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ANOTHER laKTTER TO THE NORTH, j
To the Ij lifors of the Charles/on Mercury:
(I k.\tli::.ikx: I have just had a conversation j
with one of my North ret) brethren, whoproless- j
p< t) lie eiiugtueueu upon me poim which i
quired about last week, as to what is the object
ul. the AiiolitiouiMs.
tin disclaims H?r them all idea of attempting
or intending to dissolve, or even entertaining
an idea that the Union can be dissolved. Hut
that they intended to agitate the question till
the South will lie obliged to abolish slavery, as
the price upon which they can remain connecled
with the North, and that they lully believe
that you cannot live by yourselves; and fur.
therniore, that you dare not offer resistance, for
r...?ii,..i il,? cl-nvi wnnlil "inrn noon and rend
you."
Upon both these points I desire to ofier to
these uninformed agitators, my evidence for
what it may be worth, and correcting this prevailing
error.
Heretofore it has been the policy of nil the
South to grow cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco and
corn, which, together with the products from
her inexhaustible forests of pitch pine, she has
exchanged for the manufactures of New Eng
land, to the mutual advantage of both partics.
But is that any reason why she cannot manufacture
every thing required at home? And f
i I !. f. |
your insane ana sniciaai course is msi anrntuiiing
the people of I his country lo that very objcct.
Leaving out ot consideration the cotton
spindles and looms find machine shops of various
kinds in this city, that are driven by steam,
i can show you in a very few hours rido over
a very good railroad, as perfect a manufacturing
village and well managed cotton factory,
driven by water, and worked by natives of
South Carolina, as can be found in the United
States. And there are many others, some operated
by whiles and some by blacks; and there
is a^good water power, and as healthy locations
and as cheap living, in South Carolina as
M^cnrlmtoiic VVhv then cannot she man
... ? J
ulacture for herself? In heavy cottun goods,
is already doing it, cheaper than can possibly
be done in any Xoriherii Slate. And her nearest
Southern sister is rapidly becorng a manufacturing
State, not only of cottons, but of
u great variety of "Yankee Notions." I was
in a pail and tub factory at Columbus, Ga., last
spring, thai can make the articles at less than
the freight usually charged upon such things
trorn Now York.
There is not one single thing now imported
fr/-.rr. <!>.? Vnrili lnif u-li.il nan be mannfaclured
here just as well as there, except ice, and even
that, the rapid!)' lengthening railroad will soon
bring down iron) the mountains of North Carolina
or Tennessee, and cut off the supply from
the North, as well as more than one half ot
your exports, unless the sober second thought
of the sober part of the community shall induce
every teal and true friend to this Union
to rise up as one man, and say to the little band
of demagogues and disorganizing fanatics that
arc sowing the seeds of disunion as the spirit
of destruction sowelh the whirlwind, that he
tnav rent) the tempest as a harvest?"thus far
lias political abolition gone on unheeded, but it
shall go no farther." The year 183U is a year
of a crisis in the welfare of the Union. He as.
sureii of that: 1 speak to you earnestly and truly,
and in the conviction that 1 am aswell informed
as any man can bo who has travelled extensively
through ail the Southern Stales, for many
months, and been in social and intimate connection
with many intelligent gentlemen, that
there is a fixed determination to cease to cull
you brothers, unless you cease to call the people
of the South those approbious names con.
fctuntly lumped upon them: and all for what?
Win- Localise thev oersist in exercising their
COtlMltllllOllUI "Iglll III IIICII UHM UMiiiiiijui iiiuv :
ritance in negro slaves; and unless you cease to j
disturb those relations that have and must exist j
between the master and his servants, the days j
of this Union are numbered. There must Ik* j
subordination, but not cruelty. And 1 venture |
to assert that nine tenths of the punishment in. i
tlicted on the negroes in this ci'v, arise out ol ,
the acts of insubordination taught them Ijy the
wicked interference of their worst enemies, the
intermeddling abolitionists; who, in teaching
them wild and vague notions or expectations of
emancipation, are guilty of greater cruelty than
their masters ever were. It is teaching them
to lie discontented with their condition in life,
without any hope of improving it. Upon the
--I?... ?r>.? iHiitrrmt iipvnr Inllf nf nmmipi.
