The southern press., 1851-06-26

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may be defeated by our inconsiderate zeal to
thrash off the hlushing fruit before il has
ripened, when time itself will certainly cause it
to fall.
In our supposlton, We are out OF the Union,
surrounded by all the inconyeninces TO which
have edyerted, how would the government be
inclined TO uss Our sister Southern States
could have no great sympathy for US. and the
highest proof of that is, they refuse to go with
us. The little sympathy which vibrates in their
bosoms for Carolina, would soon be dissipated,
and after the following manner There are a
few Northern men who are in favor of doing US
justice under the Constitution The only argu-
ment they have been able to offer to the fanatic
al hosts OF the North against pursuing their
crusade OF abolition, has been the danger TO the
Union, knowing that the Union was of immense
pecuniary advantage to them 1t has arrested,
not subdued the tide The Abolitiouists be-
lieve that the Union is stronger than slavery
and hence they have pressed with so much
pertinacity their agitation. The symptoms, a
few months ago, caused them to pause, but the
passage Of the compromise and the acquies-
cence Of Geoga, after her higb-sounding
threats, as well as other Southern States, in
that compromise, has pretty we'll destroyed
their apprehension, and if no other demonstra-
ton is made South, agitation will soon be re-
newed with more tierceness than ever, aud the
compromisers will be compelled to rise from
the beds Of down which they believed they were
making perpetual for themselves, TO resist new
aggressions. But if we secede, what will be
the result! Agitation will be stayed ten, per-
haps twenty years. The moderate men will go
home and say, South Carolina has seeded, on
account of the slavery agitation We have
thought it norc prudent to allow her to go,
than by force to attempt to retain her in the
Union, fearing that force would unite the South,
and lead to general collision ard disruption of
the contedcracy.
You must now believe the dangers which lie
in wait on further agitation, or tho Union is
gone. What then will be the result? Agitation
will stop in and ont of Congress the rights of
the Southern States will be respected; their
sons will be honored, and federal gold spent on
their harbors and rivers, canals and roads Their
condition will be more favorable in the Union
than it has been for thirty years. And why?
Because the government will determine to give
the other slave States no excuse whatever to
leave the Union and join US. If their rights
are respected, with their veneration for the
Union, how could reasonable mind conclude
that they would quit thnt government to sustain
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against the government, when it oppresses them,
how can we hope that they would refuse to sus-
in it, when it conferred bountes and dispensed
justice equally among all its members They
will enjoy peace, quiet, and security, because we
have sacrificed ourselves--and the very peace
we have brought them is the controlling reason
why they refuse to share our hard fortune. 1t
may be, sir, after having struggled along few
years, in vain effort TO maintain separate ex-
istence when our people shall have been dis
heartened at the failure, chagrned and mortified
at the disastrous termination of their buoyant
hopes and bright visions, when discomfort can
no longer be stihed, that majority of the State
will determine to taste the humiliation of apply
ing for re-admission into a Union we so much
loa.he. Then the representatives of our sister
States will gratefully remember our sacrifices
and their gains, and perhaps venture to advocate
the re admission of the rebel province" into the
Union--it being their first and last overt act of
sympathy Forbid it Heaven, that ourselves or
our posterity should ever taste such humiliation
If the State once take the step, trust in God
that no son Of hers will ever shame himself by
counselling her to retrace it. When the sepa
ration once takes place, to save our honor it
must be perpetual
But it may be said that separate existence
will benefit us in this particular. Although the
commerce and prosperity Of Charleston will be
reduced two-thrds, yet the planters will receive
a compensating advantage for all losses, by the
reduced prices at which they may purchase their
supplies, that duty of ten ercent. on all mer-
chandize brought into the ports of Charleston,
Georgetown, and Beaufort, will raise sufficient
revenue to defray expenses, and that will be 6
per cent less than we now pay. When this
proposition is fairly stated, it loses most of its
comely proportions. If we consumed no goods
except those brought from foreign countries,
then the saving would be represented But
it must be remembered that one-balf or perhaps
more of the goods consumed in South Carolina,
are manufactured in the New England or mid
die States, and when they land at Charleston no
duty whatever is required to be paid But if
we were an independent republic, we would levy
duty of 10 per cent. on all goods for consump-
ton, whether coming from New England or Old
England, and one-haf our consumption now
duty free, would cost 10 per cent more, whilst
on the other half the duty would be reduced
only I6 per cent. The saving would then be
inconsderable, and there would be but small
difference in the prices of goods then and now.
We complain of the compromise, because it
practically enacts the Wlmot Proyiso, and we
are Winng 10 resist its principles TOT tne reason
that it hens in the institution of slavery within
its present limits, and when our slaves shall
have increased in numbers beyond the wants Of
the present States there will be no place where
the redundant population can be carred--that
they will be compelled to remain in our midst
and in half century or less they will be so
numerous as to destroy their value that owners
will be glad then to give them away, and sur
render the country TO the African race. That
will unquestonably be the working Of the Will
mot Proviso. But do we relieve ourselves of
the prospect which the future holds out by State
action2 So far from it, when we secede, we
at once throw upon every boundary ofthe State
the principles of that odious restriction. The
slaves that happen TO be in South Carolina on
the day we secede, become immoveable fixtures
to the soil, and one can never be carried out Of
the State, whether for sale or otherwise, except
in violation Of the laws of the United States of
the most stringent character prohibiting the
migration or importation of slaves after the year
1903. These laws will apply MS well to the i'm
poriation of slaves from South Carolina as from
Cuba or Africa, and how are we to rid ourselves