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Every Virginian should feel a pride in sustaining this excellent Southern monthly. For ability and sterling literary merit, the Messenger has no superior. Macfarlane, Ferguson & Co. are now the proprietors, and the editorial and critical de- The December number of this excellent Monthly partment continues under the skilful management has been received. The Messenger is made up of John R. Thompson. The subscription has entirely of original articles. It is now in the been reduced to $3 per annum, to make it as nineteenth year of its publication. The price accessible as other reviews. The lovers of sound has been reduced to three dollars. literature should send on their orders for the Macfarlane, Furgusson & Co., Richmond, Va. work.-Winchester Republican. Marietta Ga. Advocate.

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The December number of this valuable Mouthly The price of this sterling Southern Magazine Magazine, Published by John R. Thompson, Rich has been reduced from $5 to $3. It therefore mood, Va., has come to hand filled with its usual claims renewed support, as well on account of quantity of excellent and instructive reading its rare excellence as in consideration of its matter. The price of subscription has been re cheapness. Every Southeru gentleman, and duced to $3 per annum in advance, thus placing lady, too, ought to feel it to be their duty to enit within the reach of every one. Its criticism courage and sustain this most excellent Literary on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is worthy of an atten- Magazine.-Rockingham Register. tive perusal. Sumpterville (S. C.) Banner.

The Southern Literary Messenger for Dec.,

We have received the Southern Literary Mes-published in Richmond, (Va.,) has been received. senger for December, and find it, as usual, filled Among the articles is an able and scorching rewith the choicest matter. We have been parti- view of Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Geo. Fredercularly pleased with the article styled "Sketches ick Holmes, Esq., formerly one of the Profesof the Flash times of Alabama;" showing how those times served the Virginians who emigrated to that country; "the rise, decline and fall of the Rag Empire, &c."

A perusal of this single article is worth more than the price of a year's subscription, which we observe, has been reduced to three dollars. Danville Register.

sors of the Richmond Baptist College. There are also some other excelleut articles in this number, which is altogether one of the best ever issued. With the next number in January, commences a new volume, when the subscription price will be reduced to $3 per annum, if paid in advance, or $4 if not paid by the 1st of January in each year.-Baltimore Patriot.

The Literary Messenger for December is an The Messenger is the first among the periodiaccomplished rival of the first periodicals in the cals. In typography, original matter, and ability, country and well deserves a place in the archives it has no superior. Every Southern reader who of the glorious old Commonwealth, as the cham- has any taste should be a subscriber. A club is pion of her standing and intelligence. The sub- now being formed, and those who may wish to seription price of the Messenger has been re-receive it for the ensuing year, can do so by leavduced to $3-if paid in advance, or $4 if not ing their names at the store of L. M. SMITH. paid before the first of July in any year. A change has taken place in the proprietorship; but John R. Thompson still holds an interest, and has entire control of the editorial department.-Suffolk Enquirer.

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The Southern Literary Messenger," for December, abounds in choice and substantial reading matter. Every Southern man, and, especially, every Virginian. should take the liveliest We have received the December number of pride in sustaining a periodical so eminently this long established and highly valuable periodi-worthy of his support-devoted, as it is, to the cal, which in January will enter upon its 19th defence of the South from the attacks of Northvolame. Hitherto the Messenger has been pub- eru fanaticisms, and to the building up of a pure lished at $5 per annum, but the Proprietor has reduced the subscription price to $3, thus placing it in the reach of almost every family. As the commencement of a new volume is the most suitable time for new subscribers to send in their names, we hope this periodical will receive at the hands of the South that support and reach that circulation which its object and character so justly entitle it to. We design publishing the prospectus of the new volume in our next issue. Wytheville Telegraph.

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least deny yourself the privilege of sharing

CHARITY WHICH DOES NOT BEGIN AT in the results of this iniquity. Touch not

HOME.*

Bob.-Daddy, Sam's been stealin' lots sugar from the great China-dish.

our sugar, brother: let your lords and ladies "do their meetings" without their sweetenin'. Touch not our cotton, brother: let your mano'ufacturers go starve; let your empty ships

Daddy, (much affected at hearing of Sam's immorality.) Lord pity the wickedness of this world! But are you sure of it, Bob?

Bob.-Sure on it! That I is. I seen him do the darned wicked thing with my own eyes, Dad; and I knows it was no sham, 'case I gin him one o' my old marbles, and I promised him not to make a fuss about it, and then he gin me one-half o' the sweetenin'. Lor' Dad, did you think Sam was so wicked? It hurts my feelins mightily to think on't, and I hopes the Almighty will punish him like all fire."

Dad, absorbed in meditation, perhaps upon the wickedness of the age, forgets to give Bob any answer to his last pious reflection upon Bob's misconduct.

return to rot in your docks. Taste not the sweetenen; and then if you have time and disposition for the amusement, you may with more show of justice pitch "all fire" at the guilty Sam.

