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T A . anti Meptre HAL■ b Roy will attend to my business during my absence In Congress, and will be ►i dated by me In the trial of all causes entrusted to them. JAMXB T. HALM. December 15, IRo9 W.B REDUCED. STATES UNION HOTEL, 608 008 Market Street, s above Oath, PHILADSLPHIA, PA. TEIMIMM Froprisier, Ihritsfe 26 rim DAT , Select Vottrg, NOVEMBER The days we've so long dreaded, ho days of frOat and snow, Of windelhat Sweep the frtmen street, And whistle as they go-- The days of nettle temperament, A shillti and Ukiah a blow! Of Mud ithd Miro and dlrtlnesil, Agate are bore below I" We nit and entente and owlet In mini Insurerably hot, And tumble over old accounts Were never nrtilll3 groat And looking from the whitlow Into our neighbor's lot, W Rreally argue if,lwere beta To fifesl bin sheep or not' The linen, frost-bitten, from the naves II nng blackening in the taln, And tr ickling drop like aileht tears, All day the windows elate, The leaves are gone, the dead weed•etalk■ (irovY black upon the plain, And herds are lowing In the fields Where stood the gathered grain. All day you hear the noisy crow Upon the hemlock high— In flocks, about the mountain nab, The chirping robbine fly , The rustling leaven and yellow, drive In mimic whlritrlndeby, Or on . the wet and aluddy walks In heaps, together lie The dripping of the rain Is heard, upon the roof all night, Arid dark and heavy clouds obscure The early morning's light, We gapo and stretch and feel es dull tos ~ur grandumeiher's eight, " Some" elder than Methuselah, And cross enough to bite ! That smuttier's gone and gene for good, 'Tie useless to protest, When all the tolls that you can NI In snowy caps aro dressed, W ben fogs upon the valley From morn till elening real, And iu hie journey searoe the Ma le seen from east to west. AI as' these days of dumps and of Interminable rains, Of overcoats and overshoes, And 'pothoenry grains-- Of drops fur coughs, and slops for midi" Yrohn catnip tea to Awayne's, Make the effort ter survive appear A Inestimable pains I Niisteilantons, ) ' FRENCH FLOWER FARMS. Thars-44 mmething caluculated to charm oven the dullest imagination in the very name of a flower farm. in the very idea of an own - ctilturelimited to bright petals. and odorous. stznuns, of crops of blushing buds. and har vest of perfumed blossoms - Such farms ex ist in Italy. in colder Germany even, when a fevered spot of sunny land seems suited :o the purpose : nor is England q u ite without rose farms and lavender farms. But there are more Iloete rs in Provence than en all the rest of Europe. The traveler from Cannes to Grasse, or from Grasse to Draguigan, passes through the centre of a district which it is no poetical exaggeration to call a land of dowers. Sheltered from rude •br , •ezes by range of projecting hills, fully exposed to the southern sun, and in the centre of most delicious part of sweet Provence, this strip of country seems indeed the parterre of Eu rope. Every breath of summer wind Is la den with the fresh scent of myriads of flow ers ; every field is a garden 1 ; every propri etor is a flower grower ; the golden age seems to be realized there, and an Arcildia to exist more graceful and unreal than that of the poets. And i yet tt is not all Arcadia, ever. there. Spring and summer are anx ious seasons. The owner of all these odon ous treasures is often found a care :wont man, watching the sky and the weither glass as at itiously as a sea captain In uncers lain weather, and groaning over the ravages of blight and insects among his acres of blos 00111i. These blossoms aro destined to sup ply the great distilleries of Grasse, renown ed throughout Europe. The word “dtstil lery" has a fiery alcoholic ring in it, whiuh is a libel on the industry by which Grasse lives and thrives. Let mo hasten to say that the distilleries of Grosse aim at pleasing the olfactory sense, not at swotting the palates or stupefying the intellects of mankind.