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THE CUBAN REVOLUTION!
Landing of Lopes, and the patriots—
Two battles fought ’/ Lopei victorious!!
We are indebted to ihe Charleston
Courier for the subjoined despatches,
fonnuning the important intelligence
from the /stand of Cuba. As to its re
liability, we venture no opinion. Hat iug
been several times deceived in regard to
the news from that quarter, we look
upon all rumors with suspicion. We
hopes however, (or tin* best, and would
be glad to see the island both free anil in
dependent:
Courier Office £
Charleston , Aug. 20—10 -12 AM. j
. New Orleans. Aug. 19.—An arrival
at this port brings dates from Havantta
to the 7th inst. Private letters say that
the cause of the patriots is triumph
ant. Four l lion saner Spanish troops'have
gone over to the patriots, and much dis
satisfaction exists among the Government
troops.
Courier Ojffiee. )
Ckarlevton, Aug. 20—12. 15 P.M. \
The schooner Zephyr arrived here
this morning from Maiaozas, which place
she left on the 6lh inst. Gen. Lopez,
with his troops, landed at Bahia Honda,
fifty miles the westward of Havanna, or.
tiie I4th inst.
Courier Ojffiee. >
Charleston , Avg. 20—1. 40 P. At. $
The Pampero , after landing Lopez
and his troops, sailed northward- The
troops proceeded into the interior forth
with. Gn the reception of the intelli
gence, the authorities despatched a large
steamer full of sharp shooters to cot them
off. The Spamliurd* at Matanzas think
the invaders would soon he captured and
shot. It was reported at Matanzas that
Lopez had only four hundred men with
him. *v
| Still Later!
Savannah, Angp,,a2— -2
To the Editors Journal and Messen
ger : —Gen Lopez has fought two battles
—successful in both—and proceeded o n
his march. Troops were sent from Ha
vana to Bahia Honda to attack Lopez.
Accounts that appear to be authentic bv
Vixen, at Prnsencola, state that one whole
Spanish regiment had gone over to Lo
pez. The people were rising in many
quarters.
Accounts of Spanish loss in the two
battles, vary from two to eiuht hundred.
Patriot loss not stated—Spaniards made
fifty-one prisoners, among them Critten
den of Kentnckv. Spaniards lost one
General of Marines—one Commodore.
It is said, that Lopez reneves daily lurge
accessions of force. Fifty-eight Cuban
deserters were taken and shot. A Span
ish Colonel, aid to Captain General was
also shot.
Steamer Union was wrecked and totally
lost. Pixerro is a ground atone of die
Qnintail Bays. A despateh this instant
recieved from New Orleans direct, slates
that there is a great mob in New Oileans.
The Spanish Consul was sotnpclled to
give the names of fifty-one murdered A
mericans which he had through his letters.
The Office of the Spanish paper and three
Spanish Coffee House were deslrnyd.—
The Military were called out.-- Savan
nah Republian.
PtCATi'rrr, Ofvick, 1
New Orleans, Aug. 51 —l2 M. 1
The Umpire. City has arrived. Ln|iix had j
tw.r battles and caine oft” victorious in tuuli. i
llis force killed several hundred Spanish j
troops. One entire Spanish legiuieni joined
Genl. Lopez. Lopez's force is gaining front
twelve to fifteen hundred men daily. <hi
ihe night of the I4tli, over or.e hundred left
Ilavannah to join the invaders.
FROM TI IK UNION. ‘
Air. Editor: — l have read mam ar
gument-’, and heard many reasons assign- j
ed, in support of the proposition that a 1
single Suite has not the right of separate
secetti m from the Confederacy o! Stairs;
but there is one 1 have not \et heard ad
vanced against the doctrine contended
for by those who hold the affirmative of;
the issue, which, to my mind, is conclu
sive against the existence of any stub
right, at least under the Constitution.—
This instrument declares, (Art. 7ili) that
“The ratification of the Convention of
nine Slates shall he sufficient for the es
tablishment ol this Constitution between
the Slates so ratifying the same.*’ /1 i>
n principle in law, than which none is
more firmly established by ihe books,
that it requires the same power to undo
that it takes to do a tiling—it requires
the same legislative force or power lo re
peal or abrogate a law that it takes to
make or establish one. I speak o| the !<•
gal hearing of the question. Now how
many States, or r.uher, the ratification of
Conventions ol how many States were
‘sufficient’ to .establish’ the Constitution,
or form the Union which is the same
tiling/ Was the ratification of the Con
vention of one State ‘Sufficient?* No.
