Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-06-10

) \ sas Uoilsd States. the b lot OF local Law
y qAId rem lin in full force and be executed b.
the join. action Of the Federal and local author
itIes. until changed BY competent authority
Bat fhe ordinance of secession being unO0nsti
tut, nal sod utterly void, the constitution anc
laws oil North Carolina, which existed before
the Eassage of that ordinance. and many ol
which are hundred years old, are just 40 valid
and As much In force as they ever were.
Did the pas,,age of an ordinance OF secession
take North Carolina or any other State out Of
the UDionf The Timss and other Republican
Abolition papers. BY their line of argument,
insist that Il did. We deny It. President IdE-
COLIN denied It. The whole American people,
Who rose against the rebellion, denied it to q
man. They said the States are all In the Union,
and we mean TO keep them there, 10 spite Of the
efforts of the eecessionists and ebels In arms to
take them out.
If the people had belleyed-ii those in au-
thority at Washington had told them--Ihat the
so-cslled seeded States had, in the exerciie Of
power veeted In the citizens OF those States,
gone out of the Union, and had, in fact and in
law, severed their connection with it, not cor
poral's guard could have been raised to coerce
them back again. NJ, we did not take up arms
we are not now fighting to re. conquer and re
annex to the Union, States that have become
foreign to us; but we are fighting to crush out
Q rebellion against Federal, and to put down
tho usurpation Of State authority. The States
are as much sisteE States as they ever were, and
are 80 much the dclrer to us, as they are In
great peril aud in imminent danger OF persbing
as states, unless we stretch forth The protect
log hand and save them. .g-s
Every American citizen is pledged--every
officer in the civil or military service, is sworn,
n the language Of the Constitution, to 'guar-
antee to every Safe in this Union a republican
lorm of government, ,''-that Is, the form OF
government the State had when che became q
member Of the Union To fulfill this pledge
to redeem this oath, We have fought and are now
lighting for the maintenance Of States, State
Constitutions aud State lave; for only by main!
tanning these, can the Uoion be maintained
Take away these, aud there ca1 be no UoioD
for there will be no states-nothing out Of which
TO form one. And il one State has gone out by
secession or rebellion, all may 90 out by the
same door. Il ls against this assumption oi
the seces,ionists and rebels that we are fighting.
We pronounced it false; and because they aeW
90 arms to sustain IL, we called them rebels and
traitors, and sent our armies into the field t.
put them down.
As the mass Of the people at home, and as
the mass Of the soldiers in the field understand
,', We are not sacrificing life and loading our.
selves and future generations With heavy take.
for the Embellishments, in the United Siatea, or
in North Carolina or any other State, of a new
tangled RepublicAn-AbOlltion regime or govern
nent; but for the maintenance and preservation,
IN the Union, under the National Constitution,
aud in every State uuder its State Constitution
nd laws, of the old rsims or government as
toe came existed before Republican "A bolitior
lsm and its TWIN monster Sec, s.ion bad being.