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Mr. Editor : Your correspondent, “One
of the People* evidenuly much alarmed
at the present position of political affairs,
and willing to submit to the foul and iniqui
tous aggressions of our free foil and A boli-
tion government" atanyand everu^azard,”
has convinced himself doubtless,diy very
sage reasons, of the justice ana equity of
the miscalled compromise measures of
Congress; and that the w hole scheme of
resistance to our oppreaaiStis, either with
or without co-operation, is uncalled for,
linRise, and absurd. Had “One of the
People,” in his luminous essay upon the
great question winch now engages and
excites the public mind, confined his re
marks to a temperate and ingenuous dis
cussion of the propriety, wisdom, a^S re
medial pow er of the separate secession of
South Carolina, in view of the wrong we
have suffered, and of those impending—
or even if he had taken a position in ad
vance of the almost unanimous opinions
of the people of the State, and raised
his voice in eulogiums upon the glorious
Union, the conservative principles, politi
cal l^esty, untarnished faith, and exalted
sense of justice of the Northern people
and Southern renegades, as manifested
itftfie concoction and adoption of that
batch of iniquitous measure*, character
ised by Southern compifoniisers and sub-
missionists, as the happy adjustment—he
would, so far as I am concerned, have
been allowed to entertain unchallenged
his peculiar views. But your correspon
dent not only seeks to impress upon the
public mind his views, but transcending
the legitimate range of temperate and
calm discussion, which should always
control the conflict of dissentient opin
ions among Carolinians, has thought pro
per “to handle without gloves? the mea
sures adopted at the last session of the
Legislature, and to submit to his incon
siderate and unsparing invective and
denunciation, the intelligence, conduct
the would-be leading men, disappointed
politicians and submissionists, resort, in
order to accomplish their cherished pur
pose, to compel South Carolina to lower
the symbols of her sovereignty, to be tram
pled under the feet of a tyrannical and
disgusting abolition govennment. But I
trust that a simple statement of the mea
sures adopted by the Legislature, and
the ground upon which the measures
rest will be sufficient to vindicate those
whom he has denounced and leave him
in the unenviable position of one who has
either presumed to teach others concern
ing matters of which he is ignorant, or
of having wilfully misrepresented the
conduct and motives of those opposed to
him for some ulterior purpose. The Legis
lature at its last session passed an act by
which it was ordained that a Convention,
to consist of delegates to be elected by
the people, should assemble at Columbia,
at a time to be fixetl by a majority of the
members at the next session of that body;
and when assembled to take into “ con
sideration the proceedings and recom
mendations of a Congress of the slave
holding Htates, if the same shall meet
and be held, and for the purpose of ta
king into consideration the general wel
fare of this State, in view of her relations
to the laws and government of the Uni
ted States, and thereupon, to take care
that the Commonwealth of South Caro
lina shall suffer no detriment.” The Del
egates were required to be elected on the
tecond Monday and Tuesdty follow ing
in February last. Provision was also
made for the election of Delegates to a
Southern Congress, recommended to be
holden by the Nashville Convention, and
the Governor was requested to urge upon
the attention of the other Southern States
the propriety of sending delegates to th6
Southern Congress, and waMjuthorized,
should the Congress assembfebefore the
next session of the Legislature, to assem
ble the delegates to the State Convention.
