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

ooi oouIHcIu OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Will laS-
ish professions of regard from tile Northern
Statcs-abolition covering for the while
slavery agitation suppressed in Congress
tariff and internal improvement apparently
abandoned--in short, every thing will DO
done to conciliate the Southern States, and
keep them from going with US out Of the
Union. In the meantime our separation
from the Union will be made as harassing
as possible by the operations of the Gencr-
al Government, to foster discomfort in South
Carolina, and defeat the advantages which
will naturally arise from our separation.-
This will be our real time of trial. To hold
on frrnIy to our purpose, of an entire re-
dress for the past and security for the flu
ture, or to keep out Of the Union forever,
will task all our fortitude and energy. Let
them offer to us tile Constitution of the
United States, with that equality of rights
and privileges all its spirit breathes; equali-
ty in Congress, where the disparaging and
insulting agitation Of the subject Of slavery
shall no more enter forever; equality in
taxation, without Determinations in favor of
one pursuit Of industry at the expense Of
another; equality in the expenditure Of the
taxes, by limiting appropriations to the Oh
]ects expressly specified in the Constitution
equality i'll our territories, ut least as far as
thirty-six degrees thirty minutes North lat
itude can bcstow it, from our Indian Terri
tories to the Pacific ocean; let them offer to
MS these, and all these, secured to us by new
and distinct guarantees in the Constitution.
and we will listen to invitations to return in
to the Union. TO all else we should turn
deaf but respectful ear. These are now ours.
by right, under the Constitution of the
United States. The free States have des-
poled us of them. If they wish such a Un-
ION rs the Constitution establishes and their
faith pledged them 10 observe, they can have
1t, if they will propose it. ANY other it
would he insult to offer. Voluntarily to 90
back into degrading inferiority and bondage,
will be more infamous than to have endured
it under the s,ealthy usurrations of the
Northern States. Disunion, and disunion
forever, or all our rights, should be our fixed
and unalterable determination.
Fear is u very unreasonable passion-of.
ten the more unreasonable when there is
least 10 apprehend. We have alnrmists from
fear of war; but rs the prospect Of war dis
appears, we have greater alarnists for fear
OF peace. To the imaginations of some,
nothing is so terrible as to be unmolested-
to be let alone by the General Government.
If it fights us, this is a terror BY no means
to be encountered; but then we will have
company. But not to fight US is a still
greater terror. 1t is TO leave lis alone, with
out company; and what mortal man can
face such catastrophe. Why, gentlemen,
| have thought that "laissez nous faire"-
(let us alone) was the grand p,incip pie of free
trade, for which We have been contending |
For the last thirty years. l have thought |
that to be let alone, was the grand principle |
of all free government. Justice from with
ont, against the aggressions or wrongs of
foreign nations-justice within, between man
and man-prcvention merely, this is the
righteous and limited aim Of all free gov
ernment! As to all else, let US alone-
What have we been asking, as to MI the
great measures of aggression. which have
at length rendered the General Government
no longer endurable to free men, but let us
alone. Let US alone on the tariff Let us
alone on internal improvements. Let us
alone with respect to our institution of slave
ry. Keep to the simple purpose of preven-
t'ou, Tor which you were created, and pro-
tect lis against foreign nations. Such have
been our demands. They nre not Needed;
md We cast of n tyranny which, like tho
frogs of Egypt, has come sp into our houses
and our bedchambers, and the houses Of opr
servants
And now, shall we fear being rid of it?
Shall we tremble at being let alone2 Are
VIC afraid of ourselves .or are We incapable
Of ruling ourselvesa Ii SO, it is sheer non
sense toSaspire to liberty or independence.
Let us submit at once, without murmurs and
without efforts for deliverance, to be the col.
onies we are in reality. Blot ont the
proud motto from our arms, and let our flag,
once free, never more greet the sun. flour
enemlc" think proper, let them lay in waste
thousand miles around us Let them make
South Carolina an island on the continent
mt OFT forever from all sympathy or associa-
ion with any other State in the Union.
who will suffer most by this policyl To
each us, the dagger must pass through 9TH
BIS. The great world of commerce is be-
ore us, over the broad Atlantic. We can
I'VE, and If we can live free it is enough.
Better any fate than the slow torturing death
which awaits us in submission. If our
lelghboring States choose this death, and
hink proper to let the General Government ,
top up the channels of their commerce with ,
Is. let them do it. If they have not had
enough of its interference in their affairs t
hey can take it still nearer home 70 their
business and boson,s, although tainted with i
'bo''tionism ITSELF But believe in the
prevalence of nc such policy South Caro-.
ina. IN the heart Of the South, cannot be