The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-10-01
NEGRO suBORpJNATION.

Democracy To luild up or pull down, or in.
tcrfrrc with that institution rs it exists
there. Neither have we any right to say
to the s!;rvcliol,lrr, "lon may holl us many
SLAVES as you please in Virginia, but shall
not remove with them into new tcr,itUty
1lir. Il with v,nr own blood and treasure"
Nevertheless, that negro scrvitude is not
incompatible with Caucasian freedom, the
brilliant record of our Southern States
clearly demonstrates. During the two hun
dred years OF it, growth there, not single
serious outbreak has occurred, and the peo
p.o Of those States have less want and mise.
ry within their borders than their nciyhhors,
nnd have produced rs many truly great
men ms any other country of equal popula-
ton. While they happily lack some of the
artificial ncccssarics Of the moro crowded
North, they are also free from many Of the
evils that bcsct us.
But with Abolitionsm and its train Of
consequences we have much to do. The
Democratic party must wage unccasing
war against these traitors to our country, to
freedom and to Cod We have been for
twenty years acting on the defensive agains,
these unscrupulous bandit,i, merely shield
ing ourselves from their poisonous missiles,
aud during all that time have been steadily
losing ground, till at last, cmboldcncd by
success in almost every Northern State, and
their ranks augmented by descrters and
plundcr seeking robbers, they lavo well
grounded hopes Of soon reaching, with all
tho appliances Of incendiarisln ut their heels,
the sacred citadel Of our liberties, where are
garnercd up the hopes Of all true patriots
for the future greatness Of America. Once
in possession Of the General Government,
their black hearts swollen to raging fury
with revenge against the Democracy and
hatred of the wise and good everywhere,
the Constitution would soon become 4 dead
lcttcr-tlc kncll of our Union be tolcd.-
We must change our tralics! We must
carry the war into Africa!
Our present Legislature has made it a
duty of the next to examine the question of
placing negroes on q level with white men.
If they are TO be our equals ut the polls,
they must be thrust into the jury box, must
perform military and fire duty; there must
be no distinction between the white and
black species Of mankind in schools or
places Of amusement. If We unnaturaIy
force political equality upon them, they will
claim social equality in all public matters
and their claim must be allowed, revolving
as it may be to our feelings. Tie rich will
tie able to stand aloof from them; the poor
cannot.
Let slavery in the South alone; it is none
of our business but show the villainy Of
attempting to raise inferior beings, degrad.
cd by nature, not circumstances, TO a level
with superior, or rather to drag down the
laboring whites TO level with negroes,
raising tho latter being impossible without
ii miracle from the Most High.
The aim of our opponents is to abolition
ize the North, thus placing it in direct an
tagonism TO the South. A writer in the
last number of the Westminster Review, in
an article repletc with more than tic usual
English ignorance and hatred of America,
tells one truth, unpalatable enough to its
friends Oh this side; and attempts proph-
esy, foolish enough in itself as undertaking
the yalor of the South, but of value as
showing the hopes of English writers and
American Abolilionists, instinctiyely think
ing and acting i'll sympathetic concert like
the Siamese twins. The f,stis this: that
the State Of Massachusetts, by its reLcllious
course toward the General Government on
this vile negro question, has virtually
placed itself outside the American Union.
lhe other is, that if the party we are now
opposing could but succeed in overpowcr-
ing the Democracy, the South would be
utterly and totally ruined-would become
DESERT negro paradise; all which might
become history if the gallant spiri:s of the
South would but tamcly look on and see
lie amy and navy transferred 10 tie North,
while their negroes were cnaucipated and
daggers placed in their hands, letting loose
SO much physical force guided Ly not a
particle of reason, save that of tho rayirg
devils Of Northern Abotionists
Our Abolitionists are chiefly found in
those localities where negroes exist only as
isolated individuals, or not in sufficient
numbers to bring out the characteristics Of
the species. Ignorance is cmpbatically the
another of AIolitionism. Now, # We be-
stow the elective franchise upon all our ne
groes, the next generation of voters in those
localities will bo more thoroughly abolition
'zed than are their fathers now; and that ;s
one great object Of the cunning leaders Of
the ring-streaked and speckled party of fla.
natics opposed to the Democracy and
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