The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-01-31
sultine or moro hostile to our domestic

declaration that our negroes are entitled
to liberty and equality will the white
man. It is in spirit, if not effect, as strong
an Indictment and invocation to seryile
insurrection, to murder, arson, and other
crimes, as any to be found in abolition
literature.
And to aggravate the insult which is
offered us in demanding equality with us
for our slaves, the same platform denies
us equality with Northern white men or
free negroes, and brands us as an inferior
race, by pledging the Republican party to
resist our entrance into the Territories
with our slaves, or the extension of slave
ry, which as it's founders and leaders tru-
ly assert-must and will effect it's EXTERN
ination. To crown the climax Of insult
to our feelings and menace Of our rights,
this party nominated to the Presidency a
man who not only indorses the platform,
but promises, in his jealous support of its
principles, to disregard the judgments Of
| your courts, the obligations Of your Con
stitution, and The requirements of his Off
cial oath, by approving any bill prohibit
ing slavery in the Territories Of the United
States.
A large majority of the Northern peo-
Iple have declared at the ballot-boX their
approval of the platform and the candi-
dates Of that party in the late presidential
election. Thus, by the solemn verdict of
the people of the North, the slaveholding
communities of the South are "outlalved,
branded with ignominy, consigned to
execration, and ultimate destruction"
Sir, are we looked upon as more OF
less than men? Is it expected thai we
will OF can exercise that God-like virtue
which @beareth all things, .peliovcth all
things, hopeth all things, endurcth all
things; )" which teaches US to l0ce or enc
mics and Bless them that curse os9 Are We
devoid of the sensibilities, the sentiments,
the passions, the reason, and the instincts
of mankind? Have wono pride of honor,
10 sense of shame, no reverence Of our an
cestors, no care OF our postcrity, no love
of home, OF family, OF friends? Must we
confess our basencss, discredit the fame Of
our sires, dishonor ourselves, degrade our
posterity, abandon our homes, and flee
from our country, all for the sake of the
Union? Must weagree to live under the
ban Of our own Government? Must we
acquiesce in the Inauguration of lresi-
dent, chosen by confederate, but unfIicnd-
ly, States, whose political faith constrains
him, for his conscience and country ssalle
to deny us our constitutional rights, be-
cause elected according to the forms Of
the Constitution? Must we consent TO
live undcra Government which we believe
will henceforth be controlled and admins
tered by those who Tot only deny us JUS
tice and equality, and brand US as irferi
ors, but whose avowed principles and pol
icy must destroy our domestic tranquilli-
ty, imperil the lives of our wives and chill
dren, degrade and dwarf, and ultimately
destroy, our State? Must we live, by
choice or compulsion, under the rule of
those who present us the dire alternative
of an irrepressibe conflict" with the
Northern people in defense of our affairs
and our freside, OF the mamumission of
our slaves, and the admission of them to
social and political equality? No, sir, no.
The freemen of Alabama have proclaimed
to the world that they will not; and have
proved their sincerity by seeding from
the Union, and hazarding all the dangers
and difficulties Of q separate and indie
pendent station among the nations Of the
earth
They have learned from history the adj
monitory truth, that the people who live
under Governors, appointed against their
consent by unfriondly foreign or confed-
crate States, will not long enjoy the blcs-
sings of liberty, or have the courage to
claim them They feel that were they to
consent to do so, they would lose the res
pect of their foes and the sympathy of
their friends. They are resolved not to
trust to the hands of their enemies the
measure of their rights. They intend to
preserve for themselves, and to transmit to
their posterity, the freedom they received
from their ancestors, OF perish in the at
tempt Cordially approving this act of
my mother State, and acknowledging no
other allegiance, I shall return, like true