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Bat I shall now. with your permission, leave do doubt of the position in which I wish to stand. and, in doing so, I shall mingle my opinion, and cnunsels with those of my fellow-citizens, to be neighed for what they are worth, in "this great ar gument." The Tariff I consider an act of insuffe rable .and ~us:(h1ing oppression. % hich ought. to., be bornt only untile it can he ji. diciouqlv redsted.. But this resistance, in my opinion, to be effective; must unite ithe efforts of. at leagt, a large postion of the suf'erers. I do not think one State ought to resist alone. There will be neitheicon - fidence nor certainty in such a course The.people of one State, standing alone would not be heartily united among them selves. - It might he different if the Siae were alone in the sufreriig; but sianding -in the' midst of common 'suiferera, much more numerous- than fliernselves, whouse' - arms were folded, the presence of these would operate like i moral condemnnitation of their act and chill the warm blinod. thongh animated in so aood a cause. and enfeeble 'the strong arn just raised to strike. But, it is asked. ifotir fellow sufferers' will' not unite with us in resistance, shall we basely submit? We have no righ: to anticipate that' even. 'In my opition. if they do not, .they will he insensible to honor and to shame. and eqnally so, im their interests ani their danger. But we dare not cast this reproach upon them; merely because they 'conot. thi-uk fit to adopt our measures and ou'r time. If we think.they are tardy we mtnr 'treat them r with brotherly zeal to quiken their step. If our measures be not accepbtab.lto theml, let us modify them or adopt ttreii, ,jf thev leed to the same' end. Resistanwi'l' be a very solemn art. It* it be ralIilr' tempted and fibil, it will rivet our ebbii and bring on us new hurdens and' nni'd't | Suecess in suhrtgreat enterprises is it' usually the result of a sudden tho ghc oi the fruit of a single day, but of wise ende sober deliberation and protracted actioi. We are speaking of the-movement of :nkd tions-a drcebsful resistanee %%ill irbiyi cost saune years. T'he cirematnces in' which we are placed canimtt fail to remindi us of our fiirst great act of re-sistance to pressi 'n. Let is t hen boaist less oftesn uit less idly ofitie deeds of atir.'ancesiors, add -more fa;ithfully aimita'te t hett. T hey id not jump' itn a single' breath to 'thetr cnN closion atid talk of sirugle handed rests tanec. The-y deliberated Iong anod witrely united all who we're tinder'commtont sufe Fring and'-iu'-common" daneer. Let 'us d as-they did.- Letassneiatiotis be foriuied: in cvrny Southern, and, if 'possible. iri eve ry South Western State. and let them, .confer together-andi inerchange viens and inforrmation; let leadIing men,, through' Committeel and' the- iriiate correspan dende colleet~ cotupari and concentrale the' views of like men 'in their'~ respeftivre State,, and whieri ripe for it, andu no:t be fore~ let represontnitives frosia those St ates u eet in Converiti's'n, 'anui ifeircutinsfines promise success, let thten then del haet'te on' the mode' of're'tistance' aid lihe 'meas - re of redt'esus'ft nott still persevere d:let' neit her delqfdor first failries.' shoud ibey' happen,'eate 'despair' or',.'faintliearted. ness. -'Inflexible perseverdnee raiY4v'ails iu a good cause, andi ours isa'ondih~is' never he nhandoned; Cotatinue' to enhigh' tenthe public mind, rouse i b'e putbliiefeeaL ing, excite the public shame for the degra' dation 'to which'we have beetn broug hi, let your'exeitfo'ns'ha niit occ-asional and de. suitory, blut oigani'zdd irud' incessant, avoid especially' all 'bli'sei-16f and 'put in the place of it sousid~ Wen'~'dfncible 'reasir ning.-Your appeals to your fellow citi zens may, neveriheless,"he'as" 'iiiahin edoas your sense of injury'- asil'sninjia ni datigerunay inspire, but ief~'nht' filie chastened by a regard to the moa eg of an enlighte'd communit y, tod .Ibsie proper funelionis of the ne-wspaper pre'ss, the citrculation of ahle and w: 11 eh'oshi tracts' antd let them be lund' ii every hamlet'end house in the Southi and 'Sh WestA-atiry"'your exerduna into 'ihe nies in their preparation for risistance tc 'the mother country. During that strug gle we had aniong our friends the'Burket and the Chathams, and other of the grea test nanes that ever adorned humanity. There are in every country virtuous men who hate injustice and detest oppression, though ,heyhe the acts-of theirown coun try and governmeit; and their influence, though they may not be able to carry a I vote. has often great moral and political weight. Their approbation will have great effeci in qustaining your own resolu tion.