The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-30
From the Nashville ,qmerioon.

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| VERMONT AND SoUTH CAROLINA readers
have noticed the difference of treatment which
the above named States have received from GER
tain pretended Southern papers. The vocabu-
| larry of words is exhausted in pouring out their
walls of wrath against the gallant Palmetto State
| Treason is n mild term for her. Her statesmen,
her people, their laws and habits are rcviled.-
What for pray For asking nothing but res
| pect for their constitutional rghts-nothipg
more. Vermont in the face of the Constitution
and the nation nultifes actually nulli6es, law
of Congress. passed in obedience to the Consti-
tuition, and declares by her highest tribunal that
it shall not be executed. These same presses
find no stronger words than shameful" very
"injudcious," @unjustifable," with which to re-
buke her hgh-handed conduct
Vermont positively nullifes solemn act of
| Congress, based upon the Constitution. South
Carolina has never yet done that. Vermont has
had no right or privilege violated. South Caro-
lima has been CALLED to the quick, and hunted
down with rcmorselcss hatred She has yet to
nullify an act of Congress. Vermont has done
So South Carolina may, in her desperation
turn upon her pursuers, "as the lion turns upon
the hunter" but that hour has not come The
one is rebuked so mildly that the reproof nigh,
well be mistaken for praise-the other is assailed
with the vilest cpithets for manly assertion OF
her rights. Can any enc point us TO a single
Southern Wing paper which hns called the con-
duct Of Vermont treason It cannot be done
Yet large majority Of the same Wing press
have been unsparing in their denuucaton Of
South Carolina She has acted the traitor, and
the worst punishment is too light for her.
Every recollection of her brilliant history, from
| the commencement Of the revolution down, is
| forgotten in the bitterness of faction.
| What matters her ardent and unshrnkng de-
votion to the cause of freedom during the old
warbler disinterested conduct in the war of 1912,
when she flew to arms for the protection of the
rights Of her Northern sisters, whose commerce
was assaulted or her distinguished cooperation
upon the fields of Mexico All---alI is forgotten,
and her noble inhabitants ara to be slandered rs
traitors, while tho people Of Vermont--thc cti-
zens Of a State which ingoriously "boltcd in
1912, in war waged for their own benefit and
honor, and sympathiscd, heart and soul, with
their blnc-light ncighbors in giving laid and
comfort" to the foe; and again, few years
ngo, held back in asserting the honor Of the
nation, and took the part Of the enemy by their
libels against their own country, sent forth from
every nook and corner Of their secure mountain
.bomes---thesc same pcopleand their descendants,
after having treated the Constitution with con
| tempt, and publicly nuiiided its provisions, are
gently reprmandcd by Southern submssionists,
and very kindly reminded that they have acted
very badly
South Carolina was told, over and over, that
| if she even winkcd at notification. the whole
power of the Government should be brought to
bear upon he. Vermont not only winked at it,
but consummated the act by her highest authori-
ty--her legislature. Why did not these bcg-
gcrcnt uphodcrs Of the General Government
cry out for an onslaught upon Vermont Their
sympathics are more with Abolition Vermont
than the ardent and bvh-toned Paimetto State.
The conclusion ia perfectly fair from the res
pective treatment which each receivers.