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From the Southern Enterprise.
We copy the following beautiful Poem on
t he “Flag of our Union” from the Hoilie
Journal; eVery man who has the least Patri
otism in his breast ought to read it.
The Flag of our Uiiea.
8T GEOAGE P. MORRIS
A song for our Banner?—The watchword
recall
Which gave the Republic her station :
“United we stand—divided we fall!”
It made and preserves us a nation !
The union of lakes—the union of lands—
The union of States none can sever—
The union of hearts—the union of hands—
And tlie Flag of the Union for ever
And ever!
What Godin his Infinite Wisdomdesigved,
And armed widt Republican thunder,
Not all the earth’s despots and factions com
bined.
Have the power to conquer or sunder !
The union of lakes—the union of lands— “ ■
The union of States none can sever—
The union of hearts—the union of hands—
And the Flag of our Union for ever
And ever!
The Flag of our Union for ever !
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* Saudi CaraliHa vs* tlic Union.
By general consent, let the fighting
State withdraw from the compact. We
can have no peace with her in the Union.
Against a Tariff, with discrimination in
favor of home industry, she levelled her
big guns, and bright bayonets some twen'-
ty years ago. Much later, she drilled
her militia to battle for Texas annexation.
Now, we have a storm in the catnp, be’
cause California has been admitted into
the Union, exactly as half doseii other
States have been admitted, without slave
ry. If principle be the standard of Iter
action, South Carolina has been a care
less spectator of events, or peculiarly de
ficient in a know ledge of her rights, here*
tofore. The truth is, she has not deriv
ed from a low tariff, and from the annex
ation ofTexas, half the benefits she claim
ed in advance. Now, she sees quarries
of gold in California, locked from slave
labor, if she only had access to this
gold, her greatness would be complete;
all her visions of glory would be reali
zed. The people formed a Constitution
to suit themselves. Congress by admit
ting California with the anti-slavery
clause, has sanctioned the Wilmol Pro
viso and Carolina had long since noti
fied the world, that she would tear the
Union into fragments, secede from it,
upon her own responsibility, whenever
Congress adopted the Wilinot Proviso.
This is her logic and logically she is pro.
ceeding to execute her threat. We hope
she will try the experiment, if nothing
else will silence the voice by which she
disturbs the repose of her neighbors.
As evidence of the temper aud infatua
tion Carolina exhibits, and also of her de
termination to withdraw from the speech
of the Hon, Isaac E. Holmes,delivered in
Congress, on the Texas boundary Bill,
September3, 1850. AJter noticing many
topics as a prelude, Wr. Holmes said, in
reference to a Southern confederacy :
•‘We shall be much stouger than at
present —our slaves being employed in
the industrial pursuits of the soil, dispense
with the necessity of the application of
the application of white labor for subsis
tence. We can, il necessary, become a
nation of soldiers, —having a well organ
ized militia force of 400,000 men, thor
oughly disciplined and animated by the
love of home, and the preservation of
always ready to
concentrate upon an assailable point,
needing uo pay, furnished by slave labor
with continued supplies, supported at‘tpjfef
smallest cost, and if attacked by &f§
North, ready to carry on an offensive!
war against our foes. Like the States
Greece,. wbH&t our lands are by tire
slaves who are not required for purposes
of war, we can prosecute trade,Agricul
ture, and war,-at the same time. When
ever our slave population shall have in
creased so as to incommode us, we will
find an exodus upon Southern Mexico; or
if the rich placers of California should be
unexhausted, we reverse the northern in
vasion of Europe, and pour out from
southern hives a vast population to retake
the lands from which we are now unjust
ly to be excluded.
“We will have nothing to dread from
internal dissensions, for the interests of
the Southern States will be homogenous.
We will be 100 strong, with half a million
of soldiers, to be invaded by armies which
come from abroad burdened with the ex.-,
penses of transportation, provisions and
ammunition. But war is threaitened
from the North should the South secede.
The North fights for profits, and what
would it profit her to battle with the
South? They could not conquer; but im
poverish themselves by withdrawing from
labor the persons of their armies, and
from the fruits of diminished labor sub
sistence for those armies. It is said that
in the first instance of our secession we
will not have a navy. What then?—
Could the navies of the North avail aught
against us ? By no means we have only
to place our rich products at the trade of
ail the world, and all the world in their
contest for the carrying of these products
will be arrayed against the northern
fleets. The fact is obvious. The South
in its possession of that which all the
world needs, can command the united
support of the majority of the trading
world, against any one. portion which
may seek to monopolize its trade With
what will the North support the navy ?