JflUIIIUUUiia, w.w ... b. - - -
nation ??they have little conception ol the mea.
ning 6f the word. Ask them if they would like
to he free, and perhaps one half of them would
tell you yes, hut the other half will givo y..u u
decided negative. They will tell you they arc
well off now, and don't want to change. They
have sense enough to enquire where and how
they are to live, and who will feed and clothe
them and take care of them when they arc
sick, if tliey have no master and no home.?
They know they are incapable of managing
for themselves, and must have a master to do it
lliiirii
I shall have something further to say on this
subject. SOLON ROBINSON.
The abolitionists of .Massachusetts are again
exhibiting their lolly and mad?es?> The "Liberator"
of Boston has published a series of
petitions, addressed to tho legislature now in
session, one of which request* jho legislature
to call an Immediate convention of the people
of the commonwealth, to determine what measures
shall be taken to effect a peaceful secession
from the American Union. These fanatics
might do sonre service to tho State nnd to
the country, if tho whole brood were tliernselves
peaceably to secede from tho U. States,
and migrate to Africa, or to the moon, if they
Could li'id any means of reaching a planet so
well adapted to their character and plans.
Washington (rnion.
VIRGINIA ON FREE SOIL RESOLCJ. I
TIONS.
In 1 ho Virginia Legislature on Saturday, the i
following communication was received from i
(iovprnor Floyd:
Executive Dbi'aktmunt, Jan. 12. 1850. |
To the General Assembly of Virginia:
Gentlemen : 1 have received from the Gov. I
ernor ol Vermont certain resolutions passed by '
tin; Legislature of that State upon the subject
of slavery; with a request that [ should transniit
them to you. I comply with the request, |
because I think it proper you should know the
temper and spirit manifested towards Virginia
and the South by Vermont. If I could believe
the sentiment contained in these resolution*
i .- .i- r. iu??
ivcro couiiaeu UJ IMS .-Iilir mini xiiiv.il , j
emanate, they would excite in nn\ a* I am sure |
they would in every citizen in Virginia, a feel |
ing of pity merely. But we are const rained to j
believe, from evidenced too numerous and clear
to admit oi a doulit, lliat these resolutions etn
body the opinions and the feelings too ol a large
majority of the free States.
In this respect they present to us a question
of momentous importance and drive us to con- j
sidcr how we arc to vindicate onr character and
maintain onr constitutional rights. Tho pro*
visions ofthe Constitution upholding, sustaining
ant! protecting slavery, are, by these resolutions,
abrogated and disregarded. The opinion ofthe
North sustains this action.
The time has already passed for the discussion
of I he question between us; no human reason
or eloquence can stop the headlong career
of injury and wrong which the North is pursuing
towards us. They tramplo upon the Constitution
and our rights, whilst they meet with
scorn and contempt all remonstrances against
their course of aggression.
We can take care ofourselves; let us not sit
idly down until the fool of the destroyer comes.
I would recommend the passage of the resolutions
adopted list session; and the passage of
laws providing for the attendance of represenla
tives in the Southern Contention to assemble
at Nashville, in June next, and that tnoney be
appropriated to defray all the necessary e.xpenses
incurred by such attendance.
JOHN B. FLOYD.
After the reception of this letter, the Senate
adopted resolutions to return the Vermont resn.
lntions to the Governor of that State. The
following series of resolutions wcro then pres*
' J- ll.n nr/lnr nf iKfl /IflV llir
enieu, anu wurc m?tue *uc viuvi ? mu .
Thursday, fhrt 24th insti
Whereas the action ol the General Asscm i
bly in 1847 and 1848, upon the "Wilmol Pro.
viso and kindred subjects," confirmed by the
kind approval of the people of Virginia, and
sustained by the concurrent action of other
Southern States,"has received no other response
from the people of the Northern Stales than
violent denunciation and a systematic perseverance
in the wrongBof which we complained :
Resolved, therefore, by the present, General
Assembly, That wo feel under renewed ohligations
to adopt the said resolutions adoptpd by
the Legislature of Virginia in 1849 and reaffirmed
in 1848, and wo hereby re-adnpt the
said resolutions as the act of this General Assembly,
and declare that Virginia is fully de- j
tcrminecJ to aonerc to ner position men assumed.
