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' ' ■ ii 1 , , lo her i 1 i mm carlli in tellinu 1 , it ii . ., bi - i ' hun , go nil the pleasures of ocieti i willi in i„i i in ii , ' ty ! tt 1,11 !„■!■ that 11 11 rijiiwn : ,, 1,,-iv in willi 1 coiitliini i in move in c n tunl in ill i nfevi . . liniratittii ol'evgrj bearl i lloiv n die bear pov inly » she has i her i n i . ' . - - loiiiu i iiml i ii ■ itlm . '• ii - : kii ., iiv word win ... 1 no i ri-ltii i into a !' 1 ■ ' l gently uii'l 1 i mound ' ■• llm how - , ' ' nit f i her it is i that she know it ■ ■ pert the ', ii lyl in in miy ' l ■, j 1 ' colhl • i ' •! ni i'll you i inn .. ■ it iiir bnppi ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 ii . you have vol nil • . plcml i i v ' - i , i her cried he . ' 1 - 1,1,1 go , : ' ' i ,... i . , i : , - her i ■ rii port of grief i must co ' iiotwitl ; all 1 .. 1 1 for i llm ..!,., ulli l a l i - il 11 . . nted out bofore her ', 1 in ■ ■ his in which th ■ ■ 1 ii m i iii - !-'.'■'-', :-- i ■ . n in ii i . i iniiniii a 1 a a ■ | i 1-1 l i ... , in mi ll 1 - ' 1 . a - ■' la ■ . • ini ly but ■ ■ ■■ ,- ,,,, - ■■ . win ii it i tlcully i 1,1 ' experience il ' i ■■ 8 a llg •' l mil . t in u ' n evi it is i ■ , ■ a - ■ • i ' have the i ' '' 1 repm . y n linn i ' n ■ •' " , i-.ulit-l a 1 ' ■. , . 1 '!,- nnl be led iii the progn : . ■ . : ■ ■ - . 111 ii ■ ' ■ l,-,-l i - itligetl to toi ■ ' 1 - ii ' ■ !' is than 1 ill love ml i i : i on -, ■! !, i ■ ■ , ii , , ' ' . i think 1 cuild , ,. , 1 slit i :- i in ' ,, mo i '„-.-. im l.n been in dlvi ug i " ' . 1 i i i i , we ilked "" ill 1 . ■ i ill nl t"h ar ' ' i l ii ii lop lllll.ll i lipol i , i 1,1 l ni i-anii'trip o was in ii pro ' ' 1 ml.nl 1,1 , involv . l i ,; in . - i vrm l l conic 1 i in llpcll v-.i'-l in mid 1 i-til .; i hi uird i lintil llnwii ilm i i hi i 1 l.iii out i'm i i sol ' ml i tal - ' ■'- lutiflll i i behind 1 :!,,- mill !.-- ; iiml i'm 1 n all ... .- i ! i1 - i rii ' . ' i ! i,n if v i ,: , ., kmd i ill hi i iv luivo mil .. ivtliinp is instill i 1 hi i„l!l i l,,.|'l,,n ',.,::,:„ i l-,!l.„i lluklll«ll|ll)liklll ' oh h . ■ . , | i id lie f :■!• i lii anna . ■ ■ • ndflgltlll lio i mid ..,,. i,r . inn ii i in null ml in i hid nil iiml liu litis , ii.'h ii ii : ■ iru , ill lli.,1 mill ids lifehlls indeed ... y,l ll-i'.t in llo ox ■ - i ' ii'innincn'l • ' ' imuftlng || m null ii ollll i itv tl it :, in l f ,. op in i i lilt on the nhign ii ii i,iil,i tiia ilmiibur thu i i ivoin liur in .::■':-- 1 i 1 ' , ' ,:■, i iwnnla hi entarnct in mill in . lii'i i •! i n hi lp in i-ninlifl tried , , , currant ho drifted un ,,,,! un i 1 . ii till m 1 i.i craft upset 1 in rapidly to the i link . mid leaping up with a wild tv went over mid 11 appeared forevi r in the great battle of gibraltar when lin iiuil i ' ii a spain at i i ... ' '.. |, -.|,---. i of ,,- ... - ' from . gun todrlft directly in the hottest of the liritish firo the llioiisnnd men n ho formed the erow of .. muss vainly btrovo to ar rest its | i ■ ■- or lull it from its path i mimii il tlrifl ' the en :.. i part ■ ':.!! in ii red hot shot every ■ ., re nf its linpl bum i :. like clinh from il ia failed to -.-. i its human - - -. leath a ' . 1 at it the pas and i row took refuge on a rnft il.i-'i mtsliuving boon ntovu in the attempt to launch them b'or days and woeki .' ill withoul .. i brazen tropical .... failed it i il !, their water still they drifted - kir astiil i'l | . i i til :., w ... live in ■ on ' . vutii.n feeding on human flesh and they ■ .. .:,:.! : • i i t lul : il it vms ecu i'm away i n ;:, ■■ .,'■ i ■ ivould np ■ n ■ ■ ,.. their clothing hill hi ■ -,-:', ■ i - ■ ... ■ n il,e darkness fell the raft drifted ■ ■ 1 ii lost h a ■ iil ihiitks he at ion ■ ,, lil„,i ■ ,:., , oh wakes to iiml ■ ■ ha ■ ; ... ired with pits ■ . be ■ , |. v . novel learn to control ■ lln ■ .,,,! , ■ ■ l " '' ''"" vv ■, i-,.i-i wind in i ciirro it vainly slinoking ■ i',r r,.-l|i till at last they drift away into ■ i h tal ■ - . l.l 11 lieljm ■ li hrcakei i of life forever imuci il ■ ii watching how ■ |, - dp you keep n linn gup i ■ i ii'hf.l if i ii v ». iy i ' ■ :|. 