The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-07-17

the lnfOrmaN0n In 0etall deemed neceSSa-
ry and convenient for your deliberation
and action, while the executive and all
the departments will stand ready to sup
ply omissions or to communicate new
facts considered important for you to.
know It is now recommended that you
give the legal means for making this con-
test short and decisive one, that you
place at the control of the Government
for the work, at least, four hundred thous-
and men and four hundred millions of
dollars. That number of men is about
one tenth of those of proper ages within
the regions where apparently all are will
ing to engage, and the sum is less than
twenty third part of the money value of
fered by the men who seem ready to de-
vote the whole. A debt of six hundred
millions of dollarsSnow is less sum per
head than was the debt of our revolution.
when we came out of that struggle, and
the money value in the country now bears
even greater proportion to what it was
then, than does the population. Surely
each man has as strong motive now to
preserve our liberties as each had then to
establish them. ri
A right result at this time will be worth
more to the world than ten times the men
and ten times the money. The evidence
reaching US from the country, leaves no
doubt that the material for the work is
abundant, and that it needs only the hand
of legislation to give it legal sanction,
and the hand of the executive to give it.
practical shape and efficiency. One of
the greatest perplexities of the govern
ment is to avoid receiving troops faster
than provided for. In a wosd, the peo
pie will save their government. if the gov
ernment will do its part, only indifferently
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It might seem at FIRST thought to be of
little difference whether the present move
ment at the South be called secession or
rebellion. The movers, however, well un-
derstood the difference at the beginning.
They knew they could never raise their
treason to any respectable magnitude by
any name which implies violation Of law.
They knew their people possessed as much
a moral sense, as much of devotion to
law and order, as much pride in and rev.
erence for the history and governments of
their common country, as any other civil
lied an patriotic people. They knew they
could make no advancement directly in
the teeth Of those strong and noble senti-
ments; accordingly they commenced by an
insidious debauchery of the public mind.
They invented an ingenious sophism
which. if conceded, was followed by per.
fectly logical steps throughout all the
steps incident to the complete destruction
of the Union.
The sophism itself is, that any State o.
the Union may, consistently with the ma
tional Constitution, and therefore lawfully
and peacefully, without the consent of the
Union, or of any other State. The little
disguise, that the supposed right is to b.
exercised only for q just cause, because
they themselves are to be the sole judge
of its justice, is too thin to merit any no
tice with rebellion. Thus sugar coated
they have been druggiDg the public mint
for. more than 80 years, and until a
length they have brought many good mel
to willingness to take up arms agains
the Government the day after some assem-
blage of men have enacted the farcica
.pretense of taking their State out of tn
Union, who could have been brought I
no such thing the day before. $
This sophism derives much, perhap
the whole OF its currency, from the as
sumption that there is some .omnipoten
and sacred supremacy pertaining to
State, to each State of our Federal Unior
Our States have neither more nor les
. power, than that reserved to them in th
Union by the Constitution, none of ther
ever having been a State out ofthe Unior
The original ones passed into the Unio
even before they cast off their British ce
/, lonial dependence, and the new ones eac
came into the Union directly from a COZ
> diton of dependence, except Texas, an
even Texas, in its temporary iudepel
: Edence, was never designated Stat
!. The new ones only took the designatio
Oh OsuLCS VII COLuiuS EUiiO ~ uio
while that name was first adopted for Il
: old ones in and by the colonies; were
clared to be free and independent State
. but even then the object plainly was n
to declare their independence of one q
, = lothcr, or of the Union, but directly t
Z contrary, as their mutual pledge and ths
- mutual action before, at the time, and I
: terwards abundantly shows The EXPIRE
! plighting of faith by each and all of {
: original thirteen in the articles of confe
: GRAFTON. two ysass later, that the Uni
:, shall be perpetual, is most conclusi'
!, Having never been States either in su
: stance or in name. outside of the Unit
:. whence this magical omnipotence of St,
- - rights, asserting claim of power
= = lawfully destroy the Union itself9
al Much is said about the sovereignty
alEthe States. But the word even is not
is the national Constitution; nor, as is
n lieved in any of the State Constitutio
n. What is sovereignty in the politi
= ,o,,o &c fl,a tarn,2 Wonld If he far wrr