The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-07-31
bloody catastrophe viii, h must mark her

fall! '''1' "oi
| have thus, fellow-ctizens, fulfilled nv
~ord. l have spoken with open breast to
you tins night, of your present condition
ana iuture political prospects. Eor the
sentiments have uttered and the counsel
nave gwen, it may be there are some who
VIII DC ready to oXclaim--Trailer! A
traitor to What and to whom! TO South
carolina! 1t is to save her in her rights,
institutions, and sovereignty, that | would
counsel dlsunlon Traitor TO the Cons,itu-
| tion! The Constitution has no existence
| under The constructions of consolidation.
ana the base purposes of abolition, to which
It Is made to subserve. Traitor TO the Tn.
on There is no union without the Con
stitutlon! That is It's bond and condition
Destroy the one, and all faith to tho other
! Is aDso'vcd. Faith tow rds both, as ,hr
Government Is administered, are incu,npat
ibic thin.s 70 maintain the Onion, is 10
acquicsce IN the destruction of the Cousti-
tuition; and to malntan tho Constitution.
we must dissolve the Union; to afford the
only chance ot It's restoration. But let i,
be, that ! am a traitor. The word has no
tcrrors Tor me. am born of Traitors
traitors IN England, in the Revolution, in
, The middle OF the Seventeenth century.
Traitors again in the Revolution, OF l72n,
When under the lead Of an ancestor South
Carolina was rescued irol,nthc capric.ous
rule OF the Lords propric:ore, and Traitors
! again IN the Revolution Of l77G. | have
been born Of Traitors in the great cause of
liberty, lighting against tyranny an;l op
press!on. Such treason viii ever be mine
whilst 'ruo,o my lineage Bat i'll hear a
right, am not the only Traitor these pcr-
l'ous tunes have produced. am surround.
cd by hos, Of Traitors ready to strike for
| equality and Independence arainst those
fagitous inccn1arics; those real Traitors
who would convert the Union into a bond
OF infamous degradation, or a Gordon of fire
to consume TIC South Returning from
| Nashville, through the interior orour State.
learned ,ha, the people in ono Of onr M.
per Districts fearing that lc Nashville
Nashville Convention would be 4 failure.
were already agta,ing tho policy of Sou,h
Carolina taking her rights into her own
, hands, and acting alone in their viniira,ion.
There was the true spirit Of old South Car.
DINA, and think heard i, proclaimed in
your cheers, ;llat she al least will never
submit 10 dtshonorablc subcction and rain
She VIII join her sister States of tho
south, or support any o! them, in al! cypc
dents Tor redress they may oposc, aud
Is content ever to follow rather than 10 lead.
, hut II they should knccl down To a Gov
crnIncnt without limitations on its powers,
under The control Of the conso!;da,innisis
and ant-Slavcry propagandis,s OF the North
she viii not submit, Ii Mississippi aban-
d"nS uS-bravc and true in counsel as in
the hcil, the first to sound the bur,c, which
has called the South together for the vim
dIcaiIon OF her rights; ;and Alabama where
50 many o our sons have planted tbcir
homes, and, rs VIC have fon,iiv hopcu. have
aided III setting up III richer cline, =
younger and rcshcr lihcrlv--a p,Irrr and
ioiilcr hatred Of tyranny; and Georria, the
f'mpIrc State OF the South proud u! her
greatness and strength but proudcr still OF
that !rcc spirit and laun.lcS$ conrarc which
never yrt has quailcd in The maintenance
OF her rights. And Virginia, the old nar
ship OF the South, To whom we viii all
yield, It she yields not herself, 10 lead us
on tovIctory and redemption great in spr-
; It arrtil wisdom. and dunconquerabe as she
Is greenland Kentucky and Tennessee
not only abandon us, but rs some 0t tllrir
statesmen have vcnturcd 10 proclaim, shall
lain with Ahnitionss and Consultations
lsts 10 subject Us ~ the Gomin on Of The
free States, shall South Caroina submit
No. no, my fricmk' Smaller States have
before us struggled successfully for their
independence and freedom araius, far
greater orlds: and il il mus, be, we can
make ono brave, ,lone, last desperate slriir
Tc. for our rights and honor, ere the black
pal! Of tyranny is strctI he'd over the bier of
orr dead liberties. TO meet death 4 lllic
sooner or aier, can he. oi consequence to
very few "l us: whilst dlHy performed, may
roman III iis effect TO many generations,
and 4 !ar ,nnc, live forever. lcnkinr 10
thnt 'iihyinT reputation which has ever to!-
lowed every people who hryc ia.ovl all 10
preserve thcir lihcr;cs, and have couuIcr
ell or pcrisicil nohly in their defence: in.
stead OF shrinking, we nigh, uaut for The
lrlai winch silall isolate Soa,h Carolina IN
THIS grea, controversy. But we wish no
'Soiat on We desire peace, wc dcs,rc llb.
, crty, that peace and liberty winch The Con
| sl'luici' vas intended to secure, but which
has been bascly arrested iionr u4 by see
tionai lanatlc ISM, avaricr. .1d ambition.