Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-12-28
The South Carolina ConVen-
tiOn.

IN a->cmbla.e is now in session at
Charleston, having been driven from Col
nmhis by fear of the small poX, which
propose, 10 wrc.t from the United States
4 part of their domain. That South Car
oliua i, =nrh part W. proceed TO prove.
After the surrender Of Charleston to
thr British, the people Of South Carolina
aho had sworn lilrlity To Congress and
the nial1, turned round anil took the oath
81 allegiance to the crown, by thousands,
enlisted to taxi up arms against the eoun-
try, and sought IN every way. to prove
their fidelity to Great Britain. The leg
stature, dishcartenci and dcmoralzcd,
passed an aet placin. all the powers OF the
government in the hands ot' Governor
Rutledse. who himself soon found it nee
r,~ary to Withdraw from the state, which
VA, thus a. completely controlled by Brit
ish authority ds Canada. Georgia was al
80 entirely in the possession OF the Brit
ish, and it was erayely proposed that a
treaty. of peace should be made on the
principle Of aiti 1ossaietiS. leaving South
Carolina and Georgia TO be British PROV
nccs, a, they We're by the general aelli-
e>een-e Of the people.
But the United States Of America y
had no such intention, They regarded
South Carolina and Georgia a a part of
that beloved country to which they had
con,ccrated their lives, fortunes aud sacred
honor To make it forever free soFer-
ei.n and independent - nation. They also
considered the condition Of larse numbers
of true patriots some in exile, and many
'i,ins ia fear from bloody Tarleton and
the Tory a,sa,~iu, Accordingly they
sent down ain army from the North, under
tn brave General 'irecne, OF Rhode Is
lanl, gho, ut immense sacrifices, wrcsted
both provinces out Of the hands of Great
Britain. and brought them into the | mon
again. Amid the general joy at the re-
suit aud at the peace which speedily ioI-
lowed, those pcDurcd traitors who had
Ioiucd CORNWALL, were pardoncd without
trial, through the ir.tcrnal spirit then cl-
erywhcre prevailing.
That soil, and every foot Of it, is thus
eon,cerat,.i to Us =, an integral part aud
parcel of that which We love a " Our
Country, by the blood and treasure which
it cost in the recovery, and by the memo.
ry Of the honorcd dead who remained
:. faithful among thc taithlcs,, = through all
the trials Of the revolution. Since that
DAY, thousands upon thousands OF the Pco-
bic of the North have, from time TO time,
settled in those states, as business or III
elipation prompted, with the same feelings
that they would have had IN removing to
another part OF their native state, that II
wa, all the same country, until there Is
hardly family circle in the North which
Aa, not had some connections there; ana
those who have died there have lett to
surviving friends the con,oling thought
that their bones rest in the soIl OF their
native country. Those graves can never
be alienatcd
Tho descendants of those traitors, and
others who have imbibed their spirit, are
again trying to rcnd from the l mtei
States those broad lands which were Il
part of the new born nation when 1t aS,
ssamed Independence, and which they had
reconaucred from its inhabitants and the
power Of England. Short-sishted and
timd men at the North, too, are again
counseling cowardly traltorouS acqules.-
eepse in the dismembcrment of the terri
tory which our fathers would not snffen'
der single rood Of t orld IN arms
There is no power on earth that can rend
that territory from the country OF which
il i, an original part, 1t Is, and OF rlsh'
ourht to be, and must forever continue 10
be, in the eyes Of our own laws anu con-
,titution. and in the eyes OF all nations
within the bounds Of the United States
under the protection Of the american nag
and subject to the laws Of Congress as
:. the supreme law Of the land. Not
even the present craven Administrator
will dare to recognize the doinss OF the
unlawful assembly now sitting IN Sou'n
Carolina a. of any more authority against
tbs constitution aud laws Of the I mteJ