-But in this case you may appe4l to your interest as well as their justice, Ior the ma s of the people, no where, derive any advantage from the oppression you sutffer, and have great and honest interesi put it hazard by the resistance you mas be obliged to make. Manufactures sholut be the' last resort of industry in ever) country, for when foreed as they are will us, they serve no interests but those of 0. capitalists who set them in moli..n, atd their immediate localities. Commerce it ibe -proper hand maid of agriculture an' agtriculture the blessed empolymentof man Already both are languishing unddr th. intriguing power of mattufrcturing capi talits. Without the agriculture of the South and South West, the grass wouldl grow in the streets of your great Northern ciiies. What cormpayatively, would Bos ton, New York. Philadelphia and Bati more be, were the South and South West, or evest the South alone,'obliged to retire from the Union? What, if our intercourse withi these cities were transferred to Liver pmol and Havre? A inotnent's reflection will be sufficie-it to show how little diffi cult this transfer would be, especially when we consider the present and grow ing celeritypr steain power. These and like ports are the ultimate points of our present commerce, though we are contented (gnied, easy people as we are when not trample tn the earth by op. pre-sinu) to hear the charges of a double transit antl to employ these Northern ci lies as our factors.-What, if the unhap py event of seperation shall be provoked, it to prevent us from doing our business, as we have done before, and reaping the profiis which we now bestow on others, and which have made the Commercial men of the North and East "Merchant Princes?" Charleston and Savannah would then be great and flourishing cities. New Orleans would spedily swell into the present maanitude of New York, and every ituifoand Itteresflconneced'itti then would increase and flourish in pre potion. These may be called by the in terested and unreflecting litiledreams, but those acquaited with the nature of com merce and who have reflected on the concentrating power of the union which now builds tip and sustains the great Nor thern and Eastern cities, well know'that they asre sober truths and that even in the event de4preeamed. the results is certain and ievi:ahle. Rtjuse the proper inquiries. and you will have numerous friends w:ith in the enemnies lines, and these too, will have the best friends of their ownimmedi ate coutries. Renouttce'absolutely and unreservedly, during this contest, all pretention to the :igh honoirsof the union. Fill no office tnder the General Government except in the Legislative Halls. This will he no caritice, fur no son of yours will, whatev. er be his merits, ever fill the Executive Chair until your wrons are righted. until yoau shall be respected as equals in the .overnment, nod until the withering scorn the Legisltive Assemblhes shall banish o sthmir floors your calumnious accusers. I do tnt say that younought not in join even zealously and with all your might. doih choice of a chief magistrate -of the sUiio; liut let ii no t be. in support of a shergo aspirant which, at this time will .wkdiieiti-act and mislead you. Support 'alwddtenlidate most likely to -mta~tin yonur oand your countries interest. I speakt-i ~ f Carolina alone bitt of all the SoutneraC "es-aive your whole and imsitsg h to the men and the party oplposed to ypur oppressars, and claim n olieiforyhfuautlvs. By this unambitious curisenoany ai some'weight in the naitinaladcirntis-at present you have nor i.hTtie'<jple of the West, notn witlisteridii" . little apparent aliena Iion, whW igeJpended vastly more on ihe mnvemiein'en than our principles and -wiii'erfse cannot lest long, are ~ou~d'silllieLet the South and the West co"b Iff~i the democracy of the other ifartii , ~nIn. The West have at. presna btild&lause to open their eyes ~to tahe~evflshey-suffer from Tariff and abolition oiieiation, for these pow -en rse- clsi dui and together have wrougto sl-'table result to which a ili h!~~~c ad enabled the Westu so ~i~ es of the greatest blsi l .grant them,-of anhal powenhh and seeurity Texas.B~ einselves, by these unhidlycr entirely and heart lessly dejw . ese greai bleisings. All the Suu'i tates (by 'which I meain allt i1 Wetof the Ohio River) are of~~edd undlineage; their losttttnons a~ orlWess Southern, and thteir ititeresr J lig.ingsiine as those of the Snuili' ~Tereis reason therefore ohopet e tge sblistand,as we gere went ?