The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-01-10

wniist tney are mere suburbs of Northerr
cities. lhe agricultural productions of tn,
Houth>are the basis Of the foreign commerc,
$ OF the United States; yet Southern cite,
DO not carry it on. Our foreign trade i,
almost annihilated. In 174O there were
; hve ship yards in South Carolina, to build
ships to carry on our direct trade with Eu.
rope. Between l740 aud l779 there were
built IN these yardstwenty-tiv square ri.ced
: vessels, besides great number Of sioops
and schooners, to carry on our coast and
West India trade. In the half century i'm
medlately preceding the Revolution, from
ITO TO 1715, the population of South
Carolina increased sevcn-fod.
No man can for moment btlieves tha,
our ancestors intended to establish over
their posterity exactly the same sort of
government they had overthrown. The
great object of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, in its internal operation, was,
doubtless, to secure the great end of the
Revolution-a limited free government--a
government; limited TO those matters only
which We're general and common to all por
tions OF the United States. All sectional
or local interests were to be. left 20 the
States. by no other arrangement would
they ob;;oin t'ec government. ty constitu-
ton common 10 SO ,,,cSta Confcderacy. Yet,
by gradual and stean,y enc'oachmcnts on
the part of the people of the Noi'h. and
acquicsccncc on the pat Of the South, the
linn ,ations In the Constitution have been
swept away, and the Government of the
United States has become consolidated,
with claim oflimitlcss powers in It's opera
tious.
| 1t Is not at all surprising, whilst such is
the character Of the Government of the
United States, that it should assume to
possess power over all the institutions OF
the country. The agitatinns on the sub
| Jcct of slavery are the natural results of the
consolidation of the Government. Res
possibility foil VS. power, and if the people
OF the North have the power by Congrcs,
'to promote the general welfare of the
United States" by any means they deem
expedicnt-why should they not assail and
overthrow the institution of slavery in ;hc
south! They are responsible for It's con
tlnuance or existence, in proportion to their
power. y majority in Congress, accord
lng to their interested and perverted views,
is omnipotcnt The inducements to act
upon the subject of slavery, under such
circumstances, were so impcrious Us to
amount almost to Il moral necessity. To
make, however, their numerical power
available to rule the Union, the North
must consolidate their power. 1t would
not be united on any matter common to III.
Whole Unlon-in Other words, on any con
sttn'lonal subjcct-ior on such subjects
| dNi Ions are as likely to exist in the North
as III the South. Slavery was strictly see
tional interest. If this could bc made the
criterion Of the parties ut the North. the
North could he united in its power, and
thus carry Out It's measures oi sectional am
bition, cncroachmcnt and agsrandizcment.
10 build up their sectional rrcdominancc
III the Union, the Constitution must he first
abolished by constructions; tut that ben.
done, the constitution o'thc North, t. rul,
the South, by the tariff aud slavery issues.
WAS IN the obvious cOu s. of things
Tie Constitution uf the United States
was an experiment. The cxpcrim, n; con
sisted in uniting under one Government
different people, living in different eli.
mates, and having different pursuits of in
dnstry and Institutions. 1t matters not how
! carefully the limitations Of su n a Govern
/ mcnt he !ail down in the Constitutiun-it>
success mu.tat least depend upon the .-rol
| iHth ot the parties to he constitutional
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