The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-09
Eow Stand We as Nation Pin or Out
tyg To- Of the Union. '4. -

cSe T9J Of the Union.
a. co.tfa-, --7s-eai, .ccI
We belieYe nothing, is more plain than
that STATES may take themselves out Of the;
Union, and abdGieatei all their, rights as
States, by their OWN voluntary act, They
cannot, however, Withdraw either their teri
ritory arlheir citizens from the, national
jurisdieu9p.bavs ei t.sv@Is ;r' .yig -1sf 4
1t is probably one Of the dormant pow
ers of the, Union, to expela State, for rsuf-;
fcient cause 10 confirmed misconduct and
vicious practice, but beyond all douat, it is
optional with tie, Union to keep State out,
which has ypluntarily gone out.
Undoubtedly, The, Union owes certain in
defeasible duties Of protection to such cit
izens Of Withdrawing States as remain 10y.
al, but it depends upon circumstances
whether these duties can be best perform
ed, by compelling, pr permitting, the return
of such States into dthe Union, or by, en-.
forcing the national jurisdiction over the
territory of such States in some other way
1t may happen that, TO recognize the: actual
governments of Withdrawing States, may
be the very course to subject the loyalm
norily of their, Inhabitants to the tyranny.
from which they ought to be relieved 3,
In the, present, matter in hand, the true
view is, that all the States which have
passed ordinances of secession, are now
out of the Union, and are to be re-admitted,
not as matter Of. right, but at such time
and under such circumstances and condi-
tions as may be Judged best by the nation.
Exceptions may perhaps, be made of Yir-
ginia and Tennessee, in both of which,
important territorial divisions have re-
manned steady loyal. tra'ra i-
The arguments Of the. Democratic press
and orators all tend TO the conclusion that
the object of the present war is to REIN
vest the traitors with their former power
and political privileges, that this is the mo-
tive and only end worth striving after
But nothing is more absurd than the idea
shat the object of this bloody and exhaust.
ing war il to restore to their former polite.
d weight and power in the Union, the old
asistocraoy of South Garolina,-that mis-
enable hot.bed of secsssionism, that con.
slant disturber Of the national peace or
that little nest of repudiating swind 'ers,
heretofore fraudulenay dignifed as the
State of Florida, the State that was pet.
ted by the Government, and admitted into
the Union before she had the constitutions
al quota Of inhabitants, in submission to
the demands Of the slave oligarchy, and
thus in one step acquired as much power
in the nation as New York or Pennsylvan.
il, The population of; single county of
either (which States exceeded that of
she whole of Florida; the State that cost
che general Government, purchasing her
territory and clearingit of Indians) 500.
.OeO 900, ceot of which amount she has
never yet paid. Are men called out and
outchered for the purpose of placing her
upon her former foosings The war has
no such prepos'erous object as that. is
to preserve our territory intact within its
esssentiai{ ig Boundaries, and to yindicate the
vital fact that this is really a. natioa,, and
not mere xleagus of ,thirty-four asover.
eighties. ysWe are fighting. 10 maintain
our own fighthl authority over the terrific. III :.
ry of South Carolina. Florida, and The
other rebelsdiArioes, and not to enable the
rebels ascendant thste ID send ,dis, new Yuiees,
and AallOrys into the Senate to plunder
ns, or new Hammonds y beard. and .iasult
ps in the national Capita, We ssre feht.
ing, in short, to eStahliah fhs r;ab.. -. = {
,eLsk, 5usSf sKesalio. b gss.. s7s'a -
1t is Of course shs ss1pe1lasiee aad .Lope
that ultimately, perhaps soon, the condi.
tioc Of affairs may be such As to render il
ssse to re admit into the Union all the