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For the Agitator,
the spirit bride.
I neveraaw my darling,
We never chanced to meet,
One gentle word 1 ne’er have heard.
Yet know her voice is sweet.
I’ve dreamed of her so often.
I’ve thought of her so iong.
From her my heart-will never part.
To* her I’ll breathe my song.
I know not if my dear one
Is of this lower earth;
Or, if to brighter realms of light
£be owes her name and birth;
But oft when sad and weary,
Inclose my eyes to rest.
My spirit bride comes lo ray side' 7
And makes my slumbers blest.
Sometimes in happy dreamland,
1 clasp her hand in -mine.
And tell her bow, to win her now,
All else I would resign.
And then she smiles upon me
The happiest of men.
But dawning day calls her away.
And I’m alone again.
Yet still I hope to meet her
Before my race U rQn;
Tbe Vows of sleep I then will keep.
And claim tbe cherished one.
Thus in the crowd I mingle
With heart preoccupied,
Intent to trace in each fair face
The features of my bride.
But, if. to disappointment
T atill am doomed till death,
A happier fate shall me await
When 1 resign my breath;
For in some happy'region
Beyond the azure sky.
We then shall meet in union sweet,
My spirit love and I. Virginia.
Sntmstlna Stutctj.
From the Lancaster Examiner and Herald.
A Northern. Nan’s Impressions of the
South,
One who has never been South, and whose
notions and opinions are formed entirely from
books and hearsay, would have bis ideas con
siderably changed by a tour, however brief,
through the seaboard slave Stales. So much
is said about the slaves and their masters,
the sugar plantations, cotton fields and rice
swamps, (hat a large majority forget all about
the country itself. Having had occasion to
pass through some of these States a few
weeks ago, a few observations concerning
them may not prove uninteres'ing to Lancas
ter 1 county men, particularly as of late years
considerable emigration has been going in
that direction, chiefly, however, to Maryland 1 "
and Virginia.' The reason why Pennsylva
nia* have not /bund their way further down
stiff, becomes as clear as daylight, when one
has once had a glimpse of the country.
Maryland and' Virginia arc two quite re
spectable Stales in an agricatlurat point of
view. True, much of the soil, through the
mismanagement and carelessness of the na
tive farmers, has become unproductive and is
“worn out,” but by northern farming and
northern energy, can again be made-product
ive to an extent that will pay the farmer
handsomely for his labor; but this is not the
case with those States lying still further South.
Such as have traveled through the above men
tioned States, must have remarked the large
amount,of rocky and sfvampy land, which it
is very probable will never be rendered pro
ductive, the soil being poor in the first place,
and the expense of reclaiming it in the second
being so great as to prevent all idea of its
being attempted. Things became ten times
worse as soon as you get out of Virginia into
North Carolina, which is the poorest and mean
est-State, agriculturally, in the Union, South
Carolina excepted, which in this respect bears
off the palm from every country in the world.
, Virginia, from having been the mother of
Presidents and Statesmen, has condescended
to be the mother of negroes, and the result of
■her prosperity is only too apparent. The
wretched dwellings of the white population,
and the still more miserable cabins ol the
slaves, speak even louder than Governor Wise
himself, of her miserable condition. An al.
most endless succession of stunted pines lines
the railroad from one end of the State to the
other.*. A few other species of deciduous trees
are sometimes seen, but it is very rarely that
the oak or the hickory is found. North Caro
lina is better off in her pine forests, for ,here
the trees grow very often to an immense size,
and form one of the chiqf sources of wealth
to the people. So far as other limber is con
cerned, she is quite as badly off as-Virginia.
The country, too, is more uneven, and the
soil seems much inferior, and in fact, from
this point down to. New Orleans, the soil has
an appearance that would be very uninviting
to a Lancaster county farmer, resembling
very much the ted, sandy appearance of that
portion of Lancaster known as Muddy Creek,
but is still less productive. '
There is not so much cotton raised in North
Carolina as I supposed. The pine forests
which cover almost the entire country furnish
quite as reliable a source of wealth, and with
much Jess trouble. 1 here witnessed the man
per of malong rosin, turpentine and tar. An
incision is made in the tree with an axe, about
a loot from the ground, and a strip of the bark
about three leel long is then taken off above
100 cut and extending down to it. The cut is
shallow andcatches the liquid as it oozes out
of the tree.’"The rosin is secreted in that
portion of the tree from, which the bark has
been taken. Each year.the bark is taken ofl
a loot or two higher tip than the previous
year, and this practice is continued until the
ree dies, which is in about six or eight years ;
afterwards the tree is cut down, and then
twrnt m a conical shaped kilo, from which
the tar is product. The amount of rosin
taade m North Carolina is astonishing. I
saw thousands of barrels lying along the road,
watting to be sent to market. Much ie also
made in South Core|ina, (
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BefcoteD to tt)t 32*tenaCon of ttjr&rea of JfmfcotK atUjr t&e Spceafc of mefotm
COBB, STURROCK & CO.,
YOL. 3.
