The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-03-06
Washington Correspondence Of The Ne,. York
~ Herald.
WASHINGTON, Feb. I5,

....sr Herald.
WAsrrxcro Feb. Is, 1850.
| wrote you yesterday. The Herald of
ioh contains an account ofihe Meet:;ir at
Iammany Hall. The glory OF Old Tammany
has, Indeed, departed. Her moral power is i
gone Tho Democracy arc shorn of their
strength. They are now contemptibIe.-
Faction, corruption and the love OF power,
for the sake Of spoils and plunder, have done
their work. Tho great days Of Old Tamrna.
ny area passed, She is now ruled by men
WI x s1gs ,nnd without power or in =
fuencc. Those who love the Union, and
who have looked forward cheerily to the
great gathering in the old wigwam, and pro.
phesicd that there and then, the fell spirit OF
Free SoiiisIn and Aboltionisrn xoud bc re-
buked and put down, arc wofully dsappoint-
cd. The result Of that meeiin. has aston
shed many here. The effect of it through the
South will he bad; far better would it have
heen, that the meeting had never been called
or held.
Such chaps as those who conducted the
Tanllnany Hall meeting have nothing to lose
by separation OF the Southern from North
ern States. Plunder has ever been their life
hlood-they have lived OH ,-and dissolu-
ton Of the Union would rather improve their
They own no property; they have no houses,
and are not engaged either in commerce, ag-
rculture or manufactures. But how is il
with the merchants, shipowners, and men
who have something at stake! No matter
whether they are Democrats or Wings. Let
them pause now. while it is yet time, and
think before they act. The Southern States
ask it. They have warned their brethren Of
the North; will they heed it, while there is
time to save the Union! There is vast
difference between warning and menace.-
The South have, thus far, only spoken the
former. The farmers of the free States, have
their all at hazard. few months may bring
about separation SO complete and so paraly.
izing to them, that they would give half their
fortunes to have the opportunity they now
have OF averting the threatened catastrophe
| The South have counted the cost OF scpar-
| alton, and know the value Of the Union TO
| them, if the North arc to continue the ag
grcssors They love the Union, but not en-
ough TO sacrifice their rights and all that
they hold dear under ifs Constitution. for the
mere name of being in the Union. Every
would be gamers by tho dissolution of the
| Union. The presses OF The North are deceiv-
ing the people in regard to the feeling in the
South. They are doing it wifully. The
Southern States, through their presses, are
not heard at the North-savc in the Herald,
their tone is not re echoed. Hence, the mis-
chcif that is about to ensue. The Northern
papers are deceived, if not criininally trying
to deceive, at this crisis. The Southern pa
pers have no circulation in the free States
The voice Of the presses of the South ls,
therefore, silcnced, or rather unhesr I'd out OF
its own borders They have no central or
gan or press, which echoes their sentiments,
feelings, wishes, their causes of complaint
and the Justice they want accorded to them.
! The presses of the North sneer 1T any danger
and are daily engaged in lulling the reoDle o
the free States into fatal security Say
what they may, at ths moment the peo 10 ol
thirteen Southern States are ready for a
Southern Convention, and ripe to carry its de.
liberation into effect, even should the first re-
I solution be the solemn and serious one o
/ seeding from the free States, at all hazards
and forever; and, the second resout,on--nc
less solemni.a-to organize Republic of the
Soutliern United States; and il the slavery
i question is not settled 'dhsng the intermedi
ate TING the Southern Convention will NEE,
! at Nashville in June next; and thens long
4 gooa'nigh: TO the peace, prosperity, and power
4 of the present Federal Union; for5the Nortf
sayr there shall be no peaceable separation
consequently occaHsof the blood of brethren
must bo poured out before any new arrange.
ment can be accomplished
Let the ball Of disunion, once be started
and it cannot be stopped! Let the Soutf
! once taste disunion, and determination onl!
can checkIit Southern leaders eas they ars
called at the North) cannot check i';;Hamp
don, in England, might as well have tried Il
Z stop the revolution which took off the head o
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