The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-04-26

submission be our doom, we shall at least
have the consolation of rejecting that we
have had no agency in forging chains for our
children. In conclusion, gentlemen, I beg
leave to propose sentiment:
The City Of Charleston : A melancholy
monument Of the whitening and consuming
course OF unequal and oppressive taxation !;
may the time speedily arrive when she shall
rise from her ruins, the cheering monument
of renovated commerce, freed from the
shackles of unconstitutional restriction, by
the sovereign power Of State, once more
animated by the spirit of John Rutledgc,
Henry Laurens, and Christopher Gadsden.
--Ertract from Speech Of Hon. Geo. Nc
Du6e, May. 1881, Charleston.
"If South Carolina should be driven ont
OF the Union, all the other planting States,
and some OF the western States would fol
low, by an almost absolute necessity. Can
1t be believed that Georgia, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, and even Kentucky, would continue
to pay heavy tribute upon their consump-
ton, to the Northern States, for the privil.
ege of being united to them, when thew
could receive all their supplies through the
ports of South Carolina, or their own ports.
without paying single cent of tributea
The separation Of South Carolina would
inevitably produce general dissolution of
tile Union; and as necessary consequence.
the protecting system, with all its pecuniary
bounties to the Northern States, overthrown
and demolished, Involving the ruin of thou
sands and hundreds Of thousands in the
manufacturing States.
by these powerful considerations connec-
ted with their own pecuniary interests, we
6eseech them to pause and contemplate the
disastrous consequences which will certainly
result from an obstinate perseverance on their
part, in maintaining the protecting system.
With them it il question merely OF pecuni-
ary interest, connected with no shadow Of
right and involving no principle of liberty.
With us it is question involving Our most
sacred rights; those very rights which our
| common ancestors left to us as a common
inheritance, purchased by their blood. It is
question OF liberty on the one hand, and
slavery on tho other. If we submit to this
system OF unconstitutional oppression, we
shall voluntarily sink into slavery and trans
init that ignominious inheritance to our
children. We will not, we cannot, we dare
not submit to this degradation and our
resolve IL fixed and unaiterabie, that pro-
tecting tariff shall be no longer enforced with
in the limits of South Carolina. We stand
upon the principles of everlasting Justice. and
no human power shall drive us from our
position.
We have not the slightest apprehension
that the General Government will attempt
to force this system upon us by military
powers. We have warned our brethren Of
the consequences of such an attempt. But
if, notwithstanding, such course of mad
ness should be pursued, we here solemnly
declare that this system of oppression shall
never prevail in South Carolina, until none
but dastards are left to submit to it. We
would infinitely prefer that the territory of
the State should be the cemetery of free
men than the habitation of slaves. Actual
ed by these principles and animated by these
sentiments, we will cling to the pillars of
the temple Of our liberties, and if it must
fall we will perish amidst the ruins I'D
dress to other States by Convention of 1882.
"ITs FAITHFUL EXECUTION" "-THE REA-
soN.--A Fugitive slave, nsira6ile dictu, has
actually been delivered up to his master in
Boston! 1t is nothing more than could
have been done, without the grossest and
most excusable injustice. BY the witnesses
brought forward, he was proved, beyond
any possible reach of doubt to be the prop
erty of Potter-and nothing remained but
to surrender him, or as in other cases. to
either nullify the land or snatch the prison.
er from the hands of the officers. By hav.
ing the military in readiness, the mob was
intimidated and justice allowed to take its
proper course. Had it not been that the
lawless band of fanatics we're intimidated
by fear, we have no boubt, that Sims would
now be like Shadrach, safe in Canada.
As it is, Sims is the first fugitive dev-
cred up in Boston during the last sixty
years! He is certainly curiosity, and we
would give almost as much to see him, as
any Ius'ls nature, or feejee mermaid, that
was ever showed up by travelling noun
tebank.
There is, however, in our opinion, more
evidence of policy in this surrender of Sims,
than of respect for the laws of the land
1t is well known that the trade of Boston
suffered largely, after the riot in the case of
Shadrach, and that the loss of Southern
trade on account of those disgraceful pro-
ceedings, is estimated to amount to more
than million of dollars. We do not won-
der, therefore, that Sims was given up. The
pocket nerve of the Boston people was
touched at last, and we have, in the surren-
der of this fugitive, the first evidence of its
sensitiveness. They can afford to render
up few fugitivcs, for tho sake of getting
back 10 large an amount of trade diverted
from them. Such speculation cannot fail
to be most profitable. -Four cases so far,
under Tie new law, have come up in Boston.
In two OF these, the owners or the agents
for the owners, were arrested on the most
trivial charges, held to bail in enormous
sums, and at last compelled to leave the