Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-07-11

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cutive is vested with this mower.
But the Constitution itself is silent al
Go which Or who is to exercise the pow
er; and as he provision was plainly made
for dangerous emergency, it cannot b,
believed the trainers of the iDstrumen
intended that in every case the danger
should run its course until Congress coulC
be called together, the very assembling
of which might be prevented. as was in
tended in this case. by the rebrlliou.--
No more extended arguments is now of
fered, us an opinion at some length viii
probably be presented by the Attorne,
General, Whether there shall be any
legislation upon the subject, aud if any
what, is submitted entirely to the better
judgment of Congress.
The forbearance of this Government
had been 50 extraordinary and so long
continued as to lead some foreign ma
tons to shape their actions as if they
supposed the early destruction OF oul
National Union was probable
While this, on discovery. gave The
Executive some concern. he is now hap
py to say that the sovereignty an ! right.
OF the United States are BOW everywhere
practical respected by foreign powers
and general sympathy with the coun.
try is manifested throughout the world
The reports of the secreta les Of the
Treasury. War. and the Navy, will
give the information in detail deemed
necessary and convenient for your de.
Liberation and action; while the Exccu.
tive aud all the departments will stand
ready to supply omissions. or to commn.
nicatc new facts considered important
for you to know.
1t is now recommended that you give
the legal acaus for making this contest
short and decisive one; that you place
ut the control of the Government, for
the work, at least four hundred thousand
meu and four hundred millions of dol
lars. That number of men is about one
tenth of those of proper ages within the
region where apparently all are willing
to engage, and the sum is less than a
twenty third part of the money value
owned by the men who seem ready to
devote the whole.
A debt of six hundred millions of dol
lars now is u less sum. per head, than
was the debt Of our Revolution when we
came out Of that struggle; and the mon
cy value IN tue country now bears even
il greater proportion to what it was then
than does the population. Sure y each
man has AS strong motive now to pre-
servo our liberties as each had then to
establish them.
a right result at this time will be
worth more tn the world than teu times
the men and ten times the money. The
evidence reaching us from the country
leaves no doubt that the material for the
work is abundant, aud that it needs on
ly the band Of Legislation to give it lc-
gal sanction, and the hand of the Exc
cuivr to give it practical shape and Eff
cheney Que OF the greatest perplexities
Of the Government is to avoid receiving
troops faster than it can provide for them,
In word, the people will save their
Government if the Government. itself will
do its part only indifierently we'll.
1t mi ght seem at first thong ht to be
of little difference whether the present
movement ut the South be called seccss
ion or rebellion. The mowers, however,
we'll understand the difference. At the
beginning they knew they could never
raise their treason to any respectable
magnitude by any name which implied
violation of law. They knew their peo-
pie possessed as much Of mosal sense, as
much of devotion to law and order, and
as much pride III the reverence Tor the
history aud government Of ,heir common
country, as auy other civilized and pa
triotic people; they knew t.ey could
make no ADVANCEMENT directly in the
teeth Of those strong aud noble scnti-
mcuts. Accordingly they commenced
by an insidions dcbauching of the pub
lie mind. They invented an ingenious
sophism which, if conceded, was follow.
ed by perfectly logical steps through all
the incidents, t, the complete iestruc-
ton of the Union. The sophIsm itself
is that any tate Of the union may con.
sisteutly with the National Constitution
and therefore lawfully and peacefully
Withdraw from the Union without the
consent of the Union or of any other
State.
The little dis .uise that the supposed
right is to be exercised only for just
cause. themselves TO be sole judge of its
justice is too thin to merit any notice.
With rebellion thus sugar coated, they
have been dragging the public mind OF
their section for more than thirty years:
and until at length they have brought
many good men to Willingness to take
up arms against the Government the day
after some asscmblage of men have en-
q ted the farccal pretence of taking their
state out of the Unlou who could have
been brought to no such thing the day
before.
This sophism derives much, perhaps
the whole of its currency, from the as
sumption that there is some omDi potent
and sacred supremacy pertaining to Il
State Ito each State of our Federal Un-
ion. Our states have neither more nor
less power than that reserved to them in
the I'm ion by the Constitution, no one
of them ever having been Il State out of
the Union. The original ones passed
iuto the Union even before they cast off
their British Colonial dependence. and
the new ones each came iuto the Union
directly from condition of dependence,
excepting Texas, and even Texas, in its
temporary independence, was never des-
ignated State.
The new ones only took the designa-
ton of States on coming into the Union
while that name was the first adopted
for the old ones in and by the Declare
ton of Independence. Therein the IT,