, 1861-01-04

HO-The following are the points in the
proposed Declaration of independence
by South Carolina:
/. The Northern States of this Union
have for many long years warred against
our peculiar Institution Of slavery, instiga
ted by the dictates of relentless fanpti
cism, which declares that institution to be
moral sin, whilst we hold it to be a Di-
vine institution, established by God himself
in the following decree enunciated 10 Moses
on Mount Sinai: Both thy bondlnen and
bondmaids which thou shall have, shall be
of the heather that are around about you
Of them shall ye buy bondmen and bond
maids; moreover, of the children Of the
strangers that sojourn among yon, Of them
shall ye buy, and they shall be your posses
sion; ye shall take them as an Inheritance
for your children after you, to inherit them
for possession; they shall be your bond.
men forevcr.Y And we further hold that
this divinely established institution was al
ways sanctioned by our Saviour and bis
Apostles.
2. A large number Of the Northern
States have nullGed the Constitution OF
the present Union, by passing laws to pre-
vent the fulillment Of that Constitution,
which declares that fugitive slaves shall be
delivered up to their owners-the principle
Of which Fugitive Slave Law has the ex-
press and sacred sanction Of st. Paul the
Apostle.
3. The Northern States Of this Union
have declared that the people Of the South,
ern States shall not emigrate with theiI
property into the Territories which right
fully belong to them equally with the
North; and that the people Of the South
shall not have their property protected'by
the Federal Government, when such pro-
lection is (as above deelared) the sole end
and object of all Governments.
4. The Northern States have, by q re-
lentless and inscriptions majority, con-
stantly imposed heavy taxes, not simply
without, but directly against our represen-
tation and our consent in the general Con
gress, by levyng onerous and excessive
duties upon goods imported in return for
and purchased by our cotton, rice and to-
bacco, in order to protect and encourage
their own manufactures, and in order to
expend vast sums at the North, in improV-
ing and terrifying their own harbors, towns
and cities, ut the evident and direct ex-
pense Of the products and labor Of the
South
5. Those Northern States have elected
by an overwhelming sectional vote a Presi-
dent and Vice President, both from their
own section Of country, in direct opposition
10 our wishes and our protests, neither Of
whom have received one single vote from
our section, and whose express creed is,
that there is an irrepressible conflict
against slavery, which can never cease until
slavery is extingushed"
We have for long years in vain appealed
to their sense Of justice and common right;
we have conjured them by the ties OF oui
common kindred to disavow and abandon
these usurpaiions, which would inevitably
interrupt and destroy our connections aud
our Union. But they have been deaf tc
the voice Of justice, Of honor aud Of con
sanguiuity. We must, therefore, acquiesce
in the necessity which denounSes our sepa-
ration, and hold them as we hold the rest
Of mankind-enemies in war; in peace
! friends.