their
attributes.

Let not, therefore, the misguided and designing intermeddlers
who seek to destroy our peace, imagining that they are
serving the cause of God by practically arraigning the
decrees of his Providence. Indeed it would scarcely excite
surprise, if with the impious audacity of those who projected
the tower of Babel, they should attempt to scale the
battlements of Heaven, and remonstrate with the God of wisdom
for having put THE MARK OF CAIN AND THE CURSE OF HAM upon the
African race instead of the European.

The Governor then proceeds to give his views on the political bearings
of the question, and thus sums them up:--

"DOMESTIC SLAVERY, THEREFORE, INSTEAD OF BEING A POLITICAL
EVIL, IS THE CORNER STONE OF OUR REPUBLICAN EDIFICE. No
patriot who justly estimates our privileges, will tolerate
the idea of emancipation, at any period however remote, or on
any conditions of pecuniary advantage, however favorable. I
would as soon think of opening a negotiation for selling the
liberty of the State at once, as for making any stipulations
for the ultimate emancipation of our slaves. So deep is my
conviction on this subject, that if I were doomed to die
immediately after recording these sentiments, I could say in
all sincerity, and under all the sanctions of Christianity
and patriotism, GOD FORBID THAT MY DESCENDANTS, IN THE
REMOTEST GENERATIONS, SHOULD LIVE IN ANY OTHER THAN A
COMMUNITY HAVING THE INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY."

The conduct of the clergy of South Carolina, may be inferred from the
following account of a great _pro_-slavery meeting, held in the city
of Charleston, to denounce in the most malignant spirit, the
abolitionists of the North:

(_From the Charleston Courier._)

GREAT AND IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING.

One of the most imposing assemblages of citizens in respect
of numbers, intelligence and respectability that we have ever
witnessed, met yesterday morning at the City Hall, to receive
the report of the Committee of twenty-one, appointed by the
meeting on the 4th inst. on the incendiary machinations now
in progress against the peace and welfare of the Southern
States. THE CLERGY OF ALL DENOMINATIONS ATTENDED IN A BODY,
LENDING THEIR SANCTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS, AND AIDING BY
THEIR PRESENCE, TO THE IMPRESSIVE CHARACTER OF THE SCENE!

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