One that has never seena southern swamp,
cannot have the slightest idea of what it is.
The season in which.l saw them, being win
ter, there was of course no vegetation, and
my chances of observing them, all the better.
The ground is covered with water, from six
inches to- two feet deep, and out of these
marshes, rise enormous trees, mostly pines.
A most singular feature in these trees is,
that about two or three feet from the water,
the trunk suddenly enlarges lo three or four
limes its usual girth; this, I suppose, arises
from the soft, yielding nature of the soil,
which renders it necessary for tbe tree to
have a wider and consequently firmer base
for its roots. ' The aspects of these swamps
is oftentimes very peculiar. Through the
truuks of the trees you can see for hundreds
of yards, nothing but the shining water, at
ibis season of the year, unrelieved by animal
lifeof any kind. During the summer months,
however,, they are the abode of almost every
species of vermin. They account also for
the sickness which prevails in so many parts
of the South, during the warm weather.—
Sometimes these marshes extend almost with
out interruption, for a bundled miles; a per
son begins lo think the South is nothing more
or less than one interminable bog, and he is
not veiy wrong.
To one who has been accustomed lo see
Conestoga teams ail his life, southern horses
and southern teams present a very strong
contrast. The bone yard would be deemed
the filledt place for nearly every horse I saw
after I left Washington. A more wretched,
abject lot of beasts can be found no where,
unless it bfe in Italy, which they say beats
the world for sorry horses and mules. Oxen
are more used in the South than horses, for
the reason, 1 presume, that they are kept at
less expense. lam confident, six good horses
would eat up the entire produce of many of
the plantations I saw; oxen therefore are
preferable, both as a matter of economy and
policy. Nothing surprised me more, than
the small number of horned cattle, and of
live slock generally, kept qn southern farms.
Two or three cows, as many hogs, a couple
of goals, half a dozen of barn fowls, and a
few yoke of oxen, constituted the planter’s
properly—his negroes excepted.
In the matter of barns they are entirely
destitute. Ido not now remember of having
seen a single barn after leaving Richmond.
The extreme meagreness of southern crops,
renders out.buildings entirely unnecessary lo
the planter. He would not know what to do
with it, if he possesed one. A ricketty shed,
a dozen feet long, answers every purpose, and
costs nothing, 1 saw immense corn-fields in
ail the the Slates down to ( Louisiana, but not
a grain of corn. ’ I can’t imagine what be
comes of it, unless used for the support of
their negroes. I judge from the appearance
of the stalk, that such ears of corn as we see
in Lancaster county are altogether unknown.
They plant their corn as we do, except that
they never put more than one grain in a hill,
it being found <bat one stalk is quite as much
as one hill will grow.
A perceptible change for the heller takes
place in the character of the country, as soon
as you get into Georgia. The soil looks bet
ter ; the cotton and corn-fields show a more
vigorous growth. Alabama is still belter than
Georgia, and in some places the country looks
quite respectable. The swamps still show
themselves, however, and the entire Slate, if
it has not the submerged look of the Caroli
nas, is yet flat and uninteresting. It is any
thing else than the place where a northern
man, though be comes from the rocks of New.
Hampshire, would desire to live. lam very
confident that were twenty-five Lancaster
county farmers, lo locate in any southern
Slate, south of Virginia, before the close of
the first 'year, twenty-four of them would
have found their way home again, and no one
would blame them. I hold it as almost im
possible for a northern man to feel at home,
or even to become reconciled to the routine of
a southern-plantation, and the farmer who
makes up his mind to try his fortune in'the
South, would better consider the step he is
about lo take. I should advise every man
with such intentions, lo go any where rather
than here. He can’t farm here with the limi
ted means he could in one of the western
states; everything is high, from bread up to
niggers. I heard a man say yesterday, he
could not buy a good'field hand in his part of
the State for less than fifteen hundred dollars.