~O, in our- country's mote liberal aod gri1ays, side h'by i ntu polfiial m0eets By iaiulrn~al la%~ ei tirnenvas thit high'hkioded powe saue people tlaat nowopmpesi you va. This was the policy of Je ,~this aliarice forimed the great D4in Tar* of the Union. Thai great bond is now fearfully shattered and almost severed by tariff and abolition com binations, and %%ill soon altogether-perish if -these combinations, be not resised. Look at the great Democratic family of the North and East, how it hobbles along in a spiritless paralytie movement, like that of the halt and the lame; loik at the great and good Old Dominion how it has sunk and fallen, howt its glory has gone down look at your on n shaieless Southern desertions. What i6 the cause - of the deplorable condition of our politics? What is the cause of that general gloomy discon tent anti uncertainty which prevail amonag 'he people concerning their political more t.ents; of the infidelity so shamefully ex inited by their representatives, who have substituted the little schemes of faction ud ptersonal resentment for the great interests A their country? You see Southern Sen 'ors voting for a tariff which they thetn .Ives have repeatedly condemned and re irohated, and Western Senators against ne annexation of Texas. which their con Iiit'aents, to a man, anxiously wished to wequire -What is the cause of those Joony clouds which lour in the poltical -v; of that fearful dread which all good snen suffer ofa fatal disruption of our noble Institutions ? Dark as this picture may be and certainly is, exclude but a single group of the numerous Draiatis person&, lt but the scene change so as to exclude from the stage a few hundred overgrown capitalists, the governors of power looms and spinning jeunies, and a very small number of reckless fanatic abilitionists, and all will be lialit and life. We shall immediately see the sky brighten and the clouds disperse. We shall discover a free porftable and increasing commerce, feed ing and sustaining a prosperous agrit-ulture: high prices for the produce of the soil, and cheap supplies for its cultivators, with union. harmony and fraternal love binding together the whole people of the wiole country. The good old Democracy tri umphant and the moiely hand of Whig ism--Here a bit of blackstone, and there a bit of white"t-tiding its head in feeble ness and defeat. The whole union flour ishing, and the South loyal, contented and happy. Texas bounding an-i strength - ening our borders and increasing our wealth and greatness. In the name of God, what fatuity has come over !he people that they do not discover the petty and odious ihral dom in which ihey are bound and by which the greatest boons and blessings cf Provi deffce rthiaened with entire subversion and even, in effect, turned -into curses. But to return from this to long but inter esting disgression in which we have looked with a kind or prophetic vission. we think on what we hope to see realized at no dis tant day. When three or four States shall arise with unblenching front, and uniite heartily and resolutely. others will spedily join them and onr relief will in all likeli hood, be peaceably accomplished. and the Union preserved. Yet let not this blessed hope be relied upon with confidence, htt anticipate a Worse result and be prepared to meet it. But we shall put at hazard that Union which we so much love and honor, in which we purchased a pat inership with so many sacrifices, and he forced out of it by that very people .against whom we have heretofore defended it? It is, my opinion, a lamentable truth, that, that hazard must .be net and it is idle and even dangerous to hesisate in avowina it as the possible result. however much. we may deprecate it.