New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-21

haps California and Oregon, in electing Mr. Lincoln,
who pledged TO carry out the principles of the party
that elected him. The course Of events shows clearly
that tls party will in short time, have majority in
both branches of Congress. Ii will then be in their
power TO change the complexion Of the Supreme Court
so as TO make it harmonic with Congress and the
President. When that party gets possession of all the
departments of the Government, with the purse and
the sword he must be blind indeed who does not see
that Slavery will be abolished in the District of Co
lumtis in the dock yards and arsenals and wherever
the Federal Government has Jurisdiction:
1t will be excluded from the Territories, and other
Free States will in hot haste be admitted INTO the
Union, until they have majority sufficient to alter
the Constitution. Then Slavery will he abolished by
law in the States and the "irrepresslbe conflict VIII
end for we are notified that it shall cease until
the foot Of slave shall cease to press the soil of the
United Sistes" The state of Society that must exist
in the Southern States with -four millions OF free ne
groes and their increase turned loose upon them,
will not discuss-it is too horrible to contemplate.
have only noticed such of the acs of the Black Re
publican party as | deemed necessary TO show that
Trey are in earnest and determined TO carry out their
publicly ayowed intenfons-and to show that their
success has been such should not fail to create the
deepest concern for the honor and safety of the South
EN- States Now, in view of the past and our pros
poets for the future what ought we to do What do
wisdom and prudence dictate What DO honor ana
safety require ut our hand
know that the answer that shall give to these
questions may subject me to severe criticism b those
who do not view these matters as do but feeling
OF the correctness VI
the purity of my motives, will not shrink from
sponsiblies in the emergency which now presents 1t
self Ii would be criminal in those entrusted with Stat.
sovereignty" not to speak ont and warn the people OF
the entertainments that have been made and about
to be made upon them, wath the consequences that
must follow.
In full view and trust insa appreciation of almy
obligations and responsibilities officially and personal
w. to my God, my State and tie Federal Government.
solemny declare ii to be my opinion that the only
hope of future security for Alabama and the other
slaveholding States, is iii secession from the Unon
deIOre the necessity for coming to such conclusion
Ii has been forced upon me- and those who agree with
me- by a wicked and perverse party, fatally bent upon
the destruction of an institution vital to the Southern
States-a party whose constitutional rights we have
never disturbed, and who should be our fiends yet
they hate us without cause
Should Alabama secede from the Union as think
she ought, the responsibility, in heeyes OF all just men,
will upon her, but upon those who have driven
her in sef-defense, 10 assume that position
Has Alabama the right peacefully to withdraw from
the Union without subiecting herself TO any rghtful
authority of the Federal Government TO coerce her into
the Union OF her right TO do so have no doubt.
She is Sovereign State, and retains every right and
power not delegated to the Federal Government IN the
written Constitution. That Government has no powers
except such delegated In the Constitution, or
such as are necessary to carry those powers into exc
cution. The Federal Government was established Tor
the protection and not for the destruction or injury OF
Constitutional rights. Sovereign State has night
to Judge of the wrongs injuries that may be done
her. and 10 determine upon the mode and measure OF
redress. Tie Black Republican party has for years
continued to make aggressOns upon the slaveholdng
States under the forms Of law and In every manner
that fanaticsm could devise, and have nsw gained
strength and position which threaten not only the de-
struoon of the institution of Slavery but must degrade
and ruin the slaveholding States If not resisted May
not these States aside from the impending danger
without crininality If they have not this right then
we are the slaves of worst enemies. The wise
nan foreseeth the evil, and turneth aside wise
State should not do LEES.
lol upifh
would not be guilty Of treason, even If sovereign
State could commit treason. The Constitution says:
Treason against the United States shall consist only
ain levying against them, In adherng TO their
"enemes, giving them aid and comfort. The Fed
eral Government has the night TO use It's military
power "to execute the laws OF the Union, suppress
"msurrecons, and repel nvaslOns. III State With
draws from the Union, the Federal Government has
no power under the Constitution, to the military
force against her, for there is no law to enforce the
submission of a sovereign State nor would such
withdrawal be either instruction or an INVASION
We should remember that Alabama must act and de-
eide the great question of resistance or submission for
herself No other State has the night or the power to
decide it for her, She may and should consult with
other savehodng States TO secure concert oil action,
but still she must decide the question for herself and
cooperate afterward.
The contemplated Convention will not be the place
for the tizid or the rash 1t should be composed OF
men of wisdom and experienee-men who have the
CAPACITY to determine what the honor of the State and
the security of her people demand and patriotism and
moral courage sufficient TO carry out the dictates OF
their honest Judgments.
What viii the intelligent and patriotic people OF
Alabama do in the impending crisis Judging of the
future by the past, believe they will prove them
selves equal to the present. any future emergency
and never will consent TO affiliate with, or submit to
be governed by party who entertain the most deadly
hostility toward them and their institution of Slavery
They are loyal and true to the Union but never will
consent to remain degraded and dishOnored members
Of it.
Very respectfully, your Obedent servant ,,oonr
To J. A. Elmore, and ohers-Commitee, Montgomery Ala
EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE LETTERS
A gentleman writes thus from Savannah Ga under
date of the 18th inst:
7 bear today that there il good reason TO believe