— Grime distils nothing mom hurtful than sub tle essences andolalpty perfumes. It is a beautiful sight, in good seasons, that floral harvest; the gathering of .those snowy mounds of white orange lilossoms, with their perfumed breath and maiden purity : the gleaming of those purple violets,-those clus tering jasmines, those honeyed tube roses prod ol ive and. gorgeous still is the ocean of Vrimson roses, pink roses, white roses, of every size and variety, which are born to yield their choicest sweets to the cunning alchemy of flowers. All this beau ty, industry and prosperity, originated in a very singular way, and owed its commence ment to the constancy and attachment of a pair of lovers, and the prompt wit of a hum , ble French peasant. I In the year 1800 these Provencal flower farms did not exist ; there were not then, as now,tile town of Grasse, a hundred stills, continually producing those delicate scouts I which are now sold at a high price in every Icity of the civilized world. French perfumes were distilled in Paris !lone. from the pro duce or Italian gardens; while .the laws valuable kinds of essence were drawn front MEMO BELLEVONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, P N'A., THURSDAY, NOV EM BE R 22, 1860. Italy, and chiefly, from Florence, which had beeti renowned for its perfumes audits poi• sons daring the learned sway of the Medici. At this time there dwelt—in the !Allege of Mery lee Roches, three miles from 'Grasse, an old man of considerable wealth, doubtful repute and imperious oharacter, named Jean Baptiste Desormes. Old Dehorines owed his doubtful repute, in part, hut in 11101 on. ly, to the manner in which his fortune had been acquit fl. lam afraid we should be hut a little edified by a full account of his early career. His biographer simply men Lions that he had been a lackey or the Mar• echal de Mirepoix, and Lad been as useful in Paris as " Srainn rerbrirres." This newer impersonation of the illustrious Scipin had somehow managed to render great services to his employer, or to master enough of his employer's secrets to make him of c011et... ! (pence, for he was Suddenly made tragiadantl of the Mirepoix' estates. in the neighborhoodl of Grasse. Desormes was not much liked. There were ugly rumors about his early ca rcer. Ile was a severe taslaniaster, and laid on the corrers and the donev, and the other ta xe s and loc a l exacti o ns which the seign eurs of pre revolutionary France were wont to screw of their tenants with unspairtng hand. Yet, somehow, the steward was more popular than the laudiord, for the latter was 'never seen, and the kisent are proverbially made to bear the burden of sins they were never art or part in. If a peasant were flog. ged, if a poor woman's cow, or a poor man's seed corn were confiscated for some trilling offence or omission, it was always the fault M. le Marechat. The marshal was so severe --the marshal's orders were so precise, so unfeefing —the marshal had the heart of a flint 'I he artful intendant probably per ceived the mutterings of the Mewing storm, and was preparing himself a refuge when its fury should sweep over the land. So it came to pass that old Desormes, by dint of Cl/li ning hints, threw most of the blame of his acts on the seigneur, an( acquired for him self a sort of consideration by painting M de Mirepoix of demoniac blackness Yet, 'somehow or other, grind and screw and screw as Desormes might, very little of the golden stream wrung out of hard pinched toil flowed into the coffers of the lord The man:chid sometimes had to borrow at usu rious interest, from Desormes himself, or from a Paris Jew, the gold pieces he staked at ontilve or basset , and while the plundered villagers of Mery were cursing mom,i igneur monseigneur was at the court, with empty pockets, swearing at the rascally intendant who fattened on him ' Why was not Des. °nines dismissed I Ah ! there the Inogra pher loses his lucidity, and recurs to rumor I and common fame. Rumor dmilared that M de Nlirepoix was afraid of leelittrfPWßl. who held him in check by a secret Common fame said that Desormes kept under lock and key some mysterious totters of M. le Mare chal,Alialisclmwre of which to his Majesty the King. would have opened the gates of the Bitetile, and given the governor of that Interesting fortress another guest of rank The great storm burst, and the aristocracy of France had the alternative of death or exile ; The old_ marechal was dead his wide*, whose jointure was formed by the Provencal estates. emigrated and sought safety in Germany We ail know by how summary process the estate of the emigrants were sold—what good bargains were made at the time--how stately' chateaux *ere purchased for less amount than would have paid for the building of their very orange nes and offices— and how broad acres were offered for sale until the market was glutted Among the buyers, of course, was Citizen Desormes, ex intendant of the artstocralgr Vouve Mirepoix, Justly deprived of his lands for anti-eivlsm, and escaping from the gull lotino to a crust and a garret at Vienna. It was said that Desormes bribed the cononis• sairset of the new republic, and got the farms and woodlands for less than others were willing to give ; but such scandals