The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-01-17

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and the consequence follows that South
Carolina is released from its obligation.
The ends for which this Constitution
was framed are declared by itself to be ''to
form more perfect Union, establish JUS
tice. insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defence, promote the gen.
eral welfare, and secure the blessings Of
liberty to ourselves and our postcrity."
These ends is cndcavorcd to accomplish
by Federal Government, in which each
State was recognized as an equal, and had
sepcratc control over its own institutions.
The right of property in slaves was rec
ognized b. giving to free persons distinct
political rights, by giving them the right
to represent, and burthening them with
direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves;
by authorizing the importation of slaves
for twenty years; and by stipulating
for the rendition of fugitives from Ia
bor
We affirm that these ends for which this
Government was instituted have been
defeated. and the Government itself has
been made destructive Of them by the ac-
ton Of the non-slaveholding States Those
States have assumed the right Of deciding
upon the propricty Of our domestic insti-
tutions; and have denied the rights of
property established in fifteen of the
States and recognized by the Constitution;
they have denounced rs sinful the institu-
ton Of slavery; they have permitted the
open establishment among them of 'socic-
ties, whose avowed object is to disturb the
peace and to cloign the property of the
citizens Of other States. They have en-
couraged and assisted thousands Of our
slaves to leave their homes and those
who remain. have been melted by cmissa-
rics, books, and pictures to servile insur-
rcction.
For twenty-five years this agitation has
been steadily increasing, until it has now
secured to its aid the power of the COM
mon Government. Observing the forms
of the Constitution, a sectional party has
found within that article establishing the
Executive Department, the means OF sub
vcrting the Constitution itself. A geo.
graphical line has been drawn across the
Union. and all the States North Of that
line have united in the election of IL
man to the high office of President of
the United States, whose opinions and
purposes are hostile to slavery. lie is
to be entrusted with the administration
Of the common Government. because he
has declared that that Government, can
not endure permanently, half slave, half
free" and that the public mind must rest
in the belief that slavery is in the course
Of ultimate extinction.
This sectional combination for the sub
version Of the Constitution, has been aid
ed in some of the States. by clcvating to
citizenship. persons who. by the supreme
law of the land, are incapable OF becoming
citizens and their votes have been used
to inaugurate . new policy, hostile to the
South. and destructive Of its peace and
safety.
On the 18th March next, this party will
take possession of the Government. 1t
has announced that the South shall be cX-
Guided from the common Territory that
the judicial tribunals shall be made sec
tional, and that war must be waged
against slavery until it shall cease through
out the United States
The guarantees of the Constitution will
then no longer exist; the equal rights OF
the States will be lost The slavcholding
States will no longer have tho power OF
sclf-govcmmcnt, or sclfprotection, and
the Federal Government will have become
their enemy.
Sectional interest and animosity will
deepen the irritation, and all hope of rem
cdy is rendered vain, by the fact that
public opinion at the North has invested
great political error with the sane
tons of a moro erroneous religious be-
lief
We, therefore, the people of South Car
olina by our delegates, in Convention as
scmbled, appealing to the Supreme Judge
.of the world for the rcctitudc of our in
tcntons, have solcmnly declared that the
Union heretofore existing between this
State and the other States Of North Amer
ica. is dissolved. and that the State OF