The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-20
From the Jackson (Miss.) Southron.
The Flag OF Disunion thrown to tho
Breeze,


II will be recollected by our readers that Mr.
Rhet, Of the delegates of South Carolina to the
Nashville convention, on his return home, address
ed the citizens of Charleston. His speech on that
occasion, reported by "Curtius," appeared in the
Courier of that city. 1t copied into the South
ron. Soon after the appearance Of the report of
"Curtus," MIR. Rhett, in a letter TO the editor of
the Courier, complained that his remarks had been
msrepresented and distorted. Since then the adj
dress, as revised by Mr.. Rhct, has been published
and so far from having been unjusily reported by
"Curtus," it appears to have been almost literally
correct. The printed copy of the revised speech
fully and triumphantly sus,ains the positions and
differences of the Couie's correspondent
The whole speech is a studied attempt TO prepare
the hearts Of his hearers for dsunion lie says: al
invite you 10 a calm and serious consideration Of
your condition in the Union in order that you may
do your part in the grand drama of it's dissolution,
which, il appears TO me, must take place at no
very distant day"
Ills remarks then assume the syllogistic form Of
reasoning. The proposition he advances is sue
'cinctly this: No government which docs not grant
liberty and protection 10 Citizens ought TO stand;
the Government Of the Union now administered
docs not grant liberty and protection TO its cit-
zens; therefore IL ought TO be dissolved.
The fret premise Of this proposition ia a general
truth which no one is called upon either to affirm
or deny: we shall. therefore, readily and freely adj
NIT it as undeniable. But the second premise,
namely, the Government Of the Union now adj
ministered docs not grant liberty and protection TO
its citizens on the truth or falsity Of which the
whole syllogism depends, is what we most en-
phatically deny; this denial shall endeavor to
make good, and n we do, we have the argument.
In making good our position shall confne
npr IN fho thrpc rarcd NV Mr. bctt
why the Union should be dissolved. l. Unjust
taxation Of the South by the General Government
in the imposition Of duties. O. The unequal dis
tribuion to the South of the benefits of these du-
ties. B. refusal the part Of the North to allow
the South equal participation in the territory
lately acquired from Mexico.
l. Unjust taxation Of the South by the General
Government in the imposition Of duties, The bur-
den Of taxation may be more grievously felt by the
South, but it is not the fault Of the General Con
ernmcnt. The North, in developing her industrial
resources, has shaped her course as to supply,
to far greater extent than the South, her own
wants within her limits. She seeks to cstab-
lish home market for every thing sho can. She
thus becomes less dependent others, keeps morau
money under her control, and hence pays her pro-
portion Of the with but little inconvenience.
Not so with the South. Not keeping in view the
incontrovertble fact, that no purely agricultural
nation ever hourishcd in tho highest of that
term she blindy forces almost every thing she pro-
duces out Of the country-whie every thing she
needs she brings into the country. This policy
will be suicdalt TO the true interests OF any country
And il will be equally fatal whether we have our
wants supplied in England or at the North. Mr.
Rhct is mistaken, therefore, in attributing to the
action Of the General Government what is properly
and legitimately the result of northern industry
and enterprise And if, instead Of conjuring up
absurd images of fsncied wrongs to the South, he
would go to work and cnl ghten himself on a few
simple principles Of political economy, he will dis
cover that he consult the interests Of his fellow
citizen. quite "a much by instructing them how to
construct and operate factories and workshops,
thus bringing the consumer and producer in close
proximity he will by endcavoring to bring
about the horrors ofintestnc war and political an
initiation.