Fanaticism is a horse apt enough to take the bit in its teeth; but the rabid madness which is at present instilling itself, so to speak, through the veins of the civilized world, is no longer simple fanaticism, but a death-spreading poison. The mad-dog is loose! or, rather the slow aspic is hissing at your ears. Sleepers, for your lives, awake!

What do these people mean?-Is this all talk or earnest? Do they really, seriously, wish to abolish slavery? Scarcely; and yet what mean these constantly renewed attacks? On they come, in spite of argument, Now it would seem in Mr. John Bull's reasoning, entreaty. Another and another opinion, Uncle Sam has been stealing the and another! It seems as though the line sugar, i. e., he has been, and is, according to would indeed "stretch out to the crack of John, indulging himself in the dolce far niente doom." And worse than the worst of Egypt's of luxurious idleness, making black fingers plagues, the furrow of its track is sweeping work for him, and Mr. John's feelins are desolation. Piled upon the heap of similar mightily hurt to think on't. He is telling offerings to their goddess of Reason, (rather Dad of it every hour of the day; now bel- is it not Unreason?) the January number of lowing and now whining out his dolefuls for Blackwood throws in its mite of folly. Let the benefit and information of the doubting us, (although weary of similar tasks,) glance world. Sam is at the sugar, and there's no at its arguments. sham about it, and John most righteously hopes to see him yet get "all fire" to pay off the enjoyment.

"The cotton-shrub which seventy years ago was grown only in gardens as a curiosity, Dear philanthropic brother John, ought yields now to the United States an amount of you not to remember that you have had your exportable produce which, in the year endshare of the "sweetenin'?" Are you not ing with June, 1850, amounted to seventyindeed daily licking your lips under the en- two millions of dollars, of which from thirty to forty millions were clear profit to the counjoyment? Do penance, dear brother. At try. With its increased growth has sprung • Blackwood's Magazine, January, 1853: Article-up that mercantile navy, which now waves "Slavery and the Slave Power in the United States of its stripes and stars over every sea, and that foreign influence which has placed the

America."

Westminster Review, January, 1853: Article-"Amer- internal peace, we may say the subsistican Slavery and Emancipation by the Free States." ence of millions, in every manufacturing

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country in Europe, within the power of an [tain beings to certain ends. Such is the inoligarchy of planters."

variable and regulating influence of creation. It is not always an easy lesson to read the mystery of God, and ofttimes the object and destiny of the creature is a long time in developing itself to human intellects. Once developed, however, how beautifully does God's system justify itself to the querulous fault-finder! The useless becomes useful; the lawless falls into order; the supposed

Leaving out the side hit at the "oligarchy of planters," which is evidently intended to excite democratic jealousies, (not a very wise stroke by-the-way for an English tory,) would any body believe that the above extract was taken from a bitter, anti-slavery article? We take it for granted that no one whose education has passed the first ten pages of his spelling-book, is fool enough to deformity proves itself beautiful, and Reason learns to worship and adore the over-ruling imagine that American cotton can be produced without negro-labour in a region where, power which it dared to dispute. Certain as the reviewer tells us, (in perhaps rather beings to certain ends. God has no higher stronger terms than are literally true,) that law in sublunary things, and stamped upon creation, its beautiful effects are daily more "The climate in the hot season is rife with and more developing themselves. Herein fever and fatal to the constitution of the consists the world's true progress. white man."

"Obey

and live." Man's reason is given him to find the way which Omniscience points; never to create a newer track. Its piddling