Was the ratification of five States ‘suffi.
cient?’ No. How many States then
did it take to establish die Constitution
and form the Union? It took Niue to
do it. Now, the question is, ran tile
Conventions of any less than nine, or a
majority of the States undo or abolish
what it Conventions of nine
, States, out of the original thirteen to do
or establish ?
A CAROLS ANT
1 StoRJD ~lt commenced ‘blowing- n
’ gdle of wind on. Saturday night from S
to S. E , and continued during the night
and the greater part of Sunday. The
’ wind blew with the greatest violence be
-1 tween daylight and twelve o’clock Sun
day, at wliitli lime it .commenced aba
ting. Dmiuc that time u large utnulit i
ol trees and lenres were hlwn itnwn, ,ui.l
nilii rs wete • nmitferaliL damaged. In
South Hroad-sirret tliete are at least sev
enty five trees dnw n. In the other street
tlnue are large numbers mure or less in
jured, many of them very valuable as
-bade trees anti ornaments to the cit\.
The lious<-s on Cassrl Bow where mu
-itlerablv injured by big. off of
the tin on the roof; the lone of the wind
being so violent as to tear it up (ruin the
weather hoarding, and roll it up like
parchment, causing the roofs to leak
badly. The house on the corner of Lib
erty and Bull streets, owned by Mr. J
S.’Fay, received consideVolde damage,
the tin being forced oil’ the rool in the
s-jine manner. The slirds attached to
die Cotton Prsses of Messrs. C. A. L.
La.MaR and J. Baldwin, recieved slight
damage, portions of [their? roofs having
blown away.
There are several other houses in the
southern portion of the city in course of
erection, slightly damaged. The steam
er Gordon, Caul Brooks, which [eft on
Sunday m.wfiVng at 5 o’clock, for diaries
ton, after proceeding ns far as the Bir
was obliged to return. No injury was
done to die shipping in port, and the
wind blow ing from such :i direction as to
enable those vessels on the coast to make
a good offing, we tire in lu pes they will
escape without (Image. If the storm ex
tended far into the interior, it must I axe
oir*4jNH ii injury to die cotton crop*,
it is exactly one year ago, to a day (24tii
Aug. 1S50) More we muted e need just
such a storm, which was attetodid with
great damage lo die cotton crops in. Flor
ida, Georgia ami n partof.South Caroli
na. it is believed that the storm of |SSO,
was not more violent here than that ofyes
lerday night, curtailed the Crops ofGeor
gia, at least one fifth, from w hat it othet
wise would have been.-Salt Republican.
Just ami Pointed Rebuke .• —The Green
ville (S - C.) Patriot, refers to the biiliant
celebration id’the Fourth r\f July, gotten
up in L md.m liv Mr. J*c.ibody, and
makes the follow ing telling comments:
How different was that noble, proud
American feeling which got uji th-s mag
nificent celebration in a forign land,
from that narrow-tractrd'rabid feeling
which pervaded Soul li Caro inn in almost
all her celebrations on die glorious
Fourth. In London, the Americans, die
liability of England, the wise and vir
tuous of'all nations, ran asssmble to pay
honor to a name and government which
tile Secessionists of the South and the
Abolitionists of the North are openly
striving to dishonor and destroy. What
madness, what infatuation ! These two
extremes in politics, uniting to denounce
the American Revolution and the Ameri
can Government as a failure.
