The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-26


If the Cotton States shall become salts
fed that they can do better ont of thu
Union than in it, We insist on lettins
them go in pence. The right to seced,
may be q revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless. We must ever re
sist the right of any State to remain il
the Union and nullify or defy the law,
thereof. To withdraw from the Union i:
quite another matter. Whenever q cop
siderable section of our Union shal! de
libeTately resolve to go out, we shall re
sist all eoercive measures designed te
keep them in. We hope neyer to live il
a Republic whereof one seetion is pinned
to another by bayonets.-[ New York Tri
bune, Nov. 8, 1860.
IF the Cotton States ppitedly aud earn
estly wish to Withdraw peacefully from
the Union, We think they should and
would be allowed to do So Any attempt
to compel them by force to remain, would
be contrary to the principles enuuciated
in the immortal Declaration of Independ
enee--contrary to the fundamental ideas
on which human liberty is based New
York Tribune, Nov. 20, 1860.
fit (the Declaration Of Independence
justified the secession from the British
Empire, of three millions of Colonists in
1776, we do not see Why it should moi
justify the secession of fye millions ol
Southerners, from the Union, in 1851
New York Tribune, Dee. II, 1860.
| Whenever it shall be clear that the
great body of the Souther< people have
become conclgsively alienated from the
Union and anxious to escape from it, we
win do our best to forward their views
t-[New York Tribune, Feb. %, 1861.
Mr.. Greeley Was not the first to advo
cate the right of secession and dissolu.
ton, nor was Mr. Lincoln. but Mr.. Lin.
coin did ADVOCATE it as early as the 18th
of January, 1913, on aquestion of refer
ence of portinR Of the Presidents mes
sage.-[see Ap. Con. Globe, lst Session
9th Congress, p. "a.
II Any people, any where, being inckned
and having the power, hare the right tt
Ifise up and shake of the existing govern
nent and form new one that suits then
Ebetter. Nor is this right confined
Ito cases in which the people of an exist
ling government may choose to exercise it
/ Any portion of such people that can
Fmay revolutionixe, and may make theil
Town of so much territory as they inhabit
More than this, \ majority of any portion
Eof such people may revolutionize, putting
down minority, intermingled With o.
near about them, Who may oppose theil
movements
Said Rufus p spaulding, member Q
the Convention that nominated Fremont
Ii In the case of the alternative beiny
presented Of the continuance OF slavery
for DISSOLUTION Of the onion, / am 70
ldissalHtioR, and raFe NOT boy quick j
Icomes.
/ In 1854, the Abolitionists of Massa
ehgsetts and other States sent petitions tt
Congress, fom EAifh the following is al
extract:
| We earnestly request Congress at it
present session to take such initiatory
i measures for the speedy, peaceful anC
leauitabla dissolution of the existing UnioI
as the exigenciss of the case Rlay reqHiFs
i Says Sspator Wade. of 0hiQl
/ / say there is another thing-and
put it as question of casuistry-if thi
condition on which the Union is TO b
permanent can coRsist alone in tramplins
down nearly four millions Of Tour iRhab
itants, G. 9. the existence of slaYery.)
ask honest and honorable men, dare yol
wish that the Union should be continued
upon even these nefarious conditions
No, sir; nor I, for it would be the mos
miserable selfshness that ought to damn
any man wishing to benefit himself froH
such a sacrifice Of all the rights belong
ling to human nature as this. (Applause.
4 And after all this talk of Union
lSir, have said you have no Union.
!, say you have no Union to-day worthy 0
the nanne.
| Sir, I am here Q consaryatiye man
i knowing as do that the only salvation
, to your Union is that you divest it en-
tirely from all the taints of slavery.
" If We CANT have that, then ! 60 for n
i Union 9t all, hut I 60 for aght;1 CGrea
appiause.J If there is any man here pos
sessiHg weaker spirit, let him show hilHl
Issif, for want to see bis mlteek facss.
II Says Horace Greeley;
q All nations haye thsif sspeFstitiepn'
and that of our peopls is the Constitution
Henry Ward BeecheE says:
A great many people EaisR a cry abou
the Uniop and the Constitution, as if tb
two were perfectly identical; but tn
; truth is, it is the Constitution itself ths
3 is the cause Of every division which thi
-fvexed question of slavery has ever occs
stoned in this country. 1t has been til
foundation of our troubles, by attemptin
to hold together, as reconciled, two oppo
|. ling principles Which win not harmonic n
nor agree.
! Says SAL P. Chase:
81 Slavery in the S ates would not col
0 lkinue q year after the accession of ii
nIanti-slayery party to power, and it ougl
II to be abolished by The constitution
3 power Of Congress.
says Erred Douglass:
From this time forth conseerate ii
: labors of my life to the dissolution of Il
! Union and ! care not whether the bo
that rends it shall come from Heaven
from He'll
Redpatb, the English Abolitionist, WI
done the engineering for the Republicar