 1 would Willingly make any exertion to save a fellow-creature from its stings. 1 shall not, then, deem this painful record to have been written in vain, ifmy example and fate servebut to turn one sinner to repentance, or lo impress on ihe ininil of one wavers, the conviction that— I*ol. IT IG Al_. STATE RIGHT'S. The doctrine of nullification, how trite soever it may Ue, has been rejected, denounced and scouted by a large majority of the people of the United States-. The opposition of the whole fe deral, tariff. Clay, and Jackson parties, fach from differenl'niotives, emulating the tin wearied exer tions "of the others, and wielding the tremendous power and patronage ol the federal government, was too great for truth itself to withstand . Ed ucation, interest and ambition arrayed a mighty host against it north of the Potortioc ; and the corrupting influence of power and patronage, produced so many desertions form-the little band south of Mason and Dixon’s line, that*, if we pro [i■• r 1 y nuaufUr- ilu. character of man, we shall not be surprised,.that when the Old Chief said sternly, nullification ylmll go down, a panic seiz ed many, yea, thousands, who would .otherwise have enlisted under its banner. We shall examine some of the causes of a mo ral character, arising from the very nature of man, by which its more general adoption was prevent ed. Truth, it is said, is mighty, and will pre va”. Tire history of the world attests the con trary There 1“ riot an error of Opinion, how absurd soever it may ap I 'C"*l- which has not at some period of the world, prevailed , ” a <l there is scarcely a truth now established and admitted, which did not meet such opposition, as to cause its votaries, for a long time, almost lo .despair ot its success. Nothing is better calculated to cause a deep sense of humility to fail on the soul of a man of feeling, than reflecting on the mass of false notions in philostqrl.y, morality, religion and government, in which mankind irom the be ginning have been involved. And the extreme difficulty, with which truths, the liiost sublime rmil important find their way to the heart and the understanding, especially when they conflict with prejudices of longstanding,** with the Interests of large bodies of men, is fully illustrated by every page of profane ami eetesiastin-.il history. The early" chrUu«nr> suffered mr.r‘.yr"flom in every -horrid fern of death, and their members increas ed slow ly’, till the Empefor Constantine, became a convert to their faith, ills' countenance arid support soon converted"jiis courtisaus arid para site;,. Jt became the rdjgii ri of the court, mar tyrdom ceased, and Horn that ti ne forward, do other religion prevailed soextensivtlyin Europe, . particularly in tho pertioTTembraced by Ihe Ro man Empire. Nor.was it the force of truth a lotie, that caused tho success of the reformation commenced by Luther.- The -gross corruption mid tyranny of the Carbolic Church aided him more than any other arguments. In England. Henry VIII'. ‘established the prot.-stunt reiigioa, from consideration of a personal character. : Ma ry, his 'daughter, acknowledged the Supremacy of the Tope from motives of a similar kind ; and her successor Elizabeth, ny-establishcd lhp Pro testant religion, because,, as- her father and mo ther Anno BtJiyirli.id bw'n-c!tvcrce;l by the Popp it she. had acknowledged his ’Supremacy, she v.’ouid-have been in-law a bastard, and .incapable of filling the throne. 1 nullification Could have-enlisted iff its support, some individoal,of great power, Andrew Jackson for instance, its-, truth would irave flushed at once, on the .mind of a majority of the peo’p'e of trie United Btutcs, and, in the Southern -States..there would, have been, by this time, hut Ititle difference of opinion Oil this subject, ' -•-■ -b >-* a:,- • Nullification has not yet prevailed, twin a com bination of causes against it. It wi!R however, certainly receive the snuction, at’least of the. Southern Mates", fruity a combination cf causes in its I ivor. On this we mainly depend. AVc knowfl ' or believe, tbe principles of the dot-tribe arc sus ceptible of tbe" clearest arid tm/st-indisputable proet; but the history of tbe world,*ymd the -is sue ot ihe hue dottiest btjtweeti the l-’ederat Go,, verpment and bSouffvCarolinn, admonish us, in language too plain io bn misupdcrstynrf, thai ab stract trutb alone is not, of itself, siiffieient to re cerhtnend any opinion, "or Sct’c-f opinions, to the adoption of the multttudb. ' Otir system of goVCTntnent is an experiment. The vyodd never bjt-forc produced one of a pre cisely. similar character. Democracies, Repub lics, anil even Confederacies existed -fn ancient times, and lira modified form in modern limes; ■ hut the idea of a Cr.utd Union, of thirteen jor twenty-four sovereign Republican p o w"e is, fori fl ing ono government, for certain general purposes, with certain specified and limited powers, to he executed by the permission and for tlm.benefit of iliti whole, was entirely ti.-tv to the world.