The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-26

SO ss~o A~ses SVuCetulu8 CeptUFeU On
ITO raise and support armies.
"To provide and maintain navy. eaH.
ITO make rules for the governments and repu.
lation of the land and naval forces.
ITO provide for calling forth the militia to ex.
ecute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrec-
tons and repel invasious.
ITO provide for organizing, arming and dis.
cipiining tho militia, and for governing such part
OF them as msy be employed in the service of the
United States.
ITO make all laws which shall be necessary
ana proper tor carrying into execution the
foregoing powers and all other powers vested
by the Constitution in the Government of the
United States, or in any department or officer
thereof"
we need not stop to say that those powers,
save IN the manner Of their exercise, are unlim
tied. Under all we'll regulated Governments the
powers tor the common defence" ore only linn
tied by the public danger, the public necessity
and the requirements of natural justice. When
tue people by their representatives enact the
laws necessary aud proper as expressly au-
thorized by their Constitution for the suppress
sion of instructions, they simply exercise q
right inherent alike in men and nations-the
right of selfpreservation. The Republic has the
right to live--the Republic has the right, there
tore, to enact all laws needtul and consonant
with justice to suppress an instruction which
strikes At and imperils its life. Upon this
great question Of the right of the people
to provide by Law, and to do by force under
the sanction Of their laws, whatever may be
Just and necessary for the maintenance of their
nationality, and the assertion of their rightful
authority, the people spoke thus through two of
thnf rAr &c HhoN Al.
dsined it,
Hamilton, speaking to the people, and for the
people, said:
1.-THE circumstances which endangcr the safe
ty Of nations are infinite and for this reason
no constitutional shackles can wisely be impos-
ed on the power to which the care of it is COM
mitted." (Fed. No. 2S.) And Madison, speak
ing in the same spirit, and by the approval OF
the whole people, declared: at is in vain to
oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of
self preservation" (Fed. Al
II may not be improper to notice that the
sympathizers with Rebellion, who seek to dis.
credit the Chief Magistrate, and to prevent the
due execution of the laws, have here and else
where appealed to the prejudices rather than
the reason Of our felow-citzens touching the
Law which gives freedom to the slaves of rebels,
and offers them the privilege of contributing
| to the defense of their native land. An imper
lied country is entitled to the services of all
her children. The slave who comes in the hour
of her trial to the rescue of his country which
forgot him in his bonds, is surely entitled TO
higher consideration than the traitor Who while
he enslaves him, strikes also at the liberty and
life of his country. z.
Under the control of these Rebels in arms
| are four millions Of slaves-nstives of the land
! by whose unpaid toll the rebellion is sustain
ed. The question on what principle can the
people break up this relation of servitude es.
| tablished by State laws and command the ser.
vices of these slaves for the common defense "
may be answered, as was the question in 1888.
! On what principle could the people Of nine
/ States by ratifying the Constitution break up
the compact under the articles Of confederation
solemnly entered into by thirteen States Said
Madison, "the question is answered at once by
| recurring to the absolute necessity of the case
to the great principle Of seif,preservation to
the transcendent law of Nature and of Natures
uod-which declares that the safety and happi-
ness of society are the objects at which all po
litica institutions aim, and to which oil such in.
stitutions must be sacrificed"
| Forseeing the great crime now attempted
upon the Government in these Rebel States,
with the prescience of the seer patriotic states
cies of population Astounding in i, some of til.
ment, are sunk below the level of men, but
who, in the tempestuous scenes of civil VIC.
lence, may emerge into the human character
and give superiority of strength to any party
with which they may associate themselves. -
This unhappy Species" even in their chains
are the strength of this Rebellion. SILVER the
letters that bind them and they will rise from
the degradation of slaves to the dignity o
freemen and render faithful services to you,
country. Washington deemed these enslaved
men fit to fight the battles Of the Revolution
jackson deemed them, fit to fight in
the second war for Independence. Neither
would consent that they should do battle 70,
their country in chains. Can we not in this
deadly conflict with this gigantic revolt imi-
tate the illustrious example of these tried pa
triots! Can you not, shall you not, obey the
voice Of duty, and by your imperial mandate
declare thst even the slave may defend his ma
tive land, and to that end shall be free.
Men Of America! We but utter what We Dc
know when We say, that under Providence thu
fate Of the country is in your hands; that The
hour has struck when you must decide by al
ditionsl sacrifices of treasure and Of blood the
dread issue forced upon us-shsll the Repub-
lie live or perish! The eyes of the civilized
world are upon us? Let US quit ourselves like
men who know their rights and dare maintain
them. Let there be an uprising of the people
in support Of the National authority, that viii
not only blast forever this unmatched treason
and its guilty authors, but give significant no.
tice as we'll to all foreign states disposed to
intervene in our domestic affairs, that the
American people have the will not only tt
suppress this rebellion. bat to resent and Of
fectually resist all foreign Intervention. You
cannot consent that foreign usurpation and
despotism shall supplant the Republic. You
cannot consent that your country shall cease te
maintain the right and avenge the wrong
You cannot consent that the just and beni6'
cent fabric Of civil Government founded and
reared BY our fathers, whom God taught t
build for glory and for beauty, shall be shat
tered and destroyed by the hands Of traitors
that your goodly heritage shall be partitioned
and that Americs the youngest born, and tn,
hope of the world, shall be blotted from tn,
map of nations, and cease to be . power in tn,
earth. =.l-- 1904
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