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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
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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*. _ .
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