Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-02-05

The NATIONALITY" OF SourH CARoMsA-
GAsoosADE RlDIcULED.-The London Morning
Star, after describing the South Carolina Com
vention, which passed the ordinance of secession
declaring "lhe epurate andfndcpendent nation
ality of South Carolina" remarks;
" A nationality Was there ever, since the
world began, nation constituted of such mater-
ias-a commonwealth founded on such bases
The greatest empire of antiquity is said to have
grown up from group Of huts, built in con-
veBient location by fugitive slaves and robber-
huntsmen. But history nowhere chronicles the
establishment of community of shareholders
solely upon the alleged right of maintaining and
enlaFging their property in man. Pag0nism at
least protected the Old World from so monatrous
scandal upon free commonwealth, by shutting
out the idea Of common humanity and Of in
diyidual rights deriyabe from inalienablo duties
DUTY and right, says French philosopher,
are twin brothers their common mother is
liberty; they arc born at the same time, are de-
veloped and must perish together But the
liberty of the ancient world brought forth no
such divine sons and, therefore, neither anarchy
nor tyranny could rob her Of the progeny
These Herods of the great Christian republic,
the latest and largest development of western
civilization, deny to men more numerous thnn
themselves investment with any duty but that of
blind obedience to themselves-and the possess
sion of any right above that of the unconscious
brute But even this is not the extent OF their
violence to all those ideas of truth and Justice
which eighteen centuries have been employed TO
establish. No one proposes to take from them
their slaves, to strip them of their properly in
flesh and blood. The reasons by themselves
assigned show that they are as int0lerant OF the
rights of white men as Of the rights of black
men. They arc not content to be left in undis-
turbed possession of the human beings they have
brought or bred. They demand that the law and
government of contederacy embracing States
twice as populoHs as their own, shall consecrate
slavery forever; that in none of these States
shall there be any hiding plaza for the fugitive ;
nay, no platform on which the abstract rights of
the slave may be asserted. 1t is not GU account
of abolition that they separate from the Union,
but Of abolitionism. In the vulgar but expressive
| phraseolOgy invented by themselves, they not
only claim the right to walop their own nggers,
but that all their neighbors shall for them turn
save-caiohers and scourgers. They would make
the vast territory of the Union one great slave
field, and put in the hand Of every freeman O
fetter and u whip for himself as well MS for lhy
negro Such Nudacity Of folly and wickednes.
revolts the common sense Of mankind. For tn,
sake of interests dear to all humanity, We pra,
the northern States to let these mailman go rattle
than restrain or chastse them with the sword
But the hurlesquers Of the grand drama 0
American independence excite only scorn, an
their blasphemous appeals to Divine and bumal
sympathy can bring down only the rebuke O
universal hatred and contempt"