Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-20

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you, 70 inherit 9hsm for . possession
they shall u your bdsdsmsa forever"
And We farther hold that this divinely
established institution Vas always sane.
toned by our Saviour aud his apostles.
2. A large number of the Northern
States have nulliied the constitution of
the present Union, by passing laws TO
prevent the ful6llment Of that constitu-
ton, which declares that fugitive slaves
shall be delivered up to their owners
the principle Of which Fugitive Slave
law has the express and sacred sanction
Of St. Paul the Apostle.
8. The Northern States Of this Union
have declared that the people Of the
Southern States shall not eDigrate with
their property into the Territories which
rghtfulIy belong to them equally with
the North, and that the people of the
South shall not have their property pro-
tected by the federal government when
such projection is (as . owe declsred)
the sole end and object Of oil govern
ments.
4. Those Northern States have, by =
rele' tess ami interruptions majority,
constantly imposed heavy taxes, not
simply without, but directly against our
representation and our consent in the
general Congress, BY levying onerous
and excessive duties upon goods i'm
ported 10 return for and purchased by
our cotton, rice and tobacco, in order
to protect and encourage their own
manufactures, and in order to expend
vast sums at the North in improving and
certifying their own harbors, towns and
cities, at the evident and direct expense
Of the products and labor Of the
South.
s. Those Northern States have elected
by an overwhelming sectional vote .
President aud Vice President, both
from their own section of country, in
direct opposition to our wishes and our
protests, neither of whom have received
one single vo.e from our section, and
whose express creed is that ''there is an
'rrepressible conflict against slavery,
which can never cease until slavery is
extinguished."
We have for long years, in vain, sp-
pealed to their sense of justice and CON-
mon right; we have coJured them BY
the ties Of our common Kindred to disa-
vow and abandon these usurpatioos,
which would inevitably interrupt and
destroy our connections and our Union.
But they have been deaf to the voice
of justice, of honor and of consanguin-
ity. We must, therefore, scquiesce in
the necessity which denounoes our
separation, and hold them q we hold
the rest of mankind-enemies in war,
in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives Of
the people of the State OF South Carroll
IA in convention assembled, appealing
to the Supreme Judge of the world for
the reclitude of our intentions, do in
the same and by The authority of the
good people of this State, solemnIy
publish and declare that tie State Of
South Carolina is, and of right ought
to be, q free and Independent State,
and that all political connection be
tween it and the Northern States is,
and ought to be totally dissolved, and
that as a free and independent State We
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish com
merce, and to do al other acts and
things which an independent State may
Of right do. And for the support 0,
this declaration, with . firm reliance
on the protection Of Divine Providence
We mutually pledge to each other our
lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor.