Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-19

ism. was completed, to the apprehension cf
the people of the South; and IF that an.
prehension be not speedily removed. the
dnys OF the Republic are numbered. Thev
lind countenanGe for this view in the
South Carolina and Alabama ordinances
Read the remarkable recital of the Ala.
hama ordinance:
''WArRrAs, The election of Abraham
Lincoln aud Hannibal Hnmlin to the Of
hces Of President and Vice President of
the United States by sectional party.
nTowedly hostile to the domestic instit1.
tons aud peace and security of the people
of the State of Alabama, following unon
the heels OF many aud dangerous infrac-
tons of the Constitution OF the United
States by many of the Stntes and pcople OIL
the Northern section, is political wrong
OF SO insulting and menacing character
as to Justify the people Of the State of Ala
bama IN the adoption os prompt and de-
cided measures for their future peace and
security"
The revolutionists of Alabama, for those
causes, tear themselves away from the Gov
ernment; the minority of the committee
reiterate the complaint, aud leave it unre-
dressed. They are Sile1! on the remedy for
the great grfcvG1ce-thc accomplished fact
OF sectional dominRtion-the inauguration
OF a party bent on reducing the people
OF tue south from cit zGns to subjects
that great political wrong of so 'iusnlting
and menmcing character" the clcrtioD NJ
a President "by sectional. party avowetlly
hostile to the domestic, institutions neace
and security of the people" OF the South.
Ihey le"veit unredrcssed-uulcss right
to expand into new territory be a compen-
saton for the right of seIf-government, or
absolute security for existing rights touch
ing 'tarery be an indemnity for tho loss OF
"a voice in tue management of tile national
affairs, in which they have common in
tcrest with their Northern brethren"
Sir, that is impossible. We know that
the Southern people and those gentlemen
who signed the report count the right of
seit-government Infinitely above all Fights
OF property aud nll personal security. If
they really feared such Al domination they
would sperm accommodation on nny terms.
Sir, the majority must rule. Particular
interests will aggregate in particular To-
c't'tles, ana parties will group themselves
round Interests; the east will be MANN
featuring, the West agricultural, New York
commercial, and Penn ylyania Interested
in iron and coal; Alabama will grow cot,
ton, and Louisiana sugar, Virginin will
grow to0acCO, wheat and corn; but n CO.
all'lon OF such Interests 10 opprsss others
Is without example in our history; md. if
enacted, could be ouly temporary. such
coalition of the free States is absolutely
absurd. The South has always besn ohle
by its one common interest, to impose on
tie alHlded North its policy and views; the
North hHS no bond of Union; no one per-
E"ding and common interest so controlling
as 70 eonGentr4te its power and dictate its
poilcy. II mites only in the neSatiCe in
terests ot repeating the intrusion of slavery
on us pordeTs, II never unitcd for that
defensive purpose till the South united to
Invade the dppbsjn secured TO IL by the
Missouri Compromise. This defensive and
relg1etHnt union, only partially effected, is
!ne pretext for these exaggerated and SOM
pre pictures Of political subjeCtion. Web
ster failing to unite them in defence of
thelr interests, exclaimed, Utbere is no
North. Southern politicians have cren.
ted North. Let Us trace the process aud
draw the moral.
The laws of 1850 Gained and closed tho
slavery agitation; and President Pierce.
elected oy the almost unanimous voice of
tue states, did not mention slavery in his
mFst Two messages In 1854, the repeal of
'ne Missouri compromise, at the Instance
OF inc south, re-opened the agitation.
Northern men, deserted by Southern
wings, were left to unite for self-dcrence.
The Observation-Disclosures in s55 and 1886.
from Aissourii the mixing n Legislature
and Lnws for that Territory. bv the inyn.
dcrs, still further united the Northern peo-
ple' The election in 1856 measured its
extent.
The election of Mr. buchanan and his
opening policy in Kansas, soothcd the irri-
tatlon, and was rapidly ydemOrnlizinr the
new party, when the pro.slavcry party in
Kansas perpetrated, nnlthe President and
the South accepted tha Lccomptnu Frand
and again united the North more resolutc-
~ in resistance to that invasion of tic
rights of self-governmcut.
The South for the first time failed to
dictate terms and the people vindicated by
their votes the refusal of the constitution.
Ere this result was attained, the opinions
OF certain judges of the Supreme Court
scattered doubts over the law of slavery
IN the Territories; the South. while repn.
dating other decisions, Instantly made
these opinions the criterion of f,ithininess
10 the Constitution, while the North was
agttnted by this new sanction of the cx-
tremest pretensiOns of their opponents,
The South did not rest satisfied with
their judicial triumph.
Immediately the claim was pressed for
protection Ly Congress to slavery. declared
by the Supreme Court, they said, TO exist
in all the Territories.
This completed the Union of the free
StAtes in one great defensive lergue mud
the result WAS registered in November.
That result is now, itself, bcroue tue start
ing point Of new agitation-tlIe demand OF
new rights and new guarantees. Tic
claim to access to the Territories was fol-
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