South Carolina.Springfield, Illinois, State Journal [Republican](5 June 1856)
The Louisville Journal in an article upon the
attack of Brooks upon Sumner, concludes with
the following paragraph, every word of which is
true. The only men in South Carolina who
gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary
war, were poor men, and poor men in
South Carolina at this time are denied the right
of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office.
The Louisville Journal says:
"There were twice as many traitors in South
Carolina in the days of the Revolution, as in any
other State in proportion to population, and we
think that her soil as a general rule, grows worse
men now than it did then.
"The shameful imbecility of South Carolina
from slavery during the Revolution and its more
shameful assumptions for slavery since, to say
nothing of its hordes of tories during the Revolution
and ever since, is so clearly seen in the
history of our country, that it is surprising any
body out of South Carolina should pronounce it
libellous, or be so shameless as to attack Sumner
(by way of making a sneaking justification of
Brooks) for flinging the hard fact in the teeth
of the blustering bullies who truly represent in
Congress that pestilent State, which, with absurd
insolence and vanity, claims to be the State
-- par excellence, the commonwealth of the continent.
"The honors ascribed to South Carolinians
for bravery in the Revolution, by Webster, and
the common consent of mankind, belong not to
the slaveholders, but to the 'poor white trash,'
so despised then and now, by the lordly neighbors.
The oligarchy of South Carolina was as
tremulous then at the idea of war with England,
and had the palsy of conservatism, as now.
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