New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-27

t;o,s hnt ths, being done the consolidation Of The
North 70 role the South by The tariff and Slavery II
sues wss N the 0oySa ,b nsS saes was an exre
;uen, Tho experiment consisted IN uniting under one
;oyernment different peoples, living IN different ch,
,paes and having different pursuits Of industry and
institutions. IL matters not how carefully the lmta-
tjors of such government be laid down in the consti
tutions must at least depend upon the good
faith of the parties to the constitutional compact In en-
forcing them. IL is not in the power OF human
language exclude false nferDces constructions, and
perversons, In any constitution; and when vast sec
tional interests 70 be subseryed involving the APP
preparation OF countless millions of money, it has not
been the usual experience Of mankind that words on
parchment can arrest power The Constitution OF the
United States irrespective OF the inierp0slon OF the
States, rested Oh the assumption that power would
Weld 10 faiththat integrity would be stronger than
interest and that thus the limitations Of the Conftitu-
ton would be observed. The experiment has been
fairly made The Southern States, from the commence
ment of the Government have striven 10 keep it with
in the orbit prescribed by the Constitution. The eK-
pertinent has failed. The whole Constitution, by the
constructions of the Northern people, has been swal-
lowed mp by few words IN its preamble. In their
reckless lust for power they unable TO oompre-
bend that seeming paradox, that the more power IL
given 10 the general Government the weaker 1t be,
comes. Its strength consists IN Its generality and
limitations. To extend the scope OF It's power over
sectional or local interests is 70 raise up against 1t o-
position and resistance In all such matters the Gen.
eral Government must necessarily be despotism, be-
cause all sectional local interests must ever be rep
resented by minority III the councils OF the General
overnment-hayng no pswer TO protect tself against
the rule OF the majority. TIE majority constituted
from those who do not represent these sectonai or
local Interests will control and govern them. A free
people cannot submit to such Government; ana the
more il enlarges the sphere of s power the greater
must be the dissatisfaction il must produce and the
weaker il must become. On the contrary the more 1t
absains from usurped powers, and the more fathiuy
il adheres to the limitations Of the CONSTITUTION, tne
:. i IL Not horn
neither the wisdom nor the faith perceive that to OBJ
serve the limitation Of the Constitution was the only
wsy TO its perpetulty. e
Under such Government there must, of course be
many and endless "irrepressi6le conflicts between
HE two great sections of the Union The same faith
lessness which has abolished the Constitution OF the
United States will not fail 10 carry out the secuonal
purposes for which il has been abolished There must
be conflict and the weaker section OF tDe Union can
onlv find peace and liberty in an Independence OF the
North The repeated efforts made by South Carolina,
in wise conservatism, to arTest the progress Of the
General Government in its fatal progress TO cons2n
dation have been unsupported and denounced as iaih
Less 10 the OBLIGATIONS Of the Constitution by the very
men and States who destroying II by their usur-
nations. 1t Ii now late 10 reform or restore the
Government of the United States. All confidence In
the North il lost in the South: The fahlessness OF
Lal century has opened gull OF separation between
them which no promises or engagements can Ill
II cannot be believed that our ancestors wonld have
assented any union whatever with the people OF the
North if the feelings and opinions now eAlsuhg among
tbeln had existed when the Constitution was framed
There WAS then no tari-no negro fanaticism. Ii was
the delegates from New England who proposed IN the
Convention which framed the Constitution, the dele
gates from South Carolina and Georgia, INA. IL
thew would agree TO give Congress the power OF regu-
latng commerce by majority, that they would sup
port the extension of the African savetrade for twenty
wears. African Slavery existed III all the States but
enc The idea that they would DO made 10 pay iha.
tribute 10 their Northern confederaes which they had
refused to paw TO Great Britain or that the institution
of African Slavery would be made the grand basis OF
sectional organization of the North 10 rule the South,
never crossed their imaginatiOns. The Union OF The
Constitution was Union of savehclding States IL
rests ON Slavery, by prescribing representation III
Congress for thTeetths of cur slaves There Is holh
ING in the proceedings of the Convention which framed
the Constitution 10 show that the Southern STATES would
have formed any other Union and sill less that they
would have formed Union Win more powerful non
slavehoding States having majority IN both branches
Of the Legislature Of the Government. Ihey Were
guilty Of no snch folly. Time and the progress OF
thing have totally altered tire relations between the
Noftherr, and Southern States since the Union was
first established That identity of feeling, interests,
and institutions which once existed Is gone. lhey
are now divided between agriculture and Ian9iafior
ing and commercial States--between tlaveholdlng
and nonslaveholdng States. Their institutions and
industrial pursuits have made them totally different
peoples. that equality in the Government between
The two sections Of the Union which once existed,
no longer exists. We but initiate Che policy OF onr
fathers in dissolying Union with non-sldveholdlng
'VAN"N-"t@''A
Fxrerience as proved that slayeholdng States can
nor be safe in mbeciOn 10 nOn-slayeholGing States
Indeed people expect 10 preserve thelr M ts
and liberties unless they in their own custody. To
plnder and opprets puuder and oppression can
be prseiCed with IMMUNITY, seems To be The natural
order q things The faiTest portions Of the world rave
been turned intO Wideuesses, and the most NillLeu
and rroeperous communities have been Impoverished
and ruined by n'i-Slayery tanalclsm. The people OF
the North have not left N doubt as 10 their designs
and policy. United ~ section III the late fresidenilai
election ihey have elected a. the exponent Oh their
polcv one who la. openly declared that all the States
Of the United States must bemade Free States or Shave
States. Ii Is true thai among those who AIDED in TINS
election there various shades OF Ansaveiy nos
tility. Blu, African Slavery IN the Southern States
be the evil their political combinations affirm TO DC,
the reousitions memorable logic must lead them
10 emancipation. Ii il right 10 preclude or abolish
Slavery in Territory, why should II be allowed 10
remain in the States The il not at all more un-
constitutional Than the other according TO the decisions
Of the Supreme Court of the United States. And when
ii is considered that the Northern States will soon have
the mower TO make thai Court what they please, aud
that the Constitution has been any barrier what
ever 10 their exercise of power what check can there
be- in the unresDed counsels Of the North To eInan-
! cipaton There il sympathy III a5sociluon, winch
| carries men along without principle; but when there
is principle that principle Is fortified by long ex-
isting pTeiudces and feelings 1ssocailon j. oMmpOcnt
in party Influences In spite OF al disclaimers AMI pro-
fessions there be but one end 10 The Submission by
the South 10 tIe rue % u hc''tohai Wv
eminent at WashiDgton; and that end directly o.
indirectly, must be the emancipation o. The
slaves 81 the South. The hypocrisy of thirty years
the faithessness of their whole coUrse from the com
menceinent Of our union with tbeni-show thai tie
people of the nODsiayehojng North tue not ana can
not be sae associates Of the saveholdng South under
common Government. MOI only their iGnilcIsis,
but their erroneous views OF the principles Of free Gov
erments render il doubtful whether, separated from
tie South, they maintain free government among
themselves. Brute numbers with them - the great
element of free government majority II luialiole
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