The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-29

the inhabitants of the inland States agree to pay
the duties that may be imposed without their as
sent by those the Atlantic or the Gulf. for their
own benefit No behaves that any right crisis IN
a single State 10 inUolvs all the Others IN these and
countless Other evils, contrary 10 engagements SOL
emily made. EUery must that the other States
an self defence must oppose it at all hazards"
The position here taken by General JACKSON,
against the right of State to secede from the
Union, received the sanction of the American
people. 1t is their deliberate and settled judg-
ment that no such right exists, and in the en-
phatic language of the proclamation, "every
one must see that the other States, in self-de-
fence, must oppose it at all hazards" The Press
itself, therefore, is guilty of "an abuse of
TERMS" when it says Mr.. RHETT does not pro-
pose treason, but only insists on the right of
that only in contingency that has not yet
arisen. The Press knows that, in exercising
that right, State will have to wage war
against the Government of the United States,
which is treason. Secession, however, it is said I,
was proposed "only in contingency that has
not yet arisen" But Mr.. RHETT knows and
the Press knows, that it will arise and that at
an early day; and Mr. RHETr himself expresses
the opinion that il is at hand The contingency
is, the failure by Congress TO provide for the
admission Of the South g to an equality in our
territories, including California" by the pas
sage of territorial laws, or to adopt the Missouri
compromise, with an express recognition of the
right of shareholders to enter and occupy, with
their slaves, the territory south of that line
These are the alternatives presented by the
Nashville convention-the last as Fan extreme
concession" Neither of these alternatives, il
is perfectly well known. will be adopted by
Congress and then arises the contingency in
which Mr.. RHETT counsels disanion, an attempt
at which every one knows must necessarily
carry in its train all the horrors and ca
lamities of civil war. The reputed author
of the address of the Nashville convention.
and delegate to that body, he will, be-
on the 9th Monday after the adjournment of
Congress, bring before its consideration for
NAL proposition recommending the dissolution
of the Union. How many members OF that body
will be found cooperating with him in bringing
about, or rather trying to bring about, dissolu-
ton of the Union, remains to be seen. In the
fidelity and attachment of the great mass of the
people of the slave-holding States, we have
abiding confidence. They are not going into
disunion on question which all admit is sab
stract rather than practical" They know
that in the Union and the Constitution they
have Infinitely stronger guarantees for the safety
and security of their slave property, than would
or could be afforded by any Southern confede-
racy. They know that their happiness and
welfare are, in peculiar manner, involved in
the maintenance and preservation of the Union
When the institution of slavery within the States
shall be seriously assailed, when they can no
longer "trust for their safety and the security of
thelrpropery TO the justice and patriotism of their
co States, and the guarantees of the Consttu-
ton, the people of the South will be at no loss
what course 10 pursue. Butnot for mere abstrac-
tons, nor apprehended dangers, will they ''vol
unteer, OF be impressed into the service of dis
unionists. They will not enlist under that
banner. They will not march TO that music. -