The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-07-09

would not allow the Palmetto Flag
TO float By sufferance only. Whilst
would represent as proud, as spiirii
ted q pepple,as ever lived ,Sit would
be regarded as the emblem of d
Slayeholding Comm monwealth. Many
would be tempted to ainsuls it from
wantonness. How would the proud
Ispifited people Of the State feel, to
lhear that their Gag Ind been pulled
down and torn to pieces By d Boston
whaling party, or by d vessel from
Liberia. ortjn any other way How
could they ayenge the insult2 II
the State assumes d national res pom
Isibility, it must provide also tho attri-
butes and means ofsnational power.
IL mnst have d navy aud all tho 9th.
er appliances Of national dignity. Il
cannotrcly with safety on the comfy
of nations, or on a code fonndedsin q
sublime Anthropopathy Itseems to
be thought By some with great conf
Edence, that by opening her ports with
low duties on imports, South Carolina
could, under the temptations of free,
trndo, invite the commerce Of the
world to her shores. Wen, perhaps,
if all would be good, and do rs South
Carolina might think they should do.
something of this might como to pass
But games are generally conducted
BY adversary hands; and something's a
play is made BY one that ma mi i not be.
thought by the other to3be ;secai,dens
a71rtezn. None of of us suppose that
the Federal government would re-
cogniiae the Independence of Soutll
sssatoilla;; 8 would be disposed to.
ss,,a q s;Geial Ireaiies with her
tsss llagin:s anp he ,AS ....lls
that oVer.:tsssens would make Ear on,
our cnmDercssin IN Q evefy, va 1t cosld.5
:lt would besto9 bo6nties in, md ssige
preference 70, eslr aeigi iiboring postss
Is, SO far as IL could, would make
treaties with forei ~ rasiiona ts Isolate,
Iopr cont alltl
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might conssfRs us ens. exports alone
as the basis of our commercial re-
source ! understand TINT TINT ttllle afti-
cies OF commerce that come into our
ports, coast@isc and by foreign inn
portations, amonns:n value to some
thing over $4,000, 900. Ofthis sum
more than three-fourth finds its way
into other States; into Georgia,
North Caroline, Alabama, Tennessee;
leaving something under $500, 900
to be consumed IN this State.
It is contended that under tho op-
erations Of Free Trade more would
come in, and in some way or other it
would find Its way ont. Now If
South Carolina was seperaie soy
ereignty, with q free port, there is
no doubt she might attract a greater
commerce than now comes to her
ports. provided it could find market
out of her borders. But could it
find its way out without violating the
revenue laws Of other nations? II
is said "a rose by any other name
smells as sweet We might intro.
duce as much commerce as we
please, and send it to Savannah riy-
er, under what some would call a
brisk Free Trade, bnt what, in the.
estimation Of others whose rights
would be involved, would be re.
garded as smuggling il carried
across their borders in violation.
of their laws. It would be an
acknowledged right Of the Federal
Government, to regard Sout. Caro-
lima as stranger, and to place her
commerce going into the ports Of the
States in the Union under an eubar-
go, and 50 far as concerns Georgia
and North Carolina, to regard as
ports OF entry, those places only
when Ie'fi' communicate by water water with