Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-12-22
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Under this caption, the Nashville Banner, a leading
Conservative organ, contains a long and able article,
which IL commences by remarkiog that the Revolution
10, that the general Government il as they as
ssr contract and Of the parties 10 that COT.
tract have violated dsregarded some Of s obligation
the other parties s have the right to regard the con
tract end and the Government established by /. as
dss0,yed. Thrty-three men own a. many houses in
habited by themssye their wives their children and
their servants. These thirty houses were bull, by
tleir respective fathers and enclosed by the sane
common outer walls, and covered BY the same roof
TIE demolition Of any one Of them will involve the de.
s,rlcton Of all Of them by destroying the common out
e. walls and the common roof and will bring distress
AID suffering upon the ovrers aud Inhabitants Of
al. What would be thought Of the moral con
duet Of the osner Of any one Of these houses, Who
siould insist upon bis right 70 pull dowu his
oSn house and thereby endanger the saley OF all Tie
Oher houses and bring ruin and misery on the owners
aud inmates Of an the Others upon the ground that the
o1nisa,t under which bis father and the fathers Of tie
ohsr oEnsrs bad erected them had By the owners Of
some Of the houses been violated? To be sure he gbt
urge that the house bis own aud be had the right 10
let il stand poll il down, bis Judgment should
dictate Would not the owners Of the other thiry-two
r
and sound morals required him biz owa house so az
not nact any Injury upol them, and be persisted ia
the demolition Of his own house, and thereby brought
ruin and misery upon the Others their wives children
aud servants would he no. be guilty Of the preparation
Of great wrong against themg II the owners Of the
other iourteeen houses standing Immediately adjoining
his had always been bis fends-had never yioited or
disregarded the contract OF their fathers-and we're
greater sufferers from the alleged violation Of the con-
tract by others than he WAS and if the demolition by
him Of ais house would iaafs Leu aui theirs as much
or more than the alleged violation Of the contract.
would not the moral wrong to those fourteen be
greatly aggravated. Would il be- indeed without
pllaiong Aud Il he had refused 70 hold any confer
ence consultation with those owners who had suffered
a. much than himself before he proceeded 10 his
ac Of destruction would insult be added 10 Le gtea.
moral wrong be inflicted upon them. Yet that IS ex.
seuy what South Carolina proposes 70 DO with the ex
cepdon ,hat il is a Government with which are bound up
the destiaes Of hiry.hree States and the lives losr
ties, prop rty business prosperity and happiness and
EgiOn Of thirtyOne millions Of men, women aud children
instead Of house which she destroy. All right
and morals all reason and Justice all laws and cons i.u-
tons, condemn the society IS indeed said Burke
"a contract Subordinate contracts for objects Of mere
OCCASIONAL Interest may be dissolved at pleasure But
the State ought Dot to be considered nothing better
than partnership agreement in trade OF pepper and
coffee calico tobacco, or other such low con-
eern 70 be akea up for little temporary interest and
be dissolved by the fancy Of the parties. Il il be
looked on with other reverence, because Il is not
partnership in things subservient only 10 the
gross animal existence Of temporary and per-
ishabe nature Il is partnership in all Sci
sncs partnership 10 all art; partnership in evefy
virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends Of such
partnership be obtained in many generations, il
becomes partnership not only between those Who are
living but between those Who are dead and those who
are to be bora Each contract Of each particular State
is but clause in the great Pimeval contract OF eternal
society linking the loser with tbe higher natures, con
meeting the visible aud invisible world according to
6fsi compact sanctioned BY The nviolsble oath, which
holds all physical and moral natures, each in their ap-