Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-04
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Secession and the small pox. The most in
teresting discussion in the Convention SO far
as heard from, occurred upon the question of
leaving Columbia, where the small poX was
raging, and going to Charleston, whereit was
not. 1t would not be surprising, if, after the
Conventio got to Charleston, should it con-
olude to travel, it would be found that the
latter place had become afflicted with the
cholera. Moral evils frequently bring physi-
cal ones in their train, aud if any thing in
the moral world could produce small pax or
the cholera, we should think it might be the
acts and doiags Of the present mad fanatics
of the South.
Certain Of tho members of the Convention
took pains to intimate thatSouth Carolina was
going out of the Union, at all events and in
any ease.
Well now suppose South Carolina, even
accompanied by three or four of the Gulf
States, should succeed in getting out, would
it break up the Union? Not tat all. Califor-
MIA and every other loyal State. both North
and South, would only cling to that Union
with tirmer hold and more devoted feel
ing. Some people suppose that it would be
general signal for dissolution, that there
would be separate republic established on
the Pacific, and perhaps half dozen others
elsewhere. This opinion is, we think, most
erroneous. The common Constitution of our
country would yet be in existence, and the
connection Of each State with the Union un-
der it as perfect as when there were only
thirteen States or fifteen or Twenty-Five
There would be nothing to hinder the COM
both State and National. Our Senators and
Representatives would have simply to remain
in the National Legislature and go on with
the discharge of their duties. The customs
would be collected at our ports-the Federal
Judiciary proceed with the exercise of its
functions-the legislative executive and ju-
dicial departments of oar State Government
go on in the old routine, and the jar of seces-
sion no more disturb the action of the gov
ernmental machinery than a wind in Canada
would make difference with the running of
the well fitted wheels of the Marysville
Foundry. With the people in favor of the
Union, after the malcontents were sloughed
off, the Government would go on, under the
present most admirable Constitution, as easily
as the Earth turns on its axis
Why should not the people be satisfied to
stay in the Union, after the malcontents were
out? The interests of California, for one
State, are identical with those of the Union
at large, and there is a fair prospect now of
her being the more closely knitted by the
iron band of a Pacific Railroad The inter
ests of Oregon are similar. The other free
States along the Mississippi and the Atlantic
border are of course not going to split up,
for they agree too we'll in their political
principles AS for the border slave States,
they are not going to retire from the Union,
and thus lose all protection for their slave
property. 1t will be sufficient for them, if
the Personal Liberty Bills of the North are
repealed, and they are guaranteed the return
of their fugitive slaves. They know full well
that without a guarantee of the return of
their escaping slaves, that species of property
would be perfectly valueless, for it would be
continually running off.
In this connection, we may refer TO the fol
lowing apt remarks from the Washington
Star a supporter of Breckenridge in the late
Presidential contest:
1t will take few more such acts on her
part as the instant resignation of Senators
Hammond and Chestnut, and the speech of
Keitt, wherein he avows the purpose Of his
State to be to destroy the Union for the sake
of destroying it, to convince every man in
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Missouri, with property or family to be
endangered by revolution and civil war, in
which they must bear well nigh all the loss
and suffering that may fall to the lot of the
South, that they have, after ALL more to dread
from South Carolina's assumed dictatorship,
than from the fanaticism of Northern aboli-
tionists held in check by controlling MAORI
ties in both Houses of Congress
The white population of Virginia, by the
census of 1850, was. .794, 600
OF Kentucky. ............. .76l .413
OF Maryland. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4I,@e
VI Delaware. ...............T,l ,lbJ
or tennessee. ................... .756, $50
VI MISSOURI, ..,....... .092OOO
Of North Carolina. ..,,...,.,.,,.... 1858 ,028
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