Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-12
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m From the st. Louis Republican,
4 With all their progression, the Easter
y States especially Massachusetts) have
n never had any strong attachment 70 th'
VI Federal Constitution and Union. Dur
,e ing the Revolutionary war, brought OF
q by them, and principally waged for tlei
f; benefit, they were willing enough to en-
ter into a compact and alliance with tht
l. Middle and Southern States, who 50 gen
j. erousIy and faithfully stood by then
l. throughout the arduous struggle; but n,
t sooner had the independence of the colo
e MES been acknowledged that the North
ern ones made ii plain that their OWL
- sectional and selfish interests We're o
o paramount Importance and in every
2 question affecting them must far out
1 weigh any regard for the general welfare
e Of the infant Confederacy. A few his.
- torical facts out of many that might bs
given viii show with whom the doctrine
1 of secession originated, and whether the
% North or South has been most faithful tc
2 the Union.
/ On the adjournment Of the Congress o.
! l7S3, June 3, from Annapolis, Maryland,
e TO meet at Trenton, n. J., on the 30th OF
D October following, they appointed Cone
J Wiftee Of States, consisting OF one mem
b. Der from each State, to constitute the ac-
p tusl and visible head of the Government
} during its recess. " "Dissensions, how
ever" says Mr.. Reeves, in his History of
, the Life and Times OF James Madison,
" soon arose In this provisional body /:
and it was finally broken up by the Sc
{ cession Of three Of its members, reducing
. the Committee of States below aquOrum,
few weeks after its formation. This
occurrence produced, at the time, deep
7 and painful impression upon the friends
of the COnfederacy.n Mr.. Madison, an
swering the inquiries of Mr.. Jefferson
I from Paris respecting the causes Of it,
gives the following account OF the affair,
in a letter dated at Philadelphia, August
20, l7Sj:
You ask me to unriddle the dissolu-
ton of the Committee Of States at
Annapolis. am not sure that I myself
possessed the causes-diherent members
Of Congress having differed in their
accounts of the matter. Ny conception
OF it is, that the abrupt departure Of some
of the Eastern delegates, which destroyed
the quorum, and which Dana is said TO
have been at the bottom of, proceeded
partly from irritati0ns among the Com
mittees, partly from dislike to the place
Of their session, and partly from an I'M
patience to get home, which prevailed
over their regard for their private char
acters, as wel as for their public
duties"
The sccessiOnists were Mr.. Dana, Of
Massachusetts, Mr.. Blanchard, Of New
Hampshire, and Mr.. Dick, OF New
Jersey.
( In 17S8, there was a declared antago-
nism between the Northern and South
ern portions Of the COnfederacy respect
I ing the navigation Of the Mississippi
river, which the Eastern States, REIN
I forced by New York, New Jersey and
I Pennsylvania, We're willing TO surrender
Z 10 spain, against the unanimous votes Of
/ the Southern States. In that spirit of
/ jealousy which seemed to actuate all the
! proceedings Of the Eastern States, Mr..
! king, of Massachusetts, took a cOnspic-
/ uous part in advocating the sectional
policy which would have been SO ruin
Gus to the Western States, whose future
growth and importance they were shTewd
enough to foresee. Mr.. GOrham, another
/ of the delegates Of Massachusetts, avOwed
! the opinion that +" the shutting Of the
/ Mississippi would be advantageous to the /
4 -AtlQutic States, and declared his % wish
| to see it closed.n New Jersey and Penn
/ svlvania finally made common cause
/ with the South, and the Western States /
should remember to whom they are in
debted for the defeat Of the project for
shutting the Mississippi.
These geographical collisions in Con- |
uress, continually fomented by the East I
ern States, produced considerable eX- l
element at the time, and gave rise to /
serious doubts whether it would be pos I
sible to preserve the Union of the States. /
Indeed, there can be no doubt that as 4
early as 1856 New England had well nigh /
determined to dissolve their connection .
with the Southern States, and to estab- /
lish a separate COnfederacy OF their own. /
James Monroe, ia a confidential but Off 1
cial letter written from New York on /
the 18th of August in that year, and ad-
dressed by him as one OF the delegates of
Virginia in Congress TO Patrick Henry,
then Governor Of the State, makes the |
following statement:
Certain il is that committees are held 4
in this town Of Eastern men, and others I
Of this State, upon the subject of a dis
menlberment OF the States east of the
Hudson from the Union, and the erection I
Of them into separate government.
