The southern press., 1851-07-26
swhat vim seuth Carolina DO 2"

| Why, she will secede, OF course, IA she ought
10 do, " she has tho right to do. Who will pre-
vent her from it Massachusetts might try " d.
it, or Maine, or Connecticut why : ifHoutf
Carolina chooses 10 dissolve her connection with
them, or with the other States, what business il
it Of theirs7 Can't they 60 on and manufacture
cotton goods, and shoes, and wooden nutmegs
and eat Goldfish and Irish potatoes just as well
us over! Is it South Carolina or themselves
Uniong But will Georgia Try! or Alabama! OF
Mississippi! or Tennessee? or Kentucky? No.
not one Of them. There il not man in all these
States who would buckle on his armor and go
to hello Spain to keep Cuba in subsection, nor to
keep Ireland in the Union with England; they
would not 60 to help cut the tbroats Of these
people, with whom they have no affinity, in order
10 compel them to submit to tyranny and op-
preston. Where is the son of the South, then,
who would ever shoulder his musket to go and
compel his brethren and friends in South Caro-
lima to submit to Northern aggression? Let us
see how he would go about it. What reason
would he give for it! Let US hear. These
Northern people have been vilfying and abusing
US year after year they have been all the time
using the power Of the government to do US in
jury and injustice we all admit that they have
done the whole South wrong and Injustice
South Carolina refuses to submit to it. / have
rather made up my mind to submit to it myself
rather than have a difficulty but shall 90 and
help to compel South Carolina to submit to this
wrong, which We have suffered together at the
hands of these people? Oh, no. won't do it,
| confess it CALLED me to submit myself.
brought myself to it only to avoid difficulty
but If the difficulty must come, my blood runs
for the South if fight | must, fight for the
friends of the South and not for her enemies"
But, if this should not be sufficient, and he
should still make up his mind to join the North,
he could never get there there would be too
many barriers in the way His mother would
stand in the way, and when he came to ask her
to buckle on his knapsack and give him her
blessing, she would say to him, "My son, why
are you going to fight South Carolina? Are you
going to fight as your forefathers did the battlas
of liberty and justice and right? Are you going,
as they did, to fight against wrong, injustice and
oppression What wrong has South Carolina
ever done the North? Has she ever invaded
their rights? Has she ever asked of them more
than she is entitled to have ? Has she attempted
to lay upon them any tax! Has she attempted
to despoil them of their property! She has done
none of these things, and why are you going to
fight her Is it because she has been wronged
as you yourself admit, and that she will no longer
submit to wrong? And shall a son of mine be
found in the ranks of the oppressor, taking part
against the oppressed and injured Never my
sOn--no, never and remember, if you 60, / can
bless you, but cannot bless your cause
will pray for your safety, but never for your
success"
No! if the time should ever come, when the
Northern States, presuming upon having the
offices of the government in their hands, should
dare to attempt to use the power Of the States
against South Carolina for refusing any longer
to remain in the Usion with them, there will not
be single Southern man found in the ranks OF
the oppressor, but thousands upon thousands OF
the gallant sons Of every Southern State will be
| found upon her soil ready TO do to death every
| Northern invader that shall dare to attempt to
| put his unhallowed feet upon her soil. If, when
South Carolina shall announce that her political
connection with the rest of the States has ceased
the powers at Washington shall have the wis
dom quietly and peaceably to withdraw theil
officers and their ships from the State, and leave
her to pursue her own course, everything will
60 off well; but if, in their arrogance, and pre-
suming upon the support of the people of tn,
South, they shall attempt to coerce or ammo,
her in any way, they will soon find, and to thei
cost, that they have counted without their host
they will realize what we have already said, ant
people Of the South voted to submit to the com
promise, not because they thought it right oil
just but because they preferred it to di Guilty
but if the North will force difficulty the
| South will then be with the South-for they
will then be fully convinced Of what they ought
to have known at first, that submission but in
vtes aggression, and that the only limit to un-
just exaction is, prompt and manly resistance
Columbus (Ga.) Sentinel
| AGRICULTURE IN FRANcE.-A letter writer
for the Republic says;
"a trip of six hundred and fifty miles, from
the northern and southern extremity of France,
justi6es me in the expression of my opinion
that Gods sun does not shed its rays on so fair
a land, or one so thoroughly cultivated The
whole country is literally garden. Every
square foot, form the mountain-top down TO the
lowest ravine is made TO produce something, if
it be susceptible of it. Their mode of planting
or sowing their crops, whether on plain or hill
side produces the finest efIect on the amman