The national Republican., 1861-01-14
tain States.
NEW YORK FOR THE UNION.


Wisconsin 305.39l 777,77l
NEW YORK FOR THE UNION.
The following are the Union resolutions pass
ed last Friday by vote Of III TO 2, in the
New York House, and with only one dissenting
vote in the Senate:
Whereas the insurgent State of South Caro-
lima, after sezing the post office, custom house,
moneys, and Notifications, ofthe Federal Gov
ernment, has by firing into q vessel ordered
by the Government to carry troops and provs.
ions to, Fort Sumter, virtually declared war;
and whereas the forts and property Of the
United States Government, in Georgia, Ala.
bana, and Louisiana, have been unlawfully
seized with hostile intention and whereas,
tain their reasonable acts therefore,
"Resolred, (if the Senate concur,) That the
Legislature of New York, profoundly impressed
with the value of the Union, and determined
to preserve it unimpaired, hail with Joy the re-
cent firm, dignited, and patriotic special mes
sage of the President of the United States, and
that we tender to him, through the Chief Mags.
trate Of our own State, whatever aid in men
and money he may require, to enable him TO
enforce the laws and to uphold the authority of
the Federal Government; and that, in defence
of the more perfect Union which has con.
ierred prosperity and happiness upon the Ameri
can people, renewing the pledge given and re.
deemed by our fathers, we are ready to devote
our fortunes, our lives, and our sacred holor,
in upholding the Union and the Constitution.
"ReSotred, (if the Senate concur,) That the
Union-loving representatives and citizens of
Delaware, Maryland Virginia, North Carolina,
Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, who labor
with dayptad conraue and patriotism tn with.
hold their States from the vortex Of secession
are entitled to the gratitude and admiration Of
the whole people"
The nullifers can see, from these resolutions,
what is the value of the aid they promise them.
selves from such sheets as the Herald, Journal
Of Commerce. Neps, Express, DC, of the city
of New York.
THE OLD NULLIFICATION THEORY.
In the document addressed to the world, as
sort Of declaration Of independence, South Car
olina lays the principal stress upon the negro
but in the appeal addressed to the slaveholding
States, the principal stress is upon the old nul
lifcation theory, that the North prospers at the
expense of the South, by means of the work
ing of the National Government. 1t is this
last view, which is the really operative one with
South Carolina, and the proof Of it is, that null
fcation preceded the slavery agitation in the
order of time. South Carolina is decayng, ard
Charleston is decaying, and neither of them has
anything to boast OF, but a pauper aristocracy
with magnificent coats Of arms, but terribly ou
at the elbows, dreaming and pulling over the
glory Of their ancestors hundred years ago.
Here is a specimen of their sufferings and
"reminiscences:
/" The Southern States are in minority in
Congress. Their representation in Congress
is useless to protect them against unjust taxa.
ton; and they are taxed by the people of the
North for their benefit, exactly as the people Of
Great Britain taxed our ancestors in the Brit.
ish Parliament for their benefit. For the last
forty years, the taxes laid by the Congress Of
the United States have been laid with view
of subscribing the interests of the North. The
people of the South have been taxed by duties
on imports, not for revenue, but for an object
inconsistent with revenue-to promote, by pro
hibitions Northern interests in the produc
tons of their mines and manufactures.
"There is another evil, in the condition o
the Southern towards the Northern States
which our ancestors refused to bear towards
Grea. Britain. Our ancestors not only taxed
themselves, but all the taxes collected from
them were expended amongst them. Had
they submitted to the pretensions of the British
Government, the taxes collected from then
would have been expended in other parts o
the British Empire. They were fully aware o
the effect of such policy in impoverishing the
people from whom taxes are collected, and il
onriching those who receive the benefit of thei
expenditure. To prevent the evils of such
policy, was one Of the motives which drov,
them on to revolution. Yet this British poll
cy has been fully realized towards the South
ern States, by the Northern States. The peo
| pie of the Southern States are not only taxed
for the benefit of the Northern States, bu
after the taxes are collected, threeiourths O
them are expended at the North. This cause
with others connected with the operation o
the General Government, has made the cite
of the South provincial. Their growth is par
alyzed, whilst they are mere suburbs of North
orn cities. The agricultural productions o
the South are the basis Of the foreign com
inerce of the United States yet Southern cite
do not carry it on. Our foreign trade is almos
annihilated In l74O there were five shi
yards in South Carolina, to build ships to carr
on our direct trade with Europe. Betweel
l740 and l779 there were built in these yard
twenty-five square.rigged vessels, besides
great number of sloops and schooners, to carr
on our coast and West India trade. In the hal
century Immediately preceding the Revolution
from 1925 to l775, the population of Sout
Carolina increased seven.fold."