The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-09-23

government, or if he does, that hez
can drive it to conclude that South
Carolina is right, and the rest Of the
Union wrong, that an unjust block
ade has been imposed upon US, which
ought to be raised by the nayics of
European commercial nations? Can
Carolina desire it to be thus raised,
and thereby run the imminent hazard
of becoming the helpless dependent
of any European power? Have the
readers of our own history forgotten
with what difficulty the thirteen
States escaped the coils Of France,
by reason of their treaty offensive and
defensive, stipulated as a considcra-
ton for her assistance againstBritain,
Should We fall under the tender mer.
cies ola foreign power, final leave,
| apprchend, may be taken Of all
hope Of combination and cooperation
at home. It is not difficult, I think,
to perceive that the shippers of Lon.
don, Liverpool, Havre, Bremen, &C.,
will not have on adequate motive to
move their governments to forciblc
interposition, or that if they do, their
governments will be very apt to say to
them--"the play is not worth the
candle; steer your vessel to another
port; sell and buy there, as others
do" l do not perceive that South
Carolina Rice and Cotton is SO indis.
pcnsible to the foreign world, that
they must and will fight for them !;
or if they are, that they will be OBJ.
liged to come to Charleston for them,
aud no where else. Smuggling out
may take place as well as smuggling
in.
8. derive distrust Of the wisdom
Of separate secession, with view to
! Cooperation, from the scene of Nul,
| li6caticn, which has been most
strangely set up as shining beacon
| to il:sssht us in o solitary iiourne by q
q few very few II bclieval off ah ht So,
ES'
Il Ttin7 fancy thnt niIifcatinn was the
second act cf Separate Secession BY
South Curoiinu, consider it TO be as
empty conceit as that other which
found the firs. act OF that character
in her revolutionary era. cannot
but think that this citation has been
made by brail. not educated in the
troublesome times of 1888. Multi
hcation was remedy based by us
upon the idea, that there was no so.
vereignty in CT all Of the departments
Of the Federal Govcrnmcnt-that
the sovereignty Of the United States
was vested in three fourths of the
States who had the power Of amend
ing the Constitution that the lcuis.
lativc power had i,,fringed the Con.
stitution- that there was no umpire
between the State, vindicating tres
pass on her rights, and Congress,
the tresspas<cr, except the power in
which federal sovereignty was vested,
and that notification of the obnox-
ious act served rightfully to arrest its
execution within this State, until the
disputed question should DC adjudged
by threc-fourths of the States. 1t
was advocated as q remedy in the
Union, not as one that placed us out
OF it as peaceaLle, not as bloody +;
that it was short Of Secession that
it was a war against an unconstitu.
tional act through the jury box, not
the cartoueh box. -As the scene un.
wound itself, bayonets were discover.
cd in the background of the picture
collision appeared imminent. We
then toasted the three boxcs--the
ballot, the jury, and the cartouct
boxes. But none fockcd to our
standard. When force was threat,
} cncd 1T Washington, then, and then
only, was Secession threatened and
solemnly promised BY tho Convention
of that day. Never however was i,
declared that South Carolina was
out of the Union but it was obvious
that if we had to fight, the Constitu
ton must be abrogatcd that our peo.
pie should be emancipated from the
danger and consequences Of treason,
as defined in that instrument. But
what do tho developments of that
event teach US? This much, I think,
to wit: that if we turn q deaf car,
touching the mode Of remedy, to the
advice Of those who agree ever so
thoroughly in purpose and principle,
and who have tho same interest at
stake in a common quarrel, we have
no reason to expect that they will
fly to our rescue, even in an extremi
ty, which they will impute to q reck.
less fury. Several of the Southern
7 III is worthy Of remark that, though no great
organic change in Federal Reiationa Wna then
designed the people Were allowed nearly q year