Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-26
LYNCHBURG IIRGINlAN.


WEDNESDAY NbkNlNb, sEi j. =" i7"''
Amor rrloS AND DIsuSIoN.-1he following eN
tracts are from the insidicus Freesoil organ oil
Seward a Co. the New York Times:
The oause of Abolition will be saved centu-
,;as az struggle and toll. hv the secession OF the
sou,h from the Onion should that ever occur
:. The Union once dissolved, the black blood Of
slave States adjoining the Northern frontier would
instantly experience ruinous depletion In such a
condition of things slave property must he too IN
gitive 10 be valuahla The institution must die Of
exhaustion Emancipation and the Introduction Of
free labor will be necessary measures;& as there
can m longer bp any bonds Of unity with the ser
vile system for she proongatian OF which the
Southern organization i designed, we should
have ali the frontier States, Virginia included,
seeking rc.admisson TO the Northern alliance
For fugitive slaves. we should have fugitive
States Aud tho process would tend con stantiy
10 push the liberating line nearer II the water
line If the Gulf If Mexico it would be merely n
question Of time as TO the entire re- absorption OF
the seeding soyercignties, and the re ntegra.
ton Of the Union on the sound basis OF rehi Tree.
dom and equality"
Upon this precious paragraph the Memphis
Eagle and Enquirer comments as follows:
let the south read x ponder on these ouigiv-
ings WE'LL May il not be that the North Is en-
deavorine TO aggrayate the South to the point "i
secession, ms the initial step toward the ultimate
eonsnmmation Of the abolition Of southern sIa.
very in the way here plainly Indicated Ana
NAV II not be. after all, the true policy OF The
South To stand by the Federal Constitution and
laws. as prescribed in the American Platform -
Certain we are that if the whole South and the
conservative constitutional men of the North will
placo then selves upon that platform, there VIII
then be no danger II be appreheuded for tho
rights of the Souih-no danger OF disah'on'
The extreme doctrine of state Rights must ere
long become dsiasteful 10 every true southern
er Fifteen years from this the only advocates"
those doctrines must be looked for North OF Ma
son and Dyon's line
We regard it unlenable, that the doctrine
secession and disunion is becoming more unpop
Mar in the South, and more aud moro received in
the North every day. Men who once thought d'
f,rently begin to perceive TINT among the che
rights of the States is the Union OF the Siaie-.
The manly sentiment is spreading, that the
Union is the servant of the States. 10 be e"erer'
TO do their will, under the compact OF the consi'
tuton,-not their master 10 be held IN serfh
dread, and pusillanimously run away from, a- ti'
slave runs from his oyerseer. The States hhF"
n righf TO tho Union, and need the Union to dir
charge the various duties imposed upor it 10y the
constitution. and for which it created. They
need it to curb and punish the lawless fanatics a.
the North-to nulify and correct unconstitutional
legislation b. the free Statos-to restore TO their
owners fugitves from service. and punish those
who aided them in their escape-to secure free
dom from imposts 10 the products and MERRIAM
die of one State passing into or through anoih
err. aud security Of person and property to the
traveller to make all postal arrangements ne
cessury iol the convenience of the peopie-toap-
proprate equiiabiy the public lands or their pro
ceeds-and to do nnumerable other things oi u
domestic and internal character without looking
to our foreign relations. If the Union fails in
is duty in any of these particulars the States
should coerce it like mnsters-and not skulk
from it like hondsmen and crayens. No more
salutary lesson could al this time be taught the
mischief. makers of the North, than that they
will be kept in the Union and required to behave
themselves. If they become seditious and re-
fractory let them be punished, las General Jack
son once threatened such,) and restrained by
their fears, If they cannot be controlled by
sense of obligation to the laws. For our part,
we want a strong Unon--made SO by the ex-
actions Of the States-strong enough to hang
every body who reasonably interieres with the
rights of the States. We have no fancy for
impotent and rickety Union, that can not do the
work. which has been assigned it. and that can
not punish all malefactors that throw distractions
in the way of the discharge of its duties. We
can never encourage the idea that the federal
compact is fmsy and the Union so weak that
the guilty and rebellious, whether States or ind
vduals, can escape from it with impunity-but
hold it to be the right of each State TO require the
Union to remove its grievances, redress its
wrongs-punish those who offend against it
and faithfully to discharge towards it the obliga-
tions imposed on it by the constitution. The
right of State to secede from the union is the
right of the slave to run away from his master
the right of a State to compel the Union to do its
duty is the right of the master to govern his
slave,and require him to do his duty. We oaiu
TO be State rights men, of the highest tone, an,
this is our notion of State rights.
The controversy now pending between tn
United States and Denmark, relative to the Scum
Dues. gives interest to the following paragraphs
cut from the columns of contemporary journal:
'The Sound is narrow strait lying betwee
the Island of Ietand, belonging TO the Danes,
and the Swedish coast, and gives entrance to tn
Baltic sea. The fortress of Cronburg Castle com
mands the passage, and exacts payment iron
all vessels entering the Baltic; the ships of Den
mark herself having to pay well as foreig
tonnage. The origin of this exaction is that j
ancient times Denmark undertook to build an
sustain certain lighthouses along the coast, 70
which the Hansetowns agreed to pay toll,
England, France, Holland, and Sweden pay
duty of one per cent. on every cargo entering tn
Baltic. Other countries, including the Unite
States, pay and quarter per cent;
Danish ships taxed to this rate In the yea