The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-04-21

Jue COpp6PneaO heaQoIH--Op1n1OnB
of Marshall, Story, Everett, and
other Eminent Jurists.
NUMBERI.
The organs of that party, whose ban
ner was lately inscribed with the name
Of him, whose appeal to the people was:
"Call back your mvading armies"-thus
endorsing the Southern rebellion as
nothing more than rightful secession,
of the proprioty of which the people of
the South were the sole iudges-nre
teeming with editorials and long arti-
Cles, advocating State Rights" and re.
affirming the very doctrines which, by
their prevalence and universal adoption,
fostered by State pride, so ovsrwesning
in the Southern States, have culmina-
ted in the heart rending ealamities
which wo are now forced to contem plate
and to suffer. We quote the language
Of writer in the National Intelligen-
GER, who is vouchcd for as Southern
gentleman, formerly distinguished in
the National Legislature, &c. He
says;
"Thore are not few of the most au-
thoritative of these champions, who, by
some strange alteration, which almost
amounts to an idiosyncracy, have grown
up in the conscientious belief that our
National Union was never, and never
meant to bo anything better than a
rope Of sand, the foeblest voluntary com.
pact, unguarded by single defence
against the superior power Of the States;
that no one owed it allegiance-not
even the poor respect of reverence
that no STATE owed it obedience any fur.
ther than suited its own convenience
Such fancy must naturally eugendei
contempt for the Union, where con.
tingcncy might arise to bring it into
conflict with State pretHnsion. We may
trace this extraordinary doctrine to &
political vice which has been nourished
in the peculiar constitution Of Southern
society and which has given the FREEDOM
inant hue to all characteristic southern
opinion-the most pornicious vice oI
an exorbitant and engrossing Si0te pride
"a sentiment, which we may say is not
only dangerous, but fatal to any just es'
innate or conception of the Nationa
supremacy. | have only to remark thai
it takes hold of much Of the South ern
mind with the grasp and quality of q
great egotism, creating an emotion Of
self g!orifcation in those who fos ter il
and breeding ideas ef sectional and per-
sonal superiority, which make them
jealous Of the NationallGovernment, and
IN certain sense unfriendly to all who
look upon it as a paramount power
They habitually degrade the Union in
the common esteem OF their circle re.
duce their politics to the standard of q
narrow provinciaisn, and disqualify
themselves for that comprehensive
craftsmanship which embraces catholic
love OF country"
This writer further says:
at has now become apparent that this
excessive pride of State has been silent.
ly, for half century or more, sowing
the seeds of that dreadful strife, Of which
the present generation is rcRping the
harvest.
Does not every candid and intOlligen
reader recognize the exact truth o
this statement Hero is the prolific
fountain and origin of the evils whicl
have fallen upon our time. The off
cial attitude they have assumed, is tina
of States asserting their right to
peaceful and constitutional retiremen
from the National Union:
"Thcy proclaim right of Secession a
the sole basis Of their act ction, whilst i
is too unhappily evident that both theil
design and practice are RevOlWtiOn, il
its boldest and rudest form of exhibi
ton" D."
Now is it not an extraordinary AM
alarming spectacle, to,sas the Vallaudig
ham Democracy, every where taking u
the championship of the very doctrine
and ideas which have produced sucl
hideOus results in our once bapp,
land?
A writer in the HillsborO Gazette
over his true designation of Cooper
head" undertakes to settle the question
of National Sovereignty" by an appea
to colonial history, &c. He makes tn
discovery that the doctrine of tho su
premacy of the Constitution of the I
States, the powers exercised by an
through its explicit grants of power, ,,r
the cover for all the demonstrations
and illegal acts of the abolition Re
publicaH party"
We shall not go back to examine tn
historical accuracy of his statements i
regard to the rights of Sovereignty
pertaining to the colonies, previous t
!. the Revolution and tho formation of tn
CONSTITUTIONS.