Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-11

belion. For, by this new device of the enc
myths new version of the poisonous state
rights doctrine-the secessionists will be able
to get back by fraud what they failed to get
by fighting Do not permit them, without
proper safeguards, to resume in yrur coun-
sells in the senate and in the house Inc power
which their treason has stripped from them.
DO not allow old states, with their constitu-
tions still unatered, to resume state powers.
Be true to the union men of the south; not
to the designing politicians of the border
states. The rebellous states contain ten
times as many traitors as loyal men. The
traitors will have vast majority of the votes.
Clothed with state rights under our constitu-
ton, they will crush out every union man by
the irresistible power of their legislation. If
you would be true to. the union men of the
south, you must not bind them hand and foot,
and deliver them over to their bitterest enc
mics. Beware of entangling yourselves with
the technical doctrine of FORFEITURE of state
rights; as such doctrines admit, by necessary
implication, the operation of a code of laws
and Of corresponding civil rights, the exist
ence Of which you deny.
The solution of all our difficulty rests in
the enforcement, against our public enemy,
of our bellgerent rights Of civil war
When the instruction commenced by lille
gal acts of secession and by certain exhibi-
tons Of force against the government, in dis
tant parts of the country, it was supposed
that the insurgents might be quelled and peace
restored with requiring a large military force,
and without involving those who did not ac
lively participate in overt acts of treason.
Hence the government relying upon the pa
triotism of the people, and confident in its
strength. exhibited a generous fOrbcarance
towards the inSurreCtiOnlstS.
When, at last, seventy-tive thousand of the
militia were called out, the president still re-
lied upon the union sentiment of the south :
still announced the intention not to interfere
with loyal men, but, on the contrary, to re-
gard their rights as still under the protection
of the constitution. The action of congress
was in accordance with this policy. The war
waged by this government was then personal
1car, war against rebels; war prosecuted
In the hope and belief that the body Of the
people were still friendly to the union, who,
temporarily Overborne, would soon right
themselves by the aid of the army. Hence
Congress declared and the president proclaim
ed that it was not their object to iniure loyal
men; to interfere with their rights or their
domestic institutions.
The position of the government toward the
rebelious states was just, iorbearing, and
nagnanimOus, while the citizens thereof were
generally loyal But the revolution swept
onward. The entire circle of the southern
states ohandoned tho Uninn and ,arr;,.d ,;,l,
tleu, oil tho bordor st.tos ,,I;,.h ,Lo,, ,.,.,II
influence mr. control
HAVING set nm a ), ,w ,,verrront f,r tLor,-
salvee. b,vipg JocI,rad ,v,r .,,r,in.t ,,s h.,
ing sought fnreiyn alliance. b.,;n,, ,,,ssnd
nets of nonintprcnursn b,v,n,, x;ay9d n,LIir
nronprtv and made attom,,ts to ;nyad, st.,,,S
which refused +, servo tboir rausr. havin,
raised and maintained large armies and an
incipient navy, assuming. in all rosnncts IN
act as an indenendcnt b1stilo natinn at var
with the United States-claiming brlli~crrnt
rights as an independent people alone could
claim them. and offering to enter into treaties
of alliance with foreign countries and of
peace with ours under these circumstances
they were no LONGER INSURGENTS and rrbpls
but became a belligerent public enemy. The
war was no longer auaiust .srert9in Nor
sons in the rebrlIinus States II hncap p =
territorial war-that is to saw. q war Inv ali
,ars,,n. .it,,n,',d i, .Lo T.. ,r;','t 80.
against the United States.
If we were in a war with England, every
EnglishnIan would be a public enemy, ire
spective of his personal feelings towards
America. However friendly he might he to-
wards America, his ships on the sea would be
liable to capture; himself would be Liable to
he killed in battle, or his property situated in
this country would be subject to coniscatiun.
BY similar rule of the law of nations. when
ever two nations are at war, every object of
one belligerent nation is a public enemy of
the other. An individual may be A personal
friend and nj the same time - nnblir pnemv
to the United States. The law nt war defines
International relations.
When the civil war in America became Il
territorial war. every citizen res;dng in tho
belligerent districts became n nuhIir enemy
irrespective of his nriyate sentiments wbnther
Iuyal or dIsloval friendly mr. bost;le IT ,;nnist
or secessionist. guiltv or innocent Az nub.
lie enemies the belIiperents have claimed TN
be exchanged as prisoners of war instead of
admitting our right to hang them AZ murder
ers and pirates. As public enemies tbav
claim the right TO war unon us. in nIo,n viola.
ton Of many of the obligations thew wouId
have admitted if they acknowledged the ohli
cations or claimed the protection of our con-
sttutlon.
II thev bod oIo;r,od o,,, .,o.o .;,,h..
orr cnn:tt,,ton thn', Ill go t Iiiue
evorv ono of tho ,,ro,;s;ons thor"of I;,,i;,;,,s.
tho nou,or, of ota,os Ass,n,;,
r;Ghtp tha,, oInin, ;',,,,D;,' f al nv IueA
tinn. ~ states nr as neo,Ia--to dis n''u
ernment mr. IN tho United Statos T,m,, 49,,
t;ors r,,,st bn ,nne;daro5
Whom dill rho rohelI;or beco,ro q +orr;,o-
rial civil war;
> What aro tho r;obts of tho o,or,,, u,dor
the laws NJ wor2
The frst ouestion has been se,tled bv tho