The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-07
The Projected Measures lef 4 South
crn Confederacy.

tng Stats for Purposes Of Disunson, &c., DO.
send you some extracts from the message OF Governor
Houston in the resolutions Of South Carolina,
together with the resolutions offered by Mr. Armstrong Of
Lamar county, responding to the message Of the Texas
Governor. Tho resolutions fell like bombshell In tho
midst Of the opposition they somewhat aquandary
they vote against them it is the knel Of their po
DEATH they vote for hem they meet the eers Of their
party for sustaining measure which they brand
oIectoneerng document to advance the preensons OF old
San Jacnto for the Presidency Of the United States An
unfortunate dilemma. As OF the administration
members told them, many of them. should they vote
against tho resolutions would have the soacng reflection
that they would At home the Of their
own FREQ viii and accord
Ex-Governor d. R. Porter, (democrat Of Pennsylvanis,
and Gen. Leslie Coombs whs) Of Kentucky, here and
have expressed high encomiums upon these measures,
now before the State Legislature going FAR 10 sooth
tho asperss Of sectional feeling a. even the Union meet
We Of Texas though the msst remote from collision
with tho sectional fanatcsm Of the North and lees actual
wanting fugitive sSo sx sro % show our
lister States that have yet abiding confidence In the
good sense Of Northern brothers, handful Of whom
guphng chasm Of disunon placed before their eyes, like
the proaga they will return 10 their allegiance, &C
knowledge their errors do justice, and In future mind
After reciting the resolutions OF the State OF South
Carolina in regard to federal relations and henecessy Of
Independent and united action on the part Of the slave
holding States the Governor In his message proceeds TO
say
The reasons assigned seem to me insufficient to justify
the measures recommended unsupported they by
facts 70 establish their soundness They appear 10 be the
affirmation OF the ordinance adopted BY South Carolina in
1852 well known TO be based upon the adoption by Con-
gress Of the compromise measures OF 1850 These
sures endorsed by the people of Texas, through
their popular vote at the ballot box; and recent In
centve action on the part of South Carolina appears
other than that he assaults upon the institution OF sa
very and upon the rights and equality of the Southern
states have increasingly continued" The Executive Is
led TO believe that these measures, emphatcally
dorsed by the people of Texas one, not the chief
Of the (" assaultso enumerated
Were there constitutional objections to the
suggested by the resolutions, cannot perceive any ad
vantage that could result the slaveholdng States or
any one, of them in seeding from the Union The
evils, the same assaults complained Of would still
exist, while no constitution would guarantee rights,
willing 70 maintain them but an insuperable objection
arises in my mind The course suggested has no consti
affecting the Happiness prosperity Of the people Of
each Individual State IS well as the people in their national
capacity 80, -. ,....,. =, ..u....
and dsunon have found advocates in Southern States
well az Northern These ultra theories have at different
periods ragged with less Violence and there have
not been wanting persons fan the fame OF dscord and
20 magnify imaginary evils into startling realities. Con-
founding the language of individuals with the acts Of
ernmen itself, they who desire dsunion ct the South,
pot satisfied with the constitution fairly and honestly
Interpreted by the highest in the country and the
rial government (even the exercise OF all it's powers
protect the rights Of property and guarantee the same
ready 70 seek relief from abolitonsm in disunion
not to be supposed that the people Of the South
ard the institution OF slavery as possessing 80 little
raj strength as to be injured by the assaults made
IN II by fanatcal element Of Northern population,
TO- SO long az they stay 1t home. do US harm, aud
excite pity for their ignorance and contempt for
billing TO maintain the contribution and to guard every
CITIZEN In the enjoyment Of his individual rights, the
bates and the citizens of the States may rest secure
rhori
class at the North upon the peculiar institutions OF the
ouh they would exist from like passions and like feel
gs under any government and it lie to the constitution
one and the Union possessing strength under it, that we
indebted for the preservation Of those separate rights
hich We zee 1t to exercise no matter % what extent
orth rs barrier against all attempts impair them
to be presumed that the raid upon Harpers Ferry,
Brown and his miserable associates has been one Of
he causes which have induced these resolutions by the
legislature Of South Carolina. In my opinion, the cir
umstances attending that act have farnhsd abundant
fact that the federal powers have given evidence
their regard for the constutoaa rights q the States,
birth the uterance Of the mighty masses Of The people.
20 long held in check BY sectoni sppeas from sslhsh
raerna feelings The fanatical outrage was rebuked
md the offenders punished. II for this that the Southern
States are called upon TO dissolve the raerna ties Of the
Union and 70 abandon all the benefits they now enjoy
under its egs, and enter upon expeden IN violation Of
the constitution, and all the safeguards q liberty, under
. century. In the history OF nations, no pee.
PIE ever enjoyed so much national character
ey the people Of the United States an this 3 orine 70
our free constitution. II i alone by the Union Of eli tho
Safes acting harmonously together in their spheres
ias been achieved without Union these results never
would have been consummated, and the States would
wars. Whenever venerate the constitution
~ the only means Of securing free government hope
remains for the advocates of regulated liberty Were the
Southern States to yield to the suggestions Of South Caro-
Ina and passing the intermediate stages trouble
. Southern Confederacy should be established could
she were to secede rom the present Union. could
one be formed with q constitution of more OBJ
Hgatoy force than the one which has been formed by
our fathers In which the patriots and sages of South Ca
rolina bore conspicuous par Sever the present Union
tear into fragments the constutonsay the progress Of
stonement to be offered TO liberty for the acs From
whence Is to come the elements OF ga more perfect
Union than the one formed BY the men Of the Revclu
cansm to frame better constitution That which South
Carolina became party TO in 1888 has to this period
proved equal to all the demands made upon BY the
wants OF great people and the expansive energies OF
progressive age Neither In peace in war has it ever
turn extended the protection which union Alone Can i've
The States have received the benefits of this Union Is Il
left to them to abandon it at their peasureto desert the
Union which has cherished Them and without which they
would have been exposed to all the msforunee incidental
TO their weak condition.
the conditions imposed prior to becoming part Of the
Conederacy, the States became part Of nation. What
they conceded comprises the powers Of the federal
vernment but that which they did not concede their
sovereignty perfect is that Of the Union In its ap
proprate sphere. They gave all that necessary to
secure strength and permanence To the Unionthey
tanned all that was necessary to secure the welfare OF the
State
Texas cannot be in doubt as to this question In entering
the Union 1t is not difficult TO determine what
dered by an independent republic We surrendered the
very power the want Of which originated the federal
Union-the right to regulate commerce with foreign
tons AS an evidence Of it we transferred custom
houses as we did our forts anc arsenas, along with the
power TO declare We surrendered national flag.
In becoming State Of the Unon Texas agreed "not to
enter into any treaty, alliance confederation and not
without the consent OF Congress- keep troops ships of
war enter into agreement compact with any other
state or foreign Power" All these rights belonged TO
Texas as nation She ceased to possess them State
nor 90 Texas in terms or by implication, the
power or spuae for the exercise of the right 10 secedo
from these obligations without the Of the other
parties 70 the agreement acting through their
agent tne federal government The constitution Of the
united states does not thus provide for its destruc-
ton An inherent revolutionary right to be exercised
when tne great purposes Of the Union have facd re-