The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-06-18
From the Charleston Mercury.
Macon County. Alabama.

being brought furword by VIM. A. McCarty,
esq. chairman of the committee, and sus-
tanned by him in an eloquent, patriotic
and soul-strring speech, were unanimously
adopted.
The committee to whom was referred the
address of the delegates Of the Southern
Rights Associations Of South Carolina, as
semhled in Charleston, to the Southern
Rights Associations Of the other Southern
States, beg leave to report that they have
had;the same under consideration, and that
they cordially approve of the principles
discussed, and the spirit manifested by said
adLrsss. And for the purpose of giving
a gg6eral and united response to the call OF
the Southern Rights Associations of South
Carolina, we would respectfully recommend
the consideration OF this subject to the Con-
vention Of delegates from all Of the South
saern Rights Associations Of Alabama, to be
Sheld in the city of Montgomery. on tho
Cd Monday of June next. In the meanwhile,
this Association cannot forbenr 10 discuss
some Of the principles set forth in the
address, and to indicate to South Carolina
tho course that we have determined upon,
should, she. in the exercise of her SOW
.ereigt&@ determine to leave the Union.
We fully in the fact. as set
lOGul III tne uuuIcSss lhaI thc aSSTcs-
sons Of the past are sufficient to justify
resistance; indeed, if we intend TO
live as freemen ourselves, and leave to our
children after us, our cherished institutions
and liberties, there is no election left us.
{ jorities arrayed against us in every branch
Of the Government, present to our minds the
worst and most dangerous features Of ab-
c11nt;npSS,,, oror kno,yn in tho k;ctor, Of
tyranny. Wc are well assured that this
sectional majority, encouraged by the VIC
tories of the past, and The tame spirit of
submission in the South, and urged for
ward by ianatcism, will stop ut no bounds
this side of the utter abolition of African
slavery in the States.-But will 'Ihe spirit
Of the vassal rise in proportion to the indig-
mites heaped upon his head7" We be.
lieve that it will not There are even now
among us hundreds and thousands of true
hearted Southrons, who feel the expressions
of the government as keenly and as scnsi-
lively as we, who believe the North to be so
welded to fanaticism that she would not
allow the Southern States peaccably to
exercise the right Of secession; and looking
to the position and circumstances Of the
Southern Stntes, they fear that we should
he unable to scope with so formidable an
adversary" or power. Thus hundreds and
thousands, among us. are already bowed
to the dust and dispirited, and if wercmain
s in the Union, under existing circumstances,
Afor many years 10 come, we are forced to
the reluctant, but overwhelming and
humiliating conviction, tlattfe Southern.
States will tamely and submissiycly yield
TO the North in one fatal hour, not only her
property in the States, but also her State
sovereignities. :.
In looking around upon the Southern
States in this emergency, we deeply regret
that most of them are divided in sentiment,
and engaged in contentious among them
Z selves, while the enemy is gloating over
7the epols of the last campaign, and gather.
ing up his energies afresh for a now
onslaught upon our institution.
Under the crushing reality of picture
so gloomy and hut feehly portrayed. this
Association halls with pnfaigned delight,
the course Indicated Tor Scath, Carolina by
s. III. tstsa :onve"tian se,ep!Iy resemble n
81 Son,h ~ -, nNh q hus Ikc md shaoy
oi great rork IN a weary land" under
which tho institutions of tho South NAV
reFose in safety, or around which the
true-hearted Southron of every State may
rally, to s;ndicate his lost honor and TO
recover and maintain his rights.
Notwithstanding South Carolina has
been taunted and iccred by Abolitonis,s of
the North, and by dcmagogues OF the South,
we are pleased to see her moving on in the
even tenor Of her way, refusing to return
ruling for ruling, demanding but simple
+ justice from her oppressors, and ut cvcry
step proclaming her utter willingness, by
her earnest desire for an honorable adjust
ment of the pending difficulties And we
! cherish the hope, that if South Carolina
even with what aid she mny receive from
the Southern Rights Associations OF the
other Southern States, will but stand firmly
to tho position assumed, demanding in
: demnlly for the past and security for the
future she may recover for herself and for
her sister States Of the South all that has
been lost. Why not? The North has no
real interest to serve in striking down our
institution; but She has a real practical and
ieit interest in the preservation of the Union,
and she must see that whenever South
Carolina shall leave the Union that every
Southern State must sooner or later rally
under the Tree institutions Of South Carolina,
rather than remain undsr the crushiup
despotism OF the Free Soil and Abolition
States. Verify If it has already come To
that, that the Northern States love their
cherished notions of Abolition better than
their own great interests in the preservation
of :hn Union, it is surely time for the Soutl,
ITO uo': out new safe guards for her own in
tercais If the North will deliberately
deny justice and equality TO the Southern
Suites, with the serious fact of secession.
and the consequent loss of property, before
them, it would afford to the South new and
oyerwhel lining evidence of their dc.
termination To crush us, and our institutions
in one common reign: and it would call upon
the South with an appealing voice tina,
would arouse every Southern man, having
nSouthern heart in his bosom, to yindica,c
the course OF South Carolina at every hazard
Ia this view of the subject, the members Of
THIS Associat on are sincerely rejoiced that
South Carolina is to move forward and de-
/ mand the recovery Of our just rights, aud
security against future aggrcssions. South
Carolina is overy way tho fittcst champion
OF Southern honor and Southern rights.
This proud position is cordially awarded to
her, because of her past sacrifices in tho