North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-12-04
SOUTH CAROLINA.

the Legislature of South Carolina on the 26h ultimo.
1t is an able and eloquent document, and while it is
firm and determined, il is conservative in its tone.
On motion of Mr.. Memminger, the Legislature have
resolved in pursuance of Gov. Seabrooks recommen-
dation apPoin, Friday, the 6th as day of Fasting
! and Prayer.
We make the following extracts from Gov. Sea-
brooks Message:
while l rejoice in the conviction that a large
number of individuals at the North do entertain
sentative opinions the matter of slave property,
and whose voice is occasionally heard in the uproar
of the waters of strife, yet overawed by the impeu-
osty of the torrent which is perhaps destined
whem the land, they involuntarily shrink from the
task of attempting 10 stay lis progress. The instan-
in which, where the effort has been made
deprivation of Office, other mark of dispeasure and
rebuke, did not quickly follow. This of itself, if
proof were needed procaims the Representatives, and
allpervading character of the disease which affects
the body polite of that extensive and popuous region
For about one-third of her political existence, South
Carolina has presented almost scene of
disquletude and excitement under the provocaton of
contumeies and threats, poured from thousand
tongues, and in forms the offensive. During
that period, it may with truth be affirmed, that the
public mind has not for year been free o the most
painful solicituGe Peace indeed has long fled from
borders, and discomfort and alarm everywhere
present. Better, far better, it would have been, for
the South engage in deadly conflict with the N or
than to have endured the torturng anxiety of an an
o1laous struggle, the consequences of which be-
yond the ken of human prescience. An open is
limited by the causes which produce it, but the fur
Their continuance of such war,-political, religious
and social-as has been waged by one party against
the other, and in which strictly defensive attitude
has unwaverngly been preserved by the weaker,
would falsty and dishonor the history of the Anglo
Saxon race. Whatever may be said by the demagogue
and the fanatic, it is pride and high privilege to
DECLARE that the unexampied torbearance of the South
is referable solely its unaffected devotion the
compact of 1889, and the principles of constitutional
liberty.
Our present distressed and agitated condition has
not arisen solely from the recent aggressive measures
of the Federal Government. These effected by ILL
cit and willy combinations, having destroyed forever
the balance of power between the sections, the
equality of the Staes and the equality of right in the
people of the States, constitute the browning evil
dence Of the fixed determination of dominant ma
jorty TO consummate its perhdious purpose of seizng
by law of it's enactment, the entire inheritance
of common ancestry. The startling truth at length
stands openly revealed, that the last hope of aresng
the of infatuated rulers is gone forever. The
final of the drama is over, and when the curtain
which the future from the eye of the patriot
shall be lifted, it may be, that the Palmetto banner
will be seen among other standards, waving over a
triumphant people, united in institutions. and in de-
termination to maintain with fidelity their rela-
tions with their cosovereigns and the nations of the
world. But should it please the Al-wise Disposer |!
of events in His inscrutable Providence TO assign US
the condition of the British Islands of the West, and
rivet the chains with which nlanacled, the
people of South Carolina will, at least, be comforted
with the assurance, that while ignorant of their des
tiny they unmindful of the duty they owed
to themselves, their descendants and their country.
Does hope still nger in your bosoms that the dark
cloud which envelopes the political horizon will yet
be dispelled That the enemy will forego his pre-
meditated design Of reducing your honored Common
wealth to colonial vassalagea To these questions |
satisfactory will be found in the melancholy
experience of the past-the overwshadowing infu- !
of the General Government. insured by the |
permanent ascendency of the sectional party which |
aims al the humiliation of property, the history
of fanatcism, the renewed and augmented agitation
of the slavery question: and the recent practical vei
cation of fears that, at the Nor the provisions
of the Constitution in behalf of Southern rights
not be enforced without the shedding of blood. If, |
to that section which has the control of every |
department of the government, the preservation of
the Confederacy is indispensable to the completion
of its work of dissertation and ruin, to its dissou
ton, compact between thirty-one States, is
essary social and political quiet and the safety
of our institutions Ordained establish Justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common |
Defence promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty ourselves and poserity'-
in relation to each and all of these essential Objects
the Bond of Union having been deliberately mutila- |
ted by majority of the contracting parties, the mi
norty have longer any security for life, liberty and
property.
The time, then. has arrived resume the exercise
of the powers of scfprotecon. which, in the hour
of unsuspectng confidence surrendered to foreign
hands. We must re-organise our political system on
and safer basis. There is no power, mo-
raj physical, that prevent it, The event is inds
soubly linked with its cause, and fixed destiny.
In the admonitory language our lamened statesman,
" the calamity that could beall would be to
lose our independence, and to sink down into state
of acknowledged neriority, depending for security
forbearance, and not capacity and DISPOSE |
ton to defend ourselves"
have not attempted to discuss the question of Sc
cession. The right by State to withdraw from the
Union, results from the nature and principles of the
Constitutional compact, to which the States So |
vereign parties. While adhering faithfully to the
remedy of joint State action for redress of common
grievances, beseech you to remember, that con-
juncture of events ought induce abandon the
right of deciding ultimately on our own destiny.
In recommending, as now do, that South Carroll !
should interpose her sovereignty in order to pro-
tect her citizens, and that by cooperation with her
aggreved sister States she may he enabled to aid in
averting the doom which impends the civil nsti-
buttons of the South, it is fit and proper that a
Commonw ealth, we should, at early day, to be I
designated by you, mplore the God of fathers for
the pardon of manifold transgressons, and invoke
his protection and guidance in this day of trouble
and affection, that he would gracousy vouchsafe to
enlghten the minds of Federal rulers, the North
and its citizens. and direct them in the way of truth,
of and of justice, and preserve once happy
political family from the unspeakable horrors of civil
strife"
John Fl. Leary, intelligent Farmer and Fish |
of this County, recently ordered two thousand