The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-06-11
0TTUMWA, IOWA, THURSDAY, JUNE H. 1863.

their Northern friends would have US act If
we believed-the rebellion would indeed be
a justifiable attempt to secure self evident
rights. But it is not so. Under the Con-
stitution, an executive is appointed directly
by the people, who is bound, by an cath
too sacred for any but traitor to violate,to
protect, defend, and preserve the organic
law which binds us as nation forever, and
to apply and execute the laws of Congress
made in accordance Herewith. :.
And to these laws, which, made by the
representatives of the people, embody
their sovereign authority, there is
given the further sanction Of judicial super
vision. In the Confederation there was no
general and permanent standard by which
decisions could be made and preserved
Everything was made to depend On the ire
sponsible and often conflicting action Of the
States, or on the unauthoritative determ ina
ton of the congressional commission. To
remedy this defect, and make more COM
plete the national character of our present
Government, a judicial power of the-United
States was vested in the Supreme Court,
and in such inferior courts as Congress may
establish. This Supreme Court, with orr
ginal jurisdiction in all cases affecting for
eign nations, and in all cases in which q
State shall be party, and with appellate
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tribunal for interstate disagreement. and
representative to the world of an un-
tied nation, having an individual
existence, and capable of performing all the
functions Of an individual nation.
We have thus traced the main lines of
difference between the Articles of Confeder-
alton and the Constitution, and have seen
that the latter was meant to be, and is the
organic law Of developed and completed
nationality. Under it, every one of US be-
comes an American citizen, exercising, as is
right, certain logic privileges. and depend
ent for their immediate protection on the
State authorities, but possessing other
wider and nobler rights, which inhere in
HIM as citizen of the United States, and
which are asserted and supported by the
power and dignity Of the entire nation. No
words can more fully express the lofty ns-
jesty of that state of nationality on which
we have entered, never, under God, to fall
from it, than those of the Constitution itself
to support which every member of every
government, the local as we'll as the ma
tional, is bound by solemn OATH
This Constitution, and the laws of the
United States made in pursuance therefore,
and all treaties made under the authority
of the United States shall be the SUPREME
LAW OF THE LAND, anything in the Consti.
tuition of the laws of any State to the contra
ry notwithstanding.
Before such words as these, binding these
States together as one nation, WHOSE integ.
rity nothing but treason would seek to de-
stroy or Eesken, the fierce invective of the
Southern, and the feeble sophistry of the
Northern traitor shrink to insignifcance
They are at once the record and the proph-
ecy of our success, declaring the foundation
on which the Government is based, and
pointing to yet greater glories to be attained
in the superstructure.