The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-09-13
EAIPORIA, KANSAS, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 13 1862.

Hear now what Waiter says as to the diff
terence between the general case of foreign
possession simply conquered because its
sovereign is hostile, and that Que where the
people are themselves inimical-which is
oar case: GA conqueror who has taken up
arms not only against a sovereign, but
against nation itself-whose intent was to
subdue a lawless people, and once for all
subdue a lawless enemy-this conqueror
may with justice lay burdens on the con-
quered. both as a compensation for the ex-
pense of the war and as a penalty. He may,
according to the degree of indocility, gov
ern them with irmness and rigor for dis
piriting and weakening them, and, if neces-
sary. KEEP them some time tn a state of star
ery.
Weave had in our time to mete out
such law as we thought good to Louisiana,
to Florida, to California, to Utah, and to
New Mexico-all of them, except Louisiana
and Florida, acquired by conquest. We
have admitted the Inhabitants of three of
them to the full rights of citizenship and
that participation in governing us, the con-
querors, which citizenship under our sys-
tenn implies. Florida and Louisiana, grown
tired of that, have thrown it off-abjured
such self government as our Constitution
allowed them. We have just attained, by
dint of shot and shell, to the position of
being able to say to them for tie second
time, ''Our good friends, this is matter in
which we, having attained the power, are
again trembling with the responsibility Of
deciding what is best for you, according to
our judgment - not caring much what
yours may be, for you have shown great lack
of judgment We think it quite as much as
we may be able to do to govern you right
as we must, what in
you is perverse and vicious. We are under
remarkably vivid impression, that for
some years TO come-how many will depend
upon your docility-it would embarrass US
to give you any, the minutest fraction, of
powers, to frame or modify the legislation
by which, in due time, we hope to educate
you. The law for you is to be a school
master.''
New Mexico and Utah stand as dubious
possessions, neither of them giving any in
dication of vital interest in the contest, and
both iustifying to-day, as they have for
twelve years past, that wise policy which
would have left them as they were until the
so-called compromise measures of 1850
were enacted, in the naked military occu-
patton of the Government, as conquered
provinces entitled to humane treatment by
victors, and entitled to nothing more.
The question is upon us, or suddenly
coming, as to other revolted and conquered
States: What shall we do with them
There is a party which obviously means
that these States, as each of them in turn
is subdued, shall be made to recruit the
civil adversaries of the Government. They
intend that Senators and Representatives
from each of these States shall swell the
crew of malignants and incapables who are
exemplifying in Congress their faith that
CHOW NOT TO DO IT. is the great lesson of
the Constitution. If we overcome rebel
lious State, the consequence is, in their view
of the case, that two rebels, designated by
a rebellious legislature, are thereupon to be
invited to the Senate of the United States,
and number of Representatives, proper
tionate to the number subdued. Their the
ory, yelled under the cry that the object of
the war is not sublugation, but the restora-
ton of the Constitution and the laws, is, the
instant success is achieved, the Constitu-
ton revives in full efficacy, and that every
body, loyal or rebel, becomes a citizen of
the United States, with all the rights which
the Constitution gives to every citizen. Let
us look little at this, and see what the
Constitution would give them in respect to
their government of as.
IF the Constitution applies at all, then it
applies in its strict letter, and must be fol-
lowed entirely. 1t says that the "Senate
shall be composed of two Senators from each
State, chosen by the Legislature thereof -
1.-The House of Representatives shall be
composed of members chosen every second
year by the people of the respective States,
and the electors in each State shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors to the
most numerous branch of the State Legisla-
ture." Nobody fancies that the Federal
Government, through any or all of its de-
partments, can, under The Constitution, ex-
ercise the slightest control over the quail
ications of the electors of the popular branch
of the State Legislature. It is of the very
spirit of the provision, that the Representa-
tives should be chosen by persons indie
pendent of such control.
The electors are to be designated by the
Constitution or laws of the States respect
lively, and it may made be one of the qualif-
cations that the voter has taken the oath OF
allegiance to the Confederate Government,
or that he has borne arms in its defense.
1t may be said that each house is the
Judge of the elections, qualifications and re-
turn of its own members; and it is true that,
in virtue of this power, both houses have
taken it upon them to purge themselves OF
those whom they convicted of disloyalty
When you remember that it was under the
color of this power that John Quincy Ad-
ans came near being expelled, and that
Giddings of Ohio was IN fact expelled, only
TO be returned without opposition - as