Year: 1859




employing the Supreme Court for that purpose is
by NO means adequate 1t is not enough for the
shareholders to control the Supreme Court and the
Senate Of the United States 1t is not enough for
them TO nnllify; they must rule. 1t is no longer
merely the action Of Congress which the Southern
politicians claim to control Nothing will satisfy
them now except to control the body Of the peo-
pie Either they must have possession Of all the
power snd al the patronage Of the Federal Gov
ernment, or they will secede from the Union aud
set up distinct Government of their own.


This threat was distinctly beld ont during the
last Presidential election. We were then told that
either the candidate selected BY the slaveholding
interest, and selected too. account of bis long
subseienec 10 that interest must be elected, or. If
that did not happen, that must prepare ourselves
to see forcible resistance to the transfer of the
authority of the Government to the successful
candidate. Tiis new doctrine Of notification goes
to the extent not of nulliying this or that obnox-
ious law, but Of nulifying the Federal Government
itself. The latest and the most formal exposition
Of this pew doctrine, which throws Calhoun and
bis system entirely into the shade. is to be found
in one of the resolutions Of the late Southern Com
mercisl Convention $50 called) held at Nicksburg
Upon some points which came up IN that body
there was a pretty lively discussion, especially on
the question of reviviDg the slaye-trade, between
those who wish to keep up the price of slaves and
those who wish to run 1t down-those who wish to
extend not merely the area Of saseholding
but the number Of Shareholders, and those ho
prefer to keep that body small and select.
But on another point there seemed to be COM
plete unanimity Of opinion. One of the resolutions
of the Convention, to which nobody objected,
recommended to the people of the Southern States,
in case Of the success of the Republican party at
the next Presidential election, to meet immediately
in Convention. to determine ''the mode and
measure" the resolution naIvely expresses it,
" ofupbolding the Constitutional Government as it
" at present texists'-mesning hereby, we suppose,
it, complete control in all its departments by the
Slave Poverty preventing the installation into
" Office Of Republican President, and the inaugu-
"ration of the Republican part! in power" "or
d" failing in that, to resolve the sayeholding States
" into separate independent organization, with
"such constitutional form Of government as will
best secure their safety, their honor their rights
and Institutions which, it seems, our existing
form of government is not adequate" and make
" them power on earth


Such is the new scheme of notification, to be
directed first against the Republican party and its
access to power, and, failing in that operation,
against the Union itself The scheme can hardly
be said to be original as it appears t" be modelled
after the pronunciauiento 20 system of our Spanish
American neighbors. We are inclined to think
however, should the scheme be put into operation,
that those who engage in it will find the Republican
party sufficiently formidable opponent; and that
having failed to pull,fy that, they will hardly VEN
ture to sssail the Union.