The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-12-06
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE PAST.

Will they not surrender?
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE PAST.
From the n. Y. Tribune.l
In the very earliest days of the Amer.
lean Uuion, South Carolina began to give
evidence Of that special regard for her
own separate interests in comparison with
the general wishes and interests of the
Union, for which her political career has
been distinguished ever since, and by
which, as evinced in her separate seces.
sion projects, she is just now making
herself so notorious.
One Of the principal measures adopted
by the Continental Congress in IVA for
compelling Great Britain to abandon her
policy Of taxing the colonies was the
American Association, SO called. This
Association pledged the colonies to an
entire commercial non intercourse with
Great Britain, Ireland, and the English
West Indies, aud the non consumption of
British goods; the nintercourse. thu,
agreed on, TO be extended also to such
province .. british North America as
should decline to come into the Associa-
ton, and to last until the obnoxious acts
of Parliament were repealed. 1t turned
out in practice that very exaggerated
Importance was ascribed to the effect
which the colonies hi ght in this way be
able to produce upon the trade and public
sentiment Of the mother country The
colonists were mislca upon this point by
the same ovsressmate of their own i'm
portance in the commercial scale which
now teaches our enthusiastic fellow cti-
zcns of the South to believe that by
means of commercial non. in ercourse they
can coerce not merely the Northern States
but for that matter, the whole civilized
world. But the higher was the estim.
ate formed Of the efficiency Of this cxpe-
dent, the stronger was the motive for
adopting it; nor did any of the States,
with the single exception of South Caro-
lima, hesitate for moment 10 giving their
assent. The South Carolina delegates in
the Congress, with the single exception
Of Christopher Gadsden, made a most
strenuous opposition to it, not, however,
on the ground of any apprehendcd ineff,
cheney in its operation, nor for reasons
common in their application to all the
States. They alleged that it would be
| difficult to find anywhere else than in
Great Britain good market for rice,
which was then the prineip product of
South Carolina. On this ground they
declined to follow the example of the
other States in sacrificing their own par
ticular Interests to the general good, and
insisted that an exception should be made
statement afterwards made by Gad.den
to the South Carolina Lcgislature-of
which an account may be found IN "Dray.
tons Memoirs of the Revolution in South
Carolina'-th' s proposal of a special ex.
ccptiJn in favor Of South Carolina rice
planters occasioned great disgust in
,he Continental tongre.., and I'D 10
suspen-.on .! business, for several days,
in order - give the South Carolina dele
g4f@s tln.e - .eealEG. ;Lcasalr&s. But
Gs.tI&r dag -.- 49, .4s:r1A&@s were Of
a.. ma A.. IL -as;s ! = -. SAKE Vi un
-Er-r IL : ; - .ess - ;ta,E9.,e sas signa-
-a9s'@s y 1t.s ~rnl.at Las.4 ~ le.eea,es
e.. .it ssr=assss Il is,aes.tsa.sts skge special
s-:-tsTrHa = tir'lr u go. We eln.tted
- VS. int Il IL, anE,tssata. Congress
aan" -.1a;s Gus Junn, " s,ss1.ss aess and
:ics Il 3at ru.sau N nAA .ac- gs South
.ahii'na s"a t;nn.'r7 1t,'@. s@ea,ion to
aagtd '1n eet.NtIts.s. = r4ec was con
it''t Alta IL 5asr s.. sze s.te water dis
ff''F Hat easGapa44..- 4 cotton lad not
- .es'', &tssp.-G.&, sa4 indigo was a,
AZ, ses,s 49, ==Est eEpr,ao!c product OF
~ lax sEa.ssts t..s.fi@ts. The indigo
pas ssrs s.=-; .s!ae4 most bttcrly-jus,
ID 1@s ~ @s,-2:'y an comparatively free
-s@.f Gsast.@.. II South Carolina nigh
cssAp -a.a 2. this GEoEaeus-tha. the low
e2sa:ry planter, thought Of nobody but
Themselves, aud they insisted that thu
-y4'h Carolina Assembly should instruc
tAG delegates t. the hew ContInenta
tsagrcso to cause this exception in favo
c o: rice to be stricken out Of the article
Vi association. But then, as now, tn
lower districts, though inferior in whit
= population, had preponderancy in th
) Assembly, on account of larger nunbe
Of their slaves. They defeated this prop
os'lon, aud by SO doing greatly increase,
: the detection, in the upper country, an
thus contributed to the British tongues
aud the temporary separation Of Sout
Caroliua from the American Union whic
subsequently took place.
. During large part of the Revolution
airy War South Carolina was mere bu,
: den to the Union. But for the assistanc
> rendered to her by her sister States sh
would have remained to this day Bri
J. ish colony-a position to which, if on
J. may judge from the reliance which seem
d to be put upon British aid and comfort i
It case of disunion, certain part of he
citizens are anxious to return 1t earl
e became necessary, on account of tn
d numbers and intrigues of her disaffeatc
population, and the weakness occasione
It by her large slave population, to excus
n her from furnishing any quota to tn
It main army under Washington Whe,
/; at length she was invaded by Sir Henr
$ Clinton, her weakness and inc1pacity t
8 defend herself became fully apparent
: Her Legislature had sent to Congress
representation of her inability to operate
by militia, 81 by reason of the great uum
"ber Of citizens necessary to remain a
"homc to prevent insurrection among thu
"negroes and their descrton to the enc
"my.' 10 supply this deficiency, it had
been proposed to raise three thousand
negro troops, the men to be purchased Of
/ I'll - b.