Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-19

without leave, ana without reminding Inc
nation paid very large sums-in the aggre-
gate believe, IA hundred milions--to release
Florida of the aboriginal tribes. Is it just
that she now 90 off without consent or with
out making any return? The nation is now
in debt for money applied TO the benefit of
these so-called seeded States in common
with the rest Is it iust either that creditors
shall 90 unpaid or the remaining States pay,
while part Of the present national debt was
contracted to pay the old debts of Texas? Is
il lust that she shall leave and pay no part Of
this herself? Again, if one State may secede,
so NAV another, and when all shall have Sc
ceded none is left to pay the delts. Is this
ouite lust to creditors? Did we notify them
Of this sage view of ours when We borrowed
I heir money 2 If we now recognize the doc
trine of allowing the seceders to 90 in peace
it is difficult to see what we can do if Others
choose to 90 or 10 eXtort terms upon which
they will promise to remain. The Seceders
insist that our Constitution admits secession.
They have assumed to make national Con-
stit0tion of their own, in which of necessity
lLev have either discarded or retained the
riuIt of secession, as they insist it exists in
onrs Fthev have discarded it in theirs they
thereby admit that on principle it ought not
70 be in ours if they have retained it, 10y
their own construction OF ours they show that
TO be consistent they must secede from one
another whenever they shall find it the rcadi.
est way Of settling their debts or etfecting
srv other selfish or unjust Object. The prin-
clpp itself IS one Of disintegration, and upon
whiehe.o government can possibly endere
1t all the states save one should assert the
power to drive chat one out Of the Union, it
is presumed the whole class of secession poll
-, y,ltll atp i, IL. I
denouncc this act as the greutest outrage up
on State rights But suppose precisely the
same act instead Of being called driving them
out, should be called the seeding of the
Others from that one, il would be exactly
what the seceders claim TO do, unless indeed
they make the point that the one because it
is a minority, may rightru1!y do wha. the
others, because they are majority, may not
rightfuly do. These politicians are subtle
and profound on the rights of minorities.-
They are not partial TO that power which is
in the Constitution and speaks from the pre-
amble calling itself ave, the people" 1t may
well be questioned whether there is to-day Il
minority Of the legally qualified voters ofany
state, except, perhaps, South Carolina, in IA
vor Of disunion. There is much reason to
believe that the Union men are the majority
in many, If not in every other of the so-calcd
seeded States. The contrary has not been
demonstrated in any one Of them, 1t is ven
tured to affirm this even of Virginia and
Tennessee for the result Of an election held
in military camps where the bayonets are all
on one SIDE of the question voted upon. can
scarcely be considered as demonstrating pop
uIar sentiment. AT such an election. ali that
large class who are at once for the Union and
AGAINST coercion, would lie coerccd TO vote
against the Union. 1t may be assumed. willis
ont extravagance that the free institutions
wescnioy have developed the powers and i'm
royed the condition of our whole people be-
yond an example in the world. OF This we
now have @ striking and impressive ilustra-
ton. So large an army rs the c overnmcnt
has now on foot was never before known
without soldier in it but who had taken his
,laco There of his own free choice: but mare
Than this. there are many single regiments
wbnso members one and another nossess fnl
nroctir,l ,nowledoe Of all the arts scienccs
professions and whatever else useful or elc-
can't is known in the world and there !,
scorcelv one from which there could NOT ba
selected President. a Cabinet. n Congress
and ncrhaps a Court, abundantly combetent
to administer the Government itself. Nor do
say this, is not trnc also in Che army of our
late friends, now adversarcs, in this contest.
But if it Is, SO much better the reason why
the Government, which has conferred such
benefits on both them and US, should not he
broken up Whoever in any section pro-
poses to abandon such Il Government, would
10 well to consider in defense Of " hat prin-
chile it is that he does il what better he i.
likely to get in It's stead; whether the sub
stitute will give, or be intended to rive, 50
much of good to the people. There are some
nrrsbn1ovino donbfs ON this snLinct
Our adversaries have adopted some decla-
ration of independence, in which, unlike IL Q
rood old ponc pcnned by Jefferson they omit
the words, "Ail men are created equal They
have adopted temporary National Consti-
tuition, in the preamble of which, unlike our
good old one signed by Washington, they
omit I've, the people, and substitute "W e.
the deputies of the sovereign and Independent
States. Why this deliberate pressing out of
view the rights OF men and the authority of
the peoplef This is essentially peoples con-
test, On the side CT the world that form
substance of government whose leading OBJ
ject is to elevate the condition of men, to lift
artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear
the paths of laudAble pursuit for all, to afford
all an unfettered start and fair chance in the
race of life, yielding TO the partial and tenn
porarp departures from necessity. This is
the leading object of the Government for
whose existence We contend. am most
happy to believe that the plain people under
stand and appreciate TINS. 1t is worthy Of
note that while in this, the Governments
hour OF peril serge numbers OF those in the
army ana navy who nave been favored with
the Offices nave resigned and proved false to
the mana which had F@mpered them, not one
common sailor : n