, 1861-01-25
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The sem;.sccpsa on;s,s Of this State in.
dn1pe n a, cncot deo, Of rnnean;nr to1k
about 'the coercion Of seeding States
: about civil Tar. and Of the intention Of Tic
Republican parsy to precipitat1r the latte,
by q resort to the former. This is all fo,
the purpose Of dcceiving the honest masses
oftheir. party IS to the issues involved in
tho present crisis. The Republican: p.rty
contcmp1atcnosu such thine. ThcJs do not nro.
pose to employ coercion against any State,
:ad ifcivil war is initiated, it will be through
the action Of the seccssionists, and The re-
sponsibilityofit willrest entirely; upon them.
The Republicans propose to let the ecced-
ing States alone. # they do not choose to
send Senators and REPRESENTATIVES 10 Con-
gress, Il il; Their. owa loss, voluntarily il
Cured. If they will not permit loYal citi-
zens to discharge the duties Of post1nasters
within their borders, the mail service will
lie discontinued, and their own people will
bs the principal sufferers. II the officers
connected with the federal judiciary resign,
The State OF States must be attached to The
nearest judicinl district which remains
loye!. Iftkc revenue from customs cannot
bs collected in tho sea:ports of tho
reccding Stales, then tho law establishing
these ports Of entry must be repealed, and
Tie foreign commerce Of the recusant State
sun.aa1ily stopped. There Is no coercion
about all tllis succly-thcre is no civil war,
The federal Government Aas thus far COM
1n:ited no act Of violcnce-no act Of as-
gression. For the rest, The public property
IL these States must be protected ind prc.
served, and crime against the laws he pun
i=hc;1. But to protect and preserve the
public property in South Carolina, for ill.,
stance, is neither an act Of coercion or civil
war Col. Anderson holds For: Sumter in
behalf oftke Government which owns it
Not eTen the seni-scccssionists Of Illinois,
condemn the action of the gallant Colonel
II the South ca.olinians should turn their
guns upon it, that would be an attempt at
coercion, that would be civil war; hut. it
would or South Carolina and notttho Fed
cral soyeralhent that had resorted to these
measures. Who, in that event, would find
1aul; with Col Anderson Tor defending the |
fort and the livcs Of his men: or wl-ow
b'a1ne the government Tor reinforcing him
and aiding Kim with. its whole power, if
necessary The officers and mcn, how
nrar wiz, 4;,o,,f1 1f4act- E.,r4 C,.,rsnr !
would be guilty Of treason, and it would
becu:nc tho duty of the Government to
bring them 10 trial and, If convicted, to cx-
ecute them. But in doin. this, there would
he III moro coercion OF the State OF South
Carolina, 40 more civil war on the part Of
the Federal Government, than there was
in the case OF the Ottawa rescuers who
Tc-: tired in Judge Drumuond's Court. in
this CITY, and fined aud irunrisoncI.
Now the policy contemplated by the Re.
pabiisans is no mora nor any less than this.
1t is neither SUMMARY ro7 rcycngclul. It
might 70 a great deal further, and still be
strictly lust. South Carolina, ic con.catto {
.enas;a IA the position in which her own
,":s have brought lcr, will doubtless be
permitted to do so Us long as she may de- =,
ire. So also will ;1a other secedipr Statra
10 one proposes to rnarc,, an army across :
he boundaries Of any Of them tor hostile | 9
purposes. They can stay out as long as {
hey cl:oose. But they 1nust conduct them | c
cives properly: They must not undertake l
0 coorc: TIC En;t:1 States; they must +.
lot scize OF conAsca.e our properly; they |.
aus. not shoot, hang or imprison our: :
itizcn=: they must not take possession Of =
Ut forts or Of our 1nen-of-war; they must y
%: undertake to capture tho National Car o
III: they must not plant batteries upon the
iississip2l River to destroy or l,ar1ass our y
om;n ,rcc--because all that, or my Of That, tt
7orld be lcrying war against the United L
tates, which our Constitution defines as
'casoa, aud would have to be suppressed G
nd punished But in undertaking to prc- 3
nnt an7 Of these things, or in inf1ict;nr
uni.hment for having done them, the Fed o,
al Government is neither cocrcine = State a
or engaging in WAT: It is only perform.
. suci 4uAGtlCus is necessarily tnAcTc IN +
rery government capablc Of sc}epraser- a.
ation. r
We tr,,st no Rannl,,;can ,x;,1 e,,fTar ,,;,,. OF
If tn he frightened into ., abandonment II
his princ;p1cs b. a1l tho 1oosc talk hc IN
AZ hear about coercion and ciyil var II
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