The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-03
From the LOuiSUiiie Journal.
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From the London IVeeEly Dispnfch, A,,op,st
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- We nave never attended a County Convention
in which was evinced so great harmony, unanimity
zeal and determination"
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From The London Weekly Dispqch AUgastll
THE AMERICAN SECESSION
truth, justice, reason, is ever homogeneous anC
consistent The attributes of God do not circurn
scribe, they corroborate and illustrate each other
Disihterested sincerity, clear, simple, unpre udicec
caudor, like the wisdum from above, is first pure
then peaceabie-without partiality and withou
hypocrisy; it is
Aye the same,
Whether il via lose the game;
True As the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shone upon.
what an eager outcry Mr.. Bright made against
the inequalities of our representation! Yet when
ne was taken at his word and the seats for Sud
bury were transferred to the est Riding of York
Shlre, how transparent became the source of his
clamor 1t was not to equalize representation that
ne demanded an equitable distribution OF seats, but
SIMPLY to take seats from those whose politics were
opposed to bis, and to give them to those
who agreed with him. We thought he was
tor peace at any price. "Perish Nice, rather
than go to war about it ~ "Let Savoy po-but
save your money!" All because the Emperor of
the French was the spoiler. Shit the scene of his
political ethcs'-move two thousand miles away
make the e'PermentWm IN cOrpOre not monarchy
which Is worth no Manchester mans regard, but
model Republic, that infallible pope of constitu-
tons, and we find the member for Brming b am
| roaring Tor war-a civil war-denOuncing the as
sertlon OF the title to EgOvernment-gnorng the
|
| Understanding Cannng's pointed faacv about
the heptarchy-and calling upon all the world to
heip Abraham Lincoln to extinguish the indepen-
Gence OF twelve millions of people, and of many
| Sovereign States, who never, for one hour abdi-
| Gated their prerogative of territorial SUPREMACY
OrthodoXy IN politics as in religion is Mr.. Bright's
doXy, and heterodOxy is the doxy of all who pre-
sumo to have an opinion of their own
| For our poor part, although our material senses
DC double, our moral sense happens only 20 be sim
gie. we have not two conscienccs divaricatng
! Ike the compass when cross the line Ours is
| one and notwithstanding on the one side of tho
Atlantic exactly as it does the other-applvinc
| the rule and plumb-ine Of even-handed Justice to
| all meu-and thinking Il human being has human
| rights, even although he should happen to be
| planter of cotton. Within the memory of man,
| America, by conquest, purchase, and settlement
belonged to England. Its cOOniSts were English
! by birth, subjects of Crown, deniZens of our
country, owning tealty to the Crown, bound by the
obligations OF patriotism to their fellow country
men, sworn, all the chief of them, to their aegi
ance to this our State. We put tax upon their
tea and stamp upon their legal instruments not to
half the amount of the money the mother country
had to pay Tor the government and protection Of
the colonies and far than replaced by the sx-
elusive monopoly OF our home markets. A majority
OF them not extremely decided took it into their
heads to stand upon constitutional punctilio at
that time ignored in the practice even of the moth
er country, the masses of whose people had no
voice in the composition of the Legislature, and
aided by the bluHders of our generals wresed from
US OuI HlVsI precious empire without
the pretext of any substantial grievance or real
plea OF oppression. Independence Day is to this
hour their highest festival OF real secessionists
there were not more than two millions and halt
Is there man in all America who does not glory
in the Declaration of Independence from Abraham
Lincoln upward or downward? On what principle
of morality or common sense, then, can any one OF
them deny the right of the Southerners TO proclaim
| their Independence No,o!
There are twelve millions of secessionists. Can
in one form other, been the normal condition of
| every civilized, even every barbarOus State. To
| this hour it prevails in large portion of the
world. The planters did not make but found it
| domestic institution on which based the very
structure and existence of society. Disguise it
| we may, abolitiOnsm, the general policy of de-
claring slavery illegal beyond certain sections of
the territory of the United States, is a virtual
manifesto of emancipation, leads directly up to it.
Do not let US be misunderstood Slavery is curse,
and the people on whom history has imposed it are
deeply to be pitied. The South ought long since
to have raised the slaves gradually to human rights
for the interest both of the owner and his chsttel.
But we must do would be done by, and Judge
of others as in their circumstances, we would have
done ourselves.
