New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-08
THE Seeding STATES.

There are some noteworthy facts in regard 10
all the FIVE States which are set down BY com.
mon rumOr as ready and resolved TO sccede from
the Union. Every one of these States owes its
State existence to that very Union against which
it is now ready--if rumor is TO be bolioved-to
raise parricidal hand. Most Of them are in
addition indebted to the Union for special ad.
vantogcs which might be supposed to inspr, some
sentiments of gratitude. South Carolma-chiei
leader in the secession UNCONVENTIONAL herself,
as everybody knows, and as we have recently
shown at some length, totally unable in the Rev
dictionary war to maintain out of her own re-
sources the State sovereignty she had assumed,
and the independence she had declared. Even
the large assistance which she received from her
more northern sisters proved for time of no avail
Two armies, mainly composed of troops furnished
by North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, were
lost in the attempt to save and rescue her. one II the
surrender Of Charleston the other in the defeat
of Camden. For time South Carolina ceased
to exist as an independent state and subsidized
into the condition Of Il conquered British depen-
deucy. That she ever emerged from that ,Ondi-
IL
have her slaves emancipated BY act Of Parlia-
uent as happened years ago to the other British
sayeholding colonies, was entirely due to the
nagnanimOus aid furnished to her by the Union, it.
sell suffering at the time under the severest pecu-
MARY embarrassment.
Georgia also as well as Soath Carolina was
subdued by the British, and owed her rescue
from that cOuditien TO tho cOpquering arms of
Gen. Greene ut the head of an army furnished by
the more northern States, and backed up and
sustained by the capture OF COrnwals at Yorktown.
Two Otler of the States named % cooperating or
ready to cooperate in the secedng treason, viz:
Alabama and Mississippi though at that time u
wilderness in possession of the indians, were Ia
cuded in the chartered limits Of Ge1rgia, aud
had she remained British colOuy, subject to the
empncipatng legislation of Parliament, hey would
have shared the same fate. rhe territory of
from the British by the arms of the Union and
eilerward by tie act of the Union, the territorial
claims Of Georgia and her right of Jurisdiction
having been purchased and paid for out of the
treasury Of the Union, they were constituted az
Territories, and subsequently admitted into the
Ulan as States.
With respect to Florida, that she had rot
remained nominal Spanish colony, but, in fact,
a place OF resort for runaway slaves and white
desperadoes, was due to tho purchase of the
Territory out of the treasury OF the United States,
and to that apprehension Of the power of tho
Union which alone produced in III, Spanish
Government disposition to sell il.
But these are not, BY any meaHs the only
obligations which Georgia Alabama, Mississ ppi
and Florida owe to the Union, which they now
propose to leave, and if they can to dissolve and
destroy. 1t 10 but o short Time since that
almost the entire territory OF those States inelud.
NC tier most fertile aud valuable poltions, was