The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-02-10
(By Rcqucst.)
CONTINUED FROM FIRST rAGE)

.HsfEs CONTINUED FROM FIRST FACE
may be untrue, Virginia and Kentucky
may have been laborng under strong
dclusions, Randolph may have been a
araying unatic, and Ritchic just no
body at all, but certainly the Senator
from mississippi will acknowledge
the wisdom and authority of hims II.
Secession must cvr,an y now be
triumphant, since it has the high
sanction of his illustrious name.
hold i'll my hand a speech Of the Sen
ator, dclivrcd in the Senate on the
2lst March, 1850, in defence Of the
resolutions passed by the Mississippi
legislature. The NaHo, a. Mteiiiyca-
Ger had attacked them witha good deal
of asperity, imputing treason, and so
forth, pretty much in the strain the
Senator now uses towards South Car
blina. Hero is what he sud
Mr.. Footc. | hope the Senator will
do me the justice to read the whole Of
what said.
Mr.. Rhctt. The mholc speech!
Why, thcrc arc four or five pages Of
closely printed matter. This may be
too much Of a good thing. After |
have read what propose to read, the
Senator from Missississippi can state
whether he desires me to read further
If he is anxious to extend the doctrines
of his speech as they arc SO good, |
believe | will pay half the expense ofa
reprint for circulation. Hero is what
he says, repclling the accusations Of
reasonable doctrine urged by the
MteUigencer:
s!It was not thus that our noble fore
fathers thought and acted, under which
i1on-resistancc to the most hidcous us
urpation is the bouudcn duty Of
all good citizens, and even ofsovcrcgn
States. Nor was it thus in purcr
and more high-spirited generation pub
lie men either wrote or spoke. 1t was
not thus that Andrew expressed him
self in that famous proclamation, in
which, although rcbulling nuliicalion,
he declared SECESSION to be 4 Just onol
proper remedy, to be rcsortcd to in any
case of intolcrablc oppression. Ii was;
not thus that the honorable Senator
from Massachusetts (Nlr. Wcbstcr)
spoke the other day in our hearing,
when he emphaticaIly declared the
same doctrine. Such was not the
doctrine Of Phillip Z. Barbour, who
asserted secession to be the political
arsenic Of our system, to be resortcd
! to when all other remedies might fail
Snsh, finally, was not the, doctrine of
.letlersopy Nhp- ettentimcs declared Sc
cession Cor session, as he dcnominatcd
it) to be, in certain cases OF enormous
and long-continucd outrage, the proper
and only remedy find the opinion
ofMr. Jefferson on this point very pre-
tisely set forth in the culogy delivered
some years since upon the life and
character Of Mr. Madison by Mr.. j Jolm
Quincy Adams. Here arc Mr.. Adams,
own words, as printed i'll the volume
ttom which now read:
.Concurring in the doctrines that
the Separate States have right to i'll
tcrposc, in cases of palpabIc intractions
ofthc Constitution by the Government
of tic United States, and that the alien
and sedition acts presented case Of
such inflaction, Mr.. Jefferson con
sidcring them rs absolutely null and
void, and thought the State legislatures
c,mpatent not only to declare but to
make them. SO to resist their execution
within their respective borders by
physical force, and to scccde from tie
Union rather than submit to them, if
attempted to be carried into execution
by force"
Here is the Senator from Mississippi
quoting Phillip Barbour and MIR. JET.
icrson, asserting the right Of secession.
in answer to the National LteiHyeucor
charging reasonable designs on the
part of the people OF Mississippi a.
gainst the Union He defends re-
sistance, and shows by these quotations
what mode Of resistance, on the pnlt of
n State, is constitutional. That mode.
he shows by quoting MIR. Jefferson, is
secession.
MIR. Footc said, he dcncd that the
Constitution sanctioned secession.
Mr.. Rhctt. If the Senator means TO
say that the right is not granted IN tie
|N'ottedetV"- Cc " III MN. ~ Is
no. derived ON the Constitution of
tha United States; but that is not
alone constitutional which is derived
from the Constitution. All acts arc
constitutional which result from the
organization of the Government. The
right of STATE TO lay taxes is not
derived from the Constitution Of the
United States. Yet it is constitutional.
1t is reserved right, not granted
away by State in the Constitution of
the United States. So right to
secede from the Union is constitutional.
because the States have not surrendered
their sovereignty; one Of the necessary
incidents to which is the right to
Judge of their compact, The Con
stitttion, and to withdraw from the
association it establishes with their
co-States, in case they violate il.
What did the Senator mean when he
quoted Mr.. Jefferson to the Senate?
Did he not plainly say this by his
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