Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-01-30
DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY,


amount almost to moral necessity
To make, however, their numerical
powcr available to rule the Union
The North must consolidate thcil
power. 1t would not be united OF
any matter common to the Union
in other words, ON any conStltu
tional subiect-ior on such subjects
divisions are as likely to exist IN
the North ms in the South, Slavery
was strictly Il sectional interest, =
this could be made the criterion Of
the parties OF the North, the North
could be united in its power, and
thus carry out its measures of sec,
tional ambition, cncroachmcnt and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT To build up their
sectional prcdominance in the Tn,
ion, the Constitution must he first
abolished by constructions; but that
being done, the consolidation of the
North, to rule the South, by the
tariff and slavery issues, was in the
obvious course Of things,
The Constitution of the United
States was an experiment, The en-
pertinent consisted in uniting un-
der the Government different pco-
pies, living in different climate and
having different pursuits of indus
try and institution, 1t matters not
how carefully the limitation of such
Il Government be laid down in the
Constitution-its success must mt
least depend upon the good faith of
the parties to the Constitutional
compact in enforcing them. 1t is
not in the power OF human Ian
guage to exclude false inicrcnces,
and pcrvcrsions, in
any Constitution; and when vast
sectional interests are to be sub
involving the appropriation
of countless millions of money, it
has not been the usual experience
of mankind that words on pa, CHI
ments can arrest power. The Con-
stitution of the United States, ire
spective of the interposition of the
States, rested on the assumption
that power would yield to faith
that integrity would be stronger
than interest-and that thus the
imitationsoi the Constitution would
be observed. The experiment has
oeen fairly made. The Southern
States, from the commencement of
he Government, have striven to
keep it within the orbit prescribed
" the Constitution. The expert
ncnt has failed. The whole Consti-
.ution, by the constructions of the
Northern people, has been absorbed
,y its preamble, In their reckless
ust for power, they seem unable to
that seeming paradox
that the more power is given to
he General Government, the weak
II it becomes. Its strength consists
n the limitation Of its agency to
,biects Of common interests to all
ections. TO extend tile scope Of
is power over sectional or local in
erests, is to raise upagainst it op-
position and resistance. lnall such
matters, the General Government
must necessarily be dcspotism,
because all sectional or local inter
,sts must ever be represented by a
minority in the councils of the Gen
raj accommodating no power
O protect itself against the rule Of
he majority The majority, con-
tituted from those who do not rep
esent these sectional or local. inter
SITS, will control and govern them.
\ free people cannot submit to such
government. And the more it
niarges the sphere of it's power
he greater must be the dissatlstac-
ion it must produce, and the weak
T. it must become. On the contra
V, the more it abstains from usurp-
d powers, and the more faithfully
t adheres to the limitation OF the
Constitution, the stronger 1t is
nads. The Northern people have
lad neither the wisdom nor the
aith to perceive, that ito observe the
mutations of the Constitution was
he only way to its perpetuity.,
Under such a government, there
must, of course, be many and endless
irrepresible conflicts" between the
wo great sections Of the Union. The
anne faithlessness which had abolis-
led the Constitution of the United
,tatcs, will not fail to carry out the
ectional purposes for which it has
cen abolished. There must be
onfict; and the Weaker section OF
he Union can only find peace and
liberty in an independence Of the
North. The repeated efforts made
" South Carolina in q wise CON
ervatism, to arrest the progress OF
he General Government in its IA
al progress to consolidation, have
,een unsupported, and she has been
pronounced as faithless to the obli
ration of the Constitution, by the
ncn and States who were destroy
ng it by their ursurpations; 1t is
,ow too late toreform or restore the
of the United States. !
All confidence in the North is lost
" the South. The faithlessness OF
he North for half century, has
opened gulf of separation between
he North and the South which no
promises or engagements can fill.
1t cannot be believed that cur
ancestors would have assentcd to
my Union whatever with the peo-
Die of the North if the feelings and
opinion now existing amongst them
lad existed when the Constitution
was framed. There was then no
,ariff-no fanaticism concerning ne
rroes. 1t was the delegates from
y JN.l,,, 4 ,,-l, n ,,,.,Doca6 in tha