Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-01-10
sECESSION-PAST AND PRESENT

CESSION-PASTA AND PRESENT.
In our last two numbers we attempted to
show, first, that the personal liberty acts of
the North-and of Vermont especially-had
nothing to do with the present secession
movement at the South; and secondly, that
If So the Republican party of the North was
not IN any way responsible for them, and that
the South in any event, in view of her own
long standing unconstitutional acts and laws
could come with an i'll grace before the world
as our accuser. We propose now, briefly, to
carry out in a measure the ideas which we
have intended to inculcate, and place this
matter Of secession fairly before our reade rs
A far too general impression, as we
think, has long prevailed that Genl Jackson
in 1882 Killed notification In the North
there was abundant reason that we should
hold to firm faith in this belief-while at the
South there was a positive necessity that the
indulgence Of this faith should be encouraged
throughout the Union. On this question, or
rather upon this point, they could well afford
10 set aside the cardinal points of the COM
pass and declare that there could be no North,
"a" '1oNNht i4S LAST 4lO w ISL II Ii however
lamentably true that in regard to this matter
the South on this occasion acted with duplic-
ity-and consequently, the only trouble that
we can now see, in regard to the present Sc
cesslon movement is, that while the North
believed that notification aUus dead. the South
was insincere and treacherous. The best
evidence of this fact is in the record of the
history OF the past We wish it here distinctly
understood that from the year 1882 to 1850,
the North stood firmly up to the mark as in
,Jcated by Gen1 jackson, and that in the
meantime the South still chung to the false
teachings and the specious falIacies of their
great chief, Mr.. Calhoun. And thus it is that
while the North, despite its hostility to the iron
hand which had OVERRIDE their most favored
principles, was disposed to yield its obedience
to hlS mandate, the South, with its heresies
and yagaries,fe themselves compelled to Weld
to Southern notification under the lead of
the teaching of that arch enemy Of the Union.
j. c. Calhoun.
There are few people who were in any
way cognizant Of the politics of 1850 that will
forget the long protracted session of the Con-
gress Of that year. The session in which it
was claimed by many Of the or FINAL admirers
Of Dan1 Webster that he had damned HIM
self by the surrender Of a principle to the
Southern slave propaganda. All such will
remember that it was in this session OF Con-
gress that that series of laws was passed which
admitted California into the Union. and 1.hich
embraced that whole series OF bills reported
by the Senate Committee of thir:4en, OF which
Mr.. Clay was chairman-bettar known as the
compromise or adjustment bills. We are not
here disposed to deny the fact that the ad-
mission OF California under the circumstances
was not such as to engender the hostility of
the South But what then ? The borders
OF the Southern siaveocracy were broad
enough, and they should under the arrange
ments have been content Were they p
Certainly not For on the heels of this SEES
sion Of 1850, we find Gov. Quitman of Missis-
suppl calling a meeting of discontents against
the government and the United States laws.
At Nashville, in the late tall of 1850, were
gathered together the odds and ends of the
Southern malcontents. From this meeting
originated the fllibustering element II
knights of the golden circle-and that worse
element Of free government, whlph is set
forth by such men as Yancey, Rhett, Toombs
ct al Is there a true man IL the North that
can not read the riddle lat these men pro-
pose? We say not and the best evidence
that we now have Of the fact is, that the en-
tire North, as one man, is against any conces-
sion or any farther compromise with the mis-
cradle twadIers who claim that they have
heretofore carried on the government at their
own expense.