Her thirty millions of exports will yield
about six millions of dollars, a sum re
quired to support her city governments.
She will be impotent ‘or all purposes of
offensive war.
“No, sir, the South has nothing to
dread—there will be no war, foreign or
domestic. But there will ensue upon
her seceseion a destruction of the power
of the North, and annihilation of the
prosperity of New England. Let the
aggressions of the North, the continued
violations of the Constisution force us
from the Union, and the order, method
and power of the States now united will
at once be transferred to the Southern
United States. That Confederacy, pos
sessing entire control over its lands, its
labor, its trade, its armies, will have
peace and prosperity at ipme, respect
and admiration abroad. As long as the
on the principles of equality, the South
will adhere to the contract, for ‘better
present government, observant of tlie na
tional compact, shall be administered up*
for worse.’ But it ought not to be ex
pected, that when all the objects of the
Union are destroyed, we should still, with
so many rich prospects before us, contin
ue an appendage to a government,—
whose honors we will have lost, whose
protection been removed, whose powers
given for benefits, are exercised to de
spoil. As sovereign States united, the
same sovereignty confers the rigljt to se
cede—peacebly to secede; aud wnen ihe
ends of Union are no more regarded,
then to form compacts jantl seek out hew
modes of happiness. Surely , if any num
ber of men congregating in Califoriaivuid
forming a republican constitution, lpt%e
of right admission to our Union, we who
have sovereign power, by virtue olyWhich
we came into the Union many of right
go out. Gtevious indeed would be our
condition, if this were qol our right. New
co-partners may come in, and be abhor
rent to our views, interests, and institu
tions, while we are forever to remain in
the bonds of political association. The
right to form a treaty, gives the right to
dissolve the treaty, when its provisions
are discarded. The power to create a trus
tee, gives the power to dismiss the trustee
when he violates the trusts. Govern
ment is only an association for certain
purposes and trusts; ceasing to exercie
these trusts, it ceases to answer the end
of its creationand may be departed from.
This our fathers declared with respect to
Great Britain, and this we of the South
have a right to declare, as respects our
brethren of the North. The right is clear;
the exercise of the right is a matter ofex
ediency, and policy.”
k OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1851.
k This programme of Southern Rights
of a Southern Confederacy, is not
with Mr. Holmes, nor did he
to use it as such. It had beep,
- V a ß retrl n P on > n ll,e Grand r
of agitators and disunionists
Carolina has long been
tlie A poor return lias
recently been ts|fde by the people of the
Charleston Dijmct, lor the zeal and in
trepidity with trinak Mr. Holmes asser
ted the PalmettoSbctrine. Could his
defeat be sentiments, it
•vould be a matter of to the
country at large. He is a gVqjleman of
fine abilities, and like many oniT* disun
ion co-laborers, without reproach snve4u
political phrdnzy. By reason of this af
fliction, they are entitled to the security
which a straight jacket affords under cer
tain manifestations.
In spile of all her bullying and brava*
do, we admire Carolina for many tilings.
Her hospitality, intelligence, and refine
ment are not surpassed by anp State in
the Union. The courage of her sons,
and the beauty of her daughters, would
adorn any age or nation. A conviction
of these advantages on the part of Caro
lina, has been the prolific source of her
errors. Hence, her men of wealth are
more or less aristocratic in their disposi
tion and habits. Society is laid off into
distinct classes, seldom passing tlie bar
riers prescribed by a heartless conven
tionality. Merit of a very high order,
to be sure, recognized and
promoted; but, as a general tiling, the
men of position in Carolina are not free
and cordial with their fellow citizens in
humble life. They have a great prociv*
ify to style and parade in their way of
living. This fact explains their op>
position to the republican tendencies,
of the day. South Carolina-igt'.ie only
State,in the Union whose Qqvernor am)
Presidential Electors are nayt chosen by
the people. She is one oClhe very few
Slates in which a property qualification
is required of Voters. The taste or judg
ment which would thus proscribe a poor
man, would naturally be gratified with
the splendors of a Court. If in tlie pro
posed Southern Confederacy, Carolina
knew she was to furnish no President,
nor to have any direction in the Cabinet,
it is quite certain she would cease her ef
forts to establish a separate Government.
She has cultivated her intellect, her mor
als and pride to such perfection, and has
such a contempt for her inferiors, that she
demands to rule them. The only blot
upon her ambition is, that she permits
Georgia to lead the advance column,
with fixed bayonelts, against the Union.
