The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-03-14

Kind Of coastsi tsit,stiossa al discrimination iii
favor their own assumed superior
meritY Have we not seensan undue
proportion Of our labor, iins the various
shapes Of tribute, through the gcvern-
ment, descending like genial showers up lI-
onStheir barren rocks and frozen hiils,
and beheld their splendid cities 30 arise
to glitter2in their magni6cence! Have
we not thus behold our brethren of the
North to wax fat, and grow insolent in
the unmeasured and unrestrained boun-
ties afforded by this ever glorious Un-
ion in their. BEHALF And have We fail
ed, or our part to adhere honestlyt to all
the COMPROMISES under the Constitu-
tioni intended for their benefit? ltj
Further, when these States entered
into their political union, they entered
as FREQ, sovereign and independent
States--and therefore as equals
Equality was Of the very cssence--the
basis of the compact. Whenever,
therefore, any movement is made to as.
sail thatiequality, it is direct attempt
to abrogate their sovereignty, and to
destroy their character as States
What less than this have the nonsave-
holding States been cffccting in their
wicked war upon the domestic institu.
tons of the South? The effort to es-
,tablish the distinction involved in. the
sWilmot Proviso (and its known meas
nres) which has recently been ac-
knowledged by almost strictly sectional
vote inthe popular branch of Congress,
Is odlous and insulting; destructive utter
ly of the political equality of the States,
and ifsubmitted to degrading to tho char
acter of the free people who may inhabit
them. BY what sort of reasoning do the
non.slaveholding States attempt to JUS
ty their studious exclusion of the South
from fair and equal participation in
the enjoyment ofthe common property of
US ll;acquired by a common expendi-
turc Of blood and treasure; of whic!. ,se
are joint owners, and in which we are
entitled by every rule of honest inter
probation, to rights exactly equal? Or
whence is derived the and mighty pow
or claimed for the government to pre-
scribe the quality Of our Estates in the
Territories, and to restrict cur citizens
to the possession and use of such proper
ty'only as pulling philanthropy shall
see fitto dictate? Will thoy be found
in the Constitution or any honest inter
probation of the reasons thereof? Orsug-
gcsted by o sound christian phi,anthro-
py? Let those who claim it point it out.
The reasoning can only be, justified by,
power drawn from that tinsatiate appe-
ute, hichevergrows by what it feeds
on, the raging, rapacious lust of political
power, which now induces the non-slavc
holding States to cut off the slavehold-
ing States from all hope, or prospect of
future acccssion--so may they rule the
government, and controlling the fnan-
ces, press out of us even that little of
life and gold they have left US.
1t is true that these aggressive
States hold out various prctenccs to
hide from the world the uglincss of
their real motives. Sometimes q holy
horror at their con-fraternity with the
abominable owners Of human flesh seiz.
cs the tender consciences of these Just
men, who forget that they still carry
the price of this samo human flesh in
their pockets. Sometimes tho doc
trines of q sublime philanthropy are ad-
vantageously affectcd--then the catch
words are liberty, uniycrsalHbyty and
equality among all mankind. High
and holy words are these! But in their
mouths are like the rushing of the wind
through tho cavities of dead mans
skull-merc sound, having no concern
with either brains or heart.
Have the free negroes Of the North
received from their former masters the
boon of genuine liberty? Idle mockery
to say SO! Their former masters found
it too expensive to support them; SO they
were turned loose to support them
selves. Aswc understand it, the pride
and dignity, the value and true charac.
terlstic Of genuine liberty consist in the
full, free and equal participation of the
rights, privileges aud immunities, SO.
cial, civil and political that pertain to
tho people of a State at large. 10 say
that this is the liberty they have be-
slowed, is to announce fraud-dc-
grading to every just idea Of liberty.
1t cannot therefore be the unmixed
honest love which these pseudo philan.
thropists pretend for the negro, which
drives them athwart the rights of thcir
neighbors and the Constitution of their
country.