New Orleans, Feb. 16, 1857.
Mal-apeopcs. —lf there is anything calcu
lated to take the starch out of a fellow, it is
to enquire of a friend at his elbow, who that
ugly, squint-eyed, red-haired woman is, and
be answered, “that lady, sir, is my wife.”—
It is an accident', the like of which has hap
pened Ip many of us, butxjye have another
which lately occurred in a car upon a Penn
sylvania Railroad. One of our old “stub and
twist” politicians, who was traversing a por
tion of his old slumping ground in Pennsyl
vania, fell into a very engrossing conversation
with an old gentleman, a stranger, silling
near him in the cars. \The talk ranged over
subjects connected withhold limes in the Old
Keystone State, and particularly the old Gov
ernors, and their good and evil deeds. Our
friend got rapidly posted, and was very much
fascinated by the rich fund of information,
the amiable manners, the happy mood, and
the noble appearance of the venerable stran
ger. Our “stub and twist” silver gray at
last inquired, with much unction, “Weil, what
has' become of that old humbug, Gov. Rit
ner ?” “Well, air, it is perhaps time for me
to inform you that I am no other person than
Ex-Gov. Rimer himself.” Confused apolo
gies followed, of course, and “stub and twist”
dried up .about that lime. —Cleveland Plain
dealer,
WELLSBOEOUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THUESMY MOENING, APEIL 9. 1857.
The world is made up of trifles. The
grand movements of great events and (he
changes of empires are founded in causes,
which woold be pronounced (rifles by the
world.
Yes, “trifles light as air” have led lo some
of the most important discoveries we have.
The fall of an apple gave Newton the clue to
gravitation; the rising up of theTid of a tea
kettle gave us our railroads, steamboats,
ocean steamers, and a thousand other things;
not to speak ofllte steam press, that combined,
put the world centuries ahead in the myste
ries of the universe and the purposes of God.
To the observation of a flower dimly pic
tured on a stone, we owe the philosophical
researches in chemistry and light which ulti
mately gave us the daguerreotype.
To grasp
A tiling impalpable, and hold It, was
Once considet’ed a wild impossibility,
Until Daguerre, with Heaven-aspiring might
Captured a shadow with a ray of light,
And chained it down tor ever.
By a trifling loan of money-frorn the great
actor Talma lo Napoleon, in a lime of need,
the face of Europe was changed—(millions of
men perished—thrones. were emptied—Wel
lington was made a duke —Moscow was burnt,
and France made a despotism at the present
lime; for Napoleon was on the brink of sui
cide—a nameless adventurer—when Talma
gave him this'assistance. ,
The foundation of the Roman Empire was
a cunning trick in an individual combat, or
duel. American liberty and thirly-dne glori
-ous Stales arose from a strong cup of tea
the Bostonians tn ITTjjf A little
piece of magnetized sflel led Ic/Xne discovery
of a now world. The erection of a saw-mill
in California ’changed the currency, of the
world. The crossing of a little stream of
water subverted the liberties of Rome and
gave the name of Brutus immortality. The
flying of a common paper kite by a printer
gave us the magnetic telegraph. The eating
of an apple in the garden of Eden, brought
sin and death into the world ; the
of a golden apple caused a ten^vears’ war
and the fall of Troy.
A delay of.five minutes saved the lives of
Napoleon the First and his family from an
“infernal machine” in the streets of Paris.—
A delay of two minutes,once cost about filly
lives on an American railroad. The expor
tation of a few potatoes from America, by
Sir Waller Raleigh, has saved the Irish nation,
several limes, from starvation. :From a little
acorn the great American forests have sprung.
‘•A pebble In the streamlet scant, ,
Has changed the course of many a river;
A dew-drop on tbe baby plant.
Has warped tbe giant oak forever.”
It is impossible to enumerate, especially in
a newspaper article, me almost numbariooe
“trifles” that have produced numberless great
events, and made numberless radical changes
in the history and destiny of the wprld. —
Suffice it lo say that “trifles” are not to be
scoffed at. The world may learn great, and
true, and valuable lessons from these same
“trifles.” The fable of the lion who was re
leased from his prison by a mouse, was writ
ten by a great man—upon a less foundation
than this, there has been erected deathless
poetry, wonderful tragedies, and many noble
novels.
