New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-19
FROM KENTUCKY.
JUDGE NICHOLAS OF LOUISVILLE ON
SECESSION.
THg ANTEcEDENTs OF sOUTH cARoLINA.

srAeme, she has been ever since diligently seeking it
sscer pretext Of toe Slave question.
When PSe commenced this enterprise thirty years
s0o her inspect as compared with that 81 many other
States was one " penury and decay. She seemed to
be laboriug under a leihareic paralysis. With no
,auufacnring cr mechanical indGstry, and bat little
se,terua trade beyond the sale of her reXp0rs, she has
no means of sesusCitation by natural means. Wfh
nothing invite influx OF population or capital, beh
population ard trade seemed 10 have come TO stsnd
still, ith an ominous prospect OF nnaternl dimnUlon
of both while most of the other States progress
ing ith unprecedented rapidly. In this STAKE of
things it was easy for her politicians to deude her
into the be ief that her unprosperous eondloh could
be remedied by the organization OF southern
'Confedeyscy of which she worid be the commerce 81
and political center. Hence the great unanimity with
which she attempted her mad experiments at nGllica
ZION and secession The deep ghOIthca alton for the dis
graceful defeat Of that experiment extngulshed every
remaining spark of her patriotism IL has never been
forgotten or forgiven but has ben brooded over uni
corous hate toward the Uaion and the nation has
been substituted for whatever of patriotism she once
felt. Her guiding Statesmen have held dlsahion as
their ultimate aim in all pohtcal operations. II h
been untIingly pursued with deuonac hate and per-
severance, and with statesnan-ke ability worthy Oh
better cause.
Tn 1850 the South was INDUCED with the passage Of
n efficient Fugitive Slave law and all section n
questions were settled by what, 1t was hoped, would
prove permanent compromise pa icatiOn Tie Dem
cratc pat Justly CLAIMED the chief credit IN obtain
Jog this mpronse, and TIE nation was so wen salts
fed Herewith that its candidate for the Presidency n
1852 secured the of twenty out OF TIL ty one
States But paci6caon did not suit the disnnion ag-
taiors Under their infuencethe Missouri Compronlse
was repealed with foreknowedge that Its repeal would
cause more intense excitement on the Slavery ques.
sion than was before witnessed; that 1t would
probably destroy the Northern wing OF the Democratic
psuty; and that il would do the South no good as
was utterly impaccable TO masea Slave State ont OF
Kansas After tie repeal had given the control of the
House of Representatives TO the Free-Soers, and Mr.
Buchanan had escaped defeat by frauds and accident,
iustead of doing thing TO soOhe the excitement,
shey purposely intensified it by attempting TO force
through the infamous Lecompton swinde against the
known wishes of four-ffths Of the voters OF Kansas
Failing in that they actually accomplished the passage
sf the equally infamous bribery bill, whereby they
insolently proclaimed that Kansas had population
enough 10 be admitted a Slave State bat not hall
enoush to be admitted Free State. This discrmi.
nation in favor of the Slavery propaganda they well
knew was grosser sectional outrage and insult
thar any, or all the acts of the North
sorb;red' The fraud of the J,ecompton swinde
was so notorious, that distinguished South Carolina
Senator was compelled TO admit In afterward address,
ing his constituents that S9ulheTn nohVt G e eu
ont Of Congress" Having thus deprived the Democ-
raey Of all foothod in the North, they split II into Two
Fragments nominate Southern candidate for the
presidency and proclaim that if he is defeated, or
which under the circumstances, was the same that II
Iineoln was elected the Union should be dissolved
His election should be for disunon when they
tbemseves did the very thing to nsure his election,
even if the bare uterance OF such threat was not
itself sufficient for that purpose. Hhat tie North, IN
cooler poments, may do f0r The purpose Of concii'a-
s0H are haze net to ser but M0t sh0aid hare igao
yptniouslv sgccum5cd nader the threat no Intelligent
honorable man could hare expected eighteen millions
Of Americans cannot be 6uH'ed' The threat was no
doubt worth hundreds Of thousands OF votes TO Lin
poln and that result was what was aimed at IN lts
ueIanee. No intelligent man can doubt that his cleo
zion was precisely what the dlsunlon agators AIMED
10 accomplish and most ardeny desired The grounds
of their split with the Northern Democracy, and
abandonment of the Cincinnati Platform upon practi
caly unessenal abstraction cannot be elevated TO the
dignity Of even q respectable pretext. DisumOn was
She motive, the real motive. This their conduct since
abe election places beyond all cavil or donbt.
SOUTH CAROLINA's DECLARATION OF ISDEPEND-
EECE.
The most notable thing about this attempt Of South
Carolina to break up the Federal Government aud dis
solve the Urion is that she has not single complaint,
6ctitious rea not TO aege against the structure
of the Government, or the manner OF is Gdmlnlstra-
7iop, She alleges neither want OF power or inclination
an the part OF the Government 10 protect and promote
her rights and interests So far as the Government is
concerned the complaint against not what has been
DONE but what she fears may hereafter be done, by
the prohibition Of Slavery In the Territories If the
Republicans should hereafter obtain the control of the
two Houses Of Congress. To say nothing Of the great
improbabiity of that contingency occurring, were
actually to occur such prohibition would furnish
snly the fimsiest pretext for 30 mighty revolution
Such prohibition If it had not TO encounter the de-
eion " the Supreme Court degounciDg it void and
uncunstitutional would, if legally valid, accomplish
nothing which the laws of climate and trade have not
already iuevOcably accomplished, there being no
Territory into which Slavery could be introduced, by
any encouragement for at least fifty years. Sach a
prohibition would be no novelty in our Government
IL was established cotempOraneousy with the Govern
nent all the country north OF the Ohio IL was
the basis of the Missouri Compromise made princi-
pally by Southern votes; it part Of the Texas bill
of lS45 pessed with the aid Of large majority Of
Eoutbe yoee ard which applied it 10 the whole or
nearly the whole Of the Territory upon which il could
ROW have any practical bearing; and applied TO the
o e2ou bill which received the approval of the South
President, Polk. Sueh examples would relieve the
prohibition ii actually made from the mputation of
unmstakable disposition in the North wantony TO
Sgprtss the South The Of this complaint is the
alleged fear of improbable occurrence, which, if il
were actually TO happen, would work substantial
stsie' ea''' 70 '''l ''' u any ''He' southern
The other alleged grievances are irt the non-rendi
tion Of fugitive slaves; and second the election OF
Lincoln.
The grievance from the loss of fugitives ia very
Hnal, IL any, to South Carolina. She probably has |
Free State. There known instance of any citizen
of hers having been obstructed in the reclamation
OF fugitive. In the total absence of any plausible
grievance of her own Of any other Cotton State,
grievance confined almost exclusively TO the border |
States We of those border States have not the
sibility to feel an insult when IL is offered the
sense to appreciate injury from which daily
saerng She therefore, kindly steps in to yindicate
honor and resent injuries. SO intense il her
disinterested chvalry that she will resent the insult,
and right the wrong at the expense Of all her pa
totic feelings, and all her duty Of falegiahce 50 Gov
erLment under which she has lived In peaceful pros
pcly for eighty years. Such is her selfsufciency in
judging our suffered insults and INJURIES that she deems
10 wholly superiuous TO consult ue as 10 tho |
mode or measure Of the redress. Had she eonde-
scended 70 Go this she would have been told that her
remedy was worse than the disease that instead of
promising ale, ition 1t would certainly cause teDfold
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