The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-07-12

The reports ofthe Secretaries OF reasury,
War and Navy, will give the information
in detail, deemed necessary and conven-
lent for your action whileS the Executive
and Department will stand ready to supply
missions, or to communicate new facts con-
sdered important for you to know. 1t is
now recommended that You give the legal
means for milking this contest short and
decisive one; that YOU place at the control
of the Government, for the work, at least
100000 men and 00,0O@,000 dollars
that number of men is about one tenth Of
those of proper ages within the regions
where, apparently, all are willing to engage,
sand the suutis less than a twenty-third part
ofthe money value owned BY the men who
seem ready to devote the whole. a debt of
S600,000,O0o now is q less sum per head
han was the debt Of our revolution when
we came out of that struggle, and tue
money value in the country bears even a
greater proportion. Surely each man has
as strong motive now to Preserveeuf iib-
ertv as each had then to establish them.---.
A right result at this time will be worth
more to the world than tea times ti,e men
and ten times the money. The evidencc
reaching us from the country lea1eson DO
doubt that the material for the work is
abundant, and that it needs only the hand
sflegislation to give it sanetion 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 it can provide
tor them In word the people will save
their Government if the Government will
do its part only -indifnently well. 1t.
might seem ut first thought to be OF llttie
difference whether the present movement
ut the South be called secession orrebeillon,
The movers however well understand the
difference. They knew at the beginning
that they could never raise their treason 10
any responsible magnitude by any name
which implies violation of Law. Ites
knew their people possessed as much deyo-
ton to law and orders as much pr.de and
reverence to the history and government
of their common country as any other civil
lied and patriotic people. They knew
they could make no advancement. directly
in the teeth of these strong and noble sen
timents. They accordingly commenced by
an nsidio,,s debauching Of the public mind; !;
they invented an ingenious sophism, which
if conceded, was followed by perfectly legi
cal steps through all the incidents of the
complete destruction of the MON. The
sophism itselfis that any State f the Union
may consistently with the nations const
tuition, and therefore lawfully and peacefully
withdraw from the Union without the con-
sent of the Union or Of any other State
A little disguise that the supposed right is
to be exercised only for just cause, them
selves to be the sole judges of its justice, is
too thin to merit any notice. With rebel
lion thus sugar coated, they have been drug
ging the minds of their section for more
than twenty years, 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 farcial sentence of taking their
State out of the Union, who could have
been brought to no such thing the day be
fore this sophisms derive much, perhaps all
of its currency from the assumption that
there is some omnipotent and sacred Sill
premacy pertaining to each State of our
Federal Union. Our States have neither
more nor less power than that reserved to
them in the Union by the Constitution, nc
one of them ever having been State of the
Union. The original ones passed into the
Union even before they cast off their Brit.
ish Colonial dependence, and the new ones
came into the Union directly from condi-
ton of dependence, excepting Texas, aud
even Texas in its temporary independence
WAS never designated as a State. The new
ones only were designated States on coming
into the Union, while that name was first
adopted for the old ones in and by the Dec
laration of independence. Therein the
united colonies were declared free and indie
pendent of one another of the Union, but
directly the contrary as their mutual pledge
and their mutual action before at the time
and afterward, abundantly shows. The ex-
press pghting Of faith by each and all of
the original thirteen States, in the articles
Of confederation two years later, that the
Union shall be perpetual, is most conclus-
i've, having never been States either in sab
stance or name outside the4IHiUn " hence
this magical lomnipotence of States rights,
- asserting claim Of power to destroy the
Union itself? Much is said about the soy
ereignty of the States, but the word even
is not in the national Constitution, nor as
is believed in any of the State constitutions
What is a sovereignty? With particular
sense of the term, would it be far wrong to
declare it political community without a
political superior! Tested by this no one
of our States, except Texas was asovereignty,
and even Texas gave up the character in
coming into the Union, by which act she
acknowledged the Constitution of tie United
States, and laws and treaties of the United
States, made in pursuance OF the Constitu
ton, to be for her supreme law. The States
have their statutes. If tkey break from this
they only do SO against law by revolution.
The Union, and not themselves separately,
procured their independence and their liberty
by conquest or purchase. The Union gave
each of them whatever of independence and
libery it has. The Union is older than any
Of the States. In fact it created them as
States originally. Some dependent colonies
made the Union, and in return the Union
threw off their old dependence for them,
do thn 4oto 1. =.