The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1860-12-27
Secession.

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South Carolina has at length seeded;
II least SO far rs secession on parch-
'ncnt could do it Here is her mani
t.~to:
I'VE, the people of South Carolina.
III convention assembled, do declared
AMI ordaln that the ordinance drafted
.: rs Ill the convention Of the oca Of
Nay, IT'S, whereby the Constitution
OF the United States was ratified. and
allt',c acts and parts of acts of the gem
eral assembly a.' the State ratif>ine the
sn n t. ems 10 the Constitution. are
hereby repealed, ana The union now ex-
iStine between South Carolina and 9th
or states. under the, name ofthe United
States u America, is hereby dissolv-
ed"
The ordinance was passed unan-i
mously by 100 members at a quarter
past n O'Clock. OH the 2O.h inst.
In the present state Of affairs, under
the present administration, we are to.
faHy unable to predict what It will
amount to. At may be that the <}ld
Public Fu%nctionarv, will allow her 70
60 so far i'll setting up a government
der herself in arranging her revenue,
postal, commercial and other arrange
ments, that it viii not be policy for Mr..
Lincoln when he comes to take the
Chair, to interfere with her to the full
that the Constitution permits. #
her separation should prove permanent
have only her example to regret
She has always been a humored, Draw
ing and expensive child in the family
of the States. In Colonial times the
colonies were obliged to except
her staple, cotton, before she would Join
with them, in the non-intervention
measure. In the Revolution she was re-
from furnishing her quota Of sold
'ers, upon the excuse of keeping them
at home to prevent her slaves from run
Away and to awe them into sub
lection.
At the framing OF the Constitution
she demanded as a condition Of her en-
trance into the Union that the Slave
! rade remain open for twenty years
'dis was granted her. In 1892 she
~.~.
armed herself to nullify the tariff laws
aud nothing but the power Of Jackson
quelled her. To arpease and satisfy
her however, the tariff was modified
Now she demands the r~e-openine of the
African Slave Trade, that al, territory
shall be slave territory, and that not a
single faint whisper shall. escape from
the lips Of the North, against the brutal
trade, or the appropriation of our
free territories to her degrading, soul
destroying, and God defying practice.
For years past she has been an annual
expense to the National Government,
Is the reports Of the reyenue from her
POST Offices show, while at the same
she has had a very large share of
i public patronage.
Her policy is "Better reign in hell
han serve in heaven" Yes $1,000
vhite voters in the State Of South Car
lima are determined to mark out the
inc OF policy for one 4,5oo,e 900 in tho
est Of the Union. She complains that
Ter requests are disrespec,ed, and the
which favor her dear Institution are
not executed in the North, forgetting
at the anne time, that in nearly every
Instance when she has been called upon
to execute the violations Of the African
Slave trade law, she has failed to do it.
Such has been her course and yet She
has the impertinence and andacity
to criminate the North for a lax execu-
ton Of the Nation laws.
Omitting the examplc,-vhich can
hereafter be remedied by an article in
the Constitution,-we loose nothing in
her departure. tShe has always been a
member, and when she has
for 4 few years borne the expenses Of a
separate and necessarily expensive gov
ernnent, she will no doubt return like
the prodigM son, and be received min
us the fatted calf, and many of the 9th
er expressions of JOY.
The Northeastern Farmer is All ex-
~cc.lent agricultural .~Journal-thc best