The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-12


spectacle Of thousands of Southern men en-
gagged in singing praises to the gle rious Union
thai has enslaved them, you will devote the day
to nobler, higher, and hoer purpose by re-
curing to first principles, aud calling to minc
The deeds OF our gallant and patriotic sires, you
VIII aim to rekinde upon the affairs OF YOU
country, the sacred flame that burned so bright
y on the day you commemorate.
II is the deeply settled and solemn conclusion
OF my mind, aud it is an opinion which share
with a vast majority of the citizens of this State
that there is no peace, honor, or security for the
South within tho federal Union, so called, but
federal no longer. 1t is impossible for us to
disguise from ourselves the fact, that the gov
ernment under which we live is despo ism
the despotism of local, NUMERICAL and ire
sponsible majority. This despotic power is
welded by people foreign.a las to us, in interest
and feeling, bitterly hostile, who have waged
and continue to wage an implacable warfare
upon our dearest and most cherished rights, and
who have nothing in common with us, but the
odious form Of government which binds us
within their grasp. That the proud and free
born sons of the South can submit for day to
such oppression and degradation, is wonder
and mystery.
1t were needless and perhaps inappropriate
in communication like this, to repeat the story
| OF our wrongs, 80 familiar to you and all those
with whom you will be associated in the celebra-
ton of this day, or to point to the only remedy
for an insulted, oppressed and down-trodden peo-
| Pile. The time for discussion is past, and the
time for action has arrived. Resistance is the
remedy. The sole alternative left us is with
drawal from the Union; peaceably il We can
forcbly if we must.
AS cannot possibly be present, allow me to
offer u sentiment -
| The federal Union: 1t must be dissolved
with Southern cooperation if it can be obtained
before the final adjournment of our State con
vention; otherwise by separate State action.
am, with great respect, yours,
GEO. w. DARGAN.
Messrs. r. II. Goodwin, A. ii. GLADDEN., Theo
Starke, VIM. Wallace, j. U. Adams, com
mtteeNof arrangements
! By the committee Of arrangements. Charles
j. Mcdonald: The standard bearer Of Southern
rights in Georgia--he has the good wishes o.
every true Southern man for his victory ovel
the traitor Cobb.
BY the committee of arrangements. Quit
man and Davis: The heroes of the Gate of Be
len and the Pass of Buena Vista. The South
looks to them to lead to victory and liberty.
By the committee Of arrangements The
Southern Press The able and fearless defender
of the rights of the South. Abolition, with he
attendant fiends from HE'LL retreats before it.
To this sentiment, Mr.. De Leon, one Ct thu
editors of the Southern Press, who was present
responded, and closed by proposing
The health and happiness of our friend Ell
wood Fisher
BY A. Fl. GLADDEN.. attendant of the town
The politicians of South Carolina; the crisis i,
at hand. Eternal infamy to all who shrinl
from it.
BY Gen. Adams, The 4th of July; A glori
Gus day. 1t has had its day. May South Caro-
lima soon supersede it by one similar in its cha
racter, and more lasting in its results.
BY John Il. Seibels. The cause of the South
founded on right and justice; The choice o.
their surrender or defence is before us, and, t6
use the language of distinguished Statesman
Of Georgia, now no more, "he that dallies is
bastard and he that doubts is damned"
Maxcy Gregg. The action of South Carroll
ma; What the majority deem essential to main
tain the honor and tile rights of the State mus
be done. 1t is too much for the minority Of thu
resistance party to ask the majority to abandon
the measures determined on, for the sake O.
avoiding division. The minority have it in thel
power to save the State from the dangers o.
division, by uniting with their friends to present
an unbroken front to the common enemy.
| BY NJ Ramsay-The 28th Of June South
Carolina on this glorious day grapped the name
of the British lion and brought him to his knees,
thereby securing, unaided, the independence of
the State. Her sons are again ready to maintain
her independence against federal usurpation and
misrule.
BY Capt w d. De Saussure, of the Rifles
Secession per Sc.
By Preston Adams. The cause of the South
If any son of South Carolina harbars the base
thought of retreat, let him look back upon her
history, and commune with her iustrious dead.
BY j. S. Boatwright. South Carolina: She
knows her rights, and is willing to maintain them.
BY DR.. J. r. Adams. The Union Independ-
ent of the slavery question, burden intolcrable
to freemen.
BY John d. Hopkins Our cause II has
more to fear from federal gold than federal bay
onets.
BY James Adams. Secession: 1t may cost
some treasure and blood submission will soon
find us without the spirit to expend either in de-
fence of our property and our fresides.
BY f. SILVER. The sovereignty of the States
In the language of the illustrious Turnbull,
4" the substratum of the federal compact"
~ Pope, (son of an old revolutioner:) Let
South Carolina beware Of traitors" united we
stand, divided we fall"
BY Cadet II. r. Cantey. The right to be in or
out of the Union South Carolina chooses to be
outlet the consequences be what they may.
BY the comnitte of arrangements. The ora.
tor of the day: lie has shown by his effort,
that the spirit Of liberty, inherited from a gall
LIANT ancestor, has lost none of its original fire.
By W. B. Johnston. State sovereignty with
out the State remedy; "Faith without works
is dead
ByJ. McCuly South Carolina: On the 23d
day of May, 1888, she became n member Of
these United States, on the 23d of May, 1859,
may she resume her independence, and take her
station amongst the nations of the earth, as a
free and independent republic.
BY j. u. Adams Money the sinew of war
The strength of the North is drawn from the
revenues of the South. Let the South take
back her own, and navics and armies if needed,
will pass from the hands of those who can't pay,
to those who can.
BY $. Byers The patriotism of '76. land the
patriotism of dollars and cents: The one stimu.
lated our fathers to defy the most powerful ma
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