Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-07-11

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legal means for making this contest o'e 'Ae
and decisive one; that you place at tbe oo"t ouSft
OF the Government for the work at leas, ,'aIoI
900 men and $500, 100000. That nn",lO 4VO.
men is about one-tenth of those of nronn. ne'
within the regions where, apparently al ages
willing to engage f; and the sum is less ~. ore
twenty-third part of the money value ou".I,
the men who seem ready 10 devote the sTIT
A debt of 5000, ,000, 900 now is less sr,s r1Oe'
head than was the debt Of or our RevoIa.F F
when we came out Of that struggle, and pa ~.
money-value in the country bears eva. ~'
greater proportion to what it was then .,
does the population. Surely each man bs. 'asa
strong motive now tO preserve our Ebo,,;I
as each had then TO establish them. '''
A right result at this time will be vo.a
more TO the world than ten times the men o'g
ten times the money. The evidence rpscbiu %uu
US from the country leaves no doubt that ~
material for the work is abundant and fbot y
needs only the hand of legislation to give u
legal sanction aud the hand of the Execn,;.'
to give it practical shape and efficiency o..
of the greatest perplexities of the GoTerDmsr.
is to avoid receiving troops faster than if c.'
provide for them in word, the people win
save their Government, if the Goyerpns,,
itself will do its part only indifFerentIy we'll
1t might seem at first thought to be of Gr,
difference whether the present movement ..
the South be called secession or rebellion
The movers, however, will understand the df
ference
At the beginning they knew that they comb
never raise their treason to any respectsB.
magnitude by any name which implies viola.
tion of law they knew their people possessei
as much of moral sense, as much of deyoJm
to law and order, and as much pride in its re,.
ereDce for the history and Government Of tbei,
common country as any other civilized and
patriotic people They knew they could max.
no advancement directly 10 the teeth of tbeu
strong aud noble sentiments. Accordingly
they commenced by an inSidiOuS debauclery d
the public mind they invented au iugenog
Sophsm, which, ii CONCEDED, was followed t7
perfectly logical steps through all the incident;
OF the complete destruction Of the Union. Th.
sophism itself is, that any State of the Uum
may, consistently with the nations Constlu.
tion, and therefore, lawfully aud peacefqIy
withdraw from the Uuion, without the consent
Of the Union, or of any other State.
The little disguise that the supposed right "A
to be exercised only for Just cause, tbemSevs
to be the sole judge of its justice, is too thin
to merit any notice. With rebellion thus sura.
coated they have been drugging the people Of
their section for more than thirty years. and
until at length they have brought many good
men to a Willingness to take up arms agaUs.
the Government the day after some Assem-.
nlage of men have enacted the farcical pTetenq
of taking their State out of the Union who
could have been brought to no such thing the
day before.
This sophism derives much, perhaps the
whole, of its currency from the assumption that
there is some Omnipotert aud sacred supremacy
pertaining to a State-to each State of our
Federal Union. Our States have neither more
nor less power than that reserved to them in
the Union by the Constitution, no one Of then
ever having been a State ont of the Union
The original ones passed into the Union even
before they cast of their British colonial De
pendence, and the new ones came into The 4
Union directly from a condition of dependens
excepting Texas and even Texa in its ten
porary independence, was never designated
State.
The new ones only took the designation q l
States on coming into the Union, while m
name was first adopted for old one
and by the Declaration of Independents
bo 4
be free and Independent States But even then
the object plainly was not to declare their iG
dependence of one another of the Union but
directly the contrary, as their mutual pledge
aud their mutual action befOre,at the timp,aut
afterward, abundantly show TIE express
plghting of faith by each and all Of the orlgi-
nal thirteen States in the articles Of cORedera-
tion two years later, that the Union shall DC
perpetual, is most conclusive, having never
been States either in substance or IN mare
outside of the Union Whence his magical
omnipotence of State Rights, asserting clam
of power to lawfully destroy the Cuion ltSeIi
Much is said about the sovereignty Of the +
States, but the word even is not in the NJ e
tOnal Constitution, nor as is believed, in 81 n
of the State Constitutions.
What is a sovereignty in the political g'S
of the term Would it be far wrong to daha
it political community without poiliHl
superior Tested by this no one of our Stats
except Texas, was a sovereignty, and eTa
Texas gave up the character on coming iH9
the Union, by which act she ackuOWedgs
the Constitution of the United StateS, and To-
laws and treaties of the United States ns@
in pursuance of States, have their status
the Union made in pursuance of the Consti'
ton, to be for her the supreme law. lh
States have their status in the Union, sn
they have no other legal status. If they bfsA
from this they can only do so against Law Sd
by revolution.
The Union, and not themselves separaRI
procured their independence and their hO'f3
by conquest or purchase; the Union gave esa