The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-05-25

Tue CONSTITUTION. or prohibited to the States
are reserved to the States respectively or the
p'ople. 1t IS 10 maintain subtle and
Sophlsiical and utterly understandable infer.
ehce from this amendment, that the South is
now striving to break the Government, and
drench the country IN blood.
But am willing to stake the great issue
OH tins amendment. The Constitution does
expressly delegate to the United States all
the powers Of sovereign State, with respect
10 International and interstate affairs: the
Whole war power; the whole admiralty
power; the whole commercial power; the
power to regulate and dispose of the public
! territory the power over the Indians, over
The post-otfice and post-roads over the army,
| the navy, the dock yards. the arsenals. All
theSe powers and many Others are expressly
delegated TO the United States, and as express.
~ prohibited to The individual States The
Constitution OF the United States ito which
the people OF South Carolina assented on the
ID Of May, 1888, as much as they ever assen-
ted TO their State Constitution distinctly
| provides that no State shall keep troops or
SHIPS Of war, or issue letters of malque and
reprlsai, or enter into any treaty alliance. or
confederation; and yet in the face of this
express delegation Of powers to the United
state, and their express prohibition to the
otStes, the seeding States have undertaken
to exercise them all have entered into q
9 confederation. raised an army, issued
letters of marque and reprlsal and plunged
INTO war against the Government which
every magistrate and officer among them
was under oath to support, and all in virtue
OF having first uttered the magic words, :" we
secede.' The history of the world does not
| furnish another such mCnStrouS usurpat ion
Such is the nature and foundation of the
war in which we are engaged. AS you
| perceive, 1t is for the very existence Of the
Government; 1t is contest in which no
good citizen can remain neutral. | am
often asked how long | think it will last;
but that is a question the South alone can
answer. She makes the war; she has seized
by surprise such Of the stronghods of the
country as she was able; she has possessed
herself Of the Mayfair at Norfolk, which
guards the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay
Of llarper's Ferry, which commands one of
the great highways from the Ohio river to the
Atlantic Ocean; and, above sl. of the mouth
OF the Mississippi the outlet of the most
extensive system Of internal communicate ton
on the face of the globe. There will. in my
Judgement. never be peace, till the flag Of the
Union agian floats from every stronghold
| from which it has been stricken down.
DO you think, fellow.ci,zens. that Ohio,
| Indiana and Illinois will allow their most
direct communication with the seabosrd to
he INSTRUCTED, at the pleasure of an alien
State, at Harper's Ferry Do you imagine
that Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern
New York, whose tributary waters flow
| through the Susquehanna into Chesapeake
| Bay, to say nothing Of the Delaware and
Chesapeake Canal will tolerate a foreign
master in Hampton Roads! Above all, 60
you believe that the Giant of the West will
accept his pathway to the Gulf of Mexico as
a privilege granted by this mushroom Con.
ledcrary! Yes they will submit 10 this
degrading yoke. they will acknowledge this
CALLING usurpation but it will be when the
| Allegiance shall bow their imperial heads
| to the level Of tl,e sea. and the current Of the
Mississippi and the Missouri shall flow back
WARD 10 the Rocky Mountains.
| My friends, deprecate war-no man mors
so /; and. Of all wars, most deprccate
civil war. And this, if prosecuted BY the
South in the spirit in which she has coInmen.
ced 1t will be what the stern poet of the
civil wars of Rome called beNum plpsquam
, clrHe-a more than civil war. | dcprecate,
more than can express, a war with the
South. You know my political course
Logan. the Indian chief, manrnfully exclalm.
cd, Such was my love for the whites, that
my conntrymen pointed at me as passed.
and said. Los.n is the friend Of the white
men - have been pointed al for years as
| The friend Of the South. For maintaining
],@hat deemed her constitutional rights, |
= Gve suffered no small portion of obloqry.
and sacrificed the favor Of large portion of
the community in which | was born, and
which, from my youth up, have cndcav
orcd to serve laboriousy, duuful!y. and
atlectionately. ! was willing, while this ill.,
starred movement was confined to the States
| Of the extreme South, and they abSta,ned
from further aggression, that they should 50
| in peace.
This course, thought. would retain the
Border States. aud bring back the Secedcrs in
a year or two, wcaried and Disguised with
their burdensome and perlous experiment.
Such understood to have been. in substance,
the programme of the Administration. But
the South has willed ii otherwise She has
struck parricidal blow at the heart of the
| Union and to sustain her in this unnatural
and unrigheous war Is what my conscience
torblds. Neither will | remain silent, and
see this majestic framework of government,
the noblest political fabric ever reared by
human wisdom, Frustrated in the dust to
crafty the disappointed ambition Of a few
aspiring men (for that Mr.. Vice. President
Stephens bravey told his fellow citizens last
November was the cause of 80 great part OF
our troubles and this under cover Of
sopbistcal Interpretation Of the Constitution,
at war alike with common sense, with
contemporary history and the traditions Of
the Government: unsupported by single
authority among the trainers of the Constitu-
ton, and emphalically denounced by Mr..
Madison, their leader and chief
| What then remains, fellow. itizepS, but
that we should. without unchristian bitter.
ness toward our misguided countrymen,
meet aim y and resou,ely the demands of
the crisis: that We should perform the duty
of good citizens with resolution and steadi-
ness ; that we should cordially support the
Government Of the country in the difficult
position in which it is placed that we
! should cheer and encourage the brave mon
who have obeyed its call, by. generous
care Of their families; and, to sum it all in
one word come weal or woe. that we should
stand by the flag of the Union
SwARMING TIE SEAs.-We learn. says The
Montgomery Mil, that there are now quite
number of privatecrs IN the service ofthc Con.
! fedcrate Government, cruising off the Gulf and