Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-08

enables all to take just of the power which moves
the whole machinery In their view, history s
pestilence from Washingtons time till this hour when
is proposed TO annihate State rights as the remedy
We are tod that this effected first by State saicde
The states themselves committed suicide, so that al
States they ceased to exist leaving their whole nrsdic
on op to the occupation of the United States under
the Constitution" Burke is quoted to make good th.
position when men" Gays Burke, therefore break
corporate form and capacity to State they longer
people They have no longer corporate form or
isence, &c The programme adds: :" Ii that great
master OF eloqusnce could b. heard who doubt that
no would blast rebel States senseess communities
who have sacrificed that corporate existence which
makes them living component members of our Union OF
States ~
Burke might blast the rebel Safes" but would he
blast Missouri Arkansas, Louisiana. Mississippi Tennes-
see and all the rest of that noble sserhood of Stat
which with their loyal people, have in succession been
rodden under foot by military forcei Have the people
who resisted at the polls and who still resist in arms un
ted with their brethren under the flag of the Union
wherever 1t appears feed that corporate existence
which Identifies themselves and their States ping
c0mpOatnf members Of our Union n"
Is not the Union and s Constitution identified as that
corporate existence with the States which makes them
al-hose tr0dden down and those standing up-compo-
nent members of our Union of Staesl How the
Union which ia the guaranty of the Of
republic OF which it consists admit whilst it lives that
any part of it is dead 1t does not admit it, 1t is
war IN every State of the Union at this moment, ope
rating with the loyal in each entitled TO its special
egny, to crush the traitors who violate it. As members
Of the Union the States ass4ed by may be sad
be paalyzed but they I've in all their vital powers ready
for resurrection in the persons Of their loyal people the
moment the stone is rolled away The traitors only wi
have committed political suicide
The man recovered from the bite.
The dog it was that died"
allow that Ills patent and undspated fact That This
gigantic rea icih all the forms Of alc
aud that the States pretended 10 withdraw bodily their
corporate cspscties, which the ground. work OF the
second proposition Of the programme, viz: That the
States by their fagran treason have forfeited their rights
as States so as to be civly dead But the Fdera Gov
ernm"nt is very far from admitting that the forms Of
law employed by the rebels the fact that the States
pretended to withdraw bodily" eff cted iu the least the
legal status of the States in question Treason
mited not by any Sate but by the individuals who made
Of the forms of the State Governments attempted
to disrnember the National Cove nu.e .ent.
TIE suggestion that States guaranteed by the Const
tuition under tue shield Of the Union any way b,
held responsible for this treason and subjected to tor
eiture of their rights consequence shows the affinity
of the Abolihonists to the Nuhfers Calhouns whole
scheme was based on the proposition they adopt that
the States could withdraw bodily in Their corporate
pacity The true doctrine, laid down by the Fathers
of the Constitution Is that the employment Of the forms
d the State Governments and the pretencs OF withdraw
ing tn in their corporate capscy out of the pale Of the
national authority does no. shift the responsibility from
the traitors 10 he people
Hamilton, IN the Fedsralst marks the change on
this point Effected by the adoption Of the Constitution
He says "rhe great ard radical vice ia the construc
tion s szstiay Confederation the principle Of egs-
atiOn for States Governments their corporate
collective capacities, and conradisgushed from the
sndiridaas of whom they consist" He emphasizes this
proposition IN The strongest by the of capitals
in order 10 condsmn the policy Of acting States Instead
of criminal individuals The aim Of the Abotonsts il
now 10 accomplish this very thing in defiance OF the Con-
sttuton They demand that Congress shall attach the
reason in The South plotted in secret and sprung UPON
the nation by body Of Inbound conspirators to the
people Of the whole region aud insist that they have Tor
eited their rights their corporate and collective capa
cities for the treason of these individuals
Ii asserts the power Of legislation the States
Governments inte1d of applying the law Of treason to the
guilty individuals to whom alone, n the very nature If
things it is applicable No learning necessary to enabr
to that State cannot be guilty Of treason auy
other crime: only common sense is wanGg TO cOmpTe-
hend that gu cannot bs impaired IT, any but sentlent
being; and only honesty required to perceive
the Injustice Of disranchsiog oyl citizens account Of
the offences committed by the dsloyal.
But the manifesto am considering at last TO the
conclusion that these modes of refining the States out
the Union unsatisfactory. discard says the wri,er)
all theory cether be If State suicide or State
State abdication The side State rights, i'm
mortal and uampeachabe The other side; such discus
sioas only endless IN phsh ,oh0ie Senate ay
: be lost" Verify. such contempuous hinging away
States and State rights of better stuff than may be
overaid with cnbwebs and dus,--such Il msy arguments
Of State suicide forfeiture Stats abdcaton might
il INDUCED u reduce the Senate to lost ndition And
the process Of this scheme shows how readily it might be
merged in consolidated head Here is the recipe which
dsposes o States and Sensto without resorng to the
troublesome ctn Of State suicides State fnretures or
State abdcat0ns.
The ukase confines I" dnd in diseardinp al heorv
Tdscard aiso the question ef jue Hhtther, for n.
ample the rtLe Staes uhie the rebellion is fqgrani are
de jare States Of the Unioa ,o all e rights of Saics
IS enough for The time being aud in The absence Of
'ioyai Government y take part and perform no
function the Union, that tey cannot be rtc0P Missed
bu The National Government. The reason as plain There
are in tssss States local acoaaries bound by cDnsti
fufion0I oas, hat there in fact constitutional
funct,n ,rieS; and the Se Gorsrnnt nj is necsS.
sAru c0posed of such there can be no State
GorerHmsRts THIS is summary reasoning, but it be.
gins by an assumption that there are no States but rebel
States putting out Of the question the existence If tie
States de which htve subsstd from the foundation
d the Government to tins hour and the OF which
the United States are bound to guaranty ard maatan
and at this moment fighting the boodest battles known
70 modern annals To support aGnst the most excuseess
and shameless couael felt authority that put
on the mask Of Government
II may be readily conceded that rebel States are not
dc states OF tn. Unon With all the rights OF States
iha as they ihke part and perform no func-
Ton IN the Unon they cannot be recognized by the
General Government" Bat des it follow that Stat. are
Wrenched r,m the Union because usurpers hold dis
puted, ioteTgg power within their territorial Limits
States every day recognised States the Union States
whose constitutions laWs archives, loyal czeas public
edces, lands, rights AMI properties OF all sorts are re-
cognsed and held sacred not only the hearts Of loyal
patriots OF this and every other civil zsd country but
hch the Government If the nation recognises form
ing member Of it ia every official act aud by every OIL
at home and abroad who has occasion u refer D them
More than million OF brave have lett their homes aud
hundred thousand ui them at least have laid down
their lves, 10 put down the conspirstos and u up The
yal men, IA whose sacrifice ii designed to sacrifice
the Uni0n.
To what purpose have our glorious soldiers devoted
themselves To destroy the rights Of the true they