Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-12-21
From the n. Y. independent.
South Carolina and Secession.

i South Carolina fell into state of chronic
idiocy on the sI5j ect of secession about thirt,
years ago, and has continued ever since in 1
condition OF hopeless imbecility Her case i,
| beyond any other treat ment than that of Q
strait jacket, and rigi diet OF bread ant
water. She is perfectly In earnest in her ra
| wings, and is determined to go into the cold
and starve, or to break things to pieces in u
drewiful manner ii she is prevented. When
her condition is thus rghtfully apprebended, it
will also oe seen that she is only dangerous SO
! long as she is kept inside, and not permitted
to have her own way. Let her go; large
black man, bigger than herself, stands ready to
receive her with a strAit7jack the moment
she crosses the threshold, aud free-trade and
direct taxation are a diet that will bring the
| blood away from her brain and reduce her sys-
| TEN to that condition that she may by-and-by
| in Gods good time, recover her reason IF
she is determined to rid the rest of the family
Of her presence, they will be delivered from a
very pestilent and noisy member, who. for
more than quarter Of century has done
nothing but break the peace of the whole
household.
Now if this be true statement OF her case,
and it certainly is, why should any threat of
the secession of such State disturb the COM
merce Of the whole country! South Carolina
| contains about many white people as the
city of Brooklyn, probably does not contain
so much wealth, certainly has not so much in
teiligence, and is not Of more consequence 10
| the Union-we mean no disrespect to Brook
lyn-than that city. Undoubtedly she has
some foreign commerce and some domestic
trade, but its percentage upon the whole trade
and commerce Of the country is SO small, that
its loss would hardly be felt, should she be cut
loose from her sister States, towed out into
the Gulf Stream, and anchored to a raft, TO
drift forever more from zone to zone. We
are exaggerating nothing, and setting down
naught in malice. The industry of State
containing only about 275,0O0 white people, |
supported by 275,OG0 black people, who are
fed upon three pounds of bad bacon and a
peck of corn week, and whose entire cloth
ing does not cost $40 a year each, cannot by
any possibility, even if we had statistics to
verify the fact. be of any great moment to a
great, fourishing, and energetic nation Of 40,
600 900 Of people. She may go, and the great
West will produce not bushel the less OF
corn and wheat, not pound the less OF pork
and beef, not a whisp the less of hay and
our great East and West railroads will have
not pound the less OF produce to bring to
market-she may CO. and not sR.-9le the
less will whirl in Lowell or Lawrelse-sh |
may go, and not a sail the less wilfsot the |
harbors of tbe North--she may go, and not
mouth the less will be filed in all the wide i
union beside, not dollar the less be paid to
all our millions who labor with their heads or
their hands. All this is capable of arithmeti- |
cal demonstration. In the Union she does
little, with her small population, more than |
half of whom are unwilling pauper laborers,
while the other section are dependent upon
these for the few necessaries and the not many
Injuries of life they are permitted to enjoy
Out of the Union she will do less, for all Of
the trade she now does that comes to her from
bordering States will find its way to Savan-
nah and Mobile, and the little cotton she rails
es she will be glad to send to market in the
ships that will take it quickest and cheapest.
So little reason have we to fear Of disaster
and loss to the commerce and trade of the
country from the secession Of South Carolina
1t is marvellous that the threat of such an
event, such a mere misappreheDsion of dan
GER" should so blind men to the dictates of