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MORE MANIFESTOES FROM THE SOUTH. LETTERS OF BURWELL AND BOYCE. Zhe Cotton States will Secode if Lincoln is Blected, &., &., 0 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Firm Avaxom Horm, August 10, 1960. Several contemporaneous journals in this part of the ‘Union baving recently declared that the late election resus 4® Kentucky, Missouri and North Carolina present conclu- Bive evidence that the Southern States would patiently sub- mit to the election of Lincola to the Presidency, and that his election would be productive of no unpleasant effects Jo that section of the confederacy, and being myself of a ver erent opinion, and being well satisied that every foteiiigent and indluential citizen of the South, now in this part of the Union, stands ready to endorse the leading Views contained in a letter just received by me from one ‘Of the most respectable and influential cttiseas to be found fo any part of the South, A. Burwell, Esq., of Visksburg, Mississippi, I beg leave to place the letter o this geatleman in your hands, with a request that it may receive an early insertion in your extensivoly cir- culating journal. I need scarcely add that Mr. Burwell is Ove of the most eminent jurists of the South, a gentieman extensively known in the Southwestern States, a largo property holder there, and a man of proverbial integrity and truth, He has ever been a firm supporter of the Tnion cause, and was one of those who presented, twelve months since, a fearless and manly opposition to the re- opening of the African slave trade in tie Southern Com- mercial Convention at Vicksburg. Respectfully and cordially your friend and fellow citi zea, H. 8. FOOTE. MR. BURWELL TO SENATOR FOOTE. New York, August 10, 1860, Your letter requesting my opinion as.to the course of faction on the part of the Southorn States in the event of the election of black republicans to the Presideucy and Vice Presidency in November next has been reseived, and the contents carefully considered. The opinion of no individual is of any importance or weight in a matter of such delicacy, and depending on so many complicated relations, unless that opinion is sustained and vindicated by facts and arguments. At the risk, then, of being tedious in my response to your letter, I will give my views of this delicate, embarrassing and important ques- tion. You are woll aware that I have, in my private and humble way, always sustained that party which{ con- sidered most conservative, and most likely in the admi- tastration of public affairs to maintain and defend the Union, the equality of the States and the gene ral welfare. Having no aspirations for office of any kind to be gratified, I have at every Presidential election cast my vote for those whom I re- garded as most likely, from party position and principles, to carry out the great objects for which the Union was formed and the constitution adopted. In the present condition of parties, and the chaos and confusion in which all of them, except one, seem to me to be hopeleasiy in- volved, you are aware that my unalterable resolution is to cast my vote and to lend my influence to the candi- dates of the constitutional Unign party—Bell of Tennessee, ‘and Everett of Massachusetts. If Thad entertained any doubt on the subject, or bad any dilicaty fa bringing my mind to a conclusion, that doubt and difficulty would be removed by the consideration that their elevation to office will allay and put down excitement both ia the North and in the South, and their administration be conducted in such way as to give just cause of offence to neither section, Misied by assurances which have not been redeemed, deceived by promises which bave been kept neither to the ear nor the sense, I, with many others who entertaia the same views of public qifairs, was induced to cast my vote at the last election for the nominees of the democratic party. That party was then united and national, and those hav. jog charge of its affairs and put forward as its staodard bearers then promised ‘the country repose on the agitating question of slavery in the States and Territories. Taat the party and its leaders have been powerless for this all important purpose, let the history of the country for the past four years aud its present condition testify. ‘We all know, and in our day bave felt, the irresistible power of the democratic organization, when united and naional, But we bave aliseen and we all know how powerless and frail the same party organization is when Cistracted and divided; and we have realizeg how easily tbe union of this party, strong and cobesive as it has always been, can be br vered when the deli question of slavery is under This ques. m has divided, and now irreconcilably divides, those who agreed fully as well as brothers on every other. May not this irreconcilable breach now existing tn the demo. cratic party, which may be said to divide it into two factions—one for the Northern and the other for the Southern view of the subject~ foreshadow the disruption and division soon to occur in the event of the election of what all Southern men concar in regarding as fanatical and sectional candidates. 1k uw wot my purpose to tnstitate an inazity in or fer to ascertain whether the sentiment universally pervading the South is well or ill founded. It is sullicient for my purpose to state the existence of that feeling, and to refer to well known and admitied facts to shew that it doos ext. No man of candor, it ssems to me, will deny that the tes of the republican party were nominated by Northern delegates alone. No Southern State was ropre- sented in the Convention, none was expected to be, and it may be assumed that none was desired. To distract (ts counsels must have been the sole object of any trae South- ern man who would attend the deliberations of a body constitutsd as the Chicago Convention was, and having in ‘View the object for which it was assembled. — T shall not pow stop to inquire whether this Convention was composed of houest, patriotic men, or was not, It seems w me equally irrelevant to inquire, at this time, whether the North ta times past has