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a nation of pirates, assassins and traitors.

MORE SOUTHERN GOOD SENSE.; A Second Letter from Hon. B.F. Perry Real Feelings of the North and South.
Published: September 3, 1860

. .From the Charleston Courier.

TO "MANY CITIZENS OF CHARLESTON."

In your communication addressed to me, in the Courier of the 24th inst., you ask whether my recent letter, or my resolutions in the Legislature last Win ter, "is intended to be considered my opinion?" and "a candid answer is desired." In all candor and sincerity, I answer both, and will adhere to both with all that "honesty" which you say you have heretofore given me credit for.

The letter and resolutions are not at "variance," as you assert, and this I am ready to show in a few words. First, let me state the circumstances under which my resolutions were penned and offered. Public meetings were held throughout the Northern States, expressing the deepest sympathy with JOHN BROWN, and approving what he had done! No counter meetings had been gotten up, or any expression of public opinion given, at the North, against sentiments so revolting to Christianity and civilization, and which, in my opinion, characterized them as pirates, traitors and assassins.

Under these circumstances my resolutions were offered, as I said in my speech, to rebuke the Northern people. I declared, at the same time and in the same speech, that I did not or could not believe such sentiments and feelings were general in the Northern States. Immediately afterwards, public meetings were held in almost every city and town at the North, denouncing, in the strongest terms, the conduct of JOHN BROWN and all who sympathized with him. Speeches were made and resolutions adopted by the wise and great, as well as by the humble and lowly, entirely satisfactory to the South. The leaders of the Republican Party, even such men as SEWARD and WILSON, declared in the Senate of the United States, that they repudiated such feelings and sentiments. It became manifest that such fiendish sympathy and expressions were confined to the rabid, fanatical Abolitionists alone.

In recent publications made by GERRITT SMITH and LLOYD GARRISON, the leaders of the Abolition party at the North, they bemoan the downfall of their cause in the Northern States, express their want of confidence in the Black Republican party, and their determination not to support such a party in the coming Presidential contest. But there publications are excluded from all Southern papers, and are unknown to the Southern people generally. These honest, rabid, political Abolitionists say what is true -- that they have been deceived by the Black Republican party, and that this party cares nothing for the negro; that their only object is to get into power, and when in power, they will make no more noise against the South or slavery! Their only ambition is office and the spoils of office -- victory and destruction. In other words, it is a political game which they are playing, without faith or sincerity to any principle whatever!

Now, I repeat and readopt every sentiment, expression and word in my resolutions, and say that I feel an inexpressible scorn and contempt for the infamous, hypocritical sympathy expressed by a portion of the Northern people for the attempted insurrection at Harper's Ferry, and that the general adoption of such feelings and sentiments, alike revolting to Christianity and civilization, by the Northern States, will make it dishonorable and dishonoring for South Carolina, and the other slaveholding States, to continue united in the same Government with a people whose social and moral tone would characterize them as a nation of pirates, assassins and traitors.

Whenever there is sufficient evidence before the country to induce the Southern States to believe that the non-slaveholding States have generally adopted the fiendish doctrines set forth in the addresses and resolutions at the John Brown sympathizing public meetings, I am for disconnecting at once, and forever, all political ties which unite us, as one people, with the Northern States. But I feel and know that such sentiments are now utterly repudiated by the whole Democratic Party North, as well as by the entire Union or Bell and Everett Party, and a large portion of the Black Republican Party, composing, perhaps, nine-tenths of the Northern people. Believing this, as I most sincerely do, I am a Union man till the contrary offers, or until I see an overt act of treason against the Constitution and the South by those who control the Federal Government. I am unwilling to break up the Union on an uncertainty. I will take no counsel from base fear or cowardly apprehensions.

A "Secessionist" in the Mercury says: "I talk very much like the Tories did in the Revolution, and that, he who advises against withdrawing from the Federal Union now would then have opposed a separation from Great Britain. Let us see if we have the same cause for revolution that our ancestors had. The following are some of the grievances which impelled the patriots and sages of the Revolution to separate from the mother country, as set forth in their Declaration of Independence.

Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good were refused. Governors were forbidden to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance. People were required to relinquish the right of representation in the Legislature. Legislative bodies were called together at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from their public records. Representative houses were dissolved for opposing an invasion of the rights of the people. The population of the Colonies was prevented. The administration of justice was obstructed. A multitude of new offices were created, and successors of officers sent to harass the people, and eat out their substance. Standing armies were kept up in time of peace without the consent of the Legislatures. The military was made independent of and superior to the civil power. The people were subjected to jurisdiction foreign to their constitutions and laws. Large bodies of armed troops were quartered on them. Murderers of the inhabitants of the colonies were protected by mock trials, from punishment. Trade with all parts of the world was cut off. Taxes were imposed without the consent of the people. The trial by jury was denied. The citizens were transported beyond the seas to be tried for pretended offences. Charters were taken away, most valuable laws abolished, and forms of government altered. Legislatures suspended. War was waged against the people. Our seas were plundered, coasts ravaged, towns burnt, and the lives of our people destroyed. Large armies of foreign mercenaries were transported hither to complete the work of desolation and tyranny. Citizens were made to bear arms against their country. Insurrections were excited, and the merciless Indian savage called in to murder all ages and sexes.

Have we any such causes at present for breaking up the Government and dissolving the Union. Since the formation of our Government nine slave States have been added to the Confederacy, viz.: Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas and Texas. No slave State has ever been excluded from the Federal Union. The Federal Government has recently declared that the people of every new State shall decide for themselves whether they will have or prohibit slavery. The odious Missouri restriction, sanctioned by a Southern President, with Mr. Calhoun in his Cabinet, has been repealed, and in favor of slavery. The Federal Government, with a Northern President at its head, has passed a fugitive slave law within a few years past. This law has been enforced by all the powers of the Federal Government. Through their Judiciary the Government has declared that the citizens of the Slaveholding States have the same right to move with their slaves into a Territory that the citizens of the non-slaveholding States have to move there with their property. The Federal Government has declared that Congress has no right to pass any law prohibiting Slavery in the Territories, and that the Territorial Governments have no such power. What more do we want? Where is the analogy between our present grievances and those of our forefathers, who separated from the British Throne, and established the American Republic?

Where, let me ask "A Secessionist," in the name of God and all that is sacred on earth, where are those violations of the Federal Constitution, and those actual existing grievances of the South which, in his own language, would brand WASHINGTON as a traitor, if he were now to repeat the language of his Farewell Address in reference to the value of the American Union? They may come. It is possible. When they do, we will meet them like men. But, until then, we may be excused for admiring, loving, and holding sacred the dying, words of the Father of his Country. If they had been uttered yesterday, they could not have been more appropriate. I beg permission to repeat them:

"The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to forsee that from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as a palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety, discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."

This is the warning, prophetic language of the Father of his Country -- the words of his Farewell Address to his countrymen -- embodying that great and glorious sentiment of his heart -- Independence, Union, and Liberty -- which manifested itself in every act and word of his illustrious life, repeated in his will, and left as a dying legacy to his country! Is there a man, now living, who has studied, honors and appreciates the character of WASHINGTON, so reckless as to say, that if he were to rise from his grave, he would not, at this time, with a full knowledge of the past and present history of the Republic, repeat with tenfold earnestness. North and South, every word he had ever uttered in reference to the value of the Union? And yet if he did, "A Secessionist" would brand the name of WASHINGTON as a TRAITOR TO THE SOUTH!!

During the eight years of WASHINGTON's Administration, he saw enough of sectional strife and sectional jealousy, to have a presentiment of what was to occur in the future history of the Republic. Hence his great anxiety on that subject, and his dreadful apprehensions about the Union. The evils of disunion are well portrayed in his Farewell Address, and deserve to be read by those who are so anxious to real into fragments the America Republic.

B.F. PERRY.

GREENVILLE, S.C., AUG. 26, 1860.