Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-17
TILE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
South Carolina Thunder.

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Quattlebums and Commanders, are still
practcing in defamation, as usual, when
ibey have purpose to carry, ON the stale
ionic of notification. The extract below is
from the speech of Senator Rhett, at re-
cent secession" meeting in Charleston, to
which we have already made alusion.
After calculating the commercial gains,
the political strength, the social harmony,
and general prosperity, which would pour
| i'm upon South Carolina as n separate gov
ernment-bringing her political millinium
and enumerating and nagnifying the dan
gers and annoyances and degradation of a
union with men and states who have other
! interests to support than those of slavery,
and other business to attend to than the
catching of runaway negroes, Mr.. Rhett
contnues:-
If we secede from the Union, we will Sc
cedc during the sitting of the next Congress.
Congress alone can declare war. Congress
must vote the supplies, and authorize the use
of the army and navy against us. One of
two alternatives Congress must choose, let
us 90 peaceably out of the Union, or fight
us. beiieUe everybody giues as The ve,y com
mon credit of mol being very great iqggdrds al
fighting. II war is made upon us we will
fight. On land or sea, we will fight; and if
any one supposes that war in any form can
be made on South Carolina, without fighting,
he is not worth reasoning with. Where
there is a will, there is way, in war as in
other things. We will fight-fght long /;
and, if necessary, trust we will fight ever
lusingly, in defence of the sovereignty of
our state, and of our dearest rights, liberties,
and institutions. What can the northern
people gain in such contest, but inevitable
defeat and disaster? Give them all they can
possibly expect to accomplish. Suppose that
they are not embroied with other nations.
for lawlessly interrupting commerce as
much theirs as ours, and that we are at last
vanquished and subdued will that preserve
the Union? They may have province
held in subjection by military force, but can
they make us, against our will, a state of the
Union? Can they force us to elect senators
or representatives to Congress? BY our Sc
cessi6n tie Union is dissolved, and will stand
by our mere non-action. But if
this policy of coercion is pursued, will dis
union be limited to South Carolina alone /?
Does any man believe that the general gov
ernment can carry on war against south
ern atate, for exercising her right of seeding
from the Union, in defense of her liberties
and institutions, and that no other southern
states will join her in the contest? The
right of secession is the right of all. Sur
render it, and the states are no longer sover-
eighties. They are not parties to the consti-
iutional compact; but mere provinces of one
vast consolidated empire, under the absolute
sway of the free states in the north, through
the majority in Congress.
Ii South Carolina secedes from the Union,
and remains an independent state for five
years, southern coniederacy must he the
result, or the south will have enforced those
guarantees which will give her that safety,
liberty, and equality TO which she is entitled.
i have been battling in this cause for twenty
five years, and have but few more years
to give to your service. l long to see it set
ted. As a citizen of South Carolina, de.
mand that she make me free. Let her de-
termine, now and forever, the fate of her
sons. My counsel is, secede from the Union
of these United States. At every hazard,
and to the last extremity, secede.' If i was
now about to draw my last breath, with that
breath j would eXhort you TO secedc.
Unite-and unite in secession, and with
Gods blessing, redemption is at hand for us
aud ours.
A trial of the scheme will work IRE
dempiion" TO the people of that State, which
this blind stakeholder little dreams Of We
wish there was manliness enough in the
North TO tell them to Try d.-Penn. Freeman