Hold nothing in contempt; nothing con
temptible ever came from the hands of the
Almighty. The worlds which the microscope
has revealed to us in the drop of water are
as wonderful and mysterious as the bright
and beautiful worlds brought to our eyes by
the telescope. The loathsome caterpillar
which we long to crush beneath our feet, will
one day be a .beautiful creature, with rain
bows for its wings. The little pool of dirty
-water into which we have stepped, and upon
which we pour out “vials of wrath” in maoy
a deep.mutlerred anathema and malediction
for having obscured the glory of our boots,
will be woven into a bright and beautifully
embroidered veil, on the miraculous sun, for
the lace of the queen who trails her robe of
light among the countless stars. The perusal
and observance of a single .book, called the
Bible, every leaf of the new. portion of which
has had a sacred baptism in the blood of Je
sus of Nazareth, will lead the soul—the only
immortal thing in the universe, save its maker
—out of the shadows and darkness of dust,
and fit it for an audience, (yea, though it be
the soul of a. beggar,) with the “King of
Kings.”— N. O. Picayune.
Tiie Mysteries of the Law. —ln Maine,
at the tejan of the Supreme Court now being
held al Portland, a bill of indictment was
found by the Grand Jury against John S.
Sprague for the crime of polygamy. The
indictment charged that Sprague on the 11th
of September, 1854, being then and there
an unmarried man, was lawfully married to
Emily M. Clark, and that afterwards, on the
4th of December, 1855, his first wife being
still living, he married Rhoda S. Stewart,
thereby committing the crime of polygamy.
Sprague’s counsel staled to the Court that thet
County Attorney was willing to admit, and
that the defence could prove, that the alleged
first marriage was not a legal one, Sprague
at that lime being a married man and having
a wife living. In fact, that ha had three
wives, but as the indictment was based, upon
the legality of the second marriage, which
was not legal, it must therefore fail. And
further, if ibe government attempted to prove
that theirs! wife was living when Sprague
married the third one he should object to
such evidence, as there was no such allegia*
lion in the indictment. This last position
being sustained by the Court, the County At
torney entered a not. pros., and thus Sprague,
who was charged with having two wives got
clear by having three, _
AGITATOR.
“ TUB AGITATION OF THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING Of WISDOM.”
Trifles.
A Slight Mistake.
Jirif-Ward is a conductor on the eastern
division of the New York Central Railrood,
running daily between Ulica'and Albany.—
Wardjias been in the employ of tbe Central
Railroad Car a long period of years, and is
one of the oldest conductors in the country.
Invariably accommodating and polite, ha is
particularly attentive to the ladies„and always
manages to make himself a favorite with those
of the fair sex who accompany the trains un
der his direction.
A short time since, when a train under his
direction was on its way east from,Utica, one
of those interesting incidents occurred on
hoard the train', which adds lo the visible
number of passengers, but scarcely ever in
creases the profits of the trip. Ward, as soon
as he discovered the condition of the lady,
hustled about, and with the train running for
ty miles an hour, fixed up a portion of the
express car, and bad her conveyed thereto.—
A physician, by the name of Beecher was on
the train. His services were immediately
put in requisition, and in a short lime Ward
had the pleasure of announcing that “mother
and babe were doing as well as could be ex
pected under the circumstances.”
The mother was a poor woman, and as
soon as it became known, Ward went around
with a hat, and in a short time a handsome
purse was collected, and Jim with his counte
nance absolutely filtering off happiness, look
it in to the mother. After he-re-appeared the
passengers proposed that the child should be
named. No sooner said than . done. Jim
went in and got the baby, with the consenfof
the delighted mother, and brought it out,
when it was proposed that it should be named
“James Ward,” after Jim, and Beecher after
the physician who had professionally attend
ed the mother, ft was adopted by acclama
tion, and amid general shout and approbation,
the babe was named “James Ward Beech
er ——.” Jim wiih a smile of ill-concealed
delight, was lugging off his little namesake,
when some of the ladies requested to see tbe
‘‘little baby.” It was passed from hand to
hand among tbe ladies, all admiring the little
but at the same time a general dispo
sition to smile and stuff handkerchiefs in their
moulhs, became manifest among the women.
Jim wondered, but wondered in vain, what
this sadden laughter meant, until the baby
was handed to an old lady. She.had not.had
it more than a minute, when she exclaimed :
“Law, Suz!” ■ \
“Well, what's the matter?” said Jim, fear
fully- ,
“Wav, it’s a Gal !” said the oldwopnan,
handing the baby to Jim.