1 . ,. a ■ i-,l , i i i'.n reach port iriuiiipliiiiitly oi ■ un ,' h yy „ , /' , , ■ , youth i'niiiklln i i'oiidon i - ■ ■ ■ a ' ■ ■ i | i . . ■ i'vunklln stepped t ol the cases ■ ■ ■ i ■ ■ ■ ,. , powerful ili.ti i ■ religlemi lihcrlg tion .' wc have luictly wotoiietl for two or three veins scree fight between tho ivnniv notiiings nd the l.ocof - ii the 11 cntlm in ij tion the former it is alleged ., i i 01 n sapping the jbnndntiotis ol the institution destroying religious liberty ,.. the hainan catholics the ,, • iracy on the contrary have been ■ to their own account the stern inflincliing defondors of religious liber v whether t 1'rotestniit or itonianist :- in.tv lln-l-e hil henli t change mid 1 , ,- two parties so widely at issue are i mi i-lher the lie cruel of s'ortb carolina liavo only to refer to the i'.iirnal of commerce their ablest chain i i the north and to the washing mi llnion their control orgon and they till liud all the proofs of 0»1 l-'rumont'e romnnisni copied with avidity from he l o xothing papers and paraded be '.,!,■ ili.-ii'iiiiii read irs in glaring capitals ! i [ iliii-iii love i religious free loin in vanished tho n'orthern ito un qjiii the democrats to sup ,.,!• i ;, i,i : mid forthwith these pern icn ' i-iiii i to work to rouse the ml stunt feeling of the country against 1 l-u ni ni as having one been u ito , catholic fagetlvill observer tht wages of needlewomen it una recently stated in it new york journal iiml there were no less than twenty thou sand dissolute women in that city one i ni cause of this fearful infirmity is the ... • which are paid t the great i of ueedlowouieil as well a to m sl tslosst of feinnles except domestics iin iii'it.e a widow with two or three chil dren thrown upon the world without means and compelled to make a living for herself and little ones how can she do it by sewing how pay rent purchase clothing fuel and food : we are told tin il cursor kind of garments such n pantaloons end vests are now made at rates so low thai an industrious female : 1 •, il for ten i mrs a day throughout the week even if ready as the in ■ i ah in re than three dollars 1 in sum would h fic'u ut i proi ido food iiml clothing for a single woman what then must he the c .... tion of a widow with one lv or evon throe helpless little ones to take care of i'l olinshouse or o course of infamy ore tho only alternatives the field for fa inolo uboi io not wnffininntjy u itle in i hn country there should be mora ovoea • s thrown open to them tim for ..... ,. .,. who ottend stores and tint is regarded a a higher ami more profitable iin than ui"-t others iiml it exceeding ly 1 r,i nit to got along this i espe cially the ease if they reside at greal di tituees ii hi the e nters ..:' trade ami are 11 1 ii pay m il ns hire : to pur e one meal a day dinner in ad 1 linn t their boarding at home ami tout tire tlicin.-clvc in neat apparel this hit ■, ;■ - institutes an important item under the circumstances the best possible cure for crime i remunerative employ ment ; and this will apply in an 1 3 maimer to tboso young female of every real city who are besot by so main temp tations i'hila i r fit products of slav lai i ■ • '.,: vol u of the exports of c tt.ni to !,;,,-,-,.. 11 ,.. mid naval stores articles f slave labor for the year ending june 30 l-;,.'i oniounted to 100,180,077 at the same dote ofthe present year they auiount lo about 144,480,077 giving an increase in value of 35,000 the n'eii lork lierald soys that the result of soul for a ngle year shows the val ' tin i i ion of that section of tho country i hi these results tho free states - north it i believed participated to the full extent of 20 per cent or i ' mm i ,, s'j •-!'.;. i i which in ten yi 01 - would to 280,1 if to the sll.l-o.n77 slaves i roduets ; i i ,;. iic add the exports of br ad tufl's titnber stoves ate from 1 pint of the i moil and add the 41,0110 .. j worth o cotton consumed in tl i tod males with n largo supply of sugar from the mime region winch in is amounted to 12,378,850 wo shall have a grand total of slave products for u single yetir of not less probably than 250 iioo.iiiin ijv the census returns of 1 n appears tnero ivoro in the southern states 7 l."