Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-07-06

- - JUST thA sue Shall ttaFe Anu pay no part
IF this hersek2 Again, Il one State may Sc
,ede, 80 may another, and when all shall have
and none is left to pay the debts,
b this quite right to creditors? Dill we
notify them of this a z view Of ours when
We borrowed their money. II we now recog-
lize this doctrine by allowing the seceders to
90 in peace, It is difficult TO see what we can
10. Others choose to 20 or tcextort terms M
On which they will promise 10 remain. The
insist that our Constitution admits Of
They have assumed to make a
national constitution Of their own In which of
necessity they have either discarded or re-
tanned the right of secession, as they insist 1t
exists in ours. II they have discarded H.
thereby admit that on principle II ought
not 70 exist iu ours. II they have retained II
By their own construction Of ours, that shows
that to be consistent, they must secede from
another, when they shall find It the easiest way
of settling their debts OF efecting another
selfish or unjust object. The principle it.
self is one Of disintegration, and on which
no government can possibly endure. II all
the States save one should Affect the power
to drive that one out Of the Union. it
lie presumed that the whole class Of the
seeded politicians would at once de-
ny the power, and denounce the
act as the greatest outrage upon State rights.
But suppose that precisely the same act In.
stead Of being called driving one out should
be called the seceeding Of the others
from that one. It would be exactly
What the seceders claim to do, unless in
deed to make the point that the one.
because It is a minority, NAV riehtfully
do that which the others, because tbev are
the majority, may not rightfully do. These
politicians are profound in the rights Of mi
norlties. They are not partial to that DOW
er which made the Constitution and speaks
from the preamble calling itself ave, the
people" 1t may well be questioned whcth.
err there is to day a majority Of the legally
qualified voters Of any State, except per
haps South Carolina, in favor of disuniou.
There Is mnch reason to believe that the
Union men are in the majority in many
If not in all of the seeded States. The
contrary has not been demonstrated in any
one Of them. It is ventured to affirm that
those even In Virginia and Tennessee lear the
result OF an election held in military camps
where the bayonets were all one side
OF the question voted upon can scarcely
he considered as demonstrating popular
sentiment. At such an election aIi that
large class who are ct once for the Union
and against coercion, would be ooerced TO
vote against the Union. Il may be affirm
ed without extravaganee that the free
institutions which we enjoy have devel-
oPed the powers and improved the con.
dition OF our whole people beyond any
example in the world, of this we now have
Il striking and impressive Illustration So
large an army as the Government has now
on foot was never before known. without
a soldier In It who has taken his place
there except OF his own free choice But more
than this, there are many single regiments
whose members one and another possess full
practical knowledge of all the arts and
sciences, professions, and whatever else
whether useful or elegant. Is known TO
the whole world, and there Is sesreelv
one rom which there could not be
selected a President a Cabinet, a Con-
gress, and perhaps a court ~abundantly
competent to administer the Government
nor do l say this is not true also in the
army OF our late friends, now adversaries.
in this contest but it is so much the better
reasen why the Government which has
conferred such benefits on both them
and US should not be broken m
Whoever in any section proposes to aban-
don such q Government would do we'll to
consider in Difference TO what principle il
is that he does it; whether the substitute
will be to give, or be intended to give, so
much good to the people. There Is some
foreshsdoEing on this subject.
Our adVersaries have adopted some
declarations Of independence In which.
unlike the good old one penned by Thomas
Jefferson, they omit the words care ere
ated equal" They have adouted a
temporary national constitution, in the
preamble OF which, unlike our good old one,
signed By Washington, they omit 1--WE, the
people" and substitute Eve, the deputies of
the sovereign and independent States.n-
Why this deliberate pressing out of view the
rights Of men and the authority of the
people This is essentially a PEOPLES
contest IN the side of the Union. II
is a Struggle foI msintalning in the
world that form and substance Of
Government whose leading object is to ele-
Vste the condition Of men, to lift artificial
weights from all shoulders, 10 clear the
paths to lsudsble pursuits, and to afford all
an unfeitsred start and q fair chance in
the race Of life, yielding to partial and
temporary departures from necessity. This
is the leading object Of the Government for
whose existence we contend.
am most happy to heIievs that the
plain people understand and appreciate
this. 1t is worthy Of note that while in
this, the Governments hour of trial, LARGE
numbers Of those in the army and navy
who have been favored with Offices. have
resigned and proved false to the hand that
pampered them, not one common soldier
or common sailor Is known TO have
deserted his flag. Great honor Is due to
those officers who remained true despite
the example Of their t~reacherous associates,
But the greatest honor and moit emphatic
part Of all Is the unanimous hrmness Of
the common soldiers and common sailors
the last man, 50 far as known, they sue
csssfully resisted the trsitorous efforts Of those
whose commands within an hour before
they obeyed as absolute Law. This is a pa.
triotic instinct Of plain men, They under
stand without an argument that the de.
stroying Of the Government which
was made by Washington means no
good fur them. Our popular Government
has often been called an experiment-
Two points in it our people have settled.
The successful establishing and the
successful administering of it. One
still remains. Its successful maintenance
against the formidable internal attempt
to overthrow il. It IS nov Tor them to
demonstrate to the world that those who can
fairly carry IN election, can also suppress a
rebellion. That ballots are the rightfuI and.
peaceful successors Of bullets, and that when
ballots are fairly and constitutionally decided.
there can be no successful appeal back To-
bullets that there can be no successful ap-
peal except back 70 ballots themsei7es-st
a seeding election. Such will bea great
lesson OF peace, teachsng men that what they
cannot take by an election. neither can they
take it by a war; teaching all the fslly Of
being the beginners Of a war, lest there be
some uneasiness in the minds of candid
men, as TO what Is to be the course of
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