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', 1:+ ji( d " lx" i t "cf10 thin 43t?u $tia 7uti',tt3ltoultt the . s a' Vit3O or 1 icy' R' tla!'ctl It1C ,Rtiurt,, W. t1W ". lu, re o , tii Yi~tit td rofcr 9,11OWill ra, :. It$kY4.r.""ett' f:tll;o .I rit ti 1L e i 'Idt eI~rlt:'h I ao .....'-~b ey dpin ial' iniot t Iolnm rt 's& f11uNorthut o cm bug f ar et'^j ndedtoget ther by!" fthe tto 'I tiv If rto lgnize. tno nd pubbe plunder. , .1Qter nich tho ldntna bobjinectsof ror e. tive stem hunave be ndigned;'ly po'tirort do theris niemtatedy l ing the trir pheekton ower-e Thl e hllo bo instine eut, the pares oertgeitrt he intis , opprsodeitf o~ entretdt arimetd, and thbe caetiod nomndio t 'ia d public. plunder. o if th h fuvdoicel objects 'nourt lera. tivo system hiavbe been degnd y powart et, thre a roredys,- in the ordinary placcksoil power- Tho ballot box is incr. fectul, and the presign oferlth in its ap Spais towi oppressor,' dif to entreaiy to argithe i, andthe auleonitionts of humanle ty iiiid patriotisim. Ini Federal Council, it is crtain, that the vhce of the minority willa hoin e gacoimn iet, adya dslwninain.e tious, but regular process, tio rights of the Plrn p n tide overnty of the Southern wntes will he. curtailed until their, total extitigutisimont is bmiected.. By 'multiply. inGie nuitier of free States, resisting all attempts to enlarge the area of the slave. holding ponimunity, and uisrinminat ing be twent ie right: of Northern fnd South. (In perons and property, aaother decade will no have harelinare h eo-pa teral (rveraconnt weillforce edicts, reter in their edt:lts nt human liberty and the pro. gre<s of poditical enliglitenmon:, thtan over ena terl frum the worst forms of despo titln hefore tt period arrives,, the exi *iCes or Southi.arlina, as co-partner in a 'nreat ilalmtn wea I I, will have ceased. '?cr5;1 ii the aiit r co tiguous provin e the trut ciul mtoriai of her history dgill lit .itterel ovr her hills and valleys. nt the pitvd page the talce of her origin anti lng rt2 may be usis , but the rea c.i d es al an mter of her political extinc [iou rvI mirvedlr ther. be r ead. Th North anr South dilr of-nd-nen. tayii, i tiiietiotw, ant front tt e frame %'t k iof their social organ izationi they need 'l~i~rnt Vilijie a strong govern. iti frt with :Il c the appliances of extensive mniuai tg, is ileessary to Stho hianr, a u al conuntul sy.tem of legal r estraits, i.: rt.alred "tve ro latter. The restriction i opuit byt cth ercho the p uY -of thg Mite, feth trade tnt of the. other. i ntuctai from teceiey a cminedCialand ini ouf n people, thet South an ptalr !thoural cotnheortil W uaj the foru er nchs an ylargeprant of ilya powers of hctler, , ramitcamnt, in order to ona o upret by tl e wcwthtla of thq tdeu i st l thut lalttur imipelled by 'tho princi i ecl.pri rsaIdo o, ntrives to a otin& thb7 oirthelri agent within well efrlu ofd trro hbonde. it the quo ection, ca ital piiillabomir are theoretically equialy but from lure ceprhjis, inapti of, control net, thiy nre practically reconistic;h'e hentiper,apittro ssutao the c a;e isativo ,ranch of the , g all usrain )IC nerally comecea adr - aont. a reato toorFdea1n portant~ pvitstons, has in4 tell'ect, been s l.nti liy callrigedf th at. ebio:mt crfa lirohnzthiareheaut.oThwhichshas beeniprc t, caly elispe iiver u~s halvey ben o vthrujof panderb conoae govaerment, htvperin t iretion an wisitrcll teea limreoofeit ptwer, inow eer* ovferment ofim: th Union. Everyocomprocmseutootinao whrich the noth prhial ntred, icldn the ~ritnrise io ror taten the cetfuar taciertw o thc pbi rtiesrt, hat ien t fsrly isiirauded. ly the gatvendevicall ur p:pleonow, a hera l'cmetofe, am