The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-12-06

J. continental ssxiMsDts Wees~ssWsys very
thin, and the army with which Gen. Lin
coin opposed the invasion of Clinton was
chiefly made up of North Carolina and
Virginia troops. The capture Of these
troops at the surrender of Charleston left
Ethcs State defeoseless, and thus at the
hands Of Sir Henry Clinton, South Car.
DINA enjoyed that separation from the
Union which Robert BarnwrlI Rhett and
others Of her professed pstriots are now
SO anxious to bestow upon her, and rather
than miss Of which they are willing again
to Invoke British aid. = ! - a
1t was not by her own efforts that
South Carolina was again restored to her
position as sovereign State and mem.
Der of the Union. In addition to the
troops Of North Carolina and Virginia, it
now became necessary to detatch the
Maryland and Delaware levies 10 her as.
sistancc, and it was only by this means
that she was delivered from her British
copquerers.
After the war was ended, and when
the States had met 10 Convention to form
the Constitution under which the Union
now exists, and which ", trust, South
Carolina to the contrary notwithstar ding
will continue to exist for years to come,
that State again made its appearance, in
the character of a marplot and disorgan.
izer. The great body Of the States had
already become satisfied as well of the
injustice of negro slavery ~ Of its inco"'.
patibility with the principles upon which
the war OF the Revolution had been jus-
tilted and the Constitution Of the States
had been founded. The African slave
trade had been already prohibited by the
legislation of most OF the States, aud the
desire was general to make that prohibi,
ti"c: one Of the provisions of the new
Constitution. But South Carolina again
set up her peculiar ideas and imagined
interests in opposition to the general
wish and the general good. Her dele
gates in the Convention declared that she
would never agree to a Constitution in
which this prohibition of the slave trade
was contained; and again to pacify her,
she was INDUCED in continuance of it
for twenty years
The Constitution which she was thus
induced to sanction. she has since at
tempted, under various pretenses, to de-
privc of all its efficiency. 1t is to her
that we owe the invention Of the doctrine
of nuliiication, according to which she
has the right to set aside. her own
mere authority, such Federal laws as do
not agree with her narrow construction
of the powers of Congress. She has now
got so far as to maintain that she has
con ',iut'onal right to 90 out Of the In
ion at her own pleasure, and that no
power or right exists anywhere TO compel
her t" obey the laws Of the Unio". The
promoters of this secession policy pretend
that they are ready and willing to form
in Southern Confederacy, and that the
formation of such confcderacy is the
ultimate aim Of their policy. But if
South Carolina carries with her into the
confederacy, which she proposes to form,
this doctrine of the right of State TO
secede at pleasure what basis of stability
will it have to stand upon? Aud what
pretension has State TO set up as the
founder of a new Confederacy, while 10
tina. to which she already bel, ngs she
has proved herself so uneasy member,
and such dag and burden upon her as