The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05

liz tO1-s IHe second was as
lolloWs: If any State or any body of
lhen IN any State shall oppose or pre-
vent the carrying into execution such
acts or treaties the Federal Executive
snall De authorized to call forth the
power OF the Confederate States or so
iHuch thereof as may be necessary to
ENFORCE obedience to such acts or an
observance Of such treaties"
NO one spoke for these resolutions
no one voted for them-eVen the NOV
ers OF the resolutions voted against
them. [ verify believe if Gems. Grant
and Sherman had been in hat cor
NentlOn they would have been wanting
IN moral courage to have voted to
coerce a State especially when they
found Washington voting against
them.
MI Madison speaking on the reso-
Iutions said the more he reflected 81
tne use OF force the more he doubted
the practica bility, the justice and the
e11cacy Of it when applied to people
coliectlVely and not individually; an
union Of States containing such an
ingredient seemed to provide for its
" destruction. The use OF force
against a State would look more like "a
oeclarat1on of war than an infliction
or punishment and would probably
De considered by the party attacked
as q dissolution of all previous COM
pact by which it might be bound
1IdIIIi1lO1 SpodhluS upon
the resolutions said, but how can this
force be executed upon the States col
lectlVeIy.' 1t is impossible, it amounts
10 a war between the parties. Foreign
powers Will not be die spectators, they
Will lntefpose, the confusion will in
crease n q dissolution of the Union
will ensue.
President Buchanan comes to
apologize to the American people for
the deep wrong and gross insult he
offered them in the last days of his
administration by abandoning the con-
stitution and refusing to execute the
laws he will find great comfort and
consolation in the fact that Washing
ton, Hamilton. Madison and every pa
trlot who aided in framing the Con-
stitution taught and commanded him
not to execute the laws by ccercing
South Carolina. All I can say is that
Washington, Hamilton and others
were in great error when they 50
voted and acted in convention and
James Buchanan was in great error
when he followed the debates in con
Vention instead of the constitution
and his oath Of office. 1t is the con-
stitution that binds and not the debate,
IN convention or the resolutions of
$50.
In 184S when the national democ-
racy met to nominate a President,
William Yancy had Incorporated III
the platform a resolution declaring the
resolutions of 98-99 to b. a part of
the cardinal principles of the Demo-
cratic party.
This resolution was reaffirmed by
the party every -four years when IN
they nominated a candi-
date for the Presidency, and thus 1t
was that the Northern as we'll as the
Southern democracy were committed
to Secession.
The Democratic majority was SO
great in the United States that [
might say thus were the American
people committed to secession by Mr..
Yancy, or rather they were recon-
mitted, for Mr.. jefferson had com
mitted them sixty years before. Mr..
Yancy only called upon the party to
renew their fealty to Stat interposi-
ton, State Sovereignty and Secession"
This much / will say for MI.
Buchanan. he could not, having been
elected upon the resolutions Of $50,
execute the laws and defend the con-
%stitution of his country in 1861 with
out deserving his party and betray-
ing their principles. When South Caro-
lima seeded no wonder lie should say
in his message to Congress, South
Carolina had no right to secede, but
| have no right to coerce her" Cicero
informs us that the very boys in an
cient Rome were obliged to learn the
twelve tables by heart as a carmen
necessarium' or Indispensable lesson
to imprint on their minds an early
knowledge of the laws and constitu-
ton of their country" Sc Mr.. Buchan-
nan and democracy learnt the resolu-
ions of 98-9 as carmen n~eceSSarlum
for their better understanding of the
constitution.
1 can find no justification or ex-
cuse for the negotiations and agree
ment between the President of the
United States and the Governor of
North Carolina as is shown by the fol-
lowing correspondence to put Off the
wal pending Mr.. B~uchannan's adj
m~inistratiOn and throw it upon Mr..
Linco1n's administration. The Hon.
VIM. Ashe and other Democrats de-
termined to take the forts in North