The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-11-22

/ ienu sthcui, ~ netu De, even 10 the death.
= A false opinion, which contradicts com
mon sepse, sontraaicts all history, contra
diets The Bible, has rooted itself into the
Northern mind. 1t Is taughtin their sebools
and colleges, it is enforced in their pulpits
1t is the Gospel Of Northern fansticism.- =
That false opinion is, that every man is
born free and equal. The abettors of this
doctrine differ somewhat in the extent Of
the Inference they draw FROM II. Some OF
them, (the most, honest and, consistent OF
the class, seeing it is virtually c5ntradict.
ed by the Constitution of the United States,
tfor that does no: treat slaves as free. and
equal to what men, denounce the Cunstii
tuition as \ conyenant with death and an
agresment with hell" and, therefore. they
are for dissolving the Union because it Is
founded, In. their judgment. on a rotten
compact The larger class, however, are
| for holding on to the Constitution. because,
by tbe use. Of their power under IL they can
tinally abolish slavery. Give them the Pres.
ideney and its. patronage the millions OF
money 1t has to dispense; the control of
the Post-O Office, DC; nnd in few briei y ears
the slave States bordering on the North
will have to abandon slavery as the source
to them Of endless vexation and loss, through
the interference of Abolition tmssaries,
s,aiile no new States will be admit cd but
such as are free-and then, by a vote of Con-
gress, Acir great idea will be carried out
universal emancipation. will be. declared
Then every negro in South Carolina. and in
every other Southern State, will be his own
masters nay, more thsn that, will be the
equal Of every one Of you II you are tame
euough to submit, Abolition preachers will
be Mt hand 10 consummate The marriage of
your daughters 10 black husbandsl Nav,
nayl we beg pardon of South Carolina wo.
men for such a suggestion. If their fathers
aud their brothers have not the spirit to
break loose from government whose oiect
ed Chief-Magistrate aims to establish such a
state of things. the daughters Of South Car.
oIina would die for shame at the dishonor
OF the incn.
Fellow citizens, this is no picture of fan.
cy. 1t is stern reality, which must arise
in tho future, unless the infatuntion of the
Northern mind is, checked by miracle. or
unless you yourselves apply the remedy.
Truth has It's natural limitations; error has
none. A conscientious errorist is the most
Hopeless subject with which you can treat.
A conceited errorist, especially If prosperi.
ty feed his conceit. Is the next bad case.
John Brown and Henry Ward Beecher, the
one nm infidcl and the other a Christian
preacher, belong to the frat class. No de
feat, not even death itself, would change
the opinion OF such men as these, and many,
1 many such are in the ranks Of Northern
| Abolitionism. The other class is the more
numerous. They glory in being wise.--
They claim to be political philosophers. or
pride themselves on following In the wake
OF, such. They utter and echo the veriest
inanities in style befitting discoveries oi
truth. Calmly cnsconced in the sense ol
their own security. they give currency to
/ theoretical opinions which they cannot bu,
/ see must damage others at distance, with
out sufficient foresight to perceive the re
action OF their own mischief on tL Lemselves
like a silly boy who sets fire to neighbor'
haystack, and fiyirg to his fathers house
feels that he is snfe when the door closes
until the lurd flame licks its hot tongu,
4 against his own bed curtain. The North i
4 full of these shallow philosophers, a famot,
4 New Yorker at their head. OF these me,
there seems to be no hope except from Tn
actual experiment of their schemes fifth
first class labor under an ineurable mala.iy
Z like disease of the heart, wherein the pa
,ient can't be cured, the other labor unde
: brain fever. which nothing can cure but th
, lancet and the blister. II the Union lie di,
E solved. we answer for IL. Mr.. Seward wi
> in short time DO much wiser man, wit
! very changed opinions Let tho Unio
. continu,, and he, with all his disciples wi
0 remain as madly bent as they now are, o
= universal emancipation. .... ..#
: But let us look more directly into I'll
e face Of the danger before us.
a citizen of the North has been brougl
o forward 10y party at the North as Cand
\ date for the Presidency. on the undi.guise
e nay, the avowed ground. of his opposite
Is TO slavery. A great political organizatio
N known as the Black Republican party, ba
e ed upon the theory that. the negro is Il
Y equal Of the white man, had chosen. Abr
IT, ham lincoln rs their candidate for the Pr
8. sidency. The election has just been deci
of ed. Amajority Of votes has been given
,r this man. ~ -.t......
10 Now. what does NJ. Lincoln inteut
Of Hear his own language: u believe"
says, "this government onnnot endure pt
Z manently half slave and half free.
10 not expect the Union IT, be dissolved;
e, notexpeet the house to fall, but I do Z
TO pect that it will cease. to be divided.
Il viii become all one thing or all the 9th
IS Either the opponents Of slavery viii arr
n the further spread of 1t, and place it VIII,
" the public mind shall rest In the belief Il
le Il is In the course Of ultimate extinction,
re its advocates shail push il forward until
,r- shall become alike lawful in oil the Stat
r.