Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-20
ENGLISH APPEAL TO THE NORTH
ERIN STATES.


ENGLISH APPEAL TO THE NORTH
ERIN STATES.
The London Daily Nesos of the 3lst Octo-
Der, contains ian Appeal TO the Northern
States to resist the South in regard to a war
with England" This appeal represents the
South as the active cause of all the wars that
the United States have engaged in. Itdepicts
Southern people as men who constantly breathe
threatenings and slaughter, and who, by AFRO.
gance and ption, have succeeded in dra-
gooning the North into obedience to their
wishes, even when such obedience was mani.
testify against Northern interests. 1t gives a
rapid retrospective glance at our history, and
pauses only to render its tribute of admiration
to that old reasonable assemblage, which in
this country is only named to be cursed-the
notorious Hartford Convention. OF that mon
strous old band of factionists and traitors, it
thus speaks:
"The New England States appointed dele.
gates-men experienced in legislative bust.
ness-to meet in convention at Hartford. in
order to agree on certain measures Of imme-
date necessity, and propose some comprehen-
sive principles Of policy, to be presented to
Congress. What we now have to do with are
the amendments in the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, proposed by the Hartford Conven.
ton. The principal Of the amendments pro
posed was, that Congress should not have
power to make war unless two-thirds of the
members of both houses should be in favor of
it; and again, that two-thirds of both houses
must be in favor of any suspension of CONNER.
Fcial intercourse with foreign nations. The
holding OF this convention was suggested by
Massachusetts, the foremost State of the whole
Union in intelligence and honor. 1t was too
late then. Peace was made before the propo-
sitions of the convention could be brought be-
fore Congress"
Of Massachusetts, the State that has been
made a scorn and a by-word by the excuses
of its late Legislature, the Ne,cs thus speaks:
at is to be hoped that Massachusetts, now
standing before the world as the foremost State
OF the Union, on account of her recent action
in defence OF her own constitution against the
unconstltutional requirements of the Federal
Government, will again move in opposition to
an insane war, and on this occasion in good
time. She and her sister States of New Eng
land have had abundant occasion to recognize
the true source of ALL"
Proceeding on the hypothesis that the South
is bent on war, the Neacs thus closes its article
ave feel ourselves entitled to say to the men
of the North, that we utterly disbelieve in any
inclination whatever on their part to 90 TO war
with us. We only want to be assured that
their fathers spirit is in them, enlightened by
the knowledge which ought to have accrued
from the experience Of forty years. They see
that the South is now, as then, paramount at
the White House, and they cannot but under
stand the policy and aims of the South far
more clearly in 1855 than their fathers did in
1914. Are they prepared to desire and claim
that ,car shall be made only by the consent of
tpo-thirds Of both branches Of the National
Legistdtnre2 And are they resolved to see
that their nation shall not meanwhile be
plunged into war by the lawless aggressions of
Americans on neighboring territories. Are
they ready to use the lawful and consti
%tutional powers conferred by their num-
bers and superior qualifications, flor South
ern representatives are returned in part
by a negro constituency without personal
rights to secure a due and worthy representa-
ton of themselves in Congress, in the cabinet,
and in their foreign diplomacy? If they are
prepared to do thus, their duty as Republicans,
there is no fear of war between them and us.
Hitherto the excuse put forward for any undue
subservience to the South, for the unworthiness
Of the Northern statesmen who have been cast
Always on the dire loadstone rock which draws
the nails out Of every construction which ap.
proaches it, is the horror which every good
American has of the dissolution of the Union,
Cannot the good Americans consult together
about their duty, their interest, and their pros.
pect, when a cabinet which they are far from
proud of threatens war with their best friends ?
If they cannot so take counsel together, fol
! the preservation of the principles of their orr.
ginal union, and Of their friendship with us
we are in a condition TO tell them what a great
number Of their best citizens think, and some
are willing, on a first opportunity, to say-thdi
the first effect Of a serious attempt on the par
Of The Government at Washington. 10 make wa,
for the reasons rhich hare long actuoted ia
foreign policy rould be 10 break up the Union
Only let this conviction, with the grounds Of it
be duly presented and discussed, and there will
b. no war, nor any further talk Of il. Mean
time, while awaiting the action of the free
populous, intelligent, and prosperous Northern
States, we may, perhaps, ourselves assign the
ground on which the elite Of the Americans
assert that an attemptto go TO war with us viii
break up the Union.n
If the Ne1cS had looked a little farther back
in our history, it would have discovered thai
the very men-the Northern men-whom i
appeals TO as the Old friends Of England, were
the very men who commenced the Revolution
airy war, which ended in the separation of thes,
colonies from the mother country. However
we must confess that the Massachusetts, peopl,
have sadly degenerated since those good OLE
days. They have treated with scorn the les
SOILS Of their fathers, and have made them
selves a Kissing and a scorn.
nS- As the time approaches for the assem-
bling Of Congress, the ~wire-workers begin e
hustle about. They are travelling from poin.