Nebraska advertiser., 1861-07-11

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ifv 81 The Federal Union. and thus force it q
immediate dissolution. Tbai this was the.
object. the Executive well u8dersto0d. and
having said 30 them b fbe .%naiigural address
! YOU can have no conA'ct without being your-
selves the azgrcsson, be- took pains rot Only q
keep this declaration GOO, bit also kept the
isuo 30 free from the power o. Ing ni0us foph-
4. is.rv as ,ha. the word should not be able q
misunderstood Il Ly the affair a. Fort Sumter
with Us surrounding circumstances. Thai
point was reached. Then and there b. THE
assailauts ofthe Government began The conflict
Of arms. without anything in right or in OK
pectabcy 70 return their Gre. save OILY the few
IN the fort sent 70 hat harbor years before f0i
their own IF0tectioH. and still really to give
that protection IN whatever was lawful. In
this act. discarding al else, they have forced
upon the country the destructive issue, imme-
date dissoluti n or blood; and this Issue en-
braces more than The fate Of these Bnited
States. Il presents 70 the whole family Of
Elan the question, whether q Constitutional
Republic or DEMOCRACY GOVerEmerA Of the
people by the same peoplc---can or cannot
maintain Us territorial integrity against IFS own
domestic foes. It presents the question
Whether disconnected individuals, too few in
number to control administration according 70
organic law, in any case, and always upon the
pretences made ia this case or any other pre-
fences, arbitrarily. without any p~reterse. break
up their Government, and thus practically put
an end b free government upon earth. Il
forces MS 70 ask, is there in al republics this
inherent and fatal weakness? Must q gov
eminent Of necessity be TOO strong for the lib
critics Of our people, or too weak TO maintain
is own existence. So viewing the issue, no
chance was left but to call out the war power
Of the Government, and so 70 resist force en-
ploved for Is destruction, by force for It's pres
e%rvation. The call was lnade, and the re-
spouse Of the country was mast gratifying
surprising IN ~Uuanimity and spirit the most
sangu.ne expectations; vet none OF the States
! commonly called Slave States, except Della
ware. gave a regiment through regular State
organization. A few regiments have been or
ganized within some other Of those States By
individual enterprise, and received into the
Government service. or course the seeded
States. so called, and to which Texas had
been Joined about the time Of the Inaugural
ton, gave no troops to the cause Of the Union.
The Border States. 50 called, were not uniform
in their action, some Of them being almost for
the Union, while in others, as Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee aD6ATkansas, the Union
sentiment was nesrly repressed and silenced.
The course taken in Virginia was the most re-
markable, perhaps the most important. A
convention elected by the State TO consider
this very question Of disrupting the Federal
Union was in session at the Capital Of Virginia
when For. Sumter fell. To this body the
people had chosen e large majority Of pro-
fessed Union men. Almost Immediately
after the fall Of Sumter many members Of that
majority went over to the original d]isunion
minority, and with them adopted the ordinance
for Withdrawing the State from the Union
Whether this change was wrought by their
approval Of their assault upon Sumter, or the
great resentment at the Governments resist
ance to that assault, is not definitely known.
Although they submitted the ordinance for
the ratification to a vote Of the people, to be
taken on a day then somewhat more than a
month distant, the Convention and Legislature
which was also in session at the same time
and place, with leading men Of the State not
members Of either body, commenced acting as
if the State were already out Of tie Union.
They pushed military preparations vigorous
" forward all over the State. They seized
the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry
and the Navy Yard at Gosport, near Norfolk;
hey received, perhaps invited into their State
large hordes Of armed troops, with their war
like appointments, from the so-cailed seeded
States; they formally entered into a treaty of
temporary alliance and cooperation with the
so-called Confed crate States. and sent mem
oers to their Congress at Montgomery; and
finally they permitted the iDsurrectionary gov
eminent to be transferred 10 their capitol at
Richmond. The people OF Virginia have thus
allowed this giant Instruction to make its
nest within Its borders, and this Government
has no choice left but to deal with it where it
finds 1t; and it has the less regret as the loyal
citizens have in due form claimed its protec-
ion. Those loyal citizens this Government
is bound to recognize and protect, as being
Virginia. In the border States so called, but
in fact the Middle States, there are those who
favor a policy which they call armed neutral
ity, that Is. an arming Of those States to prev
ent the Union forces passing one way, or the
Disunion the other over their soil. This
would be disunion completed, fguratively
speaking, il would be building Of an impassi-
Die wall along the line Of separation, and yet
not quite an impossible one, for, under the
guise ofneutaa!iiv il would tie the hands Of
the Union men and freely pass supplies from
among them 20 the inSurrectionists, which il
could not do as an open enemy. At a stroke
il would take all the trouble OF the hands
Of Secession, except only what proceeds from
external blockade. 1t would do for disunion-
lists that which Of all things they most desire,
feed them well. and give them disunion with
out a struggle Of lheir own. 1t recognizes no
fidelity 10 the Constitution; no obligation 10
maintain; Union and while very many who
have favored il, are doubtless LOYAL. ii Is never
theleSs, very injurious in effect r curing to
the action ofthe Government II may be stated
that at first a call was made for 300 militia,
and, rapidly following this, a proclamation
was issued for closing the ports of the i~usurrec-
tionary districts, by proceedings in the nature
Of a blockade. So Gar Oh IVES believed tn be
legal. At this point, the isurreclionis,s
announced their purpose 10 euter upon the
practice Of privateericg. Other calls were
made for volunteers, to serve three wears. I'M
less sooner discharged, and a'so for a large
addition to the regular army and navy.
These measures, whether strictly legal or not.
were ventured upon under what appeared 90 be n
popular demand anl q public necessity.
Trusting them as now that Congress sould rcaiiIv
ratiiy them il Is believed that nothing has been
done beyond the Constitution or the G. mprtenrv 81
Congress. Soon after the FIRST call frr militia, IL was
considered a daty 20 authorize the cCmmandirr
IN proper eases a~acoriiEg % his discretion.
20 suspend the privilege 81 The writ Of habcas corpus
or In other words 10 aircst end detain without resort
20 the ordinary process and forms Of aw. such indi-
vduals rs be might deem d~anger0us TO the public
safety. This authority, has purpyseiy been exercised
but very Snarinriv. nevarfbsirss fhpI laralfv era