White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

tu0 Quaiiueu Susponoiou Vi tho PiSueSs
of the writ, which was authorized to b
made. Now it is insisted that Congress.
and not the Executive, is vested with
this power; but the Constitution itself il
silent as to which, or who. is to exercise
the power; and as the provision was plain
" made for dangerous emergency. It
cannot be believed that the trainers of the
instrument intended that in every case
the danger should run its course until
Congress should be called together, the
very assembling of which might be pre-
vented, as was intended in this case. by
the rebellion. No more extended argu-
ment is now offered. as an opinion at
some length will probably be presented
by the Attorney General. whether there
shall be any legislation upon the subject,
and if any, what is submitted entirely to
the better Judgment of Congress. The
forbearance of this Government had been
SO extraordinary and SO long continued
as to lead some foreign nations to shape
their action as If they supposed the early
dissolution of our National Union was
probable. While this, on discovery.
gave the Executive some concern. he is
now happy to say that the sovereignty
ard rights Of the United States are now
everywhere practically respected by for
eign powers, and q general sympathy
with the country is manifested through
out the world. The Secretaries of the
Treasury. War and the Navy, will give
the information in detail deemed necessa-
ry and convenient for your elaboration
and action. while the Executive and all
the Department will stand ready to sup
ply omissions or to communicate new
facts considered important for yon to
know. 1t is now recommended that you
give the legal means for making this
contest a short and decisive one that
you may place at the control of the Gov
ernment for the work at least four hun
dred thousand men and four hundred mil.
lions of dollars. That number of men.
about one-senth of those of proper ages.
within the regions where apparently all
are willing to engage, and the sum is
less. than twenty-third part of the mon
ey value owned by the men who feel
ready to devote the whole amount of six
hundred millions of dollars now, is a
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 pro-
portion to what it was then, than does
the population. Surely each man has as
strong a motive now to preserve our lib
critics. as each had then to establish them
q 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 oflegislation to give it legal sane.
ton, and the hand of the Executive to
give it practical shape and efficiency.
One of the greatest perplexities of the
Government is to avoid receiving troops
faster than provision can be made for
them; in word. the people will save
their Government if the Government it
self will do its part only indilferently
well. 1t might seem at first though of
but little difference whether the present
movement at the South ,be called seces-
SON or rebellion, the <soveFs, however,
well understood the difference at the be-
ginning. They knew they could never
raise their treason to any respectable mag
nitude by any name which implies viola
ton of law. They knew their people
possessed as much moral sense, as mach
of devotion to law and order, and as
much pride and reverence for the history
and government of their common country
as any other civilized and prtriotic 2eo-
pie. They knew they could make to ad-
vancement directly in the teeth of these
strong and noble sentiments. According
ly they commenced by an insidious de-
bauchery of the public mind they united
in an ingenious sophi.m, which, if con-
coded. was followed by perfectly logical
steps through all the incidents to the com.
plete destruction Of the Union the soph-
ism itself is, that any State of the Union
may, consistently with the national Con-
stitution. and therefore, lawfully and
peacefully. withdraw from the Union
without the consent of the Union or of
any other State.
The little disguise, that the supposed
right is to be exercised only for Just
cause. they themselves are to be the Sole
Judges of its justice, is too thin to merit
any notice. With rebellion thus sugar
coated they have been dragging the pub.
lie mind of their section for more than
thirty years. and until at length they have
brought many good men to willingness
to take up arms against the Government
The day after some assemblage of men
have enacted the farcical pretence of tax
ing their State out of the Union. who
could have been brought to no such thing
the day before. This sophism derives
much, perhaps the whole of its currency,
rom the assumption that there is some
and sacred supremacy per-
aiming to State. To each State Of
BUR Federal Union, our States have neith-
II more nor less power than that reserved
o them in the Union by the Constitution.
No one of them ever having been State
,ut of the Union, the original ones passed
into the Union even before they cast off
he British Colonial dependence, and the
new ones came into the Union directly
rom a condition of dependence, except
Texas, and even Texas, in its temporary
Independence. was never designated q
State.
The new ones only took the designation