Daily national Democrat., 1861-02-02
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this caption, the New York Herald says:
1t is not true that the United States consti-
tutc a mere temporary league, which can be
lawfully and constitutionally broken up at
any time by one or more States who may feel
aggrieved from the action of the other States
or the legislation of the representatives Of the
whole in Congress assembled. The United
States are a government, and the first princi-
pie of all governments-as it is the first law
of nature in indivduals-is self-preservation
No government can be peacefully broken up
none without revolution.
The claim of South Carolina, therefore,
that in the step she has taken she has acted
according to law and the nature of the COM
pact, for veal or wo, into which she deliber-
ately entered is contrary TO the well known
facts oi American history. If she based her
act on the right of revolution, then we could
understand the logic ofher argument, though
not the prudence of her course. For the
right of revolution is the right of the strong
est, and is only sanctifed by success. The
lessons of history, from the beginning of the
world, preach the uniform doctrine of Fm
UictiS-"woe to the vanquished." South
Carolina cannot, therefore, escape from the
responsibility of her act under the shield of
law. 1t will be solely a question of policy
with the federal government whether it will
enforce its laws in that and other seeding
States. 1t will have the undoubted right, if
it thinks fit to exercise it. There is not and
cannot be any right of secession, except as
right of revolution.
How THE SoUru ABGuEs.-A correspondent
writes from Augusta, Ca. to the New York
Herald:
The people here are becoming rapidly i'm
pressed with the idea that it is to their inter
est, aside from the slavery question. to estab-
lish an independent government They ar
que that the South pays, through the opera
tion of the tariff, $5O,00000O annually for
the support of the Government, while the
North pays but $2O000,OO0 OF the amount
thus paid the South receives in return but
$4,000, ,0OO while the remainder is expended
at the North. In other words, the South
loses yearly 10y remaining in the Union the
enormous sum of S30,000,000 While, then,
"irrepressible0 Cuii'ee is the foundation of the
secession movement a class is rapidly form
ing who believe that after the first throes of
revolution are over, the South will advance
rapidly in wealth and population, and in Il
short time rival if not outstrip the present
prosperity (perhaps J ought even now to
speak of it in the past tense) of the North
All this, however, is but speculation No
man. however eminent his abilities, can Ger
tainiy fofesee ali The results OF the destruction
of this confederacy. And unfortunately those
results that can be clearly foreseen are all
evil 1t is plain enough that each fragment
(suPposing the Union splits into two only
must descend to position of fourth rate
power.
"Snp SnoD."-The Washington eorrespon-
dent of the New York Evening Post writes
as follows concerning the unbusiness-lke
manner in which affairs have been conducted
at the War Departments;
1t appears that it has Geen the habit Of
Floyd to give Russell his official acceptances
of drafts for services 10 be rendered. John b.
Alley, a Representative of Massachusetts
brought one of them (for 100000 which had
been discounted at his bank in Lynn, TO the
Secretary, protested for non-payment On
inquiry at the War Department, hear, he
was told that they did not remember it, and
supposed they had issued notes to take it up /;
but they We're not sure! Such is the careless
way in which business is said to be done by
the Secretary Of War
MARYLAND AND DELAWARE FIRM AS Rock
Maryland, through Governor Hicks, is firm
as a rock, and the city of Baltimore has late.
| ly shown many conservative tendencies, by
public meetings. by an address to Gov. Hicks,
approving his action and by the offer of a
volunteer military company as an escort to
the President elect through the city, on his
way to Washington.
Delaware as you are aware, has repudia-
ted secession as remedy for existing evils
almost unanimously so that the States adj
joining the Federal Capital are undoubtedly
/ in line. Maryland cannot be moved before
4th of March, and when Lincoln is inaugura-
ted and has the reins of Government in his
hands the menaces of the secAssionists are
not feared.-St. Louis letter.