Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-04-16

all associated IN one and a. ben eebt political bond
but in these minor snd Eau al divisions they allied b.
sympathes and sediments which grow cut OF proIim
of position and that Identification of pursuit and neres
which the conditions If their social life impress upon them
When any state therefore, should mediate the purpos
of withdrawing from the Union in the exercise of this
serted right it would natural y, aud indeed we may So
it would necessarily, indispensable auxiliary to it
purpose seek the alliance Of the STATES which stand in kin
dred relation with itself, and would all the
its command TO on ist them in it's
SO apparent is this necessity persuade seduce ohe
States whose preudices sympathies may be wrough
upon to in the work Of disruption that may be
regard, the most fragrant mischief that attends the
seron of the tight to secede. 1t brings up te tina
enormous wrong-the most deadly which be inflicted
on any Staethe secret plotting of eager agents Of 10
content to nane the heart OF peaceful communities with
imaginary grie ard them to the temper of an as
sau against the very existence of the nation 1t shocks
by the perception of danger Of dsnteg which onc
commenced, may go until the whole political fabric il
crumbed into Fragments
In the events which have plunged the nation into it
present state Of distress have notable exempifca
tion of this incident Of secession The discontents Of
South Carolnathe FIRST State which inaugurated The
civil war-were VIGOROUSLY peculiar to that Common
wealth. They had existed for thirty years. and were
birth tothe quarrel Of 1882 when the pride Of the State
was BUNDLED by the peremptory taken BY the
National Administration At that period her claim to
right of secession was have shown in former letter
not only bluny repealed by the Government but equally
repudated by every State in the Union and Carolina
forced to submit not less by the threat Of coercion by
President Jackson than by the rebuke Of the States to
which she had appealed for cooperation Her mortified
pride made her from that the aveerate enemy of the
Union In the act of secession of December, 1860 she
only accomplished the long harborsd design for which she
had been waiting with concealed impotence ever since
| the arrow had pierced her side.
Yet, Notwithstanding the rash boast with which she en-
tered into this fatal measurethat she would plunge into
the maestrom of secession alone irrespective of coopera
ton from any other Stateno believes that she would
have assayed the experiment if she had not ascetaned
beforehand that she would be supported by the
which Immediately afterwards FASTENED to her aid There
is abundant proof in this concerted movement-if we had
it not from other sourceshat long before and in prepa
ration for this event. conspiracy had been formed to
seduce, csjoe compel other States into completely with
plot which she had conrved and set in motion for the
redress of her own griefs
The whole country knows with what signal and almost
Indignant reproof several of the States now in rebellion
rejected the first overiures to join in this enterprise how
emphaticay the people of Virginia, Tennessee, North
dsapprobaon of the petuant and boastul treason of
South Carolina And yet the country the very
States subdued to the of the conspiracy by the
intrigues and domineering importantly of the political
agents who had cast their fortunes in this venture
1t s therefore that cay the worst evil attendant upon
the practical assertion of h pretended right Of secession
exists in the fact that mperous necessity fJrces the
agents of the plot to the device Of inu-ng the Of
their dsGonteu into the minds of neighbor commun
ties aud Of king by unlawful solicitation ami sinister
arts, to spread the circle of the conspiracy other
States Thus the letter and the theory of the Constitution
violated and set at nonght by ovetures by compact
and agreement wi other States, which, whether secret
open, equally offensive and repugnant to the obga
ton which every State assumes on entering into the Union
B. Secession very distinctly assas and destroys per-
sona rights conferred by the Constitution upon the people
of every State in the Union.
Being ciiiz'n Of the United States am entitled to all
the privileges Of that citizenship every State In other
words State within the compass OF the Union as Gre
ated by the Constitution, treat me alien This
take to be the meaning Of that clause which guarantees
to the citizens Of each State all privileges and immuni-
ties of citizens in the several States"
Secession in moment rescinds and ignores this right
lie who holds pateLt for invention or copyright of
book loses it throughout the Seeded States He who
possesses property in such State expectation OF en-
inheritance in it may be deprived Of il by seizure and cor
f.caton by eschea II he be creditor he may be for
hidden to for collect his debt In al these cases
the American citizen who is secured by the Constitution
against any interference with these rights becomes de-
pendent the comfy merely Of the Seeding State Cor
their acknowledgment Whatever may be the policy OF
such State in regard to this acknowledgements
it be swayed by temperate aud just or by the an
cry passions which most likely predominant in the
separationt s obvious that the citizen of the nation
every personal well public right which the FORE
thought Of his ancestors had conferred upon him in so
much Of his native land is cut off by the scison aud
is left entirely at the mercy Of the State for such favor as
it's Government, exasperated it may be by his obtuse-
not asserting to the teaching Of SECESSION may be
disposed to grant
T. The right 10 secede from The Union implies right to
expel from the Union. II withdraw from many
many may withdraw from IL the Union may become
announcement dis greeabe TO one one may become dsa
greeable to the Union If one for that reason may retire
why may not the others for that expe7 The Con-
ttuton makes regulation for either case and if the
logic of secession be soundhst the State sovereignty
my be resumed motive Of discomfort and is then at
liberty to adopt it's mode and measures Of redress ~
the logic is equally sound that nors in favor OF majority
OF ate aoyeegns being DISCONTINUED with one the same
liberty to adopt their do and measure OF redress
These gbsf there be any right at all to break up the
compact OF Unon-are correlatives Can any champion
of these transcenden Stats rights distinguish between the
anIf haaa tuna Of