The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-09-23
persuade them to adopt the one or

| fear that the people generally
have not as yet sufficiently realized to
themselves these wide differences by
which The two parties are separated,
and how much at right angles their
respective roads are carrying them
from each other. The starting point
of Southern cooperation and South
ern Congress, from which all com.
menced travelling harmoniously to-
gcther, has been virtually (altllough
not avowcd) abandoned by portion
OF our citizens ever since the meeting
of the Southern Rights Convention
in Charleston, when their leaders
turned abruptly off at cross road
in pursuit of separate secession, and
left the rcst Of their fcllow.citizens
pursuing their former course straight
on. The people, then, should not
any longer deceive themselves that,
because all started in union and har-
mony, seeking and promoting South
crn cooperation, that the separate
scccssionists are really with them now
in those aims. They may have had
the motto at one time written upon
their flag, but it has rapidly faded
away, and become now almost ind.s-
tinct in the shadow Of a solitary Pal
metto, and alongside of the blazing
letters of Z" Separate Secession"
which they have lately added to their
banner. Whilst many Of the party
honestly (but as think, most mista.
kinglyy) still advocate separate scces-
SIGN as the means by which Southern
cooperation is to be attained, many
morc-and they the most violent and
active (and therefore the most inhu-
entail advocate it rs the end which
they aim at, desirable in itself, and
sufficient of itself.
1t is manifest that there is a wide
aud srysrohf'}abic differ encc between.
the tyo parties: 1st, as t6rthcir aims
ana OBJ jects; I'd, as to their principles
aud tastes; and 5d, as to the meas,
ures by which these are respectively
to be pursued.
The separate secession party seem
satisfied with such political condi.
ton for South Carolina rs that Of
Belgium or Genoa, Lubic, San Ma
rino Or Venice, and accordingly urge
them as examples to induce us to
sever our conncxion with the other
Southern States, and assume sep
arate nationality forgetting that We
nice Is, at this very moment under
the iron heel Of Austrian soldicry-
whose hated rule they are painting to
thrown off, but arc too feeble to do
| so.
The cooperation party have no
desire or taste for such political
condition. They desire, for their
honorcd and beloved little State, no
tolerated existence; no condition in
which she must live by suGerancc;
i'll which she is to be kept always
upon the nicely of her good bcha-
viour;' and which good behaviour is
to be judged Of by every wolfsh
ncighbor who might urge her into
quarrel, because she iorsooth first
made the water muddy and then
caused it to run up stream. In
throwing off one government, which
they feel to be in many things harsh,
unjust, and oppressive, they desire to
start with materials sufficient to build
another, which shall be amply strong
enough to protect them in their lives,
Liberties and property; and especially
such an one as shall accomplish the
great leading object which they had
in view in seeking another govern.
ncnt-and that is, the secu,ity and
perpetuation Of our SLAVE mstitu.
tons.
Secession, in tho form Of a single
State, cannot secure this object, but
certainly puts it in great peril;
whereas secession, i'll the form Of a
Southern Conicdcracy, amply Sc.
cures It's present safety and its future
pcrmancncy.
accession, with or without coop.
GRAFTON, IS their end-which is seces.
SION; whilst with the other party, SC.
ccsson, but only with cooperation,
Is their means, to their end which
is safety to the South and our slaue
institutions. This view of tho char.
actcr of the two parties is justified by
the sentiments which they themselves
express, and by the measures which
they are respectively setting on foot.
This communication has already
been extended to so much greater
length than ! had intended, that |
iorbear to urge any more Of tho nu,
mcrous other objections which l en-
} tertan against that rash, illadviscd