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

esq. chairman Of the committee, and sus-
tanned by him in al eloquent, patriotic
and soul-stirring speech, were unanimously
adopted.
The committee to whom was referred the
address Of the delegates Of the Southern
Rights Associations Of South Carolina, u.s.
sembled 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
addrsss. And for tho purpose Of giving
ge6eral 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
aern Rights Associations OF Alabama, TO be
) held in tho city Of Montgomery. on tho
: Cd Monday of June next. In the meanwhile,
this Association cannot forbear 10 discuss
some Of the principles set forth in the
address, and TO indicate to SoutE Carolina
the course that we have determined upon,
should, she. in the exercise Of her SOW
/. ereiglhA determine to leave the Union.
( We :e fully in the fact, as set
: forth n The address, that the aggrcs-
sions Of the past are sufficient to justify
resistance; indeed, if we intend 10
live as freemen ourselves, and leave to our
children after us, our cherished institutions
and liberties, there is no election left u.s.
The sectional frec-soil aud abolition ma
jorities urrayed against lis in every branch
of the Government, present TO our minds the
worst and most dangerous features of ab-
solutionism, ever known in the history Of
tyranny. We are we'll assured that this
sectional majority, encouraged by the VIC
tories of the past, and the tamc spirit Of
submission in the South, and urged for
ward by ianaticism, will stop at no bounds
this side Of the utter abolition of African
slavery in the States.-But will ''lhc spirit
of the yassal rise in proportion to the indig-
mites heaped upon his head?" We be.
lieve that 1t will not. There arc even now
among us hundreds and thousands OF true
hearted Southrons, who feel the expressions
of the government as kecnly and as sensi-
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 States, they fear that we should
he unable to scope with SO formidable an
adversary" or power. Thus hundreds and
thousands, among us. arc already bowed
to the dust and dispritcd, and if we remain
in the Union, under existing circumstances
Tor many years 10 come, we are forced to
the reluctant, but overwhelming and
humiating conviction, that the Southern
States will tamely and submissivcly yield
to the North in one fatal hour, not only,ler
property in the States, but also her State
sovereignities.
In looking around dSupon the Southern
States in this emergency, we deeply regret
that most of them are divided in sentiment,
and engaged in contentious among them
selves, while the enemy is gloating over
the epoils OF the last campaign, and gather
ing up his energies afresh for now
onslaught upon ourinsttution.
Undor the crushing reality of picture
SO gloomy and but fecbly portrayed. this
Association halls with uuf.isned delight
the course Indicated Tor South Carol:na by
6a,rIa h6n,, Iasfon i9ny,'iHp m sfrop!Iy fssca5lei N
Of Son,!sr. He -. niHh & ua, iikc md sn,,l:,,
ol great rork u. a weary land" under
which the institutions Of the South may
repose in safety, or around which the
true-hcarted Southron Of every State may
rally, to vindicate his lost honor and to
recover and maintain his ishts
Notwithstanding South Carolina has
been taunted and jecred by Aboli,onists of
the North, and by dcmagogucs Of the South,
we are pleased to see her moving on in the
even tenor Of her way, refusing to return
railing for railing, demanding but simple
justice from her opprcssors, and at every
step proclaimng her utter willingness, by
her earnest desire for an honorable adjust
ment Of the pending difficulties. And we
cherish tho hope, that il South Curolinn
oven with what aid she may receive from
the Southern Rights Associations of the
other Southern States, will but stand firmly
to the position assumed, demanding in
demnlty Tor 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 not9 The North has no
real interest to serve in striking down our
institution; but she has a real practical and
felt 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 raly
under the free institutions of South Carolina.
rather than remain untsr the CRUSHING
despotism OF the Free Soil and Abolition
States. Verify il it has already come 10
that, that the Northern States love their
cherished notions of Abolition better than
their own great interests in the preservation
OF the Union, it is surely time for the South
Ito look out new safe guards for her own in.
terests. If the North will Deliberately
deny justice and equality to the Southern
States, with the serious fact OF sccess,on
and the consequent loss of property, before
them, it would afford TO the South new and
overwhelming evidence of their dc.
termination to crush us, and our institutions
in one common reign: and it would call upon
tho South with an appealing voice lha,
would arouse every Southern man, having
Southern heart in his bosom, to vindicatc
the course OF South Carolina at every hazard.
In this view of tho subject, the members of
this Assoclat on arc sincerely rejoiccd that
South Carolina is 10 move forward and dc.
mand the recovery Of our just rights, aud
security against future aggressions. South
Carolina is overy way the fittcst champion
OF Southern honor and Southern rights.
This proud position is cordially awarded to
her, because of her past sacrifices in the