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Mr. Lailor.-' have been informed, to
my surprise,. that,' in consequience of a
short note; addi'essed to 'my fellow citizens
of the neighborihood in which I live. on
the 4th ofJuly last, I am supposed to be
in favor of resistance by the action of
South Carolina alone. Such an inpres
sion is entirely erroneous. I eipressed
a dozen'years since, the same sentiments,
almost in the same words, and n% a%, at the
same time, as is well knnn, decidedly
opposed to resistance by a single State.
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)