The Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1843-1852, 1844-09-25

tystrrskS4 - W - ANeSHs no less& irnportant
thaasSaN L, hSsss scd, their greatest men
y~lshC 20. S, u ~ ,Hbreathless haste to utter
eqe,u. e1tIu .uage.. Recently, one of their great
est ;isest, and gravest Legislative bodies modest
Iy proposed to expunge from the constitution the
most sacred artcle in it, by which were wooed
into the compact and without which we would
have had nothing to do with it. And what would
this have beef but actually and faithlessly
perpetrating dis hnion! Yet these are the people
who YociferouslF accuse you Of a desire of disun
ion, when the "lead and front of your offending"
does not amount to tythe of their own guilt. If,
indeed, there bJ tho shadow Of guilt your part,
in complaining kf the great abuses of it, and if,
under the sore hfIlictions you suffer through its
forms, you pro bsc to calculate the value oft, and
the dangers of too, for the threatened dangers of
it are more alar hing than all we actually suffer,
great that maybe.
The Tariff is only on cXponcut Of the power
and the disposition 20 abuse and opprcss us under
the tornls otke Constitutions. Do not the halls of
fgsss$ s,eg .ssiy with the unfreternel and inso-
lcpf bos'sll and Annianiey, and arc
we free, ,pe.s,le, who arc their equals in every
moral and ~ uectu0l quality, to hear this' DO
not hearomnous threats of their interposltion
in our domestic concerns and with our tenderest
interests asf we were dependent conquered
provinces! Do not know that those who thus
raise their ,bces under the privileges of the
stituton, ard the mouth piece of foreign fanatic
associations with whom they correspond! Yet
these people, eat the bread taken from your own
mouths, of hat labor which they reprobatc, and
stint the CON of that class of persons of whose
condition THY affect to be fastidiously tender,
for among hc very highest duties which they
impose, to iscr,asc their cxtravagant gains. is that
on the clotbibgot the slave. The heart of their
humanity is in heir strong box and in their bal
ancc sheet OF tlcir profit and loss account. They
are les amis dcsnoigs with less motive of virtue
than the ,Furie. whom the National Convention of
France vou,tci upon St. Domingo, to scatter
death among tnir white brethren, and everlasting
misery arnoITsti7e blacks. These were honest err
ing and unhappy enthusiasts, who knew not what
they were doing; but our assailants cold blood
cd calculators; with this awful example before
their eyes, stcilng upon their victims, under the
forms of the constitution, which guarantees the
rights which thy seek to destroy. Remember! |!
On the inviohbility Of the Institution, which is
thus Threatened and assaicd, depends, not our
prosperity alone, hut every blessing under heaven
which we enjoy. Every thing Southern must ne
ccssnrily perish with it. Houses, lands, stocks
monies at interest, and other species Of property
must go down with it, and share common fate.
Let these people be unchecked, and we shall have
cor country norhomc freside nor civilization.
nor social charities, nor life itself. We shall be
blotted from the face If the earth. The beautiful,
and prolific South will exhibit nothing but scathcd
and blackened ruins. with a remnant Of the Afri-
can yaee assasRS anldst them IN all !lc misery
Of dssoi,lsis lesspess, I he isses,9sisipn
sa; iaiiiiss W SIss & s's ,sf Sci 6 E T 4
winged by HSyiized peprics s & - "a
The baycl lie fcpr assailaats pointed against
our !,r,;sts would DC more harmless than ieir
counsels-Qp this stibject the Methods, Episco}al
Church of tt South have set us n noble example,
which, If out opponents persist shall be obliged
to initiate, wfre the Tariff out of the question. Yet
they invoke \he Constitution, appeal to the sacred
name OF Washington and call upon you in his words
to frown uponthc man who shall cndcavor to wea-
ken its ties. Would it not be enough to return
the chalicc, wah its poisoned ingredients, TO their
own guilty hH But let their guilt hc what it
may, npt and never have been the enemies
of the Union. What union did that great and good
man vcmcratsi 1t was the Union as it came from
the hands OF thc Patriots who framed it. 1t was
the Union WI consented to-. An Union of equal
rights and cA q burdens, An Union in which we
were tu be cd any respected aud honorcd with our
brethren, anJ our peculiar institutions sacrcdly
.nrntcStad &its< U,acn of strife, and tribute, and
insult, and slavery, on our parts But would he,
all lst and wise, utder the forms Of the Consttu-
tor, have re commended submission to the uncons-
, iituional op:rcssoa, nsul, nj .m,ury under which
NC Sroan General Washington was sincere
Christian and would have called upon his fellow
citizens to frown upon the man who should endea-
to subvcrt the holy religion accordance with
whose principles he had formed his own, and I'M
der whose influence he walked during the whole
of his good and glorious life. But fits Professors,
regardless Oft truth and fearless of their God had
introduced III" LaQuisition into the Land, would
he have looked with appreciation on an nuto do. .tc
and called upon the people to support and vcncrate
it! 1t was righteous government in which he
sustained and not one Of guilt and oppression. He
would, according to the whole tenor of his life,
have been among the first to resist it, and so ought
weg while, f&e3hia, we vencrate it, in its truth and
pgr'ty. No, our ,cfime is not dsloyaty to the
tnon, H,gt orr ypr Jfs too great a vencraton for
IN, and II we carry tiat generation much further it
wh nc evidence ofnnparallelled stupidity or un-
bushing basehess. Preserve the Union, if you
car appeolto TIC great Democratic party to save
the Union. which j. can DO if it will. That party
though shattered and confoundcd and betrayed,
embraces a large majority Of the people, almost
the whole conservative class, almost all of every
sound class, opposed only by manufacturing capi-
tasts and their defendants, abolitionists and their
deluded followers and the adherents of personal
cabals and unprnc pied factions. Let them unite
in long pull, strong pull and pull altogether"
and the Union will be safe and not only safe but
purified But if tley will not neither the preser-