Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-29
Southern Affairs.

The South Carolina slaveocrats can
: not easily reconcile themselves to tbs new
Confed ate Constitution. They will I'M
doubtedIy adopt it, but under a sort Of
. protest, and with the mental reservation
to reyamp it as soon as possible. Two
of u er dearest sjects, free trade and free
Importation of African negroes, have
Ueeu sacrificed by it, ard e tame sabRis-
sion would be contrary to human nature,
especially the South Carolina variety
A writer in the Charleston Courier mr.
rs three objections to the new conslitu-
ton, viz: lst, its virtual adoption Of the
protective tariff sy,tem; %, as adoption
Of the federal basis Of representation ;
and Sd, its prohibition Of the African
slave trade. lie disliaes the FIRST be-
cause the products Of one section may be
lostered at the expense Of another. In
p, regard to the second, he considers It no
disadvantage to state to have a large
slave population She is not on that ac-
count the less able to act correctly upon
the form aud fortune of a Slave Repub-
lie, and there is no reason, therefore,
why state having the largest number of
slaves should have proPortion"iely the
smallest vote II Is to the third feature
however lnA' lie especially demurS' and
SO lar as me 'os'' o. 'n' mater IS con
''"''' "e nanny mas 'u0 Oe'' o. Tue
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HIS | think Is Justly Objectionable
first because It makes distinction be-
'"een negroes imported from Africa and
to- border slave states. bodt countries
are Jo's5gs 'o1! respect to as. If the
simple ,act hat importation be a crime,
. it is no more a crime, therefore, to in
port them from one than the ether. #
1t Is an INJURY to Them TO bring thcm
from The one It Is an injury, and greater
lnjurT to bring from tLe her.
The writer contends, further, that the
aa,.ye Africans are preferable TO the Nir-
ginia suck, and it would seem that he
has had ample faci,itie: to compare the
TWO varieties. Indeed, from bis remarks
in the fol- jng ex,.act, J; may be ques-
t:.~ed whether the Clroiiaians, il they
faithfully che, the per constitution, will
not have "a give up a elande;,;ne slave
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the siate-tbe best for endurance, labor
and ndeEY--haye been those rescued
from that Goddess and benishted coun-
try. 1t Is also Of importance to US, that
the border slave states should not have .
ON rs and 50 find a.,bean ana raod,, road
F,r those roasors 1,or.
fore, I think it Justly Objectionable that if
'N' ,nipO''a''o" Oh saves Is pron'oted'
any u'S'''c''on snou'u oe maze Os'"eeh
'De countries from "Hlch 'hey might
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