The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-11-22
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kind to engrnit heyery m ~
Stasei The suggestion q u s1
mischievous misrepresenta OK, 6f Ind 81 u
act upon factions msss, cog J lo ju1<<(y'
,their own impertiuent intsra1sad
the business of other people 9Isg y
point which this extract reveals Is NJ -
coins abandonment to that. false opinion 81
which the whole Abolition agitation =
founded. He tells us sgains g tiist ha hatss
slavery as much as any Aboliti6niss
We care not to prove that Mr. Lincoin
wotld join hands with much a man az 5ohn'
Brown to carry fro and bloodshed Into !
slaveholding State--it is ehough for III 10
know that he ia in full concert with what
the Blask Repablicahs themselves would;
consider rs the respectable and conservative
part Of their own party. Hear, then, what
two of the highest authorities among then,
have proclaimed. One Of them is a Senas
tor from New York. Senator Seward say !:
"Free labor has ut last abprehendcd It's
rights and its destiny, and is organizing its
self to assume The government Of the Repub-
Tic. 1t will hereafter meet sou boldly and
resolutcly here. Washington.
1t has driven you back in California and
Kansas; it will invnde ypn soon In Della.
ware, Maryland Virginia, Missohfi ahd
Texas" The Interests Of the whole race
demand universal emancipation. Whether
the consummation shall be allowed 10 take
effect with needfnl and wise precautions
against sudden change, or be hurried on by
violence, is all that renai:,s for yo's 10 de.
eide" The other representative of this
party lie a Senator from Massachusetts, In
speaking of what he calls the stare oiiydr
cly, he says: Surely them In i.s retreat,
smarting under the Indignation Of an arous-
ed people, and the concuring Judgment Of
the civilized world, IL must dies it may be
as n poisoned rat dies, of rage, In its hole.
Meanwhile, all good oincns are ours. The
work cannot stop. Quickened by the tri-
ronph no,0 dthand, (the Presidential election, }
with Republican President in power
State after State, quitting the condition of
q, territory and spurning slavery, will be
welcomed into our plural unit, and joining
hands together will become belt Of FIRE
abom the slave STATES, ia uhich Slavery must
de-" .-- So.
Here. theh, feilow.citizens, nre the pur-
poses of This party 50 plainly svowed that
none may doubt them. Iterc is Presi.
dent elected to carry ont these purposes.
As wary man, intent on their accomplish
ment, and with o stubbornness which the
madness of his own party cannot bend SO
as to hurry his Administration into any
/" overt acts" whose fagrancy would arouse
even the most torpid at the South, he will
move on with cold steadiness Of purpose
towards The rroiected end. lie and S..
ward and other leader. of the party arc
too wise to be betrayed into any action
which would offend those who are tame oil
has no covert acts before the final spring,
Only let him get his springing place, and
he crouches still and quiet as innocence It
self. The anaconda, once wrapped about
its victim, does not arouse the tated bensi
by unnecessary construction, until its vast
ell breath makes its destruction us conve
nient as It is sure. Such is the fate, fellow
| citizens, which our Abolition enemies, Oong
| er 10 call them brethren would he bite
irony,) design for us. And yet we, poo
simple souls, are to wait for covert acts |!
As shnrers with you, in the obligations an,
the desiinies of South Carolina, we say L
you, stand up for your rights, and through
4 YOU, through your votes. let our believe,
commonwealth declare herself dissevere
from all political connection with men VIII
have j" broken the co venant."
The Constitution you have striven t
keep Scored, but the States of the Mort
have trampled it in the dust. 1t was el
tablished "to promote justice" Abolition
ism hos under its protection robbed I'll
South annually Of hundreds of thousand
and would use it to rob the South Of proI
erty worth four hundred millions OF dollar
1t was established "to secure domest
tranquility" What is the domestic trar
guilty which Aboltiopism securesi Loo
at the secret emissaries prowling abo,
SOuLneTh hoiiics auu piahtutioHs. LOOK
the arms placed in the hands Of slaves {
destroy their masters. and their master
families. Look at tho poison (wiii, fen,
ish and cownrdly malignity) put into Il
, hands Of The same deluded creatures, (,
til. same nefariouspurposc. Fellow. citizen
what mean the patrol and vigilance cor
mittees, the gallows aud the halters, whic
r at tliis strange crisis have Of late 80 off
figured in Southern scenes? These n
? parts Of the domestic tranquility" u
Q owe TO the North. Why is it now that ,
: most every man, young and old, is dai
0 handling arms? 4? Why are the ministers
0 the Gospel, class Of men at tire Soutl, wi
: keep aloof from party politics. register
t on the rolls of Minute Men, and address,,
:. their fellows citizens IL it not the ssimI
It truth ihat under the Constitution our /"
e mestic trNn7uility has been invaded, Al
It that tyrranical, proscriptive party, full
n pride, folly and insolence, have, as tn
it predicted, /" assumed tie Government" wi
=. the fell purpose Il, lay that tranquility