Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-06-04

SOUTH CAROLINA-THE ANIY-SLAIERY
NEE Ting IN NEW YORK-AND HON CHAS
J.INGERSOLL

Inc purpose OF deciding npnn the proper measures TO be
adopted touching the questions in agitation between
the North and tie South Several propositions sub
n'ttted. which submitted to a COMMITTEE of twenty
one. On the next day this committee reported series
Of resolutions em5odying their views which unan
ImvIsy adopted
The first OF these recommends that Sotth Carolina
shou stand prepared act in concert with the other
Sorihern States in an emergency alleged 10 be
sing, and the appointment OF a General Committee of
Vigilance 10 consist OF five persons, whose duty it shall
he to correspond with other committees and persons
that and other States.
The second resolution approves the address Of the
/ Southern members Of Congress.
The third expresses Confidence in the constituted
thorHles of South Carolina. SC;
The fourth states that the passage by the Congress of
the W Imot Povieo any measure for abolshng slave
ry or the slave trade in the District of Columbia is d
rect attack upon the institutions Of the South aad
mends the Governor assemble the Legislature in that
Contingency
The fifth adopts the resolutions of the Virginia Legs
ature Of the last session.
The SIKH recommends the District and Parishes
OF Sluth Carolina 10 perfect their committees of vig
lance &c
The State Central Committee is composed Of the fol
lowing gentlemen Franklin u. Elmurp james Gadsden,
Wade Hampton, ID. }. McCord aud Francis w Pick
ems.
In these resolutions nothing Of which we can
positively dsapprove, except tile de ermnaon expressed
10 proceed 10 extreme measures in the event of the pas
e"e 81 lhe w Ot GrUVlSD by congress. mai IrOVl~o
mas aTerdy been passed, shape pronounced by Mr.
Calhoun himself to be the offensive which it could
possibly assume. 1t tackled to territory far
North that The introduction Of slavery into il was almost
an mpossblity, certainly difficult that it would
er have been attempted. lis passage gratuitous
insult to the South, wanton and uncaed for declaration
on the part Of The North, thai they intended the
power which they felt thai they had regardless Of South
ern rights and in defiance Of Southern complaints 1t
cannot be said that II was lmmateral because il
bove the line OF The Missouri Compromise FIR those
persons who sickle for Southern Address, oppos
ed it with all the strength they could command. The
Enquirer, the Union, and all the Southern Demo
craI: journals without exception, objected 10 the election
Of Mr.. Nalhrup most vehementy, because Ae proposed
70 insert The Ilmot pruvlso in the fist Oregon bill,
thereby plainly showing that they at least, speaking the
sentiments Of their party, conceived it to be matter Of
momentons consequence Mr.. Polk signed that bill, and
thereby, as Mr.. Van Buren, charged, surrendered the
great principle contended for by the Souh that all the
inhabitants Of he States have right remove with
their property, be Of what description it may 10 any
portion Of the territories which belong equally t. all hav-
inc been acquired by the blood end treasure Of ALL When
Mr. Tx put his name to that most disastrous law law
which has given strength to the friends IF restriction
which they could rot otherwise have acquired by forty
years OF agitation, then was The time for South Carroll
have called for the uni; ed action Of the Southern
States. Did she do il? BY no means. She contented
herself with saying, if done again. she would en-
thinks that the territories have the r.ht 10 settle all
questions oths sortof themselves and then rested from
her tremendous lablrs.
1t is not much TO the tone Of those resolutions that
object. to that of the press in South Carolina
openly heahes discord AMI dsunion. We hardly omen
paper from that quarter which does not contain some
paragraph in which the value Of the Uniin is openly
ca'uaied frequently IN the most hateful of all styles in
dollars aud It's advantages are hahi tuay scTed
a. We can excuse great deal Of This in South Caro-
lima sort of American China, each sovereign Of which
IS taught to believe that he is the "broher of the Sun
and cousin German Of the Moon and that all the world
beyond the limits of his Celestial Empire is but
congregation of outside barbarians Yet, if they were
constituted like other peope-if they were not so COM
pIeely hemmed in by the Tartar wall of prejudice and
selt-opnlon-we would fam ask them, what end they
calculate upon obtaining. by peaceby seeding as thew
propose TO do, from the Union2 They cannot carry
single Southern State aloug with them. and if they aite
themselves that they can they are most previously mis-
aiken. They cannot fnce, thereby, the object which
they appear t. have IN vleThat of carrying their slaves
into Caltm MIA. If they exist an independent people,
they leave TO the other States Of the Union all united
and forming wall of fire around them the RIGHT to de-
clare war against them, whenever they may think proper
here will they look for alles2 England and France
cannot help them Even now they see the Northern
barbarian pouring his hundreds Of thousands Of myrm
donS upon Western Europe wi bout the power arrest
his progress. There is term describe the utter
nSgnfrance into which, in such an event, they must
of necessity sink.
1t is IiuIe curious, that while the press of South
Carolina is habluay INDUCING strain of denuncia-
ton Of The Union their example is copied with the Ut
most hdeIty at the other end of the Union by men
whose objects opposite it is possible to conceive
he Anu slavery Convention which met at New York
during The week in which the great riots occurred dealt
ont IN resolutions, and through the mouths OF their ora
tors, furious threats and denuncation against the Union
Should not this of itself cause the people of South Caro-
Ina to open their eyes! Do they MT that in endpav
ong to weaken the bonds Of the Union they are playing
INTO the hands of these fanatics whose avowed
object is the destruction of their property The amalraton
OF races. the kindng of servie and the supremacy
OF the African the Caucasian race Do they no,
see that the only safety to their institutions lies in the
preservation Of that Union which lhev are madlv de-
5lrous Of postatng in the dust If they are inseusi-
bic to the security all der' ed from the continuance of
our present form of government, they will al least
listen to the. words of who is of their own party
and has always been understood TO have strong South
ern bias.
Hon. G. J. Tngerso after having detailed The incidents
oil The Hartford convention in speaking of the delegates
sent by 1t to Washington, says 'Whe not hair Of
their heads was harmed permitted 10 live and die and
one yet surviving unmoesed in their persons and proper-
towh fam private characters,yet condemned complete
and wholesome public dec radiation for the dreadful risk
by which they exposed the first trial Of war BY the re-
pullcan government of cOneoerated country by m at
tempt 10 reduce lts States to ACKNOWLEDGMENT aud thus
bring back ages perpetual civil war; by Kings perad-
Venture, of Virginia, fighting Kings of Massachusetts,
embracing all the intermediate States like hostile tribes
OF baTbarous Indians inevitably involved in universal and
ncessant conflict Europe, instead of federal head,
maintain the balance of power immense cost Of blood
and treasure by the armed prevention Of Otherwise per-
peual war. Instead of that compelled peace the IT,
States of America bu their Federal Union have suhs,