Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-17
From tie NeW York Herald
Our Southern Correspondence.
CHARLEsToN, S. G., April II

otina-P PreoaiIing ,Sentimento of iSecession--Pla
Of Secession .Separately-Pro1ect Of a Southern
Coatederacy and Free Irade- Combined plan Of
Secession-More Securities to be demanded-T Ten
Mzlioas-TAe Case plainly .Stated-NoveDsents
on the tSa5ject-TAe Real Danger yet to Come
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The danger of this Union-the immediate, he
reditary, and continuing danger to this Unions in
the slavery question. 1t is not in the institution
ITSELF but in Northern hostility, prejudice, and en-
Wy against Southern shareholders it is in that ex-
panding, religious fanatical Northern sentiment
that slavery is curse, and ought to be extripated
even III blood and fire, if not to be rooted out by
other means. There is the peril, and never has it
more alarmingly developed itself than now. The
late senatorial elections in Vermont, Ohio, New
York and Massachusetts-the late letters of VIM.
H. Seward and John Van Buren, taken in connec-
tien with the dislocated condition of the old polite
al parties, and approach of the Presidential cam
paign of 1852, quite sufficient to justify the
apprehension that before that election comes, the
Union may be dissolyed-that star will be miss
ing from our federal system-and that nothing but
Northern forbearance and good faith and implic-
it regard to the constitution Ito far greater
tent than we have any expectations of witnessing)
nothing but some sCeh resolution in Northern
public opinion, will prevent the catastrophe of a
rapid dissolution, beginning with the secession of
From the household affairs of this people, we
plead their position to this question of slavery and
the Union
1t is the universal sentiment in the north, that
slavery is sin, curse, a great evil great mis-
fortune, and that it would be great blessing to be
rid of it and of the black race at the same time
That is the universal sentiment at the north ex-
cepting few crazy amalgamationsts, who would
prefer the practical carrying ont of their notions Of
human equality. But the conservatives of the
north-they who are sincerely attached to the T.
Mon, and the spirit of the compact-very literally,
while lamenting the evils of slavery admit that it
is none of their busincssthat the south have it in
their own hands and that it is best to let the in
stitution work out itself, rather than hazard the
consequences of insurrection and civil war by abb
clifton excitement. They farther admit the obliga-
tions of the constitution and while regarding sla-
very with aversion, are ready to fulfil their stpu
lated duties to the south That is the most fayora
BILE species in sentiment in the north, towards this
peculiar institution
In moral and religious view, then, the south
ern States according to the universal sentiment of
the north are sustaining evil, curse, a crime,
among them, which is only to be tolerated because
of treaty stipulations, and because of the difficult
ty of removing the evil. The only safety of the
SOUTH then, is in the conservative portion of the
northern people, whose political and commercial
interest guarantee their obedience to constitution
al obligations.
But the platform of the abolitionist, or rather
the basis of their platform-tha slavery is an evil
and sin-being thus universally admitted, we
may see at a glance the power which it gives
these traitors in propogating their incendary de-
signs for how easy is it from admitting an evil
to proceed to measures to abolish it!--how natu-
raj and consistent it is to do so This is the sim
pie secret of the mysterious influence of Seward,
John Van Buren, Chaplin, Fred Douglass, Lucre-
tia Mott and all the piebald coteres of northern
demagogues and old women, ambitious of exhibit
ing their rascaity and their philanthropy togrher,
on the most approved red republican doctrines of
liberty, equality and fraternity.
What has the south ultimately to hope of the
north, when hostility to slavery is thus involved,
fostered and transmitted as religious principle
On the other hand, what is the general opinion OF
slavery in South Carolina? Not that it is nee
essary evil, but that it is patriarchal, Mosaic,
and christian insttution-a beneficial institution to
the black race, and an advantageous institution to
the white. Such the opinion of Mr.. Calhoun,
repeatedly expressed in the Senate-such is the
opinion of the State. The people of South Caro-
lima hold that the negro Is inferior race, and in
capable of self government-that Africa proves ii
that the monuments of Egypt and the Bible
prove t-that physiological science proves it-that
Hispanola and Jamaica prove it-and that the col
ony of Siberia win ultimately prove it, if left to it.
self. They hold that the true position of Sambo
is slavery that relation best developes his limited
capacities, and is best adapted to his limited de-
sires, and that his constitution is most admirably
fitted for the sugar. rice, cotton and tobacco fields
fattening under heat and malaria which are fata
to the white race; but that Sambo will not WORK
without a master. These are South Carolina alb
stractons on the slavery question, abstractly con
sidered.
Out of population of 668, 900, in round mum
bers South Carolina possesses 384, 900 slaves, al
excess over the free population of some $1,000
Including the free negroes, the coored population
probably exceeds the white by at least rs, ,OO0.-
Hence the extreme senstiveness of South Carroll
ma to any intermeddling with slavery She can
not but regard the abolition propagandists will
alarm; for step, by step, the day may be anticipa
ted when the outposts will all be carried, and th
question will be brought to the issue of reducing
the State to the condition of ST. Domingo; TO
this condition of freedom to the slaves, thus gvln:
to the free blacks large majority in the State
would simply result in the determination of on
race or the other.
Coupled, then, with the policy of the fedora
government upon the tariff question: the bnanc
and the navigation laws, we see in this thing c
slavery the cause of this continual agitation of sc
7 cession in South Carolina. 1t means something
The sentiment has been ripening since 1889. Th
State stood at that time in open resistance to th
, tariff; nor her submission secured until eongres
!, abated the extortions of the obnoxious law. Whe
the tariff compromise, by sort of deusive slidin
scale. had itself out, the whig protection az