Then a yell of laughter; .the men
broke om first, then the women, then .they
hrnkfi etui together, until one universal scream
filled the car. Several gentlemen threw iKoir
hats and mufflers out of the windows, while
others endeavored unsuccessfully, to “saw
their legs off.” The, women blushed and
screamed; the.men shouted and held their
sides. In the midst of this storm of fun and
laugh'er, Jim made his escape from the car
with his female “Jim Ward Beecher,” and,
for the rest of his trip, on the platform of the
baggage car, ruminated on the sudden
and mutations of human life. —Buffalo Rep.
A Number of Politicians, all of whom
were seeking offices under government, were
scattered on the tavern porch talking, when
an old toper, named D came up to
them. Now, said D who is a person
.who is very loquacious when “corned,” but
exactly the opposite .vr hen sober. At the
present time, being “light,” he said if the
company had no objection he would tell (hem
a story. They told him to “fire away,”
whereupon he spoke as follows •
“A certain king—don’t recollect hift name
—bad a philosopher, upon whose julgment
he always depended. Now it so happened
that the king look it into his head to
go hunting and. after summoning his nobles,
and making all necessary preparations, he
summoned his philosopher and asked him if
it would ram. , The philosopher told him it
would not, and he and his nobles departed.—
While journeying along, they met a country
man mounted on a jackass ; he advised them
to return, ‘for,’ said he, ‘it will certainly
rain.’ They smiled contemptuously upon
him, and passed on. Before they'had gone,
many miles, however, they had reason to
regret not having taken the rustic’s adviceT
as a heavy shower coming up" they were
drenched to the skib.
When they had returned to the palace,
the King reprimanded the philosopher se
verely for telling him that it would-.be clear
when it was not. ‘I met a countryman,’
said he, ‘and he knows a great deal more
than you, for he told me it would rain,
whereas you told me it would not.
The King then gave’the philosopher his
walking paper, and sent for the countryman
who made his appearance. ‘Tell me’ said the
King, ‘how you knew it would rain.’ ‘I
didn’t know said the rustic, my jackass told
.me.’ And pray, did he tell,you?’ the
King said in astonishment. ‘By pricking up
his ears, yourmnjesty.’ The King now sent
the countryman away ; procuring the jackass,
he placed him in the office the philosopher
had filled. ‘And here, observed D ■,
looking very wise, ‘here is where the King
made his mistake.’ ‘How so?’ inquired the
auditors. ‘Why ever since that time,’ said
D with a grin on his phiz, ‘every
jackass wants an office.’
The wav to treat Bores. —There are
two kinds of bores in the world—the rich
and the poor. You can get rid of the latter
by leading film five dollars. You can free
yourself of the other by attempting to borrow
twenty-five froirj him, Try it oq,
PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS
THE BACHELOR'S BURIAL.
Two old maids at shot of day,
A Bachelor’s carcass bore away.
With wrinkled brow and matted hair.
And heart that never. lb?ed the fair..
Bring briars, they groaned, bring weeds oqUowo,
Bring rankest weeds of name unknown.
Bring withered boughs from dreary wild,
To strew the bier of Error’s child 1 j
And make his grave where the lizards hide.
Where nightshade strews the swamp creeps side
Far out of, sight-—where genial spring
Shall send no gentle birds to sing.
His old jack-knife lay with him low,
> To cut the siring of Cupid’s bow ;
The gad house cat shall mew aroond,
' His lonely grave in grief profound.
His bloodless lips to dnst;
His old jack-knife shall waste with rust;
He whom we hide from light of men,
Will-never fright the babes again.
For we have laid him from the light;
Beneath the ground and out of sight;
But this rude epitaph shall stand—
“He who to no one gave his hand 1”
SeUctJHisccllans.
A New Continent
The coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean have
been, in part, measured, and are found to be
of amazing extent, and a new continent is in
process of formation. All the labor is ac
complished by zoophytes—insects ; and if
we wish to form some conception of the do
ings, we have but to remember that the coral
formations of the Pacific, occupy an area of
four or five thousand miles, and to imagine
what a picture the ocean would present were
it suddenly drained. We should walk amid
huge mounds which had been-cased and cap
ped with (he stones these animals had secreted.
