The weekly Butte record., 1861-08-17


of both, assert that the election OF a polltica
opponent, whose success they might have pre-
/ vented, is q sufficient cause of rebellion, o
/ that party or an interest, which has the ma
ority in both branches of the Representaliv,
Government, and is protected by the opinions
of the Judiciary of the nation can withdraw
so as to give It's opponents the power, an(
then set on foot rebellion, and seek to destroy
an edifce which Stands as the last best hope.
of man, because they fear they may be visited
with political oppression Those who prac-
tce such shallow devices before the world il
the latter part of the nineteenth century
should remember that they but copy the stu
pid instincts OF the bird which buries its heaG
in the sand, and then INDUCES the ungainly
conceit that its body is buried also What
ever causes of disturbance and disafector
existed between the North and South, the
public Judgment has rendered It's verdict upon
abundant evidence aud with extraordinary
unanimity, deciding that such formed a remote
and feeble element in inducing disunion but
that it was foregone conclusion with those
who urged it forward, darkly designed aud de-
liberately determined, for the purpose of Sc
curing personal eclat and sefaggrandizement
rather than of securing rights and privileges
to an oppressed section of people.
Order is Heavens first law
it is coevil with being, Nopeople, civilized
or savage, ever existed without a government
for their guidance and regulation Beasts OF
the field and forest, birds of the air, fishes OF
the sea, and insects which inhabt all form
their colonies and associations, and arrange
themselves in obedience to some recognized
rule; and even inanimate objects obey with
unerring certainty the hand which guides
them. Nor do the lights of history, the les
sons Of experience, or the fckcring shadows
of tradition, tell of a government which vol
unfairly, and by design, planted the seeds OF
its own decay in its bosom, or provided for It's
own destruction and overthrow, by committing
It's lie and destiny to other hands. The Con
stitution, forming the Union and erecting its
Government, was the emanation of the people
Of the United States. 1t was adopted us de-
clared in lis preamble, d" to form a more per
feet Union, to establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide tor the common defense
to promote the general welfare, aud to secure
the blessings of liberty to the people who or
daincd it. and their posterity" But if the in
strument which formed the more perfect Union
with becoming solempily, contemplated its
drawal Of all or any of the States thereirom
at the pleasure of their capricious politicians
it remained a most imperfect and pitiabe
Union still. If the justice it established was
temporary, if the domestic tranquility it in
sured was for the time being, if the common
defense it provided for was until some of the
States should withdraw from the Union and
make war upon it, and if the blessings of lib
erty it secured to posterity were upon the con-
ditiOn that those who secured them should not
wish to subvert the liberty thus secured by
armed force, then our bOastcd Constitution,
which has been hailed throughout the earth as
one OF the wsest emanatiouS Of man, aud en-
joys a worldwide fame for its humane provis
ions and lofty conceptions Of craftsmanship
should be secuted as a fraud, delusion, and
an imposlure, possessing much more sound
than substance, and carrying, by design, IN its
own bosom, the seeds of its dissolution. But
no sentence, or word, or syllable can be found
in the Federal Constitution sustaining an idea
at once so puerllc and monStrous. 1t provides
for the admission into the Union of new States,
but not for the withdrawal thereirom of those
already members. TO gain such admission,
the States must apply to Congress, with a
Constitution republican in form, and upon an
act of Congress authorizing such admission,
duly approved and sigued by the President of
the United States, such State becomes a mem
Der Of the Conicdcracy If one State, being
thus admitted, can withdraw at pleasure, by
passing an act or ordinance Of secession, and
cancel IL solemn covenant by one party alone
which it required two to make, and in which
both remain interested. any or all may do the
same, and the rich harvest Of liberty and
its attending blessings, which our forelahers
professed to secure to posterity, may prove a
barren and blasted field when those for whom
it was designed prepare to reap their inherit
ance
1t is fam ar principle of law that re-
pealing statute, itself repealed. revves and
puts in force the former law. So long, then,
as Congress permits its several acts for the
admission of the revolted States into the
Union to stand, according to Secession law
and logic, those States can 90 out and in at
pleasure, and if they may Withdraw by an or
dinance of their own, by the same rule Con
gress may expel them by repeating It's act of
admission TO 90 ont of the Union, as they
insist. they have only to pass an act or ordi-
nance of secession, without the knowledge,
privity or consent of the Government of the
y MON. U Itlulu lutN WOulu nave only W
repeal it. They can go out when it suiIs
principle, and return when it fayors interest ;
or they can alternate, like migratory birds,
with the seasons. Matching disunioa within the
Confcderacy, and rearing it without, and as
thus far, its managers have, in most Instances,
generously relieved the people Of participation
in the matter, the destruction of old Govern
ments and the erection of new ones would oc-
casion little Inconvenience.
Jove, according TO mythology and that is
an authority not easily refuted, leaped fully
armed from the brain Of the goddess but,
stranger Fill, the founders of the Government
of the Southern Conlederacy leaped fully
armed, with high sounding titles of official
station, from their own, and brought their
Government with them an emaDaiiOn neither
suggested nor approved by the popular voice
but the creation Of those who, like the re-
nowned Peter Brush wanted " something to
have rather than something to do, aud almost
universally repudiated wherever opportunity
has been afforded. a government purporting
to be of the people, without permitting them
to have a voice 10 constructing it without a
" local habitaiion," of Departments in the
abstract, and offices with more titles than du-
ties a President without an election, Treas
ury without money, or sources Of revenue. a
Navy without ships, Post Office without
mails, a Minister of Foreign Relations, whose
relations abroad decline to acknowledge The
connection, Department of the Interior, rep
resentinp a nature-ahhorred vacuum, an At
tornev General without law, and a Patent OF