Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-07-06

NutEG nuuAA Al AEJ EElolhAtou VI tu0 b11JGllT
and If 80, what, Is submitted entirely to the
better judgmentof Congress.
The forbearancs of this Government has
been 80 extraordinary and 80 long continued,
as to lead soma foreign nations TO shape their
actions as If they supposed the early destruc-
ton Of our national Union was probable.
While this, on discovery, gave the ETeeu-
tive some concern, he Is happy TO say that
the rights OF The United States are now
practically respected by foreign powers, and
a general sympathy with the Government is
manifested throughout the world.
The reports of the Secretaries Of Treas
ury, War ana Navy, will give the informa-
ton in detail, deemed necessary end con-
venient for your action, while the Executive
and Departments will stand ready to supply
missions, or to communicate new facts con-
sidered important for you to know. It is
now recommended that you give the lega,
means for making this contest e short and
decisive one; that you place at the control
of the Government, for the work, ct least
4OO, 600 men and 400, 900, 900 dollars
That Lumber of men is about one-tenth
of those Of proper ages within the re-
gions where, appsrenLly, all are will
ing to engage, and the sum is less than
q twenty-third part Of the money value
owned by the men who seem ready to de-
vote the whole. A debt of 100000, 900
now is q less sum per head than was the
debt of our revolution when we came out of
that struggle, and the money value In the
country bears even a greater PROPORTION
Surely each man has as stronga motive now
to preserve our liberty as each had then to
establish them. A right result at this time will
be worth more to the world than ten times
tbs men and ten times the money. The eV-
idence reaching us from the country leaves
no doubt that The material for the work is
abundant, and that it needs only the hand
Of legislation to give II sanction, and the
hand Of the Executive to givs II practical
shape and efficiency. One Of the greatest
perplexities Of the Government is to
avoid receiving troops faster thar 1t
can provide for them. In q word, the
people will save their Government
If the Government will do its part only in
differently well. 1t might seem at hrst
thought to be of little difference vhetherthe
present movement at the South be called Sc
cession or rebellion. The movers, however,
well ur derstand tbs difference. They knew
at the beginning that they could never raise
their treason to any responsible magnitude
By any name which implies violation Of
law. They knew their people possessed as
much devotion to law and order, as much
pride and reverence to the history and govern
ment Of their common country as any other
civilized and p~atriotlc people. They knew
they could make no advancement directly
in the teeth OF these strong and NOBLE senti-
ments. They accordingly commenced by an
insidious de6auching of the p@hlic mind
they invented an ingenious sophisn, which,
if conceded, was followed by perfectly logi-
cal steps through all the incidents of the
complete destruction of the Union. The
sophism itself is that any State Of the Union
mai consistently with the nations constitu-
zion, and therefore lawfully and peacefully
withdraw from the Union without the
consent of the Union or of any other
State. A little disguise that the
supposed right is to be exercised only for
lust cause, themselves to be the sole judges
OF its justice, Is too thin to merit any mo-
tice. With rebellion thus sugar coated, they
have been dragging the minds Of their
section for more than twenty years, IN
til at length they have brought many
good men to a willingness 10 take up
arms against the Government the day
after some ~assemblage OF men have enacted
the fsrcial sentence of taking their State
out of the Union, who could have been
brought to no suea thing the day before this
sophism derives much, perhaps all Of its
currency from the assumption that there
is come ~omnipotent and sacred supremacy
pertaining to EACH State Of our Federal
Union. Cur States nave neither more nor
less power than that reserved to them in
the Union by the Constitution, no one OF
them ever having been q State Of the I'm
ion. The original ones passed into the
Union even before they cast of their Brit
ish Colonial dependence, and the new
enes eame into the Union directly
from g condition Independence, excepting
Texas, and even Texas in its temporary in
dependence was never designated as a State.
The new ones only were designated States
on coming into the Union, while that name
was only frst adopted for the old ones in
and BY the Declaration of Independence
; Therein the united colonies were declared
free and independent of n another OF
the Union, but directly the contrary,
as their mutual pledge and thsir
mutual action before, at the time and after
ward, ~abundantly shows. The express
plighting Of faith by each and all Of the
original thirteen States, in the articles Of
coniedePatien two years later, that the
Union shall be perpetual is most cpnclps-
i've, having never been States either in sub
stance or name outside the Union. Whence
this magical omnipotence of States rights,
asserting q claim OF power to destroy the
Union itself7 Much Is said sbOut the soy
e~reignty Of the States, but the word
even is not in the National Constitution,
nor as is believed in any of the State con-
situations. What IS a sovereignty With
particular sense of the term, would it be lar
wrong to declare it o political community
without a political superior? Tested by
this to one OF our States, except Texas vas
a sovereignty, and even Texas gave up the
character in coming into the Union, by
which act she a kuowledged the oonstitu-
ton of the United Ststss, and laws and
treaties Of the United States, made in
pursuance of the Constitution, to be
for her supreme law. The States have their
statutes in the Union; they have no other
legal statutes. If they break from this they
only do so against law by TeYolution The
Union, and rot themselves separately, pro-
cured their independence and their liberty
by conquest or purchase. The Union gave
each Of them whatever Of independence and
liberty Il has, The Union IS older than
any OF the States. In TACT, 1t created
them as States originally Some depend
emit colonies made the Union, and inreturn
the Union threE of thsiF old dependence
for them, and made the States such az they
are. Not one Of them ever had 9 State
Constitution independent Of the Union. or
course it is not forgotten that all the new
states formed their constitutions before
they entered the Union, nevertheless de-.
pendent on and preparatory to coming into
the Union
Unquestionsbly, the States have the pow
ers and rights reserved 70 them by the Ma
tionai Constitution, but among these surely
are not included eli conceivable powers,
however mischieVone or destructive; but
af mat nuah onlv a. we're EnoUu in fbia