Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26
LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE NTIsECEssION
CELEBRATION AT GREENvILLE, Is. C.)
From Professor Dickson.


CHAnLEsroS, (s. C.) JUSK %, 1851.
GENTLEMEN am honored BY your invitation for the
approaching 4h Of July but being unable to join you
the OCCASION will avail myself Of the privilege you offer as
an alternative to give expression to my views OF the purpose
Of your meeting.
Within the last quarter Of century has been frequent
ly announced by politicians that approaching,
that had reached serious and startling crisis
crisis has indeed at last arrived and every citizen should be
prepared encounter it, Our beloved Carolina has been
drawn, blinded and maddened by excitement to the very
Of abyss into which, If she once punges she is
forever fallen" Her young men, educated in distrust OF
and hatred 10 the Federal Union, taught the abb
horrent lesson Of absolute isolation. They 10 become
seeected champions of Southern rghtsredressers OF
Southern wrongs Our sister States Of the South, bound up
with in the indssoube chains Of interest and
honor represented to them sggads and incompetent
to bs dictated TO- not counseled with to be led they will
follow; 10 be deed and denounced, they remain inactive
II is declared TO be the duty, the privilege Of South
Carolina to deliver battle enemies single
handed she alone will WELD the sword in this great
troversy, and give the law to all her peers
"This vaung ambition that oyerleaps ITSELF thus, in
ference neghbo and associates not less domnes
ing home. Accustomed to that part greater
than whole" the solitary secessonss maintain that
ga part Is the whole !" and that the impatient and fiery
spirits who, in the Just resentment of wrong, have most
hemeny transcendsd all reasonable sgaon constitute the
entire State and that her free sovereignty therefore pedg
ed to uphold them in the lonely and companoness elevation
they aspire to- They appear TO have forgotten that fury is
6tr6nStn nuc0uv0 courage
that the deliberate resolution which "bides s time is
to be mistaken for submissveness
The Of the people take, firmly believe, the fol-
lowing position Far from being disposed to submission.
in the attitude Of resistance to two classes Of asaants
First we will save the State from the misguided zeal of
too ardent fellow citizens, brethren and friends the only
fault In whose headong patriotism it's total want Of disce
ton. We will her from the hands that would rashly
the ties binding her to her natural allies and coadut0
and thus devote her to national ruin and exemnsion
the doo-even more intoleable-of scoful neglect and
gradual decay.
This being done-for this is most urgent duty-we
ready Join in determined and unyieding opposi
ton to the hateful majority menacing from the North.
We will cover before the backens poti
cal sky with ts dark and rising cloud Of nsdous ee-so
ism and nsolent abolition. Fully Of he Infinite i'm
poance Of the coming contest and Of its ncacuabe evils
and dangers we will calmly gather our strength to meet IT,
confident courage and endurance, and doubt
ing the truth ard valor Of those with whom in
concert TO act at all hopefully or efficiently.
In the impending Of the races, will not separate
ourselves from any allies who will with contend manfuy
We will not be forced into foolish and injurious quarrel
with natural assocates nor will we for moment pre-
to dictate lhem who feel and suffer do, what
is requisite TO the character and well being Of all Of We
claim to be their equals, and than their equals in
the council and in the field We will be their rivals in ho
nor their brothers in When they ready for action
shall be found by their side until they feel 1t necessary
strike, also will be patient If true of any conede
racy, it is emphatcay true Of the Southern States, that
" united we Standardized we fall"
Let conclude with sentiment, gentlemen, which, if
you approve, you will oblge BY proposing the meeting
South Carolina. bright particular star" in the South
constellation If she shoot madly from her Sphere
lost Peiad whose place shall know her forever
or an illomened meteor which
" from his horrid hair
Filings pestilence and war"
have the honor be- gentlemen very respectfully, your
obedent servant.