Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-12-07
The Secession Movement.
Morrisville, Nov. 20, 1860.


In the South Carolina Legislature OH
Tuesday of last week, the Joint Commit
tee of the Senate and House reported that
it was inexpedient to attempt, at this time,
the reorganization of the militia system,
but recommended the passage of bill
which gives the Governor power to cali
out any part or the whole of the military
force of the State at any time he may con-
slider it necessary.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, says
paper is being mysteriously circulated
there, pledging the signers Ito be ready,
at moments warning, to start for a given
point-Richmond, as | Understandable
there join force of chosen men who are
to battle in the front ranks in defense of
Southern rights. 1t is supposed that a
similar movement is on foot in every part
of the State. 1t is surmised that this
picked force will visit Washington the day
of the Inauguration.
The message of Gov. Pettus to the Mis-
sissippi Legislature, convened to take &C
ton on the present political crisis, takes
bold ground for resistance and secession.
He thinks the lives, liberty and property
of the people Of Mississippi cannot be in
trusted to the sectional majority which
has now come into power, for the following
reasons, which he describes as ga long cat
alogue of insults and injuries:
"They have exhibited low selfshness
in selling all the Territories, which are the
common property of all the States. They
have deliberately attempted and have sue
ceeded in educating generation to hate
the South. They have sworn to support
the Federal Constitution, and deliberately
passed laws with the palpable intent to
violate one of the plainest provisions of
that compact. They have sent large sums
of money to Congress for the purposes of
bribing the members of that body to pass
laws to advance their private interests.
They have attempted to degrade us in the
estimation of other nations by denouncing
us as barbarians pirates and robbers un-
hit associates for Christian or civilized man.
They have excited our slaves to insurrec-
ton, advised them to burn our property,
murder our people, and have furnished
them with arms and ammunition to aid
them in their bloody work. They have
murdered Southern men in the lawful pur-
suit of their fugitive slave, and failed to
punish their citizens for these fragrant vio-
lations of the laws of God and man. They
have furnished money and arms for the
invasion of a slaveholding State, and
when the punishment awarded to treason
and murder by all civilized nations over
took the invaders, they threatened the
dastardly revenge of midnight incendia-
ries tolled bells in honor of traitors, and
murderers, and reward the family of the
chief traitor as never was rewarded that of
any soldier who fell in defense of the coun-
try, and held him up as an example of he
roic devotion to just and glorious cause.
Their press, pulpit, lecture room and
forum, teen daily and nightly with exhor-
tations to their people to press forward
this war on our institutions even to the
drenching of Southern fields with the blood
of her citizens"
He then argues at great length the right
of State to scccde, and recommends the
calling Of convention at an early day,
the appointment of commissioners to visit
the other Southern States and appropri-
alton for the aid Of the military compa-
MES.