Herald Of The Times

From the Baltimore Chronicle and Marylander.

The Globe suggests the propriety of forming a Union party to preserve the country from the revolutionary movements of the nullifiers of South Carolina. We trust that there is no necessity for the regular organization of such a party, as we hope that the doctrine of nullification is too generally abhorrent to the principles and the feelings of the People of this country, to need an association to resist it. Let the President enforce the laws, not with regard to one State in particular, but to the whole. South Carolina has indulged in wild and visionary notions, and has threatened to nullify the laws of the Union, and to set up as an independent sovereignty—but she has not yet reduced her theories to practice; she is therefore, as yet, only a nullifier in theory. The mere advancement of her doctrines, however, has excited alarm, and given rise to the Globe's suggestion of a Union party. But it appears strange to us, that while the President and the official editor are so sensitive as to South Carolina's threatened resistance of the tariff law, they should sanction the practical nullification of other laws by Georgia. It is the duty of the President to have all the laws duly enforced; a duty from which he can make no exception. The treaties with the Georgia Indians, and the act regulating intercourse with them, are as much the laws of the land as the tariff act; and yet they have been annulled by Georgia with the express approbation of the President. This is wrong. Even-handed justice should be extended to all; and if South Carolina is to be chastised for resistance to one law, Georgia should not escape censure for abrogating others. The man who looks over the hedge should not be hung, whilst he who steals the hare is permitted to escape.

We say nothing in extenuation of the conduct of the South Carolina nullifiers. We view them as little better than madmen—at least they appear to be rushing blindly or wilfully on their own destruction. We would stamp with the name of traitor any man who should dare seriously to advocate a dissolution of the Union. It would be immaterial to us whether his residence were in South Carolina or elsewhere.

The Globe of Saturday says,—"Our Minister to Columbia, T. P. Moore, Esq. has asked and obtained leave to return to the United States. He will leave Bogota as soon as his successor arrives. It is the purpose of the Government to reduce the Mission to a Charge d'Affaires."