The honor does not sit gracefully on
Georgia. It is the appropriate laurel of
Soutii|Carolina, well befitting her brow
of eternal wrath and scorn.
We have some curiosity to see Caroli
na an independent Republic, with cus
tom houses in every direction to collect
revenue, and to prevent smuggling in
the interior, as well as on the coast.—
What ceremony and caution between
foreign powers would then be observed!
A poor traveler from abroad, that is, from
N. Carolina, Georgia, or any other A.,
merican Stale, would have to show his
passport from the Secretary for foreign
Affairs of the Republic or Kingdom of
South Carolina, describing his height,
age, complexion, polor of his hair and
eyes, and other marks of indeniiy. Un
less lie could give this voucher, he might
be taken up as a suspicious per,
son, perhaps as a spy, and put to tlie ne
cessity of proving himself innocent.
All coasting vessels going nfter tlie
cotton rice or lumber of the Republic,
would be boarded by the inspecting offi
cers, and sworn [manifest of cargo and
passengers required as is now customary
with shipsentering the port of Charleston
from Liverpoo l , Hamburg or any other
European power.
Besides the commercial aspect of the
case there would be diplomatic relations
to be established with other powers, say
Virginia Lotiisana, and foreign Slates
generally, or with the Government of
which they are menbers. In equipping
Missions abroad, and entertaining those
at home, the Palmetto Republic would il
lustrate its propensity for seperate action
and for Court ceremonies. It is true, that
two distinguished Carolinians (Messrs.
Pickens and Elmore,) declined tlie Mis
sion to England when tendered by Mr.
Polk, a few years ago; yet, this very re
fusal was from State pride exclusively
(as they did not wish to be indebted to
the General Government lor any honors
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS.
whatever.) Carolina would submit to no
honors, except those of her own creation
and bestowal as a Republic into whi h
condition she is about to erect herself.—
*#e take it for granted that-the veritable
crisis so long spoken of by her States
man, has positively arrived, and that suit.,
able action will be had, forthwith, to re
dress hoarded grievances. The tornado,
of which the deep distant thunder was
the presage, is now in sight, with its lifted
wrecks from forest and farm, darkening
the horizon. Carolina never takes a
step backward. Like the Hero af Bue
na Vista, she never surrenders. With
blade in hand, and Coffin on back, she
goes forth to meet the oppressor. Ou
wd&Lbrave Slate, and Glory to thy Re
public 1 Thou will be sure to conquer,
or be samjylisappointed.
Carolina to the Union, what re
mains worth pibserviiig ! h may be in
structive to watqh the progress of this
country in population sqjce die Govern
ment wasestabtablished in 1789:
1790 IL
Whites, : : : 53,172,464’
Slaves. : : : > 697,897,
Free Colored, : 466,
Total, : : : 3.925L827,
1800
Whites : : : 4,304,489,
Slaves, : : : : 893, 041,
Free Colored, : : 108395*
Total, : : : 5,305,925,
1810
Whiles, : : : 5.862,004,
Slaves, : : : : 1,191,364,
Free Colored, : : 18644 Q,
Total. : :
182 QT
Slaves, : ; 1,633,064,
Free Colored, : : : 238,166,
Total, : : : 9,638,191,
1830
Whites, : : 10,537,378,
Slaves, : .- .- 2,009,043‘
Free Colored, : : 319,599,
Total, : : : 12,866,020,
1840
Whites, : : : 14,195,805,
Slaves, : : : 2,487,355,
Free Colored, : : 386,293,
Total, : : 17,069,453,
1850
Whites, : : 19,000,000,
Slaves; : : : 3,100,000,
Free Colored, : : 460,000,
Total, : : 22,560,000,
In 1840, South-Carolina contained
259,082 white persons. 327,038 slaves,
and 8,276 free persons of color—total
594,398. Allowing an increase of twen
ty-five per cent, on her numbers for the
last ten years, she has at present 743,000
persons whftes slaves and free colored al
together. Deduct this aggregate from
the aggregate of the thirty Stales, as set
forth in the table, and there will remain
to support the diminished Union by al
legiance, taxes and submission to law,
21,817,000,—5ay twenty nine thirtieths
of the whole population; and to sustain
them, there will reqiain about forty nine
fiftieths of the area oT the Slates, exclu
sive of California.