The Legislature, impressed with the
belief that the Southern States had been
subjected to such injustice, as not only
warranted but called imperalicely for re
sistance, and beliefflhg that the people of
A'outh Carolina never ypould submit to the
motives of some of the leading met! of hft,ch of mpafiure8 * hich * he was de *
the State, the members of the Southern F ra ^ ed ' afi a sovereign State, to the posi-
Rights Associations and of the Legisla
ture, witli the hope, I doubt not, of crea
ting distrust in the minds of the people
towards their Repsesentatives, and others
occupying public stations in whom they
tion of a dependent province of a con-
solidated and abolition government—and
that if unsuccessful in forming a compact
alliance with her aggrieved sisters, she
would, solitary and alone, as she did fear-
have heretofore confided; and occupying | l,>ssl >' and unaided ' on “"other memora-
thi* vantage ground, with the aid of the ble but . le8H im P orta "t occasion, throw
slavish cry of taxes, war, famine, and de- bcrs( b into the breach in the great strug-
struction, which is roundly asserted will Shifbrconetitutioyal freedom, and relying
unavoidably ensue if the State secedes, 4^" lbe 8tron 8 arms a "d stout hearts of
to succeed in dragging down from their
proud and manly position of unblen
ching I resistance heretofore maintain
ed by thpm, the Freemen of our District,
to the piitform of abject and inglorious
submission upon which he has compla
cently seated himself. It would be tedi
ous, to trespasaAoo far upon your columns
and withal is unnecessary, to discuss at
length and subject to merited condemns-
tion all the erroneous positions and un
sound conclusions in which the said es-
tjgr abohnds, and I shall content myself
in the main «i|jh the vindication of the
measures of tne Legislature, and the con
duct and motives of the members from
the unwarranted charges preferred a-
gainst them by your correspondent, who
her sons, achieve her “ Equality in the
Union, or Independence out of it,” made
provision, by liberal appropriation, for the
defence of the State—for the purchase
of arms and munitions of war—so that
when the Convention was called together
to deliberate upon Southern rights, Stau-
theru wrongs, and Southern remedM,
they could do so in a manly and indepen
dent manner; and whether they resolved
to secede alone, or wait the tardyjwive-
ments of herauffieringconfederaflH^eir
independent ^idgements in the acmption
of the best measures of redress for our
of the Southern States in a noMe effort
to free themselves from political vassa
lage, and if unsuccessful in the effort to
submit the question to Carolinians-elect-
ed by Carolinianians-in Convention as
sembled, what it was best to do, to con
sult and commune together over the ru
ins of the constitution, the loss of liberty
and equality, and decide the question
whether it would not be better for us as
a people, and to posterity, to risk in the
assertion of our unabridged rights the
direst consequences which may befall us,
rather than tamely and quietly to submit
to the loss of our liberty and equality—I
say, were these measures wise, patriotic,
and in conformity with the public senti-
mentof the people 1 Let the people, whose
servants the members of the Legislature
and the delegates to the Convention, are,
and without whose support and appro
bation everything which has been done
will be unavailing, pronounce judgment-
To the decision of this Tribunal of the
last resort, the highest, and the lowest,
the leading men and the would-be lead
ing men must submit, and in that de
cision I have confidence, to this extent,
at least, that it will not sustain the libe;
of “One of the People” upon the good
faith of the memliers of the Legislature.
But perhaps it would be well to say some
thing in relation to the grounds which
the Legislature had for supposing that
the measures adopted by them would
meet their almost undivided approbation.
The slavery question is not one of novel
impression. In 1820 it shook with the
hands of a giant the strong pillars of the
Confederacy, and convulsed the country
from the centre to the circumference with
the throes of angry contention and em
bittered strife; the excitement and dan
gers of that eventful period, which were
more alarming to Mr. Jefferson than
the fire bell at midnight, passed away un
der a compromise by which the South
generously sacrificed dominion and pro
perty upon the altar of the Union. For
awhile there was a false peace. But en
couraged by the concessions of the South,
the agitation on the slavery question was
renewed, and about 1836 the abolitionists,
under the patronage of John Quincy Ad
ams, Hooded the halls of Congress with
petitions praying for the abolition of sla
very in the District of Columbia. From
that time until the present they have
gradually increased in numbers and in
fluence, and at the present time their
agrarian doctrines fully possess the Nor
thern mind. The progress of the infer
nal order has been onward, and in its
desolating course has filled the Northern
mind with the principles of infidelity and
the worst form of socialism, has loosed
the strong cords by which a people of
common origin, speaking the same lan
guage, co-workers in the glorious war of
Independence, were banded together;
prostituted the halls of Congress, the
of the United States, to the low
s of an abolition conventicle,
ftipled under foot ihe constitution by
which our rights were secured, and at
last triumphant over the glorious recol
lections of the past, the proud hopes
of the future, the obligations of our fed
eral compact and the plaiqpst principles
of justice, the rich Territories ceded by
Mexico, won by the sword of the South,
purchased mainly bylier blood and trea.
