Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-07-07
The SecessioniSts Ans1cered.

We have rarely met with a more comnlete
answerto the arguments of party than is contain
ed in the following short article of the hatcher
Courier:
The South has asked for any thing not e1
pressy guaranteed TO her In the Constu tion. Vicks-
burg Sentinel.
Then yours is not the true Southern party You are
asking tor amendments to the Constitutions for grants
of power neither expressly nor indirectly given IF
they WIRE, there would be no need of alteration and
amendment. You ask for the Missouri COMPROMISE
line. our own leaders have and over again ac.
knowedged it to be unconstitutional You ask for
repeal OF the Mexican law. Now, if that repeal is
araneed by the Constitution, it s accomplished by
the Constitution, and needs the action of Congress-
II would be useless for Congress do what the Con-
stituon has done already. If you contend that is
not so much the repeal you want, is the acknow-
edgment by the North that those laws do not exist
there. We beg to inform you that the Constitution
here guarantees that section shall be bound to
make such acknowledgements. A proper tribunal has
been created by the Constitution for the settlement of
all such questions, and when that tribunal has spoken
y 10 Tune enough to ask the acknow Judgment by the
North mat they were in error. In the meantime to
contend that Congress should repeal certain laws il
but to contend that the Constitution has not and that
Congress do ia that respect what the Constntion
is unable to effect
You ask for repeal of the Utah and New Mexico
laws. What more you would have than they contain
except Congressional establishment OF slavery or laws
for its further protection, is hard to be seen And vet
your own files and the files OF every Democratic paner
IN the State and the speeches of most your own ap
tatlon leaders can be quoted against YOU to show that
all such egis ation would be unconstitutional and inn
proper.
Then the South has never asked any thing bevond
the guarantees of the Constitution and as YOU are ask
ing great deal beyond them, confess that yours is not
the true Southern party Gen Quitmau and Judge c.
Pinkney Smith want such amendments made 10 the
Constitution will insure the South an equal represen
taton in the Senate of the United States with the North
Will you please show the section and article where such
provision IS guaranteed? Besides # it is already
guaranteed, where is the of the amendmentsl If il
not guaranteed then by your confession neither
they, nor you who support them, belong to the true
Southern party
All your demands you insist upon under the alterna
tive of secession. If you cannot get the former you
go Tor Souttern Congress and the latter Now please
inform in what section article OF the Constitution is
either aSo1hern Congress, or secession from the Uni
on, expressly guaranteed" II neither are expressly
guaranteed" then you do not belong to the Southern
party not 10 The Southern party, 10 what party do
you cling! II must be to that faction to which north
EN- aboIronisis are lending much aid-the Sc
wards, Haes, Glddngs aud Summers who equally with
you go against The COMPROMISED must be 10 the Dis
union party