-There are worse evils than disinion and we can hardly donbi that we have been long suffering under them. Bat, if the dissolution of the Union be a great evil, and it certainly will be so to the American people. and would be so tons, if we were permitted to etijol its benefits, the guilt and the reproach will rest 'upon those who wantonly provoked it and those who wantonly have suffered it to take place. Yes wantonly, for the Historian most record the fact, that the "sacrifice of that glorious Inmstitut inn which might have. secured, and perttetuated, to a distant pos terity and greatness of twenty millions of people, at this time, andl of more than an hundred to no every remote fat urity, was made to gratify the inoridinate avarice of a few score (not more) of great capitalisms, in asamll section of the country, and the farious madnebs of a smaller number of fanatical abolitionists, who comhinuiad to gether to oppress the interests and to des troy the peace. and happiness of the peo-. ple of the Southern States, who, to their honor of humanity resisted and overthrew their wiclied designs." Before Gtd, we dho not wish disnnion. Let the Government hejttstly administered and we will glory in the Union and give it our whole hearts and .strength, in. Peace and War, as we bave done before when some of its most noisy eulogists, at the present time. were not in ranks with us. when they were almost in the ranks of a foreign enemy. Btit whod has heretofore spoken of disunion? Whettce did theiodi ions term originate ? not surely from the South.~ It came in the chill blast of the4 North and East. By what description of persona has the idea..at any time, been put forth at the . South? what men of note, what great .public asusembly of the South *has heretofore spoke of disunion. But among those who have recently taken it under ,tieir''peentliar . gu'ardianship the greatest seti hboast have repeatedly and flippantly uttered it. When thegeat and invaln'able iadqeisition of -Lousiaria was made did.not oge of their 4nost disie tinguishred men on the iloorof.Coangres dei cl are, that it:.would be- folpied eb.y ,their severanc~e from .the Uniong.'npeaegajblylif~ .they ,mnst." When ten 'eany..r, el Annexation of Texas (no less importai than valuable) was announced, their great eat ien rushed forward, with breathiles haste to utter equivalent language. Re cently, one of their greatest, wisest anc gravest. Legislative bodies modestly -pro posed to expunge from the constitumntiot the most pacred article in it, by which wi were woodd into the compact and withoul which %%e would have had nothing to dc with it; and.what would this have beer hut actually & faithlessli pet petrating dis union. Yet these are the people who vo ciferous accuse you of the desire of disu nio , when -the head and front of you offending" does-no anount to a title ol their own gunlt. If, indeed, there be the shadow ofrguilt on your part in complan ing.of the great abuses ofit, and, ifunder the sore afflictions' you suffer through iii forms, yot propose t9 calculate the value of it and the- dangers of it too, for the threatened dangers of it are nore alarm ing:tban all we actually suffer great as that-may be. The Tariff is only an exponent of the power and the disposition to abuse and a)press us under the forms of the Consii lution. Do not the Hails of Congress riug daily with their unfraternal and inso lent hciilies on our morals and humani ty and are we all free people, who are their equals in every moral and intellectu al quality, to bear this? - Do we not hear :minous threats oftheir interposion in our lomesticconcers and with our, tenderost iterests, as-if we were dependent or con luered provinces ? Do we not koti that hose wtao thus raise their voices under the )rivileges ofte Conist ttion are the mouth aieces of Foreign fanatic associations witl whom they.correspnd ? Yet these peo >le eat ine bread, token frotm vour own nouths, of that labor which they repro sate, and stint the comforts of that class of )ersons of whose condition they affect to )e so fastidiouely tender, for aiong the Ve y highest duties which they tmpose to ncrease theirexitravagant gains, is that on he clothinkgof the slave. The he'art of heir hum.inity is in th--ir strong box and n the balancesheet of their profit and loss iccount. They are Les amis dea noirs, with less motive ofviriue than the Furies ,vhom the National Convention of France monited upon St. Domingo to scatter leath among their- nhite brethrenand -verlasting desolation and misery among he blacks.