sure, were wrested by robber hands from
us. And now the free soilere and aboli
tionists, triumphant over all that ever ren
dered the Union dsar to us—that ever
induced the Southern States to become
members of it—the constitution abolished,
the equality of Uie States, and the equi
librium of Uie two great sections destroy
ed. have compelled the Southern people
to look to themselves for the preservation
of their rights and civilization. Fanati
cism has no stopping place—and encou
raged by the submission of the South
(if sheMoes submit) the agitation will be
renewed, and the issue presented will be,
lean territory arose the public press has i sition taken, the friends of Southen
been filled with able discussions of the
whole subject in all its amplitude, the
speeches and essays of our public men
in Congress and elsewhere have laid bare
the matter, so that “Any one, though a fool,
need not err therein.” The people in their
Rights elsewhere would be roused to ac
tion, inspired with fresh ardor, and in
duced to make noble efforts to wheel
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi into
line. The result has justified the fore-
' cast and wisdom of the measure; South
primary RtsscmNSes have denounced the Carolina has taken her position—she is 1 pronounce it, that should this
evils which the alarmists then asserted
would ensue in the sequel of separate
State action; in tlie very capital of the
oppressor ho uttered the loud notes
of defiance. In his speech upon Uie
force bill he said: “It is to South Caroli
na a question of self preservation; and
bill
attempt to deprive them of their just the base of operations in the face of the
share in the territories, associations have j enemy, and in reach of his guns, and is
been organized for Uie purpose of pro- now marking lime, without firing a gun,
ducing concert of action and harmony of wailing for her Southern sisters. The
counsel in measures of resistance; the prospect is brightening—every breeze
public mind was occupied during the last from the South and Southwest brings us
year with the great question, to the ex- cheering indications that the right spirit
elusion of almost everything else. The is aroused, and that if South Carolina en-
people aroused, manifested a haughty
and determined spirit of resistance
throughout the Soutk, and no where
with more unanimity than in South Caro-
couuters the military forces of the Union,
she cannot be conquered. But, Mr. Edi
tor, I hope your readers will net suffer
themselves to be alarmed by the cry of
lina was the bald injustice of the great immediate secession; the Convention,
pass, and the attempt be made to enforce
it, it will be resisted at every hazard, even
that of death itself. Death is not the
greatest calamity, there lire others still
more terrible to the free and the
brave, and among them may be placed
the loss of liberty and honor. There are
thousands of her brave sons who, if need
be, are prepared cheerfully to lay down
their lives in defence of the State, and
the great principles of constitutional lib
erty for which she is contending. God
forbid that this should become necesi-ary'.
adjnstnient denounced, its iniquity ex- God willing, will assemble next year, and It never can be, unless this government
is resolved to bring the question to ex
tremity, when her gallant sons will stmul
prepared to perform the last duty—TO
DIE NOBLY.” Again, in his speech u|>-
on his own resolutions, introduced Into
the Senate, atiirming the equal constitu
tional rights of the States to any territory
which may be acquired teftjic war with
Mexico, speaking of the aiWcipated plun-
posed, and determined resistance threa- 1 when called together, may meet and ad-
tened. South Carolina was set down by journ from time to time for twelve months;
friend and foe as a unit No dissenting and when the time for final determina-
voice arose amid the deep, loud, trumpet i tion arrives, will be able to form an en-
notes of defiance and resistance which lightened opinion as to what we should
arose from every hill, valley and moun- do—the public opinion of the State and
tain top in the Palmetto State. The can- | the Southern .Statesconsidercd-and will, I
didates for the Legislature during the know, try and adopt such measures “ as
last election in this District, and I think that the Commonwealth of South Carolina
generally in the State, discussed this mat- shall sustain no detriment." In this confi-i d er which it was apprehend' d the
ter principally, and the people were en- dent belief, notwithstanding the clamors South would be subjected, concluded his
treated, in view of the great crisis to about wars, taxes, and destruction o 1 remarks in the following strain: -1 may
waive the Bank question; the candidatt's trade, grass growing in the streets of as a " individual member of that
in this District were open mouthed in Charleston, floating custom houses, block- section (the South.) Tlityre 1 drew mv
their sentiments, and advocated the call- I ades, threatened stampede of faint heart- Uw* breath. There are ail my hopes.—
pig of a State Convention. The Legis- ed capitalists—a large majarity of the There aiv my family and connections.
people calmly await the development ot
future events, confident that no fate can
befall us more awful than that of abject
and hopeless submission.
But, sir, it is urged that the people of.
the State are calm, free from exciteme it,
lature of 1848 passed resolutions unani
mously, asserting that the people of tho
State were undivided in their sentiments
—that the time for discussion had passed,
“ and that the State stood ready to defend
her rights at any and every hazard.”
