Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-12-29
SOUTH CAROLINA "SECEDED."

South Carolina "has went and gone and done
it." She has declared herself out of the Union
and has set up as independent, sovereign State.
Our readers will find the way the thing was
dune and ih- rrasnns shA oss;~ns for A.:"~ :,
in her secession ordinance and declaration of
independence, which we print on the first page.
So, if we are to believe South Carolina, this
Union is discovered, broken up, 'gonc to pot"
This "sad and mounful event. took place on
Thursday afternoon, December Goth, AID, 1860.
One of our contemporaries very pertinently in
quires, "Have you heard anything drap?
If anybody here in the North is so big a fool
as to be frightened at this act of secession he
will do well to remember that twenty-eight
years ago, to wit: on the 18th of December,
1882, South Carolina enacted an ordinance to
nullify a law of the United States, provided
that law should be repealed on the lst of Feb
ruary, 1888 that the law was not repealed on
the lst of February, 1888, and that South Car
DINA neither nulliied it nor left the Union. 1t
is true that we had a man for President-one
who was neither dishonest, treacherous nor
cowardly. Because a State says she is out of
the Union, it does not follow that she is out of
1t. The act is an act of disunion, but it does
not dissolve the Union. The Union exists to-
day as undivided and indivisible as it did on
the morning of 9th of November last. The
British conquered South Carolina in 1880, but
Northern men led by a Northern general got
her back in spite of herself and her conquerors.
They kept her in the harness in 1882, and they
can keep her in now if it is desirable.
South Carolina has declared herself out of
the Union, but what to do next her leaders do
not know. Her postmasters and custom-housc
officers are acting under the authority of the
United States and will probably continue so to
act. The names of her Senators and Repre-
sentatives stand on the rolls of Congress and
are not omitted at the call thereof. She is in a
condition analogous to that of the over-indulged
lad who became dissatisfied with the wholesome
restraints of his fathers house, and so "seccd-
ed" and set up for himself. After going with
out food for twenty-four hours and sleeping on
the lee side OF a board fence one night, he was
very willing to come back and take his accus.
toned fare.
The most Notifying part of this secession
business to South Carolina is, the absence OF
all excitement or remark attending the an
nouncement of her action. Instead of creating
a panic and a panic in the money market, bust,
ness continues TO be transacted in Congress.
as usual, and the men in the cities buy, sell
and get gain as usual. Indeed, it seems as il
this secession movement augured well, for the
House of Representatives Immediately passed
the Pacific Railroad bill. the money market was
easier and stocks and public securities rose a,
if by magic. With us in Vermont the sun has
continued to rise and set, the days are growing
longer, and a most abundant snow has fallen on
the just and unjust. No one, unless perchance
it be our "Breckinridge & Lane" fellows, is very
much scared.