When will you come out and announce it? It will have a good effect in the present election, if you will make it known over your own signature. Hoping to hear from you, I am, very truly,

"JORDAN CLARK."

KNOXVILLE, August 6, 1860.

MR. JORDAN CLARK:-I have your letter of the 30th ult., and hasten to let you know the precise time when I expect to come out and formally announce that I have joined the Democratic party. When the sun shines at midnight and the moon at mid-day; when man forgets to be selfish, or Democrats lose their inclination to steal; when nature stops her onward march to rest, or all the water-courses in America flow up stream; when flowers lose their odor, nd trees shed no leaves; when birds talk, and beasts of burden laugh; when damned spirits swap hell for heaven with the angels of light, and pay them the boot in mean whiskey; when impossibilities are in fashion, and no proposition is too absurd to be believed,—you may credit the report that I have joined the Democrats!

I join the Democrats! Never, so long as there are sects in churches, weeds in gardens, fleas in hog-pens, dirt in victuals, disputes in families, wars with nations, water in the ocean, bad men in America, or base women in France! No, Jordan Clark, you may hope, you may congratulate, you may reason, you may sneer, but that cannot be. The thrones of the Old World, the courts

of the universe, the governments of the world, may all fall and crumble into ruin,-the New World may commit the national suicide of dissolving this Union,—but all this, and more, must occur before I join the Democracy!

I join the Democracy! Jordan Clark, you know not what you say. When I join Democracy, the Pope of Rome will join the Methodist Church. When Jordan Clark, of Arkansas, is President of the Republic of Great Britain by the universal suffrage of a contented people; when Queen Victoria consents to be divorced from Prince Albert by a county court in Kansas; when Congress obliges, by law, James Buchanan to marry a European princess; when the Pope leases the Capitol at Washington for his city residence; when Alexander of Russia and Napoleon of France are elected Senators in Congress from New Mexico; when good men cease to go to heaven, or bad men to hell; when this world is turned upside down; when proof is afforded, both clear and unquestionable, that there is no God; when men turn to ants, and ants to elephants,-I will change my political faith and come out on the side of Democracy!

Supposing that this full and frank letter will enable you to fix upon the period when I will come out a fullgrown Democrat, and to communicate the same to all whom it may concern in Arkansas,

I have the horor to be, &c.,

W. G. BROWNLOW.

CHAPTER II.

THIRTY-NINE LASHES AND A COAT OF TAR AND FEATHERS PROMISED ME-REPLY TO W. L. YANCEY ON THE PLATFORM IN KNOXVILLE-DENYING THE RIGHT OF SECESSION-PRONOUNCING THE AFRICAN SLAVETRADE PIRACY-MY ANCESTORS FIGHTING FOR THIS COUNTRYSOUTH CAROLINA THE RESORT OF TORIES-NULLIFICATION IN 1832 -NULLIFICATION AMONG THE ANCIENTS.

A South Carolina Correspondent.

We have received the following epistle from a dignitary in South Carolina, which we think is worth laying before the public, and with it we give our reply:

"W. G. BROWNLOW :

"UNIONVILLE, S.C., Oct. 4, 1860.

"SIR:-I have been taking your paper some time, believing you to be honest in your views. But your remarks to Yancey convince me fully you are a traitor to the South and to your country. As to what you say of the Secessionists, that is true. I expect to find you and your followers in the ranks of the Abolitionists, and if so, so help me God, I will kill you the first man. If it should be that we ever meet on the soil of South Carolina, I expect to be one of the number that will give you thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, and

a coat of tar and feathers afterwards to heal up the stripes.

"If my time is not out, stop my paper, anyhow. I make you a present of all you owe me, believing you would steal it if I did not.

"Nothing more at present.

"JOHN W. PALMER."

Mr. JOHN W. PALMER:

KNOXVILLE, Oct. 12, 1860.

I have your polite favor of the 4th inst., requesting a discontinuance of the Whig to your address, and kindly making me a present of "all" I am owing you. I respectfully decline your liberal offer, and enclose you twenty-four cents in postage-stamps, the amount due you for the six remaining weeks required to complete your year.

Your proposal to be "one of a number" who will first thrash and then tar and feather me, illustrates the spirit of the party with which you act, as well as its courage. If a number of Secessionists will join you, you will undertake to mob me. This is the argument of your party, and especially in South Carolina. If you will undertake the task "solitary and alone," furnishing me with reliable proof of your respectability, I will give you an opportunity of carrying out your threats at such time and place as you may desig

nate

I can, I think, survive the shock of your withdrawal

from my subscription-list. I have a paying list of twelve thousand subscribers,-more than any other political paper in this State can boast of,-and I can afford to part with every Disunionist on my list, and really desire to be rid of them. And if the world. were rid of them, it would be better for the country.

My remarks to Yancey, upon the stand, when he spoke here, are the immediate cause of your withdrawal, and proof to you that you will find me and my followers in the ranks of the Abolitionists. Now, sir, what were my remarks, and what is their true import? The question was, would the election of Lincoln be a sufficient cause for dissolving this Union? I stood forth upon the stand, by the side of Mr. YANCEY, and answered in the following terms:

"Yes, I endorse all Bell has said, and I go further than he has gone. I am one of a numerous party at the South, who, will, if even Lincoln shall be elected under the forms of our Constitution, and by the authority of law, without committing any other offence than being elected, force the vile Disunionists and Secessionists of the South To PASS OVER OUR DEAD BODIES ON THEIR MARCH TO WASHINGTON TO BREAK UP THIS GOVERNMENT!"

However offensive the foregoing sentiment may be to Southern Disunionists, I am proud of it, and take nothing back. Our Government is the greatest and the best the world has ever seen. I am, therefore, opposed to dissolving it because a man not acceptable