Year: 1861

tice will ultimately prevail and dispose
our Northern fellow-citizens to fulfill oil
the duties they owe 10 US as citizens of the
same country, living under the same Con-
stitution, inhsritors Of the same blood, and
shsrers in the same destiny.


So far as the prejudice complained of has
manifested itself in legislative action, the
complaint is not merely that such action
violates the Constitution of the United
States, because our own State has passed
acts which have been declared by our own
judicial tribunals and by the Supreme Court
Of the United States to be violations of the
Constitution Of the United States, and those
familiar with the judicial history Of the
country know that many, If not all the
States OF the Union, have at times passed
laws which have been held to be inconsist-
ent with that Constitution. Some Of these
acts related TO land titles, some to contracts,
some affected commerce with foreign ma
tions and between the States; but all such
laws, as they were not produced by any
sectional feeling, were left 10 be decided
Upon by the tribunals Of the country with
an ultimate appeal to the Supreme Court
of The United States, the final arbiter on all
cases arising under the Constitution. Such
cases produced no excitement in the public
mind, and all confidence was reposed in
that elevated tribunal that it would vindi-
cate the supremacy Of the Constitution.


There Is no reason ia apprehend that
that tribunal would shrink from declaring
the class of enactments OF which we are
now treating, which are aimsd against the
rights of Shareholders, repugnant to the
Constitution and therefore void. There is,
therefore, an obvious remedy for the grisv-
ance arising out Of this unconstitutional
legislation, and that, too, a remedy provided
BY the Constitution itself for an evil FORE
seen when it was made. Moreover, there
are indications Of a returning sense Of JUS
,ice in the Northern States, from which we
may hope for the voluntary repeal Of those
obnoxious enactmshts. , .a
| Upon the subject Of the violent interfer-
encs by mobs with the execution Of the fti-
gitive slave law, and the forcibls abduction
OF slaves when with their owners in the
Northern States, it is proper to observe that
there reigns throughout this land spiri. Of
insubordination TO law tha. is probably un.
equalled in any other civilized country on
the globe. While this is true, it is . fact
of which We can still be proud that the ju-
dicisl tribunals of the Federal Government
have not failed in any case brought before
them, to maintain the rights of Southern
citizens and to punish the violators Of those
rights.


When Southern soil is invaded by North
ern madm en- for the purpose Of overthrow.
ing the institution of slavery, they meet
their death by the law, and that is the end
of their scheme.


The fact that q sectional party avowing
opposition TO the admission of slavery into
the Territories Of the United States has
been organized, and has for the present OBJ
tanned possession Of the Government, is to
be deeply regretted, because it opens before
us all the dangers against which the Father
Of his Country so earnestly warned US.


But the history Of our country for very
few years back, instructs US in the truth
that political parties, even when coming
into power with overwhelming popularity,
soon melt away under the influence Of in
ternal jealousies. and disappOintmenls, and
the attacks Of vigiant opponents.


When party comes into power upon
the basis Of a single question Of policy,
there is soon found the truth, that govern
ment canno. be administered upon single
idea, and its supporters become divided
upon the questions which affect their own
interests. it'


There is every reason to hope that the
party which has just assumed the rsins Of
government will feel that the vast interests
iu,rusted to their management, are of such
greater importance than the question,
whether slaves shall or shall not be admit
ted into all the territory that now belongs
TO the United States. There is reason to
hope that when the mas ses Of that party
understand that the admission of slaves into
aterri,ary does not increase the number Of
slaves in being, they win be prepared to
make any arrangement with their southern
brethren that shall assure to them equal
rights in the common territories. aIl


Under the state Of facts now existing, Il
would seem almost needless to speak oil
the propriety OF the State Of Missouri en-
gagine 10 revolution against the Federal
Government. Secession is the word CON.
monty employed when the revolution now
in progresses mentioned: but as the Con.


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