Resolved, further, That this General Assembly
heartily approve the [imposed Convention
of Southern States, to be held at Nashville on
the first Monday in June next, and that it will
proceed on the day of to the election,
Ivy joint ballot, o( four delegates to said Convention,
and that the people of Virginia be requested
to elect at the next Spring elections,
a delegate from each Congressional District?
wLch delegates shall jointly, with those selected
by the General Assembly, represent this
State in said Convention.
Resolved, That the reasonable expenses ol
the said delegates be paid out of the public i
Treasury.
Resolved. That this Committee askjleavc to
sit n??:iin for the mimose of nreiiaring an address ,
to the people ol Virginia upon tho subject of
the foregoing resolutions.
Corre?ponilenee of the Baltimore Sun.
Washington, Jan. 20, 1850
It is to lie hoped that the House will to mor
row re-consider tho resolution postponing the
election of door keeper and post-master till the
4lh March, 1851. I apprehend that it the j
motion to reconsider prevail, the House will j
occupy itself with a less innocent amusement
than that of voting and electioneering for petty
officii.
I believo that tho Wilmot Proviso, as involved
in Mr. Root's proposed instructions to the
Committee ou Territories, or some proposition
in relation to slavery, will be immediately
sprung upon the House, and that, from that data
every attempt at legislation or deliberation will
be thwarted. Without wishing to produce
alarm, I must say, as an observer, Rnd with opportunities
of knowing what is going on, there
is danger ahead.
The case of Joseph Little, a citizen of Maryland,
who is confined in jail, and in irons, in
Huntington, has, I sec, attracted tho notice of
your Legislature. The case was, several days
ago, talked of here, and with much feeling.
It was represented (hut L'ille was sent as an
agent of a citizen of Washington county, to recover
a fugitive slave, and had a power of at.
. ri_
ioriiejr 10 uci u#r mo owiirr. lie auuiiijMcu iu
arrest the slave, but was himself arrested and
thrown into jail on a charge, of kidnapping.?
In this same county of Huntington, whero Little
is imprisoned, a citizen of Washington county
Md., was, a year ago, killed in a popular tumult
occasioned by an attempt to arrest a fugitive
slave, and the man who killed him was acquitted.
From tho same county of Huntington petitions
have been sent to Congress to repeal the
act of 1793 for the recovery of fugitive slaves,
in compliance with the constitutional provision.
A law of Pennsylvania has, virtually, abrognrogatcd
that clause of the constitution.
The bill no* before the Senate for the more
effectual execution of this constitutional pro
vision, proposes to do all that lies in tho power
of congress to do on the subject. Hut nothing
pan be effectually done to remove this fruitful
source of irritation ynless tho people ?nd tho
Legislature of the non slaveholding Status will
co operate with Congress in carrying this vital
clause of the Constitution into effect. There
is really moro Jroqblo in regard to this oiajtcr
than any other, and it more seriously threatens
the harmony and perpetuity of the Union, than
does tho Territory question.
WW ..JL LJM -LCAMDEN,
S. C.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20,1850. j
IMPORTANT.
It will be recollected that the flr^t Monday in !
April is the designated time for lite District meet- |
ings to appoint Delegates to the Congressional Dis- j
tricl Convention, to be held at Camden on the tirst !
of May. We believe the proposed plan is, to meet j
in District Convention at the Court H< use of each j
District, tlutt ?ai>(1 there to appoint as many de- !
locales Ircui sniu uisipcis, as nicy arc cniiueu 10 i
members in llic Slate Legislative Bodies, those
delegates to meet at some central place in the
Concessional District, (Camden, we believe, is
named for otir Congressional District,; and elect
two Delegates to the Southern Convention, to be
held at Nashville, Tennessee, in June next. We
hope the District meetings will be well attended.
Let each man recollect when the day arrives, that
" he is one of the socerc'gn*And should a sovereign,
wh n his rights arc trampled on, not defend
those rights ? By the Farmer's staying at home,
he says that lie is indi'fTerer.t to the matter: that j
coldness will reach those who do meet, and the de- j
legates will foci as if they represented only a part
ol the people. You love the Union: ihcn come
up to the defence of your rights, the only way the
Union can be preserved. Had unanimity prevailed
in the Southern Caucus at Washington Inst year,
then would the voice of Northern fanaticism already
have been weakened. Will you, then, pall
the arms of those who knowing their rights, would
defend them! You will do it if you stay at home
on the first of April. When the trump of war.was
sounded in the city of David, the heroes of Palestine,
from Dan to Beersheha, answered its summons
; and d.d the dwellers about the banks of
the Jordan possess more patriotism than those of
the Wateree J Let the first of April answer.?
