The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-07-13

following highly reasonable extracts from the
files of the leading Republican paper, the New
York Tribune. I.attcrly, the Tribune has aban
doned the ground it held last winter in favor of
the right Of secession. and the injustice of
clon. But it has not attempted to confute its
own doctrinc-whch. if maintained. was incon
trovcrtble:-
No.1.
If the cotton States consider the value Of the
Union dcbatablc. we maintain their perfect right
to discuss it, Nay. we hold with Jefferson to the
iuaiienube ri ght Of communities to alter or ab0l
| isl forms OF government that have become op-
pressive or injurious; and if the cotton States
shall become satisfied that they can do better olt
of the Union than in it, IRE insist on letting them
go in peace. The right to secede may he revo-
lutOnary one but ii exists nevertheless; and we
do not see how one party can have the r ght to do
what another party has the right TO prevent. We
must ever resist the asserted right of any State
to remain ia the Union and nulliiy or defy the
laws thereof: to withdraw from the Union is
quite another matter. And @henrvcr il consider
able section of our Union shall deliberately re-
solve to 90 out. We shall resist aW c0ercire med
sures designed to keep it ia. We hope never to
live in republic whereof one section is pinned
to the residue by bayonet>.-[Atw York Tri-
bune, Nov. ..
30.
If the cotton States Mnitediy and earnestly wish
to withdraw peacefully from the Union. we think
they should and woul lie allowed to do so. Any
attempt to compei theaa By j0rce to remain, would
be contrary to the principles cnuncinted in the
immortal Declaration Of Independence contrary
to the Fundamental ideas on which human liberty
is based Tribune, Nov 26.
No. 3.
What we have affirmed and still maintain. is
the right of II PEOPLE to frame and modify their
political institutions in accordance with their
own convictions of duty and policy, as affirmed
in the immortal Declaration of American Inde-
pendencc If our correspondent has anything to
say in conluation of that doctrine, we shall be
happy to hear him.-[ Tribune. Dec 10.
No 4.
If the people Of seven eight cont lguouS
States shall pretty unanimously resolve to Sc
cede and set up for themselves. we think they
would do so, and that it WOutd be most umrisc
to undertake to resist such secession by federdl
force. Why is it that those who want p confute
this doctrine. always make their attack on some
thing else. = Tribune, Dec 10.
No ).
We have repeatedly asked those @ho dissent
from our view OF this matter, TO tell frankly
whether they do or do not assent to Mr.. Jefer-
sons statement in the Declaration of IRdepend
ence that governments ''derive their just powers
from THE CONSENT OF THE GOV VERNED;"
and that, whenever any form OF government be-
comes destructive Of these ends, IT is THE
RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR
ABOLISH 1T, and to institute new govern
ment, &C., g. We DO heartily accept this doc
trne, bclicging it intriRscally sound. benefccat.
and one that universally accepted. is calculated
to prevent the shedding Of seas of human blood.
And if it justified the eeession from the British
Empire of Three Millions oI Colonists in I76.
ne do not see ,Uhy it bcOuM not JUSTIFY THE Sc
CEs SION OF FIVE MILLIONS or SOUTHRoNS from the
Federal Union IN 1861. five mistaken on
this pont why does not some attemp: to
show wherein and why? For our own part, while
we deny the right Of Shareholders to hold slaves
against the will Of the latter. we cannot sec how
Twenty Millions of people can righttulIy hold
Ten or even Five Millions in detestcd Union
with them by MILITARY FORCE Tribune. Dec.
II.
No 6.
There is hardly great principle which may
not he thus run into the ground" But If seven
or eight contiguous States shall present them
selves automatically at Washington, saying, "We
hate the Federal Union; we have withdrawn from
it; we eaye you the choice between acquiescing
in our secession and arranging amcably all in
cidental questions of the Que band, and attempt
ing to suldue us upon the other'-tce c0uld not
stand up for COERCION. for sUBJUGATIoN, for we
do not think it would he just We hold the right
of Self Government aacred even when invoked
in behalf of those who deny it to others.-l 1y'-
bune, Dec. IL.
Not.
If ever .'seyen or eight Ssates' send agents to
Washington to say, 1--WE want to get out OF the
Union, y we shall feel constrained by our devo-
tion to Human Liberty, to say, Let them go!
And we do not see how we could take the other
side without coming in direct conflict with those
Rights of Man which we hold paramount to all
political arrangements however convenient and
'dvan ia geous.- Tribune. Dec. )s !