committed, in regard to the ques tion of slavery, aggressions on the rights of the South, or the South on those of the North » igsne tendered by resolutions of the Convention, ani emphatically de- clared by their nominee for th tonoy is, that there is an irrepressi rie conilict between free labor and slave labor, between free territory and the area in which the curse of slavery exists, protected by the laws and const! tution of the country. This isaue is stated in various forms of language, some more, ome less vbjectionable to Southern mea, than that in which [ have stated it. That feeling of hostility to the South and to Southern men uatitations largely pervades the repablican party aud be actuating principle of that organization, no South maa doubts. Have we not good reaton to suppose that the election of candidates on the principle above Stated will be received throughout the South as convince tog proof that Southern States, Southern meu and Southern institutions are odious to the great majority of Northern people? To think otherwise would argue either a want of courage or a lack of ordinary intelligence. Tais may be a misconception of the trae views and designs of the republican party. Ttrust that it is. However this may be, it will be impossible to convince any considerable boy of Southern people that there is any misconception on the subject; and thore who attempt it, if they are so lucky aa to bave an audience at all, will soon Gad them. 6 without positic truggle to be de cate t “ The very nature of » next election x» he course of action to be purs the political destinies of the Soo abuse 0 numerical po « m now and in future one section of the © \teelf and the other, what plausible rged to the conquered section in favor or acquiescence? I do not beiteve, myself, that the election of republicans, under the forms of the constitation and in pursuance of law, is just or good cause for any such action a# 1 apprehend on ihe part of South ern States. Many, doubtless, will be found to concur with me in opinion, and willing, for the sake of the great ipterests at bagard, to submit to what | we regard a& a great wroug, relying upon the fatelligence and patrictiam of the North to some extent Ard even more upon the @istractions and divisions whi we apprehend will 80a occur in the dominent party, and which we hope will deprive it of the power, if it does not Of the disposition, to commit an overt act of treasonable aggression upon our rights. That in the latter event the united South would combine to resist, aud wo the appropriate remedy, cail it by what name you ho mu at all acquainted with the character of th ple, aad familiar with their seatiments, can for a moment doubt. Tt is unreasonable to expect Unlon loving, conser: yative men of the South to throw themselves jate the breach; to head a fortora hope, with the tmminent pros. pect of certain destruction in more senses than ove, as their only incentive to such a sacrifice. 1s it fair, manly And patriotic to put them in @ position, when there is no apparent pecessity for so doing, an! no grent inte. A apply 4 | =E Fs fits g se We certainly live descendants ington, would not 0 ould not resolve and re-resol : danger single rosolu- tion which ex- pected that you 0 to men in emergency not. ‘anane by many, tion now at ing election? the government subject of , bav- ing in’ view considered demanded immediate action on States. all stand pl dissolve ra 5 together Moy the Southern people. the meat But nor any respectable Southern assemblage, whether in legis- lative capacity, in convention or popular meeting, been couched in language less strong than I have above. On the contrary, many events have happened since the period referrd’ to which have given a etre ‘and vigor to the language of Southern resolve not seem called for at thattime. The angry discussion in the balls of Congress; the violent and inflammator ay ea which bave been made throughout the 5 ‘conspiracies auspected to have been formed by fanati- cal men having in view the in on of Southern States and the exciting of a servile war withia them, aud the actual attempt by John Brown aud his fellows, aided by Northern arms and mouey; and, lastly, ths overflowing of Northern sympathy when be anu his associates met the felon’s death they so richly deserved. All these cir- cumstances bave very naturally sbarpened and deepened the sentiment of Southern men, and prepared them to go faster and quicker in the path which their resolves of some years had pointed out. Deprecating, a I most sincerely do, any rash action on the part of the South, not warranted as I couceive by the emergency, for the reasons above stated and many others which the limits of this letter do not permit me to suggest or enlarge upon, my conviction is, that in the event of the election of the black republican candidates the Southern or cotton States will be fired with such io dignation that they will be precipitated into a revolution, and will apply that desperate remedy to redress what they consider intoierable wrong aud insult. ‘This deplorable result may be avoided, as I hope and trust it will. If we could forget the tica of party and vote for men truly national in their character, aud so cir- cumstanced that they stand prepared to do equal and im- —_ fg to all, the diflicuities of our position would vanisl like mista before tae rising god of Me Very res- pectfully,, &c. ‘A. BURWELL. Hon. H. 8. Foors. HON. W. W. BOYCR, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN FAVOR OF DISSOLVING THE UNION. {From the Southern Guardian } Sane Farm, August 3, 1960. Guetizuen—My bigh respect for you iaduces me to hasten to reply to your note If Liucoln be elected I think the Southera States should withdraw from the Union; ali—if not all, then as masy as will—and if no other, South Caroliaa alove, in the promptest manner and by the most direct means. To comprehend the full significance of Lincola's elec- tion we must remember the principles, the character and the sentiment of the republican party The vital principle of this parvy ts negro equatity, tno only logical fuale of which is emancipation, To sce this itis ouly nesessary