Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-12-25
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AViHtc N'etti ooJ eseSss'S"
Sc lie Contends Tor The Sever;
e eighty Of States 1l
n The Richmond Dispatch cf the
! 25th October, says:
I A friend has furnished us with
! copy of the New York Heraldof
! the 27thof September, from which
it appears that the day before
, Horace Greely appeared in the
Tribune as an advocate ofsecession.
The following is the article from
the Herald
! In the yesterdays 7riJasns, over
his own proper signature, Horace
! Greely published a letter in which
he declares in favor of the right of
secession, not only in the case of
the rebeliieus States OF the South,
but even Of the Pacific States and
! Territories, should they desire to
fset up a new Government for them
selves. he lays down this gem
eral principle, applicable to. every
State In the Union: What | have
taught and believed, and still
maintain, is the right of a people
to form and modify their political
institutions without the necessity
of fighting for such change" Hede-
MES thatacounty, or three counties
| can lawfully secede from State.
For example, the people of. Nam
tucket could not be permitted to
secede from Massachusetts,; nor the
people of Long Island or Staten Is
land from the State of New York.
But the case is different with a
sovereign State, or even a colony .
which is not sovereign. For ex-
ample, he says, 81 believe our rev
olutionary fathers had right, for
reasons which we're ccgent. and
seemed to then conclusive, to ter-p
inmate their connection with
Great Britain, and that the Brit
ish were wrong in resisting their i
claim to do so. And the right
which | claim for our fathers and
ourselves, ] will not deny others
Then he goes OF to say that
"lf the people of the Pacific States
and Territories shall at some fu-
ture time have very generally at
tanned the conviction that they
could do better as an independent
nation than as part of this coun-
try, and should kindly, frankly,
firmly express that conviction" he
would say let the bonds be dissol-
we'd. And so likewise in the case
Of the Southern States. The fol-
lowing are his words:
This is the doctrine / tried to
promulgate in the winter of 1860
Git seems with i'll success
But | still insist that il it had been
provt d that the people of the slave
States-or even of the cotton States
alone-had really. desired to dis
solve the Union, and had peaceful
ly, deliberately, autholitatively ex-
pressed the wish, we should have
assentd TO it. At all events, |
should. But they chose another
method. The leaders assumed
the right peacefully and summari-.
ly to dissolve the Union without
the consent Of their fellow citizens
at least their close allies, their
equal copartners of the fee States"
The Chicago Times states that
soIre Of the regiments attached to
the Federal army of the Potomac
had Issued tothem while at Harper's
Ferry, the requisite number of rev ID
shoes to which they were entitled, i
and are already without soles.=
Upon examination twas discovered
that neither peg ror thread were
used IN the manufacture Of the
same, but that the soles were
merely pasted on. q ba g1gr
/ A significant sentence occurs In
the NY Herald: HIf with a mil
lion of the finest and best armed q
troops In the worldy and with 81
cooperating navy sufficient to de-
moilsh that of Great Britain we can +,
! not, within the next three or four
months pat down Gre armed force
OF this rebellion, we may then in
reality prepare for European inter
yentioii.h y lzA " ~
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In 1860, the Yankees made and
! sold SOC. 000. 600 worth of boots and