New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-15

M6Ty4D Woutd nave 70 pay two flet
ept State taxes three hundred and sixty thoused
Per year; hence her taxes would be increased sxfol1
while her manufacturing interests would be destrcyu4
under the operation Of free trade and direct tsxso
tucEy and Missouri each three millions, and little Dsl
ware onequater of million Of dollars These bocasr
States could only escape from this Juggernaut macD
by seeding from thu cotton confoderacy and reunitng
with the Stars and Strpes setting up for the0
selves In either event. what would become Of thsir
slayes7 The Baltinoreans thought the best thing fW
MARY land was to sell her saves employ the proceeds
TO build manufactures and improve farms and plan
herself in the society of the great family Of Free Labor
States psrtaks Of their property and enjoy tAess
powerful protection and friendship.
MAJOR-GENERAL WOOL TO A MEMBER o.
CONGRESS. .,i
Troy, Dec. 10. 1881.
DEAR -: Aareeably 10 your request Of tbs 81
instant, you will find my views, IN part, on the Assd
South Carolina Ia again in one Of her polidcospss
modic convulsions; and, a. on former occasion, -
prepared 10 leave The Union Her representatives "
Congress cay that The has already left the Uniou s.A
this, too without any wrong or injustice having bee.
done her people by the Government Of the Unit
States Her present course 10 not unlike that Of lS8
and 1885, when she resolved, account Of the tsriI
aIate herself from the Union In this she was fold
BY the energetic Of the distinguished patr
Andrew jackson, then President.
Although prevented at the time from executing heg
Intentions her leading spirits have ceased 70 pro-
claim secession, and determination TO leave the Ua
wherever an opportunity occurred to carry ont ths
scheme engendered Of forming grand Slave Confed-
eracy be composed Of the seeding States the iAn
of Cuts, the Ststes Of Mexico and Central Ameriea
and TO reopen the slave trade. All which haW
been refeed 70 In the recent speeches OF kelt khe
Judge Magrath and others. In 1850, 81, ~, an
"a efforts made preparatory TO the formation q
tbis Slave Confederacy, and Gen. QGitman and CspA
VIM Walker were to assist In It's Accomplishments
The first was TO revoluonee Cuba, and the latter -
- l.lAx II
From want of and capacity to direct such enter
price, they both failed; consequently the scheme W.
postponed until more favorable opportunity nig2
for its execution. No opportunity, however o.
CURED which would justify the attempt, until the MD
of John Brown at Harpers Ferry, which furnished The
reaue means to prepare the minds Of the people -
carry into effect their long meditaied designs. Ths
Disunopirts in South Carolina Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi did not fail to avail themselves Of OCCUR
renee 20 favorable to their purposes Every effort
made to excite the people Of the South, with tho mos
urgent appeals for Immediate secession from the Union
The universal condemnation, North and South, Of
Browp and his nefaIious conduct, and the expressed
determination maintain the South in all their jue
and constitutional rights stayed the secession move
ment,
Thus stood the question until the meeting Of tho
Democratic Convention at Charleston in 1860. APP
prebersive that Senator Douglas, who presented
by the Northern Democracy would be the nominee 81
tie Convention for President the leading spiis of d.
unon broke il up, and divided the members and The
Democratic party into two factions, each OF which
Scc3Se1Ou18ek
with majority of the Southern members, nominated
Vice-Prerident Breckenridge, and the members of ths
North, with few from the South, nominated Senator
Dougss. At the time the Secessionists opeuly
and publicly svowed their preference for Lincoln for
President, Senator Douglas although the latter
bad beyond sny other Senator defended all occa-
sons the rights and nteres Of the South and even -
the extent Of their peculiar views on the subject q
Slavery. Under these circumstances, with the Demo
cratic PARTY divided intelligent person could doubt
that the Republican candidate would be elected. Thas
such tie design and intention OF the disunonite
when they broke Up and divided the Convention could
not be questioned by sny one acquainted with their
long meditated designs and for other purpose thaA
10 be used means to excite the people Of the South
their grand Slave Coufederacy A. they preferred Nh
Lincoln TO Senator Douglas, who had always BEEN the
advocate of Southern views the subject Of Slavery.
what object could they have had in favorng his elso
ton but TO II as the only and lat opportunity
Of accomplishing the desgu, previously engendered, q
separating the Cotton States from the Free Ststesf
Their object attained. Abraham Lincoln wa
elected to be President by eighteen out Of hrythsA
States. No State In the Union received the announce
ment with more Joy and satisfaction than Sonth Caro-
lima, and becanse it would, proclaimed by her esd
ers insure TIE long wished for obess-a separation a
Fer the reason, in the City of Charleston NEST
ngr held 10 celebrate the event. when the citizens
manifested their feelings in loud long, and coutina
denounced and pronounced Mr. Lincoln's election a. .
sufficient for the State 10 secede from the Union.
greater outrage on the Constitution could not have
been committed, q greater insult offered to frss
people. Treason and rebellion were rife against h
Union, for other reason, as manifested than tnee
eighteen of thirty three States exercised their
full and constitutional prerogave Of voting for whoM
the people deemed most worthy and best fitted to M
the Office Of President II not, however, tho truA
cause but means used under false colofs to execute
scheme long before concocted and with which We
connected perhaps, of the most prominent among
the reasons which first dictated secessionhe reopss-
ing Of the slavetrade in order u obtain slave labor =
greatly reduced prices. To which may now be added
the great and growing power of the Free over tia
Slave States, by which South Carolina might ose her
controlling influence in the councils Of the nation.
The foregoing facts are presented In order 10 show
the motives and causes which have prompted Scuth
Carolina and her fends to proclaim TO the world her
intention Of separation from the Union, which no cir
umstance whatever can justify.
To advocate secession is reasonable. Secession is
revolution and civil war. II 30 great curse should
befa our country II would not fail TO cal forth Az
the baser passions Of the human heart blood woul4
flow In torrents followed by pestilence, famine and
desoation-and all because a majority OF the Stsses
have elected constutonally, person to DO Preacsns
whom the Secessonists OF South Csrohna 90 nov H.
Because majority Of tho people have EXERCISED 10
highest and NEST precious right conferred oy tae
Constitution, In casting their votes Tor Persea
whom they considered the best calculated 70 admins
Ter the affair of the nation the only free GoyernmenA
on the face Of the globe l. to be destroyed Thia
must not, and will not, be permitted; we cannes
allow The only free Governmeut-the last hope Il
the oppressed Of the world-to be sacrificed becsuss
south Carolina desires il. Where liberty dwelle
there Ia my country the declaration Of the iuus-
triouv Franklin. This principle Is too strongly im-
p.nted In the hearts and minds Of the people 10 b
surrendered ct dictation. Where Is the man 70 -
found so lost % the principles which governed u