The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-09-30

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Coroner,
JOHN r KRIEBS.
Tho Two Principles.
1t is somewhat unusual for us to copy
"lcader" but our BUSINESS for the pas
week has been very pressing; We have
been absent half the week and more thar
oil, we we find so excellent a leader in q
valued contemporary Of the independent con.
servativc order, that we cannot presuade
ourselves that our poor pen will half so vel
instruct or crafty our readers as this calm,
patriotic and truthful article.
81 There has been general discussion, Of
late among journalists, of the political prin.
cip'es which should prevail in re adjusting
the status Of such of the seeded States az
may desire to renew their federal allegiance
North Carolina is growing weary Of the
war and the Confederates." Tennessee,
LouisiaI q, and so on, are manifesting slmi.
lar symptoms. The radicals" insist that
these and all other States engaged in the
rebellion have committed political suicide,
and can no longer be recognized as possess.
ing sovereign rights; that they must b. g.
duced by federal law to the condition of
territories, and then be admitted to the
Union under conditions acceptable to the
administration. The conservatives de-
ny that State can thus take its own polit.
ical lite; they maintain that Congress has
no constitutional power to destroy States
local independence, and that when the war
is ovcr each rebellious State will stand, DO.
litically, just where it stood before the
instruction. The principles thus enun-
ciated by the two great opposing parties in
the Union are diametricaliy opposite. One
Of them must triumph before lopg, and on
that triumph will seriously depend the flu
ture Of the republic. 1t is natural, there.
fore, that every citizen should feel a pro.
found interest in the discussion provoke
by the agitation of these two opposing prin.
ciples 1t is na!ural that every one should
yearn for knowledge enough on the subject
TO come to conscientious decision in the
asks. what d Flse 4ad area oF That ii he
conservatives p
Now it may be rather selfcomplacent in US
to say, but we do say, that every man who
asks this question in an unbiased spirit
can readily. find a satisfactory answer
Mere partisans who never look beyond the
degmaS Of their political church and blind
xealots who will see nothing except the one
idea that baunts them like a nightmare,
cannot be expected to take counsel of com
mon sense, and reason accordingly. Men,
however, who are governed only. by their
love Of country, and who are prepared at
all times to abandon all crecds and isns in
their devotion to constitutional rights and
constitutional guarantees, will always rea.
son with more discernment and arrive at
more accurate conclusions. To the latter
We address ourselves. We say to them |:
3 Have not all men, of all parties, opposed
the secession principle as political heresy?
Have we not sacrificed thousands ard thou.
sands Of human lives and millions on mil
lions of dollars in battle against this heresy?
II, then, State cannot secede, how can it
be regarded, in any sense, as Out of the
Unioni Ifstll in the Union, how can any
conditions whatever be imposed on it Of re.
admission.
These points cover the whole ground Of
discussion on the question and admit of q
very simple solution. The rebel states
have done an iniquitous thine in seeking q
suitable punishment for their offence Let
them be SO punished. But Congress has
no more constitutional authority to put an
insubordinate state out Of the Union than
that state has to 60 out of the Union itself
and il Congress has no such right, how can
it diyest state Of its sovereignty or consio.
er it self Invested?
The conservative principle is correct,
then, and the radical principle is wrong
That is evident. The radical principle, in
fact, cover it up as you may in specious
eyllogisms, does conccde the right Of secess.
ion-thc very right which the South has
fought so stubbornly to maintain; and we
have combatted SO successfully. To con-
cede this is tOsslultify ourselves, at onct.-.
It's TO degrade t6folly all our acts and re-
ducc to hypocrisy all our professions. The
conservative principle. on the contrary, is
eminently consistent. 1t grants that the
States in instruction are yet in the Union,
and that they cannot secede, emselves.
NOR be expelled from Union which is and
ought to be held perpetual. 1t maintains
that we have waged war, not to compel
these states to ''rcturn to the Uri0n," but
to compel them to submit to the federal
laws and constitution they defy and would
rcpLdiate. 1t maintains that, when we
have enforced that submission, we hnvecn-
forced it from states, not from individuals
As states they submit. As states We
must accept from them that submission,
and as states we must deal with them in
all our mutual relations. Our government
through Secretary Seward, assured France
that every rebe'lious state had Alright in
the federal Congress when it chose to cxe,-
else that right What was that but m
official declaration before the world Of the
justice Of the conservative principle which,
if carried out, will give us 1.-THE Union as
il was and the Constitution as it isY'-.
And what would the radical principle give
us, Il carried out. but anarchy, misrule. q
shattered nation, endless wars, military
usprpations, intestine conflicts, only to rem.
der Us. finally, an easy prey to the ambi
ton Of European invaderss
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