New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-07

e cc,,ess and that the revenue should 90 into Inc
na,;oal Treasury. She agreed to lay no duty on tun-
mare 20 keep neither troops nor ships during peace, 10
,neke no contract agreement with another STATE,
,r;,b torepn power; nor to engage in war, unless
scsly invaded or in such imminent danger as to adj
init of DO delay and except in the last instance for the
,eoson there given she agreed to do none of these
tbinos but ssih e consent Of Congress. Nor Is TINS
all She gave to Congress the power, after 1871 10
robibit forever the importation of slaves she agreed
in controversy with sister State to be oouiu oy INC
Judgment of the Supreme Court-'hM Coneres"
should have power prescribe rules 70 HeT oou's as
To admitting the records of another STATE one mas
stripped herself Of the power TO pace 'ne ci1eis u
another State any other footing tnah her OWL ou0
a.. hrrd herself 10 deliver up fdgitives from justice
spd fugitive slaves servants or apprentices sue mas
agreed not odivide herself into two States nor to unite
benef with another in forming one new State without
the consent of Congress.
"Nor is this ALL she has not required that the
indoes and other officers of the Union should be bound
by oath 10 support her Constitution and laws but she
has agreed that all her officers should be bound BY oath
~ sunnort those of the Union. And moreover she has
aprced that the Constitution treaties and laws Of the
Union should be of paramount authority in her own
courts. held 20 BY her judges against the rcqui-
sitions Of her own Constitution and laws.
"Nor is this all She has yielded the regulation of
commerce with her sister Sstes the power to regulate
the value of domestic and foreign COINS to fix the stand
ard of weights and measures TO grant copyrights and
patents TO organize arm and discipline their own mi
Ita to nauralize and to pae bankrupt laws; and her
own laws for the election of her Representatives and
Senators in Congress subject to the revision of the
Union with the single pon of the place for choos
ing Senators.
"Ample and extraordinary all these cessons are,
even these do not complete the list of her surenders
of sovereignty She has subjected the persons of her
citizens TO the military control of the President for
purposes external to herself viz: to execute the laws
of the Union to suppress instruction and TO repe in
vasiou in another State She has subjected the whole
of the poperty OF her citizens the taxing power OF
Congress and agrees if their law conflicts with hers
thi salI yield 10 that. She has empowered the Union
TO establish Courts not only Of international but OF
domestic jurisdiction, within her limits, and these
Courte in numerous instances try her citizens dispose
Of their property, without any regard to her laws eX-
cept a. Congress might choose TO adopt Them and are
totally independent of her. Thus then, the State has
stript herself of sovereignty IN two ways-frst, by
transfer and secondly, by prohibition Under the first
head she has vested in TIE Union all her international
or foreign jurisdiction all the regulations of trade with
her sister States and with the Indians-in word
everything common to herself and the other States
Under the second head she has renowned TO be
resumed but by an amendment of the National Cous-
tutioD large and important portions Of domestic sove
rpty, and has admittedthe Government of the Union
to concurrent jurisdiction with her own State au-
thores over extensive and valuable branches OF local
Jurisdiction such taxes customs courts the militia
&c and in such Of cOequal rights she grants
A.. H.. .1.n
xav ftbey conflict And cap the climax of conces-
sons 10 the Union and of restrictions on herself she
binds all her officers under oath to support the Union,
"a laws down her State sovereignty in all its depart
ents executive Legislative and judicial at the feet of
Che Constitution treaties and lave Of the Union as the
supreme law Of the land"
In the course of the same speech, Mr.. Grimke
Denoted with graphic vividness the consequences
of secession to South Carolina, at the same time
indicating the mode which, in his Judgment, the
General Government should adopt in dealing with
o rebeIlious State:
'3he Union can regard her in no other light than as
8 refractory rebeous member, resisting the laws of
the UnoD and liable therefore, under the compact to
have her own, or the militia of any other State,
marched into her territory to execute the laws of the
Union as was done in the instruction of Shays and
the Whisky insurreetion. But the Union has
sion for any such measures. She needs not to draw
sword nor march single soldier into her territory.
To Carolina, it would be said we have made law
which we and the great body Of the States and people,
regard as constitutional You say it not 80, and re-
sst the supreme law of the land You have seized
Custom-House; you have expelled our CHEERS you
have denied your obligations to US; you have declared
charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort free ports,
where all nations may trade at pleasure in violation of
our b.ws. We therefore pronounce you, in the pres
ence of the world, an outlaw from the Confederacy,
and rebels against the nation. But we shall not strike
a blow, nor shed drop of blood We shall blockade
your porte We shall place troops along the from
ter Of Carolina 10 cut off her intercourse with the
neighbOring States Them like the girded tree, Caro-
lima must perish. Foreign nations cannot notice her.
with her, without palpable violation OF the
international rights Of the Union. She can have on
her seaboard neither expectations nor mporiations;
nor can she along her frontiers, without smuggling.
OF no avail then her free ports and custOmhOuses,
and revenue sy stems.
T" Let m now look back upon preceding state OF the
case. Carolina has declared the Tariff q nudity;
she has resisted the laws Of the United States she has
seized the custombouse and forts and dsposessed the
officers of the Union. Congress has declared her in
ste Of rebellion and her coast is beset with the navy
Of the Union. IL there any man 30 beref of his
a. not to know that such state Of things would pro-
duce tremendous evils to South Carolina, totally separ
ate from the horror Of war Are we prepared to es
the instantaneous depreciation of property, the
fall of bankstock the ruinous state Of private credit
and the freezing point to which bank credit and bank
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