The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-01-15
259 miles costing $8,225, 900. In
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

It has been the practice Of small
slangwhangers and dcmagogues to
bolch out their foul st.eams Of abuse
on South Carolina. When their
narrow intellects and anti.southern
feelings and prejudices are without n
topic, that gallant State furnishes a
theme on which they suppose they
can successfully arouse the preiudi-
ces of the people. But that theme
is getting threadbare-that dema-
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. It has
at all 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 ofbattlc. We
believe we speak the truth when we
say that more, Of her SON 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 m other single instanceiin 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, we calu1nniators of Charles.
ton and South Carolina!
But, oh! South Carolina nul;6ca.
ton! exclaims the willy demagoguc
in his apnee.als who wishes oaiso Old
preiaaites has dessrsacfsaa 81
siasery. afaina iaiafsa.
ton! exclaims the consolidation tad
%eralist who wishes to %obliterate State
laws and have M grand, corrupt,
central, consolidated governmcnt!--
And what of that! Is there n one
now who has the impudcncc and au.
dacity to say that the monstrous tar
if of 1928, out Of which South Caro-,
lima notification arose, was not a
gross, IN abominable outrage on the
rights of the South? Where can
there be found q defender Of that
unequal law now? And no doubt
South Carolina, having but few
manufactories--fewer, perhaps, at
that time than any State in the On.
lon-hcr 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. 1t
has been overthrow in England,
and will soon be regarded as one of
the exploded fallacics Of a by-gonc
age; and the course of South Caro-,
lima no doubt had its share in the
destruction of that system. If South
Carolina acted hastily thcn-if she
committed excuses, none will now
be so false and audacious as to DENY
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 a goadiug
sense of wrongs and injuries.
But South Carolina advocates the
immediate withdrawal ofthc Southern
States from tho Northern States!
Some of her citizens do and some do
not. What tho action Of the con.
stituted authorities of the State will
be, lies in the future, and depends
upon the united action of the south.
orn States, and upon the prospect Of
continued aggression by the north.
crn 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 bordersS
She has a deeper pecuniary ints1
in the question of slavery thanxSss
her sister southern States.
is most highly fitted for slq
and the destruction Of sic
desolate that State |a|
they could be remove 3
DINA is exposed in
to the danger Of S
these harrassiug
other State.
message in his s;sHz
these aboliti9 SIs