We have rarelly seen, (says the New-
Orleans Crescent,) a mure well-timgd
and happy application. England—and
the South Carolina malcontents have a
sneaking kitulne.-s for dial laud of w’ealihv
j lords and pour people— England, ilimugli
| h>-r leading state-men and citiz ns, was
honoring our national p .wit and giorv
not the giorv “| S nob (’a ohu . was
ci lebraling the liign niemmit-s of our na
tinnnl birthday, forgetting, in her adtni
ration of our present freedom, power and
pioioi-", all that theiewa- in it humilia
ting to her own pi id*—whilst upon our
i -oil, in die sli idow of Fort Monlliie, anil
I the historic memories which gather up
on its walls, tl ere were dime met who
pronounce our government a failure, and
die American Revolution a magnificent
prologue to a paltry failure. The can
non of Fort Moultrie and Eulaw, and
Camden, should have IhhJ jlieir living
echo of the revolutionary battles in which
they thundered, to drown the wliifte of
treasonable disronteni that day, and sum
mon back the noble and patriotic spirits
of Marion, of Hayne, of Rmlege, of
Greene, and all w ho ever fought or spoke
tor South Carolina, freedom and the Un
ion.
C - The New Orleans Bulletin, in
an article speculating upon what may he
the character and extent of Forign inter
ference in the expedition of the Cuban
“Liberators,” concludes with this remark
which we fully endorse:
‘lt is barely possible it (die Cuban af
fair) may resolve itself into a national
question, as it inevitably would, slioidd
anv European power attempt to appro,
priate Cuba to itself. England may
loierlo-e her mortgage, but site can nev
er obtain possession; we would resist the
attempt to the la>l extremity; and on
ibis point the United Stales as an undivid
ed people, (the North vve are confident
would not hold back in such a contest,)
wc would be ready to meet ‘the world in
arms.
x m JmL ’
, the sout¥-¥estGeorgian
oc;m:tssosepk.
; FI!ID \Y, AUGUST 29, 1851.
FOR GOVERNOR,
: II ON. II 0 WE'LL COBB
OF CLARKE COUNTY.
f J
| roll ( on GUESS:
JAMES JOHNSON,
Os Muscogee.
For Senator,
W. N. L, C ROCKER,
. Os Macon C mmy.
i For Representative,
WM. H. ROBINSON,
WBiL
Agents for the South-West Georgian^
Spencer Caldwell, Fori Gaines, AmS]
Jeti'.r A. Hogue, mar Amcricujj/udo.
f J. P. Gaei.ekn, da.
Col. Wsi. T. Pkr.vins, (iuthbc.rt , do.
G. CvitlTHF.lts, Esq. !^m bert, do.
Gn.nr.HT M. Stokks, Slade, Lee co.do.
J Dr. W ,m. M. jm’iiki.s, Dooly cn. do.
M. L. Hqi.|n, liroaksvillr. Stew'rt do
i A. A, Hi.Jkei.v, Griffin, Pike co. da.
John U . feurmN, Griffin, do.
I .1. TANARUS, May, Fran cite Me, do.
A. J. iV inutms, Agent, for Sumter co.
We would call the attention of onr
siildfcrihcrs to our published Terms, and re-
ttiosu who have not complied, to do
so without delay, as our expenses are con
stantly moving on, and without the means
vve cannot lessen them.
If payment is not made liy tile Ist of
October, we will lie compelled to claim an
additional Fifty pents on each subscriber
then in arrears. * ;, r)t
tt?*We have had the pleasure itfam uc
quainntuce with Col. Ed. Floyd, of New G**,
leans, who is now in Oglethorpe on business’*
connected with the N. O. True Delta, De-
Bow’s Review, and the Medical Journal.
Tile True Della is one of the most valuable
papeis published in the City of New Orleans,
and the high reputation which it justly merits ’
is rapidly spreading. We would be glad to 1
see many of our citizens embrace the present J
opportunity of subscribing for it. j
07* Rev. James R. McCarter of Ameti
cus and Rev. Mi. McJVluiray will commence
a meeting at this place to-night. They ex- |
pect to organize a Church to-morrow if cir- i
cumstances seem to justify. Preaching may ;
be expected to continue till Sunday.
Q7*Ogleihorpe is again free from sickness.