Who so old but that feels as if lie yet had rights
he would not lose! Who so languid, that he
would still sleep, though the storm of fanaticism
rage around ! It is a subject of momentous interest
to all?to each. The venerable Laxgdon
future, who voars : tro laid his armor bv. and rc
?>? w. ~~| , D- _ .
tired full of honors from the political arena, like a
Lion roused from his lair, has again buckled the
\va-rior's armor on to do battle in the cause of the
South. The distinguished Tnour, of Georgia, has
also forsaken the peace and quiet of home, to wake
to action our sister State. IIow many have wished
that l he days of ancient story?the times of chivalry?were
again revived; and they have been.?
What would the Anti-Slavcrpst do! He would
destroy our institutions : he would force the brighteyed
beauties of our sunny land, to do the drudge
and slop work that lie imposes upon the emigrant,
who comes to our land in search of freedom, he
would rob us of our negroes, and push upon us the
degraded pauper population of the North: lie
would, in destroying our institution?, destroy that
high-tohcd feeling " ihal I am une of the sovereign"
which the poorest man in the South, though he
never did, and never may, own a negro, has?of
which a large portion of the paupers at the North
have no conception: in tine, lie would establish
what they are fust tending to in the North?a tenanted
piebiaiiisnt and a landed aristocracy?the inevitable
result of abolitionism in the South. iMethinks
for far less cause the Hermit Peter roused
sleeping Europe to defend the Ifoly Sepulchre
from the Saracens, and our Fathers of '70 battled
about Uobkirk's Hill to gain us a freedom which
the abolitionist would reduce to less than a name.
Then let every man in the District, in whose soul
ever did, or ever wi'l, burn a sparK 01 aouiiiermsm,
come u[> to tlie meetings on the first of April. Lot
tlic Delegates then and there appuinlod send hco
to the Sout'icm Convention who will remember
that though Washington, the revered patriot of
better days, said " cling to the Union as th? ark of
our safety," lie taught U6 by his life and acts to
" resist oppression from whatever source it may
come."
CHARLESTON MARKET.
A despatch from Charleston to the Columbia Telsjraph,
dated tlie 24lli, say there was n e?x?d demand for cotton
on that day. The sales footed up lot*' bales. .Sales of the
Week CoOl) bales. Extremes Hi to 13 cents.
ITT We would invite a perusal of the communication
of "I'arati," in to-day's paper. The autlior
is a beloved son of Kershaw, a pure patriot, whose
i - ?i.~ it. I,-.,. ;u .,111f evesodnd lie his devotion
IUYU UJ IIUlliwn io viiir v..v.w?
to the rights of the South. We hope he will continuo
to favor t:s with the efforts of his vigorous
pen.
Mu. Calhoun.?Wo are glad to learn, (says
the Mercury of Thursday,) that Mr. Calhoun, who
has been detained from his scat in the Senate for
some days from indisposition, is recovering his
health.
All tight rx Maiivland.?The House of Delegates
of Maryland have passed resolutions declaring
Maryland a slavcholding state, protesting
?i i|,n nnrwllmi of slave.
ilgrtlllBL IIIIUI IUIUUl.1; ?????
ry, adhering to u union of the States, and proclaim,
ing that, in the event of a separation, Maryland
will adhere to the South. This is the right kind
of talk?let all the Southern States come up to
the mark, and the spirit of abolitionism now so rife
at the North will soon be scattered to the four
winds of Heaven, or the South become an independent,
happy and prosperous confederacy.
CONGRESS.
January 7th, 1850.
Senate.?The hill of Mr. Clemens, of Alabama,
calling on the President for information relative to
California, was taken up. A protractcu (icoaie followed.
in the course of which Mr. Clemens and
Mr. Slrclds, of Illinois, had some sharp words,
the former making the following true remark, taken
with very few exceptions:
"The Senator from Alabama did make thai assertion.
