Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-01-26
The South Carolina Resolutions
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! For thirty years the Southern States have
Ronopolized the doctrine of :disunion.
! It has been more centralized within the
State of South Carolina than elsewhere,
but it is a prevailing sentiment in the cot.
ton growing States.
i The resolutions now pending in the Leg
islature of South Carolina in favor of null
i li6cation are nothing new and not unusal-
ly alarming.
i Three generations have passed away un-
der rpresent form of government, during
(which, experience has shown that the nat
tural antagonism between Free and Slave
labor is progressive and not retrograde.
/ There is 30 reasonable hope that time
will soften this difference or render it less
intense. The people of the extreme South
have during quarter of century, yielded
to the power of the Federal Government
only from policy. In practice they refuse
obedience to it only so far and so long as
it fayors their interests. -
4 This is with them settled course of ac-
tion May the North never meet on their
own platform and discuss with them this
same question of disunion
Is it not sufficiently established in prac-
tice that the nature and demands of slave
labor are eternally opposed to those of free
labor in which all Republican governments
find their support9 e,-
Is it not clear that the Slave States are
Republican only in form9 Is any more
proof required that the citizens of Free
States are subjected there to laws and
usages as despotic as they would be in Rus
sia, Austria or any. other absolute mon
archy?
What is to be the result of this inevita-
bic conflict in our political family between
the democratic and the despotic elementss :
Must it not eliminate in an eventual sep
aration, either by the agency of legal and
peaceable or by violent and bloody meas
ures?
South Carolina has long since inscribed
on her banners the memorable words of
Webster, "What is all this worth?" May
not the Free labor of Ohio with as much
propriety compare its advantages and dis
advantages as the Stakeholder of the
| South?
The influence and the combined power
of the Slave States has ever been. exercised
adversely to our advancement.
That Constitution which was adopted to
secure our property, liberty and lives, fails
to do it within the boundaries of those
States. Depredations are committed there,
by authority, upon citizens of the Free
States charged with no crime, for which
foreign power would be met by declara-
tion of war.
They are now demanding that the Slave
trade, which most Coristian nations have
stigmatized as piracy, shall be legalized
and protected by the United States.
Without manufactures themselves, the
Southern States by skillful alliance with
pro-slavery men Of the North, are enabled
to injure the industry of the North.
In time of war they do not furnish due
proportion of either men or means, while
they foment disturbances with our neigh
bors in order to enlarge the baneful area of
Slavery.
We have navy manned by Northern
sea-men over which Southern officers exer-
else an undue controle. The money of the
North is required and paid to meet the ex-
pense of our mail system at the South,
while she violate the sanctity of cores
pondence when it is for her interest TO do
So.
The Federal Capital is now like Slave
State under her control, and free men are
allowed to speak there only such sentiments
as her laws and her bullies permit them to
speak.
Though in minority of votes and |
wealth, she has held, during a large portion
of our existence, virtual control of the Fed
eral legislation, and has succeeded in pass
ing laws that place the right of Slave prop
erty above these of free men.
An institution that has its inception in
a violation of natural right can only such
be sustained by laws that invade natural
right or by force.
For this purpose it has been necessary
for her to secure, as she has secured the
the Supreme Bench and the SEN
ate of the influence over our pbulic aficers,
she is not satisfied, but periodically threat
ems to dissolve the Union.
Is this Union which our Southern breth-
rem value so little, a thing so valuable TO
US, so venerable, or so scared that we may
not even speculate upon it? Are the
of the past, glorious as they are,
to blind us forever to the interest of the
present?
May we not contemplate the event of
! dissolution as we do other great questions
If political economy, without constructive
as well as the legislators of South
Carolina?
Are we not approaching the hour when
Iiolent acts may succeed to threats of vio-
enc, and when under the administration of
! credulons or temporising President, we
nay behold the greatest of all human evils,
he existence of civil war? ~
Is it not wise to contemplate the pos
'ibility of such an event with sadness, yet
With firmness, and reflect upon the con-
equences of such mode of dissolu-
ion? 1t may be asked, is there any
node, legal or peaceable in its nature,
y which secession could be effected?
There are times when in the prese ce of
reat realities technicalities vanish. south
Iarolina has long held Conventions f this
urpoSe CLAIMING for them fundan, ntal 9