The Nevada Democrat., 1861-03-26
A south Carolina Pamphlet.

minds Of the people in their political views,
has lately been revived to considerable
extent by the secession leaders. Charles E'
Pickett, Charles T. Bolts, Charles l.. Scott
and other great men have adopted this
mode Of instructing the people of Califor-
MIA, and although their pamphlets have not
created much sensation as yet. the authors
are no doubt impressed with the belief that
their writings will be appreciated at some
future day. One Mr. Spratt, for many years
a leading member of the South Carolina
Legislature has lately adopted the same
method to place his views before the public
We have not seen his pamphlet, but find in
the Sacramento Bee some extracts, which
give pretty fair idea of the document. Mr.
Spratt thinks that ifthe African slave trade
is prohibited by the Constitution of the Cot
ton Confederacy, that new revolution will
be necessary, and he fears it will not be SO
peaceful as the one already accomplished.
He says:
"If the clause prohibiting the African slave
trade be carried into the permanent Govern
ment, our whole movement is defeated. 1t will
abolitiOnize the Border Slave States-it will
brand our institution. Slavery cannot share
government with democracy-it cannot bear
brand upon it; thence another revolution. 1t
may be painful but we must make it. The bor-
der States, discharged of slavery, will oppose
| it. They are to be included by the concessiOn
they will be sufficient to defeat it. 1t is doubt
| f1I if auofhar Ynovounpnf will no an pacpful -
In regard to the condition of the new
slave republic, or empire, Mr.. Spratt says
at may not include the several States now
! holding slavery and that cheap labor from Eu-
rope may at no distant day drive slavery out of
South Carolina but the empire will exist in the
Gulf States. To this end another revolution
may be necessary. IL is to be apprehended that
this contest between Democracy and slavery is
not over. 1t is certain that both forms Of soci-
ETY. existed within the limits of the Southern
States both are distinctly developed within the
| limits Of Virginia and there, whether we per-
ceiye the fact or not, the war already RACES In
| that State there are about 100000 slaves to
about 100000 whites and as at least as many
slaves as masters are necessary to continuation
of slave society, about 500, 600 of the white pop
ulatOn are in Legitimate relation to the slaves,
and the rest are in excess. Like an excess Of
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unhxed in the social compound. Without le-
gitimate connection with the slave, they are in
competition with him. They constitute not
| part of slave society, but democratic society.
| In so far as there is this connection, the State
is slave in so far as it is not, it is democratic;
and as States speak only from their social con-
diton-as interests, not intellect, determine
their political action, it is thus that Virginia
has been undecded-that she does not truly
Al Al.
| in this great movement.
In Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky and even
Tennessee and North Carolina, the same facts
exist with chances Of the like result. And
even in this State (SOuth Carolina) the ultimate
result is not determined. The slave condition
| here would seem to be established. There is
here an excess of l2l 900 slaves, and here is
fairly exhibited the normal nature of the insti-
tuition. The officers Of the State are slave own
ers, and the representatives of slave owners. In
their public acts they exhibit the consciousness
of a superior position. Without unusual indi-
yidual ability, they exhibit the elevation of tone
and composure, of public sentiment, proper to
| a master class.
"But even here the process of disintegTation
has commenced. In our larger towns, it Just
begins to be apparent. Within the ten years
| past as many as ten thousand slaves have been
drawn away from Charleston by the attractive
| prices. OF the west, ana la0OrerS rom abroad
have come TO take their places. These laborers
have every disposition to work above the slave,
and, if there were opportunity, would be glad to
do so; but without such opportunity they come
| to competition with him; they are necessarily
reslstiye to the contact. Already there is the
/ disposition to exclude him; from the trades,
from public works, from drays, and the tables
| Of hotels, he is even now excluded to a great
extent. Thus the town of Charleston, at the
very heart of slavery, may become a fortress Of
Democratic power againstit. As it is in Charles
ton, so also il is to less extent in the interior
towns. II thus appears that the contest is not
ended with a dissolution Of the Union, and that
the agents Of that contest still exist within the
limits of the Southern States. The causes that
have contributed to the defeat Of slavery still
occur, our slaves are still drawn off by higher
prices to the West. There is still foreign pau
per labor ready to supply their place.
Having achieved one revolution to escape
democracy at the North, it must achieve anoth-
er to escape it at the South. BY now putting
barrier against it, the blunder of 1889 viii bere-
inaugurated, The irepressible conflict will
again begin, and another revolution will take
place, in some way, "but whether in the order
and propriety Of this, is greatly TO be doubted"
As MIR. Spratt but echoes the sentiments
of the South Carolina rulers, his views are
worth considering. The policy of that
State is to reduce the population into the
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