New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-30
ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT

That the State of South Carolina is about to
secede from the UniOn-that her Convention 10
assemble on the 18th proximo will assume for
maIly TO dissolve her connection with the
Federal Governments no longer doubtful.
Probably no single delegate has been or will be
chosen 10 that Convention who is not Oh avowed
secessionist 1t is expected that the act of Sc.
cession will be perfected on the second day of
the Convention and that not a single vote will
be cast OF voice raised against it.
What tbeni
Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Flor
ida, Texas and Arksnsas-composing with South
CaroliDa) the eight Cotton States-are conf
IDENTIFY expected 10 follow. Some of them will
probably do 50, but not without desperate
struggle. The Union has warm friends in each
Of these States, and among them is Sam Hous-
ton Governor of Texas. Threatening demonstra-
| tiOns have been and will be made to induce him
| to call the Legislature to meet in extra session
| for the purpose of calling "a Convention; but We
think they viii have TO hang him up until he is
black in the face before they will force him to
do 80. AL the rest of the Cotton States have
| Fire Eating Governors, who will readily call
| their Legislatures: indeed, most Of them have
already done so. We shall not anticipate the
result, though we shall await it with intense
anxiety.
| If South Carolina shall be left 10 stand alone,
We think she must ultimately recede. Her people,
We are aware, do not think 30; but single State
will not be permitted to break up the Union.
| We do not talk of subduing her; We only say
that her position as q seeding and quasi indie
pendent State in the heart of Federal Union
will be anomalous and untenabe. She may main.
| tain it for little while, but viii ultimately be
constrained TO return to her normal condition Of
| a member of the COnfederacy.
But if the Cotton States generally unite with
her in seceding, We insist that they cannot be
prevented, and that the attempt must not be
made. Five Millions of People, more than half
of them Of the dominant race, Of whom at least
Half Million are able and willing to shoulder
muskets can never be subdued while fighting
around and over their own hearthstOnes.
If they could BE-, they would no long
er be equal members of the Union, but con-
quered dependencies. Suppose they could be
overcome and their military forces destroyed:
what thenl Can you compel them to send
members TO Congress- Can you make them ac-
cept Federal Offices Can you prevent their tar
ring and featherng those who do If not how
idle TO talk Of subduing them.
As TO all that is so well said Of the duty Of
remaining in the Union and submitting to its
constitutional authority, &c, &C., We concur in
it most heartily: but suppose they won't--what
do you propose to do about it Webster and
Marshall and Story have reasoned well-the Fed
eral flag represents Government, not mere
league; We are in many respects ono nation,
from the ST. John TO the Rio Grande; but the
genius Of our institutions is essentially repuDlI-
can, and ayerse to the employment OF military
force to fasten one section Of our confederacy To
the other. If eight States having Five Millions
Of People choose to separate from US, they can
not be permanently withheld from 80 dong BY
Federal cannon,
Ne speak thus explicitly, because, next to The
danger that the South viii presume on the rcadi-
ness Of the North to cOncede much rather than