to look at their platform, which, though intended for obvious reasons of policy t> appear conservative, yet raises the veil in part. This says:—We hold that ail men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, &c.; and this on the motion of Giddiogs. This is intended to in- clude negroes. It follows, therefore, according to repub- lican faith, that no one can be rightfully held in slavery. Slavery, then, is a great wrong. The republican party are boand, therefore, so far as their constitutioual power goes, to remove that wrong At present their practical point of attack is the Territo ries; when this question shall no longer exist, thea the District of Columbia will receive their attention, and so on with the other outposts of slavery. Supposing these outposts disposed of, then the movement must necessari- ly be directed against slavery in the States. The party wiil be bound tw exercise its constitutional powers to destroy slavery in the States. It would be considered entirely constitutional by the republicans to agitate the question so a8 to iafluence the South by moral means to abolish slavery. And as soon a the admission of new froe States, and the change of status of some of the bor der States furnished the necessary majority to change the constitution, the republican pariy would be sure to de- mand such change, and abolish slavery in the States, The republican party hea but one stopping place—eman. cipation. Mr. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, one of the ables! men in the repablican party, comprehended the mission of his party w! he said in Boston, ‘I tell you here to-night, that the agitation af human ‘slavery will continue while the foot of a slave presses the soil of the American republic.” By the character of this party, I moan its sectionalism. It is a party confined entirely to the Northere States— Doth its candidates are Northero men. The idea of the majority section banding together for the purpose of seizing upen the govern nent is at war with the spirit of the constitation. The great idea of the constitution is the equality of the States. The seizure of the government by ‘one section is a practical revolution in the government. The Northern States then become the master States, aod the Southern States sink intoan inferior condition. This is pot the Union into which our fathers entered. It was ushered in by the administration of Washington, a South- ern slaveholder, who had humbled England. The new order of thi whieh the republican party propose to introduce would be inaugurated by the admini- stration of Line@n, a Northern abolitionist, who would humble the South. Betweea these two admiaistratious what a profound gulf. The first represented the perfect equality of the States, the second would represent the domivation of the North and the subjugation of the South. Abaifdozen unsuccessful campaigns could vot pat the South in a more abject condition. the sentiment of this party, I moan its antagonism to the South, it requires no elaborate proof to show that the feeling of this party is that of hostility to the South. The tone of the republisan press, the temper of public speeches, such as are delivered by Sumner aod Lovejoy and other leading men in the party, the sympathy for John Brown, the very agitation of the slavery question, - and numerous other facts which might be cited, show that the great passion on which the republican party reats is hatred 1 the South, Such ving the republican party, for the South to ern. sent to «1. mination is to consent to death. Not that I spores, coy shartli of aggressiou immods 1a po'ley asty a wis moderati va, rece men of too much Sagacity to be driven sramme. But the mere fact of such a of the federal government with jaceceuce of the South will be the most fatal blow South ever received. The whole power and patronage of the government will be placed upon the side of negro equatity; the Northera majority adverse to us wili be od to new life; they wil! feel the exultation of be: the master States. The Southern States, oa the other hand, will be wounded in their prestige; (heir equality ope, hopeless of the fature, they will be prepared tor de feat because they wil! have despaired of victory Great as are the moral effects, important practical ro- sulte would also speedily follow. The patronage of the \iministration would be used to build up @ republican party in the border yo States; and the federal jurtic Ty would be remodelied, so that the dogmas of fanat would become tle decrees of the Supreme Court. Nor could we obtaia peace by an abject submission, if no in- clined; the agitation woul! go on with increased volume when It was found not to be hazardous, and we would al- timately be forced to yield all or to resist under circum- Stances infinitely more discouraging than exist at present. To acquiesce in the vast powers of the federal government going into the haus of our would-be masters, with the intention of resisting at some future time, would be to emulate the infatuation of the Namidian king, who del) vered bis treasures, is arms, his elephants and his desert ers to the Romans aud then renewed the war, baviag needlessly deprived himeelf of the means of defence If the South acquiesces in a republican administration, the I think the question of negro equality is settlet agai rests of the North can sulfur by pursuing a differeat | us and — emancipation ony & question of course? The difficulties and embarrasements of the Union | time, 1 have regarded this question ia the sams party in the South have been of no ordinary character 9 light for and | hare consiferet the jet no oman who if ambitious of personal or jooess of epabiiean party ia the Presiden political distinction, at least #0 far a it Cabelection as involving U 1 depeadent .on Suthera votes, attach himsoif regarding It, | have thoug rumt ob that party, when {t shall | be stannet at ? of our policy was to let this republican cess occur, Overwhelmed by the shout of victory, uttered by Ci adherents of those whom the majority of Southern jy aa deadly and implacable enemies to them and their institutions. I know no men who will, in such aa event, take