Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-06
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From recent letter Of Robert Dale
Owen, distinguished Democrt, and q no.
ted political nd literary writer we sake
the following clip concerning the position
of elsecession movements
South Carolina demands that all Nor
thern laws which have been frnmed to
'neutratize ccrtain provisions OF. the uni
ted States Constitution, should be;repeal-
cd. She is right in that, andsnone theless
because she herself has violated in prac-
tice tue liberty Of conscience and free
speech guaranteed By the Constitution to
which she appeals. South Carolina fur
ther demands that slavery shall be deemed
legal, and shall besprotectetl in all terrific
ries of the United States. As to this, in
my judgment, she is neitherrigh tnor2rea-
sonable. She is not right, because, accor.
ding to all .sound legal precedent, slavery
is the CreaturoSof law;el 1t can go nowhere
by Implication, but only By direct enact
ment. constitutional or statutory. Sheis
mot reasonable, because, eyensifaIt were
equally right TO make all United States
Territories slave as to make them free,
(they capnot be both ut the same time,)
yet q majority cannot reasonably be re-
CURED to sacrifice themselves to aninor-
Think that the North onssober second
thought, will rehect-that ifthe Gonstitu-
tion contain certain clauses which CRATE
on her feelings, still it is. not only the
supreme law of the land, but the best
which thewito of man has5yet devised for
human government; and, SO rejecting,
TINT she will repeal the obnoxious statutes
in question. ] think, too, that she may
accede to Other concessions; as, that
fugitive slaves. be paid for, in cases OF non
I rendition. But feel that she never will,
as I am sure she never ought, to recognize
the carrying of slavery anywhere by inn
plication.
South Carolina may insist upon this
doctrine of Implication; and, whenswe re-
ject it, she may take measures TO secede.
l nope that, when the first excitement
do not confidently expectthat ste will; she
has long been neditnting secession.
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Ex-senator HAYNE, of South Carolina,
having heen nominated for the Cnnyen.
a.. 5,,.o.sa,- e,,,a.1a.
e'ou' nus au0tesseu u 'stset Y t'e = 9atles-
ton Mercury, from which we extract the
following:
at is now Just thirty years since, cdi-
ted newspaper in Columbia, advocating
the doctrine Of notification, rs expound-
| cd By Calhoun and Harper. am not
| aware that have ever changed or vaver-
ed in. political principle or sentiment
since that time. In my private Judgment,
South alone should govern9tle South, and
ever since / have considered a Southern
/ Oontederacy SNconsummation deSontly to
be wished opposed separate secession
in 1851, because believed then, as
believe now, the time and the occa-
casiou were inopportune. The other
Southern States had already sgni6ed
their acquiescence in that which South
4 Carolina proposed to resent by session
that disunion was inevitable in the future
and that upon the first OCCASION of gener-
al ferncnt in the South South Carolina
should sccede, and stand the hazards of
the de- That occasion has arrived, and j
now advocate Immediate secession.
81 will say further that, committed as
/ ooutn GhFoilnt now Is, thoag All thearest