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The Present Position of south CaroiiBa
!. md tho Southern lsstntes. ! rnn nI

The Present Position of south Carolina
,.s and the Southern stRtess yAo %
The Charleston Mercury of late date, has
the following; -..r .. .... 4,t
South Carolina stands alone in her attitude
in the Presidential election. Not press in
the State advocates the election OF either Mr.
Douglas or Mr. Bell to the Presidency,
Squatter sovereignty, "The Union and
Constitutional party r=sorcalled--have not a
single representative IN the press of the State.
The people Of South Carolina are united in
supporting but one ticket for the Pres
idency, and that is Messrs. BreckinridEe and
Lane. sf....fraf .....f,
What has procured this unanimity in South
CarolinH2 IL is because the press and the
public mcr of South Carolina have been more
true and faithful to the rights of the South
than they have been in other Southern
States. The truth has been boldly declared
the right has been more fearlessly MAIN
tanned in South Carolina--and, consequently,
her people have been better informed, aud
are better prepared for the great issues which
are involved in the Presidential election. n,
during the last ten or twenty years, abolition
and the Union had been lodged in Sonth
Carolina as it has been in other Southern
States we would have been now torn, as they
are, by the dstracting and conflicting pre-
tensions of half dozen candidates TO the
Presidency. rf-.t . ....ii ,cr rIt
The spirit of party centering at Washing,
ton in nationalism, has cursed the Southern
people with its binding and corrupting in
luences. Elections have not turned upon
the maintenance Of the Constitution and the
right II guarantees to the South-but upon
party-the Democratic or Whigor American
parties. The people generally support the
party they are used to support. Their pas
sions, aroused by opposition in elections, does
not aid them in analyzing the principles or
the policy of the party TO which they belong.
If their public men ignore principles and
policy, or lead them to suppose that they are
unchanged, or that their essential interests or
institutions are not endangered, they enter
eagerly into election contests merely for vic
tory. Gradually, but surely, the politics Of
the United States have been undergoing n
settled and irreversible change. Mere ques-
tionsof constitutional right or policy have
been sinking out of sight, under the black
cover of sectiOnalism. .ea .fr a.i.' 1T.
National parties have been stripped OF their
nationality-and the North and the South,
under the aggressive pretensions of the
| former, have been forced asunder into two
great rival, antagonist powers in the Union.
The people of the Southern States generally
| have not been advised OF this change in their
| public affairs by their public men. Their
| public men have their affections at Washing
| ion. The triumph of party is their triumph
and success. Hence -party-party--ha
been their cry; until at length the startling
fact is developed suddenly to the people of
| the South that oil national, parties Mt the
North are false to the South. The course of
| the National Convention of the Democratic
| party at Charleston proved this fact; and the
two sections of the Union now face each
other in the;Presidential election ON distinct
sectional issues, Yet @ large portion of the
people of the South have not realized the
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