8 SEPTEMBER 1832, Page 2

The territory of the United States, winding along the shores

of the Atlantic from the Bay of Fundy to the Mouths of the Mississippi, embraces in its long arms every description of clime from the frigid zone to the torrid. The citizens are of every possible variety, from the grave and steady Quaker of Pennsylvania to the headlong Kentuckian. There are two strong bonds of union among the several States—their common language and their common freedom : but in nearly all things besides, the points of difference between the Southern and Northern States are so many, and the points of resemblance so few, that it seems strange, not that they should contemplate a separation, but that they should have so long remained united. The people of South Carolina have been the first to advocate openly an entire separation of Government, where there is, in the nature of things, an entire separation of interests. The Tariff—that most ignorant and ill-judged kw, which went to impoverish the whole of the Union, but more especially the Southern part of it, for the sake of a few insignificant manufactures, which the war with England had created—is the immediate cause ; but we believe there has long been a growing feeling in the comparatively young settlements in the South, that their voice was borne down by that of the older establishments of the Middle and North. The proposal to separate South Carolina from the Union, which has been made gravely and considerately, seems to have caused much excitement among the people of New York. The New York Inquirer of the 30th July thus speaks of it ." Surrounded at all points by the ravages of a fearful pestilence, we cannot but feel a comparative insignificance of any or all plagues affecting individual life, when a danger now rises up before our eyes, menacing the glory of a great people—the March of free principles—the safety and happiness of millions yet unborn.

" The document to which are affixed the names of R. Y. Hayne, George IllfDuflie, and their associates, is the first open, palpable, deliberate step yet attempted in this country since the foundation of the Government, to set aside the Constitution, to break up the Union, and to throw all this happy country into a cluster of bloody and warring sovereignties. The tone of moderation which pervades this momentous paper is not more fearful and ominous than the alternate action which is left half disclosed to the excited feelings of a chivalric people. It is calm, dignified, historical, simple, and full of nerve and resolution. The personal characters of the signers, with the exception of Stephen D. Miller, are without stain or blemish. They appear to speak in sincerity and truth—from the fulness of the heart—from an acute, but partially imaginary sense of wrong and injustice, which will stop at no half-way measures to reach what they call redress and vengeance. " We had supposed that the passage of the late Tariff law would have calmed the discontents of South Carolina. How vain the expectation! The party which promulgates the appeal to force—the Nullification party—which also possesses the Government of the State—deliberately dashes the cup of hope to the ground, stands forth to the world, and avows their determination to test the great question of the durability of the Union. The eyes of the whole country will now be fixed on South Carolina. The crisis has come upon us."

'There can be no doubt, that the dissolution of the Union, though long anticipated, will be attended with many fears on the part of those who can find no perfection but in the plans of their ancestors..