The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-24
Passages from Gen. Jacksqn's Messages,
Proclamation and Farewell Address.

In these days Of political declension, says
! the Huntsville Democrat, some men prove
their love of free governmeHt BY indefinite
submission to wrong governIaent their love
of liberality by unlimited license in libeling
the true men of the South, who nnfinchingy
| demand all their constitutionalrights, and their
love of Union with the NORTH By disuniting
the South; and they saerilegiausly invoke the
name of the Old Hero of tie Hermitage,
whose motto was, task nothing that is not
clearly right, and submit to nothing that is
wrong"-to sanction their errum 1t is true,
that Gen. jackson, like every g9npine patriot
loved the Union of our father the Federal
Union, the Union as constituk6nal compact,
whose provisions were faiasasa and frate--
nally observed by each and an the parties to
it; but we defy the protection of any ything
from the pen or tongue of the Old Hero, to
justify submission, by any one section, to the
aggressions of dominant majority of anoth-
er section of the Union or to the expressions
Of the Federal Government. He said, (nSs
''The Cnion,' as often quoted-not any sort
of Union, no matter how oppressive-but
the Union our fathers framed.) "The Federal
Union, it must be preserved" How he meant
that it must be preserved, may be gathered
from the following extracts
Nor is our Government to be maintained.
nor our Union preserved, by invasions of the
rights and powers of the several States In
thus attempting to make our General Govern
ment strong, we make it weak. It's true
strength consists in leaving individuals and
States as much as possible to themselves in
making itself felt, not in its power, but in its
beneficence, not in its control, but in its pro
lection, not in binding the States more closely
to the center, but leaving each to move, unob-
structed, in its proper orbit. [Jackson's
Bank Veto, July 10. 1882.
But the Constitution cannot be maintained
nor the Union preserved, in opposition to pub
lie feelings, by the mere exertion of the coer-
Give powers contided to the General Govern
ment. The foundations must be laid in the
affections of the people; in the security it
gives to life, character and property, in every
quarter Of the country and in the fraternal
attachment which the citizens of the several
N@e~eN' cNtAA ~ OLlS dS Oh one
political family, mutually contributing to pro-
mote the happiness of each other.
But each State has the unquestionable right
to regulate its own internal concerns accord
ing to its own pleasure and while it does not
interfere with the rights Of the people ofother
States, or the rights of the Union, every State
must be the sole judge of the measures prop
er to secure the safety of its citizens and
promote their happiness and all efforts on
the part of the people of other States to cast
odium upon theirinstitutions, and all measures
calculated to disturb their rights of property,
or to put in jeopardy their peace and internal
tranquility, are in direct opposition to the
spirit in which the Union was formed, and
must endanger its safety Jackson's Fare
aceH Add'ess, 1887.
1t is true that cases may be imagined dis
closing such settled purpose of usurpation
and oppression on the part of the Government
as would justify an appeal arms. IT,
While denying that "any State may, at
pleasure that is, without sufficient cause
''secede from the Union,' and denying also
that secession is "a constitutional right" he
yet admitted that it was moral right, a rev.
olutionary remedy, which the people have
above and fFTIePeldess.Ts f,lss Cunstit.,tisn
and he therefore declared:
Secession, like any other revolutionary act
may be morally justified by the extremity of |
oppresson.-f Jackson's PToclqnation.