Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-26
The Right KIND OF Talk arom lIIl-


At Trenton, Mo-, a tremendous Union
meeting was held recently, and the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, The times are pregnant with
important events, involving the perpetuity
OF free government and human liberty it,
self and deeming it the dHty of every lover
of his country, and friend of the American
Union, to take decided stand, aud avow
his appreciation of the unnumbered bless
ingS - tbe FedenI Government-his 10y
;prrpetuated and handed down to genera
ions yet unborn therefore, be it
ResOlred, LIST, Thatthe great question now
presented for our determination, as citizens
Of Missouri, is simply the choice between
Loyalty, Union aud Peace, and DisloyaIty.
I DisuniOn aud War II Missouri remains
/ loyal 10 the Union, her people may live in
peace, but il she becomes disloyal, and
attempts to secedc, she Will bring upon
/ her people devastating war, the details
of which are too horrible 10 attempt to re-
COUNT that we deem 1t the duty, as we'll
as the interest, of Missouri, to remain loyal
to the Government of our fathers, and to
adhere strictly to that neutrality hitherto
maintained by her, and to labor earnestly
and ZealOusly for a speedy termination of
nately existing 10 our once peaceful and
happy country.
Cd. That while we fully recognize the
inalienable right of revolution; still Ipru-
dence, indeed, will dictate that govern
ments long established should net be
changed for light and transient causes"
nor can a resort to this sacred right, by
armed aud deadly conflicts, be justified un-
til the Government itself fails TO attain the
object, or becomes destructive of the ends |
for which it was formed, and all peaceful |
remedies fail, and revolution furnish REM |
edy for the wrongs complained of: and we |
recognize in our National Government no /
such failure, nor in its administration any /
such destruction, and therefore find no adj
equate cause for revolution.
Sd. That we are unalterably opposed, as
unsOund in theory and deleterious in
practice, to the modern doctrine, unknown
to the fathers and founders of our Consti-
tuition and Government, of the right of n
State to secede at will.
4lh. That to the laws Of the State of
Missonri, passed in pursuance of the State
and Federal Constitution, we, as citizens of
the State, owe implicit obedience; still we
a paramount allegiance to the
Federal Government, and cannot be swerv-
ed from our loyalty to the Great Charter
OF American treedOm-the Constitution
Of the United States-by the stereotyped
howl of FreesOilism. so frequently brought
INFO requisition by the enemies Ofou coun-
Try, nor even by the unconstitutional ac-
lion of those having temporary authority
in the State.
5th. That the question of our duty to
The State and our allegiance to the Federal
Government is clearly defined in the Con-
'titution of the United States, where it
nays That this Constitution, and all
he laws of the United States which shall
Re made in pursuance thereof, aud all
reaties made, or which shall he made I'M
Ter the authority of the United States,
hall be the supreme law of the land; and
he Judges in every State shall be bound
hereby, anything in the Constitution or
avs of any State to the contrary not
In view of this clause of
'ur National Charter, no act passed in
Ontruvention of the Constitution can have {
my binding force upon the people of /
iissouri, although it may have been pass
d in the usual form of legislation, and s
eceived the sanction of the Executive.