The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-09-15
From The Charleston Mcrcury.
We arc Beginning to be Heard.

From The CharieSt0A IWcrcury.
We arc Beginning to be Heard.
We give below an article from the New
York Statesman, a journal conducted with
much ability, which shows that our position
! in defence If the rights, institutions,
and equity of the Slaveholding States is
beginning to attract attention in the North
All we ask ofthe Northern press is to re-
publish our articles. We want nothing
but 10 be heard with candor and brotherly
fairness We therefore thank tho &tatesasais
for its promise 10 give our views to the
Northern people
There Is one point on which we desire to
correctthe Stateman. MIR. Calhoun neither
saw, nor Was consulted, nor approved the
article referred to- Weknow that he would
have approved had he seen it but we as
sure the Statesman that ii is the exponent
of the public sentiment, not Of any one in
dlvldual, but OF every man that we have met
Well has the Statesman headed its article.
The determination of the Advocates of
! Slavery" We spoke the views of the
slaveholding interest. not so much as " adj
| vocates" OF our institutions, but as men who
have the rights abore, before, and umder tie
Constitution rights which we shall neither
waive, surrender, nor permit to be wrcsted
from our hands. TO submit 10 inferioritv
is to submit to degradation, to loose all ma
tonal self-rcspect, aid in fine to become
the mean spirited suicides of our own re-
spcctabili.y and usefulness.
Ihe Declaration of the Adrocates of
Sl0cery.-The Charleston Mercury of Au-
gust lllh, contains a long article, filling
nearly the entire reading portion of the pa
per, in relation to what the writer terms
the "aggressive and revolutionary" charac-
ter of the Wilmot Proviso, in which it is as
serted that the Proviso is ssubversvc of the
Constitution and its guarantees to the slave
holding States" The article NAV be re-
garded as manifesto Of the shareholders :;
and if it is not from the pen Of Mr.. Calhoun,
1t has had his inspection and appreciation.
Its importance will justify its publication
! in our next number. 1t will be interesting
to the people of the free as we'll as those Of
the Slave States. 1t gives the Resolutions
OF ten Free States which have already spo-
ken through their Legislature, and spoken
in favor of the principle embodied in the
Wilmot PIoviso. 1t also gives the Resolu-
sion submitted by Mr.. Calhoun to the Sen
ate of the Uaied States, during the last
session, and the Wilmot Proviso Resolutions
OF the Legislature Of Virginia, and those
adopted by the Conventions of the Demo
cratic party in Alabama and Georgia
1t contains also the Legislative Act of the
State Of Pennsylvania, which has given so
great an offence to pro-slavery men to-
gether with the Acsof Congress, passed in
1898, respecting persons escaping from the
service of masters, and which act 1t is sup.
posed that the lawof Pennsylvania conflicts
with. The whole article is interesting, not
so much from any argument i, contains, as
from the history it gives of the extent of po-
pular feeling for and against the extcntion of
slavery to such territory as may here after
be acquired. Next week our readers will
hove<t. Such articles ought to be pre-
served, SO that our children may see the po.
sition great questions have occupied at GER
tain cpochs Of our existence"
1t is stated on good authority, that one Of
the London houses which failed, made eigh-
ty thousand pounds at til commencement of
Indian Corn. All this has been lost, and
their capital besides, and unfortunate calcu-
lation of the fluctuations of the market and
the state of the weather.
The New York Courier's London letter,
under date of Aug. l8, says---''Among tho
members returned to serve in tho present
Parliament is young Mi MacTavish, a
son of Captain Mac lavish, and a nephew
of the Marchioness of WeIlesIy. He is
both an American and British Subject. and
has just put himself forward as. a Repeater
and been elected for Dundalk.