up and bear the standard of the Union, nor do I believe that any euch exist. It seems to me that a great and fatal mistake may be pn Oy a as to this vital and a!) important . We may cry peace when there is no . It be that we are on the eve of a mighty revolation, and that ite voleano is about to burst upon as with torrible. , and we may be wholly unconscious of the working and striving of the elementé of ite wrath. Like the fated inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum, we may be io enjoying the fevte, the dances, the theatre, and in the noisy revel we may, like them, neglect the prophetic waruing of th smoking mountain and the heaving sea fistory warns age thas revolutions may occur, as it 2 altongost, beat cemonted tures of man have bern destroyed, leaving ony a few fragments to point out that they onte A quaint Writer bins well said that nothing is ind tidle except words, and their existence and influence for good or evil is seth EYE Thy ia upon materia - : it must occur, under the most auspioiogs circumstances for a disruption, and those auspicious circumstancs thought would consist principally in the largest attainable sympa North, and the greatest unity South. These conditions I thought were moet !ikely to be reached by a wise and prudent moderation oo the part « And 1 accordingly advised ant actot ‘and I am satisfled I never gave wiser cow my constituents last summer, that wo mast act with thy most consummate nce thea, a order to pryls he | moat deaperate bdldiness if it bec ime wecesgaty — yea foass to give no pretext for the elsot Xx & rapa an, baid. ness to relieve ourselves from lection if ik eae take place. My polic: when pruience mig’ Bothing else was left. in my opinion, Wwe onty ale the republican party triumpts | our State has no choice but to the Union, Nor is this so hazardoes might be conceived at first sight fappose we have done this. Thon oaly two courses ro Main to otr enemies Fir t, they mast let Becondly, they muat attonpt to comce ws Either pative will ag somy poe. reetia: a *. Twaid to | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST | | Suppose they tet us alone—very good. 5 tree trade with Burope ed ge sen voy rll in our te ‘The South still bas splendid cards in her hauds, if she wii! only play them. The constitution of Northern ~« ety is artificial in the extreme, Immense wealth has en accumulated there. A few are richer than tho kings of the East; the multitude labor for their daily bread; much of this wealth is breath—the breath of credit. A civil convulsion will bring their paper system of credit tumbling about their ears. The frst gun tired in civil war will cost them $500,000,000, and strikes will not be confined to the shoomakers, but will be: » If Lincoln haps the doctrine of negro equality will not be quite so popular, and the beginning of a powerful reaction may take place, the harbinger of long fraternity,’ But if no reaction tsk Northern tyrants persist in putting us to our mettle—very well. If nothing will do them but the sword, be it so. Let us show that we can grasp the sword as well as they can—that we are not degenerate descendants of we draw our ny Fa eg i cab zt Fie tr face ge a D. L. Provanca, W. 8. Lyris. THE FAMOUS GURWEY LETTER. OPENING Of THE GRAND SOCIAL MILLENIUM. The Doctrines of Fourier, Proudhon, Samuer, Greeley, Garrison, 8. P. Andrews, Old Abe Lincoln, Wendell Phillips, Lucy Sione, Hinton B. Belper, Fanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen Practically Exemplified, FREEDOM OF ACTION THE SUM OF ALL HUMAN GOOD. The Great Social Phenomenon od and Illus. trated—Exeter Hall Giving to the Woman's Rights Party a Crinoline John Brown. A Free Love Manife for the Cam- paign—Mr. Seward's Hi, r Law for Discontented Wi &e., &e., &e, {From the New York Tribune, nae Metropolitan Or- gan, August 10. Our readers will remember the elopement of Mrs Gur- ney, a lady of the Quaker connection in England, young, rich, accomplished, the mother of one or two children, who last year left her husband's house, aud went to the continent of Europe with her groom. The event caused a deep sensation not only in Kogland, but in this country, where the family is well known. Ia the document which we esubjoin the rusaway wife attempts to justify her fagles Tt is hc An rg ene — rine of hers in land, and to circulated in that country in pamphlet form. Mrs, Gurney’s letter opens with an allusion to her school days and ber passionate desire to be freed from all restraint, moral or physical, She then alludes to her marriage as a species of slavery, and lays down THR REGENERATE SOCIAL PLATPORM. It is past now—my living death is over. I havechosen between the upiversal condemnation of the world and my own sense of right; not in any sublime but in tie sitaple, truthtufway my nature craved.” lie down 4 the pita Fermin tcy ~ morning, for the first time since a child, blessing for my existence. Nothing can rob me of this now but ‘death alone. I have that treasure to a woman’s heart that a woman can alone un- derstand—the open avowal of the love that comtrois her With it, part of it, all of it, is the man, free from Prejudice, filled with every noble ‘aspiration, who is its object. ShouldT, I ask you, have preferred ‘the reputa- tion which the world accords to her who, yielding to its forms, becomes daily the living lie it approves? They who go on disposing of human instincts, buman affections and human brains in their own wi according to their own sense of right and wro: should go they should change their meet ing houses and churches jato monasteries and con- vents, and watch the religious aspiratioes they would coutrol by daily and nightly supervision. {nto their homes they should introduce harem espionage, that the bodily instincts, which they hold in eaforced compliance, may never have an opportunity to assert the truth about themselves. Heresy and adultery, the two excommuni- cative words, which social life suspends over the doomed head of a woman who thinks aud acts contrary to its rules of action, have not that full power and effect they are supposed to have. Nothiag but actual physical im- prisonment of the body, and, if it