-l cotton plantations 2,081 511 or plantations 551 rico estates 15,7-15 tobocco estates mid s37 hemp planters there were live millions acres ol land dc v.,ti 1 i the culttiro of cotton a •■ : i .,,' ii i'u years ago i scieutilie gentlemon in making orciiiu - ogicol lostiarchos in some ol in iinciuiil ti'nnlis ii the south t,l i'laut'c found illl bedded with some presei - , ,, of ii in ni i - lion in exisl ll was a lnil.il in tin kings to plan in the i 111 a certain .; ■ this wheal wii.-,s,iivn,ai d tlenian was nst died i i i i\l,-ell lo tll'l \ tin i grew thoslolks i il in thoeoinini.u wheat when the grain i formed it was found thai then i i,i i tu i :,-•- i i able pniiiiiiv of this ancient inl ii imai wheal no thoiio i orimiuiit farm al uambouillet n i rep 1 1 ■ are ori'iving ol il i i i i 1 v the centuries of r , through which it has passed this ills i imvi-iv will take ua back through i'oiirtecn ■ outlines for our seed wheat anil will pill ■ i ,.,,,,.,, uddenly in possession of onc-clgth ■ more agricultural wealth than she possess ■ m least il ■ ,,,. the expectations built upon it and il ■ is to bo hoped that they will be realized ■ john a gilmer esq ■ i i north calloi.ina h wo publisli below n letter from john i a gilmer esq in response to the ii|vi ■ lotion i'll committee inviting him to ■ tho mass mooting at i'ittsylvaniu coiirl i i r „,-://. , i /.'.,- ■ 1-,-u-ii n.c.sept ii mi-.s i havo received your let i tors of tho luth august and 8th septem mm i ni inviting me to be present on the 1-t ■ october in st ut pittsylvania cmi-th house and to ml in it mass mooting of ■ tho friends of fillmoro and doliolsou mm indispensable engngi ineiits hove prevent ■ e,l ii in re early reply t this invitation : mid tliobo engagements with the often ■ tion tint i v privato affairs neglected during the past bummer will greatly to ■ my regret render it iinin.--il.li for me i bo with you at tin time and place desig ■ ■ i mm however truly say thatmy heart ■ is with you in tin cause in which you are engaged and i may ids be permit h tad to assure you that wlionever i can be lied that any efforts of mine would ■ 1 instriimoiital in odvancing this great cause lam reodv to go any where i d'.'^b unv thin ' ii nn i;il i and to make uny h boeritiec 1 am enlistetl for the wiiole ■ war and prepared l take any post ; and ■ cieii the private interest would nut keep ■ iniiiv from your meeting were i not satisliod ili.it my oreseuce is not needed ■ ii mi occasion which will command the services ..! many of our most distinguish ■ il and n - - m ii nigh in t occnstoiiicil easily to take ■ iilarni fully concur in tho now general ■ -,: fair-iiiinded iiml sagacious h statesmen that we ore in tho most t'li ■ ous crisis of our history and i feci u ■ you feel iiml as every honest man be ■ gins t feel that all the glorious hopes ■ brought int the world by the american ■ llevolution are now in most imminent h peril madness seems to rme me nuui , mm mid every wlicro on the surface at leost ■ wo behold intense belhslinebs iiiir.-ai-.in ■ fnnnticism ond remorseless ombi tion ■ like all biich excitements tending ■ the dissolution ami ruin of the settle dor ■ der of things the threatening aspect ,,!'■ the times has conjured up from their hid ■ in places the vulture brood that feeds on ■ the carcasses of the lead ; ami these re ■ garding iir beloved country as already ■ nits dying agonies ore beginning : ■ parcel oul ii remains and to wliet their ■ iv bills for an infernal feast ti.c ■ our country would indeod fur ■ nisli it glorious harvest io till the birds of ■ prey from the four quarters of earth ; ami ■ i ,'-!',- there is the least hope of such n ■ ml consummation wo nun expect a ■ gran 1 rally t that end of the all oner ■ - . - f ii runny in every nation all the ■ leading powers or tho earth with perhaps ■ one exception are interested in the des ■ truction of the union of these states and ■ the hopes with which it i freighted ; and ■ be must be but little road in the lessons ■ of history and extremely ignorant of the ■ character of unjust power as coneentra ■ ted in tho hands ol despotic iiionarehs ■ who can doubt for a moment the active ■ svnipathy bucked with all the res aire - ■ u'f empires