The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-12-09
sJ South Carolina is a great Common

leading statesmen (?) and therefore of
herself, she is the beacon-light Of Amer
can prosperity, the glowing and glory of
the Unions existence, the center OF the
Southern worlds greatness. South Caro-
lima fumes and frets little and the whole
electrical Southern cat S back purrs--for Il
while. She rejoices at some . democrat
ic" victory in the North, and the whole
| Southern armament is illuminated by the
palmetto caudlc-famc. Al this-and yet
the germ OF greatness is still awaiting the
brilliant O. finishing touch CT our pen.
We have not mentioned the great city of
Charleston South Carolina is the gene
raj center of the Southern world, but
Charleston is the pnrtioular-nay, pose
ttce-center-that is to say, South Caro-
lima Eliminates the world south Of Mason
and DixOn's line, and Charleston furnish
es the oil. Charleston, therefore, is The
center, after all. The State legislature
sits in Columbia, but the State laws are
framed in and for Charleston. Columbia
has the glory of the good aud the stigma
of the bad acts Of the legislature, while
Charleston receives the profits of both.
Charleston, too, is great expounder
of Southern common as well as uncommon
law--that is, the common law Of South
Carolina is made to work all the profits
of domestic nigger-drivine into the bills
receivable of Charleston, while the uncOm-
mon laws are made by Charleston decis-
| lens to aggrandize the Charleston purse
with the proceeds of all southern niger
steoiing ventures. Tho British and
American cruisers on the coast of Africa
have no right to overtake and punish the
Charleston nigger-stealing fraternity whom
they may nab in the act and in full pos
session of the booty. The United States
naval officers are posted iu the matter too,
and when they do chance to cause Free
dom shout on the coast Of Africa or Cuba
it is sure to Echo Slavery in the great
port-the immense slave.erotto of
Charleston. Hence, the common law of
South Carolina swells into the grand pro-
portions of National acquittals for piracy,
Hence, no bills were found by Charles.
ton grand jury, (Which set in the Federal
Court at Columbia,) against the nigger,
stealers captured by Lieut.. Maffitt.-
Charleston, therefore, We repeat, is great
city, for it can take It's own part, and its
grand juries are ever ready to second it
and South Carolina is a great State, be-
cause it contains, nay, we had better say,
it is an Charleston,
But aboFtionism, or aught in the Fed
eral laws that favorS the idea that slavery
is wrong, must now be expunged /; for here
is the fiat of Charleston, and who dares
refuse its demands, and call himself cit.
izen of South Carolina? BY a telegram
FROM Columbia under date Of the 4th inst,
We learn that
Resolutions were Yesterday introduced in-
u the House inStructing the Representatives
of South Car)lina in Congress % use all effort,
, 81,
General Government restrictive Of the slave
irade the same being in dcrogation OF the
rights Of the South. They were ordered for
consideration tu-day.''
We presume the said resolutions will re-
ceive due consideration from the memb bers.
| which consideration will of course be gov
erned BY the particular demand of Charles
ton and furthermore, we presume the
South Carolina Senators and Congressman
will be instructed to demand the repeal of
all federal enaetments interfering with
free-trade (in niggerS) in the name of the
great Palmetto Union; aud furthermore,
we presume that the national administra-
tion, with its doughfaoe northern lacqueys,
will listen to the South Carolina commands
with obedient ears and Furthermore, we
presume that the great South Carolina
powers will, in consequence of the auxil-
liary feeling of the administration, be high
ly elated with an "almost victory" out
of which to make capital for Mr.. Doug.
las Presidential aspirations in the great
democratic Sanhedrim which is to meet
in Charleston in 1860 aud designate to
the people of the United States who South
Carolina desires to run for the fourteenth