The New York herald., 1864-12-10

state Rfghs Against JsG Devns-rhs
Poisoa BS9i sing ss Work.
South Carolina is briss,ing up sga'a on State
rights South Carolina, the adder's nest In
which the eggs OF this rebellion were laid and
hstched after thirty years Of incubaten;
South Carolina, the devil-possessed disturber
Of tho old Union, always fomsnting mischief,
and ever ready for row, will probably, after
all, be the death Of Jef Davis. ~
The fire eaters OF South Carolina are not to
be trifed with. They intend that the palmetto
though Jeif. and bis confederacy may be
knocked in the head. The servile Cabinet and
Congress Of JefI ut Richmond have been nedi-
tating great things. In his dreadful extremi-
ties they have resolved to make him absolute
dictator, lord aud master over all the States
under his terrible sway, and over everything
and every body in them-State laws, State rights,
slavery, newspapers, planters, negroes and all.
But he has raised Q hornets nest about his
ears. The North Carolins members Of his servile
Congress beard him In his den; the intract-
able State rights Governor BrowB, while dodg-
ing about to escape the troopers Of Sherman.
still finds time to psur in broadside against
the despstic usurpations OF Davis And now
South Caroline, the swamp chicken, the little
bantam cock Of the walk in Rebellion, flaps
his wings and crows out his defiance at the Rioh-
mond upstatt who demands the powers Of the
Great Mogul. There is dark and dismal
place to the north Of Charleston, known A.
He'll Hole swamp, and when warning
voice from that quarter comes to King JED. Il
necessarily comes with smell Of brimstons.
saltpetre and State rights.
We believe that r. Barnwsll Rbett is the
representative Of He'll Hels swamp In the
South Carolina Legislature. We need not tell
who Rhstt Is. II the patent right for the exist
ing Davis confederacy belongs to any ono iiv
ing man, it belongs to Rhett When South
Carolina seeded in 1860 he clapped bis hands
together, rolled up his eyes and thanked God
(or Rhett is as sanctimonious o . parson) that
his labors Of thirty years in the holy cause OF
secession were at last rewarded. When Rhett,
therefore, speaking for He'll Hole swamp. be-
gins to shake bis fist at JET. Davis, Jeff. may
look out for squalls. What says Rhetts In his
resolutions, offered in the South Carolina Le-
oislature the other day, he declares:-First, in
regard to the war, that South Carolina and her
confederates, with the help OF God, are deter
mined to aght it ouk Secondly, that the sove-
reign States concerned are not amenable to the
government Of the rebel States for their
existence, and that any attempted conscrip-
tons Of State officers on tho part Of JEFF Davis
calculated to disturb the operations Of said
State governments, are isgraut usurpations to
which the States should not submit. Thirdly,
that any interference with the freedom Of the
press by Davis is unconstitutional. Fourthly,
that some Of his taxation projects are unconsti.
tutiosal. This is speaking right out 10 church;
but the best is yet to come.
The last resolution of the irrepressibIe . Rhett
delares "thst the Institution of African slavery
is exclusively under the jurisdiction and con-
troll of the sovereign States, and any law
passed by Congress (Jetf.'s Congress) to eman-
c:pate slave in any State, or to appropriate
money from the treasury OF the (rebel) States
to buy and emancipate slaves, is unconsttn-
ssv..i 1uT IS tho voice Of South
Carolina. She fatty tells JEFF that she can
and will dispense with him, if necessary; that
his remorseless conscriptions have gone far
enough. that be had better not attempt to order
what man shall edit this or that newspaper
and what he shall write; that South Carolina
will have no more gouging by his tax gasherers
than what she already suffers. and that If he
dares to lay hand upon her negroes to seize
them, or even TO buy item in order to make
them "free niggers," South Carolina will roast
him on her gridiron of State rights.
Thus the very principle upon which this
rebellion was fomented and started into life, is
working fatal poison in the bowels Of this
South Carolina patent right Southern confede-
racy. Established upon this miserable heresy
of State rights-the rights Of national SOW
ereiRnty to each State, including the right of
secession-it woald be impossible for such
concern to live beyonda twsvemonth If given
its independence tomorrow. We are grateful,
however, that South Carolina sticks to her text;
for when she, the founder Of the so-called
Confederate States, begins to show such bold
signs OF revolt, the final catastrophe cannot be
far of. Assailsd in front and on hts flanks by
the armies OF Grant, and in the rear by State
rights, there is no escape for Davis except in
timely run through the Wilmington blockade
for Nassau. At the same time, as this suicidal
fallacy Of State rights has been followed to
the bitter end by the States adhering to South
Carolina, they are rapidly returning on the
back track to the national sovereignty and
supreme authority OF the government of the
United States. II State rights are to be the
death Of jeff Davis, the terrible and bloody
reign Of Davis will surely be the death of this
horrible heresy Of State rights.
ARREST OF ERAsTUs BRooKs--TAMMANY ON