Nebraska advertiser., 1861-03-07
~ ma.s osa when ~ Gs;lford. Greene

was Joined by two thousand militia men.
What did he gain by them but disappolnt.
menl and disgrace2 For, though posted
behind the cornield fences, they could
not stand d single FIRE from the British
but broke andf fed like base born slaves,
leaving their loaded muskets sticking in
the fence ~eornersip
Bot from this shameful sight, turn
again 10 Bunker's Hill. There, behind
a moor ditch, YOU behold fifteen hundred
militia men waiting the approach Of three
thousand British regulars. Will they,
ike their Southern friends, Jump up and
run? Oh no! they grasp their frelocks,
and drawing their sights along the tubes,
they long for the approach Of the British
thousands. Three timest the British thous-
ands came up; and three times the daunt-
less veomen received them IN storms of
thunder and lightning that shiTered their
ranks, and heaped lhe field with their
~carcasses. = Is rqk
Such was the language Of Francis Mar
ion a native Carolinian, and one of lie
heroes who gained orr freedom from the
British. Were he alive i carolina now,
and speak the language which I have
quoted s%,Ooye, his brother Car %olinians, in
spite Of his distinguished services S, would
be very apt to hang him up to the first
tree, as an incendiary abolitionist.
In a speech in the Senate Tom Corwin
said, at is a truth, that when The Con-
stitution Of the United States was made,
South Carolina and Georgia refused to
come into the Union unless the slave trade
should be continued for twenty years. So
the history reads:
81 do not blame South Carolina and
Georgia for this transaction, any more
than | do those Northern States who shar-
ed in It.
They had the power to prohibit it; but
at the command of these two States, they
allowed that TO be introduced into the
constitution, to which much Of slavery now
existing in our land is clearly to be traced.
For who can doubt but for that woeful
bargain, slavery would by this time have
disappeared from all the States then in
the Union, with one or two exceptions.
"And just as you extend the area of
slavery so you multiply the difficulties
which lie in the way Of its determination.
sit had been Infinitely better that day
that South Carolina and Georgia had re-
manned ont of the Union for awhile, rath-
er than that the Constitution should have
been made to sanction the slave trade for
twenty years"
To which your correspondent adds,
That's my mind, exactly, for the Caro-
~linians and Georgians have now seeded
from the Union, and one principal reason
IS, that they may reopen the slave trade"
Thirty years ago South Carolina tried
to dissolve the Union using as a pretext,
thatshe was oppressed by the tariff. Yet
the first thing almost that the kingdom Of
Cottondom did after achieving their Inde-
pendence Con paper, was to pass a tariff
bill.
Again in 1874, when she saw that the
Nnrfhern-peoDle were opposed TO the an
%nexation Of Texas. she used that as a pre-
text for secession; and one Of the stand
ing toasts of her shivalrous sons at public
dinners was, "Texas and the Union," or
Texas without the Union"
Again in 1850, Carolina and others
wanted to ''ay of the handle," because
California asked to be- admitted into the
Union with a Constitution prohibiting sla-
very, and ever since she has been threat
ening to leave and IS now "clean gone'
because the abolitionists steal ringers
from the border slave States.
1 am afraid hat Carolina is infested
with the descendants Of some of the tories
of the revelation.
Underwood, of Virginia says, (and I
believe it is true, "Men will always work
better for the cash, than for the ASH
The free laborer will produce as much,
and waste a little as he can. The slave
on the contrary, viii produce as little and
consume as much as possible"
<We have an instructive example OF
the one class, in the activity, enterprise,
prosperity and intelligence Of New Eng
land, and of the other, in the pitiabIe
condition of poor South Carolina, a State
which, by negleeting the ;~eachhi;@gs of her
Marion, aS22d following her Buffers, her
Brooks, her Keitts, and her Quattlebuus,
in the race Of aristocracy and Africaniza-
ton, is rapidly sinking into agricultural
sterility, bloated egotism and brutal bar
barism." Thus we see that South Caro-
lima was disloyal at the time that tried
mems souls" came grudgiBgly into the
Union whenit was formed, and has been
trying for at least 30 years to dissolve it,
has committed acts of hostility to our gov
eminent, that we would not tolerate in
the !nosi powerful nation on earth; and
we are told that we must not use force 10
make her behave. The great border
States say 10 her, Carrie, YOU have
done wrong, but they sha'nt punish you
for IT," They then turn round TO the Gov
eminent and say, "You sha'nt march
troops across u soil to punish Cotton
dom; if you undertake it we will welcome
you with bloody hands to hospi,able