The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-05-10

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the knife on the one hand, and the rifle aud |
the nusket OIL the other, must be resorted |
to, to decide the question OF supremacy be-
tween the two races, or our country must be
given up to the negro, and become. with all
its refinement, its opulence, and its fair fields
the home of repties-a dark chasrn of bar
barism, dcsolation and abandonment.
All nations pursue the policy OF enlarg-
ing the limits of their soil, that population,
as it increases, may have room TO expand,
that the means of subsistence may be secur
ed for redundant population, and that the
lniseries of famine may be averted If this
enlargement Of the soil Of State be accom-
plished by just means, it is consistent not
only with wise national policy, but also
with the law Of nature and of nations. The
United States, at the conclusion of the late
treaty with Mexico, were in possession of the
means of national expansion to an extent
unknown to any other State or people
With public domain sufficient for the ma
tional growth of all the States of the Union
tor period of five centuries, the northern
abolition parliament has virtually set apart
every square mile Of the public domain for
the sole use of the North, for the purpose
OF giving supremacy to the form of civiliza-
ton which they prefer, and to increase their
already paramount political power, and have
thereby utterly excluded the people of the
s!aveholding States and the form of civiliza-
ton which they prefer, from all participation
in its benefits, although mainly purchased
with Southern blood and treasure. Over
the line which the North has thus drawn
around the south, the white man may pass
but the negro slave cannot, and to the white
mans permission to pass over, the hard con-
dition is appended, that he must abandon
forever the form of civilization under which
ne was born, and adopt another to which he
ls stranger in feeling and affection. But
be the condition ever 80 hard, man must 90
where his interests lead him, and it is a fair
Inference from the preceding propositions,
that if We add to the number of our white
population who die within our limits, the
number of those who will pass the bounds
assigned u.s. the amount will equal the natu-
raj increase of our population. and that as a
consequence our white population will in
crease but little beyond the present number,
while the African, confined to his Jail bounds,
will increase in numbers daily, until the con-
dition of things above described must and
will come. So refined is the cruelty, so art
tul the means resorted to, to accomplish our
ruin, that our national growth is arrested,
and our vitality mildewed and blighted.-
From hencetorth our national existence, like
the mighty oak of the forest, with its heart
decayed, and IFS foliage scathed nv the light
ning's blast, can be but living death-a
prolonged dissolution. Our national pro-
gress IS cut off, our property confscated, flor
a part OF the public domain was ours,) and
our national increase and extension inter-
o'cted ana prohibited 6y aci Of the northern
parliament, by the tyranny Of government
rs essentially foreign to us as was the British
Parliament to the American Colonies, when
the stamp act was passed. The decree OF
the Roman Senate against Carthage is reviv-
ed, re-enactcd, and entered Of record against
us-"Delenda est Carthago." The South
must be destroyed, and no means ever re-
sorted to BY the tyran's of the world, to ac-
compllsh the ruin of State, have been more
ehectual than those must be, which the north
have enacted against the south. It is in ef
feet provided that our white population shall
increase no more, and that the national death
of the South Atlantic and Gulf States NAV
be sealed, 1t is also in effect decreed that the
negro race shall increase in our midst contin-
ualiy, until our wives and children cannot
lay their heads upon their pillows for repose,
without armed guards at our doors to insure
their safety. This monstrous scheme of tyr.
amy, spoliation and ilnposture does not stop
here. The physical condition of the second
and third line of States, into which the Afr.
can race has extended, will enable the great
er number of these States to avoid the doom
provided for the Atlantic and Gulf States.
oy selling their slaves to the last nameJ
States, and then going over to the empire of
the north and joining our enemies, as then
are 'aow doing. This is one reason why these
border States do not now unite with the AT.
Iantic and Gulf States for redress Of WRONGS
They see before them the means of escane
from the doom prepared for US, and leaving
us TO our fate, they 60 over to the side Of
power, and will in the end espouse the cause
ofour enemies and join the crusade against us.
There is yet another feature in the des.
tructive policy Of the government of the
North, not less revolving to common homes
y, and abhorrent to every principle of Jus
tlce, than those already enumerated. AL
though the national death of the South is
decreed although the South is plundered
OF her share in the public domain, and ex.
cIuded from all participation in its benefits,
and although that exclusion must be ac-
companied by the terrible results l have des-
scribed, yet we are held to the most rigid
and strict account tn the payment of tases.
The South is the great tax-paying province
of the empire; the Indies of the West
the crown lands, valued in proportion to the
amount OF revenue we pay to the crown