Year: 1861




excluding Virginia, but 53l 900 and if to
this vast difference of men is added that of
wealth. inventive skill, habits of industry,
and the absence of any element of domestic
danger the disparity is infinitely greater. in
struggle between such hosts-which may
God in his infinite mercy avert-who can fail
to see what must the end 7


But TO our State these facts teach lesson
that all can understand If mad and wicked
enough to attempt it, what could we do to
resist this immense power on our borders
4 Cali on the South. Make our State the battle
field. Now long could the entire South if
flying TO our aid and succor, remain with and
aid us? They might assist in drenching our
land with blood they might witness with us
our desolation, but that doom in such a con-
test it would be- They would be driven back
within their own limits and we left alone in
our calamity, to be rendered the more acute
when, as we should, we awoke to the insan-
| ty and crime which occasioned it. Looking,
therefore, to interest alone, adherence to the
| Government is our clear policy. But when,
as in my Judgment it obviously is that policy
is demanded hy the most obvious demands of
patriotic duty, we should not hesitate one
moment in adopting and finally abiding by it.
| Let those who have prodGced the rebellion
exclusively share its certain adverse fate. Let
them not, by specious promises of assistance
and future prosperity, swerve us from our
allegiance. They are even now promising
themselves comparative exemption from the
perils of the struggle A recent Secretary,
after having used his high position to pro-
duce the result, and by his grossly ignorant or
faithless measures, bankrupted the Treasury,
is now addressing the people of his immedi-
| ate section to persuade them that the coming
war and its horrors will be kept far from
them and confined to the Border States. Let
Us, AS far as ours is concerned, be wise enough
to Illustrate this cowardly policy. If to gain
their traitorous views war is to be waged let
them bear its entire brunt Let US not be
their deluded victims


What is there in the modern history of
South Carolina which should recommend her
t,echings to Meryland2 What is there in the
;Htellccts of the Rhetts, the Yanceys, the
Cobbs, and i'd genus onane, to make them our
leaders? They did all they could to achieve
the election of Mr. Lincoln, and hailed its ac-
complishmept with undssembled delight
| They thought they saw in it the erealz4tion of
| their long cherished hopes, the precir itaton
Of the Cotton States into revolution and
then fancied exemption from the worst of the
perls-and they new seek to effect it-in the
in ervention of the other slave States between
them and the danger. Short sighted men,
they never anticipated the caamties already
upon them, and the greater certain to follow
Besides relying on the fact just stated they
also counted securely on large and inAuen-
tal support in the free States


Little did they know the true patriotic
heart of the land The first gun fired on the
nations flag raised that feeling in the North
ern heart. That gun, fired without cause
n, Il IA, l.
into a surrender, ty being, through timdity
or a worse cause, left in that condition, caus
ed every man able to bear arms to rush to the
support of the Government Where, in the
past the South could count its friends by
thousands and hundreds of thousands, not one
is now to be found. The cry is the Govern
ment must be sustained-the flag must lie
vindicated. Heaven forbid that the duty of
that yipdication should be forgotten by Mary
land. temporary cause may have made it
prudent in part of the State Qhave not the
heart to name the locaity) to suppress it. 1t
may have happened that the Stripes, so often
borne 10y her sons to victory or proud death,
were justly esteemed the national emblem to
outrage which the constituted authorities
| Ohongh before justly boasful of their power
to preserve the peace, as they had before
! faithfully done,) were unable to prevent or





the fate Of the rebellious standard But it is
not less true that there is in every true Mary
land bosom n devoted attachment to the ma
tionai emblem. which will cause every man of
us, whenever and wherever hearing the in
spring sounds, to unite in the chorus of our
national anthem: "Oh long may it wave, eer
the land of the free and the home of the
brave


Though not especially impusive, | cannot
imagine how an American eye can .ook upon
that standard without emotion. The twenty
stars added TO the first constellation tell its
proud history, its mighty influence and its
unequalled career Are these now to be for
gotten aud lost? Tell me not that this is
sentiment. Sentiment. TO be sure, it is, but
1t is one that purifes and animates and
stI engthens the national heart God NAV be |
worshipped U make the comparison with all
proper reverence) in the open field-in the
stable-but is there no virtue in the cathe-
dral? Does not the soul turn its thoughts
heavenwards the moment its sacred threshold
is crossed This too, is sentiment. but it is
one that honors our nature, and proves our
loyalty to the Almighty.


Soft is with our national emblem. The
man who is dead TO its final influence is in
mind a fool or in heart a traitor 1t is this
emblem am the honored organ now to pre-
sent to you. | need not commit it to your
constant, vigilant care; that, | am sure. it
will ever he your pride to give it. When, if
ever your hearts shall despoud- when, if
ever you shall desire your patriotism to he
specially animated. throw it to the winds,
gaze on its beautiful folds, remember the
! years and the fields over which, from 76 to
the present time, it has been triumphanty
borne-remember how it has consolcd the
| ii nd nip aI Ia /
that it served to kindle even to brighter
! flame the patriotic ardor of Washington
went with him through all the struggles of
the Revolution, consoled him in defeat, gave
to victory an additional charm, and that his
! dying moments were consoled and cheered
| by the hope that it would forever float over
a perpetual Union-and you at once feel lis
almost holy influence and swear to stand by
and maintain it till life itself shall be no
more


Here it is, citizen soldiers 1t is now yours.
and with the assurance ofits fair donors that
they commit it to brave and loyal hands, and
with their prayers for your individual happi.
ness-fur the restoration of our Government
to its recent peaceful and glorious unity, and
its continuance as such forever.


E-ADooDLE-Doo. - Cen Cooke, who
commands the Virginia bandtti on the seced-
ing side of the Potomac, has issued letter,
in which he says that the Elderly Dominion
| has N al I ho ia nc