The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-03-22

$3.50 nave iduOTeu IOr nineteen years 10 Jake nlne-
teen States out of the Union says Wendell
Phillips. This bold assertion was made few
days since at the Smithsonian Lecture Hall, in
Washington, by this notorious Abolitionist. Isit
ever grown out ofany one of the many attempts
which have been made by good men to restore
peace to the Government and the country? The
Republican party, led on by such unprincipled
men as Phillips, Garrison and Greeley, have
brought the country to what itnow is, and what
it must continue to be, while the counsels Of the
nation are filed with men, who, regardless, of
the interest and rights of others, legislate with
the single aim of selfaggrandizement 1.-THE
Union-it must be preserved, said the old man
of the Hermitage but how? By trampling on
the rights Of Others? No, but by dealing justly
!, with our felloy-men; by acknowledging and
granting to them all their constitutional guaran-
tees, and by implicit obedience to the DEGREES of
the organic law of the land.
We have the highest authority for saying that
the States, as well as individuals, have rights
which cannot be constitutionally interfered with.
For says President Jackson in his Message of the
tlothFof July, l832:-tNor is our Government to
be maintained, nor our Union preserved, by in
vasions of the rights and powers of the several
States. . In thus attempting to make our Gener-
al Government strong, we make it weak. It's
true strength consists in leaving individuals aad
States as much as possible to themselves; in
making itself felt, not in its power, but in its
benefcence not in its control, but in its protec-
ton not in binding the States more closely to
the centre, but leaving each to move, unebstruct-
ed, in its proper orbit. Most of the difficulties
our Government encounters, and the most dan
gerous which impend over our Union, have
sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate
objects of government by our national legisla-
ton" If the doctrine of the message of the 10th
of July, 1882, had been adhered to, and each
State, and the individuals thereof had perform
ed their plain and well defined duties who can
, doubt but that to-day we would be happy,
. united and prosperous people, And who would
! not rejoice at such state of things We con-
fess that we would. For to be a citizen of q
country SO vast III Its proportions, with each
State revolving in its own proper orbit and each
individual performing his constitutional obliga-
tons, and the whole bound to common centre
by the benefcence of government protecting
all, and granting favors to none; dispensing its
blessings like the dews of Heaven, unseen and
unfelt save in the freshness and beauty they con-
tribute to produce" But the plain performance
ofduty under the Constitution, is more than the
Republican party are willing to perform. Ac-
cnstomed, for q long time, to resist its plainest
provisions, in the way of personal liberty laws,
and inficting the greatest wrongs upon their
fellow-men, in forcibly depriving them Of their
property; and not content with denouncing the
Constitution as a 'tleague with hell and cove
nant with death, ~ they now break through all
restraint, and demand that the war shall be car
ried on for the abolition of slavery, and the SUBJ
jugation of men better than themselves si'Fi