Year: 1861

A numoer OF - unc0 wise ana intensely brave
members Of our Legislature have been calling
iercely for the marching of armies into Southern
seeding States. They would uhip the seceders
into obedience. What will they say to the po-
sition just assumed by the President elect
against invading State by marching hostile
army into her territory?


On this project of coercing State by force OF
Federal arms, let us throvethe light of the opin-
ion of Alexander Hamilton. Here is an extrac,
of q speech delivered by him upon this very
question when The .subjscto Of coercion Of State
was under discussion ID the New York Conyen,
ton for the adoption of the Federal Constitu-
ton:


1t has been well observed that to coerce the
| States is one of the maddest projects that was
ever devised. A failure of compliance will never
be confined to single State. This being the
case, can we suppose it wise to hazard civil
war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any large
| State, should refuse, aud Congress should at
tempt to compel them, would not they have in
| fiuence to procure assistance, especially from
those States which are in the same situation as
themselves? What picture does this idea pre-
sent to your view A complying State at war
with non-complying State; Congress march
| ing the troops of one State into the bosom of
another; this State collecting auxilaries, and
forming perhaps majority against its federal
head. Here is nation at war with ITSELF Can
any reasonable man be well disposed towards a
Government which makes war and carnage the
only means of supporting itself; a Government
that can exist only by the sword? Every such
war must involve the innocent with the guilty.
This single consideration should be sufficient to
dispose every peaceable citizen against such a
| Government. In the first formation of Govern
| ment by the association of individuals every
power of tle community is delegated, because
the Government is to extend to every possible
object; nothing is reserved but the inalienable
rights of mankind. But when number ST these
societies unite for certain purposes, the rule is
different and for the plainest reason, they have
already delegated their sovereignty and their
powers to their several governments, and these
cannot be recalled and given to another without
an express act"


For THE UNIoN.-The Union gathering in San
Francisco on the 22d Feb, was n magnificent
affair, and seems to have been participated in
by the great mass of the population of-the Me-
tropolis of the Pacific. Says the Herald of the
day following:


The great heart of San Francisco is Uhior
heart. The demonstration of yesterday barred
its pulsations to the eyes of the world. Never


have we witnessed so universal, so ardent ar
outpouring of patriot derotion to the Union.-


Gray haired men and little children; thost


whose dawn of life broke upon a united, happy
: people, and those who about to occupy tn,


stage of existence under very different auspices


the strong man and the weak, dependent wo


man; men of influence and standing, and mel


of sinewy arms and clear heads, the professional


man, the merchant, the agrieulturalist, the man


ufacturer, the sailor the soldier, the hard hand


ed man of toll, and the scholar all, all were
there to attest by their presence, the absorbing


attachment they felt for the Union. The mighty
concourse the vast sea of thinking feeling hui


mainly present on the occasion, throbbed with
but one hope, one earnest, absorbing emotion


one concentrated love for united, happy Ameri


can confederacy. Everywhere, except in the
immediate vicinity of the gathering, the city
seemed deserted. Almost everybody appeared
anxious to testify heartfelt sympathy with the


meeting by personal presence.