Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-08-01

That cool, sobcrizng breeze would sooner
or later, soothe the heated brain of fiery South
Carolina, is prediction We made long time
since. We nave said. over and over again, that
We did not fear secession. To us the idea has
ALWAYS seemed absurd. And now it is with
great pleasure, that we call the attention Of our
readers, to the proceedings of an .4nt-secess;on
Fourth Of July Celebration, at Grccnyle, S. c.,
al which moro than four thousand were present
After the reading of WAsHiNGToN's Far wcI
address,, previously prepared report was read
and unanimously adopted, from which ~ ex,
tract will be found below. The 5 uthcm Pa :
riot, to which we are indebted for an interesting
account Of the entire proceedings, fully en-
dorses them. We are sure that nothing can be
more agreeable to our readers-all in f vor of
the Unon--han the contrast between the sen
,lncnts contained in the Mon Committees re-
port, and those embraced in the Charleston
,oasts, Of which We have already given fair
sample
The committee say:
in bloody civil wars and runous taxation, weak
en- and ultimately destroy the institution Of
slavery, and end IN the degradation oft the State,
your committee have not the slightest shadow
Of doubt. That 1t is any remedy al all for
the evils Of which the seCesslunlSts complain is,
TO the minds Of your committee, prepostcrous
and absurd. 1t will not restore California, or
open any wider the admission of slavery into
Utah and New N Xlco. il cannot Increase the
area Of slavery, or prevent legislation on the
part of Congress in relation to slavery.
But secession, will, if successful, most eff
foctually clrcums ribc the area Of slavery, and
utterly ruin it in South Carolina. As soon as
the State goes out of the Union, every slave in
IT, and all their Descendants, in all time to come
will be fixtures to our soil. If one should
chance to be carried over the Savannah river
his owner will forfeit, under the laws of the
United States, ten thousand dollars and incul
seven years Imprisonment, and stand committed
I'LL the fine is paid White persons may leave
the State but slaves cannot. Their labor may
be vauccss, but here they must remain. II
the course of time their owners will run off nnC
leave them. and South Carolina mny become [
b,nck State, a second San Domingo, by the wis
dom of secession.
'O''tNclNll WI h'p llNt NO w NV 'r'li"I''
tlonal guarantee which we now have on tn
Northern people to surrender our fugitive slaves
We shall then see Georgia and Alabama send
ing after and bringing back their tugltv
slaves hut South Carolina cannot pursue her
or attempt To bring them back,
1t is well known that the police regulations j
Charleston. IN relation to colorcd scamen, woul
not be tolerated by Great Britain, but for tn
strength and power of the Federal Govern
Inent Were South Carolina an indcpendcr
nation she would be compelled to repeal then
Indeed We should be the prey of the abolition
lists in all quarters OF the world, and in no king
dom or nation on earth, is that class more pow
eriul than in Great Britain.
BY secession we give up all interest SOut
Carolina has in the territories, IN the publ
lands, in the gold mines Of California, i'll tn
property belonging TO the United States, an
III the army ANA navy. We will be left witt
out vessel to protect our commerce, or a sa
TO defend our flag on the high seas We sha
have neither navy nor an army, nor III
rucans Of raising and maintaining either tn
ono or thu other, The whole P operty Of III