Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-16

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The psoils ls6f tie. Fafstt ss@Tss fasasd
sg,tings siI tilfdhg % tReiF State
dlst aus ii,t6tt and actin.
IN eparate con Feiit IiIs u htat they ratified
those pro visions 81 HIS ferns tited h, its
c0nstFdctf0R show IL 10 Sc q governments In
which the people 9i alt la ltes eollec-
lively Ate. feprsseh ted. We Are one peo-
.Pls - tliH th0fSk 6g tbs RTesil ent,,Rpd
Vice Pc !. & States IhaVe no
ptharln ihaW totdtreet the mode in
which ithGi shah be giysn. 0andi.
dates Ryipg the naioF ~ all the votes
atei chosen. - The elSeteFS s0f n majority Of
States may given ieirI yutes forfone
candidate, ana yet anothee ,tpaysbe chnsen.
The PeeRle, theh aRd pot ths 5tates; are
sSe9ted 10 tlg hrapSh. Il. s.
in the Honsslefl sepSes aligPs, there
4s ] thl9 .fli 8sreaee tliRt the ftpplo Of one
tatfhse go not,, re .ease, qt President
and Vice Presid tgots fol, thA same
olnsstsf The Pe9ble of all; the States do
49b iIetf ZOE all tlle me seeeh State
sleetl9g A1ly.sits own oEaprRaepta tives.-
1nt lhls efyAtes. no matPrialF distinetion.
sAlaen Ghosenf they age} p u rFpFeS SentAtiTes
of the United States, not sFepr lives
Of sthe particular State from which they
come. They are, paid hyl the United
States, not By the States, NOR are they ac.
eouhta5le to It for ans. act done in the per-
toFnapre Of their legislative functions !;
and however they may in practice, ns it is
their. dRty to, do, consult and prefer the
interests of their particular constituents,
when they come in conflict with any other
partial or local interest, yet it is their first
duty as representatives of the United
States, to promote the general good. -
The constitution of the United States.
then, forms a'government, nota league |;
anu whether It be formed by compact be-
! tueRn the States, OF in any other manner,
'itsfhHracter is the same. 1t is govern
ment in which all the people are repre-
sentedi which operates directly on the
people individually, notupon the States
they retained all the power they did not
grant. But each State, shuving expressly.
parted with SO many powers as to consti-
tute, Jointly with, the other States, single
nation, cannot, from that period, possess
any right to secede, because such secession
does not break "a, leag0e, but destroys the
unity OF q nation; and any injury to that
unity is not only breach. which would
result from the contrivention of a COM
pact, but II is On offence against the whole
Union. To say that any State may at
pleasure secede from the Union, is to say
that the United States arc not nation !;
because it would be solecism to contend
that any part of a nation might dissolve
its connection with the other parts, 10
their injury Or r1in, without Committing
amy offence Secession, like any other
5rerolntionAry act. may he morally justified
by the extremity of oppression but, to
ealI u copstitutinnal right, is coniound-
ing the meaning of terns; and Gan only
be done through gross error, or to deceive
those who are willing to assert right,
but would pause hefote they made a reyo5
luton, or incur the penalties conseq uent
on II failure.
"FeltoY-eitizeus of mY native State. let
me not only ldmonish you, as the First
Magistrate of our common country, NOT to
incur the penalty of its laws, but use the
influence that father would over his chill
dren whom he saw rushing to certnin ruin.
In that Paternal language, with that mater
nal feeling, let me tell you, my country
men, that you are deluded by men who
are either deceived themselves, or wish to
deceive you. Mark under what pretenccs
you have been led on to tile brink of in.
snrrection and treason, on which YOU
stand First, diminution Of the value of
your staple commodity, lowered by over
prodncttoniin other quarters, and the con-
scqment dimihution in the value of YOUR
lands, were the sole effect of tue tariff.
laws. Ta
"The effect Of. those laws was confessed
ly injurious, but the evil was greatly. OK.
hggernted By the unfounded theory YOU
were taught to believe, that its burdens
were in proportion to your exports. not to
your consumption of imported Articles
1our pride was reused By the assertion
that n Submission. to those laws was n
state of vassalage, and that resistance to
them was equal, in patriotic merit. to the
opposition our fathers offered to the on
pressive laws Of Great Britain. You were
told this opposition might be pc,iceabIy.
might be constitutionnlly made; that Won
might enjoy all the advantages of tile
Union, and bear none of its linrdens.-
Eloquent appeals to yonr passions, to your
State pride, to yonr native courage, TO
your sense of real injury, were nsed 10
prepare you for the period when the mask.
which concealed the hideous features of
utsnnton, should be taken off. It fell, and
you were made to look with compIaceucy
on objects which, not long since, yon
would have regarded with horror. Look
hltk 10 the arts which haze brought vou
- t''ts sttAtSi tOuA IoEWhfu TO. the cnusB-
qnenees to which it must inevitably lead
Look back to what was frat told You ma
an indueementIto, enter into this danger.
Gus course. The great political truth was
repeated "a. you, that you had the reYolu-
tio1ary right of resisting all laws TINT were
unconstitutional and intoIerably
oppressive; it Was added that the right to
np!lify n Law rested on tue same principle.
6ut that It was a peRceable remedy This
character which. was Riyento it, made you
receive with too much confidence the as
settions that were made of the unconstitu
tinnaltty of the law. and its oppressive
effects. Mark my fellow-citizens, that,
by the admission of your leaders, the un-
eo.n.stitutionslity must be palpible, or it
viii not justify either resistance or nulIifi-
cation What is the meaning. of the word
palPable, in the sense in which i ia Iere