Prodigious cones would the "ground,
all towering to the same altitude, reflecting
the light of the sun from (heii white
with dazzling intensity. Here and there we
should see a huge platform once a large island,
whose peaks as they sank were clothed in
coral, and then prolonged upwards until they
rose before us like the columns of some huge
temple which had been commenced by the
Anakins of the antedeluvian world.
Champollion has said of the Egyptian edi
fices that they seem to have been designed by
men fifty feet high. Here, wandering among
these strange monuments,-we might" fancy
that beings one hundred ya'rds in stature had
been planting the pillars of a collossal city
they had never lived to complete. The build
ers were worms, and the quarry whence they
dug their masonry, the crystal wave. In the
event of this vast extent of coral reef being
upheaved, where’ or -whence will the waters
of the Pacific recede? Either the western
shores of the American continent and away
to the base of the Rocky Mountains will be
submerged, or the shores of opposite Asia,
for innumerable ages the cradle of man’s de'-
velopmenl and civilization will sink into,the
great abyss; and the ships of the inhabitants
of’ this . globe—when it adds ten. thousand
years to its age—will sail over .and find no
soundings where millions to day’loil in unre
sisting servitude, and where cities from gor
geous cupolas and storied palaces fling back
the rays of the rising and declining sun.
Relics op Feudal Days. —The dustom of
uncovering the head and/taking hat,
or even simply touching it is a relih.of the
old disarming—the removing of‘the helmet
to indicate that the parly thus exposed’him
self to the mercy of an enemy. To lake off
the glove was in like manner to uugaumlet
the hand, the mere removal constituting an
offer of friendship. Even now it is considered
uncivil to shake hands with the glove on.—
Shaking hands was formerly a token of truce;
in which each of the parlies took hold each
of the other’s weapon hand, to malfe sure
against treachery. It was also a token of
good; will.
A, Frenchman, a prisoner in England, once
made a most ingenious use of this custom.—
Having been “put up” against a negro boxer,
and knowing nothing of boxing, fte availed
himself of the shaking of hands
encounter, to crush the negro's hand in his
iron grip. It is said ihtjt a few years since,
a brutal fellow in Connecticut crushed a
friend’s hand in like manner, though he did
it in sport.
The bow at is said, which is now a mark ot
politeness, is hut the offer of the neck to the
stroke of an adversary, while the conrtesy
peculiar- to the ladies is the form of going on
the knees to sue for. thatmercy, which in
earlier ages, was difficult to geti The hair
pins wofn by ladies are reduced poignards.
In some parts of Sicily they are still worn of
such a size as to be converiihle into weapons.
The ear rings were anciently badges of sla
very, and were soldered so that they could
not be removed from the ear. Their farm
indicated the owner of the slave.
May is contideted an unforlunate marrying
momh. A down-east editor says that a git I
was asked, not long since to unite herself by
the silken lie to a young man, who named
May in bis proposals. The lady tenderly
hinied that May was an unlucky month r or
marrying. “Well, make it June then,” hon
estly replied the swain, anxious to accommo
date. The damsel paused a moment, hesita
ted, cast down her eyes, and said with a beau
tiful blush, “Wouldn't April do as well ?”
A Child’s Co.ui>bo3iise. —A clergyman
who had been staying for some lime at the
house, of a friend of ours, on going a>vay
called to him-little Eddy, the five-year old son
of the host, and asked what he should give
him for a present- Eddy, who had great
respect for the “doth,” thought it was his
duty to suggest something of a religious na
ture; so he answered hesitatingly: "I—I—I
think I should like a Testament, and I knou>
j should like a squirt gnu!’’
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NO. 37.
* •• Prom the Richmond, (Vo.) Enquirer,
The Intension of Slavery the pol-
The ascendency of the anti-slavery senti
ment in (he North, and the increasing pre
ponderance of (he Tree-soil States in the con.
federacy, are circumstances of very great
moment to'the people of the South. In con
templating our absoiutejnferiority in point of
political power ; and especially in anticipa
ting the widening gap between the two sec
tions, which the more' rapid development of
the North‘discloses to our vision, it-is quite
natural that the friend of the South should ht
first incline to a despondent view of the future.
But this glbomy feeling will scan give place
to a more rational and manly resolution—to
a just appreciation of our resources, and a
determination to maintain our equality of
power at any nnu every hazard.
