The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-12-18
FROM HON. J. X. POINsErT TO THE
PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

fhOM nun. y. II. fOiNSEl ~ hE
PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
From the Charleston Mercury If December 5. .
FELLowlC lCiTIzESs My object in ad-
dressing YOU in this crisis of our affairs
will scarcely be misunderstood | am
a Csrolinian by birth and principle. and
all own in the world is vested in lands
and negroes. lhave commen interest
then in the question before the country,
and right to express my views and
opinions. should not. however. have
departed from my determination to abb
stain from taking partin politics, if Ihad
notlately enjoyed unusual opportunities
Of observing the conduct and character
.of, the opposition made at the North to
our institutions, and if ! had not per
ceived from the tenor Of the speeches
and writings published in the State that
the subject IS not fully understood in
South Carolina. These speeches and
writings have tended to irritate the
feelings Of some, and to alarm the fears
of others, among our fellow-citizens Of
the North. Many. however. among
them have regarded these outbursts Of
passion without resentment, and have
assembled together in recent meetings
to testify their devotion to the Union,
and their firm determination to main
tain the laws of the country. On one
Of these occasions, on my, passage
through Philadelphia, I was solicited to
be present, that L might witness their
proceedings and bear testimony to you
that our fellow -citizens of Pennsylvania
were animated with the kindliest feel
ings towards US, and determined to see
the laws affecting our property enforced
within their State. resisted the inn
p0rtunities of my numerous friends
there, because | did not desire to take
part in the proceedings Of another
State. AZ Carolinian, I desired to
speak to my fellow citizens of Carolina
from my own home among them. | did
not wish to appear to rebuke the winds
and waves Of our agitated sea from
distant shore, but reserved nv efforts
to calm them until my return among
YOU. But in justice to the great and
good men who assembled at New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston, to yindicate
the laws and to declare their firm de-
termination to maintain them. feel
bound to say that they were animated
By the purest and noblest motives, and
have throughout cyinced the most praise
worthy zeal and patriotism. | am per-
sonally and intimately acquainted with
many of them, and believe that they
will maintain to the utmost the senti-
m.nts they expressed on those occa-
sios. The great error, itappears to me,
that we have committed, is that we have
given too much consequence to the
wicked and designing men who strive
to produce discord among us and to de-
stroy the peace and prosperity of the
country. that they may revel in the
spoils, or elevate themselves to power
by pandering to the passions and pre-
jadice of the vilest factions. Depend
upon it these men are moral lepers,
despised by the masses as we'll as by
the enlightened portions Of the commu-
nifty every where. They are powerful
for evil | know, because they are organ
lied and inscriptions. and from the
period of the first French revolution.
when small organized faction deluged
France in blood, to the present day, we
all know the power exercised by we'll
organized aud unscrupulous faction of
the people, however insignificant in
numbers and character.
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