Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-11
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4 Itistory of the Formation Of the UnIted
fmrrr. States Governments Ia ID
Benson J J.LossiBg, in a communication to
the Poughkeepsie IN. W Eagle, addresses
the cavillers who doubt the sincerity Of the
Union sentiment now uppermost in the
North, and rscapitulates for their benefit the
history of the Government. He puts the
facts together in this condensed way:
THE BOND OF UNION,
The Declaration of Independence was the
\ fist written bond of union of the United
| Colonies. The Articles of Confederation
were the second, Both of these derived
their cohesive political power from the pres
ence of common dangertbat was threatening
common interests. When The war was
ended and that common danger was re-
moved, the States fell back upon their
original prerogstiyes as separate Sovereign
I ties, and the political Union was virtually
I dissolved. The Congress had no inherent
4 power TO exercise the rights Of sovereignty.
7 The nation was admitted into the great po-
litical family, but it appeared 70 be, as it
/ really was, invertebrated The Statesmen of
England saw.in the admitted rlgbtof State
or any number of States to withdraw its or
! their support from the Union, or TO abandon
IL altogether, at pleasure sure element of
{ destruction, and treated the United States
l with corresponding contempt. aF3
The British Government haughtily refused
to enter into any commercial treaty with
] them; and when John Adams, the frst MIN
! lister to England, proposed, in 1875, TO place
! the navigation and trade between ali the
T dominions Ofthe British crown aad all of the
territories. of the United States upon basis
of perfect and liberal uniformity, he was met
almost with scOrn. He was told that nei!
! tber that nor any other proposition Of the
/ kind made by him would be entertained.
t They believed that the weak Republic would
soon be dissolved, and that The sovereiguties
would speedily ybecome colonies Of the crown
again. They refused to give up important
military posts according to the provisions of
the treaty of 1888; and would not send
diplomatic agent of any Kind 10 reside In
the United States The wise heads Of En-.
gland then clearly perceived thedestructiye
character OF the doctrine Of Secession" 1t
was, in their view, the great solvent that
would reduce the Republic into its original
| elements.
Isfrt TIE GOVERNMENT EsTABLIsHED.
But when the fathers, alarmed BY the low,
fearful believing of the tempest ot approach
ing anarchy, arose in the might Of their wis-
dom to avert the destructive storm, and, with
wonderful prescience, abandoned the idea
and practical dangers Of confederation, and
i formed a consolidated nation, under the Fed
eral Constitution, they found themselves pos
sessed of moral aud material strength that
commanded the respect of every civilized
4 people on the face of the earth. The states
men of Great Britain Immediately abandoned
the idea of reducing the American States to
colonial dependency. They perceived that
| the interests of those States, local and gen
eral, were guarded by central power of
wonderful energy; and soon committee of
Parliament was appointed to consider and
report ''what were the proposals of COM
mercial nature, it would be proper to be
made by their. government to the United
| States" Britain now became the suppliant.
Lord Liverpool drew up and presented re-
port of the committee, in l791, and proposed
to ask the United States to consent to an ar
raDgement precisely the same, though more
limited in extent, as that proposed by Mr..
Adams six years before, and SO scornfully
rejected. pr
The strength and dignity of the American
Government was now established, and in
August of the same year George Hammond
delivered bis letters of credence te,President
Washington, as first Minister Plepi potentiary
to the United States from Great Britain.
sIGN1FICANT FACTS. ee
Here we have these significant facts:
First: While the States formed q Oonfed.
Grafton merely, each claiming absolute SOW
ereignty for itself aud possessed Of the right
to "secede" at pleasure, and break up that
Oonfederacy, the general Government was
utterly without respect at home or abroad.
That is the position in which the so.called
Southern Confederaey now stands, and such
would be the condition of the whole Repub-
lie, if the cowardly principle that at is
4 better TO separate peacefully than to fight, I"
should prevail 5' ,'ft
Secondly: When the inefficient Confed-
eracy was abandoned, and the States became
consolidated and unit, each reserving suf.
ficient sovereignty to regulate its municipal
affairs, the world recognized the great fact
that a nation was born-that the myth OF
Minerva, spriugiDg full. armed from the brain
OF Joye was realized-and Great Britain, the
4 chief empire Of the earth, exhibited its haste
to court its friendship by proposing interna-
tional commercial relations and sending q
full minister to represent that country at the
seat of our national Government,
Z. f- p NO HOPE FOR TRAITORS. p
/ You say this wonderful uprising of the
people of the North is an excitement thai
\ will socr 6ie away. No doubt it will. Fe,
yers run their course, and are succeeded by
death or convalescence. The excitement
will cesse, but your hoped for reaction will
never appear. 1t will settle down into 4
deep and abiding conviction more terrible to
traitors and towards than the whirlwind on
the surface. Never in the history of the
world has there been such an uprising of au
entire people in united defense of great and
holy principles. The response to the preach.
ing of the First Crusade by Peter the Her.
NIT, calling upon all Christendom to rescue
the Holy SepulohIe at Jerusalem from the
hands OF the followers of the False Prophet,
bears but Q, faint resemblance to it, And
the cry of the vast multitudes of priests, and
mobiles, and people in the valley of Auvergne
when Pope Urban echoed Peters trumpet
call, "God wills it God wills itr' was feeble
when compared with the shout that has gone
up from every hill and valley in the free and
loyal States-THE UNION AND THE CoNsTITU-
TIoE SHALL BE PREsRRvEDl ..-5-8i 81
l. MODE OF QUEEN VICToRIA's REARING.-
. fdaath ~ tho nuobaos of Ka.t e,