The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-07-16
VOLUME XXI.
Communications.
voa THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL.
Secession an exploded Humbug.


and therefore those raniing demagogues, who
have been so sadly deceived in their calcula
iions Of. the popularity Of Disunion aud Sc.
cession sentiments, might reasonably he al.
loved some liberties Of making mouths, like
pouting children, or like Tom Benton did at
Geo. Kssrney, during the ,rial Of Col. Ere.
mont, since it canno, hurt, but only anuse
those sgsins, whom they are aimed by their
utter righteousness. Who, for instance, can
help but pity :he poor forlorn hope " in s.
Carolina after its late fsrcical self constituted
Convention and the death ,hroes il took 10
produce even that shapeess und monstrous
abortion. When Disunion fra raised lis Cor.
ssn crest in Congress, i, startled the whole
nation man fel, like an earthquake was
suddenly rocking the ground beneath and a.
round him but soon glorious old Harry and
Cass, Webster, Dickinson, Foo,e, Cobb and
Houston and their great compeers, rose high
beyond the marrow, contracted, lerrapin shell
patriotism Of State localities and proclaimed
that they knew No North, no Sou!h-no
East, no West" but ali one common country,
one glorious Constitutional Union. Yes, and
their names will be immortal and will be
gratefully rene mbered whilst patriotism
has q votary or liberty name" But their
we're other voices heard also-theis authors
are already aimos, forgotten and they are
doomed, doubly dying, to 60 down, to
"The vile du., from whence ,hey sprung,
Unwspt, uuhonorcd and unsung"
Yes, We heard Bell from Texas, Quit.
man from Mississippi, Seabrook and Rhett,
from South Csrolins, with oil their crazy and
trai,orous and deludcd crew South, and Hale,
Seward, Giddiags, Garrison and negro Fred
and oil their hypocri,ical and fana,ical fol
lowers North, yell on, with the voice OF de.
mons" This Union is a curse -" he con.
sli,ution is a compact with hell" They
would rather live under a kiogly government
than where the majority ruled, that govern
mcnt Of . mslori,y was the most fearful and
hideous Of Despotisms and that this Union
must and should be dissoved-,hat the " lime
for scion had come" aud that they would
secede-,hey were hol,er than Washington
and Jackson and bad such high sense OF
honor as 10 be. like the bloody laws Of Dfa'
co, entirely beyond the comprehension OF e''
cry mao Of common sense, and so hne and
sentimental in their Ho,spur notions OF self.
respect, that they wished to destroy the un'.
on for a mere Abstraction, aud quarrel wllh
their brothers bout the I" ninth part OF hair
they belong TO tba, imptacicab'e dandy
fed class who are never satisfied with any
thing, who think the weather is always too
cold OF too hot, too dry or Too vet, who
think that they could have improved creation
and taught omniscience some pa,en, 'd'a''--
They are utterly opposed always to the eS'
isiirg order OF things and ever seeks Tor
have been rebels in heaven, and they have the
mania po,u from their own self inflated van
iiy. Yes, these are the rise men Of Gotham,
who think that we cannot remain with honor
and with safety ia the American Union they
were the persons who so bitterly opposed the
Compromise, not because the measures EN-.
bodied in il were not in the main just and fair,
bu, bee ause they appreciated and corjee.
tured that those measures would not be car.
Tied on, in good failh-lhey looked on each
other with jsundiced eyes and we're determln'
ed to misconstrue every thought, word and
action of each other. We first had the Nash.
vile Convention, breathing nothing but rea.
son and disunion and scattering frebrsnds,
arrows and dea,h--lhen the second Nashville
Convention, and they were ready to pull down
the pillars Of the government, like Sampson
Of old, even if It crushed themselves in the
fall; but il was only bag Of wind, and al,
though q huge ono a, first, Chief Justice
Sharksy had cut hole in one part the
Tennessee delegation, tore a pitiless rent IN
smother. Texas, ihn, Lone Star republic, SC
eloriOus--the State upon whose soil was pour
cd ou, in priceless libaion the best blood o.
her heroic sons on the fatal field Of the Ala
mo and which still retained within her DO
som the noble viciors Of the ever r'memorab't
San Jacinto-ihat great country would be
true TO herself, she would never take the
Bride. shs weuid lead off ~orthy Of herself
and she did do SO 10 style, and there wal