The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-05-18

addressed to Mr.. u. CarrlngtOn, under date
Of August 4, 1857, and which may Be found
in the second volume, page FL, Of bis wri-
tings, as officially published BY Congress IN
der the superintendent Of Professor Henry
A. Washington, Of Virginia:)
1t has been so often said as to be general
" believed that Congress has no power by the
Confederation to enforce anything for ex
ample, contributions Of money. It was not ne
cessary to give them that power expressly;
they have it By the law Of Nature When
two parties make q compact there results to
each power Of compelling the other to exc
cute it. Compulsion was never SO easy as in
our case, where single frigate would soon
levy on the commerce of any State the def
cheney Of its contributions; nor more safe than
in the hands Of Congress, which has always
shown that it would wait, as it ought to do, the
last extremities before it woutd execute any Of
its powers which are disagreeable.
In the sixteenth number Of the Federalist,
Alexander Hamilton considered the subject Of
opposition to Federal laws within State, in
its various lights, as under the old Confeder-
alton action upon State Governments and in
the new Government action upon individuals.
Reasoning upon the kind and degree Of oppo-
sition and the concurring circumstances that
would be necessary to draw the whole people
Of a State into the violent exertion Of OPP
posing the Federal Government, he decided
that Attempts of this kind would not often
be made with lcvity Or rash9a1 because they
could seldom be made with ger 70 the
authors, mless IL cases of ty1dhhical exercise
of Federal authority
The concluding passages Of this paper il the
Federalist are 50 suggestive as to the current
matters of the day that we quote them at
large, in reply to the objections urged against
the Government, at it's very outset, on the
ground that emergencies might possibly arise
which its powers would not Be able to with
stand
If opposition to National Government
should arise from the disorderly conduct Of
refractory or seditious individuals, it could be
overcome by the same means which are daily
employed against the same evils by the State
Goyernments. The magistracv, being equally
the ministers Of the law Of the land, from
whatever source it might emanate, ould
doubtless Be as ready to guard the national As
the local regulations from the inroads Of pri
yate licentiousncss AS to those partial com
motions and instructions which sometimes
disquict society from the intrigues Of an in
faction or from sudden or occa-
sional i'll humors that do not infect the great
body Of the community, the General Govern
ment could command more extensive rcsour-
ces for the suppression Of disturbances Of that
kind than would be in the power Of any single
member
= And as to those mutual feuds which in
certain conjunctures spread q confagration
through whole nation, or through large pro-
portion of it, proceeding either from weighty
causes Of discomfort, givenb the Government
or from the contagion Of some violent popular
paroxysm, they do not fall within the ordinary
rules Of calculation. Whenthey happen they
commonly amount to revolutions and dismem-
berments ofempire No form Of Government
can always either avoid or control them. 1t
is in vain to hope to guard against events too
mighty for human foresight or precautions
and it would be idle to object to Govern
ment because it could not perform impossible
tiles
THANKS OF GOVERNMENT 10 MAJOR AN
DERsoS. The following is copy Of the let
ter Of the Secretary Of War to Major An
derson:
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington,
April %, 1861
Nag. Robert anderson, late Commanding
Officer at Fort Sumter
Ny DEAR SIR am directed By the Pres
ident Of the United States to communicate to
you, and through you to the officers and men
under your command At Forts Moultrie and
Sumter, the appreciation Of the Government
Of your and their judicious and gallant con-
duct there, and to tender to you and to them
the thanks of the Government for the same
am, very respectfully,
SIMON CAMERoN, Sec'y Of War.
AIDFoR WESTERN VIRGINIA. The Wash
ington correspondent of one Of the New York
papers writes as follows:
There are several prominent New Yorkers
here, who have clubbed together and raised
<15 .O10 With wh;ch arms are tn 10 nurcl,asod