New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-26

the State 10 secede from the Federal Uuion. For her
to do otherwise is TO retrsoe in the very sight Of the
foe tie stem she took few short weeks ago That abe
never would do nor could she do it without ignominy
and be rever would believe that the people Of this
State viii belle Themselves, or suly Its bright eseutch
con. From the mountain 10 the seaboaFd comes the
cheering cry of State Sovereignty and all her children
are n adv TO gather under 1t.
He MI ht :. y Il his district, that ont Of her
JSCO votes not single one would be iyen for sulni..
81 n. Three cher, for Orangeburgl She has been
true to the State and the honor Of the State In every
exigency Every foot of her soil was plowed M dur.
ing the Revolution by the foreign foe, and il was
will IN her limits that Carolina matrOn gave the fire
70 burn down her own house. and said Z" 1bouph 90
homeless ane houseless yet .iye You the arrow 10
burn II tha liberty may spring from The ashos and ruin
on 10y hSme. And Barnwell, the Congressional Dis
tCt OF bhnwell, bearing bright historic fame and
gallant people, will send'up one unbroken column;
and Beaufort with the mi ghy dead deposited in her;
WIZ the stirring voice of the noble and living Barn.
well To cheer her on and with Rhett, whose whole
NE has illustrated Southern satesmanship without
nav and Colcock, who threw off like IA Ere
brand the robes of Federal Office; old Beaufort
Nw ln come to you and with one bugle
blast of defiance, Ill stand with every man TO your
oack. And Collision with her noble territory of proud
cltizeus--Tememberng WIN. Lowndes, Of whom il was
wen said that when he rose to argue it reason
STOOD by and spoke for hm--Old COlleton, mindful
OF Nm. Lowudes, she too will swell the column and
eaVe not sir gle laggard son behind. And their own
proud city to save which from foreign foe aud from
eternal Oshonor, the arm of every son of the State
would be gladly extended their own city comes M
hke one man, TO redeem the honor of the State and to
achieve the independence of the South. And Old
Pee Dee, every single inch of whose soil is halowed
by the memories OF Marion, and which gave him 40
many dauntless sOidiers-Od Pee Dee, uphOlling the
menioiies Of the past, marches with double
quick step under the Palmetto banner and every son
will BE- round II when they are needed
SO, too with the whole up-countrv His old coll
leagne, Col Orr, with whom he sat for six years side
by eide IN Congress was ready to 90 as far as the
fmsheet in defense of Southern honor He stated The
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avoid resistance without dishoDor. And the men of
The mountains would Iced his voice. for they had
aktruer representative.
We come, then, a unit in the prosecution Of this
great cause We 20 before istory, and stand before
me tribunal OF public option with a violated Consti-
tuition IN one hand and our sacred liberties rescued
from pollution, In the other We have sacred cause
We are about TO break up this Union. The time for
CnioD-saVing is past the time compromises past
Nothing, aye nothing, except the withdrawal Of this
State from the Union which has become accursed
viii 90.
We go with strong test before the tribunal Of HIS
tory. Our fathers built up this country John Rut-
ledge OF South Carolina did more than any man to
achieve our liberties, cave George Washington; and
GA christopher GadsdeG-anOther South Csrolnian-
Initiated the gTeat movement. Marion and Sumter
kept the hires Of our liberty burning while in danger of
going out in darkness aud gloom.
Onr second war WAS carried through bv Carolina
statesmen. We have built up this Government from
corner stone 10 turet and now we to tear it
down from the foundation ~ turret. Why history
will sex IL II because 1t has been made by Black
Republican fsnaticsm hostile government in very
midst. Its powers about pass into the hands OF
9 sectional majority, which majority declares Slavery
shall die and they will put the sceper of power in the
hands Of man who has said that the Northern mind
has been ght lecauRe believed that Slavery yyas in
process of extinction Il is because the Government
Is about to pass into the hands of hostile TO the
great Interests OF the South that we are about 10 tear
down this Union. How shall we do il ?
HE by the sovereign act Of the sovereign
State Of South Carolina. He would tell them what he
said months ago that if South Carolina tslters, the
neck Of this southern movement broken. Be
OF the unanmity of her people. without party
differences she is everywhere looked upon the sen
tinel upon The watch-tOweT and if she sleeps no mat
ter how wildly RACES the tempest in the Others the
enemy will look for Jeace and quiet.
She was John the Baptist Of the revolution, and il il
her part to initiate lis mighty moyement. She did
much 10 build up tits temple Of hbertO. That tenn
pie is on FIRE The genius Of liberty is trying TO raise
her starry throne TO the skies Let South Carolina lay
abe cornerstone Of another glorious temple
Mr.. Keitt ssid he would not argue the question Of
State Sovereignty One Of our distinguished Senators
had done it with an ability 10 great that Its brightness
Wa not TO be Obsoured
1t was found in the Colonial history of the country
in the Declaration OF Iudepeudence IN the treaty with
Great Britain in The articles Of confederation IN the
Com tu0n and in eternal justice and the Sovereignty
of the South He did not to discuss the question
of rigl l. TIE Convention of 1850 said they had the
right their Legislature said they had the right they
then selves say they have the right be said they had
the right, and by heaven nothing but the strong hand
shall put it down
MI Kcitt then ii culed the idea of coercion on ID
mari of tie North He pictured, with power and
rec altogether Irresistible the appearance Of the WI
sons SUMNER BuThnpsmes at foreign courts, which
conyulsed the whole audience with laughter and bursts
Of applause. M. 4,
In CONCLUSION be said that the principle Of the Black
Republican party was, that fidelity 70 the Constitution
IA tressonabe 10 the higher law. He wOud tell them
in answer that loyalty the Union Is treason TO the
south They tell us they have the Government and
they intend to WELD all it, powers for our overthrow
and bev tell ua that resistance is treason. he would
I'll n neople of the South that submission If slavery
and. when be was called upon TO choose whether he
wond be traitor or a slave, God help hin, be would
be a traitor Let us unfur the nag, and WIN !he
sword Of State cut the bonds of this accursed Union