The southern press., 1851-05-03

will be subjected. how great win be- our adj.
tional resources through the customs! How
great, too, will be the benefit especially to the
j city of Charleston, Of expanding all the taxes
thus raised within our own State amongst our
own people The city of Washington, AZ well
as all the great Northern cities, are standing
monuments Of what the mere expenditure Of
money amongst a people can do for their en-
richment. There, on the Potomac, is large in
creasing city, of fifty thousand inhabitants,
where, few years ago, there was an old field.
IL Is mere consumer, and exports not dollars
worth OF produce, think the additional means
secession will secure US, will more than meet
the additional expenses we must incur by our
Independence.
have thus, fellow-citizens endeayored briefly
to lay before you the probable conseq uences Of
the secession Of South Carolina from the Union.
have argued the question of secession as If il
was final separation from all the States Of the
South. But is this correct method of arguing
this question? If our cause is the cause Of the
whole Soulful least OF the cotton region of
the South--will not the South in due time per-
ceive the truth II in origin, pursuits and insti-
tutions we are one, how long will we remain
apart, through the influence Of those who have
wronged and degraded US, and who now threaten
our utter ruin in the overthrow Of our institu-
tons? Will they prefer union with the free
States, with inferiority and colonial dependence
or union with us, with equality and independ-
ence! Safety and honor are on the one hand,
danger and degradation on the other. Increas-
ing power and responsibility among the nations
OF the earth, whose prosperity We will hold in
the hollow OF our hands; or increasing weakness
with government under whose prestige thew
and their institutions become the scott of nations
Those are the alternatives, which truth and
experience must present to all impartial minds
in the South? Where must they ultimately lead,
unless but to a union of the South? If South
Carolina secedes from the Union, and remains
an independent State for five years, Southern
confederacy must be the result, or the South
Will have enforced those guarantees which will
give her that safety liberty, and equality 70 which
she Is entitled ! have been battling in this
cause for twenty-five years, and have now but
few more years to give to your service. long
to see it settled. As citizen of South Caro-
lima, demand that she makes me- Free Let her
determine, now and forever, the fate of her sons.
My counsel is, secede from the Union of these
Unite6 States. "At every hazard, and to the
last extremity, secede." If was now about TO
draw my last breath, with that breath would
exhort you to secede. And, above all, my friends,
let us be united in secession. Our disunion
alone will tempt an effort ut coercion. Our dis
union can alone bring us defeat. Let US be
charitable to each other; and hold every man
to be brother, who agrees with US rs to the
wrongs we have endured, and is intent on re-
dressing them. When the State CONVEX ton
shall determine on the mode Of redress-wnen
it withdraws this State from the Union, all
these will be with us; and in their generous
rivalry for the maintenance of the honor and
libercy of South Carolina, they will perhaps sur
pass US all, in patriotic enegy and usefulness.
Unite-and unite in secession, and with Gods
blessing, redemption is at hand for us and ours.
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The BRITISH MINISTER AND THE IRISH CITT-
zExs OF NEW YoRK.-A meeting took place in
New York on Tuesday evening, mt which the
Irish population who feel aggrieved by the allu-
sions made to them at the late dinner Of the St
Georges Society in that city, by Mr.. Bulwer,
proposed to adopt measures for calling forth
from their countrymen an expression Of indig-
nation on the occasion. Dir. Michael Butler {,
acted as chairman and Mr.. George D. Bowling,
who acted as secretary, read the following letter
from the British minister, addressed to Mr..
Richard Bell, president Of the association of the
Friendly Sons Of st. Patrick.
RICHARD BELL, EsQ:-My dear Sir-I see
that some notice has been taken Of an allusion
u
will not be quite sure Of the words made uss
of on that occasion, but | can be quite sure Of
the meaning with which used them and had
not, certainly, the remotest idea Of disparaging
any portion of your, or my fellow countrymen.
The term Is, as you know, an ancient one, APP
plying to the inhabitants Of great part Of
Great Britain and Ireland, at period when these
regions were uncivilized, and their people semi
clad and semi barbarous INTENDED, In all good
humor, to take advantage Of and play upon this
fact, and IL did not occur TO me that could be
thonPht to allude to the lrishman or Welshman
of to-day, in depicting the characteristics of the
Celts of former times.
Ny public life has given abundant proof Of
the regard and affection which ! entertain to-
ward the land of your birth; and may add that
having myself some claim to be connected with
the old Celtic families should not be disposed
10 assert that there was any natural disqualified
ton 10 the blood Of the race
do not expect by these remarks to satisfy
any-if such there Predetermined 10 be dissat-
isfed; but believe that all which any honest
Englishman or Irishman requires, in order not TO
take offence, Is to learn that no offence was in
tended; and with this view, my dear sir, / have
written 10 you, az st. Patricks able representa-
tive, the few lines you have been reading
Yours, very sincerely, ii. l.. BULWER.
After the reading Of this letter, speeches were
made by several persons, and a MEMORIAL to
President Fillmore, asking him TO apply to the
British government for the recall Of Mr.. Pul-
wer, was adopted. The secretary Of the meet
ing was also instructed 10 return 10 Mr.. Bell the
copy Of the above letter, with statement that
Il was unsatisfactory. A committee was then
appointed TO take further action on the subject.
A ConPosT FOR CoRs.-If you would COM
post the raw materials on your farm, on your
shores, in your woods and marshes, you may
render yourselves independent Of the monopo-
lists into whose hands the Guano trade has fallen.
20 double-horse cart loads Of river or marsh
mud or woods mould, s51H
10 bushels OF ashes,
2 bushels Of bone dust,
| bushel Of salt,
IS pounds Of sulphate Of magnesia, and
8 gallons Of oil,