Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-12-06
. john Thurman, /
Ba!da Mcdaniel, -,
Benja. WiggInlon, pi'oe'
Colin Bnekner,
DAVID q. Mnrfeil,
LOOK Al THIS
The Harford Conrentionis's and The SCUM
CnroLilln NlLLifners

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Carolina NuttGers!
We have had occasion, more than once, to
,I.cs the pro3 Feelings of the Northprn malcon.
tent, OF 1914 IN juxtaPostion with those OF the
southern disunionists OF 1880. We have high
authority for saying that The former ongh, tc
have beenepul " death under the = second sec.
ton ofthe Rules and Articles OF War" aud il
the celebrated jnrisr VIII, tells us so, was rlgh
surely the same fate ought 10 he visited upon
Il cir Southern imitaiors, ii il can be shewn that
they seek the attainment Of tae same ruinons
object by the same unholy means.
What was the object ofthe Hartford Con
yentionists2 II was the ratification ofthe Lar
declaring the United States al ,oar tcM Great
Britain. And what were the means2 4 Nor.
thern Contention.
What is The object Of the Southern Nuify-
ers9 MS The notification of The TariG Lacs.
And what are the means 4 Southern Con-
pention.
But it is sal 1 the Hartford Convenlioni8ts
were traitors. because " o were then in a state
ofwar; aud we are left 10 draw The illogical
inference that the Southern NnIlifyers are pa
triots. because we are now in state Of peace.
Strange reasoning, this, for sch00L-men But
they should understana that it is not the trer-
else Of the RICH, Of notification. nor the erpedt-
sncD orHs exercise at this or that juncture, a
ganst which their opponents protest but II is
against the existence of The right itself. The
question was never asl<e |. have the Hartford
conspirators chosen proper time for resoriing
10 this harsh remedy TO redress their real or i'm
aginary grievances But have they such right
tall7 In other words. does it not require the
same power II repe law that 1t required to
enact it ? Or, has singleiSiate, or coniedera-
cyof hall dozen States, in the North or in the
south power To set al defiance "A law enacted
oy the Representatives of the twenty tour States
assembled in Congress, and acting in obedience
IN the provisions OF the Federal Constitution
Such a claim is absurd is on the face OF 1t ;
and he who honeslv contends for it is as bllud
as a beetle TO the consequences which would
follow its admission. The Union could not
exist one year il such right be acknowledged.
We have opportunely met in the National
Intehgcncer via the sn' joined letter, written
bya member of the Hartford Convention, in
1914, TO u gentleman IN South Cdr0itna (stranse
coincidence y To which we would beg the es-
pecial attention Of the reader Let him change
the words North to South aud pnr aud embar-
20 to tariff and he has Southern Nuillfyer
before bin, using the very Arguments OF a har'-
ford Conyeniionlsl No VIC retrac'. The Hart
ford men did not go so far as the Sontherners
for, while the latter preienh 10 derive authority
for their nYoceedings from the Virginia Reso-
lutions of'93 IN de.p ite of tue declarations OF
their author, that they were never designed to
sanction such proceedings, the former very 10
genuously and candidly admitted thai The M =
LITIGATION doclrine was not maintained or sane
toned by those Resolutions. They say that
those Revolutions hare not that meaning
Nor have they. Bur. we ngaia ask our readers
TO read the letter and as he reads, lei him
make the alterations necessary TO convert II into
South Carolina protest and he will then see.
that the Nullifyers are Hartford Conyeniionists
in principle aud that i. they succeed now, The
dissolution Of the Union is as certaia as il they
had succeeded in 1914:
Letter from n Member of The Hartford Conren-
lion 10 friend IN South Carolina
HARTFORD. OCTOBER, 1914.
Sir: On The topics thar now agitste the pub
lie mind. never had but one opinion affecting
as well the injury as the remedy. Inc Embar
go was a dangerous, palpablp, aud deliberate
violation of the Constitution. The injury tar ea
Ceeds the common estimate, which considers II
as unjust, unequal and oppressive. The evi
swells, when consider the motives, tenden
cirs abuses and probable duration to sizt
altogether alarming. But with the loss of on
navigation and commerce, " hich has poiirater
the North, We have mad TO endure all thu
burlhens OF n war. The magnitude ot th'
evil in this view, would ordinarily he con
sIdered cause enough for resistance Ia the IN os
extreme IN Udes, wuen, AS in tins csse, II Is Oh
Nious the common remedy, that OF the ballo
box, does not and Cannot apply, and when Il
mention il, is TO mock the sufferer. In thes
views, we behold, among oihrr evil results
power IN which we have no practical paricipa
tOn. and over which we have control, EN-
ployed not simply in imposing the burthen u
tile day upon us. un just and enormous in itsel
bat in the establishing al the same time princi
pies, which in their effect aud tendency, sui
vert hrst the great pecunIary interests of IN
Nor'h, aud next all the protective power Of IN
States. These buriheus are imposed u In
great 'njsry and perhaps final supyersion OF n
great objects of industry on which they beat
aney are UNJUST and miutf rattle.
believe this statement % be faithfully tru'
except as II shall be wanting in strength. an,
be not greatly oveicharged, does il not Z,
niolt case involving most deeply aad IN nriou
~ The Interests, the hon1r nni the prscucal IL
dependence OF the State In the same mai
her It affects all the Northern SIales.
entertain the opinion that the evil oug
n"' TO he borne that il ought TO he reslst-d
the proaer time and under the proper circun
stances. atany and every hazard peacea all
u we can, torcibly # we must" Il ought