The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-08-28

Orr thinks South Carolina should not act
without Georgia, Alabama and Mississip-
pi The Colonel knows very well that he
.issperfectly safe in waiting for Georgia
|: he would not be more sosin whiting for
Maryland or Kentucky.
This agitation of disunion is calculated,
too, to damage seriously the prospects Of
Breckenridge and lane in the Southern
States, as we'll as in the Northern States.
Bells PARTY and Douglas friends North
and South will make capital out Of it, to
the injury Of Breckenridge.
gofor Becllinridge in this contest, with
all my heart, and will say, under existing
circumstances, that it shows q want of Wis
dom OF, fealty to the South for any South
ern man to oppose him. Nothing can be
more injudicious than the starting of a
Douglas ticket in any Southern State
Its only tendency will beito give the vote
of the State to Bell, and paralyze the
strength of the South. Nor do I think
any Breckenridge ticket should be started
in non-slaveholding State. Its effect
WILDE to give the vote of the State to the
Black Republicans. 1t would be much
better to have Douglas in the Presidency
than Lincoln. But it is almost certain
that if two Democratic tickets are run in
the Northern States that Judge Douglas
will.not carry single State.
1t was great misfortune and great
wrong that Judge Douglas friends should
have urged his claims SO strongly as they
did in the Charleston Convention. The
South was entitled to the President. The
election depended on the South. She had
the Democratic strength in great de-
gree. The South was prejudiced against
Douglas, and no doubt many Of the sece-
dors had rather see Lincoln elected.
The Charleston Convention ought to
have been composed of National Demo
Gratis, and then there would have been no
division in our ranks. Mr.. Yancey and
his friends had no moro right to q seat i'll
the Convention than Mr.. r. B. Rhctt and
his friends had. They stood on the same
platform. and thought and so said to my
Convention friends, that they evinced un-
necessary squeamishncss after following
Mr.. Yancey out Of the Convention, to re-
fuse the proffercd lead ef VI NJ 8hctt after
they got oy..szs
aasdRdneohmon ability, Mr.. Boyce, in
1851, exposed the folly of separate State
action and secession. Why he has now
changed am at a loss to know Itwould
be well for him to take up some Of his old
arguments and answer them. lie might
find it hard to do. But still, until they
are answered, they must have their inhu-
cnce on the public mind.
Col Orr declared in the Charleston Con-
vention and sealed it with an oath, $50
help me God, whilst the Federal Govern
ment is administered on Constitutional
principles, neither my hand or my voice
shall ever be raised against this Union.
Now the election of Abe Lincoln will vio-
late no Constitutional principle, or provis-
ion of the Constitution. When such vio-
lation occurs under Lincoln's administra-
tion, the whole South may be united, and
policy and patriotism dictate that we
should wait till the violation occurs.
1t may be that Lam mistaken in suppo-
sing. slavery to be out Of the reach Of the
assaults of it's foes, aid if so I will be as
ready as any one to defend it at the sac
ri.ice of the Union itself, as much as /
value the Union. But l am not willing
tc act prematurely when there is no dan
ger AS to dissolving the Union on a
mere abstraction. the right toscarry slaves
wherever Shareholders desire to carry
them, and where they would be worthless
if carried, Lam opposed toit now and for
ever; and shall cndcavor to defend the
rights of the South in the Union, where l
think they have been heretofore properly
defended, and may still be defended if the
South is true to herself and united in that
defence.
That all who were disunionists should
have reioiced at the breaking up of the
Democratic Convention in Charleston is
very natural They saw in that move
lnent the destruction of the National De
lnocracy. and their defeat in the coming
Presidential election They saw in the
future the election of a Black Republican,
and knew what Il powerful lever it would