were common at that time, wheu fortunes were made or overturned in socelia. At soy rate, Desormes turned republican.;saved his neck' and, with v4at he had amassed in his stew ardship, bought half the Mirepoix estate. In 1800 he was growing aid and frail ; but by this time the red fever had cooled down, the rule of Napoleon was looming in the future ; and 34. Desormes, no longer Citizen, was fawned upon as the richest man in the •rondissement. Ile had 30,000 livres of annual revenue, and, like a true provin cial Frenchman, did not spend a third of his income. Nu wonder that his daughter, Ma rie Desormes, had suitors in plenty. Her inheritance was a glittering bait that mag netised the susceptible bachelors of the de partment. Marie was handsome enough, and good enough, and sprightly enough to have been loved for her own sake. One, and only one, of her many admirers did love her for her own sake—Pierre Lescant, a yonng.,farmer of the neighborhood. They have played together as children ; , Pierre had gathered the daisies and scarlet poppies that Marie wove into crowns Anil ropes of flowers ; Pierre had climbed itie tree to shake flown the walnuts into his little p lay• mate's apron. But of all the pretenders to pretty Marie's hand, Pierre Lescant, though at once the handsomest, the manliest, the best, was, alas ! the poorest ; and in ,a country where there is so inanimate a con nection between money making and money catching, Pintos is generally lord or the as- cesdant. EverybodheXpected- that old M. Desortnes—echolerie l lyrannieal old fellow in most relations of 'into many whose early servitude has &lOW them lobo a supple' obsequiousness foreigt to their true natures —would compel Marta to' accept the suit Of old Colin Legrisson, Wiliti was lame, sqUitit. log and sixty ; but ,Irho.had feathered Ain nest gloriously when'Ai 'emigranta' lands were brought to the blithteer, and louts were scarce itt Prance. Obiktegitiason was the richest of Marie's suttora ; • Pierre Lescant was the neediest. It M Desormes hes. Rate 1' Now, curio .. u , gh,' M Des. ormes did hesitate. f'disierupulous, grasping man had o *Ale his dtely heart ; he really I 'Ms daughter, ands none the less, perha because she wee the only object on which ose yearnings of of feetion, of which eve 'the worst of us are I capable. could expo tlfemselves, Deto 1 °mica had lost his e years and years ago, when Marie w still a i ti infant. Ile had no other child. was always kind to his daughter-- that ii 4 he neither beat nor welded her, to the weirder of the neighbors, for he was a hard toter, and had become a severe landlord, as r. as the mob law of ' early Jacobiniam had ufficiently died out to render unpophlarity le ; and his voice, in t speaking to Marie, w never the harsh, sere castle voice which debtors knew and trembled at. Ace ngly, !old. Desortnes shrank from compel .larie's choice. He took good cafe to let r know that he would wish her acceptance , lame, squinting, old Cohn Legrisson ; b lie did not absolutely command it. 'th• den was not without sense and spirit; detested Colin, and loved Pierre. To f her to give up the second, and marry first, would he diffi cult, her father th ht, but by no means impossible for his i will,i but it could only be effected by ' erity, by violence— Marie must be bro , not bent. And she might die, avid he Id be left alone—for young girls' hearts re curious things, and he had known the pable of even such betsses as dy Mg, w uch cases had occur red--a childless old nin a woilil 'that !is ted him ; and who, who would inherit the gold he had sold la CCIMACIICC for I All these things old Do ea brooded over, and the result was that . told Marie he hoped she would fancy Legrisson, who bad lands and beeves ; but if not, why, he must tru',t some other suptrant with a snug for tune would be forthcoming. The ex intend ant had no dislike to Pierre I,eticaid , lie ad mired the young man's courage 'taloa! ry and even his honesty, as people ofaes ailtiore qualities qiiiti• removed from their own But Pierre Leacant's farm was a mere patch of fail L ggii lie piuleed up only a s-iiity livin g taut of his vineyard, and his score or to 0 of olive bet ' s:-..''Thou shalt never marry a beg gait, my girl," the ex-steward would say, striking his stick en the poor. '.lf Pierre can show twenty thousand crowns tournosl on the wedding day. good ' I bestow my blessmg. and what is better, I &elide the money. But, marry a beggar ' thou shalt soarer St Catharine sooner_ than that '"-- Now, to cooffri Sejlatliarine, in French par lance. is toilie an old maid. "Ah ' Pierre," said the prior girt, with tears in her eyes, as the lovers walked up and down the garden of Pierre's farm, while the old servant, under whose chaperonage, Mar-it - had come, sat littitting in an arbor— tAli ! Pierre, why have you not" , twenty an thousaMl crows 1 Can. you not in y way get twenty thousand crowns 7 " .'"C.:7". Pierre groaned, and atruck i his forehead "What chance have I, Marie I" hr rejoined "Your father is as firm as a rock, I know, and I con't blame him, for no ode that is rich likes his child to wed with poverty Rut what on earth can I do 2 here few poor acres, that vineyard, those olive trees —I might sell them all, and not gt t a fifth of the money. Twenty thousand crowns'— that sum don't grow - on the hedges. Ah ' but I wish it did." And Pierre looked quito angrily at his pretty garden, full of bloom log powers of every hue, whose mingled fra grance floated toward him on the balmy air, and the very hedges of which, as is net un usual in the south, were composed of blush, moos. " How I wish, for thy sake, my Marie, that I could coin these flowers into gold I" Now, it often happepi that a word hastily or lightly spoken suffi r ces to give a color and atlirection lo the entire thoughts of the speaker or the hearer, and perhaps to change his whole career and prospects. "I wish that I could coin those flowers into gold !" Those words of his own haunted Pierre's ear through all the liveloug afternoon ; long of ter Marie had left him. long akar the shades of evening had begun to embrown the for ests, and the bees were coming back, heavy laden, to the hive, and the rooks were flap ping home in sable hue. Still Pierre mused andwalked alone, with knitted Wow and drooping head. What could he do I lie loved Marie so dearly. Ho knew heryarent would never go back from his word, never perinit their union, unless he, Pierre, &Scam° a rich man - . And how to become rich I He looked round, at Iris scanty possession with a sort of despair. The poor little vineyard. yielding its half dozen casks of inferior wino; the rushy pastures, where the four cows picked up a scanty living the olive trees, with their silvery leaves arid gnarled roots ; what could be conjure ont of these beyond& subsistence'for hitifself, and hie two day lar borer*, and the old peasant- woman who did the indoor work of the farmhouse ? But the flowers! They were bright, and ynried, and notnerotis ; for tie garden was very large; ootnpared with the sine of the proper ty, she. Pierre's father hat been head gar dener at the Chateau de itirepoin. in his youth. and had stocked his o*rt rotund, no doubt, with many a slip and shoot or plants rare in France at that Ilttd. The garden was ,renowned for its keenly and fragrance fur /engues amend ; and when a weddirg took place. Pierre IA ncant was always peti tioned in ftitnitth i bouglie► for the bale froth the trhasure of lilting gems that flew- Mad table partt:rtes.! Pierre could not get the roses and geraniums out of his head ; their perfume, their brilliancy seetin,l haunt him since his interview with Matte. That evening, as he sat alone amid his poor furniture of brawn walnut wood, in his whitewashed roam, he4evolved many yawn. ideas in his head, and = sighed as common seliNe seemed to tTerruu all los card castles one after I. nothet • All his hopes, all his %slid projects were gilded and stinetiont•d, as it were, by his love for Marie. Ile va (mid never have longed for money, save as a means of winning her ; yet, as he lard his head on the pillow, the words still rang in his eats, ••I wish that I could coin these flowers into gold." And, whet'', after touch tossing and restlessness, the young man sank into sleep, he was flower. haunted still In his dream lie sa,w himself surrounded by the choicest blossoms of his garden, but they looked blighter than before; the dew that spangled them glittered elm. mond drops ; the lenience of their mingled breath entranced km, and closed him in like a sweet Vapor ; their hues were as brilliant as if every rose leaf had been changed into a ruby, every lily into a pearl of the ()milt And, In ! wonder of wonders, the petals ex panded,and forth from every blossom peeped a fairy—a fairy with waving wand, and star ry wings, and jewtled dudun ; and the en. (weal stratum of rtiny butt squmite mu sic, the music of Elliand, floated in the scent laden air Then - the faint s 111,.C1,1,1 and de rided, with it mall marls of silver laughter, tin. blindness of the mortal who would coin flowers into gold, and kuew not how ; and Piero Winced in his sleep at the laughter and elfin scorn. But the genetr and kinder queen orthe fames waved Mr wand "Ile Lives," said • is noMo,er, se. king wealth for itself Lot iii befriend hum for Marie's sake " And then e-ery liner op. and still wider, and every fairy pointed do•viiwards with her wand, an)l behold ' deep in each blossom cup lay heaps of fairy gold piled up: and struggling up (min hay mines and shafts ythat lid far Imo the d.ok earth. came end less crowds of little gnomes, bearing gold to i add to the myriad heaps and the fairies ' cried in their shrill voice - • Thus may flow • l ees be rointsl Into gold ''' Then the (mg ' rant mist grew thtrker and ;tweeter tilt raf fles. Bowers, gold and gnomes vanished a way ip ;t, and nothing was seta tint mist. And Pierre awoke, with the scent of the Mos- some overpowering him It was cad) , morning, the sun waL, stream ing on his face, the dew was drying' ateB'3t;" the early perfumes of the root- garden (Arne through the open window orth, room Nov, whether.the dream SliggvAl ed some th- ollection of long forgotion rigs that N father had soies made, holier the recollection of such remarks *es the true oriSU of the dream, I do not pretend to sarrtit any rate, Pierre, with an anxious but hopeful face, trudged through the field , toward the town of Grease . In Grari,e there dwelt an old Italian druggist and tieroali‘t who had a mean bare shop, and piked u p but a mean bare living hy his traffic in sim ples and confections. Ile vies it native of' Florence, and bad a reputation for learning: but few customers were attracted by the stuffed alligator above the door, and tee dus ty shop and Jars, and botalo and the long lean figure of the maestro himself, arid his suit of rusty black In short, he was just such an apothecary as Romeo selected for the purveyor of the deadly draught. and to his half empty tilop did Pierre Leecsnt, an. ilther luckless lover, repair, hut opt for Poi son. Long was the conversation between , the young prorencal farmer anti he old drug gist, and it ended in the latter's ccompany 1, ing Pierre homewards, with a gl am of unu sual excitement on his Inn Ivo face. The apotrikary rent hntir'ik in Pierre Lescant's garden, going from flower to flow er, sniffing, ogling, and even tasting petal, and pollen, and stamen, eying at the -buds through a horn-mounted magnifying glans, and chuckling the while in a strange ghost ly manner. The neighbors, who had some suspicion that the gaunt stranger in sable was a wizard, stared and wondered. More heartily did they wonder, a little later, when Pierre was seen shifting his fences, end, day after day, enlarging lie garden. Now he took to ft slip of vineyard, now a corner of his fields ; anon lie went off to the foreutt with his men, to search for fine black mould; and next day die was busy grafting, rowing, cuttinglind transplanting among his flower beds. He was enlarging his already ample garden.., That was odd enough ; but when, instead of stocking the ground with pulse Itlfberbs, Pierre actually began to Cultivate flowers with tender solicitude and skill on every spare inch of earth, the thole • neigh I berhecod Wm up in arms. lie wee pelted( with good advice. ttt hitt grhlS titian' thatifi useless Rower stocks, and grow honest leeks and garlic, if he wished to be thought a man of sense. Pierre was firm ills friends said be was 'obstinate, feblish, mad ; very likely bewitched by that lean Italian wizard from the town, who is now always to be seen coming up and whispering to Pierre and who was after no wind, doubtless. The neighbornewere quite angry with Pierre; old zpd„ young predicted his ruin , old Dememes pronounced him an idiot. Marie alone en ema iged her lover. shared hie hopes. prayed for his ~tracers, and cheered him as only a faithful woman can cheer tF the man That was a good year for the oliven. and a deceht Village, end Pierre managed to rub on, nether saving nor spendirfg moro than he could afford. /Ire short veintlir passed. Spring and stim ,mer cams on The flowers were more gin irons and plentiful than ever In Pierre's now very extended garden The old Italian chuckled as lie marked them Then came n great gathering of blossoms. and Nlarie came In ii 1p in the picking of the flowers, and the old Italian ruble it hie bony hand?' Arise, his furnace was noted to he 'all nrigely active , he was perpetually at work brewing, simmering, and distilling The lean Italian was alnint.ol skill : he stre6ed ed in producing—thanks to the rare flowers in Pierre's garden—essences and perfumes equal to the daintiest Florence guld It was an era of ultra nationality. Jose phine, the then adored wife of the first Con• mil, was akked by a deputy of the South, a patron of