The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-08

add something TO eur expenses. A foreign mission
may occasionally be necessary; but there will be no
necessity Of standing embassies to any foreign
powers. Our policy, think, should be-free trade,
equal and just dealing with all nations entangling
alliances with no-s Our productions and commerce
viii appeal to the interests of all nations to do
justice, and secure Us peace. II any nation ohends
or wrongs US, we have powerful mears Of redress
or retaliation, by shutting them out Of our COM
merce, and thus adding to the prosperity of
other and rival nations ut their expense. Ma
the to protect Not one bag of cotton in ffty
when it leaves ports belongs to citizens It
belongs to the citizens Of other nations and goes
the ocean under their flags and under the same
reach foreign ports. We want no standing army
beyond what will be necessary to man the forts in
our harbor. We intend to assail or harrass one
on our borders The advantages we will enjoy BY
the general government, We will freely impart to
Others and will expect to win that frendliness and
confidence which all good officers should inspire
But to meet the extraordinary expenses to which we
will be subjected; how great will be our additional
resources through the customs! How great, too,
will be the benefit, especially n the city Of Charles
ton, of expanding all the taxes thus raised
our own State, amongst our own people! The city
Of Washington, rs well as all the great Northern
cities, are standing monuments Of what the mere
expenditure of money amongst people can do for
their enrichment. There, on the Potomac, is large
increasing city, Of fifty thousand inhabitants, where
consumer, and exports not a dollars worth Of pro
duce. think the additional means secession will
secure us, will more than meet tho additional ex-
penses we must incur by our independency.
have thus, fellow citizens, endeavored briefly to
lay before you the prob able consequences Of the
cesson Of South Carolina from the Union have
argued the question Of secession if it was 6nal
separation from all the States Of the South. But is
this correct method Of arguing this question? IL
cause is the cause of the whole South-at least,
Of the cotton region Of the South-w not the South
in duo time perceive the truth? IL in origin, pur-
suits and institutions, one, how long will we
remain apart, through the influence of those who
have wrOnged and degraded US, and who now
threaeo our utter ruin in the overthrow of our in
situations? Will they prefer union with the free
States, with nferorty and colonial dependence or
a union with US, with equality and independence
Safety and honor are on the one hand-danger and
degradation on tho other. Increasing power and re-
spectabilty among the nations OF the earth, whose
prosperity will hold in the hollow Of our hands;
or increasing weakness, with government under
whose prestige they and their institutions become
the sctf Of nations. These are the alternatives,
partial minds in the South. Where must they ulti-
mately lead, unless but to union Of the South? If
South Carolina secedes from the Union, and re-
mains an independent State for five years, South
ern Confedcracy must be the result, or the South
will have enforced those guarantees which will give
her that safety, liberty and equality to which she Is
entitled. | have been battling in this cause for
twenty five years, and have now but a few more
years 10 give 10 your service Iong 70 SOC ~ set-
tied. As citizen Of South Carolina, demand that
she makes me free. Let her determine, now and
forever the fate of her sons. My counsel is secede
from the Union Of these United States. cat every
hazard, and to tho last extremity" secede. If
now about to draw my last breath, with that breath
/ would exhort you to secede. And above all, my
friends let US DO united in secession. Our diSunion
will alone tempt an effort Mt coercion. Our dis
union alone bring defeat. Let us be chart
table to each other; and hold every to be bro
Their who agrees with us as to the wrongs We have
endured, and is intent redressing them. When
the State Convention shall determine the mode
Of rcdress-when it withdraws this State from the
Union, all those will be with and in their gene
rous rivalry for the maintenance Of the honor and
liberty Of South Carolina they will perhaps surpsss
all in patriotic energy and usefulness. Unite
and unite in secession, and, with Gods blessing
demption is Mt hand for us and ours.