New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-21


has never in that State risen much above sentiment
alism. So in the matter Of choosing President, the
great unwashed" in South Caroliza are kept still
farther from the choice drec; than even the usual ar
raIgement Of the people cbssing Electors admits ine
LEGISLATURE there it need hardly be said. choose the
electors for President. Fear of the people because
they ar. ignorant and policy which keeps them ig-
norant as certainly that effect follows cause, has
predomiaated in South Carolina. But now We dni
slight wrggIiIg in the oigarchic msnaces. Ihe
choice Of Electors direct will be, If adopted,
mere opening wedge. 1t will be found that If the
people are good for eectiDg E!ectors-what conces-
sion they may answer for other matterr' such
&c the right Of discussing why and wherefore the
number of ignorant people is constantly increasing
among them, when the material wealth of the State
should produce an opposite result.
NJ Robert Mills % South Carolina, in his sta'ist
cal work published in Charleston in leo, AYERS that
"a glorious destiny awaits South Carolina when she
"ihall have consummattd her system OF internal I'M
"prCyement-when her numerous detas shall be re.
"claimed-those rich and inexhaustibe tracts that
"border her rivers, the cultivation of one OF which
would exceed in the value OF its products, tne agr-
"cultursl wealth of whole State Even under the
"Iresent limited culture Of the SOIL South Carolina
islands at the head of the Union in respect to the
"vaue Of her products. How immense, therefore,
would be her physical powers were the best portions
sf her territory brought into successful cultivation
now lying in state OF nature, where vegetation
riots in primitive luxurance!" Mr. Mills had not
the art Of talking on his legs and declining in the
United States Senate, but still We consider him SUI
perior man. He saw the real difficulty, with keen
eye though the state of political science al that time
did not teach him the means of reformation. Now
that scientific development has arrived, and it is only
the ogarchc infusion into South Carolina politics
Which prevents its adoption. We feel since they
berlted The TRIBUNE at the Memphis Convention
in the City of Charleston, quite an affection for that
Stale; because the wrath the occasion in question
showed that the people not Indifferent, but only
need to be stirred up. Now appeal to our friends
in South Carolina, especially the angry ones to look
things in the face, like Do hot talk grandios-
ties aud allow all those magnificent deltas which your
learned Mills capitay described to rot in pestlen
tial nothingness, while the former array of $4,000
grown-up asses, who neither read nor write, has
swelled to 90, 600 prob by-ryaliDg Virginia in ram
pant dOnkey dom. We say $4,000 for the number
must be horribly high, or Governor Naming would not
have chOked in ut'ering it, People OF South Carolina
believe US, you will become more and more ignorant
so long as q few college bed men, readers of English
political economy written to suit the oligarchc mar
ket of Englanddetail your State and national policy
They have the knack of putting words together; they
have the technical skill to draw up laws aud speak
respecting them; they have perhaps the arts and
deductions of eOquence-but where are you all this
time? Why, you are not considered fit even to elect
Electors who elect President. In the Ango-msnia
which dictated so much the original formation of our
Federal Constitutions the electoral college iDsti
tuted instead of plain, manly, direct popular vote
for the candidate. The President considered
sort of Grand Lama-up to day 800 out of every
LOCO Fourth-ofJuy orations tell that it is the
'greatest office on earth; when the whole business
of the President is slight redupcation, with
ration of .uch work is unostentatiouy and humy
performed by the New-York Express and Forwarding
Companies by this to say that one depart
ment-the Post-Ofice, for examples an Express
agency, and the other departments are managed with
similar machinery-that is to say, men, motive power
and set of books-and the President, therefore is
not Grand Lama, but man, who may be voted for
direct: and above all in South Carolina, where one
remove from the people spread into two, is reform
then in that quarter.
mo country on the habitable globe" said Mr..
Mills "ofers the same advantages to the cutivator
of the soil as South Carolina; and when it is
proved to possess equal health with any part of the
Union; superior prospects to reward the toll of
industry: a government liberal free and independ-
ent having single eye to the veal Of the country;
and people hosptable, and liberal in their
views: when all these advantages are known to
" be possessed by this State no one can doubt the
resut--that South Carolina must increase rapidly
L" in population, wealth and political power" Such
was the belief in South Carolina thirty years ago;
and it is instructive to compare the present results
with the vatcinaton of that period South Caro-
lima expanded Mr.. Calhoun into god, and all his no.
tons growing out of limited reading and more limited
travel and observation became the law of her exist
ence. Mr.. Calhoun kept himself studiously ignorant
| of what he ough: 10 have known. He consulted Dr.
Morton ethnolOgy, and found out that niggers
jumped Jim Crow in Thebes 1900 years ago. But
at the same time, when the Franklin Institute at
Philadelphia began the magnificent work of exhibit
ing on common platform all that art and science in
in this country could evolve for the glory of God and
the grandeur OF bis creatures there sat Mr. Calhoun
at Washington, scornng 20 come step north to
verse with the people and the genius OF America
through their works. No: it would not answer the
Inc fable charstanism Of the great principle, of
the ogarclic cut and color, TO believe in native labor
and art Prince Albert would as soon think of nyit-
Ing bis tailor to dine as Sauh Carolina grandee of
the metaphysical proportions of Mr.. Calhoun enter
into sympathetic intercourse with the mechanic OF
n III.