the druggist's to accept the dedi cation of the new discovery. Josephine con sented. Paris billowed suit. Giacomo Prantilli and Pierre Irescant sold their whole, stor.l. at a high rate. All the flowers in Pier re's garden would not, milltiplied tenfold. have stipplud the demand that sprang up with niuslirtaini rapidity. Pierre threw all the land he had info the compags of his gar den fence , lie bought more land ; he reared more glowers. - I he fairies hid spoken tenth: flowers were. Ind, col, a delicate alchemy, transurnined into gold, arid soon it was dif th rift. in the portly, well fed Italian, clad in glOksy hltek, to recognizn the rusty scare crow of other days. And Pierre and Marie ' their share of the joy krill success was the purest and the full eat Ile fore the end of the second Hummer the twits rung, and the girls of the village strewea flowers in the path of Marie. as. garlanded with flowers herself, blushing prim,' ridient, she passed along on her loisli.ind's arm. from the chap lel to her homey happy bride. Old Desor." men had been won over ; success, wit, stroin„.th of mind and will the old ex stew. arri could appricinte at their fupl value ? and, althoorgh the prescribed loin ot, twenty thou ' sand crowns wan riot yet realized, Pierre was on the highway to fortune Ile had in truth, founded a new industry tire most po etre, and not the leant profitable in France Around Ins garden there gradnally sprang I up other gardens . rind flowers and seeds were bought in Italy and other stills than those o f old Giacomo dropped fragrant *wi eners, arid the odor° is trace of Grasse tended daily There was enough for all ; Tcerr . e, who had set the example, was now the idol of the district, and the oracle of those who had once prophesied his Inert table ruts and impoverishment. At the • present day, though the flower farms are ninny the derendanis of Marie Dettormes and Pierre Lew&it are the most cons/dm-a -t ble proprietors itj the arrindisetnent. It is I I not always, pert ps, that Invention. indits try. anti restchiln reap, in ho fair a field, an solid a iewarl: The story is taken partly from tradition, and partly from an %id history of the depart_ ment or which Cleanse to the rhef lieu, and which I found. covered with dust, in an old public library of a Pretich town. It illus trateg a chapter of the past little known probably, even T to the French th••mselvee, and which I do not think has ever been allu ded to in an Engbsli work. 'But it would repay any one who would diverge from the, great road, in the months of May and June, to take a peep at the variegated glories of a Provence flower farm. the South Carolina •Declaration of inde pendence. IFrom the Washing(On Constitution I ; A citizen of South Carolina has sent us (he following as one of the proposed forms of`declaration of independence to be submit ted to the Convention which is to meet on the l'fth proximo : PROPOSED DICLARMION OF TNDEPENDENCII OF SOCIT CAROLINA. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the 1 4 /niftiest hands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the seperate and equal station to which the laws of Wore, and of nature's God entitle Ce — m, a dpeent respect for the opinions of man iid requirqs that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident ; ihitt, although all men are created wholly nnequal,,mefitally, morally'and physically, yet they are all equally entitled, nder every ciiilized government, to the fall protOctiOn of their lives, persons, and propeßr i — rof which protection geveniments are safely in stituted among men, deriving their just pow ere solely from the ocinseat of the govemeli that whenever any form of goveirattiiiit 144 IIEI Si 60ile VOLUME A—NUMBER 4EI • - comes destructive to these ends, it' is the right of the , pro* to alter or abolish it, and. to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles. and organis ing its powers in such form is to them shall seem most likely to effect. .their safety and happiness. prudence, 'indeed. will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transtent causes: and, accordingly. all ezperience bath shown that mankind are more disposed to sutler while ills are iidTerable, than to right these selves by aholr•lttrig the forms to which ling are accustomed. But when • long train tit abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the RAW object, evince. a d es i g n to r e does L Mere under alisolate despotism, it is their right, it m their duty to throw ofisucirwrr-, 'ernmetit, and to pestle , new guards for their future security. Such ban been the patient sufferance of the