We give his own words to prove his knowledge of the fact that the cotton crop is thus dependent upon negro-labour. How incapa- efforts to clear for itself a way in opposition ble the negro is of managing his own labour to the Almighty rule of order, produce those without white superintendence, is made suf- mighty cataclysms in the moral world at ficiently evident by the history and habits of which we gaze and shudder. Blind moles! his race for four thousand years back. Vainly thinking to build their tiny homes, how often has modern effort endeavored to put him on have men shaken down over their own heads another footing. A glance at St. Domingo the magnificent structures of ages! Such a and Jamaica sufficiently proves the futility work is now going on in this grubbing about of such efforts. Luxuriant deserts, these the foundations of negro-slavery. God has islands stand before us, showing, like tattered made this world for use. The alluvial soil robes of royalty, the soiled but costly vestiges of the United States, as well as, no doubt, of what they have been. Thus, then, the the ice-bound rocks of those polar regions, reviewer tells us in almost so many words, of which as yet we read not the destiny, that the cotton crop is dependent upon the in- have their use and object. Our destiny is stitution of slavery. He tells us that this at present plainly enough marked. Cotton, crop gives to the United States an immense the great peace-maker of the world, the desrevenue, and an almost boundless foreign in- tined civilizer of unexplored realms, the link fluence. He tells us that it is necessary to of nations,-cotton is our destiny. The negro the internal peace and to the subsistence of only can cultivate cotton. He cannot cultimillions in every manufacturing country in vate it without the white man's rule. Then, Europe, and with the same breath exclaims, with the white man's rule, cultivate it he abolish it! abolish it! must, cultivate it he will,-in spite of lords Once in the history of the world we have and ladies, North-Britishers and Blackwoods. heard the insane cry, "Crucify him! Crucify All the fashionable twaddle, now so prevahim!" and the good and the holy, the just lent about "free and equal," "human rights," and the pure, blown upon by the popular "the dignity of man," &c., must give way breath, misrepresented by envy and bigotry, to the stringent laws of nature. Certain was adjudged vile and iniquitous! Ye zeal-beings to certain ends. The man and woman ots of progress beware that in your folly, ye are not equal. They are different, and crecrucify not again the spirit of Wisdom, the ated to different purposes and different ends. incarnate good! God breathes throughout The white man and the negro are not equal; his universe the beautiful law of order: cer- the Anglo-Saxon and his Coolie subject are

not equal; the philosopher and the idiot are die out upon this continent, when God desnot equal; the sage and the madman are not tines the race also to die out from among us. equal:-all have their destiny in life-all, Then, and no sooner, will the negro be left, no doubt, far beyond the perception of our (the melancholy refuse of a society to which feeble faculties, contribute to the working his existence has become a burden,) to pass out of some useful purpose in an all-wise away as the red man has passed before him. system of creation: but all are different. In the mean time his comfort and safety Some must rule and some must submit. are in slavery, and like every creation of Equality is simply anarchy. At certain pe- God, he is beautifully fitted to his intended riods of excitement, society, or at least an position. In every characteristic of mind active portion of it, has been frequently and body he is suited to it. To him, bodily seized with a kind of intermittent delirium comfort is the height of enjoyment. The for progress; and in the wild struggles of its liberty for which the white man longs, the maniac efforts tramples under foot the very negro never dreams of. The rights for which object at which it aims. Through such a the white man dies, the negro cannot comphase we are now passing, and "negro-ma- prehend. He may be made discontented nia" is decidedly at this crisis the prominent by injudicious interference, but enlightened form of disease; a form more virulent than upon any abstract point of human rights, he any heretofore exhibited. The inventors and cannot be; his nature is not susceptible of propagators of philanthropic aphorisms have the necessary impulses and trains of thought. oftenest been confined in their aspirations to a In the drawing up of our American declarawhite Utopia. Even Sir Thomas More, we pre- tion of independence, the negro was evisume, would have been strangely startled, if dently considered as not a man, in the sense in his own dream-land some big "Daddy in which the word "man" is there used. Cuffee" had come forward to claim a promi- " All men are born free and equal" evidently nent position. Until the last half-century, meant all white men, all men of our own the negro has, as a people, been literally un- race, possessing our instincts and our incliknown in the civilized world, and still in the nations, are born free and equal. Our foregreater part of it, is unknown. Men have fathers no more thought of including the been legislated for on one broad principle, as negro in their acceptation of the word man, though all men were white men; and herein than they were prepared for a similar admislies the blunder of European philanthropists. sion of the word female-man, as is now They know nothing of the negro, and persist and with equal plausibility claimed by our in regarding him as a black white-man. They progressive ladies. The assumed position talk of "the prejudices of colour," as though of equality even in the limited sense which in colour lay the material difference between we adopt is plainly a false one. There is the races, and wish to legislate and to force no such thing as equality possible or desius to legislate according to the wild results rable among the masses of society. Differof their own ignorant speculations upon the ences and grades are almost as numerous as general nature of man, entirely ignoring all individuals. But such we may presume to abstract differences of race. The negro is have been the interpretation, which in the certainly a man; but as certainly and most enthusiasm of their struggle for disfranchiseemphatically not a white man with a black ment from foreign bondage, our ancestors mask; and no individual or people who has put upon these words. They claimed liberty not habitually associated with him and stu- for themselves, but certainly not for their died him in his habits and nature, can be in slaves. Nothing but wilful perversion, or any way fitted to legislate for him. We de- idiotic imbecility, could suppose any applifend the system of African slavery as exist- cation of the words sufficiently comprehening among us, not upon the ground of tempo- sive to include the negro; when, at the very rary expediency, but as a fixed and permanent moment of the signing of the declaration the necessity from the nature of things and the larger number of its subscribers and their nature of men, as exhibited in their varieties constituents were holding property in slaves, of race. Negro-slavery is only destined to and so little thinking of abandoning it, that