The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-23
NEW SERIES-NO. 357.
South Carolina in 1882.

The following extracts indicate how Gen.
Jackson's proclamation, in 1882, was re-
ceived in Sonth Carolina
From the Charlie ton M,rcpry, Dec. Il, 1882
The Declaration of War, made by An
drew jackson against the State of South
Carolina, occupies the larger portion of our
columns. 1t will be read with the feelings
so extraordinary document is calculated
to excite. This unhappy old man has been
suffered by bis advisers to arrogate the pow
er to coerce State of the Confederacy.
He has issued the edict of dictator-an
edict which will prove whether he dares or
can enforce. He has attempted in this
proclamation to intimidate the Wings of
South Carolina by threats, and to encour-
age and foment insurrection and violence on
the part of the internal enemies of the State.
This document was received here yesterday,
and greeted with the indignation and con-
tempt which it merits. In every freeman
worthy of the name. it has excited no other
feelings but those of defiance and scorn.
Recreants will bail it as brave blow in
the cause of treason.
rrom Tue CAarieStOn mercury, Dec. IT, 1857.
The crisis for which every intelligent and
resolute Carolinian Wing has long been
prepared is come. The efficacy of our
remedy has been demonstrated. We were
told it would be inefficient; it has proved so
potent that an infuriated administration has
been compelled, in despair of otherwise de-
feating US, to resort to brute force. We
have always said that our remedy YVES of
right peaceful-we never said that it would
necessarily be peaceful-it is always in the
power of bad man to outrage right by
violence, if unrestrained by principle or q
fear OF consequences personal to himself.
Gen. jackson has not furnished the first
example. There has been a Caesar, a
Cromwell, and Bopaparte-men of tow.
ering genius who have stopped to play the
usurper. Why may not an inferior spirit
without as much heart as either, and with
none of their genius, aspire to initiate them
in those actions of their lives, which alone
he can initiate, because they are criminal.
In the Legislature, Mr.. Pickens declared
che believed the contest would end in
blood. The document of the President wos
none less than the edict of a tyrant; and if
they were for war, he was ready, and it
behooved all the citizens of the State to
meet the storm with becoming manliness.
he, for one, never would submit-if driven
from the seaboard, he was for carrying on
the war in the interior; if driven from the
interior, be was for guerilla warfare in
the mountains; and if at last compelled to
yield, he would die contending to the last
drop of blood be had, to sustain the ordin-
ance, and the authority thereof. He ad-
verted to the doctrines contained in the
proclamation, relative to the rights of the
State, and was astonished that the Presi-
dent should attempt to seduce the citizens
OF the State from their proper allegiance;
and in no measured terms, denounced the
whole procedure. He concluded by saying,
that before South Carolina should recede.
he was for war up to the very knife, and be
was for risking ali at every hazard on the
die that was cast"