Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-07-11
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highly 1rfasonabIe Tribune" Talk

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: Highly IreasonabIe Tribune Talk
I The Bridgeport Farmer collects
the following highly treaspnable ex-
tracts from the files Of the leading
Black Republican paper, the New
York Tribune. Latterly, the Tribune
has abandoned the ground ii held
last winter in favor of the right OF
secession, and the injustice Of coer-
ciOn. But it has not attempted to
onfute lis own doctrlne-Which, it
maintained, was incontroyer!ible:
No. l.
II the cotton States consider the
value Of the Union debatable, We
maintain their perfect right to dis
cuss it. Nay, We hold with JEFF rson
to the inaIienable right of communi-
ties to alter or abolish forms of gov
ernment that have become oppressive
or injurious; and if the cotton States
shall become satisfied that they eau
do better out of the Union than in
it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
The right TO secede may be revolu
tioraly one. but 1t e95sis never -heles-;
and we do not see bow one party
can have a right to do what another
party has right to prevent. We
must ever resist lhe>asserted right of
any State to remain in the Union
aud nullify or defy the laws thereof;
to Withdraw from the Union is quite
another matter. And whenever a
considerable section of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to 60 out,
we shall resist all coercive measures
designed to Keep it in. we hope
never TO live in republic whereof
one section is pinned to the residue
By bayonets.-Atw York Tribune,
NoU. 9.
No. Q.
IF the cotton States unitedly and
earnestly wish to withdraw peacefully
from the Union. we think they should
apc would be a1lowed to 90 so. Any
attempt to compel them by force 10
remain, would be contrary to the
principles eDuneiatel 10 the immor-
tai Declaration of Independence =
COZ trsry to the fundamental ideas on
which honas liberty is based FRI
bune, Nev. 20.
No. 5
what re have affirmed, and still
maintain, is the right Of a PEOPLE TO
frame and modify their political in.
stituiions in accordance with their
own convictions of duty and policy,
as affirmed in the immortal Declara-
tion of American Independence. If
our correspondent has anything to
saw in confutatiou Of that doctrine,
we shall be happy to hear blm.-
Tribune, Dec. 10.
No. 4.
If The people of seven or eight
contiguous States shall pretty unanl-
mously resolve TO sceede and Set up
fer themselves, we think they would
do so, and that it would be most an-
mise TO undertake to resist suh seces-
siOa by federdf force. Why is it that
those who want to copfnte this doc
trine, always make their attack on
something else!--TriJune, Dec. 10.
No. 5.
We have repeatedly asked those
who dissent from our view Of this
1uatt.r, TO tell Us frankly whether
they do or do not assent to Mr.
j. tfferson's statement 10 the Declara'
ton Of Independence, that govern
ments "derive their just powers frem
TIE CONSENT OF TIE GOV
ERNED;" aud that, whcntver any
form Of government becomes destruc'
tice of these ends, 1T Is THE
RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TIC
ALTER OR ABOLISH 1T, and te
. institute a new government, &c, &c
I'VE DO heartily accept this doctrine
believing it iutrinsically sound. oene
ficient, and one tha. universally nc
cepted, is calculated to prevent tn
shedding Of seas Of human blood
1 And if it justified the secession Iron
the British Empire Of Three Mllliop
of Coloplsts in 1776, tce do not SO
wky it ,sould mol JUSTIFY THE sEcEs
sIoN OF FIVE Millions OF SoUTHRoN
, from. the Federal Union in 1851
|, If we are mistaken on this pom
why does not some one attempt
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