are ol in nlt epoliled ib the oli fter in <hitry butiS thei ont iution iis t opic use nt inn to bge, lxptd d Uion unjust peso tr om.,t eis alts \Vhiesb vaious branchst ofe inustryhas been o forcediow a conldtion o rnxmpet weah and powe, thei adv~'iac en ath H, !r unth iio predialy (oroise tby ntor w.vith al the oulmets ceo, irosperimy and irlim- ithat iti r onhltCave r eheat har.h ~Confe.:rteI~t ion b rtepsed hf bn petp ouri inr.1 :0l ) ehi. zo rToe rt amo nl ' OmbJ iepidu thee day IiS af theirubici hlh rvemed nhlve thei itfbton t on oiti the~ o thinrable ie.ings al.it ine Un happly,! riis nowk mii iainelty the 'orintme to rile nate hicis tiui y, loni a~e dei theirl~ laito (u~~ii f mratiL( wiIf ili!.od fo~r, e vnemm'of h:or trav nent i?on a1:1 gal n iiiithedovernts arc imh, all de siuppoirt and frisendrip wate IoneoI:i a o'darlyI, ved rupoitu luhrif tai t' 'ifO.rserved r,.i'ightiI~s of eSates; th. irs;tho511 sweepig. nuniaions forme< nu ,iorI th upial c~~i)'ala.. of rring lmthruhou b i tt a vid iin'elings f the Prieiifa ii , andiirl'ntha..in add t Pmul the i I vig ;i,: ;ohe intua tobe go miluiCli of ou Ihive proprtyi'rby midsarieslop on lithot, antopy the orthea r tat hao't iutcnoncert iiv aresa, "ho t1m9 rniori-" buty thitiot of th ;iav th ~te for'cyo rcnttihopfninnunnragigan ii aglaint' these anpa ointicai exhibiinse blic thetiment; o -cainhiahio t o,ofr ~ , o rcp of iato equatio;tih: li e exmcan Itsi r nad te c it Ion ii in ;i life drary rober oftiiaion i l tho? Jfti eguirhed l ~o 4u lo olatip r oflirla sennalt od de bylithe a t . 'tii ifeprd a 'i tJi h lgpare in or s; iPdikidindr rt t ile o fi a v e p jo m dt b kog ro l c lare lop Diburofhicdh d 1 t ut.ouj' entrt incetsevai a ~paioaith it 4c ,f slave prooty anrid .'doatu o .-v occasional~ or ln thoseproar; toa tore of stri hwed b th oidty of thi i to itliisleis i l, od toogei'whel liejindth lhortn,$ir rily ularimk fro la. of a temptnta tayl pr' asit The hytanco' are~t ih whichi w~hdr e elbrt has been madi deprivation ofoffice, or:other mark of die:' pleasdro nauid.rebuke; did not quickly fol ow. Tjais of iseif, if. proof-woro.tioeded proclahs-the deep-seatednosa andall-per vadinfg charaeter of the disease whichoff. acts the body, politic of diat exteinsivo andl populous region -a ahot Odoe-third hoterpolitical exis tence, South Carolina has presorited an al tuost unintorrupted scene of disquietudo and excitomenuunder the provocation of contuneies and threats, youd' froin .a thousand tongue in frm'e imost of. fwnivo. Luring thatporiotl;-1t may, with .rwi, y Uirtned, that the 'publilc ind bas not for al ear bon free. from th' groat pain. ful solicittide. 'eaceindeed has long fAdd front our borders, and discontent and alarm are every whero present. Bttr, far bet. for, it would have beot,. for the South to. engage in-a deadjy conflict with the North, than to have endured the torturing ankiet of an anomalous struggle, the'. conaqueffi ces of which afc beyoud:the pot of human prescionee. "An open war is limited by the. causes which produce it, but the furtier contiannco of such a -war-political, kTf ligious and social--as has beeu} wag h one party against the other, and iII wh a strictly defeneivo at in.vly been preserve4tb a y and dish nowr - tthA glo Sa~ 4' ~i i the dena et at> rhi fanatic, :t' is our pridoesndh i told r 'that the ferable 1t itnalode4 aJbvonooz -to ila itoL $9,-and the prino gloy of c~~otluti aucoa It'ed_ , s~~ 'olel foin th reden ' tal fo e ora 1 tho Fe'deral Govern uaont efee by illicit and wily co bnao a,iiin g a -o ed (drover the; lit n 'nw rabetw e two boction, the qualit of eSf tcad, iriita oggalt fitP tito peeple 9f tid e ta case to;t ec cninOei