New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-19


II i, pity that Gen. Sherman in his pro-
clamation issued from Port Royal, ). e., on
November g. should have made on unguarded
admission of the whole principle of Secession
:. State Sovereignty" was the egg from which
the uresent brood OF our national troubles were
batehed. "Thc people Of State, as dis
% tinct aggregate sovereignty" says Gov. Ma
roffn that eminent apostle Of treason, in hrs
famous message 10 tie Kentucky Legislature:
" have the rightful authority to regulate their
d" internal policy, and to define their external
&" relations, according to their own pleasure.
/ This is the pet dogma Of notification, accession,
and treason, and the particular idol OF South
Carolina reverence and worship. Ia the yocab-
ulary of a Southern politician, there are none
other 20 important as the two words " Sovereign
Estate" And yet, to our great regret, We find
Gen. sherman employing this seDseless lingo, and
addressing himself to South Carolina as Z" great
!" Sovereign State" These are his words;
" The dictates of q duty which, under the
" Consultation, owe to q great Sovereign
state, and to proud and hospiiabe people
If there is any meaning IN this language
and South Carolina is sovereign state,
then .he has as much right TO dehnc her
"a external relations according 10 her own
d. Measure. any other sovereign state ia
tie world; aud the Federal Government is car
r,ing war into Ler territory merely because IN
se,ering her connection with the Union, she
exercised one OF tho acknowledged right, Of a
sovereign State. Gen. Sherman indirectly con.
demns himself and his soldiers, as well as the
/ Administration, for the invasion Of what he
calls 4" sovereign State" because il performed
on net Of sovereignty.
What ia sovereign stite' One says
BOWER, (which governs Itself independently
"of any foreign power" that is TO say, Of power
outside Of itsclf Is South Caroline, or auy other
State OF this Union, such Il state Tie adyo-
Gates Of Secession say it is The advocates Of
Union. one and indvi,iblc, s8y it is lot, and
they prove it by the Constitution Of tho United
States. In article /, section 10, the States 81
the Union are expressly forbidden to exercise
about one dozen Of the most important TecOg-
ulzed rights of sovereign States, and in article
W. il SAYS: "This Constitution and the laws
I" of the United States which shall be made in
pursuance thereof, and all treaties made. or
which shall be made, under the authority Of
- The United States, shall be he supreme Law
a. of tie land; aud The judges in every State
- shall be bound thereby; anything in the Con
L" s.itution or laws of any State TO tho contrary
Z" notwithstanding"
| If it ia wrong for q commander to Transcend
an act Of Congress in his proclamation, Why
| is it not equally wrong, at lesst to deny the
Fundamental principle Of tho Federal COnstitu.
ton And why should not the President issue
an order requiring Gen. Sherman to modify
hiI proclamation so az to conform to tho su-
preme law of the land and his own message
10 Congress To admit the vital principle of
Secession and at the same time to make war
upon Secessionists, is certainly not adapted to
bring credit upon the Union cause. The Cen
era assuredly did not think what he said. He
prise whose splendid issue has reflected new
ulster upon the National arms. His PrOclama-
ton, in the particular pointed out, and per-
haps in its Oyer-strained effort at conciliation
is thus far the only dead fly in the otherwise
excellent pot of Port Royal ointment. We
hope to fnd that he is better fighter than
writer, and that bis sword Will be more useful
than bis pen.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WARRINGTON.
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