himself assume the power to make all men, nolens volens, righteous, in their laws, or in their practice? Slavery, during the thirty-three years he lived upon this earth, was more tyrannous than it has ever been since. Did he say a word against it as an institution? And the question is significantly asked in Scripture: When the Son of man cometh a second time to judge the world, will He find faith on the earth?

I grant that slavery, and marriage, and many other institutions of God, are used by Satan to culminate sin, and to torment the human heart; but shall we therefore abolish marriage, because it has been abused? and because innumerable wives have shed the bitterest tears possible to any of the descendants of Adam and Eve? I am certain that wives have suffered more intense, more hopeless anguish, from brutal, non-appreciative husbands, than any slave has ever experienced, since God first gave the command to his people to bring heathen nations into bondage to Christian nations; for the slave being made, by the mercy of his Creator, property, secures a more undying interest, in a selfish master's heart, than a wife, who can be so easily replaced, particularly when her husband begins to get tired of her; which is so often the case, that the newspapers report that in forty days one hundred and fifty divorces were granted in Kansas (where the Sharp's rifles were sent to shoot people into righteousness by exterminating them, and of course out of the evils of matrimony, by opening the widest door for its

legal abrogation, by any individual who was incapable of adhesive affection or reverence for this ordinance of God.

In writing these sketches of South Carolina, Ne na baim, God knows that I have no ambition to be an author; and nothing but my romantic veneration, that makes your wishes my law, could have induced me to take up my pen, other than as your amanuensis. For twelve years that you have been imprisoned at home by a stroke of paralysis, I have felt no earthly aspiration beyond the honor of helping you to complete your voluminous history of the Red race of this continent, by becoming your assiduous copyist and constant nurse; for, in the bodily afflictions that you have borne with the uncomplaining manliness, majesty, and serenity of Christianity, you have commanded the deepest moral appreciation and romance of a Southern woman's heart.

If, therefore, your criticism of my sketches induces you to think them at all worthy of publication, my ambition will be entirely satisfied; for every sentiment I have uttered I am willing to leave as a souvenir to my friends; for they are the mellowed convictions of my mind and heart.

You have made me read aloud to you so many books, that almost involuntarily I have acquired a habit of quoting from the best authors. Blot out, however, every line you disapprove; for your appreciation

is all I crave. Indeed, I have felt desolate from earliest childhood; ever lamenting the loss of an incomparable father and mother, and loving sisters, and brothers, and friends, all snatched from me by inevitable destiny; so that, in this wide world, I have found you, Ne na baim, my only unchanging earthly hope. You are, therefore, my all-for the heart needs a home in this world as well as the next; and I could now be contented to live alone with you, surrounded with books, in a wigwam, in the Oke-fe-no-ke Swamp, among the birds, the flowers, and the wild beasts; for the rattlesnake and the tiger are not so malignantly insatiable as the poisoned tongue of suspicion, detraction, and envy-that neither you nor I have been shielded from, though living in the strictest retirement for half a score of years, and not intentionally standing in the sunlight of a human being; but humbly thanking God every day for that sublime blessing of patience under your severe afflictions, that has through you magnified the religious enthusiasm of Job, who from the depths of misery cried out, with his whole heart, "Though God slay me, I will still trust in Him.” "Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives to their feelings. as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best that fairly prostrates the purchaser," says Longfellow.

THE

BLACK GAUNTLET.

CHAPTER I.

What constitutes a State?

Not high-raised battlements or labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate;

Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned;
Not bays and broad-armed ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts,

Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride:
No! Men, high-minded men,

With powers as far above dull brutes endued,

In forest, brake, or den,

As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude;

Men, who their duties know,

But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain,
Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain:

These constitute a State."

SIR W. JONES.

CAROLINA seems, from its earliest origin, to have been the pet of royalty. In 1660, Charles II. ascended the throne of England. The Protectorship and the Commonwealth, with its rigid state of social manners

and opinions, was succeeded by its opposites in social political, religious, and literary life.

The violent struggle that brought Charles I. to th scaffold, the marked era of the Protectorship and the Commonwealth, and the revolution that re-introduce a Stuart, had filled the kingdom with a numerou class of discontented persons, which had the effec of swelling the tide of emigration to the America colonies.

The adherents to the government of Charles nov determined to apply to the Crown for the charter of colony, to which his friends and favorites might freely migrate. Charles acceded to the petition, and in 167: granted a charter for the large range of the Atlanti coast situated between Virginia and Florida, to which was given the name of Carolina. Causes led to delay in the execution of the charter, and in 1674 a renewed charter of the country was granted to certain noble and gentlemen, which was of an almost sovereignly

aristocratic character.

"Agreeably to the powers with which these propri etors were invested by their charter, they began to frame a system of laws, for the government of thei Colony, in which arduons task they called in the grea philosopher, John Locke, to their assistance. A mode government, consisting of no less than a hundred and twenty different articles, was framed by this learned man, which they agreed to establish, and to the care ful observance of which to bind themselves and their heirs forever."... "But there is danger of error. where speculative men of one country attempt to sketch out a plan of government for another, in a