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

gainst this "pronupciamento" from the ora.
sles of. the Higher Law party, not a muir
a,ur has beep heard from the North, nor q
monosylabte of dissent, one note Of con-
demnation been uttered by abolition State,
or abolition man. The abolition And free
soil party, impatient for other assaults on
Southern rights, are nov inthe ascendaRcy,
and have complete contrib over the legisla.
lion of Congress. Can any man honestly
believe that under such government, uhen.
eser the subject Of slarery is to be acted on,
that the legislation of Congress can or will
be confined within the legitimate, eonstitu.
tional sphere, or that the objects and par.
poses of the Federal Uhion will be carried
out in good faith, without sectional feeling,
|dIscffninaron and partialfys Ths tomi.
nant majority in Congress are the true re.
representatives. of their consttuents-expo.
ncnts Of the bad feelings and bad passions
Of demagogues, fanatics and bigots, who
are our. SANDERS, prosecutors und enemies.
POWER is curse in tyrants hands
But in bigot tyraats'--treblo curse"
By the Legislation Of Congress in relation
to California, and other territory acquired
from Mexico, the slave States hase been
placed under the ban Of their abolition mas.
ters, and have been assigned to a station Of
political inferiorits AID degradation.
Can South Carolina acknowledge her po.
litical inJcrioritY, and crouchipgly submit to
political degradation. Passive obedience
and non.rcsistance, calling apon Hercules
for cooperation without making prepara.
ton, or uniting our own energies 70 deserve
and SECURE II; wifi not avert the dire calam,
tiles which the aboli!ionists have meditated,
planned. and expect to bring about e.
The ends aud objects for which the Fed.
eral Onion, was formed, hore been over.
looked and pernerted. The Constitution,
unused and perverted, les covered with the
constitutional government of the United
States. If rotm name, has in fact, been
abolished, and fierce aud iasolent despo.
tlsm has usurped its place. e., !.
Thus prescribed and degraded from her
political station of equality in the Union,
South Carolina has no alternative, but to
make. ah fgpohfnlous surrender of her con.
stitutiopaIrights, or, through her convention,
to resume her sovereignty, and to declare
to the world thatit has "become necessa.
ry, in the course of human events, to dis.
solve the political bands which connected
her with the gayeypppnt Of the U. s. Of Amc.
rica, and to assume among the powers of the
earth the separate and equal station to which
nature and natures God entitle herr :,
Feeling most sensily the wrongs and ag.
gressions perpetrated on the rights Of the
slave States by abolition legislation, know.
isnfrom their own declarations thaetdrther
and greater injustice ndspollatioH dre'fH'
tended, seeing we have no guarantee for the
security of slave property under the reign
of abolitioni:m, I cannot hesitate to acqui.
esce in the necessity ofthe State of South
Carolina seeding from the Confederation,
and becoming as she was before she aceed-
ed to the Uuion. Free, Sovereign, and In.
dependent State. a.
Respcctfully,&e.
THOS. SMITH. MD.
Society Hill, S. c., Aug, 80.