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From Ike Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
Faith and Hope.
BT P. BENJAMIN OACK.
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Down Time's.dark aud rushing river,
Mortal after mortal goes,
i'arting quickly and for ever.
> rom Life's ploosuros and its woes.
All must go from their enjoyments,
From their glury and their slmmc ;
From their honors and employments,
To the dust from whence thoy came.
Man, what art thou T Canst thou tell me
Whence and why thy being csmc T
Knowest thou, und canst thou tell me.
Wlicu and where shall go the sumo T
All tlion knowest is before thco !
From the crudlo to the grave ;
Thou canst reason?then comes o'er thee
Dark oblivion's gloomy wsvo.
In tile Spriug Utile's Bv?*iiy bfscwi,
Pass thy earttes; hoars away.
While gay dreams thy fancy pleases?
Dreams that vanish inn day.
Summer comes?and Wealth is gotten,
Honors too must form a crown,
Soon to rot ami he forgotten?
Soon to wither uud go down.
Winter reigns?and pale and br atliless?
Lies thy form amoiiK the dead !
But the Spirit strung ami deathless?
Tell int.-, whither hot it fled T
Oh! tho mystery or thy beiug
Thou canst never comprehend !
, But the Mighty oud All-Seeing
Know a ita deatiued aim and end.
Trust Him who in mercy cave thee
Heritage no bright and lair.
And U a boundless love shall saVo thee
From Ute portala of despair.
Faith and Hope be thine forever !
Thine to shi'-ld thy aoul from fear, !
Till the hand of death shall sever
^. 1 . .^AJl the chums thai bind titer hero ! v
Prom the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
The Author-Hero of the Revolution.
BY OKORCJK LII'l'ARD.
It was in the time when a band of Rebels sate
in Carpenter's Hall, when the irouke of Lexington
and Bunker Hill was yet in the sky, and the
undried blood of Warren and all the martyrs was
yet upon the ground, it was in this time, in the
blood-red dawn of our Revolution, that a Skene of
some interest took place in the city of William i
Pcnn.
Look yonder, and heboid that solitary lamp,
flinging its ditn light through the shadows of u
neatly furnished room.
Grouped around the table, the glow of tho lamp
pouring full in their faces, are lour persons?a
Boston Lawyer, a Philadelphia Printer, a Philadelphia
Doctor and a Virginia Planter.
, Come with me to that lonely room. Let its
1M. ... ??? .u t . J . - - ^
....... - to mine, jjoi us iook into Hie lactnl
of these men?that man with the bold brow arid
resolute look is one John Adams, from Boston ;
next to him sits the calm-faced Benjamin Rush ;
then you see the marked face of the Printer, one
Benjamin Franklin, and last of all your eye rests
upon a man distinguished above all others by his
height, the noble outlines of his form, the solemn
dignity of his brow. That man is named Washington?one
Mr. George Washington, from Mount
Vernon.
And these men are alt members of the Rebel
Congress. They have met here to talk over the
affairs of their country. Their conversation is
deep-toned?cautious--hurried. Every man seems
afraid to give free utterance to the thoughts of his
bosom.
Confiscation? the gibbet-?the axe I These
have been the reward of brave men before now,
who dared speak treason against his Majosty by
$he grace of God. Therefore, is the conversation
of tno Four patriots burdened with restraint and
gloom.
They talk of Bunker Hill, of Lexingtoh, of
thej blood-thirsty British Ministry, of the weak
and merciless British King.
Then, from ihe lips of Franklin, comes the
great question : Where is this war to end 1 Are
we fiolilinv i.nlu - ? "L -
0 j .... . w.xi^c m mo firman ministry
1 Or?or-?for the Independence of our
native land 7
There is silence in that room.
Washington, Adams, Rush, ull look into oach
other's faces, ana are silent.
Round to England by ties of anceslry?language
?religion?the very idea of separation from her
seems a blasphemy.
Yes, with their towns burnt, their people murdered?
Hunker Hill smoking there, Lexington
blooding yonder?still, still these colonists cling to
the name of England, still shudder at the big
word that chokes their utterance, to speak?INDirtNOlmcK.
. At this moment, while all is still, a visitor is announced.