This exhibition of strength would be
satisfactory, and the surviving] partners
, might be able to get along witlr£lheir
crippled concern but for the ‘Sumter Ri
flemen whose offer of service has been
accepted by Gov. Seabrook, in case of
need. Tlie following are the preamble
aud resolutions adopted at a meeting of
the “Riflemen” in August:
“ Whereas, It is the duly of* people in
the time of peace, to prepare for any em
ergency which may arise out of their so
cial, political or national relations, and
whereas, present indications manifest on
the part of tlie Northern poriion of the
Confederacy, a fixed design to disregard
the solemn obligations of the Constitution,
and trample upon those rights which are
dearer to the South than tlie lives of h er
sons. And w hereas, it is the duty of a
people to declare their sentiments for tlie
guidance of those whom they have placed
in authority assuming such positions as
may strengthen the hands of their rulers,
and the belter enable them to meet sud
den emergencies, requiring prompt and
speedy action. Be it therefore.
‘l. Resolved, That we hold it to be
tlie duly of every man, who enjoys the
benefit of a free Government, to resist the
first advance of tyranny —be it the tyran*
ny of one or of tlie many-even unto death.
‘Resolved , That in the present aggres
sive altitude of our Northern brethren,
we recognize ourselves called upon to
prepare to maintain our just rights at any
sacrifiice holding it ‘belter to die all free
men ’ than to Mild our fortunes and our
lives, at the option of a tyrannical major
*ity. >a •*-i -•
‘3. Resolved, That we,the Sumter rifle
men as a Company, hold ourselves ready
at any moment respond to any call w hich
may be made for our services in defence
of Soutern Rights and Southern Honor.
*4. Resolved, That we place our servi
ces as a military Corps, at the disposal
of his Excellency the Governor of South
Carolina to be euiplyd at any lime and
place lie may deem proper to demand
them.’
No weapon is more to be dreaded than
the Rifle, in good hands. See wlial
brave Morgan dill among the British by
his Rifle Brigade in the Revolution.—
He picked the enemy down like black
birds in a rice field. Betides carrying a
ball with precision twice the distance of a
musket. The rifle tears a man to pecies,
without any hope from the Surgeon. A
cannon bull may take off the calf of a
man’s leg; a bayonet may piece bis
body, and a musket shot may sti ike in
sundry places without killing him on the
spot. All these wounds may be healed.
Not so with the deadly Rifle. Where il
aims, there is the ball, and where
is, there is death. With sticjj consequen
ces Genecl Government
in case resists Carolina ; and as many
poor wilted souls will be hurried into
eternity by the ‘Sumter Riflemen,’ pro
vided they get a crack at their enemies,
would it not be belter for tlie Government
to surrender at once to Carolina, as tlie
coon did to Capt. Scott, and thereby
save ammuniton and blood ? The pro
priety of this course will be much forti
fied, if Gen. Qoatilebum, ofTexas, cel
ebrity is to command tlie Brigade to
whicj) thefßiflemen’ are attached. The
Paixhan guns strike terror to tlie hearts
of the brave in a sea-fight, and so do Ri
fles on land. If Gen. Quattlebum can
not be prevailed on to resign or to get
sick, we advise that no opposition be
made to South-Carolina.
CONSERVATOR.
Xli c Question < £rcssitn.
We submit the following argument to
the advocates of a constitutional right of
secession.
Either the Federal Government was
endowed by those who organized it with
the power of self-protection—tlie princi
ple of self-preservation, or it was not so
endowed.
If t is so endowed a slate canuot, con
stitutionally or peacbly, secede.
We think that it is so endowed, first, in
that clause of the Constitution which de
clares Federal law supreme, Stale laws
to the contrary notwithstanding. Se
condly, from the oath imposed upon each
federal Officer, to support the Constitu
tion, and from the pow er vested in these
Officers by the framers of the Constitu
tion, for the purpose of effectually execu
ting tlie laws of the Union. Let these
be taken, among numerous other points
which can he adduced, why we think tlie
Constitution of tlie U. States forms a
government rightfully endowed with the
power of self-protection.
if the government has not the right to
preserve itsell Irom destruction, then the
Unoin is simply a treaty or alliance be.
• tween the States and as such must be con
troled, in branch and obsorvance, by
‘the higher laws,’ that is to say, the law
of nations. This law will recognise ali
the parties to the compact as equals, in
determining the good faith of each other,
and if one of the parlies violates the com
pact, the others have the right to hold
iiim to die bargain if they can. So,
wheatlier you take the one horn of the
dilemma or the other, Mr. pencable se
cessionist, if the time shall ever come
when this magnificent system, which has i
won so largely upon the admiration ol
the world—when this Union, which has
conferred more happiness than all the
governments that have preceeded it-wlien
that Star Spangled Banner, sacred as the
blood ol our Ancestors, shall no longer
represent, in all quarters of the globe,
the greatest, happiest, best people on
earth— before we can create another sys
tem, from another union, hoist another
flag, Italffo potent in emblematic power,
we must pledge to il ‘our lives and for
tunes,’ and redeem tlie pledge. Our
children then will honor it as we honor the
glorious Stars and Sn ipes.
