By the Hon. Thomas S. Grimke, one of the Vice-Presidents. The Union: We will calculate its value when we have forgotten its founders. By the Hon. James Lowndes, one of the Vice-Presidents. The Union of the States: Nothing short of insufferable oppression actually felt, and not inferred from false or doubtful premises, should make a wise man wish for its dissolution.

By M. King, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents. Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce: Equal protection to all; exclusive privileges to none.

By Dr. James Moultrie, Jr., one of the Vice-Presidents. The Memory of General Washington: The man who was among the first to discover the cause and point out the remedy" for the following evils: "From want of vigor in the Federal head, the United States were fast dwindling into separate sovereignties," etc.-Ramsay's Life of Washington, p. 216.

Requisitions are actually little better than a jest and bye-word throughout the land. If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace, and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy, they will laugh in your face."-George Washington (Ramsay's Life, p. 219.) By George Edwards, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents. The Federal Constitution: Conceived in wisdom, may it be preserved in its purity, and all its provisions executed with firmness-true guarantees of Union and State Rights.

By Dr. V. Le Seigneur, one of the Vice-Presidents. The Hon. Wm. Drayton, Orator of the Day: May the force of his arguments, backed by the splendor of his eloquence, gather under one banner the chivalric sons of the South. May internal dissensions never compel them to call upon others for that assistance which they once so generously extended. to the unfortunate exiles of St. Domingo, and may that banner be forever unchanged and undimmed-the brilliant stars and stripes which now so proudly float over our heads. Liberty and Union forever!

By Col. Simon Magwood, one of the Vice-Presidents. Our Country, the seat of Happiness: May we long continue to appreciate its blessings and keep at bay new doctrines that might bring on premature decrepitude.

By Col. Cross, one of the Vice-Presidents. Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures: Even-handed Justice to them all.

By Col. B. F. Hunt, one of the Vice-Presidents: The enlightened patriot trembles with holy fear for his country at the ill-boding word disunion, for it implies an exchange of a government of the majority of the representatives of an enlightened and virtuous people, restrained by a written Constitution and their own responsibility, for revolutionary tribunals, which in every age and in every country have been "governments practically without limitation of powers."

The following letter from Nicholas Harleston, Esq., one of the VicePresidents, was read:

To the Committee of Arrangements:

Bossis, July 1, 1881.

GENTLEMEN,-I much fear that the indisposition of one of my sons, who is at this time in the country with me, and whose situation claims my immediate attention, will deprive me of the pleasure that I fully had in expectation of dining with the Union and State Rights Party to commemorate our National Independence, on a day that should have met all true Americans united as they were heretofore in support of the laws of their common country.

You will, therefore, sir, have the goodness to excuse me before the Committee of Arrangements, and to say to them that although I shall be unavoidably absent, yet my heart will beat in perfect unison with those sentiments that the Union and State Rights Party have ever maintained in support of the honor and prosperity of our happy country as yet it stands. Should a toast be expected from me, which is sometimes the case, I beg the favor of you to offer those which I shall enclose, but by no means to push them forward, as undoubtedly there will be an over-sufficient number of superior merit. Wishing you all, on the great day of rejoicing, much pleasure, good humor and friendship, I remain, dear sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

NICHOLAS HARLESTON.

By Nicholas Harleston, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents: A perpetual confederation of these United States and a speedy downfall to all intriguing and ambitious demagogues who would insiduously or openly mislead the virtuous citizen from his contented and happy State.

By Col. Cross, in behalf of the Committee of Arrangements. The Constellation of the American Union: May its brilliancy never be diminished by the occultation of a single star.

By the President of the Day. Our Respected Guests: Consuls from France, Portugal, Prussia, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, the Netherlands, Brazil, and the two Sicilies.

Mr. Trapmann, Consul of Prussia, rose and said:

"Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Union and State Rights Party,-In the name of my respected brother Consuls, and for myself, I thankfully acknowledge the honor you have just conferred upon us, and beg leave in return to offer the following toast:

"The Constitution and Government of the United States: May they continue undisturbed-what they have now been for more than half a century-the admiration of the world."

By M. Hersant, the French Consul. The Union of the States: May that beautiful fabric, whose corner-stone was laid on the Fourth of July, 1776, whose construction was afterwards cemented by American and

French blood, and completed on the 19th October, 1781, stand forever to serve as a beacon for the lovers of National Liberty.

By Jacob R. Valk, Consul of the Netherlands. The Farewell Address of the great and good Gen. Washington: May its admonitions be cherished with filial veneration by and engraven on the hearts of every American, as the rock of their political peace, happiness, and prosperity.

By Jas. H. Ladson, Vice-Consul for Denmark. The United States of America the admiration of Foreigners: The Union of its parts and harmony of the whole are best appreciated at a distance.

By Judge Johnson. The New Cabinet: It commands the confidence of the people; the old Republicans look to it with anxious expectation. By W. Hasell Gibbes, Esq., a soldier of the Revolution. The memory of Major Charles Shepheard and others of the Charleston militia who fell in the attack on Savannah; also, of Lieut. Wilkins and others, who fell in the attack of the enemy on Beaufort Island.

By Isaac Course, a citizen soldier of '76. The real Patriots of the present day: Emulating their illustrious sires of old in perpetuating the blessings bequeathed the American family, and nobly sustaining their existing government, founded on equal representation and Union.

By Col. Steedman. The Memory of Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Liberty and of State Rights: He declared for the first, and steadfastly supported the last.

