The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-16
From the Lexington Statesman. Oct. LIST.

duties of the different States. The Cousti-
tuition was ratified and adopted bv each
sovereign State, on entering the Union. Sc
long as this fundamental law was sustained
as the highest governmental authority in al
sections. thu Union continu ed to be, as il
was intended by its patriotic founders, hap
py compact. mutually beneficial to the peo-
pie of all the States Obedience to it in good
faith by each member of the confederation
resulted in harmony and good will. strict
adherence to its limitations, secured to the
General Government 1.-THE consent of the
governed" Though not yet "off the mus ter
roll. ;" we are old enough to remember when
nearly or quite all the States of the Union
in the spirit Of good neighbors. had upon
their statute books, laws designed to carry
ont the provisions of the federal constitution
IN regard to the institution which has since
become so obnoxious to the people Of the
free States. and from revolutionary oppo-
sit:on to which all our present national q Tiff
cultles have sprung. In those peaceful days
citizens mere commanded by their State la,os to
do acts ac)iich hare since been denounced By new
lascs IN the same States, as heinous crimes, for
the comm. ssion Of which the penalties OF
fine and imprisonment We're provided. Well
do we rem ember when fugitive slaves were
frequently committe to Jail, under the au-
thority ofState laws, for the purpose securing
their return to their owners. Such judicial
acts were common in the free States, and
those who administered the laws, whetb er
their personal views were pro or anti slavery,
performed their duty, in reverence to the laws
and the Constitution in accordance with
which those laws had been enacted.
These were indeed days Of peace and
good will among the States of the Union.-
The fourth of July brought the people to-
sether in all parts Of the country to indulge
in national rejoicings under the same flag,
the then glorious stars and stripes.
But alas, what change has come over
the country! From the spirit which dicta-
the sentiment that our constitution was
"league with hell" has sprung overpower-
ing fanaticism which has destroyed all
Bad faith has taken the place of genuine
patriotism States are no longer neigh bors-
tIe federal government has ceased to be the
servant o: perfect union-outrage has been
met by reseutment-the Union has been dis
is gone!
Who, oh who are responsible for the great
calamity upon us? Look to the base occu
pants of many pulpts-to unprinciPled
dem agogues who have misled the people and
promoted sectional prejudices and animosi-
ties-to State legislation Withdrawing con-
stitutional aid from sister States and OBJ
structing the execution of laws of Congress
TO the sectional party, which, upon sec
t;onal platform, has placed in power sec
tional administration of the federal govern
ment. Look to these causes, and hnd the
reas ons why many of the States have with
drawn from the Union and will never, OF
their own free will, return to it. Should
they ever return. it will not be as free peo-
ple but as a subjugated. overpowered, con-
quered and ruined community.
Had the people of the free States been
guided by the counsels of such men in their
IN idsts as Webster, Pierce and others who
regarded all the States as sisters-whoknew
"no North, no South, no East. no Vest
who loved the Union under the Constltu-
tion-secession would have been unknown;
we shou Id have been spared the disgraceful
and fratricidal war now being waged; and
the millions Of treasure. which have been,
and will be expended in hostilities. would
have remained in the hands Of the pc ople.
from whom it will now be wrung by taxa
ton.
The Southern States have not ceceded be-
cause of opposition to the Constitution or its
defenders. but in resentment 10 the acts of
those who hold that instrurl ent In contempt.
Whatever of evils, therefore, grow out Of
the controversy, are justly chargeable to the
original offenders. Upon that fanatical
party, grown into controlling dimensions,
rests before the world, the responsibility Of
the destruction of the Union, and all the at
tending and never ending consequences.