The Constitutional Union.
> TERMS; $2 in Advance.
THE DUFY OF ADOPTED
CITIZENS.
In a recent number of tlie Telegraph,
was an article appealing to adopted citi
zens in the India If efuke cause of disun
ion. The writers object, evidently, was
to inflame the minds of his hearers, by
allusions to tlie oppressions which they
had suffered under the odious Irish Un.-
ion, and thereby excite them to a haired
of the Government of tlie United Slates.
From his signature, and from the nature
of his article, the public are left tinder the
iminpression that he is a foreigner. If
this be the fact, lie lias not forgotten the
pledge which was made for him by bis
friends, and which he voluntarily assum
ed, when he was admitted to the rights
add priviledges of citizenship, in this free
and happy country. If he has, it may
be well to refresh his memory a little.
Ist. Every foreigner before he is al
lowed to take the oath of allegiance, it
compelled to declare his intention to be
come a citizen, and to obtain a certificate
from some residue citizen declaring that
lie is ‘attached to the Government aqji
Constitution *>f the United States, ahd
worthy the rights and priviligcs of aji A
merican citizen.’
2d. Heis required to take the follow
ing oath:
L “1 do that Ido hereby
entirely absolutely and forevec, renounce
and abjure allegiance and fidelity to any
foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sov
ereignty whatever, and particulraly to
the , whose subject I was, and
that I will support the Constitution of
the United States.’
Now, can any man after sanctioning
the above pledge, and taking the above
oath, do, or perfer any act, either direct
ly or indirectly, that may result in
the destruction of the Government ? To
vote for men who are seeking to destroy
the Union, is certainly not giving evi
dence of‘attachment to the Constitntion
and Government of the United States;’
nor is it supporting the Constitution of the
country. The adopted citizen, is especial
ly bound to do both. He has of his own
free choice become a citizen. He has fled
from the oppressions of the Old World, and
sought an Asylum in the New, He has a*
bandonod a tyiannical government, and taken
refuge in this and happy land. It would be
folly, it would be worse than folly in him,
first to swear allegiance to a Government,
and then turn directly romid and attempt to
destroy that Government! It would be mad
ness—it would bu worse than madness in
him to sustain men who arc striving to an
nihilate the only fieo Government upon the
earth. The adopted citizens have reason to
love the Government of their choice; be
cause it is the people’s Government. They
have reason to bless it, because under its pro
tection, they are free,, prosperous and hap
py. Our foreign citizens, who have already
tasted of the gall and wormwood of despotic
and montucliicul government, will be likely
again to risk the chances of revolution. They
will stand the present Government, rather
than fly to either anarchy or royalty—in a
word, they will remain true to thn Union of
Washington and the Govarnment of their
choice.— Union Banner.
ELECTIOrTRETURNS.
Alabama —The secessionists have
met a Waterloo defeat in this gallant State
Five Union nienrebers of Congress to two
Disunionists have been returned besids a
large majority of Union men in both
brandies of the Legislature. Tliis is re
liable information, notwithstanding the
Telegraph and Savannah News report a
different result. Collier, the Governor
re-elected is also an anti-Southern Con*
gres and anti*serssion man to whom there
was no opposition.
Tennessee. —lt is given up, that Camp
bell, the Compromise Union Whig can
didate is elected by two or three thousand
over Gen. Trousdale, Disunion Demo
crat. The friends of the Union will also
have the ascendency in the Legislature.
North Carolina. —The Union Ticket
has generally prevailed in this State.
Outlaw (Unhtn Oem.) is elected in the
9th District. The latest advices report
that Stanly [Union Whig] has succeeded
in the 7th, but this lacks confirmation.
For the gratification of the numerous ap
plicants for Bounty Land, under the law of
Sept. 28th, 1650, who may be anxious to
know when their respective claims will be
reached, we publish the following extract
from a letter received by a gentleman of
New York from the Commissioner of Pen
sions, undos date of July 23d:
“All claims under the aforesaid Act are
taken up and examined in the order in wbieh
they are received, or in their turn. This of
fice is now examining claims received in De
cember, 1850.”
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