.The basis of our power und prosperity is
incomparably more stable than that of the
North. -Gommerce and manufactures- con
stitute the| wealth of the NoVih; but com
merce and; manufactures are things of man’s
creation, and like all the other works of hu
nfan. contrivance, are of brief and uncertain
deration, j There is not a more striking les
son in history than that which attests the in
stability of the factitious prosperity of empires
built upon;a basis of human enterprise and
They rest upon an accidental
combination of circumstances, and are pecu
liarly exposed to the vicissitudes of fortune.
Any -deterioration in the character of the
people, any change in the commercial .or po
litical relations of the world, brings their un
subs'anltaf power to the earth. From Tyre
in the agefof Solomon, down to the Holland
of but; own limes, history recounts innumer
able instances of their fleeting grandeur.—.
Like the century' plant they burst suddenly
into bloom, for a momenf'enchant the world !
with their ;bbauty, and then vanish among lha
things of a by-gone age.
Very different is the fate of nations who
build upon' (he impregnable basis of agricul
tural prosperity. They draw support from
the inexhaustable bosom .of nature; and
though their political system, and the suprem
acy of their power be not exempt from the
of human affairs, yet they never
suffer those sudden and total eclipses which
extinguish!the glory of commercial empires.
The anti-slavery States of the confederacy,
(we mean,to exclude the conservative com
munities of the Northwest) are preeminently
skilful in the mechanical arts, and incompar
ably successful in commercial enterprise, but
their power is factitious and must perish with
the circumstances which create it. The acci
dents of peace and war, of rivalry, of an un
projiitious government policy, of the corrup
tion and decay which bloated wealth always
engenders in a comrrmnity, may at any
men! dethrone them from their supremacy
and reduce them to destitute dependencies.—
As they hav-e no monopoly of the balufal
capabililjes and the human faculties essential
to success I in manufactures, so they are
equally liable to be cut off from this special
source of their wealth. Their prosperity and
their power' rest upon an unstable basis.
TlieSouth is emphatically, if not exclusive,
ly, a'n agricultural country, and its people
exhibit the sterling virtues of their character
istic pursuit. While they till he soil, the
effeminate refinements of a corrupt civiliza
tion will never expose them to the chance of
subjugation! Neither w||| their wealth take
wings and! fly away. The. “Wingless Viclo--
ry” of'the ancient Greek sculpture is an apt
symbol of the stability ol their power. So
far from being exposed to a ruinous rivalry
in the supply of cotton, the danger is that
their utmost capabilities of production will
not be equal to the growing demand. BesiJes,,-
the South produces tobacco and other tropical
articles in sulficienl measure to make the
commerce ot the world dependant upon its
supply. It possesses an abundant territory.
Its resources are; ofahe most various charad
ter, and are susceptible at infinite develop
ment. Its energies are now directed with
unexampled earnestness of purpose to its \
wonderful.manufacturing facilities and its pe
culiar advantages for the establishment of an
immense commercial interest. Within iTs '
own grasp the South holds all the elements;’
of a solid and permanent prosperity. Noth
ing is wanting to the completeness of its re
sources—nothing tails peffeiffrrrdependence.
The only dangler which ihe has rea
son to apprehend, is, that in consequence of
an accidental combination of, circumstances,
it may lose its equality of (political power in
tl|e confederacy, be reduced to a sort of cjc.
pendence upon the North, and, by an iniqui
tous policy, of legislation, be despoiled of its
advantages and restricted in its development.
It is, then; of the last consequence to the wel
fare of the South, that it maintain its equality
of power ip ihe Union, so ns to protect its.
rigpls, and prevent any unjust discrimination
against its interests in the action of the Feds,
ral Government. But this result can be ac
complished in only one way ; and, that is bg
insisting on the legitimate expansion of the
institutions of the Soutfff^W e must keep a
self-protecting power in our own hands, and
to that end must demand eqbalily of repre
sentation in the Senate. Let the people of
the South, as ihe last expedient for the preser.
vation of the Union, rally upon Ihe principle
of -an extension of the pro-slavery power
pari jpassu with the aggrandizement of the
power of the anti-slavery States. It is our
r i„|,t .under the constitution, and our right
outside of the constitmion'in virtue of the
necessities,of self-protection. Liberaied from
Ihe illegal restrictions and unjust operation of
the Federal Government, and left free in the
development of its splendid resources and the
expansion; of i‘s vigorous institutions; the
iDoUUeal, »
icy of tile Sonth.