Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-21
s ECEs SION.

SECESSION.
FROM THK RALEIsH RKsIsrER OF DECEMBER
We endeavored, few numbers back briefly to show that
State has constitutional right to secede from the Union
that secession revolution, and that under the Constitution
must bring with all the consequences Of revolution.
We also showed, by extracts from the proclamation and
Of Gen. Jackson that he and of course his admin
sson, denounced secession the same in its character
and luences with notification They also proclaimed
latter be TREASON and prepared all the powers of the
Government to punish il such. SEcxssros would have
with similar fate from the of that day. or there is
| no truth in history.
Now, what will be the effect of commal Of the people
Of North Carolina through their Legislature to the doctrine
that secession is constitutional right Why it will be this
It well known that North Carolina is loyal to the Union
that she is not prepared for revolution that she aors null
LITIGATION that she will hesitate long before she will bring
upon herself the horrors of civil It is known further
that there just for any resistance to the s
neral Government and all ,oeH convinced that no one
could stand up before the people of the State and urge them
revolution and boodhed without being rebuked and
blasted with their overwhelming and burning condemnation
But what will be the end Let the mask be torn off from
the which in operation, and let it be in all M
bideous deformty Il will be sure as there is
God above who gives clue to the motives Of men bent upon
mischief IT WILL THIS South Carolina has BEEN and
is now Git sad prepared for secession. majority Of
her people, and numbers Of persons in other States in the
South, desire dissolution of this Union. If the Legislature
Of this and other Southern States can be induced to affirm
that secession is constitutional right their purpose is &C
complshed their end is obtained for South Carolina can
then resolve to withdraw from the Union to dissolve the
bonds that unite and estopped say augh against
tour hands completely ted-we cannot, consistently
with recorded opinions, stand by the General Govern
ment but shall be dragged after hbe rushed headlong
in all the consequences Of her rash and suicidal This
we proclaim will be the end Eve do say is the pupos
Of those who urging upon people this dangerous
voutonay and once exploded doctrine of North
Carolina is neither prepared for does she desire dsso
luton Of the Unon and consequent civil war; and we do
not believe she be forced or 5aed into i-tod along
as you would brute without the power Of reason She
will hardly suffer herself to be hoodwinked with the mute
OF SECESSION, and led unsuspectngy to the brink Of dis
union and treason The design is shallow The good
old State, who has been loyal to the Constitution and
has yet listened with willing the Catilnes
OF South Carolina not thus to be bound to the that
State to be manacled hand and foot and offered up as VIC
tim to appease the wrath and crafty the nordnae vanity
those who, separate conedeacy formed
would desire to be our masters and would Gas they
now affect to do) to be regarded equals! Yes the
whole of this movement get North Carolina to proclaim
to the world an absurdy-a wicked vain, conceited alb
sudity that this is Government which she has the right to
break up at pleasure with perfect mpuny is all tending to
prepare the way for that last rash act which South Carolina
is ready commit She would have become accessories
before the fact not principals in her She would
have pledge ourselves advance that do become
receivers and protectors of the criminal will do all in our
power to compound the crime. She would have made the
cats paws, the TOOLS to prepare the way for the establish
ment Of the great and sovereign empire in and the
gions of the former State Of South Carolina /!
So far this Journal is concerned will raise its voice
against such Vaccinations and shall the people of the
State, be they Democrats or Wings, against them.
And ho,v pray, does South Carolina view this Natter and
what her present attitude Let any man look to the pro-
ceedings Of her Legislature She, too holds is to
judge from the resolutions which have been introduced and
speeches which have been made that State has the cos
tutiona right to secede She declares it to be peaceful
kind Of bloodless revolution But she sincere
in all this If why all the preparations for which
she is making She has called, is about to call, her
banks to what amount Of money they lend her in
anticpated conflict with the General Government" She
has ordered her seaport towns be fortified She is making
military preparations What does all this mean-what does
It porend constitutional right secede-a peaceful
emedy-indeed And yet all these preparations for blood
she'd Does she not expect conflict with the General Gov
ernmen if she obsructs the execution Of the laws within her
limits The truth is, at the very time this is claimed
constitutional rgh-a remedy within the constitutional is
well known-t felt by those who set up such clsim that
is nothing short Of REvoLUTIoN, and that the General
Government will be bound, will be compelled to meet it
such, however unpleasant the task may be- In this way
treated under the administration of General Jackson and
rash indeed have those become who presume that Govern
ment representing twenty-five millions of people is weaker
than when represented but sixteen millions and that
all its increase in pecunary military, and naval and
power, has brought and to national ne
cheney and imbecilisy
We say again that this but part and parcel of that
system by which, if yielded to, shall be led blndod to
the brink of dsunion and when it is late our
steps, be dragged the yawnng precpice by South Caro-
lima and her adherents What then will be our destiny
Even should the the Union remain Inactive although
the General Government should refrain from coercve
ues, and Southern Confederacy should be the offspring,
how would we stand Would then be freed from the
"Ualngn' process which has been humped up to ghten
from propriety and allegiance to the Union 1t must
be apparent ALL that without continuous line Of strong
Notifications from the eastern extremity Of Mason and Dxons
line, extending along the whole Of the Ohio encrcng
the eastern, northern and sides of Missouri and
ceasng only where the dividing line between slave and free
territory ceases without all this without expensive stand