of the rulers of austria and ■ l-'iiince in behalf of those who are con ■ spiring ni her soil against the liberty m vuicrica i the masses here were tcacliing t nd ■ i other nations he value of i'm m among llieinselvos and in fact they had by their example already proved that 8 unite 1 people could not be onslaved by any power ambition can only attain its ends in usurping unjust oul by dividing tho masses who are all alike sufferers into a multitude of hostile and mv t ilame factions hating and fight ing cm-ii tlier instead ,,!' making com in cause against the common enemy in most important lesson tree and i ni ie.1 america was brightly illustrating be fore the eyes of tho doludod mil iln old world and whosu union « ml i instantly bocuro their own triiiu their op ; and li iv expect the enemies of popular rights lo be every where on i fori ror jealous of our growing si , , '., seemed continually i prosagi th -,- -' hi uoti , : ami with imsix i rout success inoui mi isl ol tl use ari-and iwcai - by which alone t v in hope to i i wanting hen n i pi riei - in d talent in i i i i i i it , i will not be wanting ; - i losaeriliei two huiidred i i l a 1 ' ' itiin 111 lit of iii ll"i i lunderi i ii is i la few in i cotihlrvi divided 1 aml.hi-lafl.ah.l views l.m-ilv presented above will give „. 1 fidi'it idea of the fore .— i'ftly directed lu work oul tbo destruction ol ii-ai ivend'.tn thi i an alarming view not iii the least exaggerated or overdrawn ; but gentlemen it i bet i fl i , m , i i ii • -, 1,1 ih fiirnisli g ! rea son for consolation and hope 1.1-iuiiig out f view for the present every iirgunienl bused on tbo higher and nohler virtues of patriotism mid a love of justice and freedom for their own sakes bo eminently illustrated in the character of the american l pic it '- cause of great consolation at tins crisis io i-enieinlier tln-v are etpially distin guished by on intelligent sense i their l,i ■; , ■ in of business affairs l'n loqnol ' ■ iverninont the inn of our iterprise unknown elsewlu re ; and the loll nil or a great majority are ii - idnncc n ver found among the masses in lother countries animated by honos ol igr r wonltli and distinction and hnp i such o people whose cnterpriso lias iprobcd every corner of the earth mid lints been rewarded with ovel streams of i'leuty burely cannot be easily tempted to cost away their earnings to tear up their improvements to bum down it heir in bonis and bouses and to clothe themselves iii the rugs and wretcbedi — f poverty and oppression it millions of capital expend on enterpri ses whose stiece8s depends on the exis ileum t despise that bug which has been flthcir pea ami btifety ot home and their b-trengtli and protection abroad i that bllag in which the citizen can wrap him i desert beneath which lie can push ion every sea and every rii omf the globe i - ic american citizen nlono the seelu l,ii ports of japan which makes our lin-rchiiht princes and onr mechanics ian i agriculturists sovereigns the eqnals lot king favored feared and protected i tl...i pursuits of niii and pleasure in b fiery mar and city and territory o the i globe avagi or civilized i i are they prepared — i mean the honest hma on wln.m falls heaviest the h weight of revolutions are they prepared h for tlio conversion of their factories into hi arrack for plundering soldiers for hnv h their hip blockadod in every port hoii'thcir own const by hostile fleets from hn-i ining states to see their broad h field of golden grain foraged by the hti p of rival factions to witness their hciti and towns in flames to have their h in y turned into worthless rags in their i he seized ii'at any moment for public flu and their being at the mercy of hlng every neighborhood on pretenca h --. lire the people prepared to have h whole i'lilted states converted into h such deplorable scenes as those we now h depend on it many are the ambitions h politicians and the reckless and restless (!