Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-01-30

The Lynchburg yirginian, sound old
Wing paper Of high character and one ID
which we always find something interesting
and valuable, thus speak:
"THE FrRsr GuN.--It is reported, in the
papers received yesterday, that the Legisla-
ture of Alabama has passed, in both branches,
resolution directing the Governor to call a
State Convention of the people, as soon as
Congress shall refuse the admission Of Kansas
under the Lecompton CONSTITUTE IN.
"If Congress shall refuse the admission Of
Kansas, the people Of Alabama know-as, in
deed, every one else knows-that it viii be
solely because of the adoption, of slavery as
one of their domestic institutions. No sort Of
evasion or apoogy--no sort Of cunning device
no plea in mitigation--can avoid such a
conclusion.
"The people OF the South have long ago an
nounced their ultimatum on the recurrence
of such a contingency as this. They are com
mitted, by the most solemn pledges, to resist
auce to the exercise Of Congressional author
ity, when such authority is welded to reject a
State from the Union on account of its tolera
ton of slavery.
G*taee1*
"We are no alarmists--but we cannot avoid
the conclusion that the time has come when
the issue must be joined when the decision
must be made whether the South shall re-
main in the Union with honor or with disgrace.
There is no reliance to be had on the good faith
Of any party at the North, for one openly tells
you it will resist the extension of your insti-
tutions, and the other, less openly, but with
equal effect, plots and contrives to secure the
same end. The first gun has been fired by
Alabama, and its report is now booming over
the waters of the Southern sea. We await the
developments of the future"
"We are no alarmists, says the Virginian !;
nor are we, and therefore we have no fear of
any threatened dissolution Of the Union, come
it from what quarter it may and especially
have we no fear that it will be brought about
by the refusal Of Congress to admit Kansas
with constitution forced upon the people,
and upon which they have had no opportunity
to vote. Such an act of injustice will not be
sanctioned by the South herself-at least we
know that considerable portion Of her best
and most intelligent citizens denounce the Lee
compton Constitution asa fraud upon the peo-
pile of Kansas.
What says Governor Wise? "Whatl Tell
us that an instrument of this dignity, that
republican government itself was not to be sub
mitted, in its form and plan proposed to the
only lawful sovereigns the organized people
not mere mass of persons, but thebon ide
inhabitants and legal voters ofthe State to be
governed-for their election to Ldopt or reject
It'll Dc jure, say it ought to have been SO
submitted Pure and undefled republicanism,
conservative Democracy, required that itshould
be SO submitted"
Speaking of the manner in which the people
were required to vote, Wise says: I" It was in
the gambling phrase, the foul heads win,
tails you lose this was the unveiled
trickery and shameless fraud of the so-called
schedule There was neither right nor justice
in it"
And yet, if Congress shall refuse to consum-
mate this unveiled trickery and shameless
fraud" the Union is to be dissolved We don't
believe it