I said it, and I say it now, and I am responsible
for it. I was saying, sir, that the democracy
of the Northern States were willing to shield
the President from investigation on this subject,
because the <|Ueslion of slavery was involved in it.
The entire body of the Northern Democracy in
this chamber yotcd agaitjsl it. I wanted to con
j vinre my constituents that they wcro not to be
trusted upon this subject?to lei thcin know what
1 know."
The debate still continued for some time, when
the V; to was taken on Mi. Clemens' resolution.
Yeas 1*3; Nays 3. Senate adjourned unlil Monday.
Editorial Cleanings.
O. It. Thompson was on the 14th insl. elected ,
clerk of the Court of Pairlieid District.
A vessel arrived at New Orleans from Rio a few
days since, having on board 2,200,000 pounds of
coffee, which, at present prices of the article, it is |
supposed will yield a profit of 80 to 890,000
Iii London there are about 12,000 children reg- j
ularly under training to crime, 30,000 thieves, |
0,000 receivers ol stolen goods, 23,000 persons :
picked up in a state of drunkenness, 50,OIK) ha- j
bilual gin drinkers, and 150,000 of both se.\es Icid- I
ingan abandoned life. So say the newspapers.
Blunders of the Tvpns.?An exchange paper i
says that the card ol a dancing master returning j
thanks for patronage, represented him as offering ;
"his most respectful shanks."
A New Enterprise?A friend of one of the j
nmnelrser of r\ f n Va nl'OO I
LH'dtUIl | I J3 LCI IS* (111 (IlliU.llil- Cbvi v wt ... a u.?.w j
Missionary, who not succeeding as well as he wished
in converting the heathen in India, offered to
make a contract to run the car of Juggernaut by
steam.
The Marksville (La.) Villager say3 ihe "cholera
is raging in Bayon Bcnf. As usual the Prairie is
healthy, and it is to be hoped the dreaded scourge
will not extend beyond the bayous."
A letter received in Charleston from Washington,
dated 17lh inst., from a reliable source, says? j
"Politics is the a!l-sorbing topic here. The men
of the Norlh are beginning to tremble (or the safe- |
1y of the Union. The Union is therefore safe; and |
all the big talk we have now is made only because
it is certain that the Proviso cannot pass the SenI
II
am.
The comrnillec of ways and means of the Ala;
ha ma House of Representatives lias reported a.
giinst an appropriat on for rebuilding the new capii
tol at Montgomery, which was recently destroyflO
by fire. They propose removing temporarily to
(lie old capitol at Tuscaloosa, until the sentiments
of the people shall be ascertained as to where the
seat of government shall be located.
A new cotton Factory of 5,000 spindles is soon
j tr be creeled at Colnmbus, Georgia. The Times
mentions as a significant circumstance, the fact
i that a member of a large Philadelphia house was
I rpr*nilv there, soliciting consignments of Colum
bus cotton fabrics for Itis firm in Philadelphia
It is staled that the amount of anthracite coal
sent from the mines of Pennsylvania during the
past year, was 2,233,A31 tone, being an increase
over any former year of 110 tons.
The debt of the city of New York is over
twelve millions and a half of dollars.
The Louisville 'Ky.) Courier of the 8tii ult.es.
timates the number of hogs slaughtered this season.
at IiOuisvillc1, Jcfiersonville and New Albany,
at 184,000, being an excess of (5000 over last season.
Tiisrc will be a falling off ot 60,000 in the
number killed at Cincinnati, but at all the oilier
' place?, a gain on the amount of the previous season.
Sanui Anna is said to he living in magnificent
style about i;vo miles from Kingston, Jamaica.
The Cincinnati (JaxcUe says that the value of
chewing tobacco sold in that market amounts to
one and a half millions of dollars anttually.
The Mayor of Pittsburg, who ws?J elected while
| in jail, bavin" been convicted of indeed/ awl blas[
phemous harangue in the stree', was takti.i from
jail on Friday, inaugurated Mayor, and th*n taken
back to bis old quarters in prison, his pardon no*
having reached i'itteburg in an ollicial form.
The Woolen Trade?The Boston Atlas expresses
the opinion that our annual production of
Wool is not less than 70,000.000 pounds, and that
it is worth now, about 81 ">.000,000. The importation
of IS-J6 was 11,000,000pounds, valued at
8857,000. This whole quantity is worked up by
our own people, and the fabrics made from it are
consumed in this country.
