New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-29

dead within you. You sil feel The glory Of belonging
10 the Gt Nation, and unwilling TO descend intc
Abe pc~ition ID being a member of "a Lower Empire
" th deep sorrow aid regret look upon the Orrstic
conn OF our quondam inessmale-s brilliant star
gRooti,T from IT, sphere and "with fear Of change
,.ypIes n = nations."
Hea.etfh> upOn the present untOwaTd state OF affairs,
and npon tie relations chat exist between the States OF
Geortis and IL 1neseee, deem the occasion proper
ore 10 addr.e. 20 .you and through you to the people
Of ire South sot suggestions that seem to me proper
IA tLeir eonsderats,n IN the present exigcney.
The fre dpa thu, kes my mind the citizen OF n
S,ts r,.psetahle for tie courage and for its peril
uaeou- adhe renee it, rights, IN new OF IN Bet Oh se
cc@sion Is that il il Of nmigstrd weakness ana
moral cOwarAice. II y not rssfinR wrong anu rrpei-
ling aggression but ingIoriously flying from The con-
ed ard yielding M thu subject Of dispose. Nor can
thu Eight be hidden because IL u done 90 ths Deal
the drum snd the Chang OF the trumpet TBS ncin on
battle will be le TO the enemy and there Mt hr irisre
he can rise biz trophy-there viii he no dead to bury
Secersicn, however ndeienfible whether IN ths ao'
strct the concrete, will not produce civil WAY Wsr
may Gene, and with all its horrors, but this wHl be
when We have become two or many nations. NO "i'i
of thought supposes that there would be any attempt
from any quarter TO dog seeding State into tHon.
Tire thing il self-contIadctory. But why do say that
the net Of secesson act OF cowardice Lei us see
Now suppose the Northern States, desiring 10
appropriate to Themselves the whole OF the com,
mon property of the Union, with iong-headed
fore.hougbt shoud hive east about for meth
I'd Of doing without cos and without piooa,
shed. What more cunuingly devised scheme eonin
have been fallen upon than that OF provoking ana e&-
citing the PEOPLE Of the South until they in sheer dis
gust should be driven IL abandon the partnership
say the partnership though am sick OF this ana otner
terms such compact, trust, Nc, ~ appled 10 oir
Csnst utoD and Union. Such a scheme would, how
ever have been of no anvil ii the effects OF the firm
were TO he divided among all the partners. HOW
would this be in of secession Secession s 10
be the aet Of single State For, according 70 the
theory il not right existing in conjunction TO sew
eral States, but 10 each for itself. Well, suppose
South larna secede-, what does rhe take out oil the
Union with her! What aliquot part OF the common
property 10 be assigned 10 her Which OF the Ter
rit1res or what part Of of the Territories, II ,ne
TO hayel How much OF the Navy of the public arms,
OF the public buildings, Of public archives Her rghl
IN our ancient glory and common renown even could
not Wei be appOrticned. But, independently OF 1t.
being wholly impracticable 10 assign her her share VI
thee things would the remaining States even assent
10 the YSIncpic that slIe entitled TO something,
though that something could be neither raned nor
appOrliosd Suppose, however, chat South Carolina,
in such care, should INSIST upon having her share oil
tie common property. Fyom whom would che make
her demand There IL difficulty here. The com
mon property belongs to the people Of the United
States as Represented in the Federal Government.
No demand could be made Of New-fork or biaAsachu-
sttts Tie demand must be made of the Federal Gov
erruent But the Federal Government would ray,
"We have committed no aggression upon your riShts,
we have ,.-ed 10 unconstitutional Ewst0yOnrmJur!,
and besdts we have authority 10 divide or appOr-
lion tLc property that has been committed 70
our ,are even if II were Invisible in IT. nature S.ch
uu. be thu ans' r, and with such answer, n South
Carolina should not be satisfied. what would She do
Go 10 war; All WELL but what has tben become oil
III. reaceable seceeson Of which We have heard 80
much Tie secessiobist might answer that war In
that case on hls part would he ufliiabe, and that
cOut gHl OHte, h. would make H. he II 10, slil re-
cession would not b. peaceahle. Everything must be
tiled before war That il almost the last of evil
ID \ akpuld mn ref a
march under the banner of the Republic TO night our
wrongs aginsi the aggressOr, 10 war IN which the
innocent would inevitably be confounded with the
guity Ii there -hould he another case OF Anthony
Buns lei the President call for volunteer from GeoT'
,ia and Tennessee enforce the avs that all OF M
had made ard then there would be "a muster IRON the
mountains and the plains, aud the shout would 80 up
Coo show tho right
Secas.iol az you well said i not resistance; it does
po Obtain rediess; il il remedy tor any evil; Is
IA. con NE for sayng HO--merely sneaking ont oi a
diftclty Ii ought, however, to be allowed to claim
ore kind of cOurage and that il the courage claimed
by the Earl OF Rochester hen he deserted ma friends
In a night hrawl. When charged with deaortI0n 0y
BIZ friends, he said Any of YOU wonld have done
the -ame thing if you had had the courage. Now
cLoad Georgia hisrily dissolve her connection with
tie Union ec might leave III II Virginia, hentuchy,
Teunrgsee and other States They might not choose
to run away Has Georgia right 10 consider herself
alone in this matter! Are there not mutual Federal
obligations between tsr and these SLyehodihg states
tht STE has night to break Tor the Hnr ol Dio ana
Massschusettsl II she will slay, viii help Der to
assert her own and our rights in The Union Al she
GOES she inurs VI Who have done her no wrong.
She cannot say to W., along, and if you do not,
saure al pea becau-e there is no obligation on Us TO
90 ont with her, hut there il obligation on her to
say in with III, if her going out should damage MS.
This is o. even if 1 yield the abstract legal right OF
Secession.
OF tome other thngs expect to write to You In a
fl DAYS In rhe mean tine may say that Tennessee
will soon be moving. She wishes to confer with yoa
OF G,orsh before Won have taken any irreTocabe
tep. She wishes ii possible her Interests are con-
mon with those Of Georgia that they should take
common course and if they cannot, nj least that they
should part friends. Whatever may happen hope
workers in A common cause aud friends.
YOURS Sc EDWIN II. EWING.
Nashville. No.. -, 1850