Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1847-1861, 1851-09-23

quote, were Published sienymously snd your
readers eould not thsrefcrs correct your state
nent by them yos knew they We're written by
me. The first from which Isllall quote. appeared
in your paper Of Eoy. 2sih, 1859, written after
the election. last ALI for the Legislature md be
fore the present division Of parties sprung up.--
he reader viii see, that i'll had iorescen the pre-
shs stale 81 things now existngs and your denial
.of my position. could not have expressed the
views fentsrtain. more pointedly to meet your
denial than did. or publish them so appropriate,
ly.sitf this view, any wherselse. as IN you. coll
pmns. The following are two extracts from the
article resered to-: -
whilst it (the General Government) thus re
fuses protection to slave property il affords ample
proeection to every other rspeciesOf property. Are
not slavehoidcrs entitled 10 the same protection
WITH rcitiaensi viii they submit 10 distnc-
tion soinnjust and so insultingi But what can
they do What con they dol The. very question
is ai, insult If seriously put ;s ifthey were downs
trodden, brokenepirited slaves, wanting the pow
sr or courage to raise their voice, their arm and
zaesd De. their swos in defense Of fheir rights
9 yefy humble and veiE obscure individual, they
ought 10 do. They ought, at once 70 declare tp
their Northern feilow-citizeas With calmness1
which shall show their earnesiness, with decision
not 10 be mistaken qad through representatives e,.
thorised to speak ON this point, THAT rREy wILLsgs
MT TO NO pfsPARkorSG DHTIScTIoS-thet all Their
property, slaves included, must receive the same
projection from the Government which all other
property receives; otherwise hat ky Gfil consider
ths Union dssolred and nil proc<td to establish
separate government for their oan projection"
"Should the North drive ps,out Of the Union,
and yet refuse to separate by friendly negoiiatiop
We can easily devise safe mode Of forciblee eera-
ration, provided zoe pursue so riN course d3 70
secure the aaion and co operation Of hs entsfs
Sousa Whether the mode adopted be calledtnul.
liicalion. secession rebellion or revolution, would
be immaterial The thing would be the same. "a
rose smells ns sweat by any other name"
But this ia not ALL After the election for Con.
vsntion had been ordered, and when candidates
were about to be nominated, / carried to the Office
of the Gazette, and handed 10 the Editor, in my
own hand writing, questions to the candidates,
lesving a blank for their namsS and requesting
him to fill it with all the naq<sVlich might be
announced. which he did. TiS piIswing is first
ofthsse questions;
"would yoir If elected to the convention, gise
ycur influence and votes in favor Of such measures
is would tend to UNITE TUE SCrTlERS SrATEs IN re-
o4irinq as an essential condition of Continuance
Of tie. Jhsoa. that the Federal Government shall
protect stve property in the Territories South Of
z5e degrees sominutes; and every where else with
in the jurisdiction Of the Goyernmentr--
The reader win Sec here again precisely The re-
.istanee and deooperation ground now occupied by
the cooperation party. -
But it Was not last winter hor last fall that1
made up my mind on this question but years ngo
when ths question was first raised by the North
eSp free-soil party. as the columns Of the Cheraw
66zstte. then in my own hands most abnndantly
prove. But / shall not ask YOU 10 occupy space
this week with evidence from that sourcc shall
furnish II for your columns next week. s,A
~ The proceeding carried to the Gazsftc esfcs IN
tin,o for las. weeks paper. and urged its irnmedi.
ate insertion, on the soreo jus6es asa convection
from the Editors own columns Of hs osfn repre-
sentatisns Of my position. He promised both on
Saturday and Mondy, that be would TRY" to get
IL into the paper; bat it was not put in. OF the
justice of allowing his statement another week for
circulation the.reader will judge. lie must have
expected some effect from the statcmeusorh he would
not have made il.
4 now proceed 10 show from til. columns Of the
'Gdtstts, when conducted by myself, that took
my resistance position more than fourteen years
ago. when the present editor of the paper, so for
as he has shown, was asleep on the subject.
-. The following is on editorial published by mo
<in the Cheraw Gasette'of February 2sth, 1887
ABOLITION"
"The Richmond Whig predicts chat Congress
win abolish slavory in the District of Columbia
BY the 4fh Of March 1888. and proposes SOUTHERN
CONVENTION as a means Of PRErERViSG The UNION
Now We shall be as anxionssto continue the union
Of the States as any one else cn be- long as the
Great Body Of our Northern fellow-ctizens are
willing to preserve it and to let the South caoy IN
psaes its constitutional rights. But let Congress
once touch our right to our slave property, either
by Gboliseing slavery in the District of Columbia
without the consent of the adjoining States or in
asy other pag, and we shall be ready without any
great fuss or excitement about it, to sever, at a
6lo,c the cord that binds the North and the South
The North knou that a dissolution Of the Union
would be the immediate result Of any interference
with slavery by Congress, within the slave region
Nome among then, of the least information, and Of
common sense can doubt this What then could
!, be the object Of Southern Convention in the
present state Of thingsi Nothing certainly, cut
either to take steps for dissolution of the Union
or to beg our Northern fellow-citizens that they
ould be gracously pleased to let us remain united
wle>them. The former object is dsclaimed by the
movers>S the project and the latter We are sure1
no freemaffNSould avow. The Northern Statesare
at least as mtes interested in preserving the I'm
ION rs the southern II the former intimate that
they are tired Of the bargain, Wc-ase surethe lat
ter will not be disposed to hold them to II. We
Zee rothing ourselves either in paocsediass of
Congress or in the state of public sentimcnkat the
North, which affords ground for reasonable appre-
hension on this subject at. Ae preient The time
may come but surely not before the 4th of March
asss when public opinion at the North shall be
Haii Bs time = enough ] to provide for such con. ON