The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-16
REsoLurloNs OF STATE LEeIsLAruRa.
THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES.

To the Editor Of the Union
Sin Recently have heard the question frequently ask
ed What will the southern States do in the event OF Col
Fremont being elected President in November next 2"
OF course say what they will do in that event
but believe know what they ought do, even if they
should perish in the attempt They should if they wish
maintain their honor and preserve their property and
the lives of their people, Immediately bold convention
and secede from Union in which they daily experience
insult and wrong, and tatens ultimately their destruc
ton. do advise this because love the Union
the less but because cherish the rights of the South and
love her honor
In the remarks propose to submit upon this moment
subject shall endeavor to con6ne myself the
principles of the constitution the law truth and justice
and if should, for moment, deviate from either Can
truly say il will not be intentional.
All history admonishes that prejudice, passion and
anacsm should not be permitted TO interfere in matters
that alone ought be regulated by reason law and the
constitution.
For what objects was the constitution formed2 In its
own beautiful language told that it ordained
order ESTABLISH justice insure domestic tranquility
promote the general welfare, and the blessings Of
liberty to ourselves and posterty."
Such the great patriotic and glorious objects for
which the constitution and Union established Have
they conpished these noble benign and desirable pur-
posesf Let the blood of our wctizens who
dered while in pursuit of their property under the guaran
tees of the constitution itself speak, and which yet cries
from the ground for vengeance Remember that gross and
unnatural violation of constitutional rights by the ia
nacs of the North in sending their emissaries among
excite slaves to instruction and murder and rob
of property These unnatural atrocous and crim
nal committed against violation of the
sttuon and the laws OF the land and those also of God
and by those too who profess be the sanity followers
OF the meek and lowly Jesus Yet strange say the per-
petrators OF these cruel and infamous crimes regarded
The salt of the earth and those who are loudest in
praising them elevated the highest posts of honor in
their gift AS horrible these things are they sink
insign6cance when compared with the ultimate and
declared objects and purposes of the backepubcan
abolition party which nominated Col Fremont and is now
advocating his election to the presidency.
The following some of the proposed TO be
carried into execution by this party in Col Fremont
should be elected according the declarations of
their leaders, viz
The restoration of the Missouri Compromise repeal OF
the fugive-save law exclusion of the South all the
territories of the Union slave States to
be admitted emancipation of the slaves in the District of
Columbia prohibition of the slave trade between the
States asd ultimately the emancipation of the slaves in
the States and finally they declare that they will here
after govern the country and that the Upion shall be pre-
served.
Such the declared objects of the black republican
party and which to be minated upon the election
Should follow this party and back its crimes
of whose hands still reeking with the blood of
saug citizens the South hesitate for mo-
ment what take2 Will she tamey submit TO
having the purse and sword placed into the hands of
party who have declared that they will use them for her
destruction God forbid
Can The South ANONYMOUSLY yield to the yoke of this
unpinciped and ambitious party the sacrifice of her
honor and rights and be rud and treated hereaf er as
adad
for her total destruction | trust Yet would not
advise Der rise and revenge her slaughtered
Zens but rather share their fate and sacrifice the lives
Of gallant to honor, and make her fall and ruin
glorious rather than bow such disgrace and bondage
If the Uuon cannot be preserved without such sacrifice
for one, say let it be severed like the Gordan
knot under the sword Of Alexander"
This demanded by honor and the principles
osedeence and nculcated by that glorious Declaration
of independence which brought America into existence
independent nation II that governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the
Of the governed and that whenever the govern
ment becomes destructive of the ends for which 1t was
created, fails accomplish the objects intended II is
the right and duty Of the people alter abolish it, and
to provide guards for their future security which
shall likely effect their salty and happiness
Such was the language and such the opinions Of
our revolutionary fathers which they successfully main
tanned With the Sword against the ad the divine
right OF kings 10 rule The right of selfgovernment s
natural and nAena6le and derived from the immuta-
bic laws OF justice and the great and paramount law Of
sedeicnce But the advocates Of power and oppression
contend that there such thing voluntary
sion. They say that secession Is impossibty and
that must be "a forcibe severance-that to say
by tbe fright Of revolution Thus the great principles for
which oreathers fought and established the sacri
h,e OF much blood aud treasure repudiaed by
their ungrateful and degenerate descendan The fright
revolution" is what every Russian serf Austrian
Ct possesses and this only granted because they have
power TO withhold iii therefore, have thanks to
return even for concedng that right Is this doctrine
shocking improper and dangerous? Does IL legaze
every species and form Of oppression Admit the nppa
ing pernciOns, and monarcbica doctrine that sovereign
and udependen State Of this Union seccde
majority has violated the plain and written compact that
binds them together and ramples Its rights under foot
and treats the appeals OF her citizens justice with
tempt and threats of eItermuaoD and you sacrifice at
once, the inaenabe right of selgovernment as well as
the nestmabe and ncontesabe right of self defence and
reduce the States Of the Union the hep degraded
condition Of Russian province The States under such
condition Of things would carry with them their own
degradation and legal disability defend their rights II
this dangerous and destructive principle is TO PREVAIL
will destroy all the responsibility Of Congress the federal
government and invest them with the kngly attributes Of
nvolabiity, that majority do wrong" and
their usurpaous will always be great as their safety
And this Is what the sboouists call justice freedom
republicanism Never revered principles Knocked
and blasphemedi
This cruel unnatural and abominabe principle has
caused countless millions to mourn and II has been the
OF nearly all the wrongs and mseries to which the
human has been subjected. 1t this horrible
ment that crushed noble Hungary and drenched her beau
u elds with the blood Of her brave aud patriotic sons
In ls48 and which has repressed the noble principles OF
liberty in all ages, throughout the world
The States of this Union bound BY their constitutional
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