The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-12-18

educating then 10 stand face to face as enc
mics, rather than shoulder to shoulder n.
fiends.
1t is by the agency of such unwarranta
BILE Interference, foreign and domestic. tha,
the minds of many, otherwise good citizens
have been so infiamed into the passionate
condemnation Of the domestic institutions
ot the southern States, as at length to pass
insensibly 10 almost equally passionate hos.
tiiity towards their fellow citizens of those
States, and thus finally to fall into tempora.
ry fellowship with the avowed and active
enemies of the constitution Ardentlv at.
tached to liberty in the abstract, they do
not stop TO consider practically how the OBJ
Jects they would attain can be accomplish.
cd, nor to reflect that even if the evil were
as great as they deem il, they have no
remedy TO apply, and tha. il can be only
aggravated by their violence and unconsti.
tuttoDal action. A question, which is one
.ot the most difficult of all the problems OF
social institution, political economy and
craftsmanship, they treat with unreasoring
in,emperance of thought and language.
Extremes beget extremes. Violent attack
from the North finds its inevitable colse.
quence in the growth of spirit of angry
defiance at the South. Thus in the progress
OF events we had reached that consun ma.
ton, which the voice of the people has now
so pointedly rebuked, of the attempt of a
portion of the States, by sectional orpani-
%aton and movement, 10 usurp the control
of the government of the United States.
/ confidently believe that the great BODY
OF those who inconsidera,ely took this fatal
step are sincerely attached 10 the Constiiu
ton and the Union. They would. upon
deIIbeFation. shriuk with unaffected horror
from any conscious act of disunion or civil
war. But they have entered into a path.
winch leads nowhere, unless it be to civil
war and diSunion, and which has no other
possible outlet. They have procee led thus
far in that direction in consequence Of the
successive stages of their progress having
consisted OF "a series Of secondary issues
each of which proiessed to be confined with.
IN constitutional AMI peaceful limits. but
which attempted in, irecty what few men
were willing to do directly, that is, to act
aggresslyely against the constitutional
rights of nearly one-half O: the thirty.one
States.
In the long series of acts Of indrec, ar.
gresNlon, the first WAS the strenuous agita.
non. by citizens of the northern States. in
Congress and out of il, OF the question Of
negro emancipation in the southern States.
Ihe second step IN this path Of evil con.
sisted OF acts of the people of the northern
States, and IN several Instances of their GOV.
efnmenIs, aimed to facilitate the escape of
persons held to service in the Southern
States, and 10 prevent their ex,raIi;ion
when reclaimed according To Iaw mad in
virtue OF express provisions of the Cona.itu.
Ton. To promote this object, legislative
enacimoni> and other means were aJon,o1
to take away or dcleu. rights which the
Constitution So.eInu!y guaranteed. In or.
der 10 null'iy the then existing act Of Con.
gresS concerning the cNtradiuon Of fupi,iyc,
nom service, laws were enacted in many
States, iorbidding their officers. under the
'eVefeSt penalties To- participate in the exc.
cu'ion ot any act of Congress whatever. In
ihiS way ,lH, system of harmoniou, co.oue.
ia'io" between the authorities of the Cuilel
states hLd OF the several States for the
maintenance of their common institutions
winch existed IN the early wears of the Re.
public, was DESTROYED; conflicts of iu,j.,lic.
t'oh came TO be frequent; and Cougre,,
found li>ef compelled, for the support Of
the Constitution, and the viudication Of lis
power to authorize the appointment Of new
officers charged with the execution Of Il,
acts, rs II they aud the officers of the States
were the ministers, respectively, of foreign
governments IN a state Of mutual hostility.
T"iher IMAM fellow magistrates Of common
county, peacefully subsistng under the pro-
lection q one wei! constituted Union. Thus
mere, also, aggression was followed by re
action; and the attacks upon the ConI,iIu.
"oh al i.'S point did but serve 10 raise up
new barriers Tor lis defence and security.
Ihe third stage of this unhappy sectional
controversy was in counexion with the or
sanIzaion Of territorial governments and
tne admission of new States into the Union.
w nen II was proposed TO admit the State of
Name by separation Of territory from that
"l MHSsathuSeitS, and the State of Missouri.
iorned OF portion Of the territory ceded
10y France TO the United States. representa-
liVes IN Congress objected to the admission
Oi me l".ier unless with conditions suited
70 particular views cf public policy The
imposition of such condition was success,
l"''y resisted. Bu', at the same period, the
question was presented Of imposing resltic-
uon' npon tho residue ofthc territory ccled
10y France. Iha; question was, for The time.
disposed Of by the adoption Of a geographi
Cal line Of limitation.
In this connexion it should not be rorpot
Ten that France, of her own accord. resolved.
Tor considerations of the most far sighted
sagacIiy, to ccde Louisiana to the United
states, and that accession was accepted by
The United States, the latter expressly en-
gaging that the inhabitants Of the ceded
territory shall be Incorporated in the Union
OF the United States. and admitted rs soon
as possible, according 10 the principle oflhe
ederaI Constitution, to the enjoyment OF
al inc rights, advantages, and immunilics
oi citizens Of the United States; and in the
meantime they shall bo maintained and