The unfavorable report that is abroad in re
gard to the health of the place need no longer
deter strangers from coming here, for there
is no danger. It has been the weather and
not the situation of Oglethorpe, that has cre
ated the ill health already experienced by
onr citizens; Asa proof of that fact, as
slum as there was a change in the weadler the !
sickness disappeared.
Our IV.tl e-House me>i are making I
extensive preparations for the reception of!
Cotton. The Mo,, hunts are living in large |
storks of Di v Goods and Groceries, for the i
accomodation of those wlio may make this
place llitir market.. We hope, at ail early
day, to see onr streets crowded with Cotton
•Waggons.
‘•Soiilli Carolina vs the Union.”
Under this head will lie found a Commu
nication on the first page of to-day’s paper,
which first appeared in the “Georgia
Jocmi.il iY. MrsseTiJjer, “Nov. (T, iSSO[ ft;
was written by a citizen of Macon County,
during the Canvass for the State Convention.
The extract quoted from Mr. Holmes’ speech
shows the commercial vagaries of the Dis
union party. Whether Mr. Holmes, in re
moving to California, whore he now resides,
was actuated by despair, seeing no prospect
of a Southern Confederacy; or whether lie
was disgusted with Carolina, or whether lie
is paving die way for southern institutions on
the Pacific, yet remains to be disclosed.
“Conservator” treats Ins political adversa
ries w ith flunked respect. His analysis of
the Palmetto character, haughty and ambi
tious, tula or rum, is true to the life. We
ask our leaders to jieruse the communication.
It timchi s off the mock chivalry with merit
ed sarcasm./
We are informed, that there is a case of
the cholera in Griffin, Ga.
From communications vve learn
that the Hon. Howell Cobb is rapidly
gaining ground in Middle Georgia, suc
cess lo him
07* Wo shall lay before our readers next
week a portion of Hon. Howell Cobb’s let
ter. Owing to its length, we shall have
to divide it and only publish half at a time.
It is an able document,’one which entirely
discomfits our political enemies, leaving
them wholly at their wits end lo know how
to attack it. As this letter was written in
I answer toquestions propounded to Mr. Cobli
j by a Disunion Committee, it was the duty of
that committee to lay it before the public as
-non as they received it, through the medium
us their presses. Why did they not do tliisf;
Simply because they knew it would correct
die many falsehoods and eronemis impres
sions they are endeavoring to force upon the
minds of the people. The disunion presses,
howevei, are endeavoring to cripple the
;t<-r, by taking up detached fragments anj
i using every artifice to misconstrue
‘"itvis will avail tlu-in nothing, tire li
Union are rleteimined that the
have an uppurtnniiy at least Abe
whole hIU r, just as Mr. ColdmH’nte it.
CCT’ We copy the follovHjjg article from
the editorial columns afsgZColumbns S entL
ncl of the 21st inst. Mffipnvite all who have
any doubt as of the McDonald
party have bjtview, to give it a careful peru-’
sal. Tbri&enlinel is a zealous advocate
jUiercaudl of McDonald and a kind of text
[book for itis party, consequently vvliat he
sbys is but the sentiments of his parly and
their candidates. Well; here is the article:
Tllic co-operation Party of south
Carolina.
“It appears to us that those who propose to
wait for co-operation are pursuing a strange
ly fatal and suicidal policy if they arc sincere
in their professions of a desire to act at all.
“Rat your own shoulders to the wheel, and
then call oil Hercules,’ is an old adage, and
one full of meaning and sense. They pro
fess a desire for Southern Confederacy, but
tin y wish to wait until other States are ready
lo form it with them. Suppose no other
State will move—will she continue to sub
mit 1 We hope not.
