The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-27
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tending over an identity of pursuits, in
teTests and institutions. South Carolina
GeSres no destiny separated from YOURS. To
De one OF great slavehodng con federacy stretch
ing Its arms over territory larger than any power
IN Europe possesses-with population four times
greater than that of the whole United States when
tney acneVed their independence of the British en-
pire-with productions which make our eyistanca
more important to the world than that of anv other
people inbabiting it--with common institutions to
defend, and common dangers to encounter-we ask
your sympathy and confederation.
whist constituting portion of the United
States, 1t has been your craftsmanship which has
guided 1t IN its mighty strides to power and eXpan
SION In the field, as in the cabinet, You have led
the way to Its renOwn and grandeur. You have
loved the Union in whose service your great states
men have iabored, and your great soldiers have
fought and conquered-not for the material bene-
hts 1t conferred, but with the faith of generous
ana devoted chivary. You have long fingered and
hoped over the shattered remains of a broken Con
stitution. Compromise after compromise. formed
py your concessions, has been trampled under foot
by your Northern confederates. All fraternity of
feeling between the North and the South is lost, or
has been converted into hat tie; and we of the South
are at last driven together by the stern destiny
which controls the existence Of nations
l0ur bitter experience of the faithlessness and
rapacltv OF your Northern cOnfederates NAV have
been necessary to evolve those great principles of
free government, upon which the liberties of the
world depend, and to prepare you for the grand
MISSION of vindicating and re-estabshing them.
We rejoice that other nations should be satisfied
With their institutions. Selfcomplacency is a
great element of happiness with nations as with in
alvlduas. We are satisfied with ours If they
prefer system of Industry, in which capital and
ahor are in perpetual conflict, and chronic sarva-
ton keeps down the natural increase of population
and man is worked out in eight years, and the
law ordains that children shall be worked only ten
hours day, and the sabre and bayonet are the in
struments of order, be it 1t is their affair." not
ours.
We prefer, however, our system Of industry, by
which labor and capital are identified in interest
and capital, therefore, protects labor by which our
population doubles every twenty years; by which
starvation is unknown, and abundance crowns the
LAND; by which order is preserved by an unpaid
police, and the most fertile regions of the world
where the Caucasian cannot labor, are brought
into usefulness By the labor of the African and the
whole world is blessed by our own productions
All we demand of other peoples is to be let alone to
work out our own high destinies. United together,
and we must be the most independent, as we are
the most important amongst the nations of the
world United together, and we require no other
instrument to conquer peace than our benetcent
productions. United together, and we must be a
great, Tree and prosperous people, whose renown
must spread throughout the civilized world, and
pass down, We trust, to the remotest ages Weask
you to join us in forming Confederacy of slave
holding States.
Here follows the Declaration of Independence,
full synopsis of which, was received by telegraph
and published in our issue of Saturday last