ler, of th'eflstd c u teiti 'rfllic : . attwfovt actnitt, - clie a s to ; na~;c : ~wcth nf wihvl:' : ar.ins to of rSouth,.Carolina will at least1 l*C'uTte th theastde.1tiit wlleignorai'of their deistinaythey twero- not rpnmhindtul of tbe.4uty they oawed to thecmselve;, thsir dq-.' geougdatnts, a4their'country . .hat DPocp hope a sl' rin~t.your losm ia the daa! cloud hih envelopes the politi cal hoiizo~i will yet be dispoied That the enemy will forego his premeditated design of reducmag your honored Comn.nonwealth to colonial vasmalago! To these questions a uitisfactory answer will be found in the muelancholy experience of the past-the o vershaadowing inftluence of the General Government, insuared by the permanent as. s.:endency of the sectional party which aims at the annihilation of our property the history of fanaticisma-the renewed and augmeonted agitation of the slavory ques tion, and the recent practical verification of our fears that, at the North, the provis erni rights cannlot be enforced without the shedding of blood. If, to that section, which nowhastheconrolof every department of the goverinment, the preservation of the Confederacy is indispensable to the comi . plotion of its wvork of descration and ruin, to us its dissolutiona, as a compact between thirty one 8tzates, is necessary to our soci al and political quiet, and the safe'ty of our inst iuona, Ordained "to establish justice isuro domestic t ramlu ilhty, provide for the cunninonl defence, promote the general wvol fare, andi secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and onr pIosterity"-in relatio# to each and all of these essential obycts, th~e iondl of Union haavinag been deliberate ly mautilated b~y a majority of the contract ing parties, th~ aimirity have no longer sPf seenlrity for lie liberty and plroperty. Tlhec time' theni, has~ arrived to resuan#.the exercise of the peowers of self-pruLctionl, whlieb,, in the hour of unsuspect"g conli dence, we surrendered to fore.gn hands. We umast re-olrganlize our pettical system oin someC surer ~and safer lysis. Tihere3 is no0 power, nioralI or l phsneal, that cani pre vent it. The event as indissolubly linked with its cause, tad taxed as destiny. In the admnneit(,ry hognee: 44','onir hamte ntedl states muan, "the worst cahiapity that could befall uis, would be to lose our independence, ~andl to sinak down into a state of acknowleg= ed inferiority, depenuding for security uponi forbecaranace, and ntot on our capacity and disp1e-itiona to defenad ourselves." I have nlot ut temp~ted to dliscus~s tihe ques Ition! of secesisilon. T'he right by a State te wit hdrawv from then Union, results from th n aure atnd plrinlciples of the0 Constitution Comnspart, to, wheich the Staten 'ai-o'v oft comemonl griovanc~es, I boseech 'you It roeleer, that no conjuncture of event ought. to induco us to a handon the right, . fdpciding niltimantoly on our own eti 'lIit recoti umendiing, as5 iinow dp, tijaLbpn ICarolicallieuld interpoto her sovgreitf~ in-eordor to piotoct lber citizensutid that~ co(-.operfat ion with her uaggrioved als r $tate-s, she miay b)0 cua~bied to aid( hn avJ ing the dom which iceupondenvertheY~t finstitutions of the S$gt h i, it fand h#I early day, to be dlesnidte .by-you, ;4 lo ijhe Godl of out fathers for the pard r~f ouri "r tow tnq - ' tion othi ~. .,, be fuuti d' : e ,: sli n , : .: ' ghro 1: + into' wear In, I thef>tiict twit. ti" ;tie'x irea'a: communli "ir4 wJt ti exh bitiop &c..- f t i c a ii k L iJabrp crowded ~< I- iirn AS lapin, 'oar eoatd s et"w ei:?> ;x ss el tdiu t th> 4dWe inent hi taker. -p he fe t't .Agtttes3 d , t w 4:. 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