The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-03


last, to the same thing. This, then, is the
charge that we claim simply those rights
and that protection to which the Constitution
entities us and this, it is said, is dangerous
to the Union Some of your enemies have
declared their belief that the army and navy
of the general government are the only ex-
listing barriers against rising of the slaves (;
and Seward says that the army and navy
ought to be disbanded. Whyl Because,
should his myrmidons succeed in fomenting
seville outbreak, he would have the gener-
al government powerless to intcrpose for our
protection.
We are told by our enemies, when we in
woke that protection which the Constitution
guarantees alike to all the States, that the
| Constitution itself conflicts with the doct-
rines of the Declaration Of Independence,
and, therefore, that the Constitution falls by
its own weight Such of them as do not
occupy this extreme ground, tell us that the
/ people of the United States made the Con
stitution, that the majority has right to
govern, aud that the minority, If it refuses
voluntarily to submit to the greater number,
I shall be coerced into submission. There the
speaker entered upon an elaborate argument,
too long for reproduction here, to prove that
the Constitution was compact between
sovereign and independent States and that
any State, deeming that compact to have
been violated, possessed the right to declare
the compact at an end flour people have
not the right to change their governments at
4 their own pleasure, then did our fathers fight
the Revolutionary battles all in vain. Here
some one may exclaim :-"Don't you hear
that? Is he not an avowed secessionist p
just so, presume, if were to remark that
a given quantity of stryehnine would kill
man, it would be asked o. me :-"Are you
not poisonerp If declare the doctrine
that State may rightfully secede from the
Union, does it thence follow that advise
the immediate exercise of that right So
strongly am | attached TO the Union, that,
-
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The Senate resolutions OF last winter, de-
/ claring 1t to be the duty OF the general gov
crnment to protect our rights, when neccs-
sary, were voted for by every Democratic
Senator except Douglas and Pugh. Douglas
lodged the question. Every Democratic
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