- Pa ley, m English moral istf.at the tiino.of its tidop liou, spoke of It as entirely novel, ]>ut inclined" to ihe opinion that it would he succcssl'jL Eve-' ty t ff-rt,however, td put the principle fn prac tice, jvbelli, r by Virgrtiiu, lit-ntiu-ky, Pennsylva nin, Ohio, MqsepchuseUs, Georgia or Carolina It s arrayed against it fearful opposition. Itis a natural impulse, arising from tlm conduct of the world, in too many instances ignorant ajjd bar barous, io suppose that.-a controversy between two governments cannot bo adjusted without bloodshed. Hence, when eqy subh controversy arose, between a State and the Federal Govern ment, the idea of civilwar, with its Imrrid train ol consequences, rushed upon the minds of thou- Rsm.te, Hiul they shrank „ ,U, terror from the eon test. Every instance of Nfate interposition lets, however, proved peaceful, and the success of the experiment in a low more instances, w ill convince the mast incredulous, that all assumption of pow er by the Federal Government e m b'reheckcd by the authority of tin*aggrieved Mates, without a ioo, or prejudice, firmly established by the uni versal edit sent arid practice of mankind, before the formation of the Union, that controversies between governments can only he settled by civil war, and that, (n all governments, there must he one supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power, capable.o/ affecting its will, in all cases, by the sword, must be practically refuted. ibis will be the case ; and when it is once .discovered that conventions among civilized people, can he made to supercede trig, necessity ot civil war, the sys tem of government of which we and our ances tors have, been so vain, w ill gradually he extend ed into other nations—driving civil wars and cqmniotioris from the universe. On this accouut afone We have been in the habit of calling our government an experimcr.t—an improvement on all other systems. Ours is not the first Republi can, or , Representative Government, nominally limited in its character, that has existed ; but it is the first in which the principle for which we contend ha3 been recognized. Oil (lie success of this principle in practice, then depends the success of the whole system, for the experience of all ages attests that Republics, controlled by an absolute majority, cannot exist except in a ve ry small territory. But independent of the fact, that {ruth has al ways found its way to general adoption, with ex treme slowness-; and that the novelty of the doctrine of nullification, so far as the political world is concerned, conflicts with "the establish ed prejudices of muukiud in favor of exacting, at the point of the bayonet, unlimited submission to Some supreme power, it is a fact w hich cannot be denied, that man is not only disposed to sub mit to power, hut even to hug the chains of des potism with which lie is bound. Let any one cast his eye over the map of the world, even in its present improved and enlightened condition, him! he will find nine-tenths of the human race in a state of degraded vassalage. And this has been the ease from the beginning of time. It must then he a principle of human nature, as the Declaration of Independence axpresses it, “that mankind ate more disposed to suffer While evils are sufferable, than to right themselves, by abol ishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” This principle has been in operation in our go vernment; ami.nothing but extreme watchfulness on our part can prevent it from hSving its usual eflect—the establishment.of a despotism. For there is another principle of nature, by which power accumulates continually in the hand* of those who exercise it. lienee thewise saying of Robert Goodloe Harper, that Republicans might be sleeted ; but all Presidents would go out of office Federalists. It has been the case in every instance but one—-'Thomas Jefferson. In this country, every citizen lores the Union. It was-formed by a noble ancestry, and is known to be essential to our continued happiness and prosperity. Wlicn infractions of the .constitution are made, and resistance is threatened, tlm inter ested majority and tbe parasites of "pcfwer, ap peal to our love of Union, and by representing (ill oilier evils as light, when compared to ..disunion, differ the people from investigation. They .for get thjit continued asssumptions of power will not 6n|y render tlm constitution a dead letter, but Jiy-driving the opprossud to upaa tahulUau, us jn all other governments, dissolve the Union more certainly than any effort in the first in stance, to preserve the constitution inviolate.— This argument was used with its full effect, in the late contest, and the best men in the nation were stigmatized asdisunionists. [.i/a. Spirit of the .Ige. THE Sffl’TH. Although not among those who believe* there is any settled design on the part of the sober, rational people ol' the non-slave hold ing states, i v r their legislative bodies, to inter sere directly w ith the rights of the southern planters, in relation lo tlic.extrcmcly delicate subject of slavery, yet wc cannot but think they have been Unnecessarily worried as well as -insultcd on various occasions. As holders of slaves they have been perpetually stigma tized with injustice, tyranny, and cruelty; tlfdV have boon placed as it were below the other citizens' of the Un-ited States: their characters h-;v& b<-en HsSaib-d, ns btrrer**, sel ler.