The republic., 1851-06-10

I. Administration cannot stand upon the principles
fthe message, it does not expect to stand at ALL.
TDANIEL WEBsTER's Letter to The Union Meeting
at JPestchester.
When DIR. JOHNSON published his pamphlet
entitled Taralion no Tyranny, reply to it
was issued with the style of Resistance no Re
beiiion From the cool manner in which the
Southern secessonists and revolutionists talk of
esislance-forcible resistance to the Federal
Government-we are led to suppose that they
also have invented some process by which they
hope to secure the contingent advantages of re-
sistance, without incurring the certain penal
ties of rebellion. Perhaps we might well ex
pect that gentlemen should succeed in solving
50 difficult problem to their own satisfaction,
who are capable of reconciliDg an open, sys-
tematic, long g-continued effort to overthrow the
Constitution, with their oath to maintain and
uphold it. But we apprehend that it will not
be easy to convince the American people that
these gross incongruities and inconsistencies are
susceptible of possible reconcilement.
We have been led TO these reflections by the
perusal of letter Of the Hon. w. l.. YANcEY,
of Alabama, addressed to the president of the
Southern Rights Convention for the second
district Of that State declining their nomina-
ton for Congress. Mr.. YANcEY is one of the
most strenuous advisers of g resistance" He
looks with contempt and adherence on the idea
Of Submission to the laws" He believes
that the operation of the recent measures of
Congress must ;. in self-defence, and to avoid
destruction, be resisted" In reference to par
ties at the South, he says that there are now
but two parties the submission or Georgia
platform party, and the Secession party"
The submission" platform has been SO re-
Gently reaffirmed by the Constitutional Union
party of Georgia, and is destined to play so
important part in its antagonism to the
secession platform of the RHErTs and YAM
cEys, that we think it well to reproduce it,
that we may distinctly understand and ap-
precate the differences between the two
parties at the South. The following, then,
are the Georgia platform resolutions, on which
the Hon. HOWELL CoBB has been nomina-
ted as Governor, and which the fre-eaters in
the Southern States denounce as yehemently,
and with as little reason, as the Free-soilers and
Abolitionists denounce the measures Of Com
promise:
"To the end, therefore, that the position of this
State may be clearly apprehended by her confed-
crates of the South and the North, and that she
may be bameless of all future consequence
"Be il resolved by the People Of Georgia in Con-
venlon assembled, lst. That we hold the American
Onion secondary in importance only to the rights
and principles il designed to perpetuate. That
past associations, present fruition, and future pros
pects, will bind to it so long it continues to
be the safeguard Of those rights and principles.
Secondly That If the thirteen original parties TO
the compact, bordering the Atlantic in a narrow
belt, while their separate interests were in embryo,
their peculiar tendencies scarcely developed their
revolutionary trials and triumphs. still green in
memory, found Union impossible without com
promise, the thirty yonc of this day may well yield
somewhat, in the conflict of opinion and policy, to
preserve that Union which has extended the sway
Of republican government over a vast wilderness,
oanother ocean, and proportonally advanced their
civilization md national greatness.
Thirdly. That in this spirit the State of Geor-
ga has maturely considered the action ofCongrest
embracing a series of measures: for the admission
of California into the Union; the organization o.
territorial governments for Utah and New Mex
leo; the establishment Of boundary between the
latter and the State OF Texas; the suppression o
the slave trade in the District Of Columbia; and the
extradton of fugitive slaves; and CONNECTED with
thcm) the rejection of propositions to exclude s!a-
very from the Mexican territories, and TO abolish
it in the Distrc. Of Columbia; and whilst she does
not wholly approve, will abide by il as permanent
adjustment OF this sectional controversy.
"Fourthy- That the State of Georgia, in the
Judgment Of this convention, will and ought TO re-
sst, (as last resor) to disruption Of every
tie which binds her to the Union, any action Of
Congress upon the subject of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia. in places subject TO the iuris-
dcton of Congress, incompatible with the safety
the domestic tranquility, the rights and the honor
Of the saveholding States, or any act suppressine
the slave trade between savchodng States, or an,
refusal to admit as a State any Territory hereafte
appying because of the existence Of slavery therein
or ally act prohibiting the introduction of slave
int, the Territories Of Utah aud New Mexico, o
any act repeating materially modifying th
laws now in force for the recovery OF fugitiv
slaves.
"Fihbly. That it ia the deliberate opinion Q
this convention that upon the faithful execution G
the Fugitive .SidDe lar by the proper authoritie
depends the preservation Of our much-love
Union"
Such are the doctrines Of the Union party {
those Southern States in which The old orgaBi
cations have been merged in the issue of Unio
or Disunion. This platform, however, is hel
by the secesslonisis TO be proclamation Of
degrading submission, the alternative 10 whic
is secession and forcibIe resistance. The view
Of the seeessionists are thus presented by NJ
fAscEY: