The Nevada journal., 1861-01-04
The Complaint of Aggre.sie., /, !.

Our cotton growing brethren of South Caro-
lima are making bitter complaints Of northern
aggression and putting on face of injured in
nocence which would excite the sympathies of
the civilized world did any cause for complaint
exist. Unfortunately their own arguments used
without stint for years prove that if such inter
ference was real it is right and justiGable. We
do not mean to say that such Interference as is
complained of is just and proper but we say
the arguments Of the complainants prove it So
satisfactory to their standard of right and
wrong, and we shall proceed to show it.
The secession states argue that the eonstitu-
tion is nothing more than 4 treaty between
states, which can be abrogstel a, the desire Of
any one of the contracting parties. Il follows,
then, that any infringement Gion the rights of
one state by the people of another, is no more
than an iniraction of a treaty, which be
abrogated at will. Now, these same rauting Sc
cessonists, the very men who are making so
much noise in the south ahegt he ercroach-
ments of the north upon their rights are those
who have aided, abetted and tah-n part in get
of Spain and the Spanish American RePucl cs
in the face Of the treaties g.sting between
the United States aud those countries, II the
constitution is nothing more Ian treaty Of
peace between Independent stats ,Le secession
lists ought net to expect the in,eglsddling abo-
litiouists of the North to regard it rs more sa-
cred than the fire caters do TIE treaties with
Spain and Mexico. The object og the flibus-
tcring expeditions set on foet il the South
against friendly powers is aYor-0l.y for the
QUESTION of more territory on which 10 plant
or sustain the institution of African slavery,
Undoubtedly the object Of the northern abol-
ouists interfering in southern sl.jirs is to OBJ
tain more territory for the rse Of ireenen.
Taking the arguments of the o.atA, we would
ask, which is the most jas.;aa '.e. the fEbus ter
or the abolitionist, the seeess:'list or the in
termeddler. While the seccss.5..st plots for
Cuba he should not be orazy-n5d If the aboii-
tioniat plots for Delaware. IT, ambition of the
latter to spread TIE institutions be likes is
quite as legitimate as that of the former un1c,
the formers views Of the constitution and ma
tonal rights.
But the aggression compla.nel of by the
SouthCarolina agitationistsi is not matter o fact
1t has not and cannot be shown: The city Of
New York alone lost more by the bankruptcy
of Georgia merchants in one year than all the
southern states have ever suffered from negroes
escaping to free states. The allegation that The
North intermcddles in the domestic affairs of the
South is most wiekedly untrue. The few who
have disposition to intermod3lc form eompar-
lively no part of the popal4tJa Of tho free
states, The North nor TIE U..on should be
held responsible Cor the acts Of tlsse any more
than the United States hold themselves respon-
siblc for the acts of flibusters. One ranks with
the other. Both are extremists, uneasy and
wickedly perverse.
The cry of aggression is sounded for an OBJ
ject. That object has been before the dema-
gogues of South Carolina for more than forty
years. They raised the same c-y against the
tariff of 1916, as an act of oppr ssion tie
part of the North, when that tariff Was created
by the votes Of South Carolina aud against the
wishes and votes Of the chief manufacturing
states OF the North That tariff was paraded
with an audacity scarcely paralieied as & just
cause for dissolution of the Union, forty years
ago In 1920 the same restiye and uureasou-
able spirits were going to destroy the Union if
Missouri was not made slave state, aud peri
odicaly from that day to this the same cry Of
northern aggression has been Loard from the
same quarter, accompanied by threats unless
concessions were forthcoming. We are tired of
it, we aae sick of it even to nausea. Notwith-
standing ths repeated and the earnest protcsta-
tons of the great boRy of the northern people
against the false charges made against them,
the accusations are still continued, and threats
redSubled. The late election shows how little
thsa9 threats are in future to be regarded.