were possible, of the mind, can prevent a woman from becoming the secret ‘avower of Ler belief and of her instincts. The excommu- nicative words do not reetrain from either offeuce; they only develope that nq uestidnable vice of woman's weak- rain, when in@del, is infidel by its own’ proper organization, and they who assail its iaf- delity strike vainly at the God who made it, and im; it ed it in every new-bora soul; the body, when infdel to the connection in whieh it is placed, is so by its own pro- Por, inatinets, ‘and they who attempt to control it strike, ikewise, at a law of its creation. LOVE THE ONLY RELIGION. When will narrow minded, bigoted men learn that the one absolute, controlling law of a woman's nature is love—that it ts the only good and desirable th: —— a woman—the only ‘reliable thing about her? They can trust her, with her love, to live ta a house of prostitu- tion; they cannot control her without it, by the most ab- solute social ostracism. ‘And this love, what is it? It is a power present al- ways in the world, which, recoguized by two like na tures, thenceforth binds them to each other beyond the control, and in violation, if need be, of any other law— as my mother's love bound her to my father, and my fa- ther’s love bound him to her, and gave me my being—s being cradled iu the t, truest passion that ever existed between two human beings. How long have been in ascertaining and yielding my. self up to this di ! What wasted years! What Bubjections derogatory to the vilest nature! What hy- pocrisy, dishonoring to God! What suffering bave I Cawed this man, assigned to me alone, since that day on which I first in him recogatzed myself! It seems 50 long ago; it seems far longer to me than the time makes it; it seems as if aa eternity had rolle4 Dack- ward to that day, Ub, Thad questionings of right and wrong in that fa thomloss interval of despair, far other, far deeper, than alll bad been taught or could be taught by their lips— questionings that brought me to the very brink of death. Why should Ihave loved him? Why dol love him? What is it Llove in him? Ali this I have asked myself a thousand times, and there has never been, can never be, fn answer to all this questioning. Yet I say now to you: Why should TI not love him? What is there not to love in him’ My heart only an- were: What is there in me that I should be loved; that I should know that joy which in its tiniest moment makes all years of other time a mockery t And these questions do we askeach other daily and nightly forever. And yet there isone reason, they say, why I should not have loved him—one word ‘there is which the world pisces a6 an impassable barrier between word that never crossed my lips til! now—a meaningless word, involving in their eyes a crime as great as that which I commit—jyst as great, for both are meaningless as tocching our reiation. t word expreases the social position he bore me. Rathea than bave been his lawful wife even, I might have } bern a king's mistress, or any nobleman’s paramour, with off-nee And I, who was the repatable ba was T above him? obedience to the him to lifelong by wit of marriage rites, om , in the abasement of my owa weak below the veriest nameless out- : © anything? Was he rot at least my peer? He, who, if we leave too such rapid qustions of distinetion, is Hyperion to a Satyr compar ‘with me—short, fat, little body that I am. I bave silently asked myself in his arms, when I dared not soi! our lips with their utteraace, about these words— groom an aduiterer. Yet well Lknew that they had no Yelation t love—that they were bat words—that a true soul no focial contaroination deiiles or degrades—that nobility unrecognized and virtue putcast, wherever placed, are eternally the same. After a refsrence to ter methor, and the fact that she (Ars. Gurney) received these delightful teachings at the maternal fount, we have a lengthy and elaborate attack upon tho whole Garney set, and is particularly severe upon the system of consanguineous marriages, which, it appears, prevails to a frightful extent in the family. Mrs. Gurney cites sit or eight instances, besides her own, of cousins Intermarrying with the cousins, Then comes an Could Tbe {he Age of chivalry, “mon who never set up in th clerk's stool’ * men with stalwart forme,” with aa (m- mense deal more of the same kind of nonsense. HOW AND WHEY 8it8 FOUND Tore aeRO. Tt was net 0 hard a conquest. My req fimple and natural, { was surrounded b | real and artificial, Tdemanded the | man, free from the education and {r holding al! these foolish theories that Teal enjoyments of |ife—one wir coal as Water, and drink it without a hori y— abject of prayer, but of mas* ot ation—enjoy the | ‘And air as @unshine and air, ani talk with mon | end women as such w thoat shrinking n them as hete | redox, oF loving them xa orthodox too well—oae who could list music aod find it pleasant to the car, aad Hi! Ss i i 282 a i tele ij Entk i i i i i i i Ess EE 4 # il +" The night that followed this discovery, acces botnay Colaba tan age Seed hele woe far off height on which my subjected God. And when I saw him there, I led to believe was duty,to dash stood at once in the way of my human uery presence of the stern, “*Vetihore it stood, and there it fet ther an joved EF es ef] iE i me ai i i it | Yee, him almost before I know it; and he, I felt, moreover, loved me, though not a word was spoken between us. It was not bia to , and I would rere my very inmost the fact of this But it could not be so forever. To maintain the form of a super where none existed, became at last an impossibility. We loved, and the expression of it I fore- saw could no longer be controlled by either, and go it came first from my lips. He was riding beside me, and did not or ee ‘He said, out into the air, into the turned to me and said: I have loved fod the Grat day Laaw, you; I loved you because I felt it was my des- tiny; this { know not why; I only know I Tear Be, he was 80 beautiful, eo noble than, in the expression of that love so long concealed The earth he ee ces te canoe ae uncon: eciously. When I came to 1 was resting on his of & breastplate of iron, oars. ‘There was