A man somewhat short in stature, clad
in a coat of faded bfd-A n, Ho takos his scat at
the tahle, is introduced to these gentlemen by
Franklin, and then informed of the topic under
discussion- Look upon his brow, bis flashing
eye, as in earnest words be |H>ur* forth his soul.
Washington, Adams, Rush, Franklin, all, urn
bushed into silence. At Brat, the man in the brown
* coat startles?horrifies thorn with his political
blasphemy.
Jim as he goes on, as bis broad, solid brow
warms with Ibe, as his eye Hushes the full bglil of
a soul roused into all us life, as those deep, ear
pU^W32i. rj? K* of t> .! . ' ? I \r ,r-H?
<;d?lief glorious furtlVe-i-her ' peoplir, that dmill
swell into countless millions?her Navy, that shall
whiten the uttermost sea?her l)estiny, that sha'l
stride on over the wrecks of thrones, to the Universal
Empire of the Western Continent !
Then behold
They rise round that table ; they pross that man
in the brown coat by the hand?nay, VirginiaPlanter,
Washington, grasps both his hands, and
in a voice deepened by emotion, begs him for the I
sake of God, to write these words in a book ! |
A book that shall bo road in all the hr>m??o ?~.t I
.... UIIU
thundered from all the pulpits in America.
Do you see the picture, my friends ?
That man in the brown coat, standing there,
flushed, trembling, with the excitement of his own
thooghts?that splcndiflly formed Virginia planter
on one side grasping him by the hand, those greatsoufed
men encircling him on thb other, John
Adams, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin.
Their gleaming eyes shine with one will and read
on the great cloud of the Future this one word?
INDEPENDENCE! ^ c" ' '
Let this scone pass : let us follow this man in
the hrown coat through the year 1775.
The day after this scene that modest Virginia
planter, George Washington, was named Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental Armies.
And in the summer days of '75 that man in the
brown c iut was seen walking up and down in
front of the Old State House, Ins great forehead
shown in full sunlight, while, with his hands
placed behind his back, ho went slowly along the
pavement. Then he would hurry to his lonely
garret, sei?n the quill, and write down the deep
thooghts of his brain.
Then forth again for a walk in the State House
Square?>up nnd down under these old trees, he
wanders all the alternoon?at night, there is a
light burning in yonder garret window?what sec
you there ?
A rude and neglected room?a man short in
stature sitting beside an old tabic, with scattered
sheets of paper all about him?the light of an unsnuffed
candle upon his brow?that unfailing quill
in his hand !
Ah. my frienj, you may talk to me of the sublimity
of your battles, whose poetry ib hones and
skulls, whoso glories aro like the trophies of the
butcher's shambles?but for me, there is no battle
so awfully sublime as one like this, now being
fought before your eyes.
A poor, neglected author sitting in bis garret?
the world, poverty, time, space, all forgotten?as
with his soul kindled into one steady blaze, be
plies that fust-moving quill. That quill writes
down words on that which shall burn into the
brains of kings, words like arrows, winged with
fire and pointed with vitriol.
Go on, braVe Author, sitting in your garret,
alone at ill's dead !u>u.?go on?^uch the I
silent votci.es of the night. aiei Anil's Jkfb'i*' "g*
fall like browse* nf June, upon ys-T' daw^irow.
Go on, in tin- name of God and for you jue
writing . ... tbooj-tir* of * ?
*?--vy.? : *
the brown bo il
State 11 Squa'-o. t'hu j !? <..
him boom. Vet he was thinking ^reaij
thoughts, winch would eut away the throne o! thai j
Tory king! The Tory, the vulgar rich n .i..
the small d. g m office, passed hiru by with Scoi 'i, I
but men of gen^^took him by llie arm, and called
him brother. yonder ! There in a lonely
gurrct, night uftcr night, burns that solitary lamp,
burns and burns on, till break of day.
At last the work is done. At last, grappling
the loose sheets in his trembling hands?trembling
r..,. :.l r -i - r ' " '
ii^vausc icvuriou irum me ion 01 ine tirain?-lie
rushes forth one morning. His book is written ;
it now must be printed?scattered to the homes of
America. But look ye, not one printer will touch
1 the hook, not a publisher but grows pale at the
sight of those dingy pages. Because it ridicules
the British Pope; ridicules the British Monarchy;
because it speaks out, in plain words, that nothing
now remains to he done but to declare the New
j World free and independent.
