The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-10-28

"The Wandering Mnstrel," Quarterly
Magazine. devoted 10 I.l,ora,nro and tho
cnnsc nf Fcmnlo education. Edited by the
Pupils and Alnmnno Of Tho Grcenvillc Fe-
male Collegiate Institute, Terms 81 pcr
annnm in advance. Frintr.i by CAMrnEL1
g. Gnssgrr, Greenvillc, S. c..
a nohle cause and n noble band To sun
port it. hv their pens and by their lives
who does no, wis!, for its -ucccss? Who
can preTcrt it?
Where the Co-operatiOn Par
ty Stands.
Tho Co-nncrai;on party sands to-day.
where Il stood n. The very outset OF the
! agitation Of the grave issncs row pending
| hetwcccn tho two sections Of this Confcdr.
racy. In the long catalogue Of arrrcs.
| s;ons, pcrpctra,ca unon tho South ty the
| North, presented in the "Addrcss Of tho
Southern Members" as there was no SIN.
gle act bearing more directly on South
Carolina than upon the other slaveho'dine
States, so 1t never en,creh into The hoax ri
any but a few radicals until very recently.
that she wns expected alone 9nd' single
ham'ed. e;rIi had she The ability, 30 take
upon her shoulder the IIcrculcan task of
r!gh,ing not only hcrscf. but her agcricvcd
sister States too.
By the recent elections FOR d,l,ga,cs TO
The Southern Congress ,lronghout tho
State, majority of lhe people have nn.
mistakenly in1iea,ed, ,ha, they had m
such idea. They have said very plainly,
that, in their opinion, the Secession party
presumed too much. whom !. took Il for
granted tia, ,aey wopR undertake Ia do,
tate to tho Other a!avo holding S,a,ps, what
course OF conlNo, they mus, ruraae, They
cnu,a M: consistently do .sls, Thor had
too high regard frr !&o.e sa,.,eisRtY-
Tor independent STATE 0ci,on-,o alismp, in
The slightest degree TO impair lis integrity
III any OF the other States. Accordingly
when Georgia and other Of the s!avchold
ing Siale' settled il among themselves. MS
independent, sorercign States, that they
would each for herself, acQucsce in the
'atH C"mpromsc measures Of Congress,
hnwcvcr great a stencil those measures
may be in our nos,ris, they did pre-
cisrly what they had right To to--,hcy
did nothing more than we claim. that wc
have right to do. Ii those Stn,es fc:t
that II wia qIi,r consistent with their
Interest and honor, TO adop, this course, MS
Sorerciisn and sY,al States, the Co.opcra.
ion party mcrc. and ars SliH. AT n loss TO
know, With whit proprc,y the State Of
South Carolina, whc!, never pretended TO
be any thing mare than an equal could AT :,
temp, 10 fore, upon them n different con-
cIuson and different course of action
Georgia. Mississippi, .Alabaml and others,
were as free and as competent TO Judge for
themselves rs to the propriclv Of any course
oi coEduci, as South Carolina could claim
To hc. They hare, each for herself, deter.
mined what that course uf conduct shall
be for the present, and tho Cooperation
party, while they rrgrc, lha, j, was so diff.
ron, from win, ihoy desired, and from
what they were led to expect. yet think
IT ont out % place 10 quarrel with the
eYHd5s of heir State for acting contrary TO
their wishes. The other slavcholding States
having tins acted Independently and each
for he'sey, and III manner al war with the
m'shcS OF very lar majority Of the pco-
pic OF our Stale, The only question thai,
could arise, was mol what South Carolina
had rigt 10 do, but what was n,osi mi4,
and erpcIicm for her 10 do, under all the
circumstances. Here came the division.
One party pressed the measure of separate
Slate secession, assuming That an lover
whci,ning majority" in The State were ol
The same way oI thinking. For there could
bc no doub, what Colonel QHroG meant,
when he nsod The following language:
Ihe action party Of South Carolina
What he myoriy deem essential Ia maip.
tain he honor and The rights II The Satc
mui be done, is too much far The min0ri.
ty Of ihc res sisiann party to ask The majoriy
10 oband0n The measures determined on
far fhe sake Of aroiiing divisions. The
mino'iy hare il in heir porer 10 sope ht
Siaic from he dangers Of dirision, by uni-
ting mi0 their friends 10 present an unJro.
ken front 10 The comaaa enemy"
MAXcy GREGG.
The other party at II, time questioning
the right OF a State 10 tako that step ior
what appeared 10 hcl to bu sufficient cause
only denied, ,ha, sl,c had as ye, resolved
10 do so, and VIII 10 the question was open
brought the matter homo 10 The people oI
The State, and that people I,as sus,ainaJ