The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-01-29


OF laborious effort, he was unable to arrest
his Government In its downward ceurae of
raPacity aud consolidation, who can sion it's
fhtaf destiny.
we VIII notice but one other cause pro-
duct,veot discomfort TO tho Onion, which.
the lntelligemer does not directly cbarpe.
but indirectly introduces by anotations-
the Hrlstocraty of South Carolina. The wri-
ter whose words he quotes, aHirn.s that
the people of South Carolina have less
to do witheIections than in any other State.
y III" not vote for their Governor. They
40 not vote Tor electors for President and
Vice President. 'sI'hc people exercise but
icWVpo'itiualr rights. Hence they are loss en-.
I'ghtened on the history OF tho country, and
Know less OF the measures of the Govern
nteht than The people of other S,atcs."
fieTe ;fr!stocrncy and ignorance of the poo
pie OF South Carulina arc brought forward
as causes"et their not loving the Union.
Universal suffrage has existed in South
Caro'ina, we thInk ever sinco lSO2-lonr
oe,ore IL was ordained i'll nine-tcnths of the
oiootatcs- or The blrthso OF ninc-,cnths ofthc
new ones. livery white rnan in the State
Sotes ior their members of Congress, their
Htate Legislators, their Shcritfs, Tax Col.
'ectors, irothonotaries, and Commissioners
AND Registers IN Equity. The Governor.
Il IS rue IS st''l elected by the Lcgisla-
tnrcr and so are the electors for prcsiJcn,
and Vice President of the United States.
But do mt the people make these oGiccrs1
Their State Legislators arc the electors.
anu III their State elections for their I.eris.
lators, they make their choice End rive for,I,
their will. They just rs clcctnany make
their Governor, and choose the President
and Vice President of the United States,
as any other people iu the Union. Ii. still
adhering to his form of election, they car
nv out the universal practice of all the
States under tkc first organization Of The
Government. Were the men who esta.
blIshed all our free institutions, aristocra,s!
Were al! the old States ignorant Of liberty,
and hostile to the rights uf the pcoplct II
they were not, then let this accusation he
taken IRON their ianlo, AMI be placed ON the
brow Of him who uttcrs it.
but the people of South Carolina arc
ignorant They do 10, know the blessings
OF this Union, as the Intclligcnccr and his
co. hborators have made it,; aud therefore
they are dis%unionists.
we doubt II there is any people in the
world, who arc SO %"cnligh;cucd on The his
tory OF the country, and know so much Of
the measures of the Government "as the
people Of Souti, Carolina" From 1898 to
1893, the discussion of their rights, and the
theory Of our Government, was carried on,
not only in the Press, but by the abicst men
in public debates before The people. The
talent OF the State was nearly equally diyi.
ded between The two parties, then contend.
ing for mastery; and since this period, 4
more dllIgent attention to public aifllrs has
been given by the people nithis State, Than
probably by any other people in tho Union.
There members of Con grtss nave, at the
close Of every session at Congress to give
an account TO the people. They know the
opinions Of their public men. aud their con-
hdcnce is never withdrawn from them, IN
leas thoy go contrary to these opinions. So
fnr from is bcing true, that there is less in
innate intercourse between the masses OF
her people and those who represent them,
than in any other Statcs-it IL because this
intimacy exist in the greatest degree. ,l,a:
thero is 30 much u%nnnirity. In SoutH-j
Carolina. Tho penpi" ISL ESFF fI
sonLatiyes, and their r~oprcsentati, a.,
know them. They contide in each
other. They love each other; and will
stand together against all external foes.
The people know their rights, and under.
athliu tne constitution under which thep-
live. They know that tho former haye neon
violated by the practical c~nforce7ncn, Of The
Wilmot Proviso by Congress over all Of
Nour terri,orics-anl that the latter is NUT.
lated by The cnnsolidltionis,s and abolition.
lists of the Union, into whose hands the
Government has irrcvocably passed.
It is because they know too much-il is
because they arc a free people, and viii
maintain their liberties is because they
arc a brave people, and viii not submit to
he degraded from their equality with other
States OF the Confcdcracy, and viii redress
the foul wrong which looks to The overthrow
Of their institutions, lha, The people ri South
Carolina are assailcd and vilrtird by the
l~ntelligenccr. II they would only suhm;,
10 tho dcspotism, in The shape Of Il Congress.
sIonal majority, which he has aided to erect
here, on the ruins Of the Constitution
they would, we doubt not, he a very wise
very Dcmocralic-and most in;c!liucn;
people. in The opinion Of the In,%clligcnccr
They will hardly care, however. villa,
anybody thinks Of them in Washington,
much less one OF the chief organs Of ,llclr
opprcssors.