The southern press., 1851-10-22

Inc luea OF forcing the other SlavehOlding
States into confederacy with US, seems to me
very extravagant, and secession undertaken
with this design, cannot but regard as equally
rePugnant to sound principles, in morals and
politics For myself must acknowledge that
should entirely despair of the sIaveholding
States ever forming confederation, if thought
that upon subj ct, on the just appreciation OF
which their prosperity and even existence were
in common dependent, neither reason nor ex-
perience could produce among them concur
renee OF Judgment or concert Of action.
remain, gentlemen,
Very respectfully,
... Your obedent servint
K. w. BARNWELL.
To Messrs. DR.. Il. E. Screyen, Thos. F. Dray-
ton, +. Eikernkoetter, John Feribee, commit
tee. .....
The committee on their return presented the
following report and resolutions
REPORT.
We, the citizens of ST. Luke's Parish, who
are in favor of cooperation as measure of re-
sistance to tse unjust aggressions upon our
rights and institutions, have assembled here to.
day to adopt such resolves as may appear ex-
pedient, in the present threatening attitude OF
our political aftars Feeling, as we all do, that
settled the great question that presents itself
for our consideration is: What is the earliest
and surest remedy for the evils under which we
labor9
A very jealous party in our State has pro.
7 posed separate State action as the most Ger.
tain and efficient means Of obtaining indemnity
for the past aud security for the future"
They say that they also aim at co-opera-
ton but with such an aim rs they are taking,
we suspect they will shoot very wide Of their
max. They insist that this independent act Of
South Carolina, addressed TO the fears of our
sister States of the South, will urge them, at
the eleUenih hour, TO do battle with US in the
common cause.
Now, this idea Of forcing cooperation seems
to Us TO proceed upon principlea Sas unsound
10 reasoning as false in morals" How can we
reasonably expect to force States, as proud and
powerful as the slaveholding States, to unite
with us in co.federacy to which their wishes
and their judgment are equally opposed. Nor
may We rightiully rest our support upon the ex-
pectation OF making moral, If lot legal trai.
tors" of our friends in the South who may march
to our assistance for we must remember that,
until their States seeede, the war will be war
against the solemn aud public declarations of
their own States
pernicous scheme Of isolated State action, let il
be our effort to prevent the State from separat-
ing her destiny from that Of the other slavehod-
ing States. divide and conquer" has ever
been the motto Of our fanatical enemies, descend.
ants Of those indomitabe men, whose career,
from their first landing at Plymouth Rock, has
been mar ked by blgotTy, intolerance and untir.
ing zeal in all they undertake. We feel con.
WINGED that South Carolina could not more di.
rectly afford aid ard comfort" TO her enemies,
than by seveIing herself by" immediate State
action" from the aid and sympathy of her ag
grieved sister States. The Aboitionists would
hail with delight the first dawning Of day so
suspicious TO their hopes, and We ourselves,
when too late, would discover that our own
hand had helped TO plant the wound that laid
us low"
And now for our side Of the question; our
plan Of resistance Is based upon the recommen.
ddtions Of the wise and lamented CALHouS, upon
the course indicated in the acts Of our legisla-
ture in the three consecutive years Of 4s, 40
and 30. These expressly point to concert Of
action as the one thing needful," and disavow
any wish on our part 10 take The lead in the i'm.
pending struggle.
The liberal appropriation by the State for
arming her citizens, was only to meet the emer.
gences that might arise, and TO be in readiness,
whenever the States TO whom we had pledged
ourselves, should claim the redemption Of our
co operation bond. To this, and no more is the
State pledged-and many who once thought
otherwise, are fast recovering from their delu.
si0ns, under the influence Of the flood of LIGHT
which is "making darkness visible" from the
mountains to the seaboard.
IL is through this very change Of public obin.
ion that we hope to overturn the present unjust
and unequal Union, and to establish permanent
and prosperous confederacy Of Southern States.
Almost has the revolution begun to show itself
in the open and manly avowal Of the thousands
spread throughout The South, who now admit that
amputation is the only remedy for the corruption
OF the federal body Men now openly advocate
disunion, Who, few short months ago, would
hardly have dared TO whisper such thought to
their most int mate friend.
Perceiving, then, that In every Southern State
we have a strong party battling upon our side
for equal rights and privileges, can we reconcile
it to ourselves TO desert them, and pursne the
desperate path that leads to immediate seces-
sion? Can our allies, in the other States, fight
az well without us as with usl To this there il
but one answer. We must be true to one
another, and insist "upon a union Of the South
TO save the South" We want our united
strength 10 stem the coming storm, which
threatens TO overwhelm us and our institu.
tons in one common ruin
In order, then, to effect this most desired co
operation, there must be unity Of sentiment a
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