The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-11-01

contest South { arolina would achieve q
bloodless victory. But. should there be a
war. all the nations of Europe would be
desirous 1T preserving {! cir commercial in
tereourse with the Southern States, and
would make the effort TO do so. He
thought there never would be . union of tn,
South until this State strikes the blow. ans
makes the issue"
Another:
Would not recapitulsts the evils which
had been perpesrated upon the SOUTH
Great - they have been. they are compar-
ativelv animportant, when compared with
the evis- TO which they would inevitably
lead. We must not consider what We have
borue, but what We must bear bereafter.-
There is no remedy for these evils in the
government: We have no alternative left
US, then, but 10 CON- out Of the govern
ment."
He was opposed to calling : conven.
ton. because he thought it would impede
lhe action of this State on the questions nov
before the country. He thought it would
impede our progress towards di>union. All
his objections to a convention of the people
applied only TO the proposition to call it
now. He thought conventions dangerous
things. except when the necessities of the
country absolutely demand them. He said
that he had adopted the course he had taken
on these weighty matters simply and entire
ly with the view of Fastening the dissolution
of this Union
Another
Would sustain the bill for electing del
egates to Southern Congress. because he
thought it twould bring about . more speedy
dissolution of the Union
In the Nashville convention a delegate
said
q shall enumerate no more of the
wrongs that We have suffered. or the dan
gers with which we are threatened. If
these, so enormous and SO atrocious, are
not sufficient to arouse the Southern mind,
our case is desperate. But. supposing that
like freemen, and. knowing our rights and
our wrongs, shall be prepared to sustain the
one and redress the other, what is the rem
sdy? answer secession-united secession
ot the slaveholding States. or large mum.
Der OF them. Nothing else will be wise
nothing else will be practicable. The Ru- +!
oicon Is passed. The Union is already dis
solved. Instead OF wishing the perpetuity
of any government over such vast bounda-
res. the rational lover OF liberty should wish
Tor it's speedy dissolution, As dangerous to
All just and free rule. Is not all this exem.
piied in our own case In nine months,
n one session OF Congress, by a great coup
etat our constitution has been completely
md Tor ever subverted. Instead of we'll
government, all power is vested
n one section of the country, which is in
bitter hostility with the other. And this is
he glorious Union which we are to support.
or whose eternal duration we are to pray,
md before which the once proud Southern
to bow down"
nth taking all Qhe territory. They have
,ade that all a wicked instrument for the
BOLTON Of the constitution, and Of every
aeguard Of our property and our lives. |
ave said they have made the appropriation
this territory An instrument to abolish the
There is no doubt they have
boiished the constitution. The carcass :
lay remain. but the spirit has left it, 1, is
ow fetid mass, generating disease and /,
cath. 1t stinks in our nostrils."
" A constitution means ex ri termini, a Z
uarantee of the rights. liberty, and securi-
, OF free people. and can never survive in
he shape OF dead formalities. II is a thing
life, AID just and fair proportions; not
e caput mortuum which the so-called Con-
i,ution of the United States has now be- /,
'me. Is there Southern man WHO bears ,
soul within his ribs, who will consent to -.
e governed by this vulgar tyranny" DC. :
From public addresses
"Under the operation of causes beyond
e scan OF man, we are rapidly approach
g great and important crisis in our his. !,
ry. The shad Of the sun has gone
sck upon The dial of American liberty, and
e are rapidly Fastening toward the troubled
a of revolution. \ dissolution of the
nion is our inevitable destiny. and it is
lie for man to raise his puny arm to stem !
e tide of events" &c. ,
Another ,
" We must form a separate government. i
ne slaveholding States must ali yet see that :
elr only salvation consists in uniting, and .
at promptly too, in organizing Southern d
nfederacy. Should We be wise enough s.
US TO unite, All California, with her ex. Il
ustless treasures, would be ours all New IL
exco also, and the sun would never shine ir
on country SO rich. so great and so m
werful, as would be our Southern Repub. el
Another: &C
60 BY our physical power" said one Of the y,
emest of those leaders. in late speech to - -
constituents, I've can protect ourselves r
ainst foroign nations. whilst by our pro. =,
ctions we can can command their peace ~
support. The keys of their wealth and =.
mmerce are in our hands, which Va win ~
ely offer to them by . system of free :.
de. making our prosperity their interest :.
our security their care. The lingering or y
caying cities Of the South, which before ~
r Revolution carried on all their foreign
mmerce, bouyans with prosperity and re
alih. but which now are only provincial
vns, sluggish suburbs Of Boston and New nc
,rk, will rise up to THEN natural destiny, ch
d again enfold iL their embraces the rich co
commerce of The world. Wealth. honor. NC
power. and one Of the most glorious a. 9.
stinies which ever crowned . great and ~
ppy people. awaits the s nth. II she but N u
1trol her own tate buf, controlled by
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