-These were holiest, erring and unhtapp'. enthnsiaui wh. kne isht wvhat they were doing, but our .assailants ire *oo cold blooded calculators, wiith this kwtul example before their eyes, stealing spont their victims, under the forms of the ,onstittion which guarantees the rights vhich they seek to destroy. Remember! )n the inviolability of the Institution which is thus threatpned and assailed, de )ends, not. our prosperity.alone, but every dessiig under Heaven which we enjoy. Rhery thing Soutlhern must neceesarily erish with it. Houses, lands. stock. nion es at ttterest and other species of proper y must go down with it and share a com non fate. Let these people be unch'eckel tnl we shall have nor conemry,.nor home, ior fier-side nor civilization, nor social :harities, nor life itself. We shall he bloi ed from the face of. the Earth. The )eautilul and prolific South will exhibit sothing btt scathed and blackened ruins. vith a remn.in. of the African race wanI irring amidst them in all the missery of lessolation and hopelessness. The inter s',sition we deprecate will be. worse than lague, pestilence, and famine. Worse Ilan all the horrors of war if waged by a :ivilized people. ,Tte bayonets of our assailant pointed tgaiinst our breat 1 would be more harm ess than their edunsels. On this suhject he: Nethodist Episcopal Church of the South thave set us a tnoble example, which if our opponents persist, we shall he obli. ,ed to iritate, wvere the tarilf out of ques ton. Yet they invoke the Constitution, apipeal to the sacred name of Washinsgton and call upon you its his words to frowtn upon the mats who shtall endeavor to wea ken its ties. Would it tnot he~ enough tn return the chalice,'wth its poisoned ingre dients, to their owyQ juilty lips ? But let their guilt be whait t may. we are not and never have been the enemies of the Uni atn.. Whia;tittions did that'great. and good tnan venerate? i was the Union as il came from the hands of the Patriots who tramed'it. It was that Union wve .consen ted to. An Union of .equal rights' and equal burdents. ,. An Union in which we were to be equally'respected and honored slth our brethren, and our peculiar insi lution sacredly-protected. Not a Ulnion af strife, ansd tribute, nid insult, and slave ry, on our 'parts.. But would he, all just and wise. under the forms of the Consti tutioni. have recommended submission to the unconstitutional oppression, insult* and injury under which we groan ? Genera. W ashington was a sincere. Christian' anmi would have called tupon his fellow citizen, to frown upon-the man who should endea vor to subvert thu holy religion, in atccor dance with whose principles he had form ed his own, and tunder whose itnfluence he walked duritng the whole of his good anod glorious life. sBut if its Professor.' regardles' of it. truth, andI fearless oft heii God. had inti-oduc'ed The Inquisition its" the Land,.would hie have looked with ap: probntion2.Pqu3an auto defe and called upot the people to supp~ort and venerate~it? I wvas a righteousagovernment which-he s tained an~d no: opelof guilt and oppression Hsould :accordings.tcathe whole" tenoi of: himlife. have: heeo gnong :the'first ;tr resist it, and -sO ought iwew4shile, like him we venerate ir, in; its htsnth~-ent .purity No. our crime is tiot disloyaltv to thi i Union, but our Error is, too gredt a vene . ration for it, and, if we carry ihat veieta i: lion much furilhe- it will be an evidence of unparalleled stupidity. or. unblushing i baseness.. Preserve the Union, if you can -appeal to the great Derocratic : party though shattered and confounded, and be trayed, embrace a large majority' of thel plople, almost the. whole kohsert ' class, almost all of every sound class.0 posed only by manufaciuring cephifij' and their defenders, abolitioniVsis a iiieir deluded followers and the ar o personal cabals and unprincio fa6tIoh Let them unite in "a long ,jtll.i74tsrong pull and a pull together' the Union will be not only safe butpjidi Bua if they will not neither thepreirvation of the Union nor any othe.fdisideialibn un der Heaven should indUe'yWoutdocotinue your submission to the pol.aticn, ignomi ny and danger of whichiinderihe abuses of the Constitution, ,yo'tiSe now subject. This language may. bd4ew 'and strong, but it is not the la' aEgeof violence. There is a wide difference betreen ear-, nestness and decisioatnd violence. The last is folly and weaknesijthe first is the sublimation of truth anid.sober reason. I warn you' that anything short of what this language intimates will be trifling with the subject. Do not decieve yourselves by supposing that the oly struggle, before you, or the greatest is that' of the Tarifl. That of Abolition. is at. hand (how near we cannot distinctly see)and -of ten times the importance and danger& The- Aboli tionita aim directly at yourdestruction and indirectly at the subversion; of: the Union. That neither our destructiodn,'or the' mi sery and dissolution of the Race they pre tend to save, much less the preservation of the Union, will restrain then in their endeavors to establish their principles; is but too clear. Their's is not - a. work',of love but of hate. They hate youo.'hmore