Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-09-05

everything e, ana IS Wiling 20 conctQe not1 /
ing in return, has NJ element o. comyro
Mise in il. IL taeosia,on Of our politics
.mbers, no wrongs are ever committ,l /
'gaias; human liberty; they dem,ud n
concessions 10 be made u foster the IL
-erests Of free white labor. bu; the e;er
nal CRY has been. "Sl,very and Cot;o
-emaud this thing, and We must sive il.
md save the Union" IL this vay II,
Union has been saved already too often.
Every pretended coinpromse has weaken
.d the government aud tended 70 prec p.
tate the present condition Of things.
Bu; there has been no existing necessi.
= for compromise. No changes ia n,
av, constitution, or condition Of the m
on, or of any part Of il, made coneess
ions necessary, or even proper. To have
made compromise condition of ovalty
was unjust, and the government would
not have been true TO iisel:, had It sub
mitted TO the condition. a compromise
under such circumstances, ght have -
cured temporary peace, but it would
have done great wrong 10 the people.
In Athens once, iis greatest statesman
and general, proposed 10 DO a thing Of
great advantage to the Athenians -
The matter was referred 70 Artist des,
man en- neut for his sense Of justice, who
reported "that the enterprise which Them
istocIes proposed was indeed the most ad-
vantageous IN the world, but at the same
time it was the most unjust" The
Athcuans refused the most advantageous
thing ia the world. because i vas tainted
with injustice The American people
have done well in in tating this Athenian
virtue. a great nation Can always afford
70 repud diate wrong that would dishouor
Il. The rr0pos ton to compromise was
as unnecessary as /, was unjust. No Sc
ceediug state asked il and no enc met it
in the spirit OF ku4ness. While We were
haliing and parleyne, holding mass meet
ines and conventions, and discussing prop
ositions OF adjustment, they we're arming
and drilling, forging swords and casting
cannon. They used the delay given by
the nation, to plunder lis arsenals and IA.
" Yards, ana rob rs mints. They pre-
scented the one alteruat ve to the govern
ment; either 10 recognize the independence
of the Confederate States, or to prepare
for war. The government dared not az
cept the one, and the other became ne
cesoity.
But secession had its origin long before
1860. On the 18th day Of May ls25 the
Congress of the United States passed a
law levying duties on the importation OF
foreign goods. The act levied higher du
ties than any previous revenue law of the
government. It VAS passed by ful.
Congress. in stric: accordance with the
Coasttut on, and avowedly for the protec-
on of American industry. TIE Gull
States at once commenced devising means
by which 10 resist Federal authority. and
to prevent the execution OF the law
They insisted then, as now, that the reve
nue. act both sectional and unc0nSti-
:utional. Il was sectional because it ben
eGtted Northern manufacturers, while in
the South there were none to protect. 1t
was sectional tor the further reason, that
out of one hundred and five votes given
in Congress for the measure, one hun
dred were from the Free States, and sixty
out of the ninety fse votes against IT,
we're from the Slave States.
The philosophy Of sectionalism is indeed
a singular one; 4 combined pro slavery
interest my thrust any measure upon th,
country, or defeat any object, but let th,
North 40 that thing-let free labor at
tempt to thvart the cherished projects o.
the Cotton power by a united vote, an,
how soon the howl OF sectional'sin re
sounds from one end Of the land 10 The
other. Again. it was insisted that thil
tarin was unconstitutional because it I'M
posed unequal taxation. il il was true
The North night have claimed that Sia
very vas unjust and eri anti republican
because Z gave unequal rspresSntatioR.-
However, se.1iug these pretex;s, Souti
Carolina immeais.e.y commenced pro
claiming her resistance 20 the laws Of a.,
Government, Hasty and herot.cA ihci
as now, in less taan thirty days after tA'
passage oi ,he tariff act, public meetiu,
WAS held At Walteg6oroagh ia that State
.a: which an address 20 the people wa
adopted containing tie follopin passage
"Uhat course IS left Us 20 pursue
ve have tie commot pride Oh men, OF tie
determination Of freenen, We aust rssis
the imposition ol this tarf. To be sta
tiouary Z, impossible. Ne mus, othet
retrosa4e u disAonor and 10 shame, an,
receive the contempt and scorn OF ou
brethren superadled to our own wrons g
and their system of oppression strength
eued by OUT t0lerati0u, OF We uust, -,
oppos nr, ona them IL advising an at.i
taae Of open resistance % iars Of sne un
Jon, We deem II cue 20 the occasion, an,
shat We may net be misunderstood, dis
tnc,.y, bai briefly, TO state, without an
sum,ut, our Constitutional faith. F9r !
IS lot enough that imPo.ts laid for tb
protection oi domestic manufactures ar