The republic., 1851-10-30
From Ms GreeneiiIe Is. CO. Southern Patriot.
The Result and Consequences OF the Elec-
tiOns an south Carolina.

uons an south Carolina.
In another column will be seen the election
returns throughout The State. In every Con-
gressional district, except one, large majority
Ot the votes has been cast against secession.
The same result has taken place in almost every
judicial district in the State. The aggregate
majority against separate State action, in South
Carolina, will be some seven eight thousand
votes The secessOnists have elected only
two members out of fourteen Never was
there victory more complete. In the noun
tains, in the middle country, and on the seaboard,
at the capital of the State and in our great COM
mercial metropolis, with the poor and with the
rich, everywhere and with all classes, the seces-
sonists have been defeated-horse foot, and dra-
goons. Their generals have all been slain, with
two exceptions, and their forces have been 30 ef-
iectually destroyed, routed and dispersed, Grip
pied, and disabled, that they never can do battle
again in South Carolina
We predict that new era has commenced
in this State, and that the energies of her people
will no longer be exhausted in fruitless excite.
ment and war with the Federal Government In
stead of boastng of chivalry and spirit, and
spending our time in idleness and profigacy, VIC
will go to work and improve, enrich, and beautify
our Palmetto State. We will build railroads, cut
canals, make plank roads, erect machinery, put
up manufactures, improve our lands, construct
magnificent public edihces, fine houses, and com
Portable dwellings. We will endow schools and
colleges, and look to the moral and social condition
of our people, and make ourselves not an indepcnd
ent ,latiOn but an independent people.
We will show our love for South Carolina, not
by running off to some new country, bot by living
and dying here, and teaching our children TO
main here after dead and gone. Instead
of going to the North to spend our money and our
summers, we will Welt the mountains OF our own
beloved State, and build cottages there, and live
there during the hot and sickly season. We will
learn to manufacture and import goods,
and raise horses and hogs, so that we
may be neither dependent the North the
West.
The effort to destroy the Union and form South
ern Confederacy, by appealing to the fears of the
shareholders, and telling them that their property
is in danger, has signally failed, and they never
can be excited to the madness again. The
people have discovered, and will discover that the
great object of secession was diSunion, not the de-
fence and security of slavery. The institution of
slavery was made, attempted to be made, the
means of accomplishing this great and cherished
object of the secessionsts II well known that
nothing could divide the Republic but this great
interest, and that nothing less would unite the
South in opposition to the Federal Government
Hence it was seized hold Of with such avidity, by
VIC diSuiiioHlSi5j per &C. iHty nouuuCu
and continued to agitate and agitae, after all dan
ger
The effect of the storm through which we have
just passed, not only in South Carolina, but in Geor-
gia, Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, and North
Carolina, will tend TO strengthen the Federal
Union. The people throughout the southern States
will hereafter be mere their guard against all
insidous attacks the existence of the Republic.
great Union party has sprung up in all the south
ern States, composed OF an overwhelming majority
of the people of each State who will not hereafter
permit a march to be stolen on them by appeal
to their fears.
This storm, too, has had a most salutary inHu
ence at the North, and has taught The northern peo
pie the danger of interfering, in the slightest de-
gree, with the institution OF slavery. They
see how sensitive the southern people this
subject, and how easily they stirred up to mad
ness by the least interference with their constitu
tional rights. Already the northern people have
! commenced fighting our battles, and an overwhelm-
! ing majority Of them disposed TO stand by the
Federal Constitution and the Union of the States
They have deep interest in tho preservation of
the Union. This they know and feel, and will OBJ
serve and remember.
This storm, too, will have most salutary inilu-
ence the legislation of our country. We shall
never see Congress again spending large portion
of the session without organizing and being ready
to transact the business of the country Hereafter
1t will be the great object OF all the patriotic
bcrs of both Houses of Congress, from the North
| and the South, the East and the Wcst to abstain
from all questions touching the subject of slavery
II is true these questions cannot be excluc ed from
| either House. The abotionists of the North, and
the disunionsts of the South will, no doubt, CON
tinue to thrust these subjects before Congress- but
they will meet no countenance from the wise, and
! virtuous, and patriotic.
All the questions likely to come before Congress
connected with slavery have already been settled
| The question of slavery in the Territories is set.
tied forever. The territorial governments ex-
| pressly prohibited by the Compromise from legis
latng on the subject The admission of new States
into the Union Id likewise settled by the Compro-
mise, and they come in with or without slavery,
they please. The capturing offugitive slaves is
likewise settled, and the President is clothed with
| toe whole military power of the country TO main
tain the constitutional rights of the South. Slave
ry in the District of Columbia is the only chance
thatthe abolitionists disunionists have for
agiatng this question.
The Federal Government must necessarily con
fine it's legislation to foreign affairs, and leave to
the States the entire control of their domestic
| Germs. What beautiful system of government
| we live under. National Legislature to watch
over the common interests of the whole country,
| and thrty-one State governments to regulate the
internal affairs of their respective States House
| Of Representatives in which the people, the soyc.
reign people of the United States, all, whether
rich or po,r, equally represented. And Senate
in which the States, the sovereign States of the
Confedcracy, whether great or small arc all equal
| ly represented. The Executive combines the two
bases of representa- and is elected by mixed
power representing both the States and the people
| of the United States.
Never before was there SO wise government or
ganzed on earth, and never before have people,
in ancient modern times been so prosperous
and happy the American people have been un-
der this Government. Let us preserve it, and, in
| the language OF our great political father and
saviour, the immortal Washington, properly cs
timato its value, and frown Indignantly the first
dawning Of any attempt to ALLEVIATE portion Of
il from another" In the language Of another no.
bie patriot of the Revolution, let our motto be,