than they love the African Race. But what I mean to say is that they aim at: -speedy and abolition, and to force it upon you. Now, is there any sober man Q.f common sense in the nation, who can be lieve if they advance one step further but that the Union must be dissolved. They cannot advance one step further without entering your territories and controlling your laws. This I think will appedr-by s,tating the advances they have already made. They have not indeed actually exchanged credentials and entered into a Treaty in diplomatic form. with Foreign nations, but they are most directly co-oje rating with Foreign associations and, at least, one great Foreign Govereniment, all pledged to universal emancipation. The proofs are among others 1st. -The exisiance of abolition Societies of great weight and numbers in Great Britain. 2nd. Theco-operation of the gnvernment of Great Britain with their own Societies. 3d. The co-operation of our abolitionists with those foreign Societies. 4th. That these Fo reign Societies have theiragents,andorators with whori they cotrespond, on the floor of Congress. 5th. Thai they have a polit ical party in iany States, organised aid distinetly designated. 6th. That this par ty forms one great element of the great Whig party of the Union-ai least in pow er ir not in name, so much so that if the Whig candidate for the Presidency be sue cessfil he will owe his success to abolition votes, because in some States whose votes are necessary to his success, New York, for example, the Whigs. without the votes of the ab-,litionists will be in the minority. Tiese Foreign Societies will thus, if that result happen, have had great iifinence in the election of uur Chief Magisti-ate. 7th. Great Britain has already iuierp6sed with our own government in a manner to cnn tenance the American Abolitionists, by declaring its views to be in coincidence with theirs, and which onr Executive Government has verv properly protested against. 8th. There is the hostile act oh the Legislature of the State of Massachu seuas, which in itself wrould, if executed, be a subversion of the Union. 9th. The temper of abolitionists. evincive of- the consciousness of their power, of which I shall give but one-proof. That-is a letter of' - te Anacharsis Clools, of the United States. In this letter after abusing, in the gra.ssestiterms, the P'resident of theoUnited States, the present Secretary of State and several'-of his predecessors, and denouncing generally the conduct of the Government of his own country, and showving-himse~lf in heart and soul devoted to the unfriendly views of a roroign country, be comes down to the late letter of remonstrasnce oI Mr. Calhoun to the British Minister and says, -'we are yet to learn with what ears the sound of the trumpet of slavery was list ened to by. the British Queen and her min isers.-We are yet to learn, whether the' successor of Eliznbeth on the throne of England, and her Burleighs and Walsing hams o pen hearing, that their avowed pur pose to p'romote umiversal emauncipation,'and the extinction of slavery, is to be met by the man robbers of our own country, with exte' - mina'ing war; will hike craven roweards, torn - their backs and jiee, or eat their owon words, or disclaim the purpose and object whdi they' hace avowed."~ [ now ask if the abolitionists can go one step further without entering your territories and con trolling your laws? Whether they do not not shake 'he union, and whether if they can. proeeed .any farther they will not d -Atrray it? These areothe allies of the Whigs and the ;tnsuufacturerst. May it 'not now he asked,.with some-'hope that the people will havei opened their eyes, who are the *'For this letter seso "Pendletoti Messe ger'' of the 22d August last, taken from. the 'ergiaCnis ntitutinnalist," enemies of the i aboitilon'is 9 at taily thOtt'o scenes orlij for-h 'e wh rr ie "a r. 4.2 or or their er w %enjt 0 ;erea 'xrtby, Ribc e O h-~eaL have (6tgouediotb&7sihibitiion-'sfhe al- of 1ihteir drje e t e rje tion of tihe z.tf an'deb ti ps in ich tey ai fri h'edove-hp interests o th e 'haeio o and power o-fie lSotherna4.ih Western Siates. But e rusippas on. All' admit our. wirongs 'all Ackholeig$ o'r danger. butas often as the tongufe isps fesistance y.O areimet.by the eieefnal cryy of the Union! theUnion! the.dagetsof the, union, and you' are suhdized.y-ii. Until yon trow of this tiiraldin, andI cher Uih the--vicai truhs. tha., your firt and. holiest allegiance.:.l due to your stateln-,. stiioons-that the' Union.ought .to bo a!