The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-12-08

|
sttutiona mode of obtaining the sense of the
other States on the construction of the Federal
compact, and amending it, if necessary, has never
been attempted by those who have urged the
State on TO this destructive measure The State
might have proposed the call for general con-
venton TO TIE other States; and Congress, if a
sufficient number of them concurred, must have
called it. But the first magistrate of South Caro-
ina, when he expressed hope that, con arevirw
| by Congress and the functionaries of the General
Government of the merits of the controversy"
such convention wiz De accorded to them, must
have known that neither Congress nor amy func-
tionary of the General Government has authority
to call such a convention, unles5 it be demanded
by two-thirds Of the States. This suggestion,
them is another instance Of the reckless inatten-
ton to the provision of the Constitution with
which ills crisis has been uadly hurried ON; or
OF The attempt to prTsuads the people that con-
stitutonal !, inedy had been sought and refused.
| Il the Legislature Of South Carolina ''anxiously
desire i general convention to consider their
complaints, why have they not made application
for it in the way the Constitution points out :
The assertion that theycancstly seek it is COM
pletey negatived by the omission.
| This then is the position in which vc stand. A
small majority of Che citizens Of one STATE in the
Union have elected delegates to State Conycn-
lion. That convention has ordained that all the
Icyenua laws Of the United States must b. repeal
ed, or that they are no longer a member of the
| Union. The Governor Of that State has recoumen-
ded 10 the Legislature the raising of an army to
carry the secession into effect, and that ne may be
| empowered to give clcaranccs to vessels in the
name Of the State. No act of violent opposition to
tia laws has YET been committed but such a state
Of things is hourly apprcheudcd and it is The in
mt OF tiis instrument 20 FRDCLAlM not only tia
tie duty imposed On me Ly the Constitution to
! "la.e care that the laws b, faithfully cxrcntcd"
shall be performed t. the extent Of the powers
already vested in me bylaw, or Of such others as
the wisdom OF Congress shall deyis and rntrust to
NE FOX that purpose, bat TO warn the citizens Of
| South Carolina, who have been d,iuded into OPP
position 10 the laws, of the danger they will incur
| by obedience to the illegal and GisorgaazinG or
dinance Of the convention; to exhurt those who
| have refused to support it to prrsoyere in their
discrimination TO uphold the Constitution and the
laws Of the country-and to point ont to all the
pyrilous situation into which the good people Of
that State has been led, and that the course they
have been led to pursue is ore of ruin and dis
grace to the very State whose right they affect to
support.
| Frilow-citizcns of my native State let ne no.
Only admonish you, as the first magistrate Of cur
-,
''"'' ' -,
=,
| ,'S,I
a.;.f ,a-..., II.
|
| 80,
~,
ll....... -. ,..,,.,...l.
,-,ii... r..,.,. -.
| ..,;.,i.,.'s III. ,.t,,t $ e.. ,.,, -.
!
I
l..r..,.. .,., g.. 1...l.... 49,. - ,....',.,.7. :,
,.,,,,r ,,,.ts met 81, ,.,,,, ,,ffo, :
,,tio,,s No,~ Mn, ,..,y ,,,... Ia. .I.. o.s,r,,
u.,, .,,l..,;;.;,,,, =, +l,.. I'm, ,,.. st.... .
,,,,-.. ..,,,t ,.,. e.. dim. .....,,.,t
in PATRIOTIC merit 10 IN, o,,r,,si,o, .,r f,ibars oc
| Tr.I - the ouorc.s.yc law, of ar,ot britain
| lou wore told That dis oun,.;ti.,, ,,,;rbt h.
l,,,f.,,,t h.. c,n.,i,l,;o,.,I,, ,r,da-I,t
Won, .,,i-;,, cr;oy All m. a,.,,..,,, ,rtb. I-,,
and b...r nom. ,r., l,r.l,rs l.a.,,.,,t..rr...l.
f. vcr. r.,... 4, y.,,,r SAT. ,,;l f. ,.,,,, ma
r.n r.c,a.. t vn,,- Suns. If r,,f h.,,,r,. ,v.-
,,., tn ,,,,.,,a ,, fir tl,.. ,.,I ,,.i.,, ,,,..,,
which c,i,...,l, ,t, b;Ie,i, features oruIsirv-
! ION should b. taken off. /. fell and Van, ,y,rr
l.ol viii, ,.,,,,.,..., go, ,,,,,.I.
l,,, .,,,, ,,,,. ,,.,,,rl i,.. r...,i ~, vii, how
ny Ior. I,,., Of III, ,r,. Ill, I..... ,,,,,,
,,, IN This st.ta i,,r, c,r...~I o.. H., ,,,,,,..,
eos to which if mp.t inevitably head, Ioo,, L.cr,
.,..l.., ,,... e. t,ll ,.,.,, i.l.,...,.. >,
,,,,,r i,to Tie j,,,.,r,,,,. ,,,,,.. ,c,,. ,,-.+
.,..l:..,,r +r,,.r, ,.,,.,,.,.., f., 900. H.. ti