New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-24

| Massachusetts, ia not nation; nor ia New
England, nor New York. nor Virginia, nor any
other State or lalf-d, zen IF the States compos-
ing our Union. Our country is known to the
world as the United States of North America;
we hope it will yet have a name less numbering
and more convenient; but even this one is
rightly understood by mankind as indicating
one Nation composed of many States.
When Jefferson Davis in the United States
Senate in $50 asked Henry Clay il he would
obey rcquisition of Kentucky in contraycntion
of the authority of the United States, Mr.. Clay
answered promptly and severely "No: owe a
paramount allegiance to my whole country; j
owe subordinate fidelity to my own State. v
Such is the doctrine so triumphantly ulaintained
by Webster in his memorable debate with
Hayne; such is the doctrine quite as empfat-
cally affirmed by Jackson in his Proclamation
and other maniiestoes against South Cardinals
attempt to nulify law of the United States.
Such is the doctrine Of American loyalty aud
nationality, a. opposed to the yasaries OF Nul-
LITIGATION and Disunion.
Missouri has made distinct and thorough affirm
a.iOn Of this truth q Cornerstone Of the Ere
Constitution now in preparation by that body,
to the intense disgust Of all Rebels and Rebel
sympathizers. Hereupon, tn, Daily Ners feels
bound to enter q protest i'll behalf Of It's master.
JEFF. Davis. wording il rs follows;
"CESrrAL7AroS. -Esvoluiioni ms progressir amore
ns with gsIt rtiGcs. The iniil ucs set gnts fr tie
destruction the syst L. {, atu, ~ rcme ~ The 81 ,tes
are developing thriBsey'- eigy de-! lore fnly. lie
pretended CONVENTION a! u STATE 81 A.sonI Las JUST
decreed in its Bih OF ki.hfs that the stale s,ail
rr,rau Erocfr m,~br Of e UsioSI that every citizen
OF Missouri owes tie United = ties Tsro~ovm ale
glance ard that any o'd ance u la' Of me Ss'e TO f
contrary shall 10 MI aud uoid The Union II States
with whoh tie North went lilo te cottst 81 tho sec
tons IL. appear to b. ioI,Vr ab,"d"n.d for sn,
preme consolidation. by which taey shall NIL be pressed
down Itn tie solid mass Oi ono scVeicignty.
The Western Stuter, tie pi,ut stitsf New York
aud Penns ania viii never consent Ia any such out
rageous destruction 81 their rveied RIGHTS 10 'oy'.
reieus BE the prcenses under which tie intrigue Tor
consolidation IL bring cured out wAat tie, may.
We tell tue States II New .Eu. land to look well
70 the consequerc'.. master the c"uhiry DO
yond the Connecticut shall not I've; bn It may
some ery, b. kicked ont o, all alliance with the
great Staies Of tie Cu.on ntolefahlc sui-ance
he Lc,p0e Split ihet seeks How III It's pairo~ VISOR
10 bind H. tie ear Of Massachusetts The young nations VI
the North, will lind ihht 1t employs Tor the purpose I"
rope Of sund and thai tie more com the appearance
Of Its own Success he rn'rr c'ltts has II been work
ipg-uut for It's quick and summary retribuiion"
There is a very short and sharp answer to
this poor fusiian: II i Missouri, not Massachu-
sets, that las so excited the wrath of The
Neos and it is the Great Valley OF. the Ohio
Missouri and Upper Mississippi which has firmly
resolved that our country shall not be broken
up and the Great West shut off from any absO-
Lutte right Of access to foreign markets hy the
disintegra,ion of our Union. This resolve has
been formally eyinced in other States a. well o.
in Mssouri Illinois, for instance, by her Con-
vention Of 1851, propounding essentially the
same TRUTH with hOrdly dissenting voice.
The Union is fixed fact, and States will neither
be allowed to withdraw fiOm il on the one side
nor DO kicked out Of it on The other. The
threats of The Neus are at once preposterous
| and impotent