The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-27

~ Toisolats South Casolina from her so~1h
eFn sisters excite their prejudiess against her
as arrogant and preaumptuous- and to make her
the scape-goat Of the Southern movement--has
been the effort Of many of the compromisers
from the Great Paciicetor" down the des-
cending scale to the picayunc editors Of penny
papers
How futile all these efforts have been, the
tone Of the most respectable and influential
portion of the Southern prints, as well as of
the leading public men abundantly proves
The day has past when appeals to such
unworthy jealousies and rivalries as once divi-
ded sister States, can produee any other effect
than that of drawing them closer together in
sentiment and in sympathy. From the Augusta
(Ga.) Republic, leading Wing paper, We take
the following eloquent culogum
South CARoLINA.--s South Carolina makes
no move. There she stands in DEFENSIVE
ATTITUDE, with her lance 'couched' and not a
feather quivering in her plume"
Such is the position occupied by this much
abused but truly noble and gallant State, as de-
II.
+. w. Pickens. 1t prcscns, in few but felicitous
terms, the calm, assured and determined bear
ing, with which she awaits the ominous future.
The time for words with her has gone blythe
argument is utterly exhausted She has asked
again and again for justice and equal rights
she now patiently awaits the answer Standing
entirely upon the defensive, "with her lance in
rest, and her visor down." she is the very per-
sanitation of calmness and rcsolutcnes of pur-
pose.
"1he Bluffton boys" as the Chronicle and
Sentinel so much delights to call the citizens of
South Carolina, by way of puny ridicule are no
men III buckraln," snO men Of straw" but
manly, firm and determined Southern men, who
know their rights and are fully prepared to de-
feni them. Unseduccd by golden promises,
and unterrfied by empty threats, her Sous are
ready to defend her cherished rights and main
tain her stainless honor in any every contin-
gency. The attitude she has assumed is a
glorious one--she will maintain it firmly, but
temperately, to the last extremity.
S0UTH CAROLINA Is MODEL FOR HER SISTER
SOUTHERN STATES. Her history is a history
filled with proofs of her noble devotion to con
stitutional rights and a constitutional Union.
The world knows her history by heart" There
she stands, still ready to defend such rights
still willing to live ulder such Union, but
under none other. When it is to be made an
agent of injury and oppression, her attachment
to it necessarily talters. She scorns submission
TO injustice, and doubly scorns the traitor She
wishes to enjoy her just rights IN THE UNION if
posslble--lF DENIED TO HER, she will not kesi-
tate, and honored be she for it, to seek them
out of it.
She is truly model for her sister States
Int, al
fortified position, she throws herself back upon
her rights as guaranteed by the Constitution, and
in her struggle for justice and perfect equality,
.sLet come what will, she means to bear it out,
And either live with glorious victory
Or die with fame, renowned for chivalry."
Would that every Southern State presented
the same front of battle to the Free-soi host.
How full of hope and trust would then be the
cause of the endangered South! How more
than secure would be her periled rights--how
more than triumphant would be her now almost
utterly hopeless cause? Will not Georgia and
every other Southern State assume the same no.
Bile and exalted position, and present the same
united front to the Abolition phalanx! 1t is the
last hope of the South for obtaining justice--the
last and only remaining means of safety With
this unanimity of feeling existing among US
this union of hearts and union of hands in the
coming contest OF sections, the South will not,
cannot su!ier-but without it, if divided, dis
tracted and untrue to herself, she will only in
vitcaggrcssion, and reap a mockery Of justice,
"A harvest of despair. We call upon the South
ern people everywhere to unite. We must
" hang out the banner on the outer WALL"
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