a beauty in 5 Gowers: The air and earth. rested in as Thad was ment. It Hitherto, pa- not yet come to that point at which a woman, driven to the very presence of death by the pressure of a false re- lation, thinks as last for herself, and hesitates no longer how to shape her course, should even the remaining wreck of her life be dashed to destruction. ‘TUK PROGRESS OF THE LiASON. T have brought you to me, I said, because I can see you no longer—I am dying. My God, it seemed to me then as if my heart would break—as if I should go mad. ‘A moan of agony came to his lips, He looked up at me; the intelligence of his tace was gone; his eyes were dim; the despair that was in me his face to stone. I looked on him immovably; I could say to him:—We must part forever. I could repeat again the phrases of social life:—There can be no honorable recognition of our love—its open avowal will bring disgrace to my husband and odium upon my children, And how did he reply to me? Shall I confess, even longed fora pleading word, “Ou look of tnd 1 a word, of tenderness, and Ishonld have fallen t at his feet a ruined being. but ruined in the acknowledgment and utter abandon of my ve. a Well he knew all this; but in that crisis he was true to himself and to me; and when he ceased speaking, | was strong. head, my heart, every instinct of my ved his words, bis looks, his actions. t = z i is fs a iy in its belief as right, accepts it, but for whom it is accepted. If, with your you were to sever the relation which binds them, it could brit ‘as you feel, would bring at last misery to boty for Ap amet ge oe ~ rule, b> duty ia life, pursuit of happi e can e_ pur: fs eh ortyour owacand tint fe mine, Hy i 2% day. long ago have been ter- now, the controlling Until this hour. I betiev- and that you might re. main forever unconscious And go I lived till this was impossible. And then my life became oue eter pal delay of hope, enduring all to this last measure of it. It could not be otherwise. I believed from day to day that you would see clearly, as I saw, tho right, and so it might at last end. It is overnow! My life is over. My lot is hopeless, endless misery. I accept it for your sake—for the of our love. Then my life, my very soul, mot his in one long kiss of agony, and we parted, us I beiieved, forever. I had conquered my life; this social law had achieved tena Tax heshend, sonshed bemo L wes mioeng te tose ast duty which m: ition imposed upon me. new well thet, coat what it would this must also be dove. I must live the life to which I was bound openty. I went to him and told him of my love, of my resolution, and of our separation. Much between us at this horrible time; bot all that was in my heart to say was just these words: I love William. Of the rest, and of what followed, 1 have no clear remembrance. . ‘TUR FINAL DECISION. After a long struggle (as she says), Mrs. Gurney re- solved to separate Lerself from her busband, to which step she alludes as follows — My soul was clear from hypocrisy—there was not any lie upon it now. I bad confessed all. My very life was Jaid oper to my beart’* core. My love was goue, as well by bis will as my own, forever. What bad I accomplished’ 1 bad preserved the chaste bame of wife. I bad preserved the honor of my husband ond the reputation of bis children. And to do it, I was beneath bis roof, an) was about to submit myeelf to his embraces without love. For these copaiderat of honor and reputation, I was about to lead voluntary a life of prostitation, distingaish- ed from it only by the social fiction of a name, and I felt f g F self more degraded for all this honorable hire than she accepts her paltry dole in the streets. 1 was, moreover, about to fall functions from which every fibre of my body ehrunk with abhorrence. I was there to give life to offspring crested in my own cegra- dation, in violation of my will and nature, the effete offepring of blood kin, children to die feebly before their time, or perhaps’ to come into the world, they, or their children, deformed, or dumb, or blind, or imbe silo. I, who was perfect myself, and formed to receive and transmit the sacred treasure of a new iife, was to become voluntarily tB® taatri side of the more perfect conceptions which ehould be mine. Better, in the agony of that thought, T said, better death than this—betier self-immolatian of body ‘aad soul; it were far leas @ crime. And then, shuddering with horror upon the brink to which duty had let me, I supplicated my soup imploriagiy for light as L asked myself the great ques Does aay law of God sanction, shal! any law of man have the power to continue the boad of marriage where no ore exists? And I answered it, as my children, if they inherit aught of my bature, shall at last aporove, as the world shal at last come to understand Thus was I at once and forever sevored from all formor relations aad left alone in the world I write these last words quietly, here at my writing desk; but that inquisition of my brain, it was terrible— more terrible even than the death | had accepted im part- from him. it my decision was made, and | was oalm then. T knew {h that moment the rest of a fear fal stragele of the brain—the poor, weak brain of a woman—that swept the world, though, beneath her fee There was grief ‘in that family, when I bocame in decision my self ant stood a stranger amoag them; w the social fabric, his children, their father, false pr conventional position—all overthrow; my mother's wrouye hat revenge, and my fathor's love bad Justification, in the child of his life wronged wife. But thoir grief was joy to the agony of calm in which I that decision, . jot a tear came to my eye when I told itthem: not a stirred in my dreast. How inconceivable to them | all this agony. My husband was even still solicitous to preserve the form of a union, now no longer possible in reality. One of those formality doctors of the soul was sent for—his uncle Francis. ©! after ail the agony Linad pass id Agoount of her wanderings after ® inan like the heroes of | through, I might have beon spared the sight of one o° those whose me, as if by the authority of God, all this misery, But how weak and dio tq mo