Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-06-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SACREDLY OBLIGATORY UPON ALL. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." My next testimony shall be that of a bitter enemy. I need not tell your readers that the Saturday Review has all along been the most earnest, as well as the ablest advocate of the South. But the Saturday Review is too well informed of the facts of the case to maintain that the South had a constitutional right to secede. And accordingly, in all its numerous ariicles, though it has warmly defended the South on all other grounds, it has never ventured to do so on this. On the contrary, in an article upon this very point—" Sovereignty and Seemaion,"—it admits that "if we can look at the matter for a moment with perfectly impartial eyes, and wholly forget our prepossessions for either side in the present struggle, we shall say that, looking solely to the letter of the Constitution, the secession of a State and the rebellion of Yorkshire are exactly the same thing. the Constitution does not, and cannot, cantemplate secession. Within its own limits the Union is sovereign, just as the State is sovereign within its own limits. But to secede implies that a State steps within the limits which the Union claims for itael-that it re-assumes certain powers which it has express 4 surrendered to the Union. Therefore, in strictness, a Sta:e cannot secede. From a Union point of view, the Act is iii itself a nullity ; it cannot be looked on as he act of the State. but simply as that of certain traitorous pers ins within that State. * • • The true ground for the Confederates to take is, not the untenable one of the constitutional rijla of secession, but the general principle affirmed in the Declaration of Independence,—the right to resist and change • bad govei There can be no doubt that this is the true d3ettine. Let 166 Confederates prove, if they can, that the Government which they resist is a hepelessly bad one and incapable of constitutional amendment—let them produce an array of grievances anything approaching to that terrible list laid before the world in the Declaratien of loilependence—let them show that they had endeavoured earnestly, but in vain, to procure their removal by peaceful means, and their act, like the act of Washington and his associates, however technically " rebellious," will deserve the sympathy and admiration of men. But 1, for one, cannot think that the mere fact of the Federal Government refusing to guarantee the unconstitutional extension of slavery is quite a sufficient grievance to justify this insolent accession and the terrible consequences to which it has necessarily led. I must now conclude. As I have many other authorities I most ask you to allow me one more oppurtutray shortly of simply gusting them as briefly as possible. But as far as my own arguments or observations are concerned, I have now done. I have tried to argue the question honestly, and without any attempt to gain an unfair advantage; I have not used any argument or ; made any assertion which I do not believe to be perfectly sound and true; and I have the consolation of thinking that so far they all remain perfectly unshaken. am, &c., June sth, 1863. C.  P.S. Since the above was written, I have been favoured with a perusal of Mr. Coupet's paper in favour of the recognition of the South. I have read it very carefully. I willingly acknowledge its ability, as well as its fair and temperate tone. But I don't think he has quite made out that the time for recognition has yet come.  A woman named Fawcett, the wife of a saddler, residing in Ashton Old Road, was connui ted for trial at the City Police Court, Manchester, on Friday, on a charge of having attimpted to murder her husband. Early on Friday morning, Fawcett was awakened by a sensation of pricking in his throat. and he then saw his w.fe standing over him with a knife in her hand. He it one.. endeasoured to seize the knife ; but it was only after a severe strugde that he succeeded in wresting the weapon trout his wife's hand. When taken inte custody, the womin expri,sod her regret that she had not been ab.e to com;lite her design. She intended, she said. to eu hr r lousnand'a throat, and th m destroy hr own life. Fawcett was only slighted wounded in the throat.  Piinted and pubinled by THOMAS MORTON Hums, at this 11erü'i Otte, M.,