[ This shocks the trembling printers*? touch such
a mess of treasonable stuff?never ! But at last a
pi inter is found, a bold Scotchman, named Robert
Bell. Write that name on your hearts, for it is
worthy of all reverence ! lie transformed those
loose pages into type, and on the 1st of January,
1776, Common Sknsp. bu-st on the people of the
New World like a prophecy !
Yes, that book bursts on the hearts and homes
of America like a light from Heaven.
It is read by the Mechanic at his bench ; the
Merchant at his desk ; the Preacher in his pulpit
reads it to his people, and scatters its great truths
with the teachings of revelation.
"It burst from the press," says the great Doctor
Rush, "with an effect which has been rarely produced
by types or paper, in any age or country!"
Ramsay, in his History of tho Revolution, and
his brother historian, Gordon, solemnly state the
fact that this book was a most im|>ortant cause of
the separation from the Mother Country.
Thomas JefFursoo, Joel Barlow, George Washington,
unite in their praises of this work. Long
after its publ cation Jefferson sent a Government
ship to bring the author home from France;
Washington invited him to the shelter of his own
home ; Barlow described him, yes, the man in the
brown coat, "One of the most benevolent and disinterested
ot mankind, er.doW_-d with tho clearest
perception, an uncommon share of originul genius,
unu me groatest breadth of thought."
In August, 1786, after the battle was fought and
the Empiro established, Congress, in a solemn
resolution, stamped the author of Common Sense
with their approbation, as one of the greatest of
the great men of the Revolution.
This book was the cause and fore-runr.er of the
Declaration of Independence.
In this book, for tho first time, were Wrilteti
these great words : " The free and Independent
Stales rf America
Let us follow this man in tho brown coat thro'
the scenes of the Revolution.
In the full prime of nurly manhood, he joins tho
army of the Revolution ; he shares the trufit and
the cold with Washington and his men?he is
with tho80 soldiers on the toilsome march, with
them by the camp fire, with tlicin in the hour of
battle.
Why is he with them 1
Is the day dark?has the battlo been bloody?do
the American soldiers despair? Hark! that printing
press yonder, which moves with the American
camp in ull its wanderings, is scattering pamphlets
through the ranks of the army.
Pamphlets ? wrilten by the Author-Soldier:
written sometimes on the head of a drum?or by
the midnight fnc, or utuid the teisco o! the dead.
Army.
Tell me. was not that a sibtimc eight, to see a
man oP genius who might Wv? shone as an orator,
a poet, a novelist, following with untiring devotion,
the bloody-stamped ioolslrps ol' tho Continental
Army ]
Yes, in the dark days of "*>, when the sojjiers
of Washington tracked their mtsteps on the soil
of Trenton, in tho snows of J rinceton, there, first
among the heroes and patrio i, there, unflinching |
in tho hour of defeat, writing lis "Chisis" by the
light of the camp-fire, w?j. tjo Author-Hero of
uie Revolution. vl* I
Yes, we wilt look into tbt half-clad ranks of
Washington's army, we will hhold each corporal
surrounded by a group of sildiers, as he reads
aloud the pamphlets of lis Author-Soldier.
What hope, what joy, what onergy gleams over
Ice veteran faces, as 4vords, (ike these, break on
the frosty air-^- /( I
"These aro th* xim?^that try men's souls. The
this crisisraii.tir . A service of his country ;
but he that stands if flov, deserves the love and
thanks of men and wetmo. Tyranny, like hell,
is not easily conquered, /et we have this consolation
with us, that the harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph."
Do not words like thcte stir up the blood 1
Yet can you imagine ihcir effect, when read to
groups of starved and bUecing soldiers, by the red
watch-fire, in the cpld ail of the winter dawn 1
Such words as these stirred up the ilarVed
Continentals to the|attack on Trenton, and there,
in the dawn of tfiat glorious morning, Qeorge
Washington standilg sword in hand over the dead
body of the licssitfn Rohl, confessed thu magic
influence of the Atithor-Hero's pen.
The vilest energy of this Author-Hero, a base
hireling of the Knplish Court, ves even he, Atheist,
Blaspheo.er, Libeller of Jefferson, and Franklin,
and Madison, as he was, even he, a thing so
small in his sou^ that his very masters were
ashamod of him, vK.s forced to'confess that?-" The
cannon of Washington was nob more formidable
'i ?- ? * ~
.v w? utiiifA, L/iun inc pen oj ineaul/ior of (Joinmon
Sense."
