The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-05-02

Union 10 anticipating, preventing, and settling
disputes and causes of war between the coter-
minous or neighbnring States. This subiecfHas
been forcibly touched upon by the Hon. EDWARD
EVERETT, in bis recent speech, copied into. your
paper. and delivered at the 22d February, in
New York city. Il is easy to recur the nnmer-
ous examples in which warm disputes have aris.
en between bordering States; for instance, be-
tween Iowa and Missouri, between Ohio and
Michigan, between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
between Massachusetts and Rhode Island, be-
tween Vermont and New York, and in the old
Confederation between Virginia and Maryland.
In some OF these instances it is we'll known that
there was imminent danger of collision by arms,
even while within the Union. IL they had been
independent nations. (exulting intheir snlky sol
itary grandeur and in their boasted prowess)
nothing in many Of these cases could have pre-.
vented long and bloody wars between them.
Such is the weakness of poor erring human ma
ture! and such are the fierce passions and bel.
ligerent appetites--a Panora's bex-which lay
dormant in the breasts Of our proud, bold Saxon
race! Thus does il appear thai our Constitution
is grand apparatus 10 preserve peace upon this
continent, and that it benigny acts like Christi
anity to exterminate the evil pre- pensities and
animosites Of men, to enforce seIs-denial, and
to foster all those charities virtues, and affec-
tious which exalt the character of nations as
well as of individuals. Thanks 10 the wisdom
Of our ancestors, those evil passions have been
muzzled, and these disputes have been settled by
the benefcient action Of our Union. either through
The Supreme Court or by the legislation of Con-
gress. -
Look at the eternal wars which have occu-
pied bordering States in Europe! What benev-
oleDt men are earnestly seeking for Europe, VIZ:
a Peace Congress between the various nations,
we have already secured. 1t cannot be too for
chilly impressed upon the minds of our people.
especially at the North, that Gin the words OF the
admirable charge of Judge SPRAeUE) "THE
STATES WITHOUT THE CONSTITUTION WOULD BE
TO EACH OTHER As FoREIGN NATIONS" II is
the losing sight of this simple fact that engen-
ders so much of the spirit of dictation with many
enthusiasts. r55itsas Is sEess
Both the Supreme Court and the National Le-
gslature act in many cases as Peace Congrcs.
ses. or High Courts of Arbitration, to settle
what could be styled international controversies.
But il is better to seek remedy where pract-
cable by legislation, than by resort to Court
Of Judicature, on the ground that IAN ounce oe
prevention is worth pound OF cure" Itwas,
for example, far better that the Texas boundary
question should have been decided by the prompt
action of Congress than by the Supreme Court.
When the adjustment of that boundary dispute
originated last August in the Senate of the Un-
tied States, who could but look with admiration
upon the action Of our Constitution in the set
tIement of clashing claims and angry feuds, in
a case which. in any part Of the globe, would
probably have led TO hostile collision? Peace,
liberty, and fraternity" are blessings which
Europe is signing for. She has for ages been
afflicted with countless evils for the want Of them
Surely it would be an amazing "excess of in
gratitude to Heaven" if we were lightly to
throw away such blessings, retrograde TO a po>
sition worse than we had before the Revolution,
Qor we were then under one common, though
remote, Goyernment,) and seperate into group
| of nations sdsseyered, discordant. and beilge-
| rent"
Those who are clamerous for the objects of
peace societies would do well TO weigh these
| things. Melancholy Inconsistencies mark the
career of many zesois. Robespierre, before the
French Revolution, had advocated the abolition
of capital punsbments. Some of those meek
apostles of peace, il they succeeded in al their
schemes, might live to eenact for our vision q
Reign Of Terror on this Continent.