Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1861-03-13

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respective sections from each other, nor build
an impossible wall between them. A husband
and wife may be divorced and 80 out of the
presence and beyond the reach Of each other;
but the different parts Of our country cannot
DO this.
They cannot but remain face 10 face, and
intercourse either amicablc or hostile must
continue between them. Is it, possible then,
10 make that intercourse more advantageous
Tor more satisfactory after separation that be-
fore. Can aliens make treaties better than
friends can make laws? Can treaties be more
faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can
among friends? Suppose you go to war, you
go to war. you cannot fight always, and when
after much loss Oh both sides and no gain on
either, you cease fighting the identical qucs-
tons as to terms Of intercourse are again upon
you. This country with its institutions, be-
longs to the people who inl.abt it. When
ever they shall grow weary Of the existing
government. they can exercise their Constit-
utional rights in amending, or through the
revolutionary RICH: to dismcmber or overthrow
it. l cannot be ignorant of the fact that
many worthy and patriotic citizens are in
favor Of amending the Constitution. While
! make no Recommendation, fully recognize the
full authority of the people over the whole
subject, to be exercised in either Of the modes
provided i'll the Constitution itself and
should under existing circumstances, favor
either Of them offered. \ far opportunity
being offered the people to act upon it, will
venture TO add that to me the constitutional
mode seems preferable, in that it demands
amendments to originate with the people
themselves, instead Of only permitting them
to take Or reject propositions originated by
others, not especially chosen for the purpose.
and which might not precisely suit, as they
would wish others to accept or refuse. l un-
derstand q proposed amendment to the con-
sti,ution, which amendment, however, have
not seen, has passed Congress, to the effect
that the Federal Government shall interfere
with the domestic institutions, including tina,
Of persons held to service.
! 10 avoid any misconstruction of what T
have said. depart from my purpose not to
speak Of particular amendments, so far as to
say, that holding such provision now to be
implied as constitutional law, horc nobody
viii! object TO lis being made expressly ire
vocablc
Tue chief magistrate derives all his author
ity from the people, and they have conferred
no authority upon him to fix the laws Tor the
separation Of the States. The people them
selves can do this if they choose; but the ex-
ecutive as such. has nothing to do with it.
His duty is to administer the present govern
mcnt as It come to his hands, and to transmit
it unimpared by him to his successors-why
should there not be a patient confidence in
the ultimate justice Of the people?
Is there any better or equal hope in the
world, in our present differences? Is either
party without faith of being in the right? II
the Almighty ruler of the Universe, with His
eternal truth end justice, he Gu your side, you
will surely prevail, by the Judgment of this
great tribunal. The great American people
by tue form Of the Government under which
VIC live, have wisely given their public servants
but little power for mischief and have with
equal wisdom provided for the return Of that
little to their hands at very short Intervals
While the people retain their virtue aud Wig
lance no administration. by any extreme
wickedness OF folly, can very seriously iniure
the Government III the short space of four
years.
| My countrymen, one and all, stand calmly
and dwell upon this whole subject. Nothing
valuable can he lost by taking time, if there
can be any object to hurry any of you il hot
haste to a step which you never would have
taken deliberately, that object will be frus-
trated by taking time; but no good object can
be frustrated by it. Such Of you as are now
dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution un-
impaired, an1 on the sensitive point of the
laws of your own framing under it, the new
Il Administration will have no immediate Cause
if it would, to change either. e, l.~a.
If it were admitted thSt you who are di:-
satisfied hold the right side of the dispute
there still is not single reason for precipitate
action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity
and a firm reliance on Him who has never vet
;rsaken this favored land, arc still competent
to adjust in the best way all our present diff
cuities. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow
CT untrymen and not mine, is the momentous
issue Of civil war.
The Government will not assault you. You
eau have no conflict without being yourselves
the aggressers. You have no oath registered
III Heaven to destroy this Government, while
l shall have the most solemn one to preserve
protect and defend it. am loath to CLOSE
We are not enemies, but friends. We must
not be enemies.
Though passion may have st:ained, it mus,
not break our bonds Of affection. The mystic
! chords Of memory, stretched forth from every
battle field AID patriotic grave to every heart
4 and leartbstonc; and oil over this broad land
will yet swell the chorus of the Union when
again touched, as surely they will be, by the
better angels Of our nature.
i ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
l. WAsalSGToS, March 4. 1861.
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MORTGAGE SALE.
1tl Default having been made in the conli-
i ton ota certain Mortgage Deed bearing date,
ard duly cxecatcd and delivered on the
sixth (6,h) day of June, A. D. 1856, by
Phinneas s. Fish Of Goodhue County, Mime
sofa, to John +. Weber of the same place, re-
corded in the Office Of the Register of Deeds
OF Goodhuc County, Minnesota, on the 9th day