The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-07-11
seryation. The call was made and the

,fesponse of The country was lnost gssti-
flying, surpsasin: in unanimity and spirit
the sost ssaguine expectations. Yet none
of the. States commonly called s!aye
States, except Delaware, gave regiment
through the regular State organization
A few regiments have been urganized
within sosas other Of those States BY fin
dtviduaf enterprise, aud received into the
TGoversmeut Eervice Of course; The SCI
ceded AStatee, 90 called, and to which
Texas had been joined about the time of
the inauguration. gare no troops to the
cause Of the Unian. The border States,
SO called, were Dot uniform in their &C
ton, some Of; them being almost for the.
Union. while in others, as in Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas
the Union sentiment was nearly repress-
ed and silenced. The course taken in
Virginia was tn. mos. remarkable, per-
haps the most important. A convention
elected BY The people of that State to
consider this very question of disrupting
the Federal Union was in session at the
capital Of Virginia when Fort Sumter
fell To this body the people had chosen
large majority of professed Union men :.
Alnos, immediately after the fall Of
Sumter numbers of that majority went
over to the original minority, and with
them adopted an ordinance for with
drawing the State from this Union
Whether this change was wrought by
their great approval of the assault on
Sumter, or their great resentment to the
Governments resistance to that assault,
is not definitely known. Although they
submitted the ordinance for ratification
to vote of the people. TO BE- taken some
what more than q month distant the
Convention aud the Legislature, which
was also in session at the same time and
place, with leading meu of the State,
Immediately commenced acting as if the
State was already out Of the Union
They pushed military preparations Wig
orously forward all over the State. They
seized the United States arHiory at Har
per's Ferry and the Navy Yard at Cos
port near Norfolk. They received. yer.
haps invited into their State, large bodies
of troops, with their warlike appoint
nents, from the so called seeded States
They formally entered into treaty with
the SO called Confederate States, and
sent mem bers to their Congress at Mont
gomery, and finally they permitted the
government to be trans.
ferred to their Capital at Richmond
The people Of Virginia have thus allowed
this giant Instruction to make its nest
within their borders, and this Govern.
mcnt has no choice left but to deal with
it where it finds it, and it has the less
to regret, as the loyal citizens have, in
due form, claimed i.s protection. Those
loyal citizens the Governm ent is bound
to recognize and protect as being in Vir-
GINA. In the Border States, SO called,
in fact the Middle States, there are those
who favor policy which they call armed
u neutrality, that is, an arming Of those
States to prevent the Union forces pass
ing one way, or the disunion the other,
over their soil. This would be disunion
6gurative ely speakiue.i it would
be the building Of an i'm passable wall along
the line of separation; and yet, not quite
an impossible Que, for, under the guise
of neutrality, i. would tie the hands Of
the Unicn men and freely pass supplies
from among them to the insurrectionists,
which it could not do as an open enemy
At u stroke it would take all the trouble
off the hands of secession excep. only
sde 1t would do for the disunionists
that which of all things they most desire,
feed them we'll and give them disunion
without a struggle of their own 1t re-
cognzes GO fidelity tc the Constitution.
no obligation to maintain the Union
While very many who have favored it
are doubtless loyal citizens, it is never
theess very injurious in effect.
Recurring to the action Of the Gov
erament it may be stated that at first a
call was made for $4,000 militia, and
rapidly following this, proclamation
was issued for closing the ports of the
insurrec,iopary districts by blockade
SO far all was believed to he strictly
legal. @.~"
At this point the insurrectionists an
noubccd their purpose Of entering upon
the practice of priyateering. Other calls
were made for volunteers to serve three
years unless sooner discharged, and also
large additions to the regular army and
navy These measures, whether strictly
legal or not, were ventured upon what
appeared to be popular demand for pub
lie necessity, trusting then, as now, that
Congress would ratify them. 1t is be-
lieved that nothing has been done beyond
the constitutional competency Of Con-
gress Soon after the first call for mill
tia, it was considered duty to authorize
the commanding General, in proper cases,
according to his discretion, to suspend
the privilege of the habsns corpus, or in
other words to arrest and detain without
resort to ordinary process and forms OF
law such individuals as he might deem
dangerous to the public safety. This
authority has purposely been exercised
but very sparingly, nevertheless, the
legality and proprlety Of what has beer
done under it are questions, and the at
.ention Of the country has been called t.
!, the proposition tia. ono uho has swors
to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed should not himself violate them
or course some consideration was giver
to the questions of the power and pro
priety before this matter was acted upon
The whole Of the laws which were re
quired to be faithfully executed, were
being resisted and failing of execution