Is there a heart that does not throb at tbo name
of the author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson,
the Statesman-Hero of the Revolution 1
And do your hearts throb at the mention of his
name, and yet refuse to \pay even the tribute 'of
one solitary pulsation of'justice to the memory'of
his brother-patriot, his forerunner in the work of
freedom, the Author-Hero of the Revolution?
Thomas Paine 1
Character of a True Friend.
Concerning the man you call your friend?tell
mo, will he weep with you in the hoi^ of distress
1 Will he faithfully reprove fM\ to vour
face for actions fjr which other* /in. ndiculiu ' or !
consuriug you belli" I vour back 1 Will bo dire !
to sum! Tor1, <noi: when detraction is i
** 'SV n*' v ">* r . '
~*x: ' 7 ol y our supvrrtJTo iu
rank and fu J the claims of pnda or
vr-:\iiy do cot tnTefie ? 'Mil1, thoso i f frio' dship *
If misfortune aud losses s'ldiiKl oblige y\ to re
tire into a walk in life in which veil cannot appeal i
with the same distinction, or eutei tain you.- friends
with the same liberality as formerly; will he still
thihk himself happy in your society, And instead
ol gradually withdrawing himself from an Unprofitable
connexion, take pleasure in professing himself
your friend, and cheerfully assist you to suoporl
the burdens of your afflictions 7 When sickness
shall call vou to retire from tl?? #?? ?r,.J
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scenes of the world, will lie follow you into your]
gloomy abode, listen with attention to your ' tale
of sympathy,' and minister the balm of consolation
to your fainting ipirit t And lastly, when
death shall burst asunder every earthly lie, will
he shed a tear upon Jour ghive, and lodge the
dear remembrance oy mutual friendship in his
heart never to be reined? The man who will
not do all this !U%j| Jj^ivour companion?your flatterer?your
seduc?r A-UJ,)|^H.'nd tfpota It he is not
your friend.?Enfield. ,
Source of Electricity*
The earth is the grest reservoir of electiicity.
from which the atmosphere \ and clouds receive
their portion of this fluid. It is during the process
of evaporation tint it is^ principally excited,
and silently conveyed ;o the Vegions above ; and
also during the condensation of this same vapor
the grand and terrific ohenotiiena of thunder and
lightning are made maiifest to bur senses.
In order to form a correct estimate of the immense
power of this igent in the production of
electricity, we must bring to o|t view the quantity
of water evaporated frnm the turface of the earth,
und also the amount of electricity that may be
developed from a single grain of this liquid. According
to the calculations of Cavallo, about Ave
thousand two hundred and eight million tons ol
water aro probably from the Med iter
ranean Seu, in a single sumocr's day. To obtain
some idea of the vast volume of water thuft daily
taken up by the thirsty heavens, let us compare it
with something rendered more apparent than this
invisible process. President .Dwight and Profosscr
Darby, havo both e-tirnucd tho quantity o!
water precipitated oVo?* tho Falls of Niagara al
more than eieVun millions tor.t per hour. Yet all
the water passing over the fcaUract in twenty davi
would amount only to that atcending front the
Mediterranean in one day. Mtre recent estimate!
make the mean evaporation from the wholo oartli
as equal to a column of thirty-five inches fronr
every inch of its surface in a yeur, which give!
ninety-four thousand four hundred and fifty cubic
miles, as the quantity continually circulating thro
tho atmosphere.
Tub Knd op I'rudbncf..?The great enJ o
prudence is to givo cheerfulness to those liouri
which splendor and ucclutnation can
not exhilarate. Tlufe soft ryterVale of Unbendci
amuseitient, in whiwh a man shrinks to his nutura
dimensions, and throw# aside the ornaments of dis
guises which ho feels, in privacy, to he uselcsi en
cuinbrftncos, and to I >se all effect when they be
come familiar. To be happy at home is th
ultimate result of till ambition, the enJ to wliic!
every enterprise and labor tends, and of whicl
every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, in
deed, at homo that every man must he known In
those who would tsake u just estimate of his vit
lue or felicity ; At Smiles and embroidery ar
alike occasional, and thn mind is often drcose
| for show in paintcu honor and fictitious bent'vt
l hnce.
