Manuscript Fragment, undated
The Ipse dixit of a lawyer, with [?]
[?]uff. When intended to deceive—Fugitives that [?]
[?] under the form of law. Would then (that is [?] Secession
[?] be surrendered &c—Now it is well [?]
[?] SoCa would not have to invade with the point of [?]
[?] Georgia (I only mention the border states that [?]
for the recovery of such of her fugitives as might have
[?] those states—from the fact that those slaves would holding
their own slaves under a more precarious tenure than SoCa
[?] would hold their own slaves under a more precarious tenem
[?] because if the SoCa fugitive escapes to NoCa, NoCa
[?] her fugitive may escape to SoCa and [?] therefore
allow South Carolina to smuggle back her property. That she may
smuggle her own in return—so that the other states would be as bad off
on that score as SoCa—but that is not all SoCa would be out
of the world so far as connection with U.S. is concerned, and
every Negro that could escape to SoCa would be in law as free a
man as ever was born—yet SoCa would say to her Sister State, here
is your fugitive, although in law it be free, of right it is yours
[?] he cost you the clean cash take him—but if she takes him
according to the [?] law of the U.S. on the subject it is Piracy and
the owner of the property is punished with death. So that the invasion at the
heart of the buyout is between the other States and the federal government
while SoCa enjoys the quiet and peace secured to her by Secession—but
it [?] the States whose honest sons were slaughtered like
dogs by the Federal government for obtaining their rights long to find
out [?] the Federal government or SoCa and
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the death, [?] action followed by
Co-operation and co-operation by a Southern Confederacy, without
firing a gun on SoCa, notwithstanding Col Dudleys war
bugle and [?] of distress
13,14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 all [?] away from the
Southern Confederacy /
all these objections sink under the weight of the Southern
Confederacy which I have established by both [?]
and [?]sided Secession
20 The objection I have employed to batter down [?]
21 I have shown that by Secession alone [?]
be moved
22 Col Dudley perhaps had the dis[?] of Politi[?]
he had the history of the Revolution if so his reading of [?]
[?] find one distinguished politician
however in the [?] every [?] linguistic—One [?]
[?] opposed to Secession—Some of the
[?] are [?] Clay Webster [?]
and [?] abolition [?]
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Col is in the same category. Great Politicians [?]
[?] opposed to the [?]
defy Col D. and all [?] politicians to [?]
23 All I have to say to this [?], is to ask the voters of
the Congressional district, what more the cotton states[?]
all the world. [?] SoCa could with the other states—all the
world. thats a big place but Col D. seems to be as brave as the
[?] coward when he gets [?]
24 Nine states in Con[?]tion pledged themselves to resist if Congress
encroached on the sacred Conf[?] of 36 30 Congress did, and
eight backed out which which deserted their associate SoCa
or the eight. Suppose nine enter into a solemn agreement and
[?] pledging themselves each to the other to maintain
their virginity till [?]—in an evil hour 8 are deported—not willing
or able in the 9th to maintain the purity that Heaven loves. Great God
who that has honor could think it.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (11939) | DL1747.032 | 184 | Letters |
Tags: African Americans, Crime, Guns, Religion, Secession, Slavery
People - Records: 1
- (4303) [associated with] ~ Smith, John Wesley
SOURCES
Manuscript Fragment, undated, DL1747.032, Nau Collection
