The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-24

Il gbts y he south, the question does not admit
| u 4 doubt.
| To deny tie right aaa % enforce the denial by
The force OF votes III Congress, the force of arms
in Kansas would be tie virtual repeal OF the most
solemn compacts OF the constitution. To deny the
Southern States their equality Of rights the Ter
] ritories would be in effect not only 10 deny them
/ all equality under the guarantees Of The consttu
toD but in effect 70 erect 70 inaugarate the eGcts
| OF a bare majority OF members in Congress into
government, in the place of the constitution, and for
sixteen free States 10 assume exclusive legislation
| over the rights and liberties oil the fifteen slave
| States and hold them as snbCuel provinces. Thus
under the pre'ext that slaves are not property be-
yond the limits of slave States they change the
situIonai government OF the confeleya.ed States ~
| limited powers into a despo-ism Of the majority,
! with unlimited and underlined powers. To such a
subversion and conquest, should the Sonth submit,
| they would DO longer deserve 10 be free This sub.
version Of the constitution has been already iDdl
ectly attempted by q reckless black republican ma
/ ority in the House of Representative. II y
/ clear that il tals majority hal right % refuse
an appropriation for the support OK the or
my, they could in the same manner Withhold
appropriations for the support OF every ot1er :
| partment Of the government, inc aiding the Fay OF
the Executive, the Judges Of the Supreme Court and
| OF the members Of the Senate-th1s virtually ter
| mnatipg the present government, and concentrating
in themselves legislative. judicial and eyecuti 7e
| powers-a state OF things never contemplated ~
the trainers OF The constitution or by the people %
I The country. whenever q majority eau ne aDe 20
usurp the powers OF q constitutional government
the ebts and liberties Of the small States viii re
swallowed up by the mere force OF numbers ia few
large States. u is extremely difficult for Ameri-
i cans to bear in mnd-and much less 50 Tor foreign
ers 10 understandable our national government j.
| a confederation OF sovereign States, which live m
der a constitution of well defined and limited pow
ers: those not granted having been reserved = the
1 States and TO their citizens respectively. Evefy
l clause Of the constitution At is adoption
was voted for by States, N which The
| little States Of Delaware and Rhode Island
had as great a voice as New Y3rk and Penn
4 sylyana. How ridiculous, then, tie assumption
| that majority Of the people Or 'hai, represente-
tives, have the right 10 rule or govero irrespective
| dity. They have right to discriminate between
l citizens oi the United States and their property,
| emigratng into Territories.
THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Every American CITIZEN, native o. adopted, is as
much bound by every clause Of The constitution
though he had signed it under oath; and any a.
tempt defeat destroy any Of its provisions s
| virtually an act Of moral treason.
A foreigner who swears to support it and then
denies or aids in the defeat OF a single canse, ho
ever Objectionable 10 his abstract ideas Of phan-
tropy. te IL the clause TO retura fugitive slaves Or
| otherwise, is guilty or perjury. And the dassa-
chusets Personal Liberty act has placed ibas State
in open rebellion and notification OF he own act
in aixing her signature 10 nat giorions instrument
She has thus declared 10 ler sister States, that
though she signed the compact she repGdates it.
virtually placing herself out OF the pge Of the
Union while claiming to continue in tee enjoyment
Of all It's advantages. The constitution contains
provisions for making alterltions, and points out
methods for changing is character Az other
modes which may be directly indirectly resorted
for changing or overihrowing ]. can We nothing
less than treason in disguise.
me soUTH ACCUSED or THREATS 70 DISSOLVE THE
rSioS, AND As THE THING HAS sEvEE BEES DONE,
BLAcK hLpLuBLlcANlsa BL1sDLy Reasons THAT
1T can NEVER HAPPEN.
The Southern people say that their attachment to
the Union hae heen springng from patriotic sen
timent manifested y the late war, and throughon.
The existence Of the government, while they charge
hat in oecuniary point Of view the North has
ceved the greatest advantages from IT, they say that
they complained Of The tariff Of 1928, 1892 and ls42,
and especially OF the two former which largely dis
eliminated against the south, and which came near
producing revolution In South Carolina, which was
Only ayelted by the compromise tariff bill Of 1892
The tariff they most complained of-for instance,
imposed ten cents per yard cotton bag ging in
ported ard consumed exclusively by the south.
Other articles were taxed in q similar manner.
Tie South, as q whole, did not threaten disuni IN
10 get rid OF the unequal taxation. They declared
bare majority in Congress had no right. 10 viola
ton al the national compact. 20 impose such one
rous ard unequal tax--and South Carolina declared
the Law nudity. Wbereupon the compromise tariff
OF 1882 was adopted, and all became quiet again
| far rs the tariff vas concerned.
There was not any disuni0n sentiment again ex
| pressed at the South until David Wiimots extra
Constitutional proyiso came up. which IN substance
proclaimed that the equality OF the rights Of the
South IN the TeTisones-the common property OF al
i the States--was at an end This proposition a
very different sklir from the tariff which chiefly ex
/ cited The Dstility OF south Carolina against it.
The South consider free soillsIn or black republ
csnism equivalent to abolitiobsm il disguise, aud
not only levelled at their rights in tue Territories
bat against those OF the States. THIS p,rty, well
III conceived, has concerted the whole fifteen South
E~ss N,.f n.wal liza. k.f1
against the tariff and with tenfJd more bitterness
N feeling The union of the South has never been
great before; and unless all their public men and
newspapers belle them, they can be driven from,
| 'i0ral majority, in or out Of Congress,
in despite u the spirit ard letter Of the constitution
/ succeed in depriy1ng them Of their constitutional
/ rights. Because Gen. jackson placed himself in
hostility against the single state OF South Carolina,
fifty Gen. Jgcksons, as many Gen. Scots, would
| he utterly poweress in Tightening the fifteen
Southern States into submission 70 .he annihlasion
i Of their Just rights under the constitution.
They say that they have six millions Of whites,
i who would be thoroughly united. while the North,
| with twelve millions Of whites, would be divided
No candid and well informed man can doubt that
il il possible for iapaticism, under the flag Of black
fepublicanism II successful In euforcing their extra
constitutional principles on the sOut1, to dissolve
this Union. Whatever the ul'ras Of the North may
believe TO the contrary, there i a sentiment at the
South that the people Of that part Of the country
| can get on and prosper in a state Of separation.
Al they say they claim Is, an equality o. state
4 rights IN ier the constitution.
/ They discsim eli the charges made by the black
republicans, OF having made, or wishing - make
| any aggression The North. They discliim the
idea that the constitution auth zes either the for
chile intrusion Of slavery iato tie Territories its
| forcibe expulsion from then They being the com.
non property n all the states they claim the right.
ifthey choose, Of emigrating hther wl-h their pro
perty. And that 70 the citizens o. Territory he.
longs the right 70 decide whether they will tolerate
| the existence Of slavery or not.
THE BLACK PLANK OF TIE BLAcg REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM.
The platform Of the black republicans has black
plank or clause which declares that no more slave
states shall be admitted into the Uni'n-that +, IL
| Cuba were fairly bought from Spain tomorrow, 1t
would have 70 come in Free or no at all. Besides,
all the Territories, from the Rio Grandc 70 Kansas
must have inhabitants from the South excluded from
them: and II thev in states they shall 3nly
come in as free States, or stay our. and Colone
Il hos tod If plaffnrtr While ~