The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-27

right TO keep troops or ships Of war II
times OF peace, or to engage in war u.
less actually invaded; to enter into com.
pact with another State OF Foreign Power
TO lay any tunnsge OF any impost on e.
ports or imports witScz. tbs consent o.
/ Congress; TO enter into any treaty, Al.
lance or confederation; to grant letters
OF mArque and reprisal. and 70 emit hills
of credit; while ali the powers, and
many others are vested in the General
Government. To ascfibe 70 political
communities, thus limited in their iuris-
dictiOn-who can not even establish q
PestOfiice on their own soil-ths charac-
ter of Independent sovereignty, and 70
reduce national organization, clothed
/ with all the trancesdant powers Of gov
eminent, to the name aal condition OF
an " agency" Of the States, proves moth
ing bat that the logic II secession is on
= par with It's loyalty and patriotism.
TIE DocTRINE OF RESERVED RIaHrs.
Oh, bat the reserved righls?' And
what OF the reserved rights? The tenth
amendment Of the Constitution, supposed
to provide for reserved rights" is con-
stantly misquOted. By that amendment,
"the pOlOs1s not delegated to the United
Stats nor prohibited by it to the States.
are reserved to the States respectively. or
TO the people The powers reserved
must, of course, be such as could hays
been, but were not delegated to the
Statss--eOuld have been, but were not pro .
hibited to the Ststes-but to speak Of
the right of an indiUiG,ul State to secede
as poWer that could have been, though
twas not, delegated 10 the United
Ststes, is simple nonsense. But, wsiv-
ing this obvious absurdity, can il need
serious argument to prove that lheFo can
be no State right to enter into new con
federation reserved under aC0nstitution.
which expressly for5ids aState "to eater
into any treaty, alliance or confeder-
alton" or any agreement or compac'
with another State or foreign Pow er -
To say that the State may, bV enactipr
the parliamentary farce Of secession, &C
quire the right 70 do the Prohibitei
things--to say, for instance, that, though
the States, il forming the Constitution,
delegated to the United States. aud pro.
hi6ited TO themselves, the power Of de-
clAriBg war, there was by implication
reserved to each State the right of seced-
ing and then declaring war; that though
they expressly prohibited to the States,
and delegated to the United States the
entire treaty masking power, they reserv-
ed by implication, for an express reser-
walton, is not pretended, ts the individual
States, TO Florida for instance, the right
TO secsde and then make = treaty with
Spain, retrocsding that Spanish colony9
and thus surrendering 10 a foreign power
the key to the Gulf of Msxico--to main
tain propositions like these, vi Whist
ever affected seriousness il ia done, ap-
pears 10 me egregiOus trifiing. Pardon
me, my friends, for dwelling on these
wretched sOphistries But il is these
which conducted tbs armed hosts Of re-
bellion to your doors, on the terrible and
glorious days Of July, and which have
brought upon the whole land the scouFFe
Of an aggressive and wicked war; q
war which can have no t6rmia alton com
patible with thu permanent safety and
welfare Of the country, bat by the com
plets destruction of tbs military power
Of the enemy.
A VIGOROUS PROSECUTION OF THE WAR NOT
INCOMPATIBLE WITH PEACE AND A Re
sTOBED UNION.
But it is not true, As is pretended BY
the rebels and their sympatbiz-ri, that
the war has been carried Oh by the
United States without entire regard Il
those tempsraments which are erioined
by the law of nations, by our modern
civil cation, and by the spirit Of Christi.
anity. 1t would be quite easy 70 point
out, in the recent military his Org Of the
leading European powers, acts Of violence
and cruelty ia the prosecution Of their
wars, to which no parallel can bs found
among US. Ia fact, when we consider
the peculiar bitterness with which civil
wars are almost invariably waged, we
may Justly boast of the manner in which
the United States have carried on the
contest. II is, Of course, impossible to
prevent tho lawless acts Of stragglers
and deserters, or the occasional unwsr-
rantable proceedings Of subJrdinatss on
distant stations; but | do not believe
there is, ia all history, the record Of
civil war Of such gigantic diner sious,
where so little has been done in the spirit
Of vindictiVeness, as in this War by the
Government and commanders Of the
United States; and this notwithstanding
the proyocation given By the rebel govern
nenf, by assuming the responsibility Of
wretches like Quantrell refusing quarter
to colOred troops, and scourging and
selling into slavery free oolored men froIu
the North, who fall into their hands,
covering the sea with pirates, and starV-
ing prisoners of war TO death. Ia the
next place, If there are any present who
believe that in addition to the effect Of
the military operations Of the war,
the eonfscation acts aud Emancipa-
ton Proclamation have tmbittered
the rebels beyond tls possibility
of reconciliation, would request them
10 reflect that the tone Of the rebel lead
ers and rebel press was just - bitter 10
the fret months Of the war, nay before a
gun was fred, as it is nov. There we're
speeches made Ia Congress in the very
last session be fore the rebellion, so fero
cious as 10 show that their authors were
under the influence Of real frenzy. At
the present day, If there is any discrim-
nation made by the Confederate press in
the affected scorn, hatred and cOntumely,
with which every shade Of opinion and
sentiment in the loyal States is treated,
the bitterest contem3i is bestowed upon
those at the North who still speak the
language of compromise, and who con-
dema those measures Of the Administra-
ton which are alleged to have rendered
the return Of peace hopeless. No, my
friends, that gracious Providence which
oyerrules all things for the bsst, from
seeming evil still edueing good, has 50
constituted our natures that the violent
excitement Of the passions in one diree-
ton is generally allowed By q reaction
in an opposite direction, and the sooner
for the violence. II IL were not 80, if
tnger produced abiding anger, II hatred
caused undying hatred, II Injuries in
ficted and retaliatsd Of necessity led 10
new EetAliatiOas, With forever Gooumula-
ting comp und interest Of revenge, then
the world, thousands of years ago, would
have been tarned into "a earthly hell,
and the nations Of the earth would hAVa
been resolved int clans Of furies and de-
mons, each forever Wsrring with his
neighbor. Bot u Is not 30 All history
teaches . different lesson.
IEDIcATIoEs OF RETURNING LOVE FOE TIE