The Retort Courteous

The Charleston correspondent of the N. Y. Herald writes nn account of Mr. Hoar's expulsión frora Charleston, and charges home upon the Massachusetts foe with great spirit nnd force. Hear him: "The act of our State, in sending Mr. Hoar out of her limils, will no doubt cal! down upon us the se ve rest reproaches of all the combined powers of abolitionism in the land, and our indignant treatment of the Ambassador from Massachusetts may awake the ir,e of that sovereign State. But let the battle come- it is uot now a question of abstract right, where theques tion of guilt is holding a man in bondage, is concerned; but it is a question of life and death, a question bet ween independent States, on the right of one to govern in her own way, within her own borders, and for her own safety. We claim tbis right for the State of South Carolina, and wiil main-tain it againstthe reckless and ruinous policy of all the abolitionists in the Union. It comes with a very iil grace from Massachusetts to lead in tliis crusade ogainst us; fors-he isessentially n slaveholding and a slave-selling Staie, and that. too, under the most shocking circumstances. Go into their villages--attend their yearly town-meetings, nnd youshall see the old, the sick, the infirm, the bed-ridden and decriped old woman - sold ! You shall see those upon whom the hand of God heavily, who have been smitten in thts world by Providence, and who look to their friends and neighbors for aid and kindness - you shall see these poor unforlunates - sold ! The 'town's poor' and the 'parson's ward' knocked down by 'the select men' at the 'lowest bid,' to that hard grinding harpy who can keep the breaih of life within the worn out frame at the least cost. He who can star ve andfreeze, so nicely as to touch the grave with lüs vict'wri'sfool, and nol plunge him in; - ke is the one who bins the miserable objects of the loicn's dbhorrencc, the paupers; and this is the Stnte, who leads off in an attack upon another State, whose institutions are in none of lts features so abhorrent to humanity as those stafed."{Lr Mr. Clay has emancipa ted his man Charles Dupo}'r vvjjo has been his close personal nltendtiut for mony yeors. Oiarlesacoompanied his master to the Eiistern States and to Canada, fieverai years eincé, ond be came thoreby legally f ree, hut waived all offers lo avail hiinself of his rights, proba bly hopin-g for a speedy emancipation at home, and perhaps something more frdin the generosity of his inaster. The emancipntion of Charles, as far as it goe?, in an act of tardy -justiceyandrenders more conspicuous tiie injustice of Mr. Clay in holding fifty othcr persons as his sla ves, by force. Why not serve them alike? lf Liberty bo a etate preferable to Slavery, as is inplied by the Jiberntion of Charles,, why not emancipaie them all? But if a state of Slavery be best, Uien the emancipation of Charles can. onl' prove a curse to hitn.