Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-09-01
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER !. is4s
THE EMPIRE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Ouattlcbum in motion p!
South Carolina about ready to do or die!


~ The Charleston .Nurcury the organ of
Mr.. Calhoun, has determined to support Cass
and Butler, and thinks the vote of the State
will be given to them 1t states that 1t was
forced into this position BY tie organization Of
TAILOR party in the State. The "chivalry" Of
Sonth Carolina can't go for TAYLOR at any rate
They perceive "the most alarming consequent
ces" rs likely to flow from his election and the
triumph of Wing principles, and ga Taylor
Party" having been formed among "the fierce
democracie" of their State, they think it about
time to raise the banner of Cdss s. Butter!
1t appears that our respectable multiplying
brethren of the Palmetto State resolved on get
ting up little private thunder to welcome the
return of John c. Calhoun and Mr.. Butler, their
Senators. So great gathering, which filed
the Theatre in Charleston, was assembled on
the 18th instant and portentous amount of
indignant patriotism was evolved. Mr.. Call
HouN in the most solemn manner, and with a
great frown, recommended his Oregon policy
of d" n mastcrly inactivity" on the Presidential
question; and spoke darkly and gloomily of a
North and the South, when tn, question of
Slavery in New Mexico and California came to
be settled, next winter. lie rather expected it
would be carried against South Carolina, when
he thought it advisable that the Kingdom Of
South Carolina in general and the "wholc
South" in particular, should be prepared" As
for the "grcat struggle" Itself, with dreary
and unromantc vision of 'guns and baggonets,"
Dir. Calhoun declared, in conclusion, that
"Iie did not court it, but he would not shun i, and
old as he was he was Wiling 10 go through his shure
ui the contest
Whereupon universal Quattlebum raised a
mighty shout that is supposed to have shaken
Buncombe to its centre, and knocked the " Tay-
Tor party" into fits Buncombe, we believe, is i'll
North Carolina, but it is apparent that this grent
demonstration" was intended for that lati.
tudc.
On the cath, five days after, a great mcctir g
WAS held in Charleston "to nominate candl
date for the Presidency ATE: appropriate dis.
cussion, and a "calm survey" Of the field OF
battle, the meeting adopted series of resoln.
tons Of which the following are the 4th and
9TH
Resolved, That the property aud political
rights Of Southern Shareholders are paramount
10 all party questions ; that tie equality o! the
Southern States in the councils of the Union
and in the occupation and enjoyment Of the Ma.
tional Territory, should be maintained at every
hazard that the people Of the South look To
their own State Governments for the protection
Of their property, and rot TO Congress, which
has no constitutional authority whatever on the
subject of slavery and that their independent
sovereignty will never be sacrificed for the
Union.
Resolved, That the Democracy Of Charleston Dis
trict cannot hesitate between the candidates OF the
Democratic and Wing parties OF the United States
Tor President and Vice President and for the
will support Lewis Cass and William q. Butter, tns
the candidates OF our paryD for the offices to which
they have been respectively nominated.
1.-THE universal Yankee Nation" will under.
stand, ti.en, that South Carolina constituting
pretty much all Of the American Union y hold.
ing that Congress "has no constitutional au-
thorlty whatever on the subject of Slavery" as
Mr. Cas- has explicitly, declared resolved to
give her support THEREFORE, to " Leois C,ss
and VIM. D. Butler" as the men most likely
to give her aid and comfort" And Nr. Cal.
houn's organ endorses the movement, as being
unavoidable, because "a Taylor Party" had
been organized in the State, in contempt of
Calhoun and the palladium of our Liberties, -
human slavery
We suppose it may now be looked upon as
settled, that the empire Of South Carolina "riH
"erer De sacrificed for The sake IF The Union.."