Swrate o:
jMposes
trampled
I am a planter—a cotton planter. I am a
Southern man, a slaveholder—a kind and
merciful one, I trust—and none the worse
for being a slaveholder. I say, for one,
I would rather meet any extremity on
earth than give up one inch of our ei]mlity
The Legislature of 1849 adopted reso- prosperous and happy, expect and de- — ,me inch of what belongs to vs, as mem-
lutions, no one dissenting, “That the peo- sire no change in the existing order of ^ >’f this great Republic. What! uc-
ple of this State entertain an ardent de- things;—now, sir, I will undertake to knowledge inferiority! The surrender ,f
sire and fixed determination to resist the ' say that a grosser libel never was publish- ** nothing to sinking down into ac-
lawless and unjust encroachments of ed against the people of the Atato. And krwwledged inferiority. I have examined
Congress on the rights of the South,” and so far from tha circumstance* attending ,, ' is subject largely—widely. I think I
at the same time passed resolutions that the election of delegates to the .State SL, ° toe future, if we do not stand up as we
should the Wilmot Proviso, or any kin- Convention alluded to by “One of the 0 "gl‘f In my humble judgment in that
dred measure become a law of Congress, j People,” if true, and the acquiescence of toe condition of Ireland is prosper-
the Governor should call together the the people in, and general approbation of ous and happy—the condition of Hiudos-
Legislature. Similar resolves were adopt- the proceedings of the .Southern Rights ta “ ' 6 prosperous and happy—the condi-
ed by other Southern States; a Conven- Associations, by them, the fact that no bon ot Jamaica is prosperous and happy,
tion of the people was called in Georgia paper published in the State, until re- t0 what the Southern .States will be if
and Mississippi, and although the hope , centiy, disapproved of the policy of the ,,u ‘y b1iou,< I "ot now stand up manfully
was entertained that the Southern States : State—estah i-h the conclusion deduced in defence of their rights.” These are
would band together, yet no one supposed by “One of the People,” that the present ,be deliberate and recorded opinions of
that South Carolina would fail to act af- attitude of the State has been assumed y °"to Carolina’s greatest statesman, and
ter all hope ot combined resistance had in advance of public sentiment—to my
disappeared. The State waited for, post- mind, in connexion with the circumstan-
pdfied resistance to obtain, entreated for ces heretofore alluded to, abundantly
in vain, the co-operation of the Southern | prove that until recently, there was no di-
States in hor noble resistance to the pro- vision among us. It is also evident that
tective tariff, and then alone and unaided, instead of the independent voters of the
left her trenches, and planting herself | State being in the leading strings of the
upon the justice of the cause, declared politicians, they are now in advance of
that no power on earth should drive her their quondam leaders, and are obliged
from her position, and asserted that the to use the spur to force them to enter the
unconstitutional laws of Congress should breach to which they encouraged them
not be enforced in her limits “until none to approch. But, sir, I cannot close this ar- now I will run the risk ; so now for it
but slaves were left to obey them." Now, tide without challenging the assertion —some time or other people must tin-
sir, was it at all surprising, all things con- that Mr. Calhoun was opposed to sepa- burthen their hearts. I confess then,
sidercd, that the legislature should con- rate State action, and only looked to the , that I never find, and never have found
elude that the people of the State regard- united resistance of the whole South; a man , ^ ore loveable, more captivating,
ed the subject exhausted, and were rea- this assertion is made upon the authority
dy for action; and believing the people 0 f Gen. James Hamilton—" Sugar Jim-
to bo united, there was no necessity for m y”_who, in one of his “ Pastoral Lct-
any very extended notice of the elec- tors” to the people of the State, has told
tion of delegate to the Convention, and ,,8 that he knows that such were Mr. Cal-
more especially as the hope was enter- hour’s sentiments, and that he will make
tained by some that the Southern Con- known the matter more fully when the
gress might assemble, and if so, the Con- j Convention shall assemble. Now it is
vention could be called together by the worthy of remark in this connection, that
Governor. Sir, to conclude this matten j “g U g ar Jimmy” is hardly sufficient au- Rnd his world. He is not merely eu
it would have been better, perhaps, as , thority to establish the assertion that Mr. "obled by this position, but he is^ctu-
some of our quandam fire eaters are j Calhoun looked alone to the united resist- “"Y be * ati ? ed ^ Then he appears
growing cold, and “gentle as sucking doves?
to have had the election of delegates the
we value higher the opinions of our de
ceased Calhoun, than those of all others
now living. JUSTICE
MARRIED MEN.