By N. Harleston, Esq. The memory of the brave Count Pulaski: He died contending nobly and generously for our liberties; let us, then, do honor to his name by sympathizing with his gallant countrymen, at this time struggling for their own freedom.

By Dr. F. Y. Porcher, of the Committee of Arrangements. The two great Political Parties in our State: Let the contest be conducted with open, manly, and honorable feelings; and the question decided by the prudence, intelligence, and good sense of the people.

By Capt. Thos. H. Jervey. Charity to those who differ from us.

By Col. William Lance. Disunion: The Forbidden Tree in the Eden of Liberty. “In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” By W. G. Sims. The State of our Union and the Union of our States: What God hath put together let no man put asunder.

By Dennis Kane, of the Committee of Arrangements: The Union and State Rights party will yield to none in attachment to the Constitution, the rights of South Carolina, and in a firm and zealous opposition to the present mischievous, illegal and unjust tariff.

By F. Isley, Jr. Freedom of Opinion: The greatest blessing we enjoy in this free, this happy republic-without it in 1830 we should indeed have been submission men to the "Exclusives" of the South in 1831.

By Richard Yeadon, Jr. Our Country, Our Whole Country: Not circumscribed within the narrow limits of a single State, but co-extensive with the broad expanse of our glorious confederacy.

By Bartholomew Carroll: Let Government cherish and protect the agricultural and mechanic arts. Would we be commercial? Would we oe rich? Would we be great and powerful? These are their true elements.

By Moses Abrahams. South Carolina; A bright star in our land of Liberty: May she never forget that her sons are freemen, and may the Union be preserved, even at the expense by which it was obtained-our lives and fortunes.

By James Smith Colburn. The Union of the States: There will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bonds.

By W. Wall, a soldier of the Revolution: Distracted be the brain and palsied be the hand that would separate the Union and destroy the Liberty of this happy land.

By Dr. Wagner, one of the Committee of Arrangements. The Potomac: On its Western banks the ashes of our Washington, on its Eastern the monument to his glory. Who dare make its consecrated waters the division line of these United States?

By Arch'd Brown: Free Trade, and such of its advocates as are for submission to the laws of their country, though they may want faith as to their expediency.

By Mr. J. N. Barillon, Deputy Secretary of State. The Union Party of Charleston and the People of the up-country: Alike bound by principle and love of country; any assertions of the nullifiers to the contrary notwithstanding.

By Mr. Willington. Lafayette: The early, devoted, and efficient friend of American Liberty-May his last days not be embittered by the nullification of that national glory for which he contended in the days of his youth.

By J. W. Sommers of St. Paul's Parish. The City of Charleston: The abode of intelligence, patriotism, and valor-though torn by party dissension, still steadfast to the Union.

By J. H. Read. The American Constitution: The ark of our national covenant-it will be preserved by the Union and State Rights Party throughout our State from the profane touch of delusion and of faction.

By Col. Thomas D. Condy. The Union of the States: Like Cæsar's bridge, the greater the pressure, the firmer it stands.

By Dr. A. V. Toomer. The United States of America: Blest with the best form of government, they have set an example which is stripping royalty and aristocracy of their robes and revolutionizing the world. Let not Carolina throw an obstacle in the way.

By Thomas W. Mordecai. William Drayton: The wise and fearless statesman; the American patriot! The cause he advocates is his country's; the temple he defends is the palladium of her liberty! Millions.. of freemen yet unborn will bless his name.

By Capt. Alexander M'Donald. The United States of America: The last refuge of the persecuted patriot-May her Spangled Banner be handed down to future generations without one star obscured, one stripe erased.

By Dr. De La Motta. The present state of the Union: A compound of opposite principles, cast in the crucible of political dissension-should the fire of patriotism be insufficient to produce permanent amalgamation, may a Congress of refiners devise such process as will ultimately succeed in an abundant supply and equal distribution of the pure metal. By Col. Richard Yeadon. The Union: In the language of our orator, "He who could calmly contemplate its dissolution, must be either more or less than man.”

By Charles E. Rowand, Esq. Col. William Drayton: Integer vitæ, scelerisque purus.

By N. Harleston Rutledge. The States of the Union: They are “the feathers" which "adorn" it, and power which "supports" it in its "flight" to glory; shame, shame, eternal shame to him, who would "strip it of its plumage," and thus hurl it into the gloomy sepulchres of empires that were.

By Joshua Toomer. The 40 per cent. sophistry of a distinguished Politician: Too highly sublimated to impose long on Carolinians.

By Dr. Horatio S. Waring. The sound Religious Virtue of Washingtion: The true basis of government; the guarantee of a nation's safety. By William Robinson, Esq. The Freedom of the Press: An enlightened people, jealous of their liberties, will frown with indignation upon him who would dare to violate its sanctity, even under the influence of party excitement.

By Col. William H. Wilson curta bovi."

. The Crisis": "Dat Deus immiti cornua

By Theodore Gaillard, one of the Marshals of the day. The true Republican Party: Who evince their regard for State Rights by the love of the Union, and, relying upon the good sense and virtue of their fellow-citizens, combat error with reason.

By James H. Smith, one of the Stewards. Nullification: That slough of despondency-Who would not be glad to get out of it when he once has got in?

By William B. Pringle. The People of South Carolina: They reprobate alike the principle and the operation of the tariff; but in their opposition to it, they will beware of the delusion of those politicians who would confound revolutionary with constitutional resistance.

By B. F. Pepoon. The State of South Carolina: She is not represented by those who breathe the spirit of disunion.

By John Phillips. The Palmetto: Unsullied honor and chivalrous courage made it South Carolina's laurel. It was regenerated into glory