ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF BEAUFORT AND COLLETON DISTRICTS, UPON THE SUBJECT OF ABOLITION... JANUARY 15, 1838.
[Washington? 1838]. 13, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound, lightly spotted, Good+.
The South Carolina Congressman, the premiere Fire-Eater at the forefront of the Southern Rights movement, favored secession as early as 1838, "the constitution of the United States having proved inadequate to protect the southern States in the peaceable enjoyment of their rights and property."
Rhett was a bit ahead of his time even in South Carolina, and issues this Address in order to explain himself. Within and without the halls of Congress, he asserts, Slavery is under attack. "A large body of citizens, consisting of one hundred and fifty thousand, organized into one thousand five hundred societies, increasing at the rate of one a day, with boundless resources and ably conducted presses, and agents, and missionaries and martyrs, who pant for distinction in this holy cause, as the best proof of their virtue and sanctity, are permitted, in our sister States, to band together for the openly declared purpose of destroying our institutions." The future of Slavery and the South is too grim to remain in the Union.
II Turnbull 413. AI 52641. Not in LCP. Item #32811
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