Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-07-12


in detail deemed necessary and convenient
Tor your action while the Executive aud De
partments viii stand ready 10 supply "InIs-
slonS. or To communicate new facts considered
important for you to know.
II is now recommended that YOU give the
legal means for making this contest short
aud decisive one /: that you place at the con-
troll Of the government for The work. at least
100000 men and $500. 100000. That number
OF men Is about one tenth of those Of proper
az es within the regions where, apparently,
all are wiling 10 engage, and the sum Is less
than a twenty-third part OF the money value
owned by the men W no seem reP' IL devote
their whole. \ debt of 5000 O0O.OC0 now -
less sum per head than was the debt oi our
RevoiutIon when We came out Of that stiUg-
gle, ard the money value IN tre country
bears even greater Proporton Surely each
man las as strong motive 10 preserve our
liberties each had then TO establish hem.
right result at this time viii be worth
more TO the world than ten times the men
and the money.
The evidence reaching Us from the country
leaves no doubt that the material tor The
work is abundant, that il needs euly the hand
Of Legislation to give 1t Sanction and the hand
of the Executive 10 give 1t practical shape
and efficiency. One OF the greatest perpeXl-
ties OF the government Is 10 avoid receiving
troops faster than 1t can prov ide for them. IN
a word, the people will s.ye the goYernmo nt
If the government Will do It's part only ndIt-
fereutly well
1t might seem, at first thought, to be of lii
tie difference whether the present movement
At the South lie called secession or rebellion.
The movers, however. we'll understand the
difference They knew at the beginning that
thcy could never raise their treason 10 any
respectable magnitude by any name which
lmplleS violation OF Jaw. They khew II eIr
people possessed as much devotion te Law and
Order-as much pride in and reverence Tor
the history and government of our common
country-as any other civilized and patriotic
/ people. They knew they could make no ad-
yaucemeut directly in the teeth ot these
strong and noble sentiments. They accord
inglv commenced by an msduous debaUcL-
iug OF the public mind. They inveated an
ingenious sophism. which, If conceded, II to-
lowed 10y perfectly logical steps through all
the incidents OF the complete destruction f
the Union. The sophism itself Is. that any
State of the Union may. consistently with
the nations constitution. and therefore law
fully and peacefully withdraw from lie L mon
without the consent Of the Union or Of any
other State.
y little disguise, that the supposed right D.,
to te exercised for just cause, themselves to
be sole judges Of It's justice. Is too ihIn To
merit any notice.
" tn -bel.ion thus sugar coated thew
have lie dfugging the minds Of their
section for more than thirty years, until
~ length they have brought many rood
men to a willingness to take up arms
against the Government, the dey after
some Assem- blages Cf men have enacted
the farce of taking their State out of the
. Union, Y he could have been brought -.
no such thing ;he day before Ili-
sophi-m derives much, perhaE tie s. b. lc.
Of liz currency from the assumuti.n tt-r
there l. some onnlpOtent and sacred su-
f urtIOacy pertaining 10 each State a. cur
F. drIal Uuion. Our Staie- have rei.f..r
more nor less power than that Ieeelveu
TO thtm In the Union by the Cor stitatiot..
no one OF them having been L Stat On.
of the Union. Tie original ones PASSED
+ into Il e Union even before ;Eev cast of
their British depead"rce, and the new
one came into the Union directly from
a cOndi ion Of dependence, exceptinr
Texas, aod even Texas in it, temLoraIv
independence WAS Iever d- 81 snated as =
State. The new ones only were del ....-
ted States on coming into the Uni.,
while mat lame was only fist adou.eJ
for the old ones in and BY the Declaration
Of Independence Therein The Un,t,5
Colonies were declared tree and inder e..
dent States, but even then the ofI.-r
was not TO declare their iLdept II LEM. ,,,
one another, of the UniOa, but dlrert,y
the contrary, - their mutual acfi,l
before, at the time. and af,erwarI,
abuudaaGy ehU.-. The express uII.,tt-
lnG Oh tuth by each and al Of the rh.r-
teen original states, In the articles Of con-
federation, Two years later. " that The
Union shall be perpetual" Is most c...-
elusive lIavlnL never been S,ates -i.I-
er IN substance or name outside The Tn.
ion, whence thIs magical uuuiIortt,,.- ,.F
St4te rl1nts, asserting u claim Of bower
- lawfully destroy the ULIou J:-+.i ,
Much J, said about The sovereignty of
the States, bur the word even !, f,.t j..
the y ~ onal Constitution, nor i II he-
heved, IN auy OF the STATE Con,Iitt,,,,.
Nh.t 10 sovereignty Would il he fa-
w-oug u dec are iC "a political cournuoi,v
without political Superior? Tested bg
thI-, 10 ole OF our o.at.s excert Tex.-a
"ao Il -"'errigufy, aud even Texas gave
up lie character on coming into the In
. ION, by whIcn act ste ackn,a t.d.,d M
Cousutu,ion OF he Unued S5.u.- n.d
Iaw al 'feaute Of tie Uu.trd >3at,e.
made IL fureuance oi he Constuution
10 oe irreser her supreme law.
I"e States have tLeIr status in ms
OnIoa and 'hey Lave 10 other legal sta>
; tu-. Ii 'hey break from this they On +,
do 90 agaiuet law and by reyoiutl ~.
The Union, and not thems elves setaT.>