The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-09-20


duty, every human being is bound to cor
recl. Yet, the biggest sin in our day
slown to the North, is not what occurs
IN is own nei2hborhood or State, bu.
tic Donsier inipuity Of the South, which,
tcl@een Won and me, and as the world
g0os, might have been permitted to man
sge it, own affairs in its own way, so that
IFS acts should be found either in harmony
utl, or not in violation Of, the Constitu-
t'su of the United States.
am an advocate for the sovereignty
Of every State 10 the Union, within the
limits recognized and approved of by It's
own representative authority when the
Constitution was agreed upon. AS con
.aouence, hold that South Carolina has
no right 10 interfere with the internal a.
airs Of Massachusetts,. And, as further
consequence, that Massachusetts has no
r.rht to interfere with South Carolina, OF
Is domestic and civil affairs. as one OF the
soyereign States Of this now threatened
Uuion. But the Constitution having been
adopted by the common consent Of all the
-ogsreign parties engaged in the frame
wog.. and approval thereof, maintain
tina. 10 State has a right 10 seeede, ex-
Ger. in the manner provided for in the
document itself. ~
3 ne revolt Of the colonies against the
authority Of Great Britain is another thing.
II England had extended to these colonies
tia common rights and privileges nomi-
na.v secured by the British Constitution,
We Lave a high auth ority for believing that
a r.c,,1l haya 1ancf
atsn they did, into rebellion. Indeed, it
q. yht be asserted and maintained, that it
Is Is not the Americans, but the British
nisLry aud Government, thai supplied
.ee:illate reasons for the American Rev
o.4tIou.
In the present case it would be difficult
liz parity Of reasoning to justify the
Grounds on which the South have acted.
| think few remarks will satisfy you
Of Tie correctness Of this statement. You
say aUal for many years the South has pro
lined lis dissatisfaction, and announced
r., determined purpose of secession, if Ger
tain complaints should not be attended TO
and their causes redressed that the South
was always in earnest, and the North
w9uld never believe in their sincerity or
teir predictions. This may be so, but it
lives US an occasion to remarl, that the
National Government, as such, had no
special reason for the secession of the
South at this time moro than there was
ten or even fifteen years ago. The per.
sonal liberty till was unconstitutional in
the few States which adopted it. New
York was too wise and too atIiotic to bs
caught in that trap. The SO called per-
soma! liberty bill was never adopted, so Ear
a. documents are evidence, either directly
or indirectly, by The Government at Wash
incton Indeed, ! am not aware of any
statute passed by the National authority
winch could give the South additional rea
sons for discomfort or compIsinS within
the last ten or fifteen years.
have thus alluded to the unofficial
causes for Southern resentment Even in
your letter the cause alleged is the cleo
lion of the Chief Magistrate. This does
not seem at all sufficient to warrant the
course which the South has adopted.
The Government originally agreed upon
BIZ al! the States has lasted during pc
Rod of between seventy and eighty years
During this time the executive adminstra
ton was enjoyed by the South for fifty
two wears.
No Northern President has ever been
ison, Monroe, and Jackson have each dis
char I'd that Office for a term of eight
year,. The conclusion is, then, that out
of seventy or eighty years of our govern
ment. fifty two years have enured to our
patr;oiic men of the South This fact in
wolves the potentialities and powers Of the
,Goxeyument as having been exercised 10y
supremacy on the part of tue South. The
navy, the army, the incumbents of the
Supreme Court were not ignorant Of or
ioseusible to this fact. Now | put it to
your candor to say whether, after such a
history Of the administration Of our coun
try, the South might not have tolerated
the occupancy of the Presidential chair
bv the present incumbent. who, with bis
Northern predecessors in that Office, could
hardly expect to survive officially the Or
binary four years Of a Northern Supreme
Magistrate!
You say that President Lincoln was
elected by Black Republicans 10 the North
am 1UcIlQeu 10 lDlnk tQaL lie was lnul'
rectly OF negatively elected By Democrats
North and South. The Black Republi-
caus presented one candidate, and in order
10 defeat bis election, the Democrats,
North and South, presented three. If the
latter had selected only one candidate, il
is probable that the Black Republi-
cans, as you call them, would have been
found MINUS habucntes. But when the
Democrats distributed their votes, ap2a-
renlly with view of rendering them in
efficient, then, of course, tie one man OF
choice was elected over the three candi
dates and competitors, that had been pls-
ced in rivalship with each other, and in
he aggregate all against him alone That
lie was constitutionaliv elected under
these circumstances is not denied either in
10 South or in the North. Then, if so
elected, be is the Chief Magistrate Of all
tie United States of America, and, BY his
yary oath Of office, is bound by their own
common consent to see that neither Maine.
on the Northeast, DOR Texas, on the South
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