The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-06-20

very, OF which we would be looked upon as The
peculiar exponent, All may readily imagine. /
trust we may never have 70 look upon the pain
fRl and humiliating spectacle.
g. From the weakness OF our National Gov
ernment, a feeling Of insecurity would rise, cap.
ital would take the alarm and leave us. But it
may be said, let capital 60 To this | reply,
that capital is the fife-blood of modern com,
munty, and in losing tyou lose the vitality Of
the State.
4. This National Government would be a
very, rery costly machine. The cost of gov
ernmeut is in inverse proportion to its numbers.
A small national government is necessarily far
more expensive than large one. Look at the
small German States, ground down with taxa
ton: So il would be with US. The Federal
fleets would cut off all import duties, and the
immense burden Of the Government would have
to be raised by direct taxation.
| 5. The feeling of insecurity arising from the
weakness of our National Government. togeth-
er with the burden of increased taxation, would
cause. or rather continue an immense emigra-
| tion. Emigration is naturally going on all the
time from the old States to the fertile Ell Dora.
dos of the West; put any further burdens on the
citizens of the old States, and you add i'm
mensely to this stream of emigration. Unfor-
tunateiy this emigration, in the event of your
becoming a separate nation, would be only from
the white race, and you would therefore be go.
ing dOacu the declirity Of ruin aoih fearful uelO-
city
8. Following emigration, and a natural effect
of it, would be an immense depreciation of pro-
pertH lands first, mole land being thrown into
market than the demand required; then negroes,
as they would be cut off from the Western mar.
ket. Millions-would be lost TO the State in this
way.' \
10. Secession is against The uisheS of the
some influence with us? Shonld we not defer
to our allies. who have twenty times the interest
| in the institution of slavery tnat we have2 How
can we ever hope for Union of the South, il
we, a mere handful of the Southern people, in
sist ON forcing our opinions on the rest of the
South? A Southern Union implies modifiea-
ton of the extremes of all opinions.
IL. A LARGE MINORITY, al least, of our citi-
zens are opposed 10 secession. IF there were no
other objection, this should be conclusive.
/ IL. Secession, separate nationality, with all
its burdens, is no remedy. 1t is no redress for
| The past; it is no security for the future. It is
only magnificent sacrifice of the present with
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told, however, that it is resistance. and that we
must not submit to the late action of Congress.
Now, ! would like to know which one Of these
measures lce resist by secession. 1t is not the
prohibition of. slave marls in the District of Co
| lumbia. It.is not the purchase of the Texas
territory. 1t is rerfainly not the admission o.
California. Which sggressons, then, do we
resist by secessong These are all the recent
aggressions which we resist now by secession
Secession, gallant as may be the spirit which
! prompts it, is only new form of submission.
For the various reasons have stated, OBJ
| ject in as strong terms as can tothe secession
of South Carolina. Such is theintensiiy of ny
conviction upon the subject, that IF secession
should take place--oF WHICH ] HAVE NO IDEA
| for cannot believe in the existence of sucl
stupendous madness-I shall consider the in,
stitution OF slavery as doomed, and that thu
Great tIod in our bIin6aess has made us the in
struments ofsits destruction.
] / remain, with great respect, &c.
w. w. BOYCE.