Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-07-12

ment. AT such an election all taat large
class, who are at once for the Union and
against coercion, would be cosrc.d to vote
against the Union.
CHARACTER OF THE TWO ARMIFs.
1t may be affirmed without extravaganza
that the free Institutions we enjoy have de-
veloped the powers and improved the cond-
ton of our whole people beyond any exam
pie in the world. OF this we now have II
striking and impressive Illustration.
So large an army as the government has
now on f OF was never before known-with-
out soldier in it, but who has taken his
place there of his own free choice. But more
than this, there are many single regiments
whose members, one and another possess full
ly the practical knowledge of ali the arts,
sciences, professions and whatever else wheth-
CT useful or elegant is knewn in the world,
and there is scarcely one from which could
not be selected President, cabinet, con-
gress, and perhaps a court abundlntly COM
petent to administer the government isself.
Nor do | say this is not true also in the
army of our late friends, now advcrsaries. in
this contest; but if it is So 50 much the bet
ter reason why the Government which has
conferred such benefits on both of them, and
the United States should not be broken up.
Whoever in any section proposes to abandon
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n rat in ;ts steaa - tha s,,h.t;tnt,
will give. or be intended to rive. 50 much of
good to the people
There are some foreshadowings of the sub
.jeet. Our adversarics have adopted some
Declaration Of Independence, in which, I'M
like the good old one peaned by LETTERS N.
bav tba all ,t.,t
equal. Why?
They have adopted temporary National
Constitution, in the preamble OF which, I'M
like our good old one signed by Washington,
they omit - we, the people" ar d substitute
all the deputies of the sovereign and indie
pendent States Why? Why this DELHI
crate pressing out Of view the rights Of man
and the authority of the people?
This is essentially people contest on the
side of the Union. It's struggle for main
tanning before the world that form and sub
stance of government whose leading object
is to elevate the condition of men; tn lift ar
tifcial weights from all shoulders to clear
the paths OF iauaahie pursuit Tor an 10 a.
ioru all an unlettered start ana iair cl,ahcS
IN the race OF NE. Yielding 10 partial anu
temporary departures, from necessity inns Is
whose existence we contend. am most
haPpy 70 oeiieVe that the pam people un-
derstand ana appreciate THIS.
LOYALTY OF UNITED STATES SOLDIERS AND
sEAMEN.
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 the offices. have resigned
and proved false to the hand which had pam.
pered them. not one common soldie7 or com
mon sailor is known to have d, serted his aar. /
Great honor is duo to thos. officers who re- I
manned true despite the example of their 1
treacherous associates. but the greatest hon T
or and most important TACT OF all il the t
unanimous frames OF the common soldiers
to the last man. 81 far as known they have /
successfully resisted the traitorous offer OF
those whose commands but an hour before
they obeycd as abs lutte law. This is the I
patriotic instinct OF plainpaople They I'M
derstand without an argument that the de-
stroying ofthe government, which was made
by " ashingtou, means M good 10 them.
srccrss On ctr G VEHEMENT.
Cur popular Government has been called
an experiment. Two naints in it or paopl, {
have already settled. The estahlisbin-, and I
the successful administering ii it. One still T
remains Its successful maintenance arainst
a formidable internal attempt to overthrow
it. 1t is now for them to demonstrate to
the world that those VIM can fairly carry an /
election can also suppress a rebellion: that
ballots are the rigbtfaI and peaceful success
ors of bullets. aud that wien ballots have
fairly and constituti5nallv decided tllere can
be no successful appeal back to ballot; that
there can be no successful appell except to
ballots themselves at sncceeiln. elections
Such will be great lesson of peace: that
what they cannot take nv an election neither
can they take it by war teaching all the
folly of beginning war.
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LOST ,bnr, h, ~ tIe minds
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If tho Goycr,mant r1war3 RI. S,n.bcrr
States after the rebellion shall have been sup
pressed. the Executive deems it prorcr t.
say it will be his purpose then as ever to be
guided bv the Constituti n and the laws and
that he will probably have no diff rent un-
Outstanding Of the pow rs and duties Of the
Federal Government relatively t. the rights
of the States and the people under the Cm-
stltution than that exprs ssed in the inaurar-
al address
lie desires to rr serve the G 5v,rnmcnt that
it NAV be administered nv the m N who made
it. foval citizens everywhere have the rirht
to claim this of their government. and the
government has no RIGHT to Withhold or ne
Fleet it. II is not peresiye1 that in ,jyinr
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