Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-07-12

it just that they shall go of without
cave or refunding? The nation paid
cry large sums | believe, nearly $780,
100000, to relieve Florida Of the aborig-
inal tribes Is it just that she shall now
be of without consent and without return ?
The nation is now in debt for the money
applied for the benefit of these so-called
seeding States, in common with the rest.
Is it Just either that creditors shall 60 I'M
paid, or the remaining States pay for the
whole? A part of the present national
debt was contracted to pay old debts for
Texas Is it just that she shall leave and
pay no part of this herself? Again, if
one State may secede, SO may another ;;
and when all have seeded, none are left
to pay the debts. Is this quite just to
creditors? Did we notify them of this
sage view Of ours when we borrowed their
money! If we now recognize this doc
ssrinc of allowing the scceders to 60 in
peace it is difficult to see what we can do
If others choose to go, or to extort terms
upon which they will promise to remain.
The seceders insist that our Constitution
admits of secession. They have assumed
to make a national constitution of their
own, in which, of necessity, they have Ell
Their discarded or retained it as they insist
that it exists in ours If they have dis
carded it they hereby admit one principle
that it ought not to exist in ours If
hey have retained it by their own con-
struction of ours that shows that to be
consistent they must secede from one an
other whenever they shall find it the east
est way of settling their debts, or of ef-
fecting any other selfish or unjust object.
The principle itself is one of disintegra-
ton, and upon which no government can
possibly endure. If all the States save
one should assert the power to drive that
one out of the Union it is presumed that
the whole class Of secedent politicians
would at once deny the power and de-
nounce the act, as the greatest outrage up
on State rights; but suppose that precise
" the same act, instead of being called
driving out, should be called the seeding
of the others from that one? 1t would
be exactly what the seceders claim to do,
unless they claim to make the point, that
the one, because it is a minority, may
rightfully do what the others, because they
are majority, may not rightfully do
These politicians are subtle, and profound
with rights of miroritics. They are moi
partial to that power which made the Con
stitution and speaks from the preamble
calling itself 1--WE, the people"
1t may we'll be questioned whether there
is to-day majority of the legally quail
fed voters of any State except perhaps
South Carolina, in favor of disunion.
There is much reason to believe that thu
Union men are the majority in many, i
not in every, one of the other so-called Sc
coded States. The contrary has not beer
demonstrated in any one of them. 1t il
ventured to affirm this, even Of Virgin;
and Tennessee, for the result of an election
held in military camps, where the bayon
cts are all on one side of the question vo
ted upon, can scarcely be considered as de
monstrating popular sentiment. At sucl
an election all the large class who are a
once for the Union and against coercion
would be coerced to vote against the Tn
ion.
ltmay be affirmed without extravaganza
that the free institutions we enjoy, hav
developed the powers and improved tn
condition Of our whole people beyond an
example in the world. Of this we no,
have striking impressive illustration
So large an army as the government no.
has on foot was never known without
soldier in it but who has taken his plac
there Of his own free choice. But MOI
than this, there are many single regiment
whose members one and another, profes
full practical knowledge of sciences, PR
fessions and whatever else be useful or ell
CANT, is known in the whole world, an
there's scarcely one from which there coul
not be selected, President, Cabinet an
Congress, and perhaps the Court, abul
dainty competent to administer the govern