The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-01-12

tai faculties. The administration of pubx
lie affairs, by requiring the cooperation of
the people, furnishes them with the most
useful and practical lessons in government
and legislation.
AS jurymen, they are called upon to-
consider the weight of evidence, to recon.
cile the contradictions of different state
ments, and to pronounce an authoritative
judgment upon the law as modified by the
facts thus determined
The right Of Suffrage requires them to-
inform themselves Of, and ndpronounce iudg-
ment upon, the actions of their agents.
and the propriety of legislation.
The exercise of these rights and duties
requires intelligence, The possession of
knowledge gives moral force, decision, and
activity to the individual, universal
diffusion, power and rcspectability to the
people and perpetuity to their institu-
tions.
The union of these States is another
very influential cause of our growth and
prosperity, and that of every other State.
The freedom of intercourse, by which the
citizen of one State is entitled to the rights
of citizenship in every other-the free
dom of trade, permitting the transporta-
tion of the products of agriculture and of
art without impost or duty, or every ex-
tremity Of our extended territory, has stim-
ulated and, at the same time, encouraged
and rewarded industry.
In this point of view, the continuance Of
the unity of the States is matter of no
small Importance.
Its perpetuity depends upon the respect
which the people have for it. That respect
is exhibited by the observance Of the laws
which the State and National Legislatures
haveenacted. A disregard of these laws,
and of the provisions of the Constitution
is preliminary step towards the dismem-
berment of that union which our fathers
formed, and strove to perfect by conces-
sion, Cancellation and compromise.
The fruits of dismemberment would be
the destruction of the justice which they
wished to establish, the introduction of
civil dissention in the place of domestic
tranquility, and the overthrow of that
liberty, the blessings of which they de-
sired to secure to themselves and their
posterity.
The just solution of political questions
is always attended with difficulties. I'm
der ourform of government these perplex-
ing difficulties are rather increased than
diminished. We have two governments,
not separate, but coordinate. The powers
of both are delegated by the people. To
one is given the management of the ex-
ternal affairs of the Union, and, in de-
gree, the intercours of the States with
each other. To the State Government
is committed the regulation of its internal
or domestic affairs. Each State is an in
dependent sovereignty, except in those
particulars in which she has waived her
sovereignty to the General Government.
Their intercourse with one another is, in
many respects, that of Independent ma
tions.
1t is, therefore, the duty Of Chief
Magistrate, not only to see that the laws
of his own government are properly exc
cuted, but that the rights of his own State
are respected and observed by its confed
crates. The reciprocal duty of implicitly
regarding the rights of other soYereignties
is equally obligatory.
The observance of these distinctions,
and the performance, cannot but secure
our peace and perpetuate our Union.
In the midst of the blessings with
which we are surrounded, we should re-
member that an arm stronger than that of
man, and wisdom greater than human
intelligence, rules and governs, guides and
directs the affairs of men. The obsery-
ance of the great moral laws which that
Power has imposed in all of our relations.
personal as well as national, WILDE more
certain, than all other causes, to secure
continuance of our prosperity, and to pre-
serve our institutions in the health and
beauty Of their origin.
WILLIAM MEDILL.
School LAw.-Gov. Medill in his mes