The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-10-29
AVOLUME XXI.
ID0A11Oale

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RUTH FIFTY AND BRAvELY SPOKEN.
We ara glad to find that The +" Sou hern
Patri the fearless and generous supporter
Of theprinciples Of The Onion as il is, ot, in
other words, the Csnstitution Of ihe Uaiied
StatS as II has been for sirfy odd years, dis
daips to JOIN IN The general cry of accusation
against the General Government, as oppres
sing, or prosecuting, or menaciug the Stale
Of South Caroline. We copy from ,ha, pa
per, published, as our readers know, at
Greeoville, s. Co. under date Of the Is, IN.
slant, the following remarks:
Nat Jn,elligeaotr.
I, is high time for the co operaiionists,
whilst fighting secession, and know lns that
il will bring down on the S ale nothing bu,
disaster, and ruin, d,shonor. 10 Close their sr.
ogguaitd aisrepressnfations of fhe oppres.
s,ons Of ihe Federal Gorernmen. They can.
no,, at the same time, go with the secession.
a lists, and beyond the secessinnisis, in depic.
Hirg the pretended misery degradation Of
south Carolina. aud then ask them 10 be
quiet and submit To i, ill other States come
to their aid, who have already declared, by
ovetwhslming mNjorities, that they y III never
come under existing circumstances.
These pictures 81 our ,rrongsare untrue, and
every ~hers out OF South Carolina they have
been pronounced untrue by the Southern peo.
pie. Were they true, the whole would act as
doe man, shisering TO pieces the Republ C,
the union, and the Cove nmsu,. fa admit
ting them 10 be true, as the distinguished CO.
operation leaders do. they arm the secession
is,s with weapons which they cannot resist.
IL 10 not ~ human naiue 10 hear sue h wrongs.
No honorable man would take his seat IN
Congress from the South if the Northern
members were all a set OF cui.throats, incen.
diaries. and robbers. trying 10 set our negro.
es free. steal from US eur property, and SCI.
the midnight torch to our houses.
Good msn and true. who love their country, +,
and who love etder, peace, and regulated b.
er,y, seeking from their public men iniorma.
lion, arc astonished 10 hear such palphble
contradictions 10 the speeches and addresses
Of their leading statesman They sep'y, very
naturally, there must BIZ a mistake some.
where. These pictures Of Federal oppression
and Northern aggression Ore not true, or the
people Of The Southern States ronid Instantly
fy 10 arms and figh, their death by the side
: of South Cato'ins.
Il is high time for the co opetaiionis,s n
qui, this suicidal course. lie, them prs.ent
things fairly 10 the peopfr. and tel ihs truth
the whola truth and no,hiag but ,hs truth,
There would be no danger IN secession, "a
separate ) ate action - none al all-if all that
has been said and Is said 10 South Cotol,na
we're tue. There wosld be no waiting Tor co
operation; 1t would be immediate and slmul
tsneous throughout The whole South.
We are happy and prosperous as a people
oad feel no iyrdany or oppression. Wrong
may hayn bnen attempted, insults may have
been offered, aaa injuries done US by the Fed
ersl Government. but they have not been oI
.ucn a character as TO Jus'if Us IN eomneuc
rrg revolution ard a evil war. THIS l'
Known ond felt every where out of Sout
Carolina, aud so admitted by the Southern
Rights Psiy themselves 10 Mississippi
Georgia, I.oulsanna aud the Southern States
Eut 10 South Carolins IL has been race ana
a contest p,ih our pslitieions. and nsrspape'
presses, and stump ordiors 10 see mho cotia
make fhises The b'eeked md fopfta.
~ other Southern S,ses the people have
heard 10th SIDES, aud have come 10 correc
conclusions. But in South Carolina they have
heard neither side. They have heard nothing
Il bu, misrepresentation and esaggetauon r
one side, and by these oxaggeta ions aud ms
representations they have been driving by the
mos, honorable impulses TO The brink Of an