East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-06-27

0HHt' theh NV htAIn ~ p'POA"'S "nu
government, and ihat laws
enactebuuder the authority ofall may be
resisted aud repealed at tie pleasure Of
each. The people Of the, United States,
so far az the General GoVernment are
concerned, are a unit, and laws passed by
a majority Of all are binding upon all.
Lie lalys-apd Constitution, However
which the South now resiSts, have been
nioltsd by her sanction, and the right
she now claims is that of a feeble minority
To repeal what majority Ia, adopted.
Nothing could be more iallacious
Before proceeding further, Kentucky
should measure well the depth of the
gull she-is approaching, aRl look well 70
the feet.of her guides. Before fQrsakinS
a Unioa in which her people have enjoy
ed such uninterrupted and such boundless
prosperity, she should ask herself. not
once, bat many times, WHY do ! 90, and
WHERE am | going? Ia view OF what has
been said, it woull be difficult 10 answer
the Grst branch of the inquiry, but to an,
swcnthe second part is patent to all as
are tho-cOnsequcnces which would iolloY
tHe movement. la giving her great una
tcrid and moral resources h The support
OF the Southern Conle,leracY, kentucky
mightiprolong the deS9lsting Struggle
that rcbellous States are making 10
orcrtirow. Government which they
have ouly known in its blessings but
the triumph Of the Government would
nevertheless be certain in the cad. She
would abandon Government stroag and
aUle 20 protect her, for one that Is weak,
aud that contains, ia the worry elements OF
It's lie, the seeds of distraction and early
dissolution. She would adopt, as the
law of her existence, the right of seces-
sion--a right which has no foundation IN
Jurisprudence, or logic, or in our political
history; which Madison, the father of the
Federal Constitution, denounced; which
has been denounced by most OF the states
and prominent statesmen now insisting
upon its exercise; which, in Introducing
a principle of indefinite diutergration,
cuts up all. confederate governments, By
the roots, and gives them over prey 10
the cnprices, and passions, and transient
in interests, Of their members, as autumpal
leaves are given to the winds which blow
upon them In 1914, the Richmond En-.
quirer, then, as now, the organ of public
opinion in the South, pronounced secession
to be treason, and nothing else, aud such
was then the doctrine of southern states
men. W hat was true then is equally true
now. The prevalence Of this perncious
hcresy is mainly the fruit Of that farce
called estate rights" which demagogucs
have been so long playing under tragic
mask, and which has done more than all
! things else to unsettle the foundations OF
! the republic, by estrangiug the people
/ from the Federal Government, as one to
/ be distrusted and resisted, instead Of be
! ing. what it IL, emphaticaIly their own
ereation, at Nil times obedeut TO thcir
/ will, and in its ministratlons the grand
est reflex OF the greatness aud bcnch-
cence of popular power that has ever en-
tnoblcd the history Of our race. Said Mr.
4! Clay: 81 owe a supreme allegiance to the
General Government and to my State 4
subordinate one" And this terse Ian.
guage disposes Of the whole controversy
movement in regard5to the allegiance O
tho citizen. AS the power Of the State
and Federal Governments are in perfect
harmony with each other, 50 there can bl
no conflict between the allegiance due &c
them; each, while acting within the sphere
Of its constitutional authority, is entitled
to be oheyed; but when State, throwing
o all constitutional restraints, seeks t
! destroy the General Government, to say
that its citizens are bound to follow it il
this career Of crime, and discard the su
preme allegiance they owe to the govern
ment assailed, is one of the shallowest an(
most dangerous fallacies that has ever
gained credence among men. ..r .....
! Kentucky, occupying central pos tior
in the Union, is now protected from the
scourge of foreign war, however much it
ravages may waste the towns and cite
upon our coasts or the commerce. upor
our seas; but as member of the South
, ern Confederacy, she would be fronte
State, and necessarily the victim Of thos
border feuds and conflicts which have be
come proverbial in history alike for tbei
iferceness and frequency, The people Q
, the South now sleep quietly in their beds
while there ii not home in inratuate
! and misguided Virginia that is rot file
i with tho alarms and oppressed by tn
terrors of war. In the fate Of this an
cient Commonwcalth, dragged to the al
|; tar of sacrifice by those who should hav
stood between her bosom and every loo
/, Kentucky may read her own. No won
/ der, therefore, that she has. been SO coax
, ingly besought to unite her fortunes Wit
those Of the South, aud to lay down til
bodies of her chivalric sons as a breast
work, behind which the Southern pcopl
i may DO sheltered. Even as attached I,
!, the Southern Confederacy she would b
weak for all tho purposes, of self protection
J as compared with her present position
. But amid the mutations incident to sucl
he pless and self disintegrating league
4 Kentucky would probably soon End her
! self adheriug to mere fragment of th,
Confederacy, or it may be standing en-
tirely alone, in the presence of tiers Q
free States with populations exceeding j.
many millions her own. Feeble State
thus separated from powerful and war
like neighbors by ideal boundaries, or b,
y rivers as easily traversed as rivulets, ar