been sufficient, as it came from the highest authority in the Gov^t.  But some parties and people are never satisfied.  Full in the face of this high official the Repub^n Party declare by their Platform orators, & Press, that slavery shall never enter another foot of territory.  Now if the South admit this principle they acknowledge their inferiority to the North—­an act that, even in the eyes of the North, would not comport with their dignity & honor as an independent & free people.  The South being thus oppressed then I assert they have a right (not to secede, for no such right exists in my conception, as it would be an element subversive of any, & especially of a Repub^ln gov.,) to revolt—­a right inherent in & beyond the control of all earthly govern^ts.  Yes I coincide with the great Lord Chatham when he says that “Rebellion against oppression is obedience to God.”  Our Ancestors rebelled against the tyranny of British usurpation, & the Texans revolted against a like despotism exercised by a Mexican Autocrat.  Why then are the Sovereign States of America not justifiable in throwing off the yoke or rather resisting to have put upon them, the yoke, of Northern Tyranny?  To make the argument still clearer, however, as to the Territories, let us illustrate it:  Suppose a Repub^n.  Congress decides that slavery shan’t be protected in the Ter. as prop.  I take my slave thither.  An indictment is brought against me.  I am tried and condemned by the territorial court.  I appeal from its decision to the Sup.  Court of the U.S.  What then?  From analogy I conclude that I shall be acquitted, i.e., recover my property.  For one Chief Justice has already decided thus; and is not his decision final?  Here then is an end of the matter; since the Sup.  Court is the Sole Arbiter in determining the Constitutionality of any of Congress’ acts.

As to the North not making use of slanderous epithets against the South, I know nothing about your particular section of the North, but I do know that when I have been in Penna. & N.J., I have heard all classes utter the vilest insinuations against the people of the South indiscriminately.  Yes, it often seemed as if they could find no language too harsh, no comparison too base, no denunciation too bitter to apply to those whom in their ignorance they deemed their inferiors in wisdom and sense.  Such have I heard from the lips of distinguished citizens in all departments & professions of life.  Even hoary-headed ministers have entered the sacred desk with their MSS. reeking with filth from the cesspool of political slander.  Dr. Brown, with whom you are doubtless acqu^td, is now in Phila^d. at the Gen. Assem. of the Pres.  Ch.  He wrote home lately that he never saw a mob that made use of viler language than did the best of citizens there in their denouncings of the South.  I confess, however, that this is not