The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-05-02

not pause. Fe boldly calls for seventy
five thousand men of the militia of the
Northern States, to conquer and subdue
seven sovereign States who have left the
late Union of the United States. The
justification Of this act is put, by his ad-
herents, on the Act of 1875. That act
contemplatcs the case of an obstruction
of the laws of the United States, by
combinations in State too powerful to
be suppressed by the ordinary course OF
judicial proceedings, or by the psgers
in the Marshals" It suppossSlthe ex-
istencc of Courts of the UnjIa States
the existence of Marsh2xs-and to aid
the Courts and the MD,Shals in enforcing
the laws against yASwful combinations,
uTho Presidcnt6 the United States to
call forth tb/militia of such OF of any
other st.1eor States, as may be neces-
sary t<Suppress such combinations"
S6w, is the secession of whole State,
Unanimously Gas was the case in South
| Carolina,) with the instant abolition of
the Courts of the United States and its
Marshal, ga combination IN State" such
as the Act of 1795 contemplates? What
authority III the State is this militia to
support? And, when six other States
stand in the same position, how absurd is
the pretension that this Act of 1795 con-
tcmplated such state Of things and now
authorizes the President of the United
States to call for seventy-fvo thousand
men, of the militia Of the other States,
to conquer them, and forco them back in
to union with the conquering States.
And, when we remember that the power
to coerce State to submission to the
authority of the laws of the United States
was distinctly made in the Convention
which framed the Constitution Of the
United States and rejected, it is plain
that the Act of 1895 has no bearing upon
the present state of things. President
Lincolns call on the States to furnish
troops to subdue the seeding States is,
therefore, fragrant usurpation.
But what does the usurpation mean?
Will the militia troops, called out by Pre-
sident Lincoln, really enter upon the en-
torprise of subduing the seeding States
to the authority of the United States ?
The term of their service will answer
that question. The South is unconquera-
BILE. But if the South is to be conquered,
it clearly must be by regular army,
duly equipped, and with well trained Of
fccrs to command it. 1t must be q work
of time-perhaps the work of years, with
many hard battle to fight, with peo-
pie used to arms, fighting for their insti-
tutions and homes. Now, the seventy
five thousand men President Lincoln calls
into the field will have their term of SER
vice ended in three months, with no pow
er, as the laws now exist, to continue
their service. The Act of 1876 prcscribcs
that "thc use Of the militia so called out
may be continued, if necessary, until the
expiration of thirty days after the COM
mencemcnt of the next session of Con-
gress." The next session of Congress
takes place on the 4th day of July. Of
course, the service of these troops cx-
pires on tho 4th day of August next-a
little over three months from this time
Will troops, whose term of service So soon
expires, enter upon the enterprise of con-
qucring the South? Not man of them
will cross the Potomac or the Ohio, OF
will be seen on our coasts. They are to
protect the cowardly inccndiarics in
Washington, who are at the head Of the
United States Government, and to keep
up the fortunes of Black Republicanism
by war demonstrations and agitations for
the benefit Of that party.
The fact, too, that the Act of '95 limits
the period of the services of the troops it
authorizes the President to call forth, to
thirty days after the next Congress meets,
shows the nature Of the authority it con-
fers. 1t is temporary, and only to meet a
sudden emergency, which Congress, not be-
ing> in session, cannot meet But has the
secession Of the seven States constituting
the Confedcsate States, been an affair
which Congress could not meet? 1t took
place when the Congress of the United
States was in its regular session-thrce
months before it adjorr:qed. Congress
knew of it-considered it-legislation>t
meet it was proposed aud rejected-and
now this foul usurper and malignant IA