The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-12-18

Army and Navy Of the United States.
How then can notification be peace
TI? Ifthe State authorities resist and
overcome the Judiciary Of the United
States, must not the President support
it? Must he not obey tho laws and re-
pei force by force? 1t is a mockery Of
common sense to call notification a
peaceful remedy. 1t must and will, itself,
begin the work Of violence. The first
violence must be committed by il, in re-
sisting the Judicial authorities of the Un-
ion. This will lead to further violence.
and the flames of civil war will blaze up
a: once in every quarter of that unhap-
py state.
Can there be doubt of the purpose
OF the Nullifiers to carry 1t to civil war :?
Why she recent language of their lead
ing partizans why do we hear Of
pledges Of life, fortune, and sacred hon
or, "to carry the resolves of the conven-
ton" Why has Governor Hamilton
been so assiduously courting and drilling
the Militia ? Why has he recently, by
the most extraordinary means, procured
himself to be elevated to the military
rank of a Brigadier General What is
all this but preparation for war What
does Hamilton mean, but to be the mill
tary hero of Notification, while Hayne
shall hold the civil power, and Calhoun,
the desperate author of the whole scheme.
watch to profit by their hazards and
their perils?
This then, is Notification lit is
CIVIL WAR AND DISUNION
Let each American now ask himself,
shall the Federal Union be PRESCRIBED
Shall these desperate men be permitted
to entail on this happy land, or South
Carolina itself, the miseries of civil war
and the everlasting evils which will! flow
from the destruction of this confederacy?
Who is willing to have the blood of mil
lions, the oppression Of this beautiful
continent and the slavery Of its inhabi-
tants, born and unborn, laid at his door!
Let no man promise himself that these
states can be riven asunder, and the
fragments exist along side Of each other
in perpetual peace. Any anticipation
ofthat sort is contradIcted by all history,
by the disposition of men, and by the
peculiar circumstances in which the
new States or confederacies would be
placed.---As family quarrels are most
bitter, SO animosities as deep as can
torture the human heart, would actuate
the disiointed remains of this confedera-
cy, urging them into frequent conflicts,
the most persevering and embittered.
The North would rise up against the South
the South against the North. The West
would send her hordes over the noun
tains in search of glory and conquest.
Instead of being land of peace, plenty,
and happiness, our country would pre-
sent scenes of war, want and wretched-
ness. From the points of millions of
bayonets, liberty would fly to other lands,
and leave US ages of blood. extortion and
misery, in the place of the Union, whose
blessing are now treated with derision.
Is it asked how the career of the Null
lifers is TO be cur short and their fatal
designs defeated! 1t may be done with
out the shedding Of one drop of blood.
Let the whole country rise up as one
man and denounce them. Let the whole
people out of the limits of South Caroli-
ma, and the true hearts within, form
themselves at once into the great UNION
PARTY, and say to them, IN language
which they will understand, THIS UN-
ION SHALL NOT BE DISSOLVED.
Let them resolve, one and ali, that while
they will make every concession to re-
move all just causes Of complaint, they
will rally around the government in sup
port of the Union which must be preserv-
ID at evcry hazard. Let them tell the
Nullifiers, il is not for you that we step
forward in this crisis it is for ourselves,
our children for your children, for gen.
erations unborn, for the cause offreedom
and the happiness Of mankind. .i7
A language like this from the other
States, and especially from the States in
the South--fron. Virginia-from North
Carolina--from Georgia--frsm AIaba.
ma-would make these men pause in
their mad career, aud suspend the hand
Of violence. Deprived Of all hope from
without, and rssoluteIy opposed within,
they would see only their own immediate
ruin in forward step and would return
to the: path Of duty aud Of moderation. +
Will the States and the people in
the South, the West. the North or the
East, withhold the expression of their
firm resolves not to permit the dissolu-
ton Of this Unionl Will they omit to
do an act of peace, when they may pre-
vent an act, or acts, which their country
will mourn for ages 20 come Will
they not concentrate public opinion up
on this horrible design, with an intensity
which shall make its prosecutors sb:ink
appalled, from their own imaginings be-
fore they are bodied forth in acts Of vio-
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