Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11
The other side Of the Question Shall
the North Seoede from the South

the North Seoede from the South
. The South Carolina Ordinance setting forth
the list Of grievances Oh account of which that
State secedes, enumerates them thus:-1st The
Tariff Laws which are stated to operate iniuri-
ously to the South ID. The rule that the ma
jority of people in the Union shall govern. Sd.
The resistance to the extension Of Slavery into
the Territoriesn
IF these are good and justifable reasons
for the Southern States seeding from the
Union, says the Chicago Journal, then sure
II the Northern States have had better rea-
sons to seoede, long ago, for their grieyan-
ances are ten fold greater. How would it
do to take the wind out of the sails of the
Southern soreheads. by a publication Of
Northern grievances, and clustering threat
that unless speedy redress is promised and
given, the Free States will secede from the
Slave States?
The North must have her ''constitution-
al rights in the Union, or she will ''smash
the machine ~ Our grievances are seri-
Gus in character and many in number.
1st. The slave states have always had
control Of the Federal Government and re-
fuse to give the Free States equal rights
in this respect.
Cd The free states have asked for an
adequate Tariff for the protection Of her
manufacturing interests, but the South has
refused to give it.
Sd. The Free States have asked Con-
gressonal appropriations for the improve
ment Of our Lake and River harbors and
Navigation, but the South has refused to
give them.
4th The Free States have asked for a
Homestead law, giving poor white men free
homes ON the vast unoccupied lands Of the
West, but the South has refused to give it.
9TH The Free States asked that the
Missouri Compromise might be left as
our fathers framed it for the protection
Of free territories from slavery, but the
South refused to do it.
9Th The Free States have asked that
the Territory Of Kansas, being ready for
statehood should be admitted into the I'm
ion as State, but tbs South refuses to do
it, because Kansas does not come with
slavery engrafted upon her Constitution.
TIN The Free States have asked that
She Fugitive Slave Law be so amended as
not to require their citizens to become
slave catchers and blood hounds, but the
South has refused to do it.
Sth. The Free States have asked for
Pacific Rail Road, but the South has refu-
sed to give it. unless it be made tributa-
y and bulwark of slavery.
9th. The Free States ask that those of
their citizens who travel or sojourn on bu-
siness or pleasure in the Southern States,
may be protected in their persons. proper
ty and lives, as they are in all other parts
Of the world, but the South refuses to do it,
These are only some of the many griev-
ances the North has against the South
We might extend the catalogue indefinitely.
We might mention that inequality" of the
congressional representation, the slaves of
the South being represented, while the
''property'' of the North, where white cit
liens only are allowed to vote, is not rep
resented-and other similar inequalities
and unjust determinations favorable to the
South. But the list is long enough already,
so let's secede
Sound the war cry-call conventions
sputter like frantic madmen against the
South and the Union = pass ordinances of
secession : send commissioners to Wash
ington-Aing defiance in the teeth of the
whole world and ''the rest of mankind"-
get up new big flag with kissing snake
on it-reject all offers of compromise or
efforts at Cancellation = organize Minute
Men military comprehensive the Fed |
eral property-but be sure you first get on
the right side of old Buchanan and make
him agree not to interfere with your general
arrangements, till after the 4th of March
Our grievances are beyond endurance
We must have, will have, shall have 'sour
rights our rights and nothing but
our rights or Wen sccede and let the
South go to 'tarnal smash
Standing Their Ground