Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-07-11
The 7hira District.

partakes not little OF Inc character OF personality
I his we regret exceedingly, both because our own
name has unfortunately been used in the matter,
and because most of the parties our personal
friends and one, the Editor of the Wadesboro argus
is brother We think it very unfortunate to use
no harsher expression that our friend BADGER, of
the Hornets Nest, should have thought fit to drag
the family relations of individuals into purely po-
tical contest far to have tortured difference
of opinion between brothers to make it appear a
question of personal veraeity. when from the very
facts of the case. he must have felt that such is
sue could have been intended by the parties. We
would here remark that for our own part, we never
reply to insinuations made against us on account of
the place of our nativity. any more than we would
to ridcule account of stature, anything else
beyond the reach of our control. These things are
ordered by Providence, and those who wish to quar-
rel with its disposition do so at their own risk
1t is their matter, not We differ widely in opn
ion from the Editor of the Argus, and cannot but
hope that his candidate may be defeated yet have
known him too long and too we'll to have any doubt
of the sincerity of his professions the purity of his
motives and if swayed by private interests or
feelings know that all his interests present and
prospective, in North Carolina; and that all his
feelings there Where the treasure is, there
will the heart be also, and the place wherein man
has invested all he owns-whcre his wife lives and
his children born-there is the home of his aec
tions and the land of his choice. But this has &C
tually nothing to do with the campaign, and have
only alluded to the matter at all in order to depre
cate its latroduction and to beg gentlemen both
sides to refrain from style of remark totally
thy of them. Very few of our subscribers in the
| EaS Da rt Of tho State tho Noet or
gus, and shall, therefore, curtail our article,
which must to great extent be lost to readers.
An alluson in both papers has rendered this refer
ence necessary part
1t has been our happiness to have known, for the
last three years, the Hon. G. w. CALDWELL, the
Democratic candidate in the Third District and it is
still our pride to regard him as friend. We know
that he is, and always has been warm defender of
Southern Rights, and of the rights of the States re-
garding these the mainstays of the Union and the
constitution We cannot, for the life of US, see how
this can constitute disunionist. We remember
talking with him at the last Democratic State Con-
venton and he did not then 60 for actual disunion
although advocating the doctrine of secession. And
after ALL what is this terrible doctrine of secession of
which such buga-boo is made by the consultations
lists ? 1t simply amounts to this--That the Union
is compact entered into by free and independent
States, breach of which by party frees the 9TH
party from its obligation, and leaves it at liberty
to withdraw secede without any violation of faith
1t is perfectly evident that before the States assented
to the Federal compact they not bound by it,
their assent or dissent was purely matter of choice
and this freedom of choice North Carolina awaited
herself of by staying out for years. In of
such violation of the Federal compact as would
render it nulliy. it is evident that North Carolina
would be precisely where she was before becoming a
member of the eonfederacy She would be thrown
back on her orig inal sovereignty, and her withdraw
al would be neither rebellion revolution, but
simply such a secession the nature of the case
would demand and justify 1t is no argument against
this doctrine to say that is not to be found in the
constitution. It's exercise could not arise from the
operation of the constitution, but rather from the
cessation of that operation, which would be the
suit Of infraction of that instrument; for, says
DANIEL WEBSTER, The whole constitution is bind
ing all. If party breaks it, the other party
is discharged from the compact. A bargain broken
on one side is broken on all sides" And MIR. WEB
sTER further says that section of the constitution
could be set aside violated without destroying the
whole. Now, even from this Wing authority, it is
evident that secession is the proper and rightful
remedy. in the last resort for any violation of the
constitution and cannot be rebellion or revolution
against that instrument, inasmuch as by the viola
ton committed the I'M ured party already dis
charged from the compact, and thrown back upon
the original inherent, and independent sovereignty
! which they possessed before entering it.
The idea which seems to be advanced by the Dock
cry party, that withdrawal must necessarily be a
p revolution, a rebellion, seems when calmly con-
sidered, to be rather fanciful. It only be foun
ded upon the idea that the Union possesses an inner
ent sovereignty, with all the attributes and incidents
of gnty, understood in consolidated govern
ments according to monarchica usage A few word:
will show the fallacy of such idea. In all eonso
dated governments, the theory is that the sovereign
ty, wherever vested, is the reservoir of all powers
not expressly granted out, delegated, and that al
! power proceeds from it. In the United States the
General Government is such reservoir. It pos
;. sesses inherent power-all power is given to i
by virtue of compact, and its power depends up
on this compact, it must to exist with the
istence of the agreement upon which it is founded
~ We have that violation of the compact on on,
part would destroy its binding character in all 9th
ers; thus creating when, according to the the
DRY of our Government, withdrawal or accession woult
be perfectly ustifabe. The fact is, that the States
are the reservoirs of power, and declared t.
be in the Tenth Article of the Amendments to thu
Constitution, which says: