Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-11-21
WHOLE NO. 949.
seeession Is DIsunion.

Secession Is DIsunion.
The news from the South is still inter
esting,-a hot climate seems to be produc
tive of traitors. South Carolina still
threatens to seceds, aud 1t is somewhat dif
feult to understand whist she means by Sc
session. A peaceabls secession is nothing
"a word cosjured up for political effect
Forceabls secession Is sdissolution--uothin ing
more, nothing less. What is the secession
Of one State in this Union from the rest
but dissolving Of all the ties which bind
the whole tosether-a breaking up of the
psrtnershipi
How can State secede? What is the
modus opersndi by which IL is to be donel
What is it that constitutes secessionf Sap
pose one Of the Townships of VIgo coun-
ty. becoming dissatisfied with the indi-
viduals who have been elected county Com
missioners, should conclude to secede and
organized a government wholly aud entire.
ly independent Of the rest Of the county I
send their tax collectors into that Town.
ship to collect the taxes by distress and
sale aud do you suppose they would not
again De forced to respect the county au-
shoritiss. Suppose the county of Sulli-
vaa, should determine to secede because
the rest Of the counties 10 the State had
elected Col. Lane, and as she did not want
the Colonel her Governor, she would with
draw from the sisierhood and refuse to
help further to support the State govern
ment7 Would not the State authorities
into submission Would not the officers,
backed by sufficient posse. take from her
citizens their proper quota Of the expenses
Of the State Certainly such would be
The case. II State then, sovereign only
in her State government, becoming dissat-
isnsd because the other States in the exer-
else Of their choice, have. under the con
stitusion elected President, seeks to Sc
eeds or dissolve her connection with the
rest. do ysu suppose she will be permitted
10 do it has she the right to dissolve the
partnership withoutIths consent of the bal
aucs of the frmf Ii she refuses to pay
her quota of the expenses of the Federal
x.vernmsnt and of it's Indebtedness, do
you suppose she ought not and will not be
forced to do iti--csrtainly it she ought and
will.
Secession IS dissolution. and no part OF
this Federal government has right to
withdraw, aud set up for itself an entirely
isdspesdest government. 1t can only do
this by revolution, and if t can thus Sc
csds ID becomes a right. There is no such
thing as peaeesbLe rsvoluIion-its object
could have been attained by the simple de-
tsrmisation. Revolution implies resis-
tepse to constitutional authorities, and Is
successful If the most powerful.
Will the Federal authorities remain still
and witness South Carolina, or Georgia, or
Alabama, or all, and as many more States
ssmbined, singly or collectively psaceably
or BY force, dissolve this Union We
think not-e1fainly il tciH not But if the
legally constituted authorities do not re-
sist. from the very beginning every ad-
vance towards secession or dissolstion,
then secession and dissolution will take
place. IL this Federal Government has
not the power to prevent its dissolution ,
then is cur ship Of State. out upon rough
SEA, amid rocks and breakers, subject to be
dashed to pieces by every squall that comes
above the horizon. This question should
be settled, aud ought to be settled now
once and forever. South Carolina is full
Of trsitors to this Federal Government. and
treason to this Commonwealth. She
thrsatsns the overt act-the moment she
commits il, she should be ehsstised -
Tiers 10 no other remedy with that rebel
lious and spoiled child but to teach her, in
such q manner that she will not soon again
forget it, that this Federal Government, il
pspsy-a power not to be successfully re-
sisted, Dsr defantly threstened-a power
beyond the reach Of State Sevsreignties.
IL 10 difficult to contemplate this subject
without msch earnest patriotic feeling
Disguise it as we nay, the times are omin
oss Of stirring events. Has the moment Al
last arrived. when this governmental fab
ric which has, for two thirds of a century
given so much happiness to millions, h
bs dissolved-severed in twain to gratif.
ths ambition of q few hst headed and dis
foJsl citizensi Is this constitutions
al government, which cost so mucl
blood sad treasure, now to be shaken fror
surrss 10 foundation stone, because a ma
jority of the people desire to rule I Let u
watch, and be prepared to defend the Con
stitution. and protect and preserve tn
Union Of these States.