•'.. r i-ur i of strife h:i n the great body of our people n irtb iii and themainti ■ fright to desire or pern i wish an honest settlement i and tin me to the i remedy 1 j h wo ,. ' back upon it : and for h.iinaii'i for us in this instonco wo liavi ha case exactly in point dangers pre h h - - wo all roinomber the porten h h-i.c h bj h ' . -, atod in h sible for a nation nambering millions of ml ■ in i covering a lorge portion f the onrl - mddonly from ii v . - lil.'l hi i |, pin well p tod their "« n inter is i , a notion of mad men driii i -. ith in an pa ions and nit iug with d to ti ni in h own vi • a direct miracle and wo can at once discover the origin i all our ti - n a i odmini trntion which hod inaugural i such a bright day in our hisl hud ci , icd ami a now ono auc sotonie cunning nice again began i ply its n i i 1,1 ; iii i ■!,,- lio unhappily it found ear ready to listen to ii delusivo 1 icd a foothold near the ' cat ut p in cr : and i who wus ■ - i from his home in the illttli of mckii . ■ , - - i tol ii captive v ', mi yed - ni of tin foi ked tongue ( i'.r iv id lit ivlil p i p no eii . ill im h mil were of a kindly was de h libcrntclv i rapped by the van biirons - ami white hound h groat m.i-'l i.i'i involved himself his h d his country in ini-or trouble and confusion fc.vory effort h he mil to himself from '--' h . k that had been bo eun in nmi york only h li.-lii-h h cd li troubled waters more furious h i 1 :. ni a l.'.rt t.-i'iii of four years eginning under more favorably h auspices than that f any president in our h lli;-;,,iy i.ot excepting washington is a i that h i 1 this continent since the idiscovory of i made it u impc^^h ih i remedy h iii it pr - l'-oorhh i is to h lap i w .■'! he raised ifrom the dead would he he called apatrf h lot or refuse to lis i ■ bj i for four years was iried h i as washington was tried b i ihi furnace as unscathed bj i v and i admin hi i'-in-li ciilog bh ll-'illin as gov wise is proclaimed h ll.e " wa-liii gton-like throughout ■ leserci-e of the highest power was.leelar ■ led to bo wise moderate self-deny in h ■ beneficent by all the leaders of all h bfa-.'i now combined against him h b w isliington-lil is the meed i f praise^h i universally nccorded it the close h b if power when men have few fiat ph btci-i and in interested sycophants hi fl the return of this wa-hingtmi-like^b statesman to power every one feels would flat onee chonge the whole aspect of things bj flint a more hopeful one every one feels^b itiiat it wotiltl iiiitke peace certain ■ i ;,,'•■, to all the honest h in 1 ■'- of the c iiintry — that it would ■ l.l cause business every where torovive^b land il'.ui'i-h investments to bo freely im i '.,-. confi ifenco between man mid man^b b continue prices to remoin firm bb i pr pern ami labor to bo productive thut^b lit would enable the people still to growm i'm in.pe to buy and to build with the cx-h i uc'ctittioii of enjoying in peace and free-^m i prise and capital while oil feel also thoth i electi-ii of any other may begin bb h..f those commotious which render every ■ hthing insecuro and worthless except ■ ling ambition political cunning and mili h hj tm v hj i j'.iit these ore the stock ill trade of only ■ ha of our population ami why h hj 1 in then say he cannot be elected h win ay .-,: gentlemen i hove reccnt-m hi am proud of the sacrifices i hove inudejh h.t'ni i can say and do say siuoorely nudh h with honest heart that it is my delib-h herat opinion after a full opportunity h h i ml in that an immense niuj..ritv f llmfl ■ plo prefer for president millard kiil-h h iiii-ii . nil inn others can easily find uh h.i similar feeling among the honest muss-h fl everywhere you unvoonly to ac.-.»sh hihe first plain honest intelligent i-iiizcuh h yon uieei whose only interest is the wel-b h vale of the country and got from him b bj candid i xprqssion of his sentiments a'nlb v ii tin 1 be prefers fillmore if lii •.»(/./■ i - n tli and the south and where h ninny answer thus why can't he beb ■ - viz b bj thai thcb bj 1 to and luiveb pj -,, nlly endeavored to mislead the ■ iubject of his strength of pj course those n ho have brougltt our ironb ami of popular h impeach his , , n ■::'■ i h . . h h . number xx vol mil salisbury x c october 14 1850 bnwlrii to pnlilirs ton ajrlntltiirt jnltmiil 3m}iroucnunts eammi-rrc tl)t ms art stirara itlnrolilii nnti hit fmnili cirtlr i f a y wm 1 fit i i yt it f t 1 1,111 if 11