Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-07-24
THE CROP LOAN.
Synopsis Of the Speech Of Hon. R. ". Barn.
well, Delivered at GilliSOnyille, s. c.
July lst, 1861.

At o meeting of the citizens OF beantor
District, held at Gillisonville, on Monday, th
lst OF July, on motion of Capt. R. J. Davans
!. Mr.. Edmund Martin was called to the Chair
and after briefly explaining that the meetin!
was called for the purpose Of hearing the Hon
R. w. Barnwell on the condition Of the coun
try, he introduced to the audience, amids
tremendous applause, the Hon. r. W. Barn
we'll, who arose and said:
Fellur.ctti-ens: 1t is not my purpose tc
make you q speech, but have called you
together to speak with you on matters ofrresl
Importance both to you and to the country
He said that were they individually to meet
him, after having returned from Congress
the first question they would probably put to
him would be, "Watchman, whatoflhe niglt?'
What is the condition Of public affairs? How
stands it with US and our enemies What
are we to expect and, in answer to these III
quiries, he would say the aspect of public
affairs WAS not IS might be expected. Thst
at the iirs. sound Of tho buglc our men Lad
rushed forward to the protection and prescr-
vation of their homes; that they felt as if
they were struggling for the rigkt-for all
and that all the wisdom, enrrsy, force and
wealth Of the enemy cannot conquer us.
That now South Carolina feels that she is
surrounded by sister States whose inter- sis
were identical with her own. That she WAS
bound to them by the common tie Of tle,tiny !;
that before she felt that she was not rrpresrn.
ted that in foreign courts she was not nm
dcrSlooi and recognized rs she should IL,
anil that she looked upon her so-callei and
would be masters with infinite disgust, and
that she deliberately determined no logger to
have masters hat for our liberties we were
willing 10 fight in the field and contribute at
home.
He said that in the former tariff protection
was given to some things, and manufactures
which were in opposition to our views, and
to our interests, and that in the presen; tariff
there was u gradual deduction Of all thr lu-
ties. That solne things were nsw u little too
high, but that it wa> impossible to regulate
everything as We wished it at once, and that
To every gencral r. euation there were always
some exceptions; that this was purely mat.
Ter of taxation. That this Guvernment bad
commenccrl its career by DECLARING Ia the ma
was in form Of iree-lradc. That We publish d
our words and acts plain to he whole world
We declared that We ware willing to i've Ia
peace and amity with the balance ofthc world.
THIS was declared by the tariff till. I"at
the North took advantage of this 10y shipping
our cotton over the railroad to New York,
from thence to Eur pc. thus making New
York the great commercial emporium.
10 prevent this, We l,,gisla;cd HAT cotton
sla,:d not pass cut Of uur country, except
through our ports, and thus We Designed that
foreign nations should not get possession oi
our cotton without they remuved the block
aie Tor us. To make this more etfectual,
penal law was passed, usder which no cotton
be exported from our country but through
our own ports. Nor did " mistake the ns-
ture of our people when we passed This law.
We knew tba, they would endure anything,
and put up with anything gladly, for the good
os their country, and the good effects that
this produced We have already witnessed.
Northern manufacturers hare already been
compelled to send to England and France for
our cotton to carry on their work, and Eng
land and France are compelled to have our
cotton, or millions Of their people will be
thrown on. of employment 10 meet nothing
but stsrvation-and this they cannot aud will
not stand. They sill compel the North to let
them have cotton .ro.I w.. This becomes to
them matter oi positive necessity which they
canrot at all Obviai".
i AIanv were of the opinion, he said,
that VIC could not have 'ssr, and for various
reasons. We tri! That we We're rig ght, and SO
strongly was THIS principle mixed in us; SO
CERTAIN wers We q! oar right TO secede. and so
Gypr, wss our determination, that we coGln
mn, bnlierr that the North would bring war
upon us-ior crntending for simply vhat cur
EoreEathers fought-fren unbrId!cd liberty
but he thought otherwise. The North had
long since abandoned every constitutional
principle. They had abandoned themselves
long since to the lusts, love OF power, money
and ambition, and were therefore prepared Tor
the coming issue. He. however, did not be
I;eye that they would become inflanled 10y the
fan,ticisn that has now seized hold upon
them. That he did not believe temper simi.
lar to that Of the Crusades when Peter the
U.rrit cried, "it is the voice Of tiod," and
thereby gathered around him large !evies oi
,,pn. void have caused Our late go called
brethren to do what they are now doing But
;h,t their ianaticism had turned into fury
and properly to meet and relel them, ~as
now the object of our government.
He said the army was first organized with
the presumption that the war could Tot las
over twelve months; and tia, therefore these
measures were fully sutticient-they thought
that tic enemy could not march over TIT
Border States TO reach us, and that kne%l
edge of this would deter them from attempt
;ru q nrutracicd war, hut that this slate 0
things ind altered entirely. The North hat
levied troops and collected taxes for their sup
. mort, and that their expressed determination
was to exterminate the whole of the Southern
people. That frenzy had seized upon th
public mind of the North that boTdered on II
madness, and that eFectually to resist thi
!. outbreak upon our liberties, required yer.
t different measure from that VIC first adopted