Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-02
South Carolina.


1000. At this meeting report and resolutions
were adopted in opposition to separate seccs-
sion. Tho following is an extract from the re-
port. 1t will be seen that many Of the slave
holders of South Carolina, are by no means un-
mindful Of the blessings of the Union. They
understand that secession will effectually cir
cumscribe the area of slavery. Make the slaves
fixtures upon their soil, and effectually, deprive
them Of their present constitutional guarantee
Of Northern aid in holding and returning slaves.
1t will moreover deprive them of all those poll
ticai guarantees which the political parties arc
annually making and constantly fulfilling,
which add far moro TO tho security of slavery
than the written constitution. Thoy are guar
onteos which can be renewed, altered or cxtcn-
ded, in accordance with, or in opposition to the
written constitution as the oxigencies of slave
ry may demand. In short thoy will have to
depend upon their own resources, and not upon
the nation. How weak they arc, none seem
better to know than themselves. "They will
bo the prey of abolitionists in all quarters of tho
Woodland "will not be able to maintain
even their police regulations" No abolition
ist ever more foroibly depicted their utter help
lessness than does the report of these 1000 Ca
rolinians. 1t ovincos very forcibly the value of
that salvation to tho Union--wrought out by
the political crucifxion of Daniel Webster and
Millard Fillmore The perils from which they
have saved us, arc quito manifest.
"But neither the going off of the South,
nor the coming TO of the North, will stay the
uplifted hand of secession in South Carroll
ma A State Convention has been called
and members elected at u most unseasona-
BILE time, in order to prevent discussion and
division before the people! A majority OF
the members, elected by less than one fourth
of the voters of South Carolina, are pledged
to separate State secession. 1t is believed,
however, that majority of the people of
this State are opposed to separate secession,
and minority of her leading men have so
expressed themselves. There is danger, then,
of South Carolina going out of the Union at
the bidding of one fourth of her population,
and against the advice and counsel of her
Cheves and BarnweI, and her Butler and all
his former associates amongst the Judiciary
of the State.
at behooves the people, then, to look TO
defeating ii and saving the State. That Sc
cession will involve South Carolina in bloc
dy civil wars aud runous taxation, weaken
and ultimately destroy the institution of
slavery, and end in the degradation of the
State, your committee have not the slightest
shadow of a doubt. That it is any remedy
at all for the evils of which the secessionists
complain, is, TO the minds of your commit
tee, preposterous and absurd. 1t will not
restore California, or open any wider the all
mission of slavery into Utah and New Mex-
CO. 1t cannot increase the area of slavery,
or prevent legislation on the part of Con-
gress in relation to slavery.
"But secession will, if successful, most ef-
fectually circumscribe the area of slavery,
and utterly ruin it in South Carolina. As
soon as the State goes out of the Union,
every slave in il, and all their defendants, in
all time to come, will be fixtures TO our soil
Ii one should chance TO be carried over the
Savannah river, his owner will forfeit, under
the laws of the United States, ten thousand
dollars and incur seven years Imprisonment,
and stand committed till the fine is paid =
White persons may leave the State, but
slaves cannot. Their labor may be valuless,
but here they must remain. In the course
of time their owners will run off and leave
them, and South Carolina may become a
black State, second San Domingo, by the
wisdom of secession.
"Once ont Of the Union, seeing the fate
that awaits her, South Carolina may attempt
to avoid it by going back into the Unnn-
But here she may be met by majority in
Congress, who will apply to her Constitution
the Wilmot Proviso, as u condition precedent
TO her reentering the Confederacy of States
Her doom will then be fixed beyond the
possibility of hope.
Secession will deprive us of the consti-
tutional guarantee which we now have on
the Northern people to surrender our fhgi-
tive slaves. We shall then see Georgia and
Alabama sending after and bringing back
their fugitive slaves, but South Carolina can
not pursue hers or attempt to bring them
back.
sit is well known that the police regula-
tions in Charleston, in relation TO colored
seamen, would not be tolerated by Great
Britain, but for the strength and power of
the Federal Government. Were South Ca
rolina an independent nation, she would be
compelled to repeal them. Indeed we
should be the prey of the aboliiionists in all
quarters of the world, and in no kingdom or
nation on earth is that class more powerful
than in Great Britain. Her Britannia Ma
Jesty's present consul in Charleston was sent,
as we have understood, TO effect a repeal OF
these police regulations in relation to the i'm
prisonment ofcolored seamen.
"By secession we give up all interest
South Carolina has in the territories, in the
public lands, in the gold mines of California
in the property belonging to the U. States,
and in the army and navy. We will be left
without vessel to protect our commerce
for sail to defend our flag on the high seas.
We shall have neither a navy nor an army
nor the means of raising and maintaining
either the one or the other. The whole pro.
perty of the State, lands and negroes, goods
and chattels, moneys and credits, would moi
support an army aud navy capable of de-