were his words about d social iafwmny, They fell on my ear oa, meaningless as the dropping of enry. told me I was imporiitiag my goal; and he left me | with some formal exproesion of pious horror, when I told him I would willingly incur that risk. Mre. Gurney then proceeds to declare that she con. sidered beree!f regenerate, and begum her now life with the consideration of the He TITR MATY QrReTION. Shall the it T have asserted to live apart from my husvand be by cutting of every dosiro, by | marring or ing deauty, by devoting the re | mainder of a life, already cursed by an involantery ia «i seretion wh, 00 tinge in | another form to the eat? or et inst accept the need of toe mae T re, and seek ais> my ighest in the gratification of that love, which - instinet of my rol view? ove y an my anawer to this fant question is before you aad fll the world. COMMENTS OF THE LINCOLN ORGAN CPON Tas ‘BY PLATFORS. | The eubjotned article appeared in the Tribune on the same day with the letter:— wre. OCRIRY. fm another part of this paper will b¢ found a document words had sanctioned and stamped upon | 13, 1860, i $ i i 8 i £ i i ; i Hl : See iH H i i rE i F : i ag & a if t 1 aE u 3 } r ¥3 bag 2 £ F s. Y ti 3 E a [ z | F g if ELEY ict He ales alt fi ti 3 i I [i : tr at they appear counter action to their dead- world as well as in the Of one single real life exeept ia Neither in- ee Wibet 3 3 B Ey Her soug other burden, her masic no other tune. “I love, love, and I love.” She believes ia no institution of man uat checks or binders the free way of her desires, She scouts the traditions of her childhood and the faith of her fathers when they hint at restraint. Religion is a thing only to be gibed and scoffed at, if it mits lust. She has no trust in God, except that she may appeal to Him as the author and r of ber jon. There is ho other sentiment in this long letter but the sentiment of lust. It stares out boldly; it larks in hidden and un- ; where one looks for some tender pity CER 38 where expression of some lingering of for the children she had abandowed wouli seem inevitable, comes the flerce grow! of a lusty puny young ones to ap almost incompetent husband Of her paramour we should know from this letter, if we did not know from other that he was an animal of nobie proportions, younger than herself, strong limbed, (Soc stature, full ‘She can only say of him that he is a manliness by physical those old Gournal and away. Ils very ho haveever been ely to be led away by the sickly ww weak aod base, and tuts in ite potson'ts her ‘to her the modesty of woman of such a mixture whea most ft the depraved prize in burned up by illicit ‘passion. And not modesty ment, is only, but every: other womanly senti- "Whitam, though no doubt lany, must have more than ordinarily backward, for ee Os. wes in her to be demonstrative Sivas ‘our ove told.” men” eck pone ‘wae our comes such Se ee teal tee meee uty pursui \ 7 endless misery;” and then a }, fond kiss. less, All this is sickening ad nauseum; but if we be! believe, and disbelieve? What credit can we give to the date of her unfaithfulnese? But that is of little moment. Observe how, when she forgot that the truest life is a life of restraint and self-negation, oblivion of all tenderness, except that belonging to her ‘“passional attraction,” has ; how a, and insultingly she sneers at her husband; how destitute of all motherly feeling in she Of socal life, of family ties, of famed Oy's feree rage ot det au y a flerce rage re, she can remember on: Yellowpiash’s philocopby that ‘there iu life, but the parsuit of happiness,” or remembers only with she bad mace desolate, ge a © g G 5 ood the seeda of ths maduees. in po case oftener than dren, the Rogieet often runni eration. is only enforees the fail to read in this domestic tragedy. Mistakes are some- times, — often, made tn the choice of hnsband and wife. Wretched undoubtedly is the life of those who have committed such errors. But to-break those bonds to follow blindly some new far lower depth, and can be defends it, by the abnegation of all siderations, and @ forgetfulness of ES Diesses life She was vot bound before; bow, bat either party is free to follow any new fancy. No more fata! mine than this cam be sprung under the foundations of the social edifice. No reasoning can make such a philosophy plausible; mo eloquence cau cover up {te bideous corraption Laurie Todd on New York. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Naw Yor«, August 8, 1900, ‘The venerable Grant Thorburn, in the postacriph of a letter to me, wishes to correct a mistake in his commu- nication published by yous few days ago. He says:— “The Henan should have said Gardnier Baker,” instead of Johnny Baker, a the keeper of the Museum over the Exchange market about the year 1796." He further adds"! never was drunk in my life; I walk without a staf’, | sleep without rocking, and eat my food without the help of brandy or bitters; I never eat enougn; I smoke six pipes of the best Virginia every day; drink one qvart of coffe, with sugar—-no milk—and another quart without either sugar or milk—a one-half gallon, to tol Dyctor Dunderhead says, tobacco and coffee are slow fk In my case it's very slow indeed, for thus I ved during the last sixty years. Insert this in the Hanatp for the benefit of the temperance society. Since June, 1784, till 1954, Tdwelt in New York. In ‘all that period | have been only six days conned tothe house by sickness. Yours, sincerely, GRANT THORBURN, Sen., Aged 87 years 5 mouths If you think there is any interest in the above (or of & part) you will further the wish of this late venerable citizen of New York. With renpect, THOS. F. DEVORE. ragua Expedition—Walker and Hundred ten Vac (From the New Orleans Pie: omy Au The Mexican schooner Brilliante, Capt Espinola, arri¢- ed at ra yesterday from Sisal, with advices from Merida, the capital of Yucatan, to the 26th ult. The bews is of the most important character. Gen., William Walker, of whose departure from the Island of Roatan, on the 2ist of Jane, we have before had accounts, arrived off the Yucatan coast, en rowls to Nic: racua,on the let ult He had with bim five vessels