New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-28
TIE PEOPLE NOT For SECESSION.

THE PEOPLE NOT FOR SECESSION.
To tie Editor Of IN, n. T. Tti5are.
SIR: find the following sentence in THE TRIBUNE
Of the 2ith Instant:
any (star insist. going decidedly object to tbs
Of force 10 Keep 1t in
agree with much, perhaps most, that you say, but
Iere is an astronomical heresy against which feel
bound to protest The solar system, till becomes
worthy Of existence will use force to keep every star,
be il planet asoroid meteor from going ont. Vol
canc secession movements may occur but, be they in
Mars or Jupiter even, they will be resisted and frs-
tra,ed Jg force.
Now. appeal to your extensive political az well as
astronomical science Judge if it il not nonsense to
talk Of any State insisting upon going out OF the
Federal system Union Rhett may insist, or Cobb,
or Slaughter & Co., dealers in the bfurcated cattle
but Of the Caroinas by means. II is not pos
sblc and of not reasonably supposable case,
that a numerical majority or anything approaching
majority of the people of any State should really wish
to withdraw from the Union administered in tolerable
accordance with it's present Constitution, interpreted in
the light Of the Declaration Of Independence. What
stupidty. with several editions of the United State
Census. TO say nothing of the Helper Book in GU
hands TO take Rhett & Go. for South Carolina If
nneenths Of the people of aSy State are held silent
by compulsion, while the other tenth elamor for Sc
cession does that star insist on going out
Or. supposing, what is hardly supposabe, that a
majority should he induced by misrepresentation act
ing in ignorance to join The cry of secession, for the
benefit of a designing few would that be The voice Of
the star 1t appears to me that before any State
insist ON going Of the Union the question in lis
true imrort must be brought before all its people, and
they must be free to express their wishes in view of
the existing facts; in other words they must be at lib
erty to consult their own inliyidaal interests in the
natter Having such knowledge and liberty, it is az
idle to suppose that majority would vote for Seces
sion as TO suppose that the mass of plunmet will
rebel against the law of gravity Now if force is not
to be used TO prevent small class of men, who have
already damaged the South more even than their val
liable necks are worth, from carrying one or more
States out Of this Union should like be informed for
whit purpose force is ever 20 be uced Let rs talk
facts not to shams The Shareholders thereof 90 not
constitute any one Of the States. Though with im-
measurable mpudence they have contrived TO silence
every voice but their in nearly fifteen States they
have no right on democratic principles to speak for
any ore Of them much less To add to their own dia-
bocal injustice by forcing any Of them, against its in
tcests and Of course against It's real will cut Of the
Union.
If there Is anhying positively certain in American
politics, ii s that Helper, and not Rhett speaks the
real voice Of the South. Rhet speaks for himself and
q few kindred spirits who exploit the South. Helper
speaks inst what the dumb millions of the exploited
South would SPEAK, if they only knew what brushes
them What be asks his fellow victims to do may not
be the wsest for them 10 d. or for to assist them in
doing; but, before God, il we do not recognize our
national obligation to assist in some eflcc;ual way
agains, the Vaccinations of Rhett & Co., these millions
of white Southern people, whomwe have so atrocously
wronged while for forty years we have licked mp the
spittle of the shareholders, then the meanest
people upon whom God ever showered his undeserved
mercies ELIzUR WuGHT.
No II ige,y street Ratioa Nov. % 1860