Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-10-05

| tLelr most appropriate functions In hinl
| the State a authority very wherr. In this way
. tae most poie Mt recof nitian The Union can al
ford 10 sissn 10 the Stase Grvernment a. mem.
| hers OF the Union.
! Mr.. B. quoted nom Madison and Hamilton,
indicating the principle OF the Constitution
Hhich sends the masses OF the United States
.n.o State to assert the rights of loyal mi.
| ioTlty over an usHrpinG majority there: ind
then proceeded 70 defend the ioyaiisk Of the
| Seuth against the sncers of the ultra abolition
lsss, showing the terrible ordeal shess loyal
men have parsed through in behalf OF their
/ principles. - E5'.o
| Mr.. Blair said hs ~oald turn rom the abo-
htion programme 70 that which IL presented
| nt President Lincoln. The issue is made -
we must thoose one or the other. His plan is
simple. He would dfshabffitate the reb-ls and
.reT nsuTpaiion er He'd CcnfAtseracy OF States;
aDd rehatilitate the loyal men and their Stairs
and Republican Governments. To do this he
must break the power Of the couspirators
crush or txpel them from the region or ns mr.
e rs within the confines OF their respectiye
States the RFrubiican Governments which
now have their administration committed to
oBr loyal armies and 10y al eitixehs, who ha va
their protection. As soon as this protection is
needless, the State Governments resume their
tuaeusLs unSsr officers oeos<. by sitiz-ns who
hsse beeh trne tn 1t, and by edcn orners as
may be com mprrh hended in an amnesty, and
" no have given in sincere adhesion to it
~ d the Gosernmsnt of the Union, and the
ME as uIts IL ken IN It's maintenance.
Missouri. Whose Governor, legislature and
Judicial officers betrayed her, expelled her
faifhiess representatives with the aid of the
" it'll 10y al men, nboiishing slavery as an earn
est OF Ler adherence OF the means and the ends
for hich the consrirators Of the Union
toTtd. Kentucky, temporarily paralY zsd by
the IRE a, hery OF her Governor, was soon put
right by the people when furnished with arms
hy tie Government, carried to them by the la.
msh'td and gallant Nelson. In Maryland the
attempt to turn her over to the Rebels was
crushed by the arrest of Reasonable legisla-
tors. Virginia was overwhelmed for a time;
but Western Virginia being delivered from the
armed ErigdDds. called Con INVENTION, elected
Legislature for the whole State, (the greater
pr OF it being still held by the Rebele,) was
Teeos nized as the law-making power Of the
whole state, as such divided the State and set
tr new State III the west.
This exempliffes the Presidents mole OF
saving the Union. He saws the States put
they are red emf 8, into the hands of loyal men;
ana then the State resumes It's place in the
councils Of the nation with all its attributes
AID rights. He has signified his purpose of IN.
wing Tennessee ard Louisiana. now in pre-
parauon. to follow these examples, and every
othtr State, as soon as they can be resc ued from
the Rcsel a. mics, will be aided to come in and
;'lnfeRrate the grand family of Republics.
Now, What is the pret+x 1t for abandoning this
safe and h, aling policy of the President SO
iar II has worked well, and secured the appro-
taton OF all Wellwtsbers of the country. Tie
Abolition programme shows somewhat of the
motive tor converting states into Territories
TO carry them back into colonial bondage, to
take law from Congress without representa-
iIcn The reasons assigned are "slayery (says
the pToeramme) Is impossible within the cx-
CiLs!ya jurisdiction OF the National Govern
ment.' foI many years he had had this con-
Si@tion. and he had constantly maintained it,
The moment that the States fell slavery fell
also, so thar, without any procIamat alton OF the
Pr, siden, slavery ceased to have q legal of
col siiutioDai existen, e in every Rebel state.
In concert with the elaborate article in the
Atlantic Monthly, Department organ, the
Chronicle, al " ashington, strikes the key mote
OF STAT apnihilat on in q leading editorial.
"1Iere" (says this print) sis q conflict of
au'horities-of State and Federal authorities
and II is clear that one or the other must be an
nlhilated. Ii the State succeeds, the Federal
authority is gone forever, nothing can restore
II, lot even the State itself which DESTROYED il:
for in this case the Federal authority would
b. cCTe subordinate to the State authority and
he DO Government at all For the same rea on
II the edeTal authority prevails and succeeds
In pNtting down the rebel.ious States must the
State authority be destroyed" And then the
case is put OF the present conflict, /" in which
sereral States combine against their common
Federal Government. Here the power to be
overcome is not only greater but in a moral
point OF view far more dangerous 10 the Fed.
eral Government. Hence, when such q rebel
lion is subdued Il is not only necessary 10 de-
Staes, but al, o the power which these States
rad TO combine against the Federal authority"
&c.
in conjunction with these movements at
Washington and Boston to annihiIate the State
governments which preceded and helped to
create that OF the nation ITSELF the coadjutors of
Presidential schemes in St Louis and through.
out Missouri are endeaYoring to throw that
State into the cau1dron OF revolution that It,
too, may be annihilated or declared vacated
quarters in these forced efforts to preysnt the
STATES dropped ont OF the Union by conspiYators
from returning under the auspicas Of the Pres.
idsn,, d & the patriotic army Of the Republic, and
maintain their own and tho rights Of the Statss
in question, indicate bomsihipg of Q dssiSn TO
com mand great event in prospect by re7ola.
1s a han upon ore third sf the States, mark.
Ing them for exclusion from the Union, when
treason 10 dsieated and the trai.ors expelled, -
The troubles Of the country as that marhsd out
end pursued BY the Presfdsntf 1t is manifest
now that the President must steer his course
,aIeIsn the 't.ons sonc,ns ad.s Of tMo
dsrs, to destroy the Union and set up q soSth.
ern confsderacy, and thntof the ultra-abolftfon.
lists, which has set in to disfr1nchiss The SoatA
uon Of the slaves.
Mr.. Blair proceeded to show that the issuss
were made up between the President and the
Rebels and their foreign sympatAiEers, who
would revoluttonixe our Government to create
separate Government In the South, on the
one hand; and on the other hand, between the
would disfranchise the Southern section of
the country. 1t is not improbable that the
latter, though aiming OF different result, viii
be found cooperating in the end with con-
spirators OF the South and their foreign allies |
They may prefer parting with the South to
partnership and equality under ths Constitu. |
tion.
The speech OF Mr.. Blair was listened to with
great attention, and was interrupted by frs. |
Quent applause. |
SPEECH OF Ex-GovRRNoR THOMAS. |
EX-Gov TRoMAs, of Maryland, famil arly |
known as "The War Horse" was the next |
speaker. He commenced by ad verting TO the |
fact that in that State they were in state of !
transition; were about to take new position |
in the politics Of the country. He had felt that |
this state OF things was inevitable; had 30 !
warned the people Of Maryland, and regre tied
that they had not sooner prepared themselves |
to meet 1t.
Gov. Thomas proceeded to give an expose OF |
the Vaccinations of the squad of nuilifers, |
who, commen cling their opera,io ions in q ssmall |
boarding house in Washington" proceeded in |
their Inischievous work until the slavery cues. |
tion. settled as it was understood definitely, by
the Missouri Compromise was re-opened The |
party that revived that contest was respon.
siLle for every drop OF blood shed in this con.
test. II Old Hickory jackson were alive he
would endorse every sentiment uttered by the
speaker. IApplause1 He had warned the |
of al hut