So good was he, that I now take the
opportunity of making u confession
which I have often had upon my lips,
but have hesitated to make from the
fear of drawing upaiu myself the ha
tred of every married woman. Hut
not be controlled by the humbling con
viction that no means were provided to
sustain the measures adopted by them.
affect* to represent the voice of the peo- Were these measures—the appointing del-
pie. He asserts that the State has been egates to a Southern Congress, urging
placed in her present attitude by “some upon the .Southern States to meet us by
(he does not favor i delegates in the said Congress, calling a
“That the Legi-la- Convention of Ihe people of South Caro-
of her
men.
t
lie seutitriVItt; as I will endeavor to sho W;
adopted a policy and entered ugpit mea
sures, which had been but little if at all
discussed before the people; the canvass
last fall was devoted to the Bank ques
tion." That the Legislature aueur.icd “ a
violated rights and insult&l honor, should | ^ existence of slavery in the States.—
They have already thrown out broad in
timations, not to say bold assertions, of
this ulterior purpose, and the time is not
distant when, if we acquiesce, as sure as
there is a God in heaven, I confidently
believe that the Southern people will be
driven to assert their rights to their pe
culiar property, or to surrender (t
The progress of this fell agitation, in
all its enormity—in all its insidious forms,
its specious UMfas, its ultimate tendenci
has been ^paahed—discussed—expo
sed and condemned throughout the
South, aud yore especially since the
its last session, in advance of pub- liua, to take into consideration our de-
iirfCTft; as I
graded position in the Federal Union,
and to see to it that the Commonwealth
of South Carolina suffered no detriment,
making provision for the defence Vt the
Slate, 4tr, by which tha anxiety ot those j Oouth, and mors
in authority to effect the banding together ' question os to lie disposition of thoMex-
thnn when he is married; that is To
say, a good married man. A man is
never so handsome, never so perfect,
in my eyes, as when he is married—as
when he is a husband, and the father
of a family—aapporting in his manly
awns wife and children, and the whole
domestic circle, which, in his entrance
into the married state, close* around
him, and constitutes a part of his home
ensuing October, so as to have silenced
the clamor of those who assert that a
snap judgment upon the question was
attempted to be taken; but no one can
with propriety say that the object of the
Legislature was to prevent discussion,
the more especially as other sufficient
reasons may be assigned.
Every one knows that South Carolina
is in advance of the Southern States uper.
this question; and that however anxious
she may have been, and now is, to follow,
she must lead the Soudiem column to
the attack in any movement to be made;
well, if this is true—and no one can doubt
it—and the State intended to resist the
past aggressions of the Government, it
as advisable that she shouM take her
position before the friends of Southern
Rights in other States had taken position
under the auspice* jof Toombs and Stk-
fhens, on tho Georgia platform. Her po»
ance of the Southern States; and if such ! f°. me a , s tbc . erown of ^cation; and
was his opinion, it is a little strange that '! "" ' ,K 1 ‘ l ma V 18
, a ? dangerous to me, and with whom 1 am
^ Sugar Jimmy should be the sole do-
inclined to fall in love. Dut then pro-
pository of so important and interesting ()riet} . forbid8 jt Aml Moso#> am ,
an opinion—an opinion at war with the Eurppeaa, kgislalors declare it to be
whole political character of Mr. Calhoun. , sinful, and-'nlI married women would
I beg leave to challenge the truth of the j consider it a sacred duty to stone me.
assertion, and call upon “ Sugar Jimmy” Nevertheless, I cannot prevent the
■ i and “ One of the People,” to^establish, by toing* It is so, and it cannot lie other-
Apufficicnt testimony, the fact that the il- "I*® > m y 0,, ty hope ol nppoasin^*
^lustrious Southern sage, “the.Lord of] tocse who are excited against fee, is
toe Lion Heart and Eagle Eye,” enter- in J"7 further ^nfotmion, that fK> love
• f .u "jL .ft affects me so pleasantly; the eontem-
tainiaid any opinion of the character im- , e ...„i „
..... ... plation of no happiness makes me so
puted to him. In the meantime it is con- {j as that , K . twoon marl , ( . d p^.
soling to us, that we can infer from his j [t ig ama2 j. g to myself, because it
past life, from the noMe resistance made g to me that I, living unmairied,
by South Carolina, led on by him, to the 0 r mateless, have with that happiness
protective tariffinn defiance of the most little to do—hut it is so, and it was al-
popular and powerful administration ever ^ways so.—Miss Bremer.
known to t£is governme nt—his great
heart and Iron wilt was unsubdued by
the menaces of tyranuy enthroned in
poweiy unaffected by the desertion of i lady, ana only pereeivi
false frhJjd.s unappal’ed by the hideous | ho go! her fatherwf)ol.
In a state of mental absence a young
man demanded the tumd of awyonng
lady, and only perceived hi* error when