Another South Carolina Legislator

Some time einee I publislied a note from the Èdgefield Repros rntative who had nt least tlie boldncss to sig n liis name. The foilowing. ülthough his Post Office betraj 3 h:m, being nshomed of lus own name, ehaJl be gratilied with the publication he desires without pxposing him personal ly. Poor man! I pily Jiini, and sorrow for the condition of tho conBtiiucnls he represente. I give t just ashe wrote it, only omitting the curs-es and the obscene Ianguage, whicli migbt suit lm associales, but would ncver do for the Society 1 ain accustomed to: Mt I")kar BaiSBAifB: - Your paper, the "Chrislian Poütician," reached me and I have perused it, although the very tille is sufheient of jtself to deter any Cnristian from roading it. A blasphemous publication unitinr Church nnd Staie. The Christian Politician! Well, brotber Brisbane, I had hoped that lthough you, together wiih many otherp, (hoare called Divines,) sanction a inion of black and white in your foolish and ungovernable zea) for abolition, would never have the trmcriy or the shameless audacity to atlempt to imite Church and State. The Christian PoliiicUn! Your general abolilion notions, T eee, are derived from the head quarlers of GiJdingg, Tappan, &, Co., and I had thonght that o men of sane mind would have auen)ptcd lo Bcatter such pollulion, such slonder not only on the interests and inslitution3 of tlio South, bul on the holy religión of Jesus Christ. - ))id you think, 6ir, wljen scattering iliefiemis6Ü08 amongst the members of the Legislature of South Carolina, that you would work effoct? Wel!, 3ir, you have worked effect, and Bhould you pass through our State, unless 11cógnilo, nei'her yourgroy hairs [if you have tny] nor ;he eanctity of your vocatioii, wouldprotoct yon trom a decent coat of tar nnd fcaihrrs, tar beingf rcrarded as a "mntclilcss eonative" för ditCTses of the bruin. Wc iinve slaves, sir, yes, niggers, nnd a mnjority of tltom ia the est rascáis, ai;d rcqniros tlio est must cowhide to keep thom siraight tliat you can imag'ue. lint, however, bv keeping one overícer to comluet the management of the farm. ud unollier expressly to osbist the nnsier in fliggingj wc can j 'g on righ' ftniri Aiuitlier glofions nlterna'.ive re-nains to ns nl,-o. cfter flogiñ lírítll ihéy becomc iti?en.-ib!r, which is to ci.t eliort tlif blothing aod fcetlinpi; ami if this wijl not all we mount tjiftn oi Ihe s!i mp, and erv iliem offto the liighest bidder. Novy, broiher whut will you tlb? Will llii pidurfi hurl you? Wi!I you sleep' ess pi Ho 7 oj wül yon como and lake them awny, and nic liórato iheir condition? I am at n Icfi' 'o know iioiv you will dy? Die1 you ever tnioil a nigrer? If you did riüt, a few inlialations jjst af;er undergoing a linio castigation of Ooo lashe.s, Í am sure wou'd ninch inciease your zoal in thftcatiie. Whnt do yoii and all the rest of the "■ fools in the north expect lo gaïn by yonr nijger c.vcitenu'nt'i Üo you expect u-e will iinully libérate llieni? Dun't loy that flatierinsr nnction to your {-mil. All your poy and siily eniiris ouly f-lrenlhen ns in our position, and nnly rciKiers the condition of the slave infinitcly worse. So soon as 1 receivcd your a[)cr my felihg8 vvere biicJi that I was depn'ved of uil rest until I drc;v out all my ni?gers and gnvc tljem the very . I ihen feit relief. I teil you, sir, we are sensilive on ihis matler: we are sharp WAks here in the Soulh; weknow ourriglit--, ' md knowing ihcm we will maintuin them. -And now, sir, for sueli a cobler, eucb a voii!d be editor ns you, to attempt to nssail the insti'.ution of tlie Sou:ii is too much. Tlio inefitiitión of flavpry has been handed down to ue from the North; llic Bible, t!ie bnok yon profess to beíicve i, sunctioiis it; tbe constilution of the U. S. punranties it; and " your o!d soul, we inteiul to liave it. You puppy, you are not fit to corry guts to a beir; you are rl! for noliiing, tinless it be to place u Heli's kilchen, lo break bark over. I shonld have returned your pupi-r carlier, but sheer negligence hos prevenled. I did thirk o!' committing it to the neme?, or laying it by as waste paper, bul the idua strticl; me that you might desire to e.vorcise your charity, by Be kind enough to insert this in