Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-01-12
sOUrHRRN VIEWS ON SECESSION,

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other State, aud although l going to say
something on that subject, it is not be-
cause all the other big men have writ
ten, but because cannot help it.
II you think that Missouri is not going
out Of the Union, you are simply mis-
taken. She will be one Of the last to
do that thing, but she will do it. She
cannot help doing it. 1t will be to her
interest to do it. She does not know it
now, but she will know it in . very few
weeks, and Kentucky will know it, and
Tennessee, and Maryland, and Virginia
will know it, and every Southern State
will know it, and 60 out, and what Is
more, Illinois and Iowa too Glitter as
the majority Of her people are now
against slavery .oiUleave the Northern
Union tn less than fve years, and petit
ton the Southern Union for admittance,
not as Slave States but 40 Free Trade
States. 1t never can be the policy Of
Illinois or Iowa to become manufactur-
ing States, and when they see the
Southern Confederacy advancing with
giant strides to power and wealth under
free trade system, and when moreover,
Illinois finds out that she will be paying
into the treasury ofthe Northern Union
eight millions Of dollars yearly to sup
port the manufactures of New England,
instead OF four millions which she noac
pays, and that a. . member Of the
Southern Confederacy che will have to
pay into its treasury only tao millions,
thereby saving sir millions Of dollars
annually to her people, she will leave
the Northern and join the Southern or
Agricultural Confederacy.
1t may be, however, that the Morrill,
west States will secede and form an
agricultural, free trade, direct-taration
Republic of their own, for when the
splitting commences there is no telling
where it will stop. The Slave States
will band together, because their inter
csts are one, their people one, their feel
ings enc, their occupations one. But
where is the community Of interests be-
tween agricultural Illinois, and manu-
ufacturing Massachusetts. They are
wider apart to-day, if they knew it,
than the North and the South.
As to the right of secession, the
Southern people stand on firm ground.
Did not the thirteen colonies have less
cause Of complaint against England
than the Southern States have now
against the Northern? When the Fed
era compact was made, did not some
of the States remain out Of the Union
for long time and did not Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island when they came
in expressly st,pulate that they should
be allowed to go out peaceably when
ever they chose? and does not the Con-
atitution expressly state that all the
States stand upon an equal footing ? and
if one has right to 60 ont has not
another? If not, then they are not
equal in sovereignty.
Aud did not the United States recog-
nike the right of Texas to secede from
Mcxico! and does she suppose that
Texas came into this Union with .feaccr
rights than she had as one Of the States
| OF Mcxico9 and did not Louisiana come
in on a square footing with the rest {!
and if so, has she not the same right to
secede? She has, and acha, is more,
she has a right by the clearly defined
law Of nations, and in accordance with
the treaty made with Napoleon the
First, to take out with her as her 0w,s
property all the vast territory lying west
of the Mississippi, which the Republi-
cans are now laying IF into Free States.
You cannot say that the General Gov
eminent has bought and paid for Lous
lana and Florida, and that they have no
right to secede, because in admitting
them, they were granted all the rights
other States had.
But whether they have the right or
not, a majority of tie Northern States
have violated the Federal compact, and
SO relieved them from all binding obi
cations to stand up to it, and they know
of no better judges of this fact, than
themselves. So you can make up your
minds that all the Southern States will
be out Of the Union very shortly.
think also very decidedly, that as
soon as the South is unit for secession,
the North will be unit against it. l
have said ali along that this would be a
sectional fight, at the polls and in Con-
gress and out of Congress-. wish to
make another prediction, that the North
will never seriously attempt 10 coerce the
South into the Union. They will get
their dauder up, they will recruit and
drill, and arm, and march and counter
march, and go to great deal of ex-
pense, and finally find out that they
have undertook . herculean task, and
wind up BY asking "who struck Billy
Patterson"
And if any Of those brave Heesisn,
German or Saxony boys should be so
rash as to get below Mason and Dixon's
line, they will wish themselves where
| Napoleon'a Erencbman did when he