Excerpt from The South Alone, Should Govern the South: And African Slavery Should Be Controlled
Agreeably to a call for a public meeting of the citizens of St. John's Colleton, to be held at Rockville, to receive the report of their delegates to the Democratic State Convention, lately held in Columbia, a meeting was held for that purpose on Thursday, the 7th inst.
Mr. Townsend then presented the report as one of the delegates; and afterwards an address, in vindication of the 10th resolution of the St. John's Colleton series, recommending the policy cf a Southern Confederacy.
After he had concluded, Mr. Richard E.Jenkins, one of the alternate delegates who was appointed to the late Convention, offered the following
mble and resolution, which was unanimously adopted:
Whereas, the topics discussed in the address of the Hon. John Townsend, which he has just presented to us, being the condition of the South in the present Union, and her gloomy prospects for the future, together with the measures of remedy suitable to her case, are subjects of deep interest to every Southern man, and call for his most profound meditation; therefore be it
Resolved, That Mr. Townsend be requested to have his address published in the public prints.
After presenting the "Report of the Delegates," above alluded to, (but which is here omitted), Mr. Townsend continued to address the meeting as follows:
Address.
I give it as my deliberate conviction, Mr. Chairman, that the present condition and future prospects of the South, in this Union, are such as to forbid any trifling with her rights; but call for a full and explicit declaration and acknowledgment of them. This declaration I have not seen anywhere better done, than in the platform of principles put forth by Alabama and adopted by this Parish when they lately appointed Delegates to the Democratic State Convention in Columbia. Those resolutions coyer the whole ground of our rights in the Territories which are the subjects of present: dispute; and they do this with a manliness, clearness,
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