-*, and scottrgers of their fellow creatures : their right to the possession of a large-portion of their property lias been questioned on ab stract ■ principles 'of natural law ; and they have been driven into sectional copibijiations in defetux: of their rights as well as their cha actcr. They have been i’ndiicctly charg'd •with eorruptiun, in arguments to show the de moralizing c-tlffets of .“slavery, and as patriotic, us-ht’nofiddo, as high minded a race as-tliis-or iny other country can been held bp to the world id lhj3.light of ti delinquent caste , tainted wit-ir’hereditary crime. ' V> e say we do not hclipVc there is any or ganised or meditated [dan among the sober, rational portion of our fellow citizens) or in their .legislative bodies, to interfere- with the guaranteed rights of tb ■ Planters of the-South; but we should, be blind tothe imlibatioifs vvjtich exhibit themselves ahnofft every where, if we did not distinctly perceive that such a plan is cherished, not only hi this country but Great Britain, and is in quiet-progress to its ultim ata nec-quqdisinnent. We sec it in'the force ol example presented by England m relation ■to her West India possessions; in the lan gu g of newspapers, pamphlets, public ineet- i"ffs, and.in- tlicrirlranization of now societies, lor the purjioi-g ol itflluctlcihg public opinion and putilic action on this most momentous subject. We -say public action, because in this country, it not every whore else, Opinion is the soycreigri; and the report of tho rifle follows the. flash not more instantaneously,’ than does action, opinion, among a free and sovereign people. In vain do laws prefect, and constitutional provisions guarantee rights and immunities ;"f!je moment public opinion, ceases to-siistaiu them, they fall to the ground and tire' trampled oii with impifnity*. The laws and the constitution are lint the creature ot tiie people’s will, and they cun alter ea sily as they made them. If therefore, tlre.e is among a certain class t design on foot,as wc most seriously believe" there is, to emancipate (he sl it es of this coun try, without regard tothe laws of the land, 'or Hie rights of property,-as v.'e see in Eng land; the mode adopted of sdeiitly, arid wa rily proceeding to disseminate opinions, and habits of tuiriking, favorable to those purpo ses, is i ot only the surest, but tho shortest way to bring about this result. We have lately seen it asserted in the Washington Globe,.and in other quartet’s, that this design is only cherished by enthusiasts and fanatics, and that the sober, ration. 1 portion of the people, not only have nq participation in the project, hut will oppose it to the extent of their numbers and their power. It mav lie so. But let us ask, what proportion the sober anti lational people of the United States, bear to these enthusiasts, and fanatics?—ls not Bn land overrun with the latter, and are they ti'i increasing anti multiply ing every day, nay, ‘ "•cry hour, and every moment of the day I Does not their wealth, their influence and t teir power, advance iu proportion, not only to tb. ir numbers, Imt to the force of that spell ''hu h they throw over the minds, atvd tbst ‘ ’'t"""’ 11 «l»ey cxrrei ,-ovcrthe thought* mid a 'turns of their disciples ? Ihe thoughtl„»i ami inexperienced nl ay jugh at the effort of fanaticism and enthusi. sin; but it is only these that work miracles iow-a-days; and liowcver*cheap we may hold he talents of a V\ ulkcr or a Garrison, we will enture to say that they sway the minds and xpress the opinions of more human beings n tbe United States than all the philosophers ind metaphysicians of the world qiut together. I’lio wiser portion of mankind indeed, will lot be misled by the rash, uncalculating en husiasm of men who neither think nor rea ion; they"scorn to yield assent to any thing out the most aonClusive logic, and despise the led notions of bad spelling, and bad grammar. They foiget that these have often overturned systems and empires; and that the most pow erful, the most irresistible of all agencies, ex cept that of Omnipotence itself, is fanaticism operating on the passion's of the people. All tile first impulses which struck on the pulse of the Universe, and all thcrqjlakjliDiis, reli gions as well as political, 'fifiat-Tuiv*e happened in our age, proceeded from the ignorant, not from the wise; from the governed, and not from the governors. In our opinion, therefore, the planters of the South have ample cause tqr apprehension on the subject to slavery. Already have their lives more than once been placed in jeopardy by the persevering attempts of the followers of the new school of philanthropy, which holds it both religion and morality to interfere with tho rights and safety of others, in the pursuit of a questionable good. We do not mean to blink tiffs question, and therefore think wc have made a concession to the ad voeates of speedy and universal emancipation, when [jo say a questionable .good. Where