The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-11-29
ys From the Southern Guardian. ]
An Appeal to the South.

| An Appear to the SOuth.
| s,- er.,1.r. NO. /.
| Whenever any measures are taken which
involve the vital interests of the communi-
ty in which l live, speak out my opin-
ions upon them, little thinking, aud as lit
tie caring, whether in man Judgment they
become my place and calling or rot. This
have done repeatedly; and have gener-
ally received for my pains unmerited re.
proof at first, and over-merited thanksgiv-
ing at last. So it may be in this instance
South Carolina will certainly secede from
the Union in few months. Upon this
| momentous step hang issues of unspeakabo
Importance and interminable consequences
This she knows full well; for her leading
men are not all fools and desperadoes, as
some would have the world believe they are,
a faithful portraiture of their character
would be rather too complimentary for their
taste, and quite too.sentimental for this sto
lid, calculating age, in which the talk of
"pledging Hves, and fortune and sacred
honor" in defence of right, is regarded as
ridiculous romance. There is something
in them, grant, that has made them the
most restless people under the. dealings of
the General Government towards the South,
ofany people in the Union; but never have
they manifested discomfort withou. suf-
cient cause. 1t may be the streak OF French
that is in them it may be the Revolution
AIRY spirit not yet extingushcd with them
andit my be peculiar endearment of their
State institutions When | enter the leg
islative halls, and notice the dignity, the
gravity, the order, the comfy in debate,
and the respectful obedience yielded to the
presiding officers, aud go thence to the
halls of Congress, and see the tumult which
prevails there, glory in my just adopted
State, and blush for the United States.
When | enter their courts of justice, and
observe the like dignity, gravity, order,
comfy and obedience there-see with what
independence and impartiality justice is
administered particularly the criminal jus
| tice Of the commonwealth, now almost lost
in the Southern States-I do not wonder
that they are tinged with little more than
ordinary State pride. When | consider
their open-handcd liberality in erecting
public buildings, building railroads, sup.
porting schools, colleges, asyums, and
other. valuable and benevolent institutions /;
and remember the onerous burden Of taxa
ton which they have to endure to accom-
plish these ends, and the uncomplaining
promptness with which they shoulder this
burden--say to myself, verify" citizens
OF South Carolina ye are a peculiar people
in this great Republic aud worthy OF some
thing better than blamer' But these are
not all-they are . religious people Look
into all her churches on the Sabbath day
They are all crowded new ones are going
up, old Cnes are being enlarged, and for
about one hundred and sixty days union
praier meetings have been held in the cap
ital OF the State, begun and prosecuted with
no eye to the existing perils of the country.
When consider all these things, | OK.
claim "Weil maycst thou, gallant, noble,
| generous, pious State, fire at every encroach-
ment upon thy rights; for when they are
gone, you will have lost more than any
other State ever lost without IA fault. From
my soul excuse thee icr thy growing ul-
patience at every new aggression upon thy
preregativcs-thine honor, and thy pccu-
liar institutions"
This is the State which has determined
to withdraw from the Union, let the con
sequences be what they may, rather than
submit to Black Republican rule She
VIII triumph. do not say that she will
not have to 80 through t,ibu alton. That
is one Of the passports to distinguished
place IN Heaven, and consequently no GER
tain sign OF error. Two shots have fired
at her already from the press Of neigh
boring State, and many more will come
from quarters where she had right to ex-
pect neutrality, il not sympathy and praise.
But no matter let her bear them unmtr-
muringly; and, without rotort move right
ahead, In solid column, as she does move.
and will move. in an atmosphere OF prayer,
asking 40 help, but receiving it thank fully,
and she will triumph glorously. feel
1t through all the fibres Of my nature that
she will triumph gloriously The ravages
OF seventy years have left me but little
physical strength but what remains is at
her service. The evening haze is gather
erine on my mind, but there is light enough
left to bea ken other States to her help, and
to this end now begin to use it, But, to
secure readers, must say but little at a
time. L therefore close, for the present,
with an earnest request that the Southern
press give my brief articles general circu-
lation, Tor the sake of an old man who has
done the South some service.
NO. IL.
When the Abolition cloud was not big
ger than a mans hand, predicted ils prog-
ress, its expansion and Its desolating burst
with as much accuracy as if | had been
inspired and suggested mode by which
1t might be dissipatcd, and its rayagcs pre-
vented. Old men in Georgia know this to
be true-indeed, it is of record among the
literary rubbish of that State mention
1T not in boas.ing, but in the hope that it
will add some li,tlc weight to all that is
prophetic in what follows.
Upon the action OF the cotton-growimg
States between now and the fourth OF March