The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-08-29

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to stand in the way, they will have ample
power to make a direct amendment. Fifty
yenrs is but a very short time in national
existence, and fifty years will fix us beyond
tho hope of patriotic and courageos strug-
gle. No! now is the day, and now is the
hour. Rise and rush to the Red sea-" and
if the God of hosts will not save us, we may
yet again praise Him, who shall lend us out
OF the power of our enemies.
But it is said there is danger and difficulty
in going alone. That separate state action
will be full Of disaster and ruin. Those who
say 80, admit that it is ruin to stay. We
have been denied equality as Statc-we
have been spurned and contclnned Instead
OF concliation and kindness, our institutions
have been dcrided and we have been held up
for denunciation, in our morals and social
intercourse, before tho christian and moral
world. Our country is one constant scene of
bitter agitation and painful anxiety. There
is not mother or father in our land that
does not ask the question every night, what
IS to become of us Is this the fostering
care of kind, protective government This
itself is odious tyranny and intolerable de-
gradation. What thoush h there be difficulty
and danger in the State acting alone, it can
not be worse than to stand and bear it.
Better to move like freemen boldly for the
independence and rights of the country, for
should we even perish, we will fall with our
honor saved and maine unstaiHed, for the
admiration of posterIty. But, if we stand
still, i've shall perish ike mice under an ex-
hausted receiver-with no consideration save
the pity Of the world.
Mr.. Chairman, has any man thought Sc
riously of the terrible effects Of Abolition,
when brought to our home and our Preside
Three millions of black slaves, turned loose
upon the community, would present such
scene as the world has never conceived
They would come directly into competition
with the white mechanics, artizans and CON-
mon labourcrs Of the whole country. They
would work for little or nothing-a bottle Of
rum and twist of tobacco what would
become of the free arlizans, enterprising
mechanics, and Industrious laborers of our
country2 Brought down to degraded COM
petition with three millions of slaves made
free. Now, they are regulated and labor in
an entirely different field. Who then could
live here2 Now the white man feels freedom
to be his privilege and rank 1T separates
him from the cast below him. lie will then
have the black man to put up as his equal,
and they will sink together into common,
but degraded level. Tho wealthy man, if
heis mean enough and base enough to desert
the country, may be able to save something
and do SO, but the poor man, whose fate is
fixed from necessity in the doom and destiny
of the country, is here aud here forever
there is no escape. Let no man hug to him
self the fatal delusion that he is too poor to
feel the whitening blight of that dreadful
curse, if it should ever come. There is none
80 high and none so low, but he will shiver
under the bowling Of that dreadful blast
There will be no peasant cottage that hangs
upon our hills, however humble, but will
fall before that midnight storm. There will
be no sign upon the door posts or lintels of
any chosen or elect, by which the destroying
angel may know to pass by.
Gentlemen, many spppose because slave
ry has been extinguished in other countries
without convulsion that it can be done
here. But the circumstances are totally
different. In the Roman republic the slaves
were Of the same color and Of the same
race. Many of them were learned and re6n-
ed. They were taught those things that
were supposed to be effeminate by their war:
like masters. They merely changed as the
Government and laws, aud society changed,
and were gradually and finally lost in ANAL
gamation-the races all being the same.-
So in England. And although. the follow
era Of William the Conqueror looked for
ages in contempt upon the Saxons; yet
their color and physical attributes were the
True, when one Of their kings, at
ieast, intermarried with Saxon, it produc
ed shock to the conquering race, yet it was
the beginning of that amalgan,ation which
finally intermingled the two races until the !
distinctions were lost and forgotten, and
slavery gradually fell without convulsion,
and without even general law in relation
to it. = Not 30 here. God himself has made
such distinctions of color, and other physi.
cal as we'll as moral attributes, a. forever
forbid the same termination. No! no! 90
forward IN this Wild scheme Of mad fanati-
cism and whining philanthrophy, and you
convert this land Of happiness into scenes Of
universal blood, and then, finally, into bar
barian wilderness. 1t will dry up all the
sources of prosperity and refinement, and
we will have nothing but a melancholy and
deserted land, with, perchance, here and
there a solitary inbabisapti to point out tbe
graves and the monuments of our:once her
roic race. And this Is done in q Tar shorter
time than many of US imagine. Look a
f6t DnminQ Qo-the very naisso ~curdIes ones
seina--slooka at all the West India Islands Of
Ffance and England. Less than twenty
five years ago cultivation, refinement and
tile arts held their mingled sway over those