The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-08-28
Disuni0n.


reflective moments, it presents to our minds a
more gloomy picture than when viewed in the heat
of discussion. But by frequent recurrence Of
the most terrible threatenings, they may cease to
be regarded. We suspect that such is the feeling
of our people. They have heard the sound of
disunion, until they regard it as empty menace, or
as something in the distant future. 1t is time the
South should cease to regard it in this light She
should be made to feel that such state of things
will soon be upon us, unless she can consent to
sacrifice her interest and her honor. If she Will
stand upon these, dissolution of the Union is in
evitable The doctrine that the North, when she
sees that we are in earnest, will retrace her steps,
is false and hollow The North has the control of
this government which leaves the South without
any means of protecting herself against encroach-
mcnt and oppression. At the formation of the
Constitution there was balance of power between
the two sections, but by the influx Of q foreign
population into our country, which settled princ-
pally in the non-slaveholding States, her popula-
ton is much larger than that of the South. BY a
series Of dsurpations she has been robbed Of her
just proportion of the territory acquired by the
United States. The ordinance of 1887, by which
Virginia ceded the Northwestern territory, had
the effect to exclude slavery from all that country
which lies between the Ohio and Mississippi river,
now embracing six States. The next measure was
the Missouri Compromise, which excluded the
South from that portion Of Louisiana which lies
North of 3Go 3C/ excepting what is included in the
State of Missouri. By the same species Of legis-
ation, Oregon and California were lost to us.
By each of these accessions, the power Of the
North has been increased until now she has the
power TO control this government With majori-
ty in both houses of Congress, without regard to
the Constitution, by a species of unjust and op-
pressvc legislation they are tightening the chains
upon us Connected with this increase of popula-
ton and States, the system of revenue and dis
burscmcnts Of the Federal Government has opera
ted rs greyous wrong upon the South. In 1852
South Carolina, with a lofty spirit Of patriotism
and regard for State Rights, nullied the Tariff Of
that year. By manifestation of manly resis-
tancc, she succeeded in getting modification of
that odious system of taxation. In 1852, the
question of Secession was upon us. On the 9Oth
of April of that year, South Carolina, in Conven-
tion, passed an ordinance declaring the right of n
State peaceably to Withdraw from the Union. The
question of separate State action was then before
the people. South Carolina then awaited co-ope-
ration, and the consequence was want of action
on the part of the South, until now the abolition
party is strong enough to elect President, and
,+oJ 10, ybo,l
will submit to Black Republican rule, whose avow
ed purpose sthe abolition of slavery in the States.
Will the South, will South Carolina submit? ?
Her interest and her honor forbid it. If she sub
nit, let her prepare to wear the chains of slavery,
and to listen to the last expiring notes of the fune-
raj requiem of the institution of African slavery.
In the event of the elevation of Lincoln to the
Presidency, the slayeholding States, possessing
like interest upon the subject, should meet in
council and devise means to restore her lost rights
in the Union, or to dissolve the Union and cstab-
lish Southern Confederacy. The North has
prcdominance in every department Of the govern
ment, and she will never yield it without a strug
gle. The South must act, or the only alternative
left for South Carolina is separate State action.
She says the South must not submit to be ruled by
n Black Republican President. Then ought She as
a part of the South to submit We answer no.
1t is nobcr to make struggle for our rights,
though we lose theu0ellan to have them taken
from us without an effort to preserve them. BY
separate State action we cannot make our condi-
tion worse; it may be the prelude to the inaugu-
ration of a more glorious future. She could not
in such an event be forced into submission. Hear
Gov Lcchcr: "Whilc live, no Federal troops
shall march across Virginia against Southern
State in arms for the defence of its sovereign
rights, and its equality in the Union" We be-
evc this would be the feeling of every slavchoid-
ing State in the event of the separate action of
any one of them. If our rights are ever TO be re-
gardcd in the Union, if an equilibrium is ever re-
stored between the North and the South, it mast
be done by the cooperation Of the South, or a rup-
ture brought about by conflict between the Cen
cral and State Government or Governments.