The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-11-29

And the better to accomplish these ends,
dismiss from your minds all those glowing
harangues under which you have wept and
| shouted aud voted and listen to a little
plain common sense, which you can under
stand perfectly, remember, and use for the
benefit ofyour children and ncighbors. And
here make a most startling assertion up.
| on which reserve your Judgment until y6iu
hear my reasons for It, lt is this: if Lin.
coin would pledge himself under oath, and
l were sure he would keep hi, oath, to en-
force the fugitire slave laws to the letter
II all the people of the Northern States
would not cfsA1svow to repeal their anti
slavery codes, but actually Go it, and pledge
Themselves to allow your servants to accom-
pany you through oil the States with.
out whisper to decoy them from you-as
| hope to be saved, would not stay in this
Union one hour longer than | could get
out oi IT. And now for reasons They
would keep their VOWS, (we suppose that
but they would be exactly the same peo-
pie they are now-they would hate you
and hate slavery az much as they DO now ::
a little more, # you e2tvrted thege conces-
sions from their love OF your. cotton. rice.
sugar and tobacco and their children would
be exactly what they are now: Let nc
put case TO you. Brt fret, let ne draw
u moral from your Sa,pr,yc, which ought to
alarm you, and improve YOU only suppose
the Northern President and people to do
what all Presidents anu ali people did
Tor thirty years after the Government WIS
establishcd-respect the constitution. |
only supposed you to give them AN acuuit-
tnnce Tor all the past, upon their assurance
that they vii! observe the law on single
point tor the future; and it amazed YOU.
that Tor this grcHt boom would not yoke
myself to them inl.ssoluDly, Us you would
do joyousiy. On, my countrvmen. have
you reached this POINT, while your wives
and daughters are hallowing the grounds
and con. ecrating the tomb of Washington?
have the once called "chigalry of the South
sunk so low before all OF Genera! Greenc's
children have passed away L" But it would
save the Union" | tell you, men, the IN
ION is no more like it was, when | first
knew 1T, than zephyr Is Ike tornado
than Caligula is like Luther. But
have you any hope Of realizing the supposed
case in a single particular? You 60 not
dream OF it. Lincoln will give YOU some
double-tared promises to lull you, and gull
you, and his supporters will dress them VI
in heavenly attributeS-this is AL YOU NAV
expect. lie cannot even give you emcour-
aging promises without belying himself.
But he Is not the thing to be feared it is
the power that pushed Linn up, end will
Full him down il he care to resist it. Bn,
20 my case: Suppose ! should ask which
you would prefer, to live unler an absolute
despotlsih OF one man, or an absolute dcspo-
tlsm OF ten thousand mcn? You would in
stantly answer, "Ofono inan, withou; doubt.
lie would treat al his subjects aiile II
he plundered, he would p!ander all his sal
Jects alike. ii he were bad, we might choi
oil his head and got better; and If not as
sassinatcd, time would soon dispose of him.
| But the ten thousand would make all others
tributary to them and Their nci.hbors. i
little, comparatively would satisfy the ra-
paclty OF one man, but millions upon mil
lions would not satisfy the ten thousand.
If the one should be inclined to butchery,
his murders must be limited to the ran. c
OF his acquaintance mainly nut the ten
thousand would butcher by whole com
munitIcs, and they would never die" Now,
hcnceiorward, you are subjected to an ab-
soIute dcSpotlsm, not of ten thousand. but
of nineteen millions, concernir- whom
there need be 40 "ifs,' for thry have dis
closed then cl aracter, their conduct, and
their plans, fully, tca!lc.sly, and shameless.
ly,
The Republicans have all power in .hcir
hands and are under no restraint of law
oath or conscience. They believe that IL
aO"st you, prosecute You, plumber you, tax
you, degrade You, and lorce you 10 a cor
diton worse than all these put together,
(better conceived than printed,) is doing
Gods service. Your fathers fought seven
years TO avoid taxation without r,prescn-
tatlon. Iou wall remain hundred wears
under taxation withou. Representation for
your representatives viii &c no better ihan
dead men In congress. Your fathers would
not endure tax upon tea and paper; YOU
VIII endure tax on every thing; and
oEIy 10 glorny your masters, and strengthen
your bonds. At the ioCtstool OF a Nero
you would have 4 hearing; by catering him,
you Will receive largesses from him; but
you will receive no hearing no crumbs from
your masters Is this fancy no. / take
1T all from the lips and acts OF the Rcpub-
hcans themselves. To their praise, be it
spoken, that they are open and iraak in the
avowel OF their purpose, and in Their effort,
to accomplish it. Herein they are better
than Phillip. We encourage them by ap-
pathy and bountics and herein we ire
worse than the Athcuians.
a. Is. LONGSTREET
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER l9.-Ex-
| Governor Powell, Of Alabama, left this city
! to-day for Ballimnrn md thn Nnrlh n,..,.