The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-18
INC southern Declaration Of rndependenee. I.dIe

~ ~ Nt"sioh Oh An0ependences
writer in the Charleston Mercury in reply to
Maj Perry, who asks if the South has sufficient
causes for disunion, answers as follows:
The history of our union with the Northern
States is history of repeated injuries and usurpa-
tions, all having direct object-the establishment
of an absolute tyranny over these States To
prove this, let facts be submitted to candid
world.
They have ovcrthrown the constitution which
binds us together, and constitutes the terms of our
union, by total disregard of its limitations.
They maintain that the Congress of the United
States, under their CONTROL as omnipotent in its
legislation as the British Parliament claimed to be
over our ancestors.
By disregarding the sovereignty Of the States,
arl establishing the will of majority in Congress
as the rightfu authority in its legislation, they
and remorselcss despotsm.
They have rendered representations in Congress
of no avail to protect the interests of the South,
and thus taxation without representation is practi-
cally enforced over us.
They have destroyed our foreign commerce by
the most unjust Navigation Laws, ard the most un-
constitutional and iniquitous Tariff laws.
They have exacted taxes from US, not only to
support of the common government, but take their
property from the people of the South and give it
to the people of the North. ~
They deny to us common property m our tes-
ritores, acquired equally by our money and blood,
on the ground that the people of the South, with
fhpu,-
They have assailed for more than thirty years,
the institution of African slavery in she South and
have made our common Legislature of the Federal
Government a grand instrument for inccndiarism
and abolition.
They have compelled US to separate from them,
in our churches and other religious institutions
They have passed laws in their State Leglsla-
lures, nullitying the laws of Congress providing
for the recovery of fugitive slaves, although SOL
emnly adjudicated to be constitutional blythe. Su-
preme Court of the United States.
They have organized associations to steal our
slaves and to prevent their recapture, and have
murdered their masters seeking their rendition.
They have invaded our homes and KILLED our IN
offensive citizens to raise our slaves IN lnsurrec-
ton against their masters.
They openly declare their purpose to emanci-
pate our slaves by the power of the Federal Gov
crnment, and that they will put US to the sword II
We resist.
And to carry out these hostile and hendish pur-
poses, they have organized sectional party at the
| North to take possession Of the Federal Govern
ment and arc burning our towns, and striving,
BIZ Distributing arms and poison among our slaves,
to desoate the South by fire, insurrection and
blood.
In every stage of these expressions, we have
petitoncd for redress in the humblest terms Our
repeated petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A people whose character is
thus marked by every act which may define ty-
rants, are unfit to be the confedcratcs of a FREQ
people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our
Northern brethren. We have warned them from
time to time, of attempts, by their legislation, to
extend understandable jurisdiction over us. We
have reminded them of the circumstances of our
emigration and settlement here. We have appeal
ed to their nature, justice and magnanimity and
VIC have conjured them by the ties of our common
kindred, to disavow their usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connections and
correspondence They, too, have been deaf to the
voice oI justice and consanguinity. We must,
therefore, acquicscc in the necessity which de-
nounccs our separation and hold them, as We
hold the rest of mankind enemies in war, in peace
friends.