What, if you, and l, and we, had been planters
depended entirely slaves for very existence
if States drew their very life and being from
slave owning-what should Ce do, if we found that
a combination of other States where there were no
slaves, employed a mere counting of noses ulti-
matey to wrest what regarded whole pro-
pery from us? Why, secede and fight for it, to be
sure. But is this all? lfa tax upon tea and deeds,
| not one fourth part heavy the American colo
| MES as the very same duty imposed by the mother
country itself, justified rebellion what is to be
said Of monopoies and protective and dterential
duties imposed on the South equal to tax by the
North of forty millions sterling? The New Eng
land States produce nothing, export nothing, cam
not even feed or cIothe themselves
The slave States not only maintain themselves,
but export seventy millions worth annually Of ag-
| rCultura produce; and yet by the craft of fiscal
legislation arc drowned in debt while the North is
waOwing in wealth. The poor debtor awakens to
his danger, and struggles to shake himself free of
the usurer and his per cents. The case is as plain
as the nose on your face. Every colony we have
is self-gOv Overned sel-taxed, entirely Independent
upon upon each other. We cannot even send
cOnvicts to our own property because the settlers
object. We cannot interfere with their land ten
ure their chief domestic institution. We have
allowed the United States to go from us, and tnd
both countries to be the better for it. On wha
pretence of all nations deny the right o
twelve millions of people to selEgOvernment, anC
to secede from community that virtually contis
Gates their property, and opposes them with une
quail taxation?
But is this all? The thirteen States which formed
the original Union were each separate and indie
pendent colonies. On the I'd July, l776 they de
clared that "thev were, and Of right ought to be
free and independent States and the connection be
tween them (the plural) and the State of Grea
Britain ought to be dissolved" The decarant
voted by States. not by populations. By the Con
fedeI alton of l77S, Article H. declares that "eacl
State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and nde
pendence, and every power, jurisdiction, and righ
which is not by this Confederation expressly dele
gated to the United States"
The Confederation of 1889 was instituted by vo-
ting by States; the Presidency of Lincoln is that o
the ma jorty of States not of the majority of pop
ulati0n. Can it be for one moment cOntended tha
there is any power delegated by the several State
to the Union of compelling them to remain in i
after thev choose to declare dissolution of the co
partnery? What is the Union but the common for
air Of al
from it, does its power emanate from them
Has it any power position of its Olcn, any bu
that which each delegated to it? Is it anything bu
the creature Of the States? Has it any separate
existence?
We are told about the heptarchv, about the cases
of Ireland and of Scotland. Wel-even these cases
are very open to arguments and it is very certain
that if the Imperial Legislature violated any o
the articles of either Union, or By partial laws con
scated the property of nation, the right OF sc
cession would lawfully and cOnstitutOnallv revive
But Ireland and Scotland have no Legislatures o
their own; not sovereign States; did not re
tain by articles of union any separate sovereignty
Life and property are secured in the several Amer
lean States by the separate Government and Legis
= lature of each, not by the Union. citizen of 'on
State is not that of another, cannot vote in another
Every separate State has its own code Of laws, it
own revenues, its own debts, its own property. n
two States have the same code; the citizens q! eac
are subject to different notifications of their cor
= sttutional rights-each State has different col
sttution.
In 1914 the New England States threatened I
, secede. Massachusetts, did so the annexation o
# Texas. The Southern States have frequently PrgI
claimed their resolutions to do so-and thls MOI,
: Tariff, in the very crisis OF dlssenslon, "ouio
itself form an ample justification OF separation
a The very fact that negroes are chatteIS IN LOUIS
& 90 and citizens in New Y ork; that a British sub
ect of color can be put in Jail at New Orleans
" yv;tbout apy offence but his skin, and that to a
onr -emonstrances to the Government at Washing
ton the is, such is the law OF Louisiana an
the United States cannot interfere, is conclusive
: the sovereignty of each State, and OF its right
q 90 out of the Union by the same power it had I
90 in. The principle involved in this quarrel
that which is put in issue in Naples, in Italy,
Hungary in Poland. CDltm amman mutd
: qui trans mare currmt What is right in EuroI
=, cannot be wrong in America.
n We protest against the poltroonerv which, out
a fear of the petulant gasconade of the North, II
- duces our contemporaries, even our Legislature,
r. ''sing small" and profess that our press and OF
! peoples sympathies are all with the Northerner
/ We believe the to be exactly the reverse,
. the best friends of the Unionists are those who,
a any hazard of provoking the insoent imperiousne
# of the North tell it plainly the TRUTH and assert
its face the claims of justice and the manifest rgh
of nations. The arguments of Lincoln are Il
worn out drivel of legitimacy and despotsm.
IF We insist on these views. because we have gre
II faith in the ultimate triumph of what is honest
10 the aphOrism that "the RIGHT will gang the rlc
q. gait" ''Thrice is he armed who hath his quar-
just" When the prospects of the south were we're: u
blacklist, said it invinci6le IL IL was lnsprI
by the spirit of Washington, who, in defence OF b
a. home with a handful of men, defsd the discipline
d. armies and the blockade of the victorious navies