The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-08

everything else you hold deahe threatens and does
cret and malignant mischief and boasts OF II Gods
yice-he deaes al human laws and appeals his own
senrigheous judgment for higher law than coistltu
tons and statutes and finally bold enough declare
the conflict irepressibe and gets all the power he needs
70 make II natal 70 you-yeu see him coming into your
close, fully armed with his threatenines not breahed
smpy, but written by millions OF hackers his
platform of ayowed intentions-you see that il he
| crosses given line he will ovcrpower youths
coming Is Of itself lawlul-wl that iessea your
dangerf-wiii you In such Tor
Linn TO crush you by overt act which you viii be
poweress to resist If YOU do say that you deserve
| 70 be his save-he Is born 10 be your master. Is
| the canger not The greater when It is bold enough
and strong enough 10 come in at open door
| Is oppression more tolerable because il comes in
| due forms Il form not the shadow? Is the per-
version and misconstruction OF the powers Of the
constitution not The substances II not them the cleo
ton o. the man in due form otherwise which is the
complaint or the burtben not TO be borne but il the
accession 10 power Of known enemies, who fatally
bent upon tic mischief of your destruction II any posi-
tive and conclusive evidence needed Of the purpose
TINS party coming into power bow fatal 70 Us their in
teItons are refer TO the proofs oduced by that good
pat iot and friend Of the Union proud believe
friend OF mine, Daniel D. Barnard Of Albany " y in
letter which be published during the late canvass and
If he be distrustel because he is enemy black
pubcanism then refer you lately preached
lot at Brookyn by Beecher or Cheevernot at Boston,
by Wendell Phlips-but at Philadelphia, by the grave
and Reverend Doctor Of Divinity Furness OF the Pcsby
terrain church There you will the sold theological
hate with which the pulpit thunders its anathemas
And l refer 10 the failure of all attempts at con
citation in Congress. This will say, that what
tive. We want action--immediate, decisiye-some-
thing that will arrest and repel aggression and not
invite It's approaches a. later period when viii BIO
less able to meet it,
this be not true policy what is the course proposed
by those who claim to be conservative in different
6ense from mine?
The most decently done up formula Of conservative
submission or submiss We conservatism have vet seeu
is that omanatiDg from Frederick county meeting
December ID 1861 notice this especially, because
respect most sincerely the source whence proceeds
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people who adopted it, II is the most respectable spec
men OF its kind and regard IL as representative Of
respect only say them that regret TO know We
are as wide apart the poles. can't look upon them
as standing between me ana black epublcansn, but
rather siding in effect with my enemies. After fully and
iarIy enough admitting all our wrongs, and that, in
TRUTH they constitute insuerabe OF complaint
long continued they propose immediate remedy but
remonstranc~ which has been tried in vain for moro
thanforty years-rom 1S19'20 down to the LIST January
1861 After deprecating disunon they propose directly
to split the conederacy into less than three separate
republics After denouncing the secession Of South Caro-
lima in the name of the Union they propose to slough Off
the late anniversary of his fathers martyrdom informs
them that the real design Of the Northern republicans is
to push the line of Canada to Mason and Dxon line the
United States These some OF the Inconsistencies of
apparent federal political blindness But what is the
sort Of action they proposeg They tell us
l. "Ihe constitutional power OF our State Legislature
to nterdct the sale OF products and manufactures Of the
offending States within our limits"
refer them to the action Of the last session OF
Legislature for the than futity Of that remedy
The present nominal tax ON merchants is real tax on
us, the We punish ourselves to raise the
price of Northern manufactures
@ "1hc powers of the Congress Of the United States
in both branches Of which the maorites in our
My answer to that s--For how lopg9 Many members
of Congress were sacrificed TO elect Mr.. Lncolny how
But Of those there now how many from the North dare
meet the just demands Of the South halfway? Not
enough to mako majority
The answer is-They are no arbiters between sove-
regns. The Judges, too, old and nfrm, and will
pass away and even before their days are spent the
black power will demosh the Judiciary upon which it
is warning implacaby The bred Scott decision is
me as Governor of Virginia, in 1858.
4. Conventions OF the people Of the United States"
In them we will be overwhelmed by the same MAORI
ties which elect Lincoln.
Conventions Of the Northern and Southern States,
only separately show irreconcieabe differences and
that must SEPARATE and before they could be held
Why not that 1rst9 Why is this remedy
postponed to the las,s Why not nowat onces That Is
what is demanded Why does this report PROFOUND this
remedy at last hypothetical too and why at last does
it conclude that W it necessary to call any convention
at this time II should be general of the people of
the United States" II is because the idea to submerge
by delay and procrastinaton and because it is avow
eddy the very idea Of consolidation contemplated always
by all federasts, to ignore and nullfy all State sove
regnty and State remedies.
l. 1--WE may obstruct the wheels of the federal govern
That would be notification not according to the
tent Of obstruction. But what matters that to black
on the wheels Of government Would obstructng the
federal government repeal their State Liberty bills or
repress their Pulps, presses ncsndiarsm running Oh
than q union Of obstruction and destruction
8. "Or we may defend our constitutional rights, in
arms under the flag of the Union"
And here accord with the report save in two or three
material particulars. Instead Of putting this remedy
last be resorted "cxtreme measure less fatal
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at once because is the most conservative which can be
adopted by the border States.
Though endorse and mean to back the secession OF
South Carolina, with my blood II need be yet would
prefer Virginia 10 adopt her mode of redress in the Union
/ emphaticaly TO say that would especially ad-
wise the aggreved States together for mutual de-
fence and protcctiOn but each to take different line OF
action from the other 70 secure redIsss oy various
objection commonly made to Fighting in the Union Is,
that the State don't separate her citizens from their
sccedcs they may not be- ! deny the proposition.
As said in a late letter TO DR.. Pleasants Of Georgia.
il state is sovereign to Judge of the mode
secession and renounce the Union and its stakes;
she may remain in the Union and protect, pre-
serve and defend the constitution which formed the
Union and constitutes its very essence. The state
wronged bound TO defend the constitution against con-
fodcrates VINO have faithlcssly broken the one and
threatened to destroy the other Logically the Union
belongs TO those who have kept and not TO those who
have violated its covenant. The Union rs roa, sub
stanl thing, embracing many essential and vital po-
ltica rights and properties. IL has nationality nag,
foreign commerce, lands, treasury, army, navy,
arms dock yards forts arsenals light houses and other
buildings capital treaties, nc. We ought not to re-
nounce these rights and possessions, because wrong
doors attempt 70 deprive US Of other rights Let US not
renounce right to another To ask our people
10 the Union is TO divide and sodue them at
once whilst appeal 70 them 10 defend the Union and
their rights in IL will unite them in sentiment and IN
action in council and in arms. But the question s-how
are we TO defend constitutional rights, In arms,
under the nag Of the UnionS,
answer that Virginia, when she adopted the federal
and ratified the same expressly reserved the
right the powers granted under the Constitution
whenever the shah be perverted TO her injury or
oppression"
would then advise the call Of State convention Inn
medatey and by that body Of the sovereignty Of the
state declare that certain essential and vital powers
granted under the constitution having been perverted to
the injury and oppression o herself and other States and
their citizens she does the powers so granted
would especially advise that she resume the cessions
OF all pieces for forts arscnas, dock yards light houses
&C. and take immediate possession Of them; making
first formal demand OF the federal government for de-
livery Of possession and that IL not done then TO take
them necessary, by force. No injustice could be com
planned Of in this, when remember that virginia can
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