The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-09

on che part Of the Democratic party,
until very recent periodr
Alta public dinner, 10 yirginia, al
which James Madison presided, Jadgs
". n. Roane, q distinguished stAtss-
man and eminent jurist, gave a. toast,
"S Secession is tresson." Thomas Ritoh-
lie, the editor Of the lRichmond EnquI-
rer, the great states Right Orssn, de-
nouueed Secession 90 treason. Did not
all parties, at the period Of the at
tempted nulli6cation by South Carroll.
ma, of law of Congress, sustain Gen.
Jackson 10 his proclamation, and his
strong measures to put down that ir-
cipient rebsllion2 What did tho eli
hero say2
"We cannot recognize the right Of
an Isolated State to throw of its most
sacred obligations at will, without the
consent Of the other States, aud to i'm
peril the liberty and happiness Of the
millions Of men who compose our Un-
ion. Such right is irreeoncilahle with
the principles upon which the Federal
Government is constituted, as we'll as
the view for which it was organized"
Yet we read shallow lueubrations
from helf aedged politicians and ig.
uorant caterers for the Press, claiming
that State sovereignty; prsdicated upon
reserved rights, has always been main
tanned by the Democratic party, iuOlu-
ding Gen. Jackson, whose pl stic
hand had much to do in giving it share
and consistency:
John c. Calhoun, the man whom Jaol.
son would have hung without scrUploI
was the sire Of this blasting hsrsIy,
which has brought death into our Eden
and ali our woe.
That pure and wsll.in nformed states
man, Col. Benton, says; Qualification
and disunion had commenced in
1880 upon complaint aguiGS domestic
tariff That being put down In 1889,
under President Jackson'S proclama-
ton and energetic measures, was i'm.
mediately substituted by the 'lopsry
agitd,ioa. Mr.. Calhoun, when he went
home from Congress in the spring Of
! that gear told his friends that the South
could never be united against the North
! on the tariff question; that the sugar
e interest of Louisiana would keep ! 9;
c. ont; and that the basis Of Southern
f Union must be shifted to the slavery
t question. Then sll the papers in bis
q interest, especially the one at Wash
s ington published by Mr.. DUFF Green.
\ dropped tariff sgitntiOn and eommsn-
;, ced upon slavery, and in tive years had
II the slavery question ripe for inaugurs-
tiOn. And in tracing this agitation
D to its present stage" says Mr.. B., "aud
Q to comprehend its rationale, it is not to
n be forgotten, that it is a mere con
S tiuuation Of old tariff dis"niO", and pre-
k ferred because more available"
It will be recOllcOtsd by many, that
E. Gen. jackson predicted, after he had
l. put down Nullfcation, that slavery
- would be made the next prsteIt for dis.
/. unisu. Mr.. Madison is quoted By Col.
rs Benton, as writing to Henry Clay in
Q. 1888: at is painful to see the uuseas-
II ing efforts to alarm the South by i'm
ID putations against the North of uncou-
ne stitutioual designs on the subject of
It slavery" "Their good faith, Mr.. NJ
}. continues, is sufficiently guaranteed
10 by the intarests they have as merchsntS
ID as ship.owpors, and mecha mics, in pre-.
,e serving Union with the slavo-hOldinG
bs States. On the other hand, what mad
a ness in the South to look for greater
i'd safety, in disunion! The danger from
sh the alarms is, that pride and resent
be ment excited by them may be an over
go match for the dictates Of prudeuce, and
to favor the project of a Southern Csuvsn'
"a tion, insidiouSly revived, as promiS
or ing by its couHselS the best seeuTit
10 against grievances OF every kind fEsr
ate the North" Nulliscstiou, Secession
1T. and DisuuiOu we're considered BY Mad
". ison as SynomOuS tsrns--dshgsrou
b. to the Union as Gre to powder. MI
elf Madison gave to the slavery sEit'
The taitou Soutkern srigin. So says %
nal Benton. HIsTORICUS.
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