The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-28
The RS bt az so1theTs EevoiGGisE and
s,.,s.,on DIsc0sssd.

The Eis bt az sosshsTs RevoiGsisE and
Secession DSscosssd.
III itir day'e paper we continue 10 publish
our revolutionary Intelligence from the South.
/ II WI b. seen that at public meeting in Mis-
sifsippi series Of important resolutions were
aoopt.d, ~ which the right of secession from
Tie tuion Is indicated, and ii is declared tnat
'br -iec'ion Of Lincoln will be held 70 oe a jast
eants ~ SEPARATION. 1t WIS further resolv we'd
va ~ Governor Of the State should be re-
qH's'o 70 e"'avene the Legislature, and, lastly
Y Vas proposed that a Southern Convention
sb"nld meet for ,be pnrpose Of agreeing upon
nhi'y Of purpose and harmony OF action Ths
Is very alarming condition of things. When
men cooliy begin to talk Of the right OF the &c
c.ssiob Of States. and propose measures for car
\ rying out their determination. in the event of a
certain contli aency which is likely to happen,
I il j. slmost tsn'amount to dissolution.
TIE people OF The Southern States generally,
/ ara large proportion Of the democracy If the
North. have always held that any sovereign
Stat. has the same righ to Withdraw from the
Jnion bat partner in q mercantile firm has
10 separate from the concern. This was the
doctrine of John G. Calhoun, for many years
he great leader Of the South; and 1t appears
thar il was he doctrine of Jefferson and Madi.
! son. two OF the greatest Of the founders of the
federal Union, and the ablest interpreters Of
the constitution. The question is banded With
great ability by writer signing himself
Justinian, whose arguments will be- found in
another part OF this journal. The doctrine,
however, i, disputed by the republican party
and by many who are opposed to their organ.
izaton But the fact of the Southern States
believing in it is sufficient for their action, aud
practically amounts to the same tong As II il
were principle Of our government beyond
dispute. For no power on earth can keep the
Southern States In the Union against their WILL
and when II ceases to he their interest to re-
main the Union is but rope of sand.
Hitherto il was their interest to continue
members Of the copfederacy, as IL was the in
terest OF the Northern States to induce them TO
do so. But the time is come when they have
begun 10 weigh the advantages Of the Union
against the advantages Of secession, and a
very large proportion of the population
probably a considerable majority of the
whole-iDclin to the opinion that they would
| be better aud safer out OF the Union than In It.
| If their domestic concerns were let alone By
Northern argressors the people Of no Southern
| State would ever desire to seceac from the
| Union; but now that they zee a powerful party
at the North controlling the elections In every
one of its States, even Ia those bthei to deemed
conservative, and that party organized on the
basis Of d social war of destruction and exter
mpation against their mos. cherished institi
| ton, the source Of oil their wealth and pros
perity- an institution guaranteed to them as no
other is, by the very words OF the federal com
pact hselt- IL Is not TO be wondered at that they
should be alarmed for the security Of their
property, and that they should desire to with.
draw from q coniederacy In which ii Is endan
psIed, and form one for themselves in which
the ties of a common interest would bind them
together for i,s protection.
Now the question Is: Will the people OF the
NorAern States, for mere abstraction, drive
the Southern States ont Of the Union? 1t l. the
interest Of the Northern States far N ore than It
consderacy should not be broken up. The
South would lose none Of It's wealth or pros
| peri'y, for with IL would remain It's sources Of
wealth- The great staples; its institutions could
no longer be interfered with, and II would enjoy
/ domestic peace aud tranquility. But how diff.
| ferent the North, whose sources Of wealth ere
| lie trade and commerce and manufactures, de-
lt.nw g Al Il. L. H..
nection with the South by political Union,
which secures II free trade and the raw ma
terial and market for the manufactured ar
tcle, and employment for its SHIPS and capital
| and IL numerous population
Cu, the ligements which bind the North TO
the South, and the people Of the North become
\ more impoverished population than tia, OF
England, aud the profits which they reaped
from Southern products would be diverted into
| other channels, and enrich Great Britain and
| France.
II the North, therefore, should be guilty Of
| the suicidal course Of severing the connection
and forcing the South to seek safety in seces-
sion at It's own doors must lie the terrible con-
sequences. "a for coercion, II is madness TO
| think Of H. In the words OF the writer to
whom We have already referred, The descend
ants In South Carolina Of those patriotic heroes
who, in l7Gj-ten years before the destruction
Of the tea in Boston-csptured from the British
\ garrison at Fort Johnson aud destroyed the
British stamps-ihe descendants Of men who
risked their lives for an abstrac, principle to
avoid an unconstitutional aud nominal tax
could never be persuaded TO remain for one
\ instant within any such Union Of force"
The Police Am TINE GANBIERs- Our police
are exceedingly active when their duty in
wolves a wholesale decent upon Migrants, or
poor honest people who are no Migrants at all.
when an atrocious murder is committed which