an five hundred men, ail well equipped, full of spirits, aud P'y sopplied with arms, ammunition and provisions. From Roatan, of which island the five vessels made thetr rendezvous, the voyage wi moat one, and the whole fleet parsed down the coust im splendid style. The expedition first came to anchor at the island of Co- zumel!, of the coset of Yucatan, where it remained, commbnicating with the mainland and completing the Preparations for the expedition, till the 20th uit. It then ret sail for Nicaragua direct, where it is believed, long ere this, to have effected a landing. While of of Yucatan the expedition received large reinforcements of inep, and was atmply supplied with provisions, From Yucatan there is no news of partioular impor. tance. The peninsula was, for the moment, in the enjoy- ment of cothparative peace, but the commercial classes wore still suffering from the effects of the long and disas- trows war of races. Cesar Soulkz, an ancient slave, living in Wall come ng Be Sussex per! ay pont > jorthern Jersey. ‘so he says, his momory of events long bygone pirtas his tictomnees. was parchased great many yoars ago by an olt resi t of Walpack, named Dewitt, ‘of a gentleman in Rsopas, . ¥. Gwaar was twenty-three years old when the Ame rican Independence was declared, and distinctiy remem ‘bers that event. He discourses flaently and relates many incidents connected with the Revolution. His contersa tion i# quite entertaining and denotes remarkable intelli nce for one #0 old. He says that the vewitts offerod jim his ‘reedom, but he preferred to remain on the farm and end his days on the banks of the Delaware, in Wall pack, The Dewitt estate pays a colored tamlig in the neighbofhood $100 per anoun for keeping the oli maa comfortable, to be continued for tite a Sr Steamer Ineqvos, Uxrrep Staves Naruss, July 20, 1860, Orwise of the United States Steamer Iroquois— Visit to Spes- sia, Leghorn and Palermo—The Sicilian Revolution The Scene After the Bombardment of Palermo—A Birds- eye View of the Place—Effects of Neapolitan Barbarity— Appearance of the Oity Under the Dictator's Rule— Move- ments and Intentions of Garibaldi—Affairs at Messing and Naples—Outrages of the Neapolitan Troops, de. We came to aachor bere this morning for the third time, after an abseace of a week, during which we visited Spezia, Leghorn and Palermo—in all a trip of a thousand miles. We werg in Spezzia only one day—long enough te receive necessary stores and find letters amd papers frou: home. There is a peculiar charm in that delightful spot whieh few others possess. Anchored ia ite beautiful bay, close under one of the many hills whieh are covered te their summits with luxuriant vegetation and form « com+ tinuous chain of mountainous country, roaming into each other in easy curves and completely encircling it, we were apparently shut out from the rest of the world. Its noise and tumults find no echo here, but the very aie comes off clear and fresh laden with a grateful fragrance from prim looking vineyards and gardens where the hya- cinth end jesamine flourish as in Eden itself, or gently rippling the smooth waters of the bay, the sea breese comes in ¢s though expressly made for our comfort. Ia the sky of that deep eternal blue, across which some- times float masses of light fleecy clouds, lazily wreathing themselves into ever-varying forms of fantastic beauty, you seem to see the furthest limits of space. Byrom might well find this @ congenial resting place. His house is on the other side of the bay, and’ though now untenanted by its inspired owner, his spirit might etill hover around scenes where earth, aky ead water areall that a poetcan dream of. The sense of quiet pervades everything in the village at the extremity of the bay. I: is something of a watering place, and be- sides the bath houses are several good hotels; but these are evtirely unlike their noisy nameesakes with us. Ne screaming locomotive, vomiting smoke and defiance te all old fashioned ideas of comfort, comes thundering through the village, but the sober, respectable looking diligence brings numbers from Genoa, Pisa and the neighboring country, who here find that quiet enjoyment denied them elsewhere. It is a favorite resort of foreiguers. Among other notables is the well known suthor, Charles Lever, feq., whose humorous productions of “Charles O’Malley,’’ “Harry Lorrequer,"’ &., ifentify him as the delineator of Irish wit and character among the writers of the present dey. He resides here with his family, in a beautiful villa on the water side, as English Corsul. Aside from the other attractions of Spezzia, it is well worth a thousand miles trip to see the genial face of that true American gentleman, Col. Wm. L. Long, our Naval Storckeeper, whose whole-hearted hospitality, uniform the summit of the highest hill at off extremity of the bay, which rises a thousand feet, and in sight of the Island of Elba, engineers are at work ‘on an extensive fortitioa- tion, originally commenced by Napoleon the Grest, and u town. Tikaas i Pg ok it as: } i is ili filet F i i wi ‘where more than five hundred men night and day, turning out munitious of have een put! up, machinesy set to work 7 : i i BB FH t HH fe i ie i i al if inl #3 z : isu a i f i i i 5d doors the etter, for Doth & R ¢ i i i : th a¢ Fi ods fhe balconies, and the streets are throw; wi foot or in elegant turnouts—the gay um form tese and Sie!!ian soldiers, of blue panta, shor of red cassimero, trimmed with and & Fr RL rg 5 2 £ the waist by the sword belt, and French fat! red and blue—the arimated corners discussing the news the laat decree of the it Gy or verowded i i E : a5 Garibaldi on the 17th, in the City of Aberdeen, er, ri v said, for itiiano. the ortpet ot tbe but Drsin', with more than 10,000 tropa, airendy has peehte above Messina. All succors from hi y Six or seven of his veesels, three of which, « since, dererted with their officers and equipments from the Neapolitans, so that thore would seem to bo no necessity for Garibaldi's preeence there now. Ita capitalation may be expected very coon, and it is not the first time his dosti pation was uncertain, Itmay be that his 4,000 picked