The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-08-27

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AcoEvES1loh or ALL TIE CONFEDERATE AND ALL
THE UNITED SrxTEs:-We think It is perfectly plain
says the Charleston Xercnry that the Democratic OF
Peace Party ofthe United States wll1ay down at the
Chicago Convention, as one OF the rlanks in their
Platform, the assembling of the Copfederate and the
United States together in Convention to reconstruct
union between them. 1t is, therefore, time for tho
people Of the Confederate States to consider gravey
! the proposition.
Our Yaukce foes have made upon ns on the
ground, that the Confederate States are not .Statea-
They have not particle Of sovereignty but are mere
districts counties Of great consolidated naon call
ed the United States or course, they will see or ro
cognize no independence in these States. They will
act as if they still part OF their great consolidated
nation; and proposing to receive them into cons,ta-
ton, they will take it for granted that that rebeous
agency at Richmond is quite competent to bring them
ill., II they have read the Constitution of the Confed-
crate States they will naturally infer that it cannot
be more sacrcd than their own Constitution of the
United States. which is onya piece Of dirty rotten
paper, respected or observed by nobody Hence they
talk fippantly OF making treaty or agreement with
the Confederate Government at Richmond, by which
all the Confederate States to be brought into
CONVENTION. With them.
Now 1t is we'll for our Yankee foes as we'll as onr
Government at Richmond to understand tha Il Con-
stitution OF tho Confederate States confers no power
whatever on their agency at Richmond, to put any of
them into convention will, nny foreign State what.
ever There is bnt one kind Of convention which it
can convoke, and for hut one rurrose-and that is
Convention of the Confederate States TO amend their
Constitution The Constitution says: Upon the de-
mand Of any three States legally assembled in their
Several Conventions the Congress shall summon
Convention Of all the States. to take into consideration
such amendments to the Constitution Az tho sad
States shall concur in suggesting at the time tho said
demand is made, and should any of the proposed
amendments to the Constitution ha agreed on by said
onvcnton-vons by states-and the SAME he rati.
fed by tho Legislatures Of two thirds of the several
States by Conventions in two thirds thercoc-as tho
or tho other mode Of raticati" may he PROPOSED
by tho General Convention-they,sna thcnceforward
form part of this Constitution"
But it may be said-that by tho Confederate Statex
Constitution, the President has tho power 'hy and
with the advice and consent of the Senate" to make
tseatcs; and if the President makes treaty by and
with the advice and consent ofthe Senate providice
that the Confederate States go into Convention
with the States Of the United Statos, to alter and
amend their Constituton-are not tho Confederate
States bound to go into the Convention? We an
swer mol The Confederate Stutes are separate soyer
eighties They have agreed with each other that tho
Congress Of the Confederate States may summon them
to go into Convention With each other for one pur.
pose--and one ouly They have agreed with each
other, that their compact of Confederation between
them shall be altered or amended in ono way, and in
one way only. To break this compact, and attempt
to alter or amend it, IN any othor way, is a clear
breach OF faith. The Confederate agency may treat
with foreign nations any powers the
Constitution confers upon It, 1t can make treaty
with foreign nations regulating tho commerce between
them, spuating terms of assistance for offence or
defence against other nations or for the mutual rem.
dtion of criminals OF for aoolshng privateeripg on
the high These arc matters over which by the
Constituton it has control But it has no control
over the action of theAsovereign States, beyond the
limited grant i'll the Constitution; and can no moro
order them into convention with q foreign nation
than it can extnguish them as sovereignties. 1t ia
entrusted with the conduct of our foreign affairs but
has no power whatever to convoke the States to settle
them by altering their Constitution Thie would be
an usurpaon, not relating to our foreign affairs only