The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-01-15
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

It has bccn the practice of small
slangwhangers and cmagogues to
belch out their foul streams Of abuse
on South Carolina. When their
narrow intcllccts and anti.southern
feelings and prejudices are without a
topic, that gallant State furnishes n
theme on which they suppose they
can successfully arouse the prciudi.
ces Of the people. But that theme
is getting thrcadbare-that dcma-
goguc clamer is fast losing its force.
That State has at all times had more
talent in it in proportion to its popu-
lation than any other State. 1t has
at oil times been distinguished for its
freedom from pauperism and crime;
for the noble and exalted hospitality
of its inhabitants, and for the bravery
of her sons on the field of battle. We
believe we speak the truth when we
say that more, of her sons voluntarily
declined exalted official stations in
the State and Federal Government
than in any State in the Union; and
we ask with triumphant defiance the
calumniators of South Carolina to
show one other single instance in the
whole financial history of the coun.
try in which a city has invested five
hundred thousand dollars in a public
enterprise in another and distant
State in which she loses every parti-
Gle of benefit arising from the local
expenditures Of the money! Ponder
on this, ye calu,nniators of Charles.
ton and South Carolina!
But, oh! South Carolina nulifica-
ton! exclaims the willy demagogue
in his appeals, who wishes To si,se cid
|Enreiaa discs the ton of
slavery Ii 8 llssifics.
ton! exclaims the consoiidation fsd.
eralist who wishes to obliterate State
laws and have one grand, corrupt,
central, consolidated government
And what of that! is there any one
now who has the impudcncc and au,
dacity to say that the monstrous ta.-
iff of 1928, out Of which South Caro-
lima notification arose, was not a
gross, an abominable outrage on the
rights Of the South? Where can
there be found defender of that
unequal law now? And no doubt
South Carolina, having but few
manufactories-fewer, perhaps, at
that time than any State in tho Un-
ion-her great staples being rice and
cotton-South Carolina, having al.
most every thing to buy from abroad,
and selling nothing but her staples,
was worse oppressed than any State
in the Union. The people of the
United States have passed. a final
condemnation on the exploded theory
of protection. The State of Penn
sylvania, in the Presidential election,
organized a public clamor about an
iron tax, but the thing is dead. It
has been overthrown in England,
and will soon be regarded as one of
the exploded fallacics of by-gonc
age; and the course Of South Caro-.
lima no doubt had its share in the
destruction of that system. fSouth
Carolina acted hastily thcn-if she
committed cxccsscs, none will now
be so false and audacious as to denv
that she was provoked and cnraged
by the action of the general govern.
ment by the passage of the act of
1928. She acted under goadin.
sense of wrongs and injuries.
But South Carolina advocates the
immediate withdrawal of the Southern
States from tho Northern States!
Some Of her citizens do and some do
not. What tho action of tho con-
stituted authorities of the State will
be, lies in the future, and depends
upon tho united action Of the south
crn States, and upon the prospect of
continued aggression by the north.
ern States, leading directly and
plainly to the emancipation of four
millions of slaves in these southern
States. South Carolina has more
slaves than whites within her bo.ders1
She has deeper .pecuniary intsS&
in the question of slavery than ssss sss
her sister southern States.
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