Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1866-02-10
CONJlAUEp FROM LAST wEEK.


The gentleman IRON Petersburg uests
the CUhsllluuOn Ul The UGlled States.
merely as compact, league or 'resly a.
mong twrnly-inur Sovereign Slstss. II
IL hue that II Is II compact, but II is com
pacl IofmIng Govesumen'. The Gov
rrnmrns "l lie United States can make
laws, aud can execute them : allegiance
IS Gue 10 II as d Government. All our
Governments are compacIs. but every
coupsl Is hot Government. The Gov
eInmcEt OF The United States can be dis.
solved in but Two wayt, by HE consent
Of ihe parties 10 HE compact. rr by revo-
lu,ion, Tie President III his procIama-
ton has placed ihe Of secession on lis
tree ground, II is the right OF r volunoh,
and none olher; ii ean be sustained only
by one universal law of nature, the law
OF srlI defense. Of clf-preseivallon." )" hIch
10 paramount TO all The Laws that man can
make. The rishI 10 resort 10 tlis la" IL
unaIenah,c and lndeleaslhle. This rem
edy has received piauslble, w; deluslve
namr-a name well calculated To mIsiead
,he people, call the remedy resoI"uon,
and they whl all understand IT. have
no fear that the people "lll commit revo'
iuiion without sufficient cause. But DO
ienr thar Ihe people may ba led on step
by step, By those plausible theories, un'iI
ilrjr passions btcome so excited, that
they vii lush INTO a bloody reVoiullon
with all its appalling consequences rather
than Tecede. am admOnlshed BY lhe
example Of South Carolina. Nulitlca'
non Is u hue name, and has lhe delnslve
adjunct vi peaceutle-we have seen The
effects produced by that remedy III South
Carolina. Tie people Of Virginia have
found out its true character at last, and
now we are all instructed 10 denounCe
and sbu.e Notification, and we DO abuse
ii. h"pe The people will instruct US 10
denounce this right of peaceuble seces'
sion. | would give this remedy much
more appropriate name-0ne that would
define lis character, mUch more accurate
ly. | would call i. The poa0er Of torci6Ie
secession.
MIR. Chairman, let US declare, in plain,
NVCluSu lSIUs, llldI VIC Will HOb VI
secede OH account Oi The operation OF HE
present IaIltf laws of tie General Gov
erumenI; thai ii South Carolina ,ciH. We
will not go with her in any Of her meas
nEes-'ha' We will not justly any Slate
III any such measures, for such a cause
that IN weighing HE evils OF the present
IaTIH laws, against The blessings of the
Union, We consider those evils, as mere
dust IN the balance. This will do more
10 save the eHusion Of blood, aud to pre-,
serve the Union. than AL the reluonstran.
ess. petitions aud ambassadors, We can
send her. South Csrliona desires TO
know, wha: We will do, in the present
Crisis Of her affairs, aud she has night
10 know. Candor, asllce 10 her, and 10
ourselves, requires hsl We should speak
Out openly. and decidedly on ihls subject.
II she believes that Virginia may be IN
Iuced 10 ride with her, she ~ill go on. II
MOI, she will recede. Has not The course
oi South Carolina shewn cJncluslveiJ.
'hai she has from The beginning, lpoked
TO Virginia. for moral, IT not for physical
support She leok Up in the beginning.
Thst she called VIrginla's principles, snd
II all her proceedings s!uce she has kept
a''eady eye upon Virginia. 1t is 10 be
regretted, that Virginia IN times pasi has