Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03
An Interesting Document.

1 The announcement by MT. Douglas al
 PeteHburgh and Norfolk, that he would
 treat those who attempt 10 dissolve the
 Union on the account of the election o
 Lincoln, as Jackson treated the nullfiers in 1852, has induced some of our Geor. gia cotemporaries to republish letter ad- dressed by Hon. Herschel " Johnson, to committee of gentlemen at Augusta, Ga, in the year 1851. A peTusal of the letter will show that Gov. Johnson hand. les without gloves those, who, ike MT. Douglas, maintain that the right of seces- ion is merely a right of revolution. Can the ticket with such head and tail mis- lead a sufficient number of the Democracy of he South to give single State to the opposition. In the following extract he affifms the right of secession and denoun- cesMr Douglas idea of co-erci1g a sov- eregn State:
 "The contest in which the peopleof Geor- gia in common with her sister slageho ldine Staes are engaged, is one of vitll impor- tame. It involves the destiny of the South, and the federative character of or system of government. It is waged upon the right of State peaceably to secede rom the Unon. The Gubernatorial candidate of the Sothern Rights party maintains tie affirma- tv, and the candidate of the submission paty the negative of this great oeston.--
 rh one, that the right necessarily results frm the reserved sovereignty of he States an the nature of the confederacY; and the | oter, that it exists only as a rigit of revo- | luon. The former insists that tle General Gsernmen has no right to co-ercea seeding Site and the latter, that such seeding State
 mst depend, for the maintenance )f it's posi-
 tin, t'upon the stout hearts and strmg arms of | rec people," The one, unhesittngly and | bodv avows that if Southern Stae were to | seede, he would not obey reqnistion by the
 Fleral Government made upon bim as the
 Eecutive of Georgia, for troops force her
 bsk into the Union; and the otherdeclares he
 could convene the Legislature Q the State,
 all recommend them to call a convention of
 tn people" {" to instruct him in an emergency
 inv which the impulses of the tne Southern
 hert should be sufficient guide. The great | isse then, l repeat, is the riglt of a State
 to secede from the Union, andthe correl-
 atfe absence Of any right, on he part of | tn Federal Government to fore such a
 Site back into the Union, It cannot be eva
 dd by THE SENSELESS CLAMOR
 O. UNION THIS GLORIOUS UNION l
 1ie integrity of the Union is moi assailed by tb Southern Rights party in Georgia. It's
 the friends are those who insistupon main-
 tsning the rights resulting iron the sover-
 esnty of the States. Its real enemies are
 tbse who, from behind it, as masked bat | ty," level their destructive artillery against jitstrongest outposts, by counseing summis- sin to aggression, INJ USTICE nd ROBBIE
 R, because, like Ca wolf in shee1s clothing" G COMPROMISE. Then let avigilant peo- pc look well to the true and oily issue in- vlved in the pending campagn-the right of aState peaceably to secede froa the Union
 In the next extract that wf present he ssumes that the signs of the tines render probable that, at no distant day, this | ight of secession will assum, a form and magnitude of practical imporance
 ' Whoever observes the signs of the times cannot fail to see that the RIaIT OF SE- CESSlON will probably, at Q distant day, ASSUME THE FORM AND MAGNITUDE OF PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE. The South IS permanent minority our federal Legislature. The tone of Norttsrn fanaticism abates not in it's frenzy and insolence. It 1 presses on rapidly to the consulmation of it's diabolical designs. And what check has the | South upon it's progress? Hay we any under | the established rules of parliamentary law | Can we expect any justice at te hands of tue present Freesoil Executive ant his Cabinet? | Can we effect anything by ar,ument and ap- heals to the reason of our NQTHERN OP- pRESSORS? CAN WE OFAlN SHE'LL TER UNDER THE BR0AI SHIELD OF THE CONSTITUTION? JO! All these are as impotent as pack threa to restrain an AND FAnATICAL MA JORITY.
 -How many man, by trowiDg himself