The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-10-16
SOUTHERN DIsUNIoN.

In our opinion there is no disunon at the South
save what is occasioned by sense of violated
rights, and conviction that there is little or NJ
hope of redress. There are no better friends ot
the Union established by the Constitution, thar
these very fre-eaters as they are called, who are
unwilling to be left with all the obligations of tha
| instrument resting upon them, while the immuni
ties and benefits of it are denied Just restore the
Union to its origional sis,-the basis of the Con
stitution-and it will have no warmer friends and
defenders than the men of the South. Garrison
and his crew are consistent ~ denouncing the
Constitution as "an agreement with hell' and. the
Union, because based on such constitutions but
those men very inconsistent who pretend to up
hold the Union, and violate the Constitution upon
which it rests What but such violation are the
"personal liberty bills" which have been enacted
in several of the Northern States; the refusal of
the North with some honorable exceptions, to sur
render fugitive slaves, stipulated by the Consti-
tuition, the practical denial to the South of equal
rights in the Territories and generally disposi-
ton the part of Northern people, or a large
portion of them, when they do not distinctly vio-
late the Constitution Gin those features which nure
to the benefit Of the South) to come near it as
possible? Now, we say that they cannot properly
be termed dsunionists, they only so in case
the terms of the Union are persistently violated
And we say that those men at the North and
ue in Union which she never assented to-a I'm
ion not such as the Constitution calls for but such
as abolition tyrants fit to inaugurate-are them
selves the disunionsts since they virtually sanction
a violation on the terms of the Union, which they
might have prevented if they would, and then
commit the double wrong of compelling the injur-
ed party to abide under his inj uries. If A makes
a contract with containing mutual stipulations,
and if A distinctly violates and continues to vio-
late those of them that inure to B, there is not
court in the land but would say that A is estopped
from demanding of B, the continued fulflment of
his part on the contract. And this covenant
breaking ON the part of the North, is far enough
from being innocent. 1t is classed in Scripture
with the most fragrant kinds of wickedness Rom
/, 31.) The true business of the North is to
repent and do her first works; fulfil her obligations
to the South, all of them, as she once did, and as
the Constitution requires; and our word for it we
shall hear more about disunion and secession at
the South, but shall find existing wounds healing
up and the halcyon days of the Republic restored.
Thisis the way to coerce" the South with bands of
love; doing her whole duty under the constitution,
and letting the South and feel that it is Union
for her, and not against her. The whole theory
Of the Union is choice. The moment force is ap-
piled, against State section, that moment the
golden chain is broken, and so broken that IN all
it can never be repaired.-N. Your
sol Of Commerce.