Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-09-03
THE PEACE PARTY IN NORTH
CAROLINA,

CAROLINA.
The 6ecessio onists- Their Promises
and their Performances--Tbe Com
d1tion into which they have brought
the Countrywide Remedy, etc.
lfrom the Raleigh IN. cJ Standard Of July al
Mr.. EDITOR: There is, 90 far as remem-
Der, no war u be met with 10 history en-
tirely analogous TO one now raging between
the North and South. That produced Nv
an attempt on the part Of three of the
Swiss Csntons to separate themselves from
the Confederation a few years since in some
respects, resembles ii most nearly That
attempt, it will be rendered, was arrested,
and the rebellious Cantons speedily reduced
to submission by the arms Of the Confed.
eracy II is frequently compared to our
old Revolutionary struggle with the mother
country, but there is scarcely any analogy
between the two cases. The thirteen Col
oDies were not like the Southern States,
equal 10 political rights with the other States
Of the British Empire. They possessed no
sovereign power whatever. They we're not,
as We were, entitled to rerresentation in the
common Parliament of the British Union,
but were mere Colonies-nere dependencies
upon the mother country. In an evil hour
the administration of George Grenville, and
afterwards that Of Lord North, attempted
to impose an unjust tax upon the Colonies.
This oppression was resisted, and the resist
ance was made the pretext for other op-
pressions more unjust still. The Colonies
continued their resistance in O constitution
al way for near ten years, by representations,
remonstrances, and petitions for the redress
Of grievances, but all in vain. At length
they took up arms, with the avowed object
Of enforcing such redress They solemnly
discldinred all intention of separation from
the parent State, for they were as loyal in
their feelings Of attachment to the British
Constitution as were the inhabitants of
Surry or Cornwall. This resolute step they
confidently expected would procure the de-
sired redress but the advice of all the
ablest statesmen at that age--of Chatham,
of Camden, of Burke, of Fox, of Rocking
ham, aud others-were thrown away upon
the narrow minded Monarch and the bigot-
ed Ministry which then swayed the destiues
OF the British Empire. Still in hope, they
continued the struggle for one whole year,
At length the British Parliament declared
the Colonies out Of tho protection Of the
parent State. And then, at last, no other
course was left then but to proclaim their
independence. and defend it, if need be,
with their life's blood. The battle of Lex
ington was fought on the 10Th of April,
LIS, and on the 10Th Of April, IT7s, the
powered their delegates in Congress to con.
cur with the delegates of the other CoIopie.
in declaring Independence and forming
foreign alliances" and on the 18th of the
following month Virginia, through her Con.
vention, instructed her delegates in the
Constitutional Congress ito propose to that
body to declare the United Colonies free
and independent States, absolved from nj,
allegiance to or dependence on the Grown
or Parliament of Great Britain" )" and ON the
4;h Of July following the ever memorabl.
Declaration was made.
But how different has been the Course of
the secessionists They seem to have re-
solved years ago that the Union should be
destroyed, and then to have set themselves
to work to forge such grievances as would
seem to give them q decent pretext for the
accomplishment Of their premeditated
schemes. The first effort was made in the
days Of notification by the secessionists of
South Carolina. The grievance then COM
planned of was the tariff. although the State
Of South Carolina herself had been from
the foundation of the Government nearly
up to that period as strong an advocate Of a
high tariff as any State in New England. =
That question was compromised; South
Carolina obtained all that she osseasi5ly de-
manded A revenue tariff, with incidental
protection, became the settled policy ofthe
Government, and, except for short period
under the tariff Of lS42 was never departed
from. But still they were not satisfied. -
Immediately after the passage of Mr.. Cay's
compromise bill the newspaper organ of the
secessionists at Washington declared "that
the South could nerer be united on tie ta,if
question, and that the sldue question was the
only one that could unite them" And Mr..
Calhoun, il | mistake not, said the same
thing in speech at Abbeville, in South
Carolina, about the same time; and of fcourse
was followed by all the lesser lights among
his adherents Then commenced that yio-
lent agitation of the slavery question which
had nearly eliminated upon the admission
Of California, in 1850. Again, by the efforts
Of those immortal statesmen of the last age
Messrs. Webster, Clay, and others, was the
matter compromised.
The whole country at first appeared to be
satisfied with the settlement, but it soon ap-
peared that there were a number of restless
spirits among the extremists of tho South
that would be satisfied with nothing short
Of dissolution OF the Union. OF this class
Of politicians w. L. Yancey may be fity
selected as representative man. He imme-
diately began to agitate the question again,
He went to the Democratic National Con
vention at Baltimore, in 1852, as delegate
from the State OF Alabama, and thore pro
posed as the ulimatum on which he could
continue to act with the Democratic party,
and upon which, IN his opinion, the Slave
States could consent to remain in the Union,
that the doctrine Of non-intervention by
Congress in regard to slavery in tho Terri
tories should be incorporated into the Dem
ocratic platform. In this he failed, aud
therefore did not support the nominee Of
the Convention, Mr.. Pierce. He could not
however, at that time, succeed in creating a
great schism in the Democratic party, so
great had been the calm which the compro
misc measure OF 1850 had produced. In
1885 be again went as delegate from the
State Of Alabama to the Cincinnati Con
yeution with bis old altimatum in his pocket.
Contrary 20 his wishes and expectations it
WAS incorporated into the Cincinnati plat
form, and being thus left without an excuse,
he supported Mr.. Buchanan for the Presi-
dency in the iallof thatyear In the mean
tine, however, that fatal measure, the re-
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