The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-04
Ex-Speaker Orr to Hon. Amos
Kendall,
ANDERSON, S. c., Aug. 16, 1860.


Nh Dear Sir: l have received your IA
vor of the 9th instant. Your age, expe-
rience and ability entitle your opinions
to great weight on every rehecting mind,
and I regret to learn from your letter
that you dissent from my recommendation
that the honor and safety of the South re-
quirc it's prompt secession from the Union,
in the event of the election of Black
Republican to the Presidency. You say
your "mind is equally clear that the
South has long had Il peaceful remedy
within her own reach, and has it still,
though impaired by the recent conduct Of
some of her sons" You would greatly
oblige me by full exposition Of your
opinions upon that point, as we'll as the
remedy to be resortcd to by us, should
the Government, in November, pass into
the hands of party whose declared pul-
pose is to destroy our property, amount
ing in value at the present time to not
less than three billions one hundred and
fifty millions Of dollars.
Can it be prudent, safe OF manly in Che
South to submit to the domination of Il
party whose declared purpose is to de-
stroy such an amount OF property and
subvert our whole social and industrial
policy?
In glancing at the evil and remedy, l
invite specially your attention.
1. To the persistent refusal of many of
the free States and to large bodies of men
in all of them to execute the Fugitive
Slave law.
?. To the untiring efforts of fanatics
who come to the slave States under the
guise of preachers, teachers, &c, in in
weighing away our slaves, and to the gen
eral sympathy with their nefrious pur-
poses evinced by the facilities furnished
them by the underground railroad in
spiriting away our slaves beyond the
reach Of their owners.
3. To the raid of John Brown and the
sympathy which his wcll-mcritcd execu-
ton evoked.
/. To the recent insurrcctionaly move
ments in Tcxas-projccted and carried
out by Abolition emissaries, where the
incendiary torch of the slave, lighted by
Abolition traitors, has reduced to ashes
one million of dollars worth of property,
and where the timely discovery of the
hellish scheme alone saved the lives of
thousands of men, women and children.
These are the natural and necessary re-
suits of the teachings of Black Republi-
canism and if we have such develop
ments under an uistration which
processes to guard our constitutional
rights, in the name Of Heaven, what may
we not expect when a great party takes
the Government and it's machinery under
its control, avowing openly its purpose to
be the extirpation of African slavery
wherever it exists?
Is it wise, if we do not mean to submit
to such consequences, to allow u Black
Republican President to be inauguratcd,
and put him in possession of the Army.
the Navy, the Treasury, the armories
and arscnals, the public propcrty-in fact,
the whole machinery Of the Government,
with its appcndants and appurtcnances
If the South should think upon this sub
ject as I do, no Black Republican Prcsi-
dent would ever execute any law within
her borders, unless at the point Of the
bayonet, and over the dead bodies Of her
slain sons.
In your letter you say that you have
not taken me 70 -he-af HAT class otf n1on
in the South who for years past have
been making and seeking pretexts for de-
stroying the Union. You have not mis-
Judged me nor my designs have Il
profound and abiding affection for the
Union of our fathers, and deeply dci,iorc
the existence oi' the causes which are rap
idly tending to its destruction. burinS
the whole of my Congressional career, |
sought to tranquilizc sectional strife.
When first entered the House. the Abo-
lition party, headed by Giddings and Viii
mot, numbered eight; ten years have
rolled away, and now that party is Il ma
jority of the whole House. Is it not
time that the South should begin to look
to her safety and independence?
trust that the impending storm may
be averted; that our rights and the Union
may be saved; that fraternal regard may
bo roc+o,nd nud tbot Our oonnt,1- NOV