The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-19

an independent government Ths. fellow citizens. 10
dream from which you must be aroused oy having The
truth LAID bare you is delusion shared equally by
leaders and people for do not doubt The sincerity OF
those who decaim 70 eoQueny about the greatness
should achieve by separate State action and the proud al
uiude we should assume as an independent nation have
read aentiyey all the speeches published lately
vince the people within borders OF The necessity OF i'm
mediate Slate ae,an, appealing 10 their patriotism and their
OF honor 10 induce them to take This hazardous
step and either setting ofih IN glowing coors, The vast
advantages TO from il, admitting The danger
but striving 10 convince them that arisen where
the honor OF The Slate requires that hsy should embrace
rum aiher man submit 10 wrong In all these pubca
TONS have Jailed 10 any attempt to prove that
IN south carolina. suer greater wrong than our sister
slavehoding States, or any reason adduced why we,
roeang 10 ourselves nicer OF honor and greater
share OF magnanimty, should place ourselves in the
aud lead iorlorn hope which will be followed by no
advancing column 10 support II. We are told that our
position, II we take the lead will excite The sympahies
and command the aid of all the southern States. What
sympathy or aid can we expect from States whose coun-
sci we shall have sconed whose character Tor courage
we outrage and whose interests sacrifice What
sympathy claim from the rest of the civilized
world whose hopes OF freedom centred IN the sue
cess OF the experiment OF self government and who will
regard our conduct with Reproduction well as dlsmay
Be assured, fellow citizens, that The only sympathy and
aid South Carolina, after such actas is ecommt ended
by thoughess and violent men, can expect to receive is
from those persons who cast loose from soclety-men
who ready violate the laws of their country, and
seek to better their condition by urging others TO
deeds OF violence. BY such our independent State
PEELED to seek from those she regards as her
enemies against the exactons of those she received
with open arms, as friends and allies
have called this proposition for South Carolina 10
secede from the Union measure OF unmgated EVIL be-
cause, while the dangers and evils are so apparent, The
advantages cannot be perceived by any discerning eye.
Wherever attempt is made 10 discover and set them
forth, the fallacy is manifest that the aiiuslon van
shes before the ght OF truth and those who lmpel the
people 10 this ac, of folly adopt grandioquent sly and
talk OF honor and magnanlny, and quote passages IRON
Mr.. Cahouns and Mr. McDuiie's speeches, as if they
applicable TO the circumstances OF the present day
Were those great statesmen alive, they would be
among The first to stem this torrent, and would seek 10
under different circumstances altogether now brought
up and quoted 10 name the minds OF the people, and to
justify the conduct OF certain leaders How long will the
people of this State continue to be deceived by this abuse
OF great authorities How long will they suffer them
selves 10 be SO msled? How long will they abandon
themselves to the dictation of incompetent leaders
When will they themselves, and exhibit manly
self reliance by taking their fate into their own
hands-by meeting III primary assemblies, and, speaking
in the name OF the people, epudlatng the clubs and
ventons which threaten our noble State with ruin
May this suspicious day be the bright dawn of return
Ing and recovering freedom and from benceorth
and Iyown down all attempts. whether proceeding from
ignorance design, TO lead them of from their natural
friends and allies into the lonely and wide waste OF
secession, civil war, and causeess revolution
have the honor 10 be, gentlemen, your obliged and de-
voted fellow citizen,
j. R. POINSETT
To Messrs r. B. Duncan, Vardy McBee, B. Durham
and other members of the committee, GIeenvle South
Carolina