Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-01-23
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have power to sue the county IN which such
violence or rescue was made; and the county
shall have the right to sue the individuals
who committed the wrong in the same man
ner as the owner could sue.
.Sirth-No further amendment or amend
ments- shall affect the preceding articles, and
Congress shalt never have power to interfere
with slavery in the States where it is now
permitted.
ew What Louisiana is going to do may
be best inferred from the following comment
on the Convention election, taken from the
Picayune, one of the strongest and most
unyielding cooperation papers IN the whole
South
The vote in this city p~reigures the result
in the State. The chief hope of the ~favorers of
united Southern action opposed to immediate
disunion, was in carrying the city Tor the
co-operationists. The canvass OF votes, which
shows twenty immediate secessionslsts to five
co operation sts-a majority OF fifteen In the
Convention, from this parish-settles the
point, that Louisiana will be with the sece-
ding States as fast as the forms by making
the enactment by ordinance can be got through
at the Convention on the 23d.
KENsucKY.-The Governor of this State
oCCAlo W OCIlCFO tlAdt liz . "
save the country from d~isunion, as will be
seen by the following extract from his letter,
addressed to the Alabama COMMISSIONS to
Kentucky. lie says:
"You ask the co operation Of the Southern
States in order to redress our wrongs. So do
we. You have no hope of a redress in the
Union. We yet look hopefully to assurances
that a powerful reaction is going on at the
North. You seek a remedy in secession from
the Union We wish the united action of The
slave States, assembled in Convention within
the Union. You would act separately WE
unitedly. If Alabama and other slave State:
would meet us in Convention, say at Nash
vile or elsewhere, as early as the fifth day O
February, [ do not doubt but we would agre,
in forty-eight hours upon such reasonabl,
guarantees, by way of amendments to tn,
Constitution of the United States, as woul,
command at least the appreciation of our nu
merous friends in the free States, and by Civ
ing them time to make the question with tn
people there, such reaction in public opinion
might take place as to secure our rights AM
save the Government"
~" The Editor of the Raleigh Register i
out in a strong article against coercion. II
says-"It matters not whether or not a Stat
has the right to secede. Whenever a Stat
does leave the Union, there is no mode of con
pelling her to return to its fold, or of excel
ting the laws of the Union within her terrific
ry, that will not bring on civil war and revC
luton" He says further, that if a collisio
of arms takes place between the General Coy
eminent and any one Of the seeding States
1.-The remaining slaveholding States would /
found in arms against the Federal Cover
ment. Whether this should be so or not,
~0ud be so. To the plan of coercion we al
utterly opposed, and when an attempt is mao
to carry it into execution, it will meet the IN
ted resistance of fifteen States, and be tt
commencement of the bloodiest era in the a
mails of time. No man loves the Union mo-
than we do, but that Union would cease
command our affections lift was a Union bass
on cannon balls and b~ayonets, instead of m
tual interest and fraternal feelings
y The Commissioner from Alabama, Jud
: Hopkins aud Mr.. Gilmer, appeared before al
l addl essed the two houses Of the Virgin
> Legislature on the 18th.