1
bey 9, 160S. He was intended by hia father f??i
the church, but he expressed an aversion fitr the
ecclesiastical profession, and by degrees drew dis
satisfied with tlie established form of church government.
When he left Cambridge he returned
to his lather, who had settled with a competent
fortune at Horton, near Colbrook, in Buckinghamshire,
dud in this retirement he laboriously devoted
himself for five years to reading the purest classics
in Greek and Latin. Here likewise he produced
his Comus?L'Alletrro?II Penseroso and
t ? b
uyciuns, poems 01 such intrinsic merit as would
i have transmitted his fame to the latest period of
| time, if he had written nothing besides. On his
I mother's death, he obtained his father's permission
to travel abroad, And in 163S, he embarked for
the continent, attended by one servant, prom
l'aris, where he was introduced to the gteal Hugo
Grolius, he proceeded to Nice, and by sea to Genoa,
Leghorn, Pisa, and then to Florence, where
ho spent two months, respected and beloved by
persons oi eminence, rsMC, and learning. Ills
noxt visit was through Sienna to Home, wherfe he
pasaed tw o months, delighted with the vast treasures
of t]ie Vutican, and honored with the kindness
and civilities of Cardinal Uarbarini, Holstenius,
and other learned men. From Rome he
went toNuples, and formed the design of visiting
Sicily ; but the disturbed state of affairs at hoine
engaged nb'.v fall his attention, and he determined
to hagtfen back. In 1641, he published some
partiphlets, in which he vented his virulence
against the church, and supported the republican
principles of the times. In 1643, he married the
daughter of Mr. Powell, a justice of peato in
Oxfordshire ; but as she had been eduedted a firm
royalist, this union proved unhappy, and after living
with him about a month, she left him, and
would not return. Disgusted with this coudilct;
tho poet thought he might he permitted to take
another wife ; and lie not only Wrote somfe strong
tracts in favor of divorce, but paid his addresses
to another lady, of great wit and beauty. This
had due effect ; and his wife, after long despising
his invitations, relented, and throwing herself ui
! his feet; obtained his forgiveness and reconciliation,
in 1645. His talents Were too great to ho nei
glected and therefore lie was appointed Lnliti
Seer*Inrv Initio ^ "**
, j ?? ...v wuw.li ui omiu, anu in mis ottlce
I he answered the Icon liusilicon, by liis lconuciastes,
1649, and two years after published his celebrated
work against Salmatius, Pro Populo Anglicano
Defcns o, which not only spread his fumfe
through Euiope as an elegant Lalinist and able
disputant, but procured for him from the government,
a present of one thousand pounds. About
this time he lost his eye-sight, which had been
gradually decaying from Ins Severe application to
his studies ; but he nevertheless continued eealotis
and active in the support of hia principles. In
his wife died, soon after the bihth of her
fourth child, and some time after; lie married a
second: })ut though patronized und raised to inUe;?ouce
fc>M ' ? * - a' J of ft.chard, ]
V.r?.U fa orv'?*
~ ,ng
j fubric. ukf... v . . ...uiS Ins safely, on the restoislion,
lie concealed himself iU a friend's house
in Bartholomew-close , but though his sentiments
and his active conduct had marked hi?n out at. Rrst
i fo< Jesti uclion, vet by ifie interest and influence
of ma friends, especially Sir Ar.lre ' Marwell,
Davcnant, and others, who respected his learning
and his abilities, while they detested his principles,
he waj included in the act of artinestv. and tier.
