Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-11-30

i on know my dear son. abhor Slave
~. | WIS born in country where il Ite,
been established by British kings and Dor
llaments, az well Os by the lows OF that coun
try ages before my existence. l founC
the christian religion and slavery growing
nhder the same authority and cultivation
! nevertte|ess dislked it. In former duys
there was uo combating the preindices OF
men supported by interest the day I bone
i approaching when, from principles of rrat.
itude as well as justice, every man will strive
TO be foremost in showing his readiness n
comply with the golden tule Not lesstbou
twentythousaud pounds sterling would ali
my negroes produce If sold at public auo
tion tomorrow. | am not the man whC
enslaved them they are indebted to En
gIishmtn for that favor nevertheless, an
devisng means for manumiiting many o
OF them, and for cutting of the entail of slu We
ry. Great powers oppose me-the laws ant
customs Of my country, my own and the ava
rice OF my countrymcn, What will my
ce'lcren say if l deprive them OF so much
estate 7 These are difficulties, but not in
superahle. will do as much as can In
my time and leave the rest 10 a better
hand.
l am not one Of those who arrogate The
peculiar care Of Providence in each furtun.
nate event, nor one of those who dare trust
| IN providence for defense aud security of
OF their own liberty while they enslaye. and
wish TO continue in slavery thousands who
are as well entitled to freedom as Them.
selves. perceive the work before me is
great. l shall appear to many as a promo.
ter not only Of strange but dangerous doc.
trlnes u VIII therefore he necessary to
proceed with caution. You are apparent.
II deeply interested in this affdir, but as |
nave no doubts concerning your concurrence
aud appreciation, | most sincerely wish for
your advice and assistance, and hope 10 re.
ctiVe both in good times
Such sentiments were COMMONLY md froc.
expressed by the wings even of S. Caro-.
lna in those heroic days-alas that tbpv
should have finally ceased to be very soon
thereafter Had they been cherished aud
dtfdsed. aud their state thus led to follow
The exumple of Pennsylrania. New York.
etc in ahOlishing slavery utterly and forev
cr, This country would have been immensely
more popnlous aud powerful, more vrtuous,
Iuore intelligent, more wealthy, more hap.
py Than it is South Carolina might have
had ere this q population Of at least ,000,-
600, whereof fully 100000 would have
made her commercial capital the rival aud
counterpose of Boston, diffusing literature,
science and the useful arts or their products
throughout an extensive region southwark
and westward. Bat South Carolina, hav.
ing emerged from the perls Of the revolu.
tion, forgot ''the rights of human nature, F"
and gave her whole soul to slavery, Politics
and the growing of rice and cotton. As
result, she has an aggregate population OF
some 600 000-half of them slaves-and,
though half her soil has never yet been O.
pe1ed to cultivation, she has been steadily
sinking in relative importance for sixty
years. Charleston--which formerly import
ed goods for New York-has now less pop
ulaton. and far less business than Albany
or Buffalo, and has rather fallen off in mum.
bers since 1850 Lack Of enterprise, un.
thrift, inefcIcncy, systematic migration to
ireSher soil, the pressure Of debt and the
prevalence of bankruptcy, we're manifest
throughout her borders before she intetsif. |
ed every woe by plunging the country into
this atrocouS civil war
1t is moi too much 10 say that, had there
been no South Carolina, there would have
heen no secession. She has been a malcon.
tent and d>turber for generation. How
she ever came 10 adopt The Federal Con-
would be hopeless puzzle, if we
did not bear in mind her modern dogma of
the Intrinsic rightneSs and benfcence of |
Slavery was unknown to her cilizcns prior
10 the n7enion Of the Cotton.Gin. Her
patriots, though few, were,
sterling sand their Influence, combined with
that excrted by the name of the yet living
carried her safely through he
Struggle for "a more perfect Uuion" with
less difficulty than was experienced in Vir.<
giuia, in New York or even in MaSsachn-
setis Patrick, futher of John G Calhoun,
is remembered mainly as baving opposed
The Federal Constitution with ull bitterness
Of misguided zeal but the current Of Revos
ntionary patriotism was not then to,be re.
sisted.
For more than thirty years, or even since
II became morally certain that the greatest
Vt her perverse statesman could never be
chosen President Of the whole President of
Union, South Carolina has been always at
heart aud often ia act dsloyal. For time,
The White Of her Mountain region. where,
rs in Western Maryland, comparatively few
slaves are held, Stood ap aud breasted the
caEeUt; but at length they grew weary of,
exclusion from Office at the hands of the
oligarches of The most powerful low country,
and gave way. In 1928 public meetings
andoficia manifestoes threatened Disunion
unless The Tariff were adjusted more to her
mind. In lS33-though the Tariff had
been rendered much less objec.
tionable 10 her-She attempted TO nulIfy,
by constitutional ordinance, an act of Con
gress and thus brought herself into direct
collision with the Federal Government.
The Grmness aud energy of President Jack
son defeated that effort, and she subsidized
into comparative quiet ill 1894. when
ber whole soul was thrown into the con
Spiracb which in due time accomplished the
annex alion Of Texas Had she been baked
Of her aim, she would probably have made
that defeat au excuse for new effort at
1ismembering the Uuion, such as she did
make il 1850, because OF the admission OF