-i together secotidary in.y'nJr;tiough% and., hearts-that all govetnments ought'tobd, loved and Sistained only for their virtues ar(d that their vices should be watched with jealously and resisted at the'threshold1 you are unprepared rorresistance.. iftle.. Unioh mast ihe ilnperishable. though estab-., lished on the usurpationof your rights, the insecurity of your social peace and 1our, insignificanbe as a people, 'away with all thoughts of resistance. - .... In fine, it is my humble opinion..thatif. we are to resist at all, ve must surrendei this trembling fear of the dangers ofthe union to other rears and dangers ;much more important, involving. ;nterests still dearer to us, & which immediately come: bome to- our business and bosoms." thac ndeffectual resistance will be made with 'out the union of three or four Staies. That therefore, the great object of exertion -is to effect that concurrence; and that as ofieb as you shall attempt separate action you will fail, and more and mo.re weaken. theinbrai pbwer of resistance to which the physical will always be obedient. Neth ertheless, i -advise no -Hotspur rashness no immoderate liaste, thtigh. unnecessary delays are di us.-on at volcano. Th e Y.more than ex presses your a okiohan ger, unlike the great n Ur9 eoawith which I have compared W cone trolled by human power-you my ti, guish it, hut if you wait till it expdes-aod covers you with its lava, the met por again becomes expressive and indicates' the awful ruin in which you will bo invol' ved. theie are some incidental matte'rS on which I propose to dwell for -a short time. There is one measure freqently recoriu mended, which I think- decidedly'wrong, and therefore dangerous. I mean the call of a State Convention. I think it wrong for the following reasons, among many others. Ist, this is proved in the very outset by the fact that moray. perhaps all propose it under the supposition, that a- Conven ton possessed some power applicaple to the question, which the Legislature does not possess, which is a gross mistake. The Legislature possesses all the power of ihe Sovereign People except .where it is eispresly restraitied by the Constitution... Now there is no restraibt upon it .in the. - Constittion. which hears on any measure,. that has been or can be imagined for the redress of our grievances. 2d. The value. efliciency and- power ot Government is mainly founded in stabilit uniformity and ever, the established- fornis with tvhicb its powers - are executed. A t, presents a well known legal person to-die people of the State and to the whole world, acting under just arespionibilit and with the greatest wisdoin'ihe euttry can sup. ply, if the Representatives he properly chosen, as they, ounhIitalwaysaio b'eand : probably will be, atthe.preseterisis es - pecially. . 3d A --Coiiventiton ,has the character, more or 'les. Revoliutioin ry measure. It, iio 11~6'kes1M$ foundation of Goverm E i paratively clumsy najle ubstine~, for one of great skill andi -apropriaten1es, insituted by the wisest men tn -the State, with great deliberation, the' absence 4t all e xcit ement, for-the express purpioss all the powers granted to it-by the Consti tution. A Convention cannot be- called, under the Constitution, orf -tis State ft a special purpose.. ' When: convenei has all :he power of the People ~ruily - - supercedles the Governm'ent, andrfi chooses may absolve it. Such -~.oy o'ught not ~to-be consituated,.unless'-abso lutely necessary.; It Is. enough to-say it will do no harm. - They examsple of con vening it, is-itself an evil. -- Thouah'. ther be now no danger of the abuse of it. it may hereafter -become a terriblie instrument-. in the hands of a faction -or a demagogue. 4th. The action of the State, whatever ai may be. must immediately or ultimntely, look to the co-operation of.-other -States, and for the reasons I have mentioned and others, it may have a forbidding aspect in the eyes of those.States. --If' this State shall only act jointly with other.States, that action will probably be more harmo nious and homogeneous if we einploy the --- same authorities which they, in all likelia hood, will employ. *There is another incidental subject which-. seems to embarrass the writers of the dayled -yet it is extraordinary that it should-do ss. Wt- ~ - -said the State is pledged to resist If' tbst plede oughit to he redeemed.-it wvill be-oiy fedeaus~t is -right and pruyer thatar -aligquld .reiJ - shall not stop to inquii-e whithe'preteerl of the pledge are/because-tt is imptosinb! that~ (Conchuded on the Pourt& Page)