Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-12-15

Is TO be hoped, BY Geogia and her TWO neenoors-
mite In their demands mon the States,
and say to them franklyand plainly, but sobsry aud
kindly, that the time has come when the authority oil
the Constitution, whchi the bond OF union between
them must be recogn'zd or that union Will inevitably
perish that there Be no longer acts oil State egs
,ion in the guse of Personal liberty laws, 10 nuily
and set at naught solunn aud unequivocal compact
written in the Constitution; that there must be no at
temps covert or operb by Congressional legislation 10
afsai or undermine Their domestic Institutions ana that
their full and perfect tSuaty under the Conshutior
as coSatss Of the Fedral Union, must be loyalty ac-
knowledged and faithfully respected As these were the
terms well understood OF all sides, on which they came
into the Uniop they are the only terms CONSISTENT
with honor justice srespec on which they can DC
expected TO remain in It.
The Justice and reassnableness Of such demand, urg-
ed with the solemn esruestness and dignity which the
occasion imports cannot fail to be headed, IT not by ALL
by the maor most important part oil our conleder.
ates Pennsylvania and New Jersey, ever loyal and
true 10 the Union-who have stood firmly by their SOUTH
ern brethren in the mott trying periods OF their history
both before and since the adoption of the Constitution
would am persuaded, feel and acknowledge It's JUS
tice.
New Jersey has already given her answer in advance,
TO such an appeal by her in the Presidential cleo
tom and although Pennsylvania voted differently IN that
contest t must be born in mind that there we're issues
supposed TO be involved in the election affecting the Pc
cuiar interests OF her industrial system, which, doubtless
mainly influenced Der vote Whenever an issue snail DC
distinctly presented the preservation, by her good
faith and loyalty Of that Union, OF which 1t Is her proud
est boast to be regarded the keystone no one con-
versant with her history doubt where pennsylvania
will be found. -
Nor can doubt when the day of solemn decision shall
arrive that the powerful Northwestern Staes-taken
out of the side Of Virginia whose children are still WIDE
" dilused among their bold and enterprsng population
bordering as they do. Pennsylvania, Kentucky and
III. and n common
interest with the savehodng States occupying the banks
of the Mississippi n the Of that great mediterranean
channel OF intercourse aud trade, will rally with those
States cordially and frankly to Unionof equal rights
of justice and fraternity.
When we turn our eyes again to the eastward can
not doubt on what side viii be found the imperial city
the centre of American industry and commerce-in her
self sovereign power-with all her vast connected To-
erest and dependencies II TO the internal questions no"
agitatng the State OF New YOrk-many Of them deeply
affecting the rights and interest OF the oty-be added
the supreme Of dissolution OF the Union, II Is not
an improbable event. amid the revolutions OF empire that
We should see the Southern portion of the State COM
pretending the city, separate from the rest aud formed
into new and independent Safe, finally adhering to the
central States Of the Conederacy saveholding aud nou
sayeholdng with those of the valley of the Mississippi
have ever believed that it, unhappily owing TO the
centrifugal and Earring tendencies sometimes manifested
by the States at the exremes of the COnfederacy-our
present glorious Union should be broken up the States
occupying the central bit OF the Continent from ocean
TO ocean including those of the valley OF the Missssip
pi would still hold together and keep alive, with bent
tug dignity and power the ancient name and proud trad
tons of the United States of America and perhaps In
the end win back to the fold those who might Temporal
rily have strayed from it.
At all events see reason to despair oil the eNy
success of the work of Cancellation naugurated by your
proposition TO the entire extent OF the States have
enumerated if be prosecuted in the right sprit and
when harmony and good understanding shall have been
re-estabished among themthe great central States oil
the Conederacy-what rational motive can be felt by
few isolated States whether the North the South
to stand aloo in suen contumacy or Improbable dis
content! We have lately suspicious indications
that reflections such as these with reyying spirit OF ma
tonaty are making daily progress in quarter OF the
Confederacy where the antagonsm to Southern nsttu
tons has been hitherto the strongest; and | will not
yet abandon the consong hope that the present troubles
Of the country, by bringing more clearly to light The
dangers which threaten u.s. msy end in placing the Con
titutor aud the Union of fathers upon more solid
and lasting foundations than ever
Believe me to be, my dear sir, very
truly and faithfully your friend,
WIN c. RIYES.
Hon. ALEXANDER x. BoTELER,
nj Renresentatiyes Washington.