Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-01-31
.MONDAF, LaNU.lRY a8, 1895.

Governor Soahard has sent to the Legsla-
lure Of New Jersey, message concerning
Notification. The remarks on the Tariff
and the propriety Of continuing portion OF
its provisions, are worthy attention.
We copy the following from part of the
Message that treats OF Secession and Nulk6ca.
tiOn.--
There is as little sanction for secession as
for qualification, under our institutions. In
deed, when followed 10 their consequences,
they lead 10 the same end. Notification
produces secession. Secession is dissolution
and disunion. The. people Of the United
States agreed TO form one people and one
government. They neither contemplated
nor enacted law OF divorce. And in deter
mining whether they will permit part TO
withdraw from the rest, we are thrown hack
on those original principles of human righte.
about which it is vain to speculate, under
our or any other system. The actual exis
tence Of the absolute right may be admitted.
II does exist. 1t 10 the right Of rebellion and
revolution, which may be acted upon where
cause. Justify the action. Our Declaration
of independence teaches this doctrine. Brt
Soutb Carolina has not seeded from the u
nion--her representatives still take part in lis
elaboration, and the enactments Of its laws.
She has only declared her ultimate purpose
10 secede, If her notification be rot effectual.
Until that is done, she IS. 10 the Union, aud
the laws over her are supreme, and must be
executed. She cannot be in the Union for
one purpose, and out of it for another. Such
anomaly cannot be tolerated
When she shall attempt the final act
Of secession, the rest Of the Union must
decide for themselves and for posterity wl,e-
ther her career shall not be arrested and-the
decision upon that question cannot be too
speedily formed, however tardy may be Its
bromulgation or enforcement. ! cannot hes
,tate TO believe, that the principles Of SELF
defence that hopes Of freedom ---every earth
~ interest-call upon us to refuse our assent.
We must look to consequences, aud contem-
plate results. K seeding state IN the heart
Of the Union, becomes an independent pow
sr She becomes SO complaining of WRONG.
with irritatec feelings-with view OF her
rights and interests which necessarily COM
peIs her to the violation of our rights--to
The infraction and evasion OF our laws and to
the commission of hourly injuries Of oar IN
serests-- injuries can be voided and redress.
ed only, by a resort Of those arguments
which enmity and power have to urge. The
certain. the inevitable, consequence, will
must be--war, subsection, ruin: Ruin 20
that fair system which is the object of pa
triot love-patriot pride-the hope Of Tree
dom. to the remotest recesses of the civilix
ed world. For the blow which shall success
fully efface one of the stars and stripes from
the flag of our Union, can only be the pre-
cursor of that CONFUSION which shall read
that fiag in pieces, and PROSTATE the glorious
column by which it is supported"
Yesterday there was a story in town that
q celebrated manufacturer of guppowder
doiyh the river, some time since refused an
order from South Carolina fer e5 thousand
dollars worth Of his death dealing merchan-
die, henceiorih TO be called Of the peacea-
BILE remedy. Whether The manufacturer
doubted the solyency Of that nation, whether
he would not sell the means OF blowing pro-
lection into the air, or whether he had too
mach business on hand, did not accompany
the rumor, and the world must for the pre-
sen, remain 10 the dark upon these points.
However, il was said that the manufactures
remarked he would rather sell one hundred
thousand dollars worth of gunpowder TO the
General Governmet than twenty five thou
sand dolars worth to South Carolina, and
we entertain very little doubt that he thought
50, whether he gaze utteraDce to the thought
OF not.-Phd Pennsylvania.