The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-24

conquered by your blood and treasure. Unite. |
and you shall form one of the most splendid en-
pires on which the sun ever shone, Of the most |
homogeneous population, oil Of the Same blood |
and lineage, soil the most fruitful, and climate
the most lovely. But submit, submit The very
sound curdles the blood in my veins. But, O!
great God unite W, and tale OF submission shall
never be told !"
SO much for Judge Cheves.
The next evidence Of "re-action" is. the cleo
ton of the Hon. Robert W. Barnwe Again,
| would respectfully, and in all candor, ask of
the editor, whether he means that Mr.. Barnwell
has in any respect changed his views, or does he
mean that others have changed their sentiments
towards him. have considered it as conceded
"a point beyond dispute or caviI, that next to
Judge Cheves, Mr.. BarnweI stood highest in
| the affections and confidence of the legislature
which called the convention. There were no
two individuals whose sentiments were 80 tho
roughly known to the legislature, yet each was
offered by that body more of public honor than
he was willing to receive. Has he done aught
since to forfeit their esteem? How then can the
choice Of either or both there fovorite sons of
South Carolina be considered an indication of
"re-aclion?" Will the editor, with the fair deal
ing for which have given him credit SO far at
least as it consists in intention, permit Mr.. Barn
we'll to speak for himself through his columns
Mr.. Barnwell closes his digni6ed and manly
reply to Mr.. Clay, in tho Senate, on the 9th
June last as followsk
i "Unless some great change can be effected in
the public sentiment of the States with which we
of the South associated; unless they can be in
duced to treat with fairness and justice those who
are their equals, and must maintain that equality;
unless they can restrain their citizens from the
plumber Of our property the invasion OF our rights,
necessarily harrassing us with malignant asper-
sIons subtle and cruel devices to disturb peace
and endanger our safety, confess cannot tell
what adjustment can be effected. OF one thing,
Mr.. President, feel secure the Abotionist who
hopes from the dissolution of the Union the de-
struction Of the South, hoping and expecting that
the institutional slavery cannot be safely and wisely
administered by people who for hundred years
have made it subservient to their interest and hap
piness, is utterly mistaken. There never has
been any nation whose security would be more
assured than that Of the Southern States Of this
confederacy. Forced into separate government
linked together within by the strongest ties Of COM
munity Of interests and congenality of sentiment
n welded together from withoutby calumny and OPP
position, that spirit = devoted patriotism which
i finds its best nurture amid difficulties, trials met
: and overcome; that great eternal principle of ma
" tiona glory and national strength would tower to
a height far transcending that which has ever yet
II been reached among them. have no apprehen-
o sions for them. When, in the history the world
e has it been ever known that nation possessing
the wealth. intelligence, civilization, and strength
!. Of the Southern States Of this confederacy, was
found incompetent to control its sIaves' Ancient
. States stood secure, though similarity of races
tended to comfound the distinctions Of conditions,
and weaken and endanger the authority of the
masters. Greece enlightened and Rome conquered
the world, resting their organization polity upon
: this institution of slavery. We are in no danger.
We fearless of the result and can, with unter-
r rifed front, look upon the coming danger, lower
it ever darkly. Ofthis too, am sure; il there
are those who seek to retain us in this Union with
purposes Of deadly hostility to our institutions,
who cry aloud for its preservation in the spirit of
him who saying! cart thou in health. my
!, brother :" smote him under the fifth rib; they,
too, are mistaken. They pronounce us accursed
and doomed; they bid us prepare for the change
A that must come. | hear the answer, not near,
not loud, but clear and firm: We are setting our
I house in order, not to die but to live"
0 As to the venerable Judge Huger, the editor
r could have selected no one whose views were
G less in unison with his own. AS member of
the committe of safety he has more than once
n proclaimed 'that in his opinion the federal gov
e eminent had failed to answer the ends of his
@ creation that it had ceased to protect our pro-
a perry and our honor, and had become the object
n of our greatest apprehensions adding shat the
l., design, as he conceived, of the Southern rights
association, was to enable us more efectually to
n bear our part in Kidding ourselves of an oppres-
# sive government
J. judge Frost and Chancellor Dunkin were Sc
lecteC, MS was announced upon their original
g nomination, without any knowledge of the pre-
else opinions held by either, in part because of
their official position, and in accordance in this
, respect with precedent but principally because
it was supposed that in their past history there
was guarantee for the present and the future.
The editor however, may rest assured, that their
T vote would have been indeed n small one if it
h,d hao INN naA hat bara Of
patty between their sentiments and the purposes
of the new Greenville paper.
} As to Judge King, notwithstanding his long
residence, high position and great worth, it is
think, saying no more than is generally under
stood here, that he owes his nomination chiefly
to the fact of public speech which he made at
the meeting addressed by Mr. Rhett, upon the
memorable occasion when Mr.. Rhett brought
\ upon himself the denunciations of Mr. Clay in
the Senate of the United States. ! need only
say that the same audience which received so
enthusiastically Mr.. Rhett's "treason" inter
rupted the elder orator with repeated plaudts
If his views have changed, it is unknown in
Charleston
| Judge Butler is our senator Where is the |
evidence of change in him Or, if he remains
unchanged, at what period has he been distaste-
full to the people Of South Carolina? The But
lers have never distinguished themselves by con-
Quoting retreats, and ] presume that this is the
first time in the history of the family, that the
election of one of the name has been consd-
cred as significant indication" of "step back
yards"
For myself Messrs Editors, q stand last on
the st) can most emphatically deny that my
sentiments have undergone any reaction On
the contrary, though for some time | have be-
lievcd that there was no redress in the Union, it
is of late that have begun to loathe the tie
which connects us with our miscalled brethren
of the North Not the victims of Mezentius's
tyranny could have shrunk in more disgust from
the unnatural union of warm and breathing life
with the rotting carcase of what once had been
brother man, than ! do from this once cher
ished, but now abhorred and forced connection
The voters understood this. In card, under
my own signature few days before the cleo
ton, thus expressed myself: