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81 and corrupt with which any government, an.
eient or modern, was esereursed The evidences
OF this are erOwding thickly upOn a startled
and indignant people, whosland amazed at hi
completely with treason and fraul. The PEG
pie must trust. under Providence, to their owl
exertions to save the Government from total
!, disruption. An empty Treasury, caused by
larceny and corruption can be replenished, but
e Government overthrow by treason and re.
belliou is not so easily reconstructed. 1t would
be well for the good people of the nation, on the
day appointed by the President, to adopt the
eloquent language of the Litany apd have il
rehearsed in all the Churches. "Spare us god
Lord from all evil and mischief; from sin; from
the crsf and assaults Of the deciI; from thy wrath
and from everlasting damnation.
Good Lord dsliuer US
From all se9ifion, pricy conspiracy and Te5l-
lion; from false doctrine, heresy and schism;
from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy
word and commandments" If this prayer was
answered the evils which now afiict US, would
be removed, and the officials whose misfeasanee
and malfeasanee Lave well nigh ruined Us,
would be driven from power, before by the
4ermini of the Constitution, their career will
have ended.
The speech Of our Senator Wade. was what
We had 4 right to expect from ham, at this time,
and one that was needed for the meridian of
Washington, and in fact for the whole eoun-
try. Our other Ohio Senator. Mr.. PHgh, whom
the people did hot dismiss from office too soon,
made a reply to Mr.. Wade, and the noble John
son, of Tennessee, and it was Just such a speech
as we had a right TO expect from him. a labored
apology for the contemplated treason of the
Slave power against the legal action of the peo-
pie, in the election of their President. The en-
ployment Of force 10 maintain the Government,
and enforce the execution of the laws, Mr. Pugh
like the President, woulI not employ, at least
when the Slave power is the offending party
The Fugitive Slave Law must be inforced. by
arn-d intervention; a rebellion in Kansas, if it
happen to be by free State men must be instant
ly suppressed by force, but a rebellion in South
Carolina and other Slave States, must be liken-
ed to the justiiable revolution of our fathers;
and flour Governor proposes to resort to force it
must be likened to the British Government OPP
pressing the Colonies. This is the substance
of the argument of Mr.. Pugh and the President
With feelings of indignation for. and in con-
trast with partizan view of the crisis which is
now upon US, let Us look at the patriotic posi-
tons of President Jackson upon a similar crisis.
brought upon the country. by the disuniou ten
denotes Of South Carolina in 1922 3:
South Carolina passed an ordinance in 1882,
and she armed to resist the authority of the
United States over her. and claimed then, as she
does now, the right to seeede. The tariff then
vas the pretext. as the Slavery question is now.
South Carolina then as now, got her four feet
out of the Union, when Gen. Jackson called
her to s halt. HIS famous Proclamation was
in December. 1892; l would advise its
publication entire in your columns, for the whole
of it should be carefully read by all who desire
to be informed upon the great question, which
now occupies the public mind. A few extracts,
will answer the purpose of this letter.
Speaking Of the right of a State to nullify a
law of Congress he says: 81 consider, then, the
power to annul q law of the United States, as
sumsd by one State, incompatible uith the e-is-
tsuee of the UHiOn, eoHtradieted expressly by the
litter Of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit,
Nth every principle on uhieh il ,Oas
founded, and destrueivs Of the great Object for
which it Tas formed"
Speaking of secession he says,
80 obvious are the reasons which frbid this
that it is necessary only to allude 10
them. The Union was formed for the benefit
of ell. 1t was produced by mutual sacrifices of
interests and opinions. Can those sacrifices be
Can the States who magnanimously
surrendered their titles to the Territories of the
West, recall the grant? Will the inhabitants
Of the inland States. agree to pay the duties that
may be imposed without their assent, by those
on the Atlantic, or the Gulf, for their own bene-
fit? Shall there be a free port in one State. and
on,rOus duties in another? No one believes.
tat any right exists in a single State, to in.
volvs all the ,tlers in these. aud countless 9TH
er evils, contrary to engagements solemnly made
Every one must see that the other States in self
defence, must oppose it AT ALL HAZARDS"
Speaking to the citizens of South Carolina. in
their mad efJrts to break up the Union he said:
But The dictates of a high duty oblige ne
solemnly 10 announce that you cannot succeed
laws of the United States must be exe euted.
l have no discretionary power on the SUBJECT;
my duty is emphatIcally pronounced in the
Constitution. Those who told you that You
might peaceably prevent their execution. de.
eeiTed you; they could not have been deceived
They know that q forcible oppo-
sItIon could alone prevent the execution of the
and they know that such opposition
must be repelled. Their object is disunion; but
be not deceived by names; d%iSunion by armed
force Is TREASON And are you really ready
10 incur Its guilt? If you are, on the heads Of
the instigatOrs of the act be the dreadful eonse-
luencss; on their heads be the dishonor. but
On yours may fall the punishment; on your
unhappy State will inevitably fall all the evils
Of the conflict you force upon the Government
)f your Country. Ii cannot accede to the mad
of disunion, of which you would be the
victims; its first Chief Magistrate cannot
he would, avoid the performance of his duty;
he consequences must be fearful for YOU, dis
ressing to your fellow -~ei'izens here. and to the
friends Of good government throughout the
world"
General Jackson in appealing to his fellow
tizens Of the United States, to sustain HIM
Fellow citizens of the United Statesl The
threat of unhallowed disunion, the names of
hose once respected. by whom it Is uttered. the
fray of military force to support it. denote the
Of a crisis in our affairs on which the
continuance of our unexampled prosperity. our
existence, and perhaps that Of all free
governments may depend"
Fellow itizensl The momNntous casei s be-
you. On your undivided support depends
he decision Of the great question it Involves,
your sacred Union viii be preserved,
lnd the blessings 1t secures to US az oae people,
hall be perpetuated."
Without doubt. the mere design OF this threat
If disuRion, has been, and now is. TO effort from
he free State sentiment of the Nation, new con-
SESSIONS TO the perpetuity of Slavery; but these
lisuniOn traitors are raising a storm which they
nay be unable to control. a few extracts from
heir leading men will make good this assertion
ToomLs. who has been -fomenting in
Georgia, disunion discord, has just introduced
into the Senate the following resolutions.