A negro's idea of luve, as given by one of the
Ethiopians?"All nigger! feel as if I was up in the
clouds between two hot hue wheat cakes, and all
the angels were pouring down Masses on me."
From our Charleston Correspondent.
Cn a hi.kston", January 20.
Messrs. Editors: Yesterday we had a rainy
day, and very little business was transacted in
the cotton market. To-day the market was
hrisk at from 12 1-2 to 12 1-8. There seems
likely to lie a stand at present pricee. The
election of an Alderman in Ward No. 1, was
declared to-day. The result is as follows:
Drutnmoud '105 ; Smith 341. Majority in favor
of Prummond 04.
?
>> l" hi<11 uiu ui moii nuij/ uiibuuwiu,
hound to litis port, nnd loaded with salt and
coal, ran ashore on tho Stono breakers, nnd is
likely to prove a total wreck. This is an accident
which scarcely ever occurs here, and I
ain satisfied there was something wrong.
The papers from Washington* state that the
(Ion. J. C. Calhoun has been absent from his
seat in the Senate on account of an attack of
Pneumonia. Wo trust that his illness is only
slight, and that he will soon be able to fill his
seat again, indeed we don't think wo can
spare bim jpst at this juncture of afiairs.
The Courts of Error and Appeals, and the
Equity Courts, aro still in session. I know ol
! ?onciio that h a un Knoh rlanifla/l
IIO Illipui mill c??ov,o H..IV II IIVVIUVU*
No duubt but you will find the full proceedings
in the papers.
The Hon. Mitchell King and Mr. Henry T.
Street, were yestcrday4elected Directors oif the
Union Bunk.
Our Theatre opens the last of the week. We
will again have the legitimate dtama. It is
gratifying to us who lake pleasure in the drama.
Wo have had no such performance for
some time. Wo have on hand another Panornma?the
cry is " still ihcy come." Wo can
now take a voyage to the " Gohl Diggings" in
two hours tor 50 cents. We have not as yet
visited this Panorama of the Gold Diggings,
and therefore car.not judge of its merits. We
have been truly fortunate this season in having
exhibited a great many of the best paintings in
the United States. We begin to want a change
which wo hope will soon be effected.
DASH.
tor the Camden Journal.
Mr. Editor; The times in w hich we live are
pregnant with groat events. If wc road aright
the nuguiies of the futuie, the day is near at
hand, when this groat confederacy of sovereign
States shall have reached the culminating point
of its glory. That point in her history, whence
dates her decline.?A period which, in earlier
ages of the world, nations could only attain at",
tor centuries of laboured progress and develop*
incut. Kven now, no longer do we maintain
nnassnilrd, the proud birthright which we inherited
from our progenitors. The virtue and
piety by which the distinguished founders of our
government were nobly characterized, are sup.
planted by luxury, vice, fanaticism and crime.
Their devotion to liberty and the rights ol'maii
? ' > """".li 'K.i inruiwliarv'u t.irfh flnrt
....J
the assassin's knife. Their reverence fur the fraternal
union which they leil us, is now desecrated
to weld the manacles which bind a mi.
nority of that union to disgraceful submission.
Their attachment to principle, which jeopuided
their lives, their fortunes and honor, to re|>e| a
nominal yet unrighteous burthen, is now iepudialed
in favor of expediency. With the advent
of these sentiments among those who constitute
the majority in this confederacy, it becomes
then all who value their liberties, to cast about
for the means of preserving them from the impending
Miin.
It is now demonstrated that the Southern
States enn no Ionizer remain in the Uni/o^up.
mi equal terms, awl we assume as an a/fom of
our political creed thai there is no gnyjual progression
between inequality and absolute and
unqualified degradation. Ileuce, we must resist
now, this position of inequality about to lx?
assigned us, or wo must defer resistance till
neaier the depths of our woes. It is evidently
wiser to resist now. The question is how?
