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would applaud them, and wish them God-speed in the adoption <>\ such a remedy."

The Rochester Union, two or three days later, said:

" Restricting our remarks to actual violations of the Constitution, the North has led the way, and for a long: period have been the sole offenders or aggressors." * * * " Owing to their peculiar cir- cumstances, the Southern States cannot retaliate upon the North without taking ground for secession,"

STARTED HY MR. SEWAKO.

The New York Express said, on April 151)1, 1861 (the day after the surrender of Suniter):

' ' The ' Irrepressible conflict ' started by Mr. Seward, and endorsed by the Republican party, has at length attained to its logical foreseen result. That conflict undertaken ' for the sake of humanity' culmi- nates now in inhumanity itself." * * * "The people of the United States, it must be borne in mind, petitioned, begged and im- plored these men (Lincoln, Seward, et id}, who are become their accidental masters, to give them an opportunity to be heard before this unnatural strife was pushed /0 a bloody extreme, but their petitions were all spurned with contempt, ' ' &c.

Mr. George Lunt, a Boston lawyer, in an able work, published in 1866, entitled "The Origin of the Late War," from which we have before quoted, says of the action of the Northern people:

" But by incessantly working on the popular mind, through every channel through which it could be possibly reached, a state of feel- ing was produced which led to the enactment of Personal Liberty bills 'by one after another of the Northern Legislative Assemblies. At length fourteen of the sixteen Free States had provided statutes which rendered any attempt to execute the fugitive slave act so difficult as to be practically impossible, and placed each of those States in an attitude of virtual resistance to the laws of t/ic I r nited States"

If these acts were not nullification, what were they ?

LINCOLN' orOTKl) AS PROOF.

We propose to introduce as our last piece of evidence that, which it seems to us, should satisfy the mind of the most critical and exact-