The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-07-02

Carolina was Influenced to hold her Sc
cession convention, and the Sd day there.
after she passed her secession ordinance.
On the night of the 9th day after this,
Major Anderson, the pamesake of our he
70, moved his forces from Fort Moultrie
to Sumter; and, few days after this,
Senator Wi gfall delivered the funeral ora
ton of the Union. He laid it out upon
its bier in the Senate Chamber and pro
nounced it dead. "Your Government"
said he, sis now dead" He was not
"Io its virtues very kind.
And to its faults little blind"
/ This admission Of the President, palsi.
ed the power of the government and in
visorated the spirit of secession and dis
cord everywhere; so that the great, the
yirtuous, the honest, the true and the
pure, were momentarily dismayed and
lead to ask themselves and one another,
"bave we really no government" Is it
really dead? Because the enforcement
of the laws by the military and naval
power is, by the President and most of
his confidential advisers, called coercion.
Is it really so that an effort by force of
arms to re possess the property of the
government stolen by armed traitors, and
which could be re possessed in no other
way, is coercion and therefore unconsti-
tutional because they called it so? Do
these men reason in this manner when
even one of their horses is stolen? Do
they say, when the thief resists the civil
authority, tell him go; because, to take
it by force, the thief says is coercion and
coercion is unconstitutional! Do they
leave the thief to thus decide his own
case and su bmit to it? The answer agree
able with fact is no no.. If the corp,-
ration Of Upton were to pass a secession
ordinance seeding from the county and
take possession of the court house, mur-
der what loyal officers in it that make re-
sistancc, take the county funds, uppro-
pirate them among themselves, commence
erecting batteries and Notifications and
make raids into the country round about
it, robbing and numbering men, women
and children, in the most ba, barous man
ner imaginable. Would you quietly look
on and see the ipccndiary torch light up
your and your neighbours dwellings and
see the assassin's steel plunged into your
neighbors, fathers and brothers bosoms
because the thieves and assassins tell you
if you resist them or attempt to recapture
your own property you will be guilty Of
coercion and coercion is unconstituti onal
aud that you, instead Of they, ore guilty
treason, hence must suffer death? Wo'd d
you, can you, submit to such arrogance
aud barbarity? If you can, you are one
of the degenerate sons of your revolu-
tionary sires. You nre rebel against
the government of Washington, Jeffer-
con and Jackson you are for the govern.
ment of jeff Davis; in short, despot.
ism such as the sun has not shone pom
for thousand years. The above is q
very faint comr arison with the origin,
progress, extent and atrocity of the re-
bellion itself He who sympathises with
the rebels sympathises, therefore, not
with the honest, the pure and the just ;
but with the liar, the thief, the robber,
the murderer and the dcspot. He is, of
course, not the friend and ndmirer of
Anderson, the hero of Sumter; much
less Of his namesake, James Anderson,
who fell in the battles around Vicksbure
battling nobly for his country, its institu
tops, and its flag; that flag, the stripes
of which we're borrowed from theescutch
con of the Washington family in England
the common ancestry of the father of ou'
Republic. No. he who sympathises with
the rebellion cannot be even the consist
ent friend of the uncle of our brave
your 2 Anderson; for he, too, came neal
losing his life, several years ago, in at
tempting to arrest notorious horse thie1
in our own county; SO We see he, too, be
lieyed in coercion.
But, Mr.. President, you will pardon
occasional digressions while We attemp
to approach nearer the constitutions
powers of Congress and the President t.
suppress instruction and rebellion. Is
then, What has Congress power te sup
p..e.7 The CanaA;t~>;e- -n.~.-e an
surrection. But what is insurrection
1t is open opposition Of numbers to tn
,. legally constituted authorities. Wha
shall the President do? The Constitution
saws he shall see that the laws are faith
fully executed. When shall he do this
, The answer is when there is resistanc
to the peaceful administration Of tn
laws; for this purpose he is Commander
in Chief of the army aud the navy. II
is also sworn by solemn oath to opreserve
protect and defend the Constitution
: This he is bound to do at all hazards ant
every cost. Now call the exercise o
> these powers coercion or anything els
: you please, Congress aud the Presiden
: are solemnly sworn to exercise them. |
they do not exercise them they are per
j. iured villains. Call it coercion and moth
> ing else; answer you in the language G
J. the late lamented Douglas, uttered in tn
e Senate chambsr of the nation on the 3
$ day of January, 1861: "Sir," said ht
IS "the word government means coercion