The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-07-17

Any Gil uiS "ht'hS W NhSuSS dHh
sum is less than the twenty third part Of the
ready to devote the whole.
| A debt OF six hundred millions of dollars
now is less sum per head than was he
debt of our Revolution when we came out
Of that struggle; and the money value Ia the
country now bears even greater proportion
to what it was then than does the population.
Surely each man has as strong motive now
to preserve our liberties as each had then to
establish them.
A 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 il needs only the hand Of legislation
to give 1t legal sanction and the hand Of the
Executive to give it practical shape and eff
hcency. One Of the greatest perplexities
Of the Government is TO avoid receiving
troops faster than it can provide for them.
In word. the people viii save their Gov.
eminent, il the Government itself will do its
part only indiiierently well.
II might seem at first thought to be of lit
tie difference whether the present movement
at the South be called secession or rebellion.
The movers, however, well understood the
difference. At the beginning they knew
they could never raise their treason to any
respectable magnitude by any name which
! implies violation Of law. They knew their
people possessed as much OF moral sense,
and as much OF devotion to law and order,
and as much pride in and reverence for the
history and government of their common
country, as any other civilized and patriot
ic people. They knew they could make no
advancement directly in the teeth Of these
strong and noble sentiments accordingly
they commenced By an insidious debauchlng
of the public mind. They invented an in
furious sophsm. which ii conceded, was fol-
lowed By perfectly logical steps through all
J the incidents to the complete destruction d
, the Union. The sophism itself is. that any
: State of the Union may consistently witt
the National Constitution, and therefore law.
fully and peacefully, Withdraw from the
Union without the consent Of the Union or D
any other State.
! The little disguise that the supposed righ
is TO be exercised only Tor Just cause, them
selves 70 be the sole judge OF It's justice, i,
too thin to merit any notice. With rebel,
! lion thus segregated they have been drug.
ging the public mind OF their section TOT
more than thirty years, until az length they
have brought many good men to a willing.
} ness 70 take up arms against the Govern.
ment the day alter some assemblage Of mer
have enacted the fircial pretence 1T takin.
their State out Of the Union, who could hay,
been brought to no such thing the day be.
fore.
This sophsm derives much, perhaps Ii,
whole OF is currency, from the assumption
that there is some Onnipltent and sacre,
Supremacy pertaining 70 state, 10 each
State OF our Federal Union. Oar State,
have neither more nor less power than thai
} reserved to them in the Union by the Con.
stitutipn, no one Of them ever having been
/ State mt 81 the Union The original one.
passed into the Union even before thew cat
!, of their British Colonial dependence, aud
the new ones each came into the Union direct
II from a condition Of dependence excepting
Texas. and even Texas IN it, temporary III
! dependence was never designated \. State
The new ones only took tie designation 81
States on coming into the Union, while that
name was first adopted for the old ones in and
By the Declaration Of Independence.
Therein The limited Emitted Colonies were
, declared 10 Be free and independent states,
) but even then the object plainly was MT "a
declare their independence OF one another,
or Of the tninn. bot directly the contrary,
! a. their mutual pledge and their mutual &C
tioa before, a. the time, and afterwards, d.
blndantls show. The express plighting 81
faith By each and all Of the original thirteen
in the articles of confederation. two year.
later. that The Union .hall be perpetual, /.
, most conclusive.
Having never been States either in sub
stance b. 10 nam- outside 81 Tie Union
j whence tn. magical omnipDience Ut STATE
rights, asserting a claim o. power lawfully
10 destroy the onion itself: Much i said
about the .Oyereignty Of the States, bat The
word, even, l. Nit 10 the National Con,titu.
. iiOn, nor. ~ u believed. in any u the state
Constitutions. WHAT i 4 sovereignty IL
/ the political sense OF the term Would Il
/ be far wrong 70 define il "a political com,
. manlty without political saperior." Test.
III BIZ this, no one 1T our states except Tex.
, a. ever va sovereignty; and even Texa.
gave up the character on coming into IN,
the Union. by which act she acknusle dgeC
the Constitution OF tue United states, auf
the laws and treatic. u the United States
, made In pursuance III the Constitution, |,
! BE- for her The supreme law 81 the Land.
J The states have their status in the Tn
! ion. aud they have no other legal status. Il
. they break from this. they can only do 50 a.
gain,t law and By revolution. The union
! aud not themselves separately. procured
. their independence aud their liberty. q,
) conquest or purchase The Union gave eacl
I Of them whatever Independence aud libert,
il has.
! The Union is older than any Of the States
and IN fact II created them a. States. Orig
, Inally some dependent colonies made III,
/ Union, and, IL turn, the Union threw Of
!. their old dependence for them aud mad,
them states, such as they are. Not one o.
them ever had State Constitution indepen.
} dent u the Union.