The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-01-01

cannot be safe in subsection to States
Indeed people expect to preserve its rights and
liberties unless these be in its own custody To plum
der and oppress where plumber and oppression be
pracsed with impunity to be the natural order
things The fires portions of the world elsewhere
have been turned into wildernesses and the most civil
lied and prosperous communities have been impover-
ished and ruined by anti-slavery fanaticsm The Peo
pie of the North have not left us in doubt as to tne
designs and policy. United section in the late
Presidential election, they have elected as the exponent
policy who has declared that all the States OF
the United States must be made free or slave States
1t true that amongst those that aided In his eiecton
there various shades of slavery hostility But
if African slavery in the Southern States be the evil
their political combination ahrms 1t to be- the requl-
sons of an memorable logic must lead them to eman-
cpation. If is right to preclude or Abolish slavery
in Territory-why should it be allowed to remain In
the States? The one all more unconstitutional
than the other. according to the decisions OF the Su-
preme Court of the United States And when 1t Is con-
sdered that the Northern States will soon have the
| power to make that Court what they please, ana
| that the Constitution never has been any bar
| rier whatever their exercise of power-what
check there be, in the unrestralned coun-
sells of the North emancipation? There is sympathy
in association which carries along without prin
cple but when there is principle, and that principle
is fortified by gexistng preudices and feelings,
ISOLATION is omnipotent in party influences In spite of
all disclaimers professions, there be but
end by the submission of the South to the rule of
sectional anti-slavery government at Washington, and
end directly indirectly, bethe emaneipa-
tion of the slaves of the South The hypocrisy thirty
years-he aithlessness of their whole from the
commencement OF union with them, snow that the
people of the veholdng North not, and
be- safe associates of the slaveholdng South under
| a common Government Not only their fanaticsm, but
their views of the principles of free govern
render it doubtful whether if separated from the
South, they maintain free government amongst
themselves. Numbers with them is the great element
of free government majority is nfallibe and omni
potent. ''The right divine rule in Kings is only
transferred their majority The object of all Const
tutions in free popular Governments is to restrain the
majority Constitutions, therefore, according to their
he iUIt pou
ing liberty None ought to exist; but the body polite
ought simply to have political organization, to bring
out and enforce the will of the ma ority.
fhis theory may be harmless in a small community,
having identity of interests and pursuits but
vast Confederacy, having various and conflicting in
and pursuits it is remoreless despotism. In
resisting it, applicable to ourselves, yindica
ting the great of free government, more mpor-
tant perhaps the world, than the existence of all
the United States Nor in resisting do we intend to
depart from the safe instrumentality the system of
government have established with them requires.
! In separating from them, We invade no rghts-no in
of theirs. We violate obligation or duty to
them separate, independent States in Convention,
made the Constitution of the United States with
them; and separate Independent States each State
acting for itself we adopted it. South Carolina, act
ing in her sovereign espacity thinks proper to
cede from the Union. She did not part with her
sovereignty in adopting the Constitution. The last
thing State be presumed to have surrendered is
her sovereignty. Her sovereignty is her life. Nothing
bat clear express grant ALLEVIATE it. Inference
has place Yet it is not at all surprising that those
Constitution should Also by construction, claim the
humiliation of the sovereignty of the States Having
abolished all barriers to their omnipoence by their
athess constructions in the operations of the General
Government 1T is natural that they should
de,vor to do the same towards us in the States. The
truth is they having violated the express provisions of
the Constitution, it is at end a compact 1t is
morally obligatory only those who choose to accept
its perverted terms. South Carolina deeming the
pact only violated in features, but viz
ually abolished by her Northern confederates, with
draws herself party from its obligations. The
right do is denied by her Northern confedarates
They desire establish sectional despOtlsm not only
omnpotent Congress but omnipoten the States
and if to manifest the mperous necessity of our
they threaten ms with the sword f., coercp
submission to their rule.
Citizens of the Slayeholding States of the United
States Circumstances beyond our control have placed
US in the van of the great controversy between the
Northern and Southern States. We would have pre-
erred that other States should have assumed the posi-
ton occupy. Independent ourselves,
disclam any design desire lead the cSansels of
the other Southern States Providence has cast our lot
together by extending identity of pursuits,
interests and institutions. South Carolina desires
destiny separated from yours. TO be of great
Slavehoding Confederacy, stretching its
territory larger than any power in Europe possesses
with population four times greater than that of the
whole United States when they achieved their indie
| pendence of the British Empire-with productions
which make existence more important the world
than that of any other people inhabiting twith
institutions to defend, and common dangers to
cOunter-we ask your sympathy and confederation.
Whilst constitutinga portion of the United States, it
has been your stat smanshp which has guided it in its
mighty strides power and expansion In the field,
in the cabinet, you have led the way to its
and grandeur. You have loved the Union, in whose
service your great statesmen have labored and your
great soldiers have fought and conqnereG-not for the
material benefits it conferred, but with the faith of
generous and devoted chvalry You have long lnger-
ed and hoped the shattered remains of broken
| Constitution Compromise after compromise formed
by concessions has been trampled under foot by
your Northern confederates All fraternity of feeling
between the North and the South is lost, has been
converted into hate; aud of the South at last
driven together by the stern destiny which controls the
existence of nations Your bitter experience of the
aith!esSness and rapactJ of your Northern confed-
crates may have been necessary to evolve those great
principles of free government which the liberties
of the world depend and prepare you for the grand
mission Of indicating and establishing them. We're
oice that other nations should have been satisfied with
happiness with nations with individuals. We are
satisfied with If they prefer system of indus
try in which capital and labor in perpetual conflict
and chronic starvation keeps down the natural in
crease of popGation-and man is worked "a eight
years-and the law ordains that childfen shall be
worked only ten hours dayand the sabre and bayo-
net the instruments of orerbe it 1t is their
affair, not ours We prefer, however system of in
dnstry by which labor and capital identified in in
terest and capital, therefore, protects abor-by which
our population doubles every twenty years-by which
starvation is unknown and abundance the land
by which order is preserved by unpaid police and
the many fertile regions of the world, where the eau
casan cannot labor brought into usefulness by the
labor OF the African and the whole world is blessed by
our productions. All demand of other people is,