Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-20
Sectional Disputes.

remarkable and at the same time deplorable
coincidence that the States Of Massachusetts
and South Carolina. which were umong the fore
most OF the colonies, in establishing our indepon.
denoe and nationality, should now be the hot beds
of faction and disafection and the leaders of "A
crusade against the Union. Massachusetts by
her notification of the Fugitive Slave Law. has
arrayed herself in direct antagonism 10 the laws
and authority Of the Federal Government, aud
as long as that rebellious enactment stands upon
her statute book her people must be regarded as
open and arowed disunionsts. South Carolina,
II It's trne, has recently committed no overt act of
resistance To the laws of the Union, but il the
tone Of her public press and the openly declared
sentiments of her public men, afford faithful
reflex of popular feeling and opinion, there is
nothing which her people Sc ardently desire ms
dissolution Of oar confederaey. The Charleston
Mercury. the leading newspaper q the State,
openly advocates disunon, ss the only remedy
now left the South. 1t even eschcws nulhfca
ton and the passage Of intercourse laws M
paltry expedients, wholly inadequate 10 tho
dress of the evils suffering.
But wc nrc happy to believe that the folly and
madness Of Massachusetts, md South Carolina
'
beyond tho borders of these two States There
is no sart uf probability TINT the had example of
Massachusetts in ndllifving tho Fugitive Slave
Law will be- followed by any other Northern
State. As to South Caroliini, her di~unioni-m
/ chronic disease. Ever since the memora
BIZ notification controversy Of 1893. she has
Inathetl and ahhorred the Union The violent
threat Of zen. Jack son to hing her citizens has
over since runkled in her BOSOM But this il
oause Of d-atfeotau peculiar 10 herself The
other Southern States have ~ insults of this
character TO remember or to avengr, and aecord-
inglv but very small fraction of the Southern
people lend any countenance To the idea of i'm
mediate diSunion. That we have numerous and
serious grounds of complaint against the North,
isan indi>puahl, fact and thni We may be forced
I resort to extreme measures to protect our d..
nestle institution. Is equally true, but that the
Union is still worth an effort 10 preserve it i the
sentiment Of the greut bulk of the Southern pea.
pie. The Patriot says
II is little remarkable that all the threat and
bInvadns relative la secession from the Union
originate at The Northern aud southern extremes
of the onion. 1t il. in fact. angry oolloqny
between Boston Bay and the Gulf stream. Both
these begerents seem To be utterly ignorant TINT
there ere certain rather populous, and not alto
peiher uncivzed States, intervening between I
them, who have some interest in the stability of /
the Union, and may tnkc it upon themselves, ut |
an appropriate time. 10 nterpose authorItaiyely |
between them, who have some interest in the sta
bility of the Union, aud may take il upon them
solves. at appropriate time, 10 intcrpose au.
fhoratively between the irate logomachists. Al
present a stranger might suppose that Massa-
chuse,ts and Georgia were the only two powers
in the confedersey, and TINT all the remaining
parties to the confederacy, and that all the
naming JaItes othe Federal compact were out
side barbarians This quarreling the heads
Of intervening States very closely resembles
those personal disputes which carried on
most hercev when the angry individuals know
that any really hellgeren net would be proven
ted by.a vigorous Interpolation ON the part of
m1tual friends. 1t is the followers of Capnet
and Montague biting their thumbs at each
other. and then turning round 10 see who comes
to the rescue. Such brawls are dsgracefu to
sides and deserve to be pointedy rebuked. The |
pharasaical morality of Massachusetts, which /
fraternizes with the blacks at distance, and re-
.iects the sable claim of brotherhood at homo, is
bot one instance of that telescope philanthropy |
which had its origin in the white neckcloihs OF |
the English Exeter Hall.
1t IVES only q short time since that the legisla-
ture of Massachusetts, acting under the control /
of that small but yiruent faction, whose sole aim
for years. has been to dissension among the /
States. passed law, which if it could be render
ed operative, would annul the fugitive slave law, /
& virtually abrogate one ofthe most vital clauses
of the Constitution. Latterly, il has been shown
nv able writer's. justly alarmed for the honor of
the State, that the power of the conSprators Ia
effect the contamination of an evil thing, was not
equal to their will and that the enactment must |
forever remain an innucuous blot upon the stat !
ute boook until it Is formally e1punged by
more patriotic and intelligent body of delegates,
But the law though harmless. reused n just feel
ing of indignation at the South. less from any
fear thati would prove injurious that from the
"animus" which was evInced by its ADOPTION
Counter resolution, as we know, were offered by
cur semi-tropcal fire eaters, which were design
ed To operate IN the homeopathic principle. that
like cures like in other words. that the adj
ministration of one poison tends to the expulsion
Of another. But neither the baue or the antidote
deserve 10 he regarded in any other light than as
inludciuus prescriptions, which. instead of aba
ting the evil tend TO keep up, in the body polite
a con slant. feverish irritation. a healthy reac-
ton. however, gradually subdung this in
hammatory condition of things, when Governor
johnson, Of Georgia, with eye to his re cleo
ton, attempted to renew the excitement by init.
mating his intention of meeting any change in
the Kansas and Nebraska BILL by recommending
to the next legislature of Georgia the old South
Carolina remedy of secession. Now it is one
thing TO propose notification. and another thing
9 act upon it, In theory seeartion of the Federal
bond, by State enactment, seems easy enough;
but. practically any such law would prove quite
as inefficient TO answer its intentended purpose,
as the personal i" liberty hi' Of Massachusetts,
We say nothing Of the suicidal folly of such
law though that is apparen, enough to any one
who will quietly open hiseyes and look about
him. We contend, as others have done before