Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-05

Itis our duty TO lodrn the true men of the
country against torpor, and tepidity The
crisis is not past and it will not pass, success
fully, by any latent powers of its own, nor by
any blind trusting to fate.
"our RENE dies oft with ourselves do lie,
Which we sscrbe TO Heaven. The kindly sky
Give us free scope--only does backward pull.
Our SLOW device, when we ourselves are dulin
And 80 it is now If we be DESTROYED, it
will be because, by silence and acquiescence,
we consent TO our own destruction The war
upon the South, in abolition hands every
where anguishes, and may soon die out But
one after another of the less discreet tools of
Lincolns Administration have avowed that
the North is to feel the power OF the Federal
Government Are our people, whether ia
their diffusive, or in their organic capacity,
as constituted communities of freemenLas
States prepared for the issue? 1t behoOves
us freemen TO know this, and at once The
Abolitionsts are taxing their industrious and
shallow brains to devise means and ways To
| eircumvent us, and to draw thread by thread,
the tolls Of a new slavery around our limbs
Are we going to submit to new violations of
our inherited, as well as constitutional, rightsl
Trading politicians cannot meet this issue
| Trading politicians are not fit counsellors for
our statesmen in this issue We must 90
govern true statesmanship We must rise to
the level of the high argument, that sees the
petty chicanery Of the day, and attributes to
it its proper importAnce--its thirst for the ad
vantages Of the moment, and the eompensat.
ing Influences it can exercise at the moment,
and in the narrow sphere Of its reach-but we
must look farther, to broader results, and
more permanent affirmation. T. p
To any respectable publicist, who has stu
died ancient and modern constitutional ar
rangements, our position is perfectly plain
The Federal Power has violated the provision.
OF the Constitution, by which alone it had i'll
existence. Abiding by that Constitution, il
was so strong it "coud have stood agains
the world + Having violated it, it is, in Law
and in fact, $50 poor that there is noue to dt
it reverence New York is stronger thar
the Federal Government violating the Fedora
Constitution Pennsylvania is stronger thar
she, thus crippled Nay, Virginia, Ohio, In
diana Illinois, and other States, any ons O
them, is stronger than the Federal Gayern
ment with broken Federal Constitution AM
a violated Union .
So far as constitutional law and coustitu
! tional government go, the power has, mostly
reverted to the constituent States. Thong
II is not formally acknowledged, yet, virtually
the old Union is disrupted. 1t is sad though
but the time for tears has passed. 1t is tn
, hour for efficient and salutary action Th
States alone-as they made the old Confederl
ton, and then abandoned it, and, by degree
each State for itself, and in its owa chose
: time, built on its remaius the late Uhion-th
States each acting in its sovereign eapacit,
have now the living question of Reconstru
D iion 20 deal with ~
We claimed for the American people, il
now some seven years ago, that they are an o.
genic people L. We claimed for them. wit
| their instruction in the principles of goverr
. fment, that were. our political system to be d
solved into its original elements, they have th
/, genins Of constitutional organization so Id
y bred that they could restore the tri ditiont
ideas in a form consistent with their past, an
. adrnted TO their future. II was prom
= b q II is now to be put to the test of e,
a perlnent Can they do it2 The authorize
that meantime, stand between the constitute
I people, and anarchy, are the State Gorer,
: naeists SO long as They remain firm aDdlul
touched life and liberty, person and proper
are measurably secure. II they give Way
/ the revolutionary attempt be made 10 establis
e in their stead consolidated goyerument,
as Mr., Spaulding-a Seward Abolition men
ber OF Congress from this State recommends
Ia the House the other day-a Goyernmel
p at Washington overriding and disregardin
the soyeregnties OF the States composing Ii
y old Union-thep let all moveabls capital e