The only way in which there can be co
operation is for somebody to begin. Wc re
cieved in our revolutionary struggle no aid
from France until vve had put our own shoul
ders to the wheel. Suppose Massachusetts
had postponed her resistance until site could
have got the oilier colonies lo declare their
independence. We should have been depen
dencies of the British Government perhaps
le this day. When Lopez, some months since
attempted to revolutionize Cuba, every body
said it was a great piece of folly. Let the
of..£)ul>u, said they, begin themselves,
and they will have plenty of help. So say
vre now of Sojutii Carolina; let her begin,
and she will soon have plenty of help. If
the North should have the wisdom to let her
alone, quietly ty manage her own affairs,
why the South would go witlr her, as a mat
ter of course, and so will thsrWest. But. if
in their arrogance and folly,, they should at
tempt to make war upon her, the whole
South will rise up in her defence.
The great evil that will result from the
co-operationists of South Carolina, is thai
they render their friends in other States
powerless —they destroy the chance of co
operation. As States, Georgia, Alabama,
and Mississippi, cannot co-operate without a
majority to give them the control of the
Government. Hence, although the Southern
Rights party in Georgia may be in the min
ority by only one hundred, they can do noth
ing to bring about co-operation while South
Carolina waits for it. Let South Carolina
move, and she will not only have the South
ern Rights party of Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, to co-operate with her, but she
will soon have the help of a ll of the States.
Then if South Carolina wants co-opera
iion: let her act. if she were out o* the Un
‘ ion to-day, we have no doubt that the South
! rrn Righis party would carry the elections
| in October by an overwhelming majority.”
In tli< outset of (lie above article, the ed
j dot of the Sentinel upbraids South Carolina
: because she does not secede at oner 1 . He
wants a Southern Confederacy and he hopes
Smith Carolina will not submit any longer,
but come right out at once and proceed to
establish it.
In the second paragraph, he say, if South
Caiolioa will only begin “she will soon have
plenty of help.” •
In liis third |iaragraph, you see, he tells
South Carolina that Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi cannot co-operate without a ma
jo, iy to give them the control of the Gov
ernment. Give them tlie majority and the
work is done—the Southern Confederacy
is formed. Friends of the Union what think
you of this? Here are their nefarious and
unholy disigns to destroy the present Go
vernment clearly set forth, and their plans
for accomplishing its destruction fully con
fessed. As soon as they have the majority,
the present Government is to be overthrown.
If McDonald is elected Governor and a
majority of the Legislature is disunion or
“Southern Rjghts” as they term themsel
ves, South Carolina is in secede and Geor
gia is to follow suit, then it is expected that
Alabama and Mississipjii will bring up the
rear. These four States are to from the
Southern Confederecy, and then proceed to
annex any other States that see proper to
join them. This is all very nicely worked out]
and from the Sentinels article the whole
plan seems to rest on the Georgia election.
Can it be possible that the voters of Geor
gia will suffer this unwholy scheme to be car
; jied into effect! Surely there are but few
who will lend their aid to this inglorious
. stratagem to destroy the Union.
Mr. Johnson at Aniericns.
Messrs Editors :—The first discussion
; between Messrs. Johnson and Benning.
■ came off Inst Saturday in this place it w wA
, a proud triumph for the cause
, Union. w
Mr. Benning, in opening
sion, vainly attempted to ji amSf that he
was on tlie Georgia Plutfigk although
\ he admitted that he Bps on the
Nashville Rlatlwan : the plat-
Ini’m of Dii'JfPlf# GonviMitimt that
non mated flßKiir.iid; arid especially on
Convention, which
This last only propo-
JjjgSpto submit lo the Georgia Platform
jgjFO LONG ns it remains the unreversed
■Bei i-uui of the State !
* , Mr. Benuintr urjged the points in open
, and candid manner, and shuddered nnt to
confess, that bad lie been in a Southern
Congeress, be would have advocated a
D/SSOLUTION OF THE UNION !
He declared the passage ol the Compro
mise measures by Congress a sufficient
cause for a dissolution of the Union of;
this Government.
Mr. Benning said his plan was, to
strike out aR State lines, and make a
consolidated Republic—contending that
‘consolidated power was the best—and
cited New York as an instance of the 1
fact. Upon these admissions and argu
ments, the Southern Rights men hung
their heads, and several of them were
converted, and came out in favor of the
Constitutional Union party.
