Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-30
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fortress against which the batteries of inter al and
external enemies will be most constantly and &C.
lively Though often coverty and insduou Ivy direct
ed: it is of infinite moment that you she ud proper
ly estimate the immense value OF our national
Union to your collective and indvid dal happiness;
that you should cherish cordla' habitual, and
immovable attachment to it; accr 4stomIng yourself
to think and speak of it pal Iadium Of your po
litca safety and prosperity; itching for its preser
walton with jealous anxiety misunderstanding what
may suggest even a. susp ion that it can IN any
event be abandoned; and Indignantly frowning up
on the first dawning of every attempt to ALLEVIATE
any portion of our country from the rest or to en-
feeble the sacred ties which now link together Its
several parts"
Again in the same address, he says:
"In contemplating the causes which may disturb
our Union, it occurs as matters OF great concerh,
that any ground should have been furnished 10y
characterizng parties by geographical discrimI ia
tions--Nort6ern and Southern Atlantic and Yves
tern !; whence designing men may eudeSvor to ex-
cite belief that there is real difference OF local in
terests and views. One of the expcdieuts of party
to acquire influence within particular districts, is to
mSrepresent the opinions and aims OF other districts
You cannot shield yourselves too much against the
jeaouses and heart burningS which spring from
these Misrepresentation they tend to rendr alien
to each other those who ought to be bound together
by fraternal affection Tbe inhabitants of our wes-
tern country have lately had useful lesson this
head They have seen in the negotiation by the
executive and N the unanimous ratification by the
Senate of the treaty with Spain, and in the univer-
sal satisfaction of that event throughout the United
States, decisive proof how unfounded were the
suspicious propagated among them of policy in
the general government and in the Atlantic States,
unfiendy to their interests in regard to the Misss-
sippi. They have been witnesses to the formation
of two treaties, that with Great Britain, and that
with Spain, which secure to them everything they
could desire in respect to foreign relations to-
wards confirming their prosperity. Will it not be
their wisdom to rely for the preservation OF these
advantages on the Union by which they were pro-
cured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those
advisers, if such there are who would sever them
from their brethren and connect them with aliens?
Extract from the Proclamation Of President Jack
son, December II, 1882.
"The Constitution of the United States then
forms Government, not league; and whether it
be formed by compact between the States or any
other manner, its character is the same. 1t is
Government in which all the people represented,
which operates directly on the people individually,
not upon the States-they retained all the power
they did not grant But each State having expressly
parted with many powers, to constitute jointly
with the other States single nation, cannot from
that period possess any right to secede because such
secession does not break league, but destroys the
unity of nation; and any injury to that unity is
not only breach, which would result from the
travention of compact but it is offence against
the Union. To say that any State may at pleasure
secede from the Union, is to say that the United
States are not nation, because it would be sole
csm to contend that any part of nation might dis
solve its connection with the other parts to their in
Jury ruin, without committing any offence. Sc
cession, like any other revolutionary act, may be
morally justified by the extremity of oppresSion
but to call it constitutional right is confounding
the meaning of terms, and only be done through
gross error or to deceive those who are willing to
assert right, but would pause before they made a
revolution, or incur the penalties consequent on q
failure Because the Union formed by compact
it is said the parties to that compact may, when
they feel themselves aggrieved depart from it. but
it is precisely because it is compact, that they
cannot.
Again, he says in the same proclamation:
FOR the dream of separate independence-a
dream interrupted by bloody conflicts with your
neighbors, and vile dependence on foreign power
If your leaders could succeed in establishing q
separation, what would be your situation? Are you
united at home? Are you free from apprehension
of civil dscord with all its fearful consequences? p
Do our neighboring republics, every day suffering
some new revolution, contendng with some new
insurrection-do they excite our envy? But the
dictates of a high duty oblige me solemnly to
nounce that you cannot succeed. The laws of the
United States must be executed ! have no dis
cretionary power on the subject; my duty is en-
phatically pronounced in the Constitution. Those
who told you that you night peaceably prevent
their execution, deceived you they could not have
been deceived themselves. They know that forci-
BILE opposition could alone prevent the execution of
the laws, and they know that such opposition must
be repealed. Their object is disunon; but be not
deceived by names; disunon by armed force is trea-
son. Are you really ready to incur its guilt? If
you the heads of the nstgators of the act be
he mi hair adc hath a
honor; hut on you may fall the punishment; on
your unhappy State will inevitably fall all the evils
of the conflict you force upon the government OF
your country. 1t cannot accede to the mad project
of disunion, of which you would be the first victims
its first magistrate cannot if he would, avoid the
performance of his luty; the consequence must be
fearful for you distressing to your fellow-ctizens
here and to the friends of good government through
out the world.
Gen. Jackson in his notification message of JAN
uary 16, 1888, says:
1.-THE right of the people of a single State to alb
solve themselves at WILL and without the consent of
the other States from their most solemn obligations
and hazard the liberties and happiness of the mil
| lions composing this Union cannot be acknowledge.
ed. Such authority is believed 10 be utterly re-
pugnant both to the principles upon which the gen.
eral government is constituted, and to the objects
which it is expressly formed to attain"
In conclusion, he says:
nave 81 OduSS W lONe anu lOi
can people, whose partiallity honored me with their
highest trust have determined to spare effort
to discharge the duty which, in this conuncture is
devolved upon me. That similar spirit will actuate
the representatives of the American people is not to
be questioned; and fervently pray that the Great
Ruler of nations may so guide your deliberations,
and our joint measures, as that they may prove sau
tary examples, not only to the present, but to the
future times; and solemnly proclaim that the Con-
stitution and the laws are supreme and the Union
! indissolubLe."
| Letter from Gen. Jackson, to Rep Mr.. Crawford
| Of Georgia.
WASHINGTON, May ], 1888.
az have had a laborious task here, but
notification is dead, and its actors and courtiers will
only be remembered by the people to be execrated
| for their wicked designs to destroy the only good
Government on the globe, and that prosperity and