Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-30
The South Carolina SubmissiOnists OF
Revolutionary Times.

Revolutionary Times.
The following is an address of the citizens
of Chareston, South Carolina, to Sir Henry
Clinton and Vice Admiral Arbuthnot
To their Excellencies Sir Henry Clinton,
Knight of the Bath, General of his Majesty
forces, and Marion Arbuthnot, Esq.,, Vice
Admiral of the Blue, his Majesty's Commits
sioner to restore peace and good government
in the several colonies in rebellion in North
America:
THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF DIVERS INHABITANTS
OF CHARLEs-TowN.
The inhabitants of Charles-town, by the
articles of capitulation are declared prisoners
on parole; but we, the underwriters, having
every inducement to return to our allegiance,
and ardently hoping speedily to be read
mtted to the character and condition of Brit
ish subjects, take this opportunity of tender
ing to your excelencies our warmest congrat-
ulations on the restoration of the capital and
Province to their political connection with
the Grown and Government of Great Britain !;
an event which will add ustre to your Ex-
cellences' characters, and we trust, entitle
you to the most distinguished mark of royal
favor. Although the right of taxing America
in Parliament excited considerable ferment
ia the minds of the people of the Province,
yet it may, with a religious adherence to
truth. be affirmed, that they did not enter
tain the most distant thought of dissolving
the union, which SO happily existed between
| them and the parent country; and when, in
the progress of that fatal controversy, the
doctrine of independency, which originated
in the more northern colonies, made its ap-
pearance among us, our nature vevoted at
the idea and w lonl. huny with tho p,n
painful regret on those convul>ions that gave
existence to a power of subverting a Consti-
tuition for which we always had and ever
shall retain, the most profound veneraton.
and substituting in its stead rank Democra-
cy, which however carefully digested in the
ory, on being reduced into practice has ex-
hibited system of tyrannic domination only
to be found among the uncivilized part OF
mankind, or in the history of the dark and
barbarous agages of antiquity.
We sincerely lament. that after the repeal
of these statutes which gave rise to the trou-
bles in America the overtures made by His
Mnlestys Commissioners from time TO time
were not regarde' by our late rulers. To
this fatal inattention are to be attributed
| those calamities which have involved our
country in IA state of ruin and misery, from
which, however, we trust it will soon emerge,
by the wisdom and clemency of his Majesty's
auspicious government and the influence OF
prudential laws, adapted to the nature of the
evils we labor under; and that the people
will be restored to those privileges. in the
enjoyment whereof their former felicity con-
sisted.
Animated with these hopes, we entreat
your Excellencies' interposition. in assuring
his Majesty that we shall glory in every oc-
casion of manifesiins that zeal and affection
for his person and Government, with which
gratitude can inspire free and joyful peo-
pie.
The address was signed by two hundred
and twenty-six of the leading citizens
of Charleston, representing nearly every
family connection in South Carolina.