The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-08-15

offence Secession like other revolutionary act may
to call 1t constitutional right s confoundng the mean
ing Of terms and can only be done through gross error
would pause before they made revolution, incur the
penalties consequent on failure
Fellow citizens Of my native State let me not only ad.
monish you the first magistrate of common
try not to incur the penalty its laws but the nu
rushing to certain ruin In that paternal language with
that paternal feeling let me tell you, my eountymen.
themselves, or wish to deceive you. Mark under what
pretences you have been led to the brink nsurrecon
and treason on which you stand
Eloquent appeals your passions your State prde
to your native courage to of real injury
concealed the hdeous features of should be &
ken off It FELL and you made to look with compls
regarded with horror Look back at the arts which have
brought you to this state-iook forward to the
quence to which it inevitably Look back to
what was first told you ndueement to enter into
this dangerous The great political truth
peated to you that you had the revoutiony right of
resisting all laws that palpaby unconstitutional
and ntoleraby oppressive twas added that the right to
nullify law rested the principles but that was
peaceable remedy This character which given to
1t made you receives with too much confidence the
sertions that were made Of the unconstntionay of the
law and its oppressive effects.
Above, you have the language of true De-
mocrats, and, in their sentiments, you cannot
find the doctrine held up by John A. Quitman
and A. g. Brown. We cannot find word
ever uttered by Gen. jackson to sustain Gov.
Brown in his odious doctrine, no more than
you can find Democrats to sustain him in his
wholesale abuse of Gen. Cass and the leaders
of the Democratic party. Fellow citizens, be
on your guard. 1t your duty, as faithful sem
tinels, to guard the castle well, and see that
the casket that contains the priceless jewels
of liberty, is neither despoiled or destroyed.
Your Government as it is-the Union as it
is-the Consultation as it is, should be your
watchward Read once more the thrilling
story of their cost. Cherish in your hearts,
the recollections of what the sires and sons of
the revolution endured Spurn from your bo-
SONS the petty, malignant spirit, and say not
to your brother from another State, that he is
not worthy, because he is not "to the manor
born mot welded to the soiln Remember,
the blood of Bunker Hill was as pure as that
at Yorktown.
The tendency Of the doctrine of secession,
as connected with the present agitation, is
dangerous in the extreme. It is calculated
to weaken our affections for our country, and
to decoy us into revolution, the end of which
viii be the overthrow Of the proudest temple
Of liberty, the altar and the shrine. The 60
vernment under which we live is the best the
world has ever known. 1t has been, to the
oppressed of other nations the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land" In the midst Of
the revolutions of the half century past, we
have stood as firm as our own mountains, and
enjoyed, unmolested, the blessings of civil and
: religious liberty. But if the Union is TO be
destroyed and the last experiment given up,
let it not be by paricidal hands. The hand
that desecrates The tomb of Washington, and
seatters the hallowed dust of Mount Vernon
to the winds, should not be an American hand
The heel that tramples under foot the sacred
ashes of Monticello and the Hermitage, will
have triumphed as the fool does. The arrow
that slays the American eagle should not be
waited by a feather from its own wing And
yet these things may come to pass. Itmay be
left for Americans to do, what the Earl Of
Chatham told the British Parliament England
could not do. We may live to conquer Anne
rica. God forbid it. JACOB FAITHFUL.
BfRSAM Woop