New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-24

smith, who finally, with but very It!ls hdp fsOs
South Carolina herself, except the prvr;.c> Wild
| be took by force, recovered that State from n.
British conquerors-an account confirmed By No.
eotempcraD documents-s large part Of H..
militia were employed not so much in fgstins n.
British as in robbing and numbering tsei, Ton,
neighbors. In the expressive language Of Greece
quoted BY Mr.. Simms, the inhabtsn,s Of that Sat.
pursued each other ike wild beasts.
The beggary contribution Cf South Csrelias 10
the Continental Line snd her total failure to fursk
any contingent to il at time when the whole Coo.
,nentsl Line south Of Pennsylvania was employed
in her own defense vss 10. entirely owing TO want
Of men, II che furnished too many white mea b
the British ranks, which were largely recruited
in that State to have many TO spare for the Cost-
mental Army, a. least she had plenty Of negroes.
We published the other day some resolutions froa
the secret ournsl Of the Continental Congress- for
enlisting corps Of negroes into the service. This
was a very favorite plan Of the younger Lsurens
the aid-de-camp of Washington, and of o her South
Carolina patriots; but it was defeated by the ter
rors and jealousy of the shareholders, who, not~ish
standing it was proposed to pay their owners avery
liberal price for them, regarded such bodJ~
troops-especiaIy as after their service was oves
they were 10 be rewarded with their liberty-ss
h.;n. st;lI more 10 be dreaded than either 90
Tories or the British.
And. BY the way, how does it happen that Nc.
simms, while carefully enumerating as was vey
proper. all the drawbacks TO exerton on the part Of
South Carolina growing out of her scattered pepu-
laon. her isolated settlements, the diversity Of race
and language among her inhabitants and the large
number Of her foreign born population, makes no
| mention whatever of her negroes, who, after all,
were her and, since they served ss
plumber the chief instigation to the ferocou' ci'h
, war " which she was ravaged and dsgraccd
This ia the more noticeable on the part OF Mr..
Simms. since it was this particular drawback Of
Slavery. alluded to in the speech Of Mr.. Sumner.
which drew down upon him the ferocious attack
| Of Bully Brooks, we'll worthy of eowardiy South
Carolina Tory, and to which Mr.. Slmms also saw it
to alude in the beginning of his lecture in terms re-
| proacLful 10 Mr. Sumner, and, we must be allowed
10 saw very little creditable either to the head,
| the heart. or the taste Of Simms. Dir. Sum-
per's allusl0n 10 the lusttutlou VI ota'o'! ss
not only deadly cancer to South Carolina now
bat as having left her prey to conquest during
the Revolutionary war, was-Mr. Simms to the
contrary notwthstandng-p perfectly appropriate TO
| his argument and the subject under discussion, y"
say nothing of its having been Provoked-just {"
was the call for the return of Revolutionary troops
given above--by e1travasant and seltconcelsd
boasts about Southern Revolutionary prowess and
services.
We advice Mr. simms, should he find occasion
to repeat his lecture, to drop out Of it the un'ea
sonable assault which ii contains upon the motives
and aim OF Mr.. Sumner, and to endeayor to refase,
| if be can, the view which Mr. Sumner took-and in
which he is supported by the whole Revolutionary
history not only of South Carolina but Of every
State south of the Potomac-as to the weakening
effect produced by the institution of Slavery; and
to prove if be can, that it was not the direct aud
principal cause Of the disastrous subsection into
which South Carolina fell. 1t will be quite tiae
nough to yituperate Mr. Sumner after having first
efuted him.