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right by violence, if unrestrained by principle or a fear of consequences personal to himself. Gen. Jackson has not furnished the first example. There has been a Cæsar, a Cromwell, and a Bonaparte — men of towering genius who have stooped to play the usurper. Why may not an inferior spirit without as much heart as either, and with none of their genius, aspire to imitate them in those actions of their lives which alone he can imitate, because they are criminal. In the Legislature, Mr. Pickens declared "he believed the contest would end in blood. --The document of the President was none less than the edict of a tyrant; and if they were for war, he was ready, and it behooved all the citizens of the State to meet the storm with becoming manliness. He, for one, never would submit — if driven from the seaboard, he was for carrying on the war in the interior; if driven from the interior, he was for a guerilla warfare in the mountains; and if at last compelled to yield, he would die