The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-01-16
THE ApDR Ess TO THE SOUTH.
The ADDRESS OF THE PEopLE OF South
CAROLINA, ASSEMBLED IN CosvEN
TIoS, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
SLAvKHoLDtse STATES OF
The UNITED STATES.
(coHcLUDKD FROM LAST wKEK,)

Under such government there must,
of course, be many and endless "irrepress
ible conflicts" between the two great sec
tions OF the Union. The same faithless
ness which has abolished the Constitution
Of The United States, will not fail 10 carry
out the sectional purposes for which it
has been abolished. There must be con
Hict; aud the weaker section Of tho Union
can only find peace and liberty in an in.
dependene of the North. The repeated
efforts made by South Carolina, in wiss
conservatism, 10 arrest tue progress Of the
General Government in lis fatal progress
to consolidation, have been unsupported,
and she has been denounced rs faitbless
to the obligations Of the Constitution, by
the very men aid States who were de
Mroying it BY their usurpations. 1t is
now too late, TO reform or restore the Gov
ernment Of the United States. All con-
idencs in the North is lost by The South.
The falhessness # the North for a half
century, has opened gulf Of separation
between the North and the South which
no promises nor engagements car fill.
II cannot be believed that our ances.
tors would have assented to any Union
whatever with the people Of the North,
il the feelings and opinions now existing
amongst them had existed when tie Con.
stnution WAS framed. There was then
no Tsriff-no fanaticism concerning ne
grus. Ii Was tue delegates from New
England who proposed, in the Conven
tion which framed the Constitution, 10
the delegates f'om South Carolina aud
Georgia, that il they would agree 10 give
Congress the power Of regulating com
nsrce by msjority, that they would
support the extension Of the African
Slave Trade Tor tweaty yesrs. African
slavery existed in sll the States but oue
The idea thai tho Southern States would
be made TO pay that tribute to their
Northern confedersles, which they had
refused 10 pay to Great Britsin ; or that
the institution o, African slavery would
is msds the grand basis OF q sectional
orr ganization Of the North to rule the
S"uih, never crossed tho imaginstions Of
our auce.tors. The U"ion of the Con-
.,ttulion was union Of slavehoding
Sta's,. II rests on slavery, by prescri
hug a Representation in Congress, for
three fiiihs of our slsves. There 10 moth
in in the proceedings OF the Convention
which framed TIE Constitution, TO show
that the Southern States would have
formed any other Union and still less
that the, would have formed Union
with more powerful non-slavsholding
States, having majority in both bran.
ches Of the Legislature Of the Govern.
ment They were guilty Of no such fol
ly. Tune and the progress Of things
have totally altered the relations between
the Northern and Southern States, since
the Union WAS established. That idsnti.
ty OF ieslngs, interests and institutions,
which once existed, is gone They are
now divided between sgricultural-and
manufacturing and commercial States--
between sIaveholding and non slsvehold.
ing States. Their institutions aud indus
trial pursuits have made them totally dif.
ferent peoples. That equality in the
Government between the TWO sections oil
the Uuion which once existed. no longer
exists. We but initiate the policy Of our
fathers in dissolving union With non.
slaveholding confederates, and seeking q
confederation With slavsholding States.
Experience has proved, that slavehoid
ing States cannot be SAFE, in subsection tc
non sisveholding States. Indeed, no pee.
pie can ever expect to preserve it, rights
and liberties, unless these be 10 its own
custody. To plundsr and opprsss, where
pluuder and oppression can b practicsd
with impunity, seems to be the natural
order Of th;ngs. The fairest portions ol
the world elsewhere, have been turned
into wildsFDesses; and ths most civilized
and prosperous communities, have been
impoverishsd aud ruined Ly anti slavery
fsEaticism. The people Of the North have
not left 10 IN doubt ~ TO their design,
and policy. United % . section in the
late Presidential election. they have elect.
Cd a. the exponent Of their policy, one
who has openly declared that oil the
States Of the United States mus. be made
free States or slave Statss Il 10 true
that smopgst those who aided in his slec
tiop, there are various shades Of anti ala
very hostility. But II African slavery ia
the Southern States, Be the evil their DO
li:ical combination afiirms u to BE-, the re
quisitions Of an insxovabls logic, mus. lead
them to smsncipatics. Hhis right, "a
preclude or abolish slavery In . Territory
why should IL b. allowed 70 remain Ia
the Statest The one 10 not 1t 81: more
unconstitutional than the other, according
to the decisions Of the Supreme Court Of
the United States. And when IL Ia con
sidsred, that The Northern Statsa will
soon have the power to make that Couri
what they pleass, and that The Constitu.
tion never has been any barrier whatever
20 their exercise Of powss--what check
can there Be-, in the unssstrainsd counseIs
OF the North, TO smaucipationi There d
sympathy 10 association, which carries
men aIoog without principle; but when
there y pvincipIs-- and thai principle i
fortified BY long sxisslpg psejudicss and
fsslings, association = omrIpoispt 10 par
q ipfIueuces. n anita Of sli dJsk}s,io.,s