Mr. Johnson’s reply was an eloquent
and masterly defence of the positions oc
cupied by the Union Party. Clearly did
he mard out the inconsistency of bis op
ponents who have been, or are now oc
cupying so many different platforms: and
demonstrated beyond all doubt that the
main object of the Southern Rights par
ty, in embarking on the Georgia platform
was lo sink it—whereby a way might be
opened to unfurl again the Banner of
DISUN/ON. Mr. Johnson made it
maifest by bis lucid arguments, that
soold the UNION cause scceed, all would
be peace and safety ; but should McDon
ald and his friends succeed in the ap
proaching contest that South Carolina
would regard it as endorsing her Southern
Rights notions, which are for w ar against
the Government. Being tlms backed
by Georgia, she would proceed |to ac
complish her schemes of revolution, with
the hope and prospect of carrying Geor
gia with her.
In conclusion, permit me to say, that
the discussion just passed and the splenv
did effort of Mr. Cobb on the 25th tilt.,
in which he manifested his devotion to
the rights of the South and the integrity
of the Government, have arroused the
friends ol the Uuion to vigorous and
concerted action. Verily, I say unto
you, that a signal triumph awaits the
friends of the Union. Fear not South-
Western Georgia; she will speak in lan
guage not to be mistaken. Yours, most
respectfully. **
Mr. CALHOUN ON SECESSION.
In die month of February, 1850 a debate
took place in tho Senate of the United States
between Messrs. Rives of Virginia and Cal
houn of South Carolina, in regard to the
Revenue Collection Bill, in which the doc
trine of secession, or the right of a State to
resume die powers granted to the General
Government, jan e under consideration. Mr.
Rives made a very powerful argument, in
which he charged Mr. Calhoun with having
avowed the rfoctiinn :
Mr. Calhoun here said that lie had been
misapprehended by the Senator from Vir
ginia; that he had not said that the people, of
a State might resume the powers which had
been,granted to the General Government;
but iSat they had - right to judge of the ex
tent of those powers, and whether they had
been exeeeded.
Mr. Riv s still insisted that the Senator
from Carolina hud avowed the doctrine of
secession ’
Mr. Calhoun again explained: He had
that if a Stale shoud resume the
power# granted to the General Government,
stkyh resumption would only be a breach of:
compact, for which the State, as a commu
nity, would be responsible, and not its citizens 1
injividuallv,— [Gates 4’ Seaton's Congres
sioita) Debates, Vol. IX, Part 1, pp, 500,
Tljtei is almost precisely the doctrine avow- j
ed incite letter of Mr. Cobb. Mj - Calhoun
did no) conled for die right of secession, even
for just cause. He did not, as do tho mod
ern secessionists, contend, that a State must
be the sole judge. He recognized both tiie
sovereignty of ,lbe States, nnd the equality
of the Statps; He admitted the rights of the
other States as well as the seceding State,
to judge for themselves as to the extent of
the grievances complained of, and as to
whether the breach of the compact was justi
fiable or not.
He goes further. With Mr. Cobb he de’
dares that the Slate seceding for just cause
would be subject to international liabilities:
but to international liabilities only—in other
words, that its citizens would not be punish*’
able for treason. This is precisely the doc- J
Dins laid down in the letter of Mr. Cobb.— !
It is the doctrine of the fourth resolution of 1
the Georgia Platform. It is tho doctrino :
which wc think must be recognized by every j
man, and every party who does not wish to
set up a “cowardly plea” to excuse himself!
for waging war upon the Government of his I
fathers.— Union Banner.
COERCION AND
few paragraphs from a recent addrjtspf
Gen. WallaCx, of South Carolina, in
The Richmond RepvbliwfßgjmT quo.
the
juu pose and views of the Secession leatU
ipt offthal State, add* tne following per
fltineni remarks, to which we call the at
i tendon of those who wish to force Geor
, gia and t'.te other Southern States to fol
| low the Secession lead of Carotins :
“With onr contemporary of the Balti
more American, we do not see how the
enforcement of the Constitution and the
laws of the General Geverument in any
Slate can be properly said to involve the
destruction of the rights of the States, or
any one ol them. We do not believe,
however, that any coercion will be used,
and that the United States will so far
gratify Soot li Carolina as lo cross swords
i with her chivalry on the battle field.—
We are free to confess that we should de
precate as a great calamity even the en
forcement of the law’ at the point of the
bayonet, but we must also declare that
there is anothar kind of coercion which
we regard as more tyrannical and cruel
. —the process, virtually amounting to
coercion, by which other slave States are
to be compelled to co.-operale with South
Carolina.
