The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-05-09


esatcd by the Constitution, for the purpose
OF impairing the security of property in
slav s, and reducing those States which
held slaves to a condition of interiority.
Finally great party was organized for
the purpose of obtaining the administ,a-
tion cf the government, with the ayowcd
object OF using its power fer the total ex-
clusion OF the slave States from all partici
patton in the benefits ofthc public DOMAIN,
acquired by all the States in common,
whether by conquest or purchase; of sur.
rounding them entirely by States in which
slavery should be prohibited; of thus rem
derlng the property in slaves so insecure
as to be comparatively worthless, and there
by annlhiating in effect property worth
thousands Of millions of dollars. This
party, thus organized, succeeded in the
month of November last, in the election of
It's candidate for the Presidency OF the
United States
In the meantime, under the mild and
genial climate OF the Southern States, and
the increasing care and attention for the
well beng and comfort OF the laburing class,
dictated alike by lntcrtstand humanity, the
African slaves had augmented in number
from about 800 900, at the date OF the
adoption OF the constitutional compact, to
upwards of 100000. In moral and So
cial condition they had been elevated from
brutal sava.es Into docle, intel igent and
civilized agricultural laborres and supplied
not only with bodily comforts, but with
careful religious Instruction
Under the supervision OF superior race.
their labor had been so directed us not
only TO allow Il gradual and marked amcl-
Grafton OF their own condition, but to con-
vert hundreds OF Thousands Of square miles
OF the wilderness into cultivated lands.
covered with 3 prosperous people; towns
and cit es had sprung into existence, and
had rapidly increased in wealth and popu-
lation under the social system of the South;
the white population OF the Southern slave
holding States had augmented from about
,23O,UO0 at the date of the Constitution
to more than $500, ,000 in 1860; and the
! productions Of the South in Cotton, Rice,
| Sugar and Tobacco. for the full develop
mcnt and continuance of which the labor
OF African slaves was, and is, indiSpensa.
! Bile, bad swol en- to an amount which formed
| nearly three iourths OF the exports of the
whole United States, and had become abso-
lutely necessary to the wants Of civilized
/ mtn.
With interests Of such overwhelming
magnitude impcri.lcd, the people Of the
Southern States were driven, by the con
I V O. n .i2.,h,rt. ahc IsIl;.oa Z! 5l -,
! T. MS y! action TO av, rt the danger with
w"'ch they Scrc openly menaccd With
is view, the legislatures o. the scvcra
States invited the people to select Dele
gates to Conventions to be held for the pur
pose Of determining for themselves wha
measures were best adapted to meet st
alarming . crisis in their history.
Here II may be proper to observe that
from period as early rs 1913 there had
existed IN aH CT the States Of the Unior
a party, almost unintcryuptedly in tn.
majority, based upon the creed that each
State wIS, IL the last resort, tie sole jgd.,
as well ut It's wrongs, as OF the mode anc
measure oi redress Indeed, it is obvious
that under the law of nations, this prin
ciplc is aud axiom as applied to the rcla
tions Of Independent: sovereign States sucl
- those which had united thcmselvc.
under the constitutional compact. Th,
Democratic party oi the United States re
pcated in ITS successful canvass in lS56. tn,
dcclaratl u made in numerous prcviou.
political contests, that it would faithful
~ abide by aud uphold the principle.
iuid down IN the Kentucky and Nirgini,
resolutions of 1893, and the report OF Mr.
Madison to the Virginia Legislature i,
1893; and that it adopts those principle,
as constituting one OF the main foundation
of It's political creed"
The principles thus emphatically an
nouuced, embrace that to which | hay,
already adverIel, the right OF each Stat,
10 Judge of and redress the wrongs q
which it Complains These principle.
were maintained by overwhelming majori
ties Of the people o! all the States of th,
Union at different elections, OK Mr. Jef
fcrson in 1903, Mr. Madison in 1909
aud Mr.. Pierce in 1852
In the exercise of i right SO ancicn
50 well established, and so necessary iol
seIr-preseryalion, the people of the Conicd
crate ~tates in their Conventions dctermin
cd that the wrongs winch they were men
aced required that they should revoke tn,
delegation OF po ers to the Federal Gov
er"ment which they had ratified in thcil
several Conventions. They consequently
passed Ordinances, rcsuming all their
rights as sovereign aud independent States
aud dissolved their connection with the
other States fthe Union
Having doe this, they proceeded tc
sior'n new compact amongst themselves
Thy new Articles OF Confederation, of the
which au approach To nnalnity far exceed
N that OF the convention which adopted
the new governmeut III all It's departments,
! the functions al the Executive, Legislative
aud Judic al Magistrates are performed IN
accordance with The vill OF the people a.
! displayed, not merely IT, Il cheerful ac.
/ qutcscencc, but ~ tnc enthusiastic support
oi the government thus established by
| themselves; ana but Tor the interference,
Of the Government OF the United State.