Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-09-04
STATE OF FEELING IN S. CAROLINA.

STATE OF FEELING IN S. CAROLINA.
The Charleston Evening Post Of the 2S,h, in
relation to the letter frcm Greenville in that State
which We rcpublished from the Boston Atlas, with
the rcmnrk that we believed the picture it drew
not overcharged, observess--
1.-The Tariff presses at the North, while they
studiously withhold from their readers, all that
might enlighten them, as to the justification OF
the movements i'm the South, snatch grccdily at
every gross Misrepresentation, which is calcu-
ntd to excite odium and disgust Tho Boston
Atlas, for instance, has published under the cap
ton Of ication-war, &C." a letter dated
Srecnville, Is. CO. containing statements, the
falsehood> of many of which must be palpabe
to every reader in South Carolina, and which we
shrewdly suspect, liz a hoax, written by some Null
liner. That the Boston editor should have been
imposed on is not strange, when we remember
the avdity with which some of their philanthro
pic anti.slavery and philo-Indian journals swal.
lowed the quizzes which were sent them about
the burning OF Negroes in Carolina, and cold
blooded massacre of Indians in Georgia; but we
are surprised to the letter aforesaid. copied
into the Richmond Wing, preceded by the ex.
preston of the editors belief that the rcprescn
tation is not exaggerated. It speaks badly for
the state OF society i'm Richmond that one of it's
intelligent editors should be SO ready to confidc
IN such picture Of Southern men, as is given in
this libel on Greenville; and though the editors
proposal TO substitute, for our occluson, single
sioop instead of Col. DRAYToN's Frigate, justifes
the expectation of occasional queer whiggeries,
we confess that we were not prepared for such an
article as that quoting the Greenvile letter, in
paper which though invetorately hcterodox, has
always been conducted with talent and skill and
great candour and fairness.
"Ihe query which the Wing repeats with par
ticuar call on this paper, we had already answer
ed-but as we presume that reply was overlook.
cd, we shall attempt to satisfy the editor some
evening this week."
We are duly thankful for the compliments Of
the Post, though maybap bestowed with the de-
sign of rendering its structures more efficient, and
look forward with good deal of curiosity to its
intended answer to the enquiries lately address.
ed to it. Those enquiries the reader will please
bear in remembrance.
The letter from Greenville was confirmed to us
in conversation with very intelligent gentleman
from Charleston, himself enemy of the Tariff,
and certainly free from any motive for exaggera-
ton. We are far from being sorry to understand
that Its gloomy delineations surpass the reality.
Iet how can it be otherwise than that the state of
society should be bad, its relations disturbed, its
friendships in many cases overturnedl Is not S.
Carolina VIGOROUSLY on the brink of civil war; not
with its sister States mean, bu. with itself
Are not party feelings excited to the utmost pitch
OF Phrenzy, and do not they, when in that state
like the Maelstrom, draw every thing within their
vortex, and return it rended and scattered7
We publish Mr.. Cheves' letter in opposition TO
Nuiiiicatien, and commence very long and very
powerful exposition from Gen. Hayne, in reply to
Col Drayton. These documents from the emf.
nence of their authors, from the subject. and the
crisis, will command public attention.