... . ^ m/ ' I
rnitteu to appear in piiblib: Tiiougli reduced in
lus circumstances by the restoration, lie refused to
accept the Latin secretaryship which was honorably
offered him by Charles II., and lie devoted
himself earnestly to the completion of Lis great
poem, on which he had ulreudy bestowed much
labor. He was assisted in his literary pursuits bv
Thomus Kilwood, a quaker, who acted as un
amanuensis, and duily visited him. In 1665, during
the plague, the poet retired to a small house
at St. Giles, Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, and while
in this placo, he was visited by his friend, into
whose hands he put hii Paradise Lost, now finished,
and modestly requested his opinion. KllWood
read the work with approbation, and in returning
it to the poet, told hirn he hud read much About
Paradise Lost, but, added he, what hau thou to
say of Paradise Found 1 The hint tvas not lost ;
Paradise Regained was begun, and afterwards
when visited by Ellw-ood, Milton presented him
the poem which originated in his conversation. It
is singular that the poet considered Paradise Regained
as a superior performance to Paradise Lost
but posterity have decided otherwise ; and this
matchless poem; which long remained unknown
from the prejudice entertained aguinst the author
gradually rose to notice, to fame, and immortality
The critique opened the eyes of the nation, aui
in banishing prejudice, liberally proved thut however
violent the publications of Milton were, how
ever biased in his love of republican principles
and however blamcable in soine purls o! his polit
ical life, yet his merits as a poet cannot be affected
he must, shine as the greatest ornament of tin
British Isles, and in the ranks of immortality, b
placed by the side of Homer, of Virgil, utid o
Tasso. Miltoti died in thu beginning of Novem
her, 1674. It is supposed thut Milton drew hi
p idea of Lis great work from an Italian trdgedy o
the Loss of Paradise, on which lie originally ii
j tended to compose u tragedy ; hut as his matte
i enlarged, hift genius gave it the form of nn epi
poem. His Samson Agonistes was written alto
} the Greek model, but is unfit for representation
the Comus was first acted for the benefit of hi
grand daughter, Mrs. Clark, a widow, in indigei
circumstances, and the public support Was earnest
ly solicited by a prologue from the nervous pe
, of Dr. Johnson. Tho prose works of Milton ar
numerous and highly respectable. Besides Ii
political tracts, ho wrote a History of Linglaiu
j- (quarto), down to the conquer t?Areopagitica, r
f the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing?LcttersHiatory
of Muscovy, a '1 realise on Christian l)?x
j trine, utid Some other works. Tlie person <
I Milton was fair, so that he was called ul Can
bridge, the lady of Chriat-college ; his hair wi
light-brown, and his features exact and pietism;
lie was of the tniddlu size, well proportions
g nervous, and active ; but his constitution was tc
l( der, and his health consequently weak. Thoujs
I he d.d not inherit much from his father, yet (r
gality maintained him in a respectahle manner, or
at his death he left about fil'een hundred |iouiu
' besides the Value oi bis bousebold goods.
d Tlmre is a great difference between the pow
> of giving good advice and the ability to act up
it. 1 o it not so ?
A1 v -D?-XJX1 IV OCj \ *
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We are riot disposed to be misunderstood upon *
this question. V\ fe believe that the 9outh end
Southern institutions have to undergo a severer
trial, in connection with this subject, than any they
have had yet to encounter ; and it becomes the
duty of every friend of Southern prosperity to
carefully examine and weigh minutely the several
points involved in its discussion. The advocates
of a protective tariff?rthfe Whig joilrnals of the
South?are unanimously pressing the adoption of
manufactures as a system upon a people whose
position, climate, soil, atid peculiar kind of labor
make it their paramount interest to Continue their
agricultural put suits. Let the farmers and plan*
ters of the Southern States be seduced from those
avocations which God and nature have allotted to
them, by the specious plesdiiiKt of the friends of
the "Ambrican Syatetn," of "the dbceptive gowgawry
bf extensive machine shops, and continuous
ranges of the white coilagea of factory operative*,
and the uthbr paraphernalia which insert Jijpjha
looms and Spinning jerihies, anJ fatal blow WiM
have been dtriick at Southern Capital and prosify.
... .. ' .
The introduction of manufactures as a system
in the Southern States, wb are convinced, will
aifect disastrously oiir institutions. In the Brat
place, it wotild be calculated to create prohibitive
restrictions upon foreign manufactures ; it would
drive from our marts the products and capital of
other countries, and the inbvilable result of such
d course would he the cohiplete prostration of
commercial interests. The city of Charleston, and
other Southern seaport towns, would speedily feel
its effects in the depreciation bf cvory species of
property ; their harbors would be deserted, and
their markets glutted with manufactures, for which
no bale would bo found. This most Certainly
would recoil upon the people of tho State; and a
corresponding depression In tho price of everjr
kind of property would be the direct consequence.
iif .f^uin t Ti.? |*r\ntui>4tvc uf rticr 0Anh it
property?it is part and parcel of the active capital
bf our citizens : and as such must be employed
and investbd in that manner which yields the
greatest remuneration, consistent with our happii
ess and advancement ds a people. Experionco
lias taught us that the appropriate department for
that labor is agriculturb ; and this fdet alone id
sufficient to outtveigh all (lie plausible argutxientd
of the manufucturinrr -1?
