The Nevada journal., 1861-07-05
vet that was called case Of Northern ag
gression, and the ignorant masses OF Soutf
Carolina believed it.
Mr.. Mcconnell continues:

stood for sixty years, the guardian OF the CON
Stiution ganst all infractions the party which
has borne the glorious flag OF cur country
through long and arduous foreign wars-the
party which has triumphed over all the isms of
the past-the party of Jefferson, Madison Jack
son. and Douelas-can we now look foT safety
froa the terrible danger which surrounds
US.
The assumption in the above is uneqaallcd
except in the case of South Carolina JUS:
quoted. Mr.. Mcconnell evidently believes
in the aphorism of Hanneman, Smilid
simili5us eurantur," or in plain phrase, the
hair of a dog will cnre the bite.
Mr. Mcconnell will have it that the Re-
publican party is disposed 20 infract the
Constitution. lie says:
know right well that the crv is thatthe Con-
slitution must yield to stern necessity.
Where he has heard such cry we do not
know. We have never heard it. The Re-
publicans claim, aud not without ample au-
thority too. that the administration is act
ing within the scope of Constitutional au-
thority. The loyal people of the United
States want no farther powers to act against
belligerents than those granted by the Con-
stitutior.
Mr.. Mcconnell denies the right even of
the President to call out force to defend
the Capital OF the nation, much less TO in
wade State Now, we are not addicted to
the law, and Mr. Mcconnell is one of the
most learned in the profession, but we hope
ask him if ia the war of 1912, this same
question OF the power of the President, did
not come before the Supreme Court of the
United States headed by hat eminent jurist,
John Marshall, and if it was not decided by
Court composed OF FIVE S Southern and two
Northern judges that the President under
the Act OF 1895, is the sole and exclusive
judge whether the exigency has arisen to
call for volunteers to suppress invasion?
On the accession Of Lincoln to the Presi
dency war actually existed by the act of the
rebels themselves The National Capital
was menaced, armies were collecting in the
Sauth or the purpose of destroying the Gov
ernmept. War is war by whomever wagcd.
II is nonsense to say that no power exists
to meet sudden danger to the Government.
We are eujoined by no law human or divine
10 be nonresistant to a brother any more
than to another enemy. The great law of
self-de.ense is not overlooked assuredly in
the wisest system of government ever de-
yised bv man. Our fathers were mindful of
self-preservation when they formed the
Constitution. and it was never contemplated
when the President was made Commander
in-Chief of the Army and Navy that he had
no power to put them in motion when
dire necessity should arise. Our Govern
ment is no such mere formula, no rope of
sand, rs that. Again:
Had the Republicans manifested the least in
.liuation to sacrifice their party platform to the
: = .hs ,Uuion--had they supported tie
peace oi -. or any other fair scheme
of adjustment, the Union, b. Iii =,
nrobably have been restored They shV
least have cultivated and cherished the Union
sentiment of the South and endeavored to rem
der il superior to the secession feeling by pre-
ferrinc TO make war on the South, rather than
sacrifice their peculiar anti-slayery views, they
have brought us to our present awful condition.
They have driven all. or nearly all, the Union
men of the South into the ranks of Secession
The first result Of Lincoln's policy WAS 10 arivo
the Old Dominion the farmer stronghold of the
t. tha %
ton, s.nd wnere now repose his mortal remains
out of the Union.
Now. il cannot be unknown TO Mr.. Nc
Connell that the leaders who inaugurated
the rebellion in the South, and who had the
influence to carry the Ignorant masses with
them, declared most positively and enphat-
ically, because they ,could go out of the
Union in accordance with plans agreed upon
twenty years ago, that the South and the
North could not live together, they were
diverse in civilization, and race, and ought
not and should not remain under the same
government. They asserted that the Crit
tcnden Compromise would not satisfy them.
Why, then, should the Republicans accede
to the terms OF the compromise as it would
not restore the Cotton States to their ale
glance? Aud why should the majority after
heinz victorious submit to the minority and
its dicta.ion after its principles had been
condemned by two-thirds of the American
pcople 1t would have been craven sub
mission, a d'sreGard of principles as dis
honorable as that which carried buchanan
from the Cincinnati platform and TO e1ecra-
ton and infamy. The Republican party
had woful example before it on coming to
pawer of nm Infamous abandonment of prin-
ciplcs. The Crittenden Compromise was
not fair MS Mr.. Mcconnell would assert un-
less it is fair for the minority to dictate
terms of submission and fair for the major
ity TO basely abandon its pledges and prin-
cipIes after they are decided to be just BY
the highest tribunal less than God Almighty
Mr., Mcconnell perverts facts when he
states the Republican party has made war
on the South The Republican party has
not evei. made stand in self defense. The
American people who remain loyal, withou'
distinct on of party. have rallied to snstair
the Government against traitors who threat
ned the national Capital War WAS made
BY the traitors, and the loyal, true hearted
! Io.-, IS ,Lo Ir,;on have p,rripu the blow