New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-19
ue(u Orleans Daily Crescent.
Proposed Declaration of Independence Of
south Carolina.

South Carolina.
The following is said to be one Of the proposed
forms Of declaration of independence to besubmit-
ted to the South Carolina Convention which is to
meet on the 18th proxrno:
When, In the course Of fhuman events, It becomes
necessary for one people TO dissolve the poiilcai
bands which have connected them With another,
and to assume among the powers Of the earth the
separate and equal station TO which the laws Of
nature and of natures God entitle them, decent
respect to the opinions Of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which ifnpel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that al
though all men are created Nl0lt unequal, ntels-
tally, morally and physically, yet they are all
equally entitled, under every civilized government,
to the full protection Of Their ueS, persons and
| ptopefty; for which protection governments are
solely instituted among men, deriving their just
| powers solely from The consent Of the governed;
that whenever any form Of government becomes
destructive Of these ends, it is the right OF the
people TO alter, to abolish 1t, and to institute
| new government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers IN auch FORM
as to them shall seem most likely to eftece ther
! safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed VIII dIc-
tate that governments long established should not
| be changed for light and transient causes; and,
accordingly, all experience hath shown that man
kind are more disposed to suffer while ills are snt-
erable, than to right themselves by ab9itshing the
| forms to which they are accustomed. Bnt when o
long train of abuses and Stpdti07ls, pursuing IN
variably the same object, eginces design TO re-
duce them under absolute despotistn, it is their
,iglt, it is their duty. to throw off such govern
meDt, and to provide new guards for their fntufe
security. Such has been the patient sniterance oI
the Southern States of this Union, and such Is now
the necessity which constFains them to alter their
| present syatem of Federal Government. The his
tory of the present Northern States is history Of
repeated injuries, insults and usurpatons all hav
ing direct object in the establishment Of an abso-
| lutte tyranny over the Southern States. To prove
! this, let facts be submitted to q candid world:
| LIST. The Northern States Of this Union have for
many long years warred against our peculiar instl
tation of slavery, iEstigated by the dictates Of
relentless faBatcis which declares that institution
| to be moral sin, whilst we hold it to be Divine
institution, established by God himself in the fol
lowing decree enunciated to Moses on Mount Sinai
| - Both thy bondrnen and bondmaids which thou
shalt have shall be Of the heathen that are around
| about you; of them shall ye buy hondmen and
bondaids; moreover, of the children Of the stran-
gers that sojourn among you, Of them SHAH ys buy,
and they shall be your pessession; ye shall take
them a. an inheritance for your children after you,
to inherit themfor possession they shall be gonr
bondmen forever.3 and we further bold that this
Divnely established institution was always sane
toned by our Saviour and his Apostles.
| "a. A large number Of the Northern states have
yetltfed the Constitution Of the present Union BY
pasfiug laws to prevent the fuilneut ot that Con:
stitut6n, 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.
3D. The Northern States Of this Union have de
cared that the people of the Southern States shai
not eInigrate with their property into the Terri
tories, which rightfully belong TO them equally
with the North; and that the people Of the Souti
shall not have Their property protected by TIM
| Federal Government, when such protection is "a
above declaTed) the sole end and object Of all gov
| ernments.
4th. Those Northern States have, by relentles
and uIscrupulGus majority. constantly lmpose
heavy taxes, not simply without, but drecu
n1r consent
general Congress, by leyying excessive and onei
Gus duties upon goods imported in return for, an
, purchased by our cotton, rice and tobacco, j
. | order to protect and encourage their own MANI
factures and in order to expend vast sums at tn
North in improving and foftifying their own han
bors, towns and cities at the evident and diree
I expense of the products and labor OF the South
5th. Those Northern States have elected by a
| overwhelming sectional vote President and Vice
President, both from their own section of country
e in direct opposition to our wishes and protests
neither of whom have received one single yot
from our section, and whose express creed is thf
there is irrepressible conflict against slavery
which can never cease until slavery is eXtIl
guished.h
We have for long years, in vain, appealed I
their sense of justice and common right; we hay
copiured them by the ties of our common kindre
to disavow and abandon these usurpatons, whic
!, would inevitably interrupt and destroy our CO
le nections and our Union. But they have been de
to the voice of Justice, of honor, and of consa
guiDity We must therefore acquiesee in the nece
sity which denounees our separation and hold thei
y as we hold the rest Of mankind enemies in war
Is peace, friends.
y We, therefore, the representatives Of the peop
- of the State of South Carolina in convention a
# sembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of IL
world for tie rectude of our intentions, do, in Il
I name and by the authority of the good people
this State, solemny publish and declare that Z
~ State OF South Carolina is, and of right ought to
Cd free and independent State and that all polite
d connection between it and the Northern States
| and puOh In Itp :.
free aud independent State We have full pow
to levy war, conclude peaee, contract alliance
y establish commerce, and to do all other acts al
r things which an independent State may oil rig
81 do. And for the support Of this declaration, wi
4 firm reliance the protection of Divine Pro-
dence. we mutually pledge to each other our live
our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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