The North-Carolinian., 1860-09-29
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EYllsLE. N G:
5fSI1NG DOCUMENT
<fN .klisassieE Letter ef Cor, John-
ksssndiddtSfor the Vice- Presi-
- - Our .Nortlern Oppressors' -
..4Sssssekss G3anaor Of Unioa!'' -
11zt Rf SecesaiaQs<ke only Hope
= RED aeckures tlaS eRose aoho deny
- fatsyy History
1e1A by Mr. Douglas at Petersburg
&esW0ud treat those who attempt
son account of the election of
4keated the Nufers in 1892
the Georgia newspapers to
- letter written by the Hon.
~ the candidate for the Vice
(9ngIas ticket, to a committee
5E7zta. Georgia, in the year 1851
~ 3Qy. johnson handles without
14 49,. Nk4@Mr. Douglas maintain that
llS = snerelya right Of revolution.
sufficient number of the Democracy of the South to
give single State to the Opposition?
We commend this letter to the supporters of Mr.,
Douglas who charging the IiendS of Mr.. Brock
! inridge as dsunionists:
LETTER FROM GOV. JOHNSON
MILLEDGEvILLE, Ga, Aug. 80, 1851.
Gentlemen thank you for yonr kind and press
ing invitation to barbecue, to be given to Col.
Rob't McMen, the Southern Rights candidate for
Congress IN the Eighth District the first Tues
day in September next. But official engagements
forbid me the pleasure of its acceptance. Morgan
court will be in session at that time.
My personal acquaintance with Col. McMlen is
limited, but know him by reputation gentle
man of high moral worth, brilliant talents, and
SQUAD republican principles. Such men am pleas
I ed to honor, and sincerely trust the great cause
whose banner he bears by the united voice of the
Southern Rights party Of hsdistrct, may be tr-
umphant.
| The contest in which the people of Georgia. in
common with her sister slaveholdiug States are en-
gagged, is of vital Importance. 1t involves the
destiny of the South and the feGerative character
Of our system of government. 1t is waged upon the
right OF State peaceably to secede from the Union,
The Gubnatorial candidate OF the Southern Rights
party maintains the affirmative, and the candidate
OF the submission party the negative of this great
question. The one, that the right necessarily
suits from the reserved sovereignty Of the States and
the nature Of the confederacy, and the other that
exists only right Of revolution. The former
insists that the general government has right to
coerce seeding State and the latter that such
seeding State must depend for the maintenance OF
its position upon the stout hearts and strong
| Of a free people, The unhesitatingly and
boldly avow5 that if Southern State secede
ie would not obey rcquiston by the federal gov
| efSsent made upon him as the executive of Georsa,
nt&roops to force her back into the Union land the
otlEr declares he would convene the Legislature
oi the State, and recommend them to call
ton Of the people, to instruct him in emergency
II which the impulses9of the true Southern heart
should be a sufficient guide. Tie great issue Henl
re2eqt, IS The 1iAs Of State TO sscede from the
6n'on, and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of any right on
y overnment to force such :,
n pt.ck into the Union. 1t cannot be eradea 6y
| 1YE SENsELESS CLAMOR OF UNION! THIS
GLORIOUS UNION! The integrity of the Union
Georgia. It's true friends those seho insist upon
alntulnlng tie rights resulting from the soccTeign>
| ty Of the States. It's real enemies those who,
from behind it, as masked battery" leret their
destructive artillery against ats strongest ouposts
6y couasetlng submission to aggrcssion, INJUSTICE
and ROBBERY, because Ikea WOLF SLEEPS
c.oTHlSe" :" they eoo.s under the: ae:HYPOCRlTIGtL
GARB OF COMPROMISE. Then iet a viEsilant
people look well to the true and only issue involved
in the pending campagn-the righi ofu State pea
ceabty to- secede from the Union
T ~ .,ot, ,C4.. !
argument in favor Of the affirmative of this issue
believe it is understood by the people. It has
been cardinal tenet of the Republican creed from
1898 down to the present day maintained by Jeffcr
son and Madison and Macon, Lowndes and Troup,
dlall the distinguished statesmen Of that school,
who properly understood the theory of our Govern
ment, and whose heart beat responsively to the
great American sentiment which is at the
parent and the soul of Constitutional liberty Argu-
ment is not needed to elucidate enforce it. II
, the people, Shaking Of TIE trammels ct party and
SUBMISsIONISTS AND SELFISH TRADEsMEN
IN THE GREAT OF POLITICAL BARTERiNG,
qoHl obey the HONEST IMPULSES OF TRUE SOUTH
ERN sen rIMENT, they mizrequire no argument
to array them on the side Of truth, HEARTH
STONES AND THE CONSTITUTIONS.
TO detract from the Importance of the Issue in
public estimation, it is insisted that 1t is
Instruction that it will be time enough, for Georgia
to determine it, when she shall be called upon to
exercise the right of secession THIS Is bit one Of
| the hundred subtertuges Of those who man the
tsmasEeI battery " IHe issue IS ritat. 1T has not
been made by the State otGeorgia, nor 6g tie Sou
Mern States 1t has been forced a2or as by Eeaer01
aqqressions. 1t has been distinctly rendered by
hi gh authority. it was rendered by Henry Clay IN
his great speech upon ''the compromise bills."-He
said eff resistance is attempted by any State, by
the people of any State he will lift his voice, his
heart and his arm in the support of the common
authority of this government' Through Mr.. Web
ster the Secretary State it has been rendered by
the ROTTEN DYNASTY FILLMORE ADNiNsTRA-
rioN. For he has distinctly proca med the policy
of the Cabinet to be coercion, if any State should at
tempt secession. This issue, then is upon U.s. Shall
we not meet it? Shall ase ing7orious shrink from
Georgia has determined to offer no resistance But
the terror of federal bayonetS she cannot yield and
nosc she is called upon to make the decision. Let
her meet 1T qcih J7ynaness and ~naninaity.
WhoeUer obse,ves the gns Of the times cannot ;tH
| to see that the RIGHT OF SECESSION acW probo-
bty at DISTANT DAY, ASSUME THE FROM
| AND MAGNITUDE OF PRACTICAL IMPORT
ANCE. The South is in permanent minority IN
| our Federal Legislature, The tones of Nor hern
fanaticism abates not in its frenzy and insolence
| 1t presses rapidly to the consunmatloa of its
diabolica des gns And what check has the South
| upon its progress? Have any under the estab
lished rules of parliamentary law? Can We expect
any justice at the hands of the present Free Soil
Executive and his Cabinet? Can we effect any
thing by argument and appeals to the of our
/ NORTHERN OPPRESSORS? CAN WE CD
TAIN SHELTER UNDER THE BROAD SHELL
TER OF THE CONSTITUTION? NO! AUthese
are important 1oack-thread to restrain an IRRE-
ISPONSlBLE AND FANATICAL MAJORITY