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where. We have no sucli population at the South
as ereate the wealth of Northern manufacturing
establishments : their place is filled Ly another
race. And any unprejudiced mind ivill see at a
glunbo that One of two condequcneei must follow
extensive systcrii of manufacturing forced upon us.
now : Either manufacturing with out* species of
Ikbor must depreciate their value as property, and
therefore rendfer their employment in that department
ultimately less profitable, or they must ba.
driven out to mdke room for the other kind of
labor; by whlbli alone Southern minufactories cati
come into successful competition with those of the
Mraj Wy ftile f-w oufcr y
astrous legist, institution of slavery.
AnolbVt point tti bo examined is, how would
the carrying out of this system affect the Northerii
people 1 Would the cmploymbnt of thai labor??
which they are now trying to rehdet* valueless
and unprofitable?in a department which comei
in immediate confict with their interests, render
them more friendly to this institution 1 Would it
not rather increase their hostility, nerve anew their
energies against lis, and, in all probability ufiord
their whole people such a bond of litiion as would
enable them to strike a fatal blow at our institutions
1 We defy any argument to prove the negative
of this ijuestion. And as it is of the highest
importance to the people of the Sodth, both in a
political and social point of view, to preserve intact
their rights under llie Constitution, and maintain
inviolate the conservative principle of that
institution Upon which entirely depends their
prosperity as a people, their sober judgment must
condemn any Change in their general policy or industrial
pursuits. In connection with this point,
v a remark , and we think that statistical facts will.
beVr ii? put in the assertion, that ihe institution of
slaver ij has invariably receded before the advance
of a icide-tjnend system of mahufaeturing. IT
this i)e true, and none familiar with the history of
Nortiiern progress will doubt it. the conclusion is
self evident thut our institutions must be injuriously
affected by the adoption o( this system. It is hut
' proper, therefore, to vara those Who aro in hot
haste to fasten a favorite and cherished systcni
' upon our people, that they may have cause to reI
pent of their being instrumental jn the down-fall
' of Southern prospeaity, and ot unintentionally
' aiding and abetting the enemies of our instiltl*
| lions.
Wc have invariably been the advocates oT industrial
pursuits, and a diversity of them among
our people ; but this is a subject entirely different
* from that which now occupies our thoughts. We
want each branch of industry left to its own rb
sources and energies: feeling assured it must
eventually be well sustained and encouraged by
L' our people. The industrious and skillful mfechatiic
rnUst ever he recognised in all enlightened cotn"
munities as one of its principul members ; and
s the greatest evil we have to lament is, that ihdUsII
_ r . i i
irvi 1" uiuii^ ui us avocaiioiiB, is noi neiti in proper
esteem among us. This senseless prejudice must
r vanish before a well ordered system of popular
c education mid enlightenment. Hut that all branch{
es of mechanical urt irisy flourish, it is absolutely
necessary that our agricultural interests be citerls
ished and sustained, and not be displaced by th?
revival of exploded theories.
Wo love Free Trade as an American citizen,
because oil its tendencies are to develop the itn?
j mense resources of out* coutttry, and add to ita
I greatness ; we love it moreover as a Southerner,
' because it is the true policy for the cotton planter;
and we cling to it too As art element of strength
? against all tl.e assaults of interested or (anatioal
I,| opponents to our rights ahd institutions.
,s a ln.oi u..i > 1'?.- i_: to; ? ? - -
r /?r? Iiunn uvi.b. ? WO iriiitl lilcmiS, llld, IrOITI
j" frequent practice, arrived at a hight point ofateal'
ing. One, having appropriated n goose, was or
^ the point of being condemned by n jury for theft.
' whfeu the-friend appeared and swore tlint the bird
j was his. nhd had ever t?rrn since it was a got
ling, and the prisoner on this Was acquitted. Afterwards,
in the course of calling tl>? ingenious
I witness Was himself arraigned for stealing a gun.
"Don't he onaaey," whispered the former culprit,
n ' "I'll release you." Thereupon he stepped into
on i tho w itti* 6* box, and boldly affirmed that the gun
I vuis his "and had been u\ci eiw.u it wafl a pistol."