lias the emancipation of the negro as yet, ope rated to make him better or happier? We ask the question, Where has lintnan liappi ness been extended or increased by emanci pation ? Arc the negiocs "of Ft. Domingo more enlightened, moral, religions, happy, or comfortable, than under their old masters? Does that island yield one tenth part of the fruits of cultivation, the means of existence the blessings of life it (lid in the hands of the whites? Are tiie free blacks of Philadelphia, \evv-York or Boston, more enlightened in mind, or moral in habits, or comfortable in circumstances, than the slaves of the South! Every body known and sees they arc not. The poor-houses, .the jails, the penitentiaries, tile, hospitals, the state prisons, the streets, distinctly prove they are neither one nor the other. Tiie records ol crime, and the records of poverty, are decisive of the question. Fo far, therefore, experience is against c mancipalion, unless some hi tter means can be devised for enabling the manumitted sltms to benefit by their freedom than have hiihcito received the- sanction of philanthropy. Vet in the pursuit of this questionable good to others, who claim no kindred blood nor kin. dred color with us. we are alienating the af. feclions of a large portion of cur fellow citi zens, weakening the bonds Os our Union, ami preparing the way for a series of consequen ces at which the stoutest nerves' will shiver in tiie contemplation. The present and ultimate evils of tins ha bitual interference yyith tbe relations of mas ter and slave in the South, are sufficiently pal pable ; the means of.preventing such inter ference aye not equally so. The mischief is already done, so far as respects thc'succrssof the measures taken to render the slave discon tented and dang; {pus. Emissaries carrying with them and disseminating books, calling upon the slaves, in the name of their God, their Saviour, and their religion, to rise and return tenfold to their masters the wrongs they have suffered, liaye been fatally busy a mong them, and prepared the way for such scenes a§ were witnessed but the otherdav in Bower Virginia. When the Governors cf that state and of Georgia applied to the Chief .Magistrates of Massachusetts and Ncw-Yor 1 , whence it was ascertained these inflainatory liooks firocccdi and, by* the former he was an swered, that there was no law to reach the case : by the, latter, no answer was given.— Gov. TltrOop it scents did not think it a matter deserving of notice. V. hat remains then, when the sister stabs refuse to aid in protecting, hut that tho South 'shall take upon itself its own protection, and acton tho universal principle of self (faience? It is not or.jy their right, but their duty to do so; and if the other coordinate members of the union should resort lo measures, to coun teract, or interfere* w ith, these indispensable precautions’ then the people of the South must take care ofthemselves. —The union will then indeed become to them a curse instead of a blessing, and they will be justified in the eve of Ili.u who lias ordained self-preservation; the first law of nature, iu a final separation I tout those who, t hough they may not be ac tive, are yet passive instruments in undermin ing their interests, blasting their reputation, and placing in imminent peri! the fives of tilt h children, 'i’liis is not question of mere poli tical ascendancy ;no squabble ol'rival denta ■gogues; ho petty strife of temporary interests; but oue of safety or peril—life or death. — Here is the link iu the chain of ourunitn that IS weakest and that will first break. Wc owe it to the people of the South, not to •ouch it: we owe it to the union and happi ness of the states, not to touch it; we owe it lo the great maxim of doing as wc would be done bv, not to touch it; and "wo owe it to every feeling of kindred blood arid kindred in terests, to check by every lawful means, flic wild projects, of fanaticism, whose steps in .every, age, and every nation of the world, have been marked like thoseof.tlic murderer, with the blood of innocent victims. Fanati* cism is the mpst dangerous, as well as remor seless principle of the human mind; it knowledges no laws but of its own creation; it owns no tic of kindred, of nature, or hu manity ; it laughs at all the restraints of jus tice ; and pleads the sanction of Heaven b ,r t he violation of every duty to its God, its coun try, and its follow creatures. JV. I) Covr. and Enq- ihe de Verd*. Wo have recently heard much of the suffer ings of tHe inhabitants of those Islands, and had hoped that a brighter scene had dawned on the distressed population. We have, how ever, just received a letter from a valued Iricnd w ho touched at the islands in tho spring, Iron l which we make the following extract: —-V Com. Ade. . - “ Our stay at Port Pray was 100 short to of conic faimlliar with the mminers and custuu 1 '’ of the people—hill we were long enough •<> witness Home of tho suflerings which th |# group of Islands have recently experience • The} tire not yet at an end; timy *f* dying daily, and some of the poor I saw P" j cd uj» by their Inn hr as butcher’* boy would