If coercion, even when only the en
forcement of the Constitution and the
laws of our country, is abhorrent to the
mind, much more It is repulsive and a
! bominable, w hen it is the iustrmenl of a
lawless and despotic spirit, wielded by
the lew to controle the many. If we
should de|)lore>the shedding of a single
drop of blood by federal bayonets in
South Carolina, we should regard it as
much more lamentable that South Caroli
na dictation should involve all the other
j Southern States, whose wishes and inter
i ests are opjiosed to her measures, in a
; similar calamity, h is evident to all
’ that her chief reliance in the aproarhitig
1 crisis is,—not that the other Slates will
voluntarily, and with the sanction of tttt ir
. own will and inclinations come to
—but that she will place herself in a po
sition which “must, in the very nature of
things,” ‘ compete them to co operation ?
Their community of interests and the
powerful sympathies arising from com
mon institutions, are relied upon to coerce
them into disunion nnd civil war, hut
gainst it ? The other Southern State*
are to be dragged out of the confederacy
and into the battle field as reniorselesslx,
and with as little regard to their wi-lies,
as ever a Briti h press gang forced meti
on board British ships ot War, or as even
the despots of Europe compelled their
people to fight their vile battle* of tuubu
tion and interest.
Such coercion as this will he regarded
wififh universal abhorrence by all the other
southern States, The whole course of Car
olina is most conrempttinns in them. It
indicates that she attune of all the several
Slates is a safe guardian of Sombero
honor, and that, if they will not agreo
with her views, and voluntarily join her
banner she will place them in a position by
which they will be compelled to give up
their nationality; to relinquish their
fields to desolation, their sons to slaughter
and their households to ruin; to surrender
their past glory and their future hopes in
the American Union ; to follow South
Carolina to the field, and yielding tooth
ers the States, retain only for themselves
the Stripes, fit emblems of their bondage
to an aspiring oligarchy.
/t is well that the politicians of South
j Carolina have so explicitly avowed their
I aims and purposes. Tb it avowal has
defeated their objects. The people of
the other slave States are as proud, reso
lute and patriotic as South Carolina.—
They will not brook compulsion from
j any power.—Odious as is the General
I Government in Carolinas eyes, it may at
least be said that it has never exhibited
such tyranny anti oppression as that con
i lemplated by the Palmetto Slate. Cott
i templuted, we say—but it will never be
! submitted to for any wrong yet suffered
iby the South from the Union! South
! Carolina may secede; she may go; but,
| she will be long solitary and alone, ere
: the Southern States will he compelled to
leave the light of their ancient con stela
| tion, and follow a will-0.-the.wisp into the
| depths of a morass. When they do leave
it, they will leave on account of future
wrongs; they will lesve of their own
free-will; they leave in a Spartan phalanx,
shoulder to shoulder, and with Virginia,
; jlje veteran of the Revolution at the head.
DIFFICULTIES OF SECESSION,
If one tftfj'tign State has a right to
secede at pleasure from the Union so has
another! All the new or old,
are co-equal sovereignties. According
ly, Florida, for which Uncle Sam gave
five millions of dollars, Louisiana, for
which he gave fifteen rrlUlions, and Cali
fornia, New Mexico, &c.L for which one
hundred millions and more have been
I P a 'd by the old gentleman, may each
and every one, to-morrow, secede from
j the confederacy, set up house on their
own hook, and cheat the Uinted States
j out of the whole amount! Again, Louis
i *®na may close up the Mississippi river
1 against all the Western States, and no
] one has a right lo complain of the rank,