We answer, by the action of the proposed
Nashville Convention. The affirmation of that
action by the People of the Sooth?the recall
of Southern members of Congress?the appoint!
mcnl of revenue officers, the arming of the mij
lilia, the erection of defences, and the organii
ztlion of a Southern Confederacy.
| If our promises are correct, this position is
! aosoMleiy essential 10 the maintenance 01 our
! Liberties and Rights, nn?l hence the question of
! expediency, now so lashionable, ought not to bo
j considered?but there can lie no doubt that in
I this, as ir most other cases* by God's proviI
deucp, ih path of duty is the path of interest.
( Suppose we yield?suppose slavery is rej
stricted to its present limits in the States, and
i abolished in the District of Columbia, and all
: other places over which the jurisdiction of the
United States is exclusive, the inter-Stale slave
trade (as it is called) abolished, the maximum,
rates of tariff on all articles ol Southern importation
established, the Constitution altered and
i ihe renresontation oi slaves in Congress abro
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gated, and what follows 1 The restrictions on
slavery will hare forced abolition upon all but
the cotton States, and they, unable to help
themselves, will be degraded into a state of imbecile
dependency, having ihe name ol freedom
without its substance, while the majority?
will fallen upon the proceeds-of our labor, and
chuckle gleefully over their success in this
" struggle for political power," as it is termed
by Mr. Webster.
What if we now resist? First we may pre.
pare fi?r 'be Federal Imyooets, with which wewere
lately threat cowl by the Chief Magistrate
in his Message to C'ongrpss, backed by the roluntccr
lorces, collected from the riotous blackguards
who give so much trouble to the peaceful
iuhsthiinnts ot the Morthern cities. Snrvi.
ving ibat conflict wo may expect a treaty?a recognition
of our sovereignty nnd independence?a
refusal to give us an equitable share of the
late Federal property ; and we will be left to
our own resources. With n community of interests,
a common danger, and a homogoneooar
citizenship, producing the grand staple opon
which the commerce, nay I he very existence, of
ijc nations of Christendom depends, with no
rooni 'br the licentious and agrai ian hordes who
are desi. aetl -to prey opon the vitals of the Northern
States ?f 'his Union, did any nation ever
: possess such guaranties under Cod, of political
success mid huppin.'tSi as w'll then Ire oars? If
the gem of liberty wiiJ?out license, cannot bo
i perpetuated in the Sutifcrn Confederacy, it
must be lost to dm world iv1J,cver* With the
facilities and advantages which 'he production
or cotlou win altoru us, capital \n.< j'uur '??"
these Stall's lor investment in cn^^mt..rc(, and
manufactures. Wc cutiltJ offer higher indued*
inonts to the. nations of the earth for peaceful
relation*, than any other power. We could
lay the world under honorable tribute, and bind
thet.t to us by the tie of mutual and imperative
interests.
Believing that the crisis has arrived, we aro
anxious that our people should he alive to its
impoitunee?that definite ideas and conclush ns
may be attained?that each may at once di.
terminu lor himself the path of duty and ofhonor.
For ourselves, we declare our nosiiLon
among tho PA RATIThe
Savannah Republican ami the Richmond,
Republican (l)uth whigs) concur in the belief
that "the time.lias now come wlwn.the Soylh.
should take her stand, and proclaim: 'Thus tar
and 110 farther' to tho waves, ot' Northern aggression."
" We say to lRose N,ortbern presses
and politicians?if you resdly value the Union,
take care to keep your hands from inlernied.
dling in our local affairs* lor which you are not
responsible, and which only interest us. If
your attachment to, the Union is sincere, and:
not pieteiidcd, it is necessary you should know.
that these unjust and unpardonable aggresrions
do materially threaten its integrity, and that its
permanent saSbty c;yi only he secured by halt."
ing on the threshold of this tnad career, and',
then, when reflection comes, by retracing these
offensive steps which have given such serious
grounds of complaint to the South.*'
From the Charlotte (N. C.) Hornets' Nest.
Mr. Editor:?On Monday, 26th Novcm.
ber, I left your hospitable town in the stage for
for Camden, S. C., on my way down South.
I (bund the stages from Charlotte to Cam.
den, under the control, of Messrs. Springs
and McKwen, to bo both comfortable and sale,
with careful and accommodating drivers, 1,'
take pleasure in commending this line to trav."
oilers who, like mysclli have occasionally to go
South; it will be found to bo about as' good in
every respect as could be expected, and will
compare favorably with any other in the up.
country with which 1 am acquainted. A liulc