To what length they have gone l know /
not: but have assurances rs TO the truth
Of the above position, with this addition
10 it, that the measure is talked of in
Massachusetts Familiarity, and is sup
posed to have originated there. The
plan of the government, in all its modifi-
cations, has even been contemplated by
them"
Mr.. Monroe addressed a letter Of SINH
lar import to Mr.. Madison, dated April
3, 1856, from which we give a few eN-
tracts:
60 consider the party, especially Jay
and the principal advocates, as having
gone too far to retreat They must
either carry the measure, or be disgraced
as the principal already hath been by
the vote Of five States, and, sooner than
suffer this, they viii labor 70 break the
Union. ], therefore, suspect they have
been already .and, indeed, have too
much reason for my suspicions) intrigu-
ing with the principal men in these
States, TO effect that end in the last re-
sort. They have even sought dismem-
bermeut to the Potomac; and those of
the party here have been sounding those
in Office thus far. A l.
knowiedgs thar she )Pennsylyania) was
on our side would blow tnls whole in
trigue in the air. To bring this about,
therefore, is an important object to the
Southern interest. If dismemberment
takes place, that State must not be added
TO the Eastern scale IF they
the Eastern mem DO not obtain that
things shall be arranged to suit them in
every respect, their intrigues will extend {
70 the objects ] have suggested above. {
Pennsylvania is their object. Upon sue F,
ceeding or falling with her viii they gain ;
or lose confidence. j doubt not theemis-
saries Of foreign governments viii be |
on the ground. I earnestly wish the .
admission Of few additional States into I
the Confederacy in the Southern States.n =
In the years ir5o and iTs7 great civil ]
commOtions occurred in Massachusetts,
which affected, more or less, all the ad- !
Joining States. il was a thorough rebel }
lion, the result Of pervading revolu- {
tiOnary spirit, which spurned at the [
legal, constituted authorities Of the State
and the Confederacy, and aimed to sub I
stituta in their stead the dictatiOn Of par
tial and irregular assem- hlies Of the
people. A proclamation of the Governor, :
denouncing these proceedingsa as seditlous I
and reasonable, was unheeded. The !
Legislature was convened, but its tenn [
porting measures only gave new
and more alarming proportions 10 the {
outbreak The anxious attention Of
Congress was at length drawn to it, and !
on the Goth Of September, 1856 Gen. !
Knox, Secretary of War. was directed 10 7
repair to Massachusetts, 10 aid the state
in supprcssiug a revolt {
which threatened 10 involve the United /
States in the calamities Of a civil war. :
II happened, fortunately, that MsssG- q
chuSetts hau Suct man as GON BOW =
doin at the head Of its administration,
and under his firm and calm determine /
ton the formidable rebellion was at Y
length quelled.
Such scenes Of domestic anarchy and :
civil discord at last overcame the feelings
1f alienation from Ihe Tni0H under which
with her sister States Of
New England, had recently embraced
he project of secession and q separate q
Joniederaey and o. the Ilst cf Felru-
iry, 1857, resolution was passed by her r
legislature 70 send deputies TO the pro- n
posed convention for amending the Con- 4
titution, and forming more perfect K
Union, Yet We see the still lin a
rering influence OF heT jea,ogsY Gf i'edr- h
al power in the fact that when the v
lew Constitution came TO be submitted Il
% the ratification or rejection Of the peo- a
DE, II was adopted hg the CpnyentiQp Of z
consisting OF three hun II
lred and fifty-five members, by a ma Z,
GRITTY Of only nineteen. q
In 1871, a speech was made in the II
House 0f Representatives by Josiah v
quincy, OF Massachusetts, ia which he 7
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