Southern States of this Fitton. and am h In now the necessity which constrains them to alter their present system of Federal Government The history of the preirPro Northern Slates is a history of repeated ;nor Ws. I tiils tail usurpations, all having a direct object in the establish ment of all absolute tyranny over theSontb ern States. To prove this, let facts be sul'nfttul to n candid world : Ist. The Northern States of this Union have for ninny long years warred aramst our peculiar institution of slavery, investi• gated by the dictates of a relentlens fanati cism, which di chirps that institution to be a moral sin which we hold to be a Divine in stitution, c..taldisheil ley God himself in the following_deeree enunciated by Itinavg on Mt. Sinai : Both thy liondmen end bond• mauls which thou shalt have shall be of the heathen that are around about you i of them Anil ye tiny bondnien atid,,bondmairls, moreover, of the children of the strangere th•t sojourn among you. of thi m shall ye buy, Rod they,sliall he your on.session ; ye shall take tin m as an inheritance for your children after you. to inherit them (or a possession : they shall be your bondinen forever" And we limber hold that this thvimly estalilkhed institution xas always sanctioned by our Saviour and his Apostles. 2i1 , 1 A large number of the Northern States have nullified the Conslauttion of the present Union by passing !awe to prevent the fotiliment ol that Constitution, which declares that fugitive slaves shall be deliver ed up to their owners : the principle of which fugitive Flat's law has the express and sacred ennotlon of St Paul the Apostle. 3,1 The Northern !States of this Union hare dertiirecbthat the people of the Southern States shall not emigrate with their property into the Territories, which iightfully belong to them equally with the Nurth and that the people or the South shall not have their property protected by the Federal Govern ment when such protection is (as above de -claret!) the sole object and end of all gov• ernnienta 4th. Those Northern Qtates have. by a rekntlese and unacroPulous majority. con• stonily imposed heavy taxes, not simply without, bat directly against our represeitr tattoo and our consent in the general Con• Kress by levying onerous and excessive du ties upon goods imported in n turn for, and purchased by our cotton, rice, and tobacco, in order to protect and encourage their own nianufneturee and in miler to expend vast sums at the North in improving land fortify ing their own lonian's, towns, and cities, at the evident and direct expense of the pro• ducts and labor of ihe South sth TheAe Northern States have elected by an overwhelming sectional vote a Preall• dent and Vice President, both from their own section of country, in dirwitaitidt to our isiThra and our proti sta, neither of whom hoe received one singe vote from our Section. and whosy express Need is that " there is an irrepressible conflict against slavery, which can never cease until slavery is extinguished " We have, for long years, in rain appealed to their - sense of jtistYce and common right ; we have conjured them by the ties of our ems 'mon kindr k .d to disavow and abandon these psurpations, which would inevitably niter 6pt and destroy our connections and our Union. But they haie been deaf to the voids of justice, of honor, and ofoonsangoinity We must, therefbre, • acquiesce it the neces sity which denounces our separation ; and hold them, as eflrhold the rest of mankind —enemies in war ; in peace, ft iends. We, therefore, the representatives cordite idople of the State of South Carolina. in C'onvention assembled, appealing to the Sui• preme Judge of the World for the rectitude of onr intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this State. solemnly publish and declare, that the State of South Carolina is, and of right ought it ho. a free and independent State ; and that all political connection between it and the Northern States is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that as a free and in&pelui ent State we have full 'power to levy may, conclude peaCe, cootrabt alliances, establish commerce, and do all other meta and thing/ which an independent State may of right do. And, for the support of this decimals*, with a firm reliance on the protection of Pi vine Providence, we mutually pledge to ea* other our liras, oar tortonv, sad oar Weal I honor*. _ . The immortal Raphael painted fling,,nad toady, Do donbt an `bit hits . Many la lady paints bit hitht and ntaltae no likause at L, is , ~.. =I ',Jo" • • .!•, , ~ . ,
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