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Republicanism is extinct in our country. We ars ruk I hfj anO ligarchy., and they are waiting only a convenient opporfun ify for setting aside the forms of Rejniblicajiism. Sucli were the words, verbatim, of a slaveholding planter of (leorgia by nameD avis spoken to the writer on board the steamer from Wibnington, North Carolina, to Charleston, South Carolina, during the beautiful afternoon of the fourth of July. A. D.. 1850. In view of the circumstance that it was the concluding element of the most exciting day the writer had then experienced, a vivid recollection of the remark will not appear surprising, and its having proved itself the key to the greatest problem any people were ever required to solve, is sufficient occasion for making it the opening text of this discussion. Mr. Davis had proved himself a sincere friend, a patriotic gentlemen, and a conscientious slavocrat. He, with two others, all entire strangers to the writer, had quelled the rising of a mob. upon the cars, which had threatened to lynch thisN ortherner, because, that while riding through the turpentine forest of North Carolina, before breakfast, on the morning of the Fourth of July, he had conversed with his seat-mate, aC arolinian, upon the principles of theD eclaration of I ndependence.
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