The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-09-10

another, uuu, the South, weakened, dis
IP!n.ed and degraded, will yield 10 emanci-
patton, or dissolve the Union. Looking TO
the pa,t--ookiug 70 the nature OF things
deem all reliance on the good faith OF the
| free States, 10 protect the institution Of slave
~ in the South, VAN aud futile. The south
must protect itself Us force IS powerless IN
Congress and in the Union, because it Is
minority, To give to our people that pro-
lection and peace which the Constitution
and Union was established 10 secure the
South she must sever the connection with
the North
If dissolution of the Union is the stern
alternative 10 submission to a Government
without limitation in its powers il may not
be improper to glance atits consequences on
the physical prosperity Of the South. Such
considerations are as nothing TO the great
ends of liberty and security, but may well
be looked 10 in view of adopting this alter
native.
Is there anything the Union now affords,
which the South could not as well possess
without it? In the taxes imposed and ex-
! Ipended, we will be free One-third the rate
of duty we now pay on the chief articles we
| import, by the tariff of the Union, will be
amply sufficient for the wants of govern
ment, whilst all revenue from taxation will
be spent within ourselves. The voice OF in.
suit and accusation instigating lnsuwection
within our borders, will be hushed. BY
our physical power, we can protect our
selves against foreign nations: whilst by
our productions we can command their
peace or support. The keys Of their wealth
and commerce are in our hands waich we
will freely offer to them, by system Of free
trade, making our prosperity their interests
Our security, their care. The lingering
Or decaying cities Of the South, which be-
fore our revolution, carried on all their for
eign commerce. buoyant with prosperity
and wealth but which are now only pro
vincia towns, sluggish suburbs of Boston
and New York, will rise up to their em-
braces, the richest commerce Of the world.
That desoation, more sad than deserted
hahtations or G ass grown streets, or crum.
bling walls-that desoa.ion which enters
The domestic circle, and robs the hearth oil
the happy inmates who surround it--that
worst Of all esoation-emigration will
cease from within our midst. Our children
may live with us, and rise with q rising
: country. Instead Of that gloom which rests
in the bosom OF every parent amongst us,
= who looks around and sees all the avenues
by which his children may obtain an honor.
able livelihood, choked up with competition
new hope and life will fill his anticipation
: Wealth, honor and power, and one of the
most glorious destinies which ever crowned
great and happy people, await the South
if she but controls her own fate; but con.
trolIed by another people, what pen shat
paint the infamous and bloody catastrophe
which must mark her fall!
: have thus, feow-citizens, fulfilled my
! word. have spoken with open breast tc
: you this night, Of your present condition
and future political prosperity For the
> sentiments | have uttered and the counsel
have given, it may be thers are some who
= will be ready to exclaim--Traitor! A
Traitor to what and to whom? To South
+ Carolina 1t is to save her in her rights, in
i stitutions, and sovereignty, that | wouC
d counsel dlsunion. Traitor to the constitu
II ton. The constitution has no existence
u under the constructions Of consolidation, aut
e the base purposes OF abolition, to which it i
n made to subserve. Traitor to the Union
e There is no union without the constitution
n That is its bond and condition Destro,
l. the one, and all faith to the other is absolved
oi Faith towards both, as the Government
II administered, are incompatible things. 7,
le maintain the Union, is 10 acquiesce in tn
e destruction of the constitution; and TO main
tain the constitution, we must dissolve In
H. Union, to afford the only chance Of its restc
Il ration, But let it be that | am a traitor
- The word has no terrors for me. am Dor
a. of traitors-trators IN England, in the Rev
IL olution, in the middle OF the seventeent
10 century-traitors again in the Revolution {
IL 1920 when under the lead of an ancestc
NJ South Carolina was rescued from the CT
y PRECIOUS rule of the Lords proprietors an
as traitors again in the Revolution Of l776.
O. have been born Of traitors, but thank Coz
II they have ever been traitors in the grei
III cause OF liberty, fighting against tyranE
,s' and oppression. Such treason will ever |
SIS mine whilst true to my lineage. But if
's' hear Alright, am not the only traitor thot
IS perilous times have produced. | am su
IL rounded by host of traitors ready 10 stril
ne for equality aid independence against fla 9
" tious incendiaries those real traitors wi
ne would convert the Union into bond Of j
IN famous degradation, or a Gordon OF fire
r. cUngurns me south. Returning from Mas
n vile, through the interior Of our State,
er learned that the people in one Of our upp
"a districts, fearing that the Nashville conve
ed ton would be failure, were already agit
ne ting the policy of South Carolina, takii
eu her rights into her own hands, and actil
eS alone in their vindication. There was Il
as true spirit of old South Carolina, and thil
NJ | hear it proclaimed in your cheers, that S
eli at least will never submit to dishonorat
ph subsection and ruin. She will join her s
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