Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-12

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WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENTS e
ITS It's. HistoFy' IT'S Authority, and ITS
Present Duty. 8s
tErOm the Philadelphia Press-D Douglas Democrat /
What is Government? What does the
word Government mean Does ii not
mean force D. Does it not mean coercion Z
webster defines it as-ai no
Direction; regulation; control, re-
straint. The exercise of authority; di-
rcctioni and restr9inp Exercised over the
actions ofmenfin communities, societies.
/ or Statesi executive power" 5la4
None Of our statesmen have been 30 en-.
thusiastic in insisting upon the enforce
ment of tho laws as the Southern states
men: The tqaca, in truth, trere lie tortrSSs
| Of fhetr doHl6gtic iRStitutiORS. When Gener.
al Jackson issued his proclamation in 1881.
1t nosonlyiefushsd the tieSId of Rebellion
4 tp, South Carolina, hut it lstirred the popu-
lar heart of allthe Southern States 10 its
deepest depths. 1t ohliterated party lines
IN the free States, SO far rs that act of the
Administration, was concerned, and it gave
/ tothe Administration Of tlie General Gov,
eFRment, aud the hero at;itsi head, Al moral
power that was felt to the nttermost ends
OF the earth. So characteristic is the at
taCllment of the Southern people TO the
enforcement of.the laws, that when this
same General Jackson declared martial
| law in7New Orleans, in 915.to protect that
city from the trGitOF5 in It's midst, he was de-
nounced by NIL its publicists and states
men, and he himself was not satisfied that
\ he had proceeded legally until many years
alter, when tie argument of Hon. Stephen
y. Douglas, IN the HOnse.of Representa-
tiyes of the United States, on the bill ire.
mitttng the finc imposed on jackson by
Judge Hall, was read to him. This was
| ls45-4G. II was to, save q Southern COM
munity from turbulence aid TO protect the
.ba!lot-box that President BuUhanan n order
ed out the marines in.the city of.Wash-
| ingtnp, and directed them, tosfire upon the
mob, an, net aptnropsl applhpded By the
people OF the slave Sta tess Under the
| counsels of Southern stntesmen troopss
were sent into Kansas to qucll what was
called domestic rebellion, provoked by tile
acts OF the slaveholding minority in that
Territory. It,was John Tyler, a Southern
PRESIDENT, who sent troops into Rhode
island TO put down what was called "the
Dorr Rebellion," movement represent
ing the majority of the people of that
State, and so enlisting the sympathies
| of the Democratic party that the Nation
al Democratic Convention of 1874 incor-
| porated resolution in its platform en-
dorsing "the rebelliOn.p And vet this
popular demonstration, proceeding with
ont bloodshed, and looking to the over
throw of an old royal charter, was crush
ed out by the strong hand of hoNer, back
cd by tue bayonets md the bullets Of the
United States army. and this act of Presi-
] dent Tyler'was loudly applauded in the
South. 1t was to enforce the execution of
the fugitive slave law TINT the United
States Marshal, freeman, under President
Fillmore, the fhvorite Of the Southern
Americans, was authorized to call out the
troops, and did cali them out, and his
prompt conduct, on that occasion, preven.
ted riot, and established the authority of
! the Federal Government. Wherever the
fugitive slave law hns been resisted, full
power has been entrusted to the officers of
the Government to call for civil aud mill
tary aid; These examples prove conclu-
,siyely; that the whole current Of action,
ION the part Of the Southern men, has been
4 to insist upon the enfOrcement,0f the au-
thority of the law By military force, GgdinSt
has been ntenforcedEbYl regular troops, in
repeated cases, tor the purpose of protect.
ing their peculiar property, when assailed
by mobs in the free States. twill be
borne in,mlnd that, in every one oEthe i'm
stances quoted, tue military of the Gener-i
Ial Government has beenFc called out. not
against armed combinations, but gydinyt
Hpargltd Psobt.siags .s'sEsnf7gs5fe.f
Aud what Is the present attitude Of the
statesmen who have so long been the con-
! servators of the public peace, and tue de-
feuders of the authority of the Federal
GOyernment2 The advocates of0E.coer-
licion" wherever the Law has been interfer-
led with-the eulogists OF aforce," wherev-
ter that force has been applied to- secure
tho executiOn2of the law. Admitting the
right of revolution, which they claim, is
1t not undeniable, that their revolt has as
sumed the proportions of an attack upon TIE
other Stdtes-ef an attack upon M9 Central
/ GogerRmeaEeE an attack apon The commerce
and ths ntaNlJ det,rrs u iffelr FLOR eouRfry
men, and et al .qttqek apoa fhs properly and
treGsNTe 6eEoHgtIy to tie entireTeepleg
\ They are, In truth, id arms ia battls ar
ray. against their own Government No
/ lnttemPt has been made to ceeree7 them,
although the word government the deri-
Walton OF which we give from Webster,
clearly suggests that Nr Lincoln and his
/, Cabinet would be justified in reduCing
them to submission by the use of arms.
/ ALL however, thdt the Chief Magistrate
land his enustitutionRl advisers have done.
cor proposed to do, Is to dsfeRd the ptl5Lio
properly GSadast dssGllt, and not 10 initiate
efpit lrlrJ bRttO F1Ips4t Il b. FeSeHing az Htte6
tpOIger from tht rcVOlltti6nisls AZ 1viu eaabLe
him TO ksIp Tie baknee of tie E,af6H to-
I getkeF. We have thOuRhtlSash d feEerence
as this NOT inSnbifeaf,l,s In III . 1,.ssst 80, :