The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-10-07

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mind that lat, neither l 1. mississippi nor this
State had then proposed q specific
mode Of resistance. More time
should have been allowed for the peo.
| pie to make up their own minds, and
to ascertain the views Of proposed
delegates.
fully concur with those WHO hold
| that the aggressions Of tue Federal
/ Government upon the South Justify
any measure Of redress that may be
adopted by tie Southern States, or
any of them. The Constitution Of
the United States seems wisely con
triyed to secure strength in the gov
ernment, and liberty in the people;
and if it had been strictly construed, !,
and faithfully executed, the people
OF oil sections under Its sway, might
long have remained harmonious and
happy. But usurpation, under the
instigation Of ambition and ayarice,
bas contemncd and perverted its pro-
visions; it's parchment securities for
tho minority have proved inefficient;
and, practically, 1t imposes slight
restriction upon the will Of the
majority. Thus another example
is added to the many in history
of the procliyity of governments to
despotism. From the beginning, un
der the system Of indirect taxation.
the financial operations of the poy.
ernment has been severe upon the
Southern producing States; and,
when the system Of internal improve.
mcnts, pensions, and forti6cations
was added, the disbursement of the
taxes sbecamc as unequal as the col.
lection, and a constant drain from the
South was established. In rapid
progress, discriminating duties on i'm.
posts were imposed, by which the
Constitution was perverted, and the
labor Of the South made tributary to
/ the manufacturing 1;ni-Stry Il shc
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.ematmaiiy pnfsug :t.a pifF5ae di
Destroying oar laboy i;sefr. IN tbs
adoption Of ta@ CoustliuGpn, siarerg
rrcvaued 81. aeariy nj ,ha S.a:rs
ana Nas ''o!3n Guaranteed W kat
Instrument. J, las been s;aaaal!, !,
limited 10 less tnan onc,Mat Of tAc
States, who justly cherish it as the
most moral and most efficient organ
ization of human labor; while their
partners in the [ Cuion regard the sin
of masters, in holding slaves, to be SO
beinons as to faint all who are in any
political connection with shareholders.
This anti-s!ave party, already pre-
dominant and rapidly growing, has
excluded the people Of the Southern
States fiom common participation in
the territory of the Union, in the ac.
QUESTION of which they contributed
even an undue proportion of treasure
and blood. The purpose is now
boldly avowed by this party never to
admit into the Union another State
in which slavery is tolerated, and the
design is indicated, not obscurcly, to
abolish, rs soon as practicable, this
institution in all the States. The
adjustment Of this controversy by
Congress, impudcntly called com
promise, aggrayates the wrongs and
indignitics otherwise done to tho
South. All the measures constitu.
ting the compromise, were undisguis.
ed concessions to the fanaticism and
injustice Of the North, except ono,
and that was barren recognition of
a Constitutional right. The remedy
practically afforded by the fugitive
slave law, is to enable Southern
master to recapture occasionally a
slave at the North, corrupted into an
agent Of abolition, at an expense in
money equal to the value of tho slave
when he fled, and at the risk Of vio-
lcnce and Imprisonment to the
captors. We frecmen of the South
should not submit to a tyranny SO in.
furious and so degrading. 1t should
be our unilinch;ng determination to
resist at all hazards. Remedy within
the Union is hopeless. We may part
with regret from confcdcracy which
has done so good service in the great
work of civilization and free govern
mcnt, but it has achieved It's end,
and, Ike other works Of man may,
yield to the force Of events. Tho
interests of the people of this Union
have become SO conflicting in the va
rious sections, and their feeling to-
wards each other so much cxacerba-
ted, that peace as well as cxpcdicncy
recommend disunion.
Indemnity for the past, so often
mentioned in jlngling connection with
security for the future, Gun scarcely
| he cynectcd by tho rncst aonon;po