The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-10-02
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mr.. E"tfor :-pcrllaps our country
never was i'll a more rcrilous condition
than at present, and who can tell the de-
vclopmcnt of the next five or ten years +?
Another question, Of paramount impor
tance, may be asked: Why do VIC, know
ing these things, remain SO calm and so un-
concerned! Who can give the solution to
this phenomenon Of human nature? It
was not exhibited in the days of III. No
man in those days (as one Of people, }
suffered his moral, personal or political
right to be infrlrgcd, without resistance.
Now, no act Of injustice can arouse us to =
vlndication Of our rights, aye, of the safct Y
OF our families and of our children. Sir.
there can be no mistake as to the result of
the present agitation in our country; and
mad | no other reason for my conclusion,
than the increased opposition to us within
the last ten years, should it annililatc the
Last vcstigc of a Republican Government
would cut the cord that binds this one.
Well do remember the very first init
nation of opposition to our institutions,
Which met my ears. Since then I have
watched, with fearful interest, its increase.
which has been regular and rapid. At first
there was only an occasional expression of
opposition; now it is the absorbing topic
OF tile entire prcss-of every organization
political, civil and rcligious-a general po-
icmlcal warfare. Sir, ii need not he sup
posed, as has been said, that the opposition
to us is confined to n small faction at the
North. Let it suffice, that while We arc
'hsu'ted over and again with tho most in
tolerable taunts, and acts Of injustice, the
delegates from the North to tile Nationo,
Assembly-the Federal Congress of the
United St"tcs-mct for the good of the
whole nation, are avowcd enemies to the
Southern States, and their whole energy is
exerted for the prejudice and overthrow of
our most vital interests.
Sir, ask your patrons-ask the citizens
OF your District-ask the citizens of Soutl,
Carolina, and of the entire South, whv
they permit those who have no interest in
this matter, with them, to tamper with it.
till our soil (Which I verify believe,) shall
be drenched in blood. Besides, sir, what
greater outrage can FREQ people suffer.
than we have suffered at the hand of orr
insolent and impertinent brethren az who.
exercising tho right, when slavery ceased
to be profitable among them, of abolishing
it, and will not grant us the same discre-
tion2 They have nothing to do with it.
it is not in their midst--it is our peculiar
and individual property, recognised and
provided for by our National Constitution.
and yet their delegates assemble at Wash
'ngton annually, with Que. leading idea
the abolition Of slavery--the property of
the Southern people. Can it be that tho
term slavery" contains in it the elements
Of destruction 70 the most powerful Repub-
lic the world has ever known What
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lurking within its etymelo ogiesi preoincts 81 81 81 I
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