American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-12-22
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the Constitution; nor can we solve in
any other manner the proceedings of
the Southern Convention, assembled at
Nashyille--a convention organized ac-
cording to the suggestions of Mr.. Cal
houn, and which was so justly denoun-
ced by Mr.. Clay, as was its prototype
at Hartford in 1872, for its bold and
RECKLESS avowal of treason to the Con-
stitution and Union. 1900 @
In accordance with this sophistry,
you now see the demagogue of the
South telling the people that he is. q
States rights man, that slavery is a
State right, and that unless he is cloth
ed with political power the interests of
the South will be certainly sacrificed !;
and, on the other hand, you will see
such men as Seward and Summer adop-
ting ostensibly the platform of Jeffer-
son and Madison, and declaring that
the trial by jury and the writ of habeas
corpus. are the safeguards of liberty,
and that. unless you check the aggres,
sions of the slavery men of the South,
all the reserved rights of the States
and the people will be swept away
Thus these two extremes act in con-
cert as disunionists as long as they can
cheat their respective localities, agree
ing to make a common war on the men
who would put an end to sectional
strife by reyiving the maxims of our
Revolutionary fathers. -.
If you tell these demagogues that
there is no party but that formed by
themselves, proposing to interfere with
slavery-that there is no party out@
side Of their factious influence which
denies Che great doctrine that all the
powers not expressly surrendered to
the Federal Government aresstill pos
sessed by the States or the people, and
that among these reservations is slave
ry as local institution, they forthwith
raise the cry that you are o federalist
or, consolidationist, and that you are
not a friend fthe Republican system.
Nothing will satisfy them but agita-
tion--agitation at the North to help
Seward into the Presidency---agitation
atthe South to help JEFF. Davis or some
kother,i er,in,,llif;era.Lwhea oya,I;s ,o.Ilu
bnotpa particle of difference bctween the
doctrines of these jugglers, since each
processes to be State-rights men, and
each claims for his State the right to
nulIify the laws Of the Union Each
too, is doing all that he can to form
geographical parties and to fam;l;or;zn
the people with that word DIsnNIoN
against which WASHINGTON invokad tbc
Indignation and scorn of his coun;rv-
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