The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-03-16
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ssa&presSly denied it. The Constitution
SSas taken away from the States some
) sgtka highest and most essential at
ss;aAasas OF sovereignty. They cannot
coin lrnaey. they cannot emit bills of
srcdie; they cannot punish treason
issainss themselves; they cannot go to
Var; they eannot enter into conpacts
with other States. Nay, more, the
tie,tinu and laws Of the United
sataa shall be the supreme law Oft the
land, .nny thing in tho constitution or
iavs Of any State to the contrary not
Els,iisessistanding, Now, who ever heard
us q. sovereignty with the laws of an
cthar power superior to it's own within
IN eyvzn limits The States arc sever
Ssssrn S,r some purposes, and for those
t,nrposes only. Wherever their SOW
aeiapty has heo,l taken away by the
e;Susdsution, they are. not sovereign;
md this right Of secession is one that
;;ssssss hsen taken away.
! There is QUE point, Mr.. President,
upoa which must here be permitted to
Il remark. These gentleman. who are SO
ososedinglX snxious to establish the
peaceful right of, secession arc the OK
tNasiyc chivalry of the land. With
hut fsw exceptions, they arc all regu-
fan afiTre-eaters." Is it not little Sin
kular that with these propcnsities for
war and bleod-with all these clival-
,saua inpulsos-thcy should yet Shrink
y ,t..sss n. ~ Nf rt,
4sssais. opponents will admit its peaceful
thzasnzeY Sir, | know men in the ranks
of the "submissionists" who, whenever
they feel the heel of the oppressor up
en- their nccks, will not stop to inquire
whether they have the right to throw
q. off,. Above all they will not beg
tI6fm to remove it peaceadly. The right
hGrexu4ution, sir, is the manly right;
Gid that right only do admit.
We are told that authority for the
light ofsecession is to be found in the
resolutions of '9S and '99. So many
taen have sought to sustain absurd thco-
He's by referring to those resolutions,
Ifsa& presume we ought not to be sur
prised, even ut this last and weakest
attempt ofall. Nor in this age of pro-
srasa Is it wondered at that the wisdom
6Fthe disciple. should far out-run that
of the teacher: John c. Calhoun and
George McDuffie examined the rcso-
nlttems Of '9S and 80 for the right of
secession, and could not find it, They
found, rs they thought, notification;
hlb uaillifcatfen is itself IL denial of Sc
aession. We all know that some Of
! fhe ablest efforts made by both ofthcsc
great men was to establish that multi
4cntion was the: rightful remedy. Sir,
it was neither the Virginia nor the
Kentlicky resolutions which gave birth
DO secession. 1t has come down to us
Eom a less respectable parentage. 1t
began in that bnnd of traitors who as
se1nbbed in Hartford during the war of
ISl2 and 1914, for the purpose Of sep
arating the New England States from
Che rest Of the Confederacy. 1t was
then that the right Of secession was
first proclaimed, and it is in that lati-
t,ldes that some Of it's warmest sup
horteTs are yetto be found. Tcannot
forget the terms of a resolution adopt
Gd ut Syracuse last spring, when the
Sbolitionists were patting South Caro-
Ena on tIle. back, and stimulating he: to
SO ont of the Union:
"Resolved, That, odious as arc the
governing principles ofSouth Carolina,
we cannot withhold from her the praise
Justly due for consistent maintenance
efthe right of secession by single
State-a right vital to liberty, and the
only safeguard of the several sovereign
ties from grasping Capitalization"
Sir, here is singular concord of
sentiment. Southern Rights clubs,
South, and Abolition convcnticles,
North, giving us; the same definition Of
State rights, aud teaching Democracy
from the same horn-bools. lrcpudato
the, teachers, and deny the orthodoxy
Of the creed.
MI. President, a friend has Just
made q! suggestion to me, Of which |
gladly avail myself The State of
Louisiana was purchased from the
French; it was paid for by taxes col
lected from the people of the whole re-
public. 1t was purchased, not on ac-
count ofiany supposed value of the ter
Tftory, for at that day we supposed we
lad territory enough for all our wants,
but to SECURE the navigation of the
mississippi. The people of some
twelve or thirteen States are interested
fm maintaining that navigation Free
Suppose Louisiana should say to-mor-
row | am sovereign State. and be-
hexe it to be my interest to 90 out of
Che Union; will go out and levy tax
etisall vessels navigating the Mississp-
pi? What would be the answer of
those States SO directly Interested p
They should say: We bought this ter
fItory; we were taxed to pay for it: the
navigation of the Mississippi was
privilege, which we regarded even at
that day as indispensable to our pros
perity, we cannot abandon it now with
cut subjecting ourselves to the most
ruinous consequences. If Louisiana
afiould still insist upon her right rs n
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