The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-09-04


i2Sth tie proceedingsof the second month,
meeting Of tie solthsgp Riig.ts Asso aiioa
(which convened ii Charleston, on the 25t
nit. Letters were read from the Hon W
in. gOlcoek and Hon D. Wallace.
we give the following extract from thu
Ilettero Of Mr.. Wallace a. q specimen Of chs
spirit of proceedings Our readers will per.
Iceiye in it, the game which Is referred e q
The Lewis letter, as that played by Rheti
and his followers.
aI shall not attempt to record the wrongs
we suffer, or those which are impending over
us. They are written upon every heart.
The remedy for these wrongs is the su5leci
which now demands our grave consideration
If South Carolion be in fact province o!
a consolidated empire; if the republic be one
and inairisiblej if State Sovereignty be ex-
tinct, and the willof the majority paramount
to the Constitution, then revolution by yio-
Hence and civil war is indeed the only mode
of redress. But ne deny the binding force
Iof the authority by which this fundamental
change Of our republican system is claimed
to have deem accomplished.
We reprobate and 'denounce the despotic
doctrine of the tndi0tsi6ility Of tie Republic.
We are still republicans as our fathers were,
land demand form Of Government which
shall be compatible with our genius and our
principles We still assert that the Union
as formed by the Constitution confedera-
ton of individual and equal soyereigns, and
that South Carolina is one of these soyereigns,
and as a sovereign and not a vassal, we de
mdad that the State shall not be merged in
a CONSOLIDATED empire.
We claim the right, as did our fathers, to
sever the bands which bind us to Union,
which uses its powers Jut to enslace and Op-
press as; and by the sovereign act of seces-
sion, to resume our separate and independent
fexistence-this IS our remedy.
1t has It's source in the inherent right of
sovereignty and none but tgrants and slaues
will call the right in question. The exercise
of this right is not an act of war. In exercis-
| ing it We make no war, and pronounce no
declaration of war We claim only the
sovereign privilege to separate in peace from
a connection which is no longer safe to con-
tinue, and the tyranny of an INSCRIPTIONS
and unprincipled Government has forced up
on us the necessity of pronouncing in solemn
form, me,0 Declaration of Independence as
a measure Of sell preservation.
VIII this remedy be peaceable If not, il
will be no fault of ours To do our duty
should be our unalterable purpose, and ask
not to know where that duty may lead me.
Do we fear to do our duty? Shall we quail
before the tyrants ffown? five do-the spirit
of liberty is no longer in our hearts, and We
can sink no lower than we are already.
If by the act Of secession we resume oul
separate and independent existence, and co
ercion be successfully attempted-when the
State falls it will drag down the republic Will
! it, and a despotism the most unmitgated will
be established upon its ruins reissue pre-
sented involves therefore not only the exis
tence Of African slavery, ut The ccistencc Of
/ the Republic also. If the republic be thus
cloven down by the sword, the liberty of tht
people will fall with 1.-THE experiment of {
written Constitution will have failed-anC
we must, when that time arrives enter upo1
an experiment hitherto untried in our history
of a consolidated union, without constitu
ton, even in form, to limit it's powers to o.
press and destroy, and the fate of Russia mus
be ours
Or sister Southern States are not ye
ready for THIS state Of Mnys-Here as on
guarantee Of cooperation whenerer IRE max
a practical issue.
They must cooperate or cease to be republi
cans. They must cooperate to form a neo
republic out oftRe ruins II the old one.
The separate eristeace Of South Carolina
IS a phqntona of the brain.
If South Carolina shall make the practice
issue ofseparate Secession, the Rcpublicflll
with the certainty of fate, and two Union
will be formed out of the old one; a Northcr
and a Southern Union The North know
this fully well, and hence the policy the
pursue, Of buster and bravado, to avert
catastrophe which would cover their land Wit
paupcrsnl, decay and Ran
/ This is the plain issue now presented
} Hence the agonizing efforts, the tremblin
f anxiety, to prevent the. action of South Cal
DINA. The tyrant is more frightened than W
are To divide the State, and thereby to dc
feat action, is the deep laid policy of til
; Government ninions. United land the praC
ticalissue made, the victory, we will gain fo
constitutional freedom will be the most men
orable in the worlds history"
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