Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-11-06
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enough to encourage the friends of the
Union and but little to excite solicitude and
alarm. In all those States except three,
there is acquiescence in the terms of the
compromise, and firm attachment to the
Union. In two of these three Georgia
and Mississippi) we have much reason to
hope, from their known patriotism and in
telligcnce, that the same attachment exists
on the part of large majorities of the people.
At all events, those among them, of whose
devotion and fidelity to the Union serious
apprehensions were entertained, have been
constrained, in Difference to public opinion,
materially to change their principles, and to
go to the polls upon new issue. They
have renounced and denounced the practic-
al right of secession at present, and taken
shelter under the convenient mask of the
mere abstract right. Whether this shifting
of position will satisfy the people of these
two States, remains to be seen. They will
doubtless seriously consider that there is but
a short step between the theoretic asser-
ton, and the practical exercise of that right;
and in a contingency neither remote nor
improbable, if they affirm the right, they
may soon be called upon to involve them
selves in all the calamities of civil war.
South Carolina alone furnishes, at present,
occasion for profound regret and serious ap-
prehension, not so much for the security OF
the Union as for her own peace and pros
perity. We are compelled, painfully and
reluctantly, to yield to the force of concur
ring evidence, establishing that there exists
in that State general dissatisfaction with,
and general desire to withdraw from, the
Union; and that both partics--that which is
for separate State action, and that which in
sists upon the necessity of the cooperation
of other States-equally agree as to the ex-
pediency of secession, and differ only in
the degree of rashness or prudence which
charaeterizes them respectively.
Nullifcation and secession have sprung
from the same metaphysical school; and the
latter is the ally, if not the offspring, of the
former. They both agree that a single
State is invested with power to nullry the
laws of all other States, passed by Congress
but notification claims right to accomplish
that object, and to remain at the same tint
in the Union; whilst secession asserts a righ
to attain it, by Withdrawing from the Union
and absolvng the State from all obligation t,
the Constitution and laws of the United
States. They both maintain that resor
to either process is peaceful and legitimate
Modification derived an ambiguous but con
tested support faom the memorable reso!u
tions of the States of Virginia and Ken
lucky, adopted in 1888; but these resolu
tions afford no color or countenance to tn
pretensions of secession.
The doctrine Of secession assumes tina
any one of the thirty-one States compesin
the Union, wherever or however situated
: whether in the interior or on the frontier
has right, upon its own separate vii
: and according to the dictates of its excluSiv
: Judgment, to withdraw from the Unio
: whenever it pleases; that this act of seces
, sion is peaceful, and not to be controverte
: or obstructed by the rest of the States, c
: by the application of any force, within til
= limits Of the seeding State, to execute tn
laws of the United States, and that therer
e pom the State and its citizens are absolve
r from all obligations and duties to the Unite
= States, and become power as independel
0 and sovereign as any of the Nations of Il
: earth. The doctrine maintains that tn
: right of secession may be exercised whene'
= er the State deems it has sufficient caus
: at all times-in a state of profound peat
o and prosperity, or in the midst of turiol
: war, raging in all our borders; and thi
i in the latter case, Transforming itself into
|, distinct and independent nation, it may e
1t cape the calamities of war, make separa
n treaty of peace with the common enem
l. become neutral, or even ally itself with III
to enemy, and take up arms against the Ur
= ted States. 1t asserts this right, although
l. may lead, in process of time, to the prem
Of cuous dotting over upon the surface of t
Or territory of the United States, of petty
y dependent nations, establishing for the
at selves any form of government, free or de
mt potic, known TO mankind, and interrupt
il the intercourse and violating or menaci
e. the execution of the laws Of the disme
a. bered confederacy. 1t contends for t
n? right, as well for Louisiana as South Care
he ma, although the province of Louisiana c
IS us SO much money, and was nigh involv
C. as in foreign war; for Texas, although
"a occasioned us war with Mexico, the p