The weekly union record., 1865-06-17
In or Out Of the Union.

from oil its proper and legitimate connection,
and then arbitrarily reason upon it without re-
gard to its connections or relations to other
equally true. All truths or prop
osi,ions are directly or indirectly allied to
other truths or propositions. Individual facts
or truths as such, are one thing; the relations
and mutualties of these are another thing. The
former are of but little use except as they lay
the foundation for the latter. By generaliza-
tion many isolated facts and truths are con-
bned in certain harmonious relations called
laws, and when more or less complete called
systems. In the physical world Humboldt
calls such system the cosmos, in the political
world it is called system of government in
other departments we speak of systems of
geology, astronomy, ct Get. All the world
bad seen apples fall, down to the time of New
ton, but be, not from this individual fact, but
from this 10 connection with other facts, dis
covered the system Of gravitation as it applies
to and binds together the material universe.
10 politics as in other sciences we must re-
gard propositions, not as isolated, but as re-
lated to other propositions ofShe same kind,
if we would discover the whole truth, or the
real truth OF any proposition. The science
of politics is as noble as any other when studied
and conducted upon and from true and proper
premises, but it seems to be peculiar to politics
to violate every rule which governs in the ex-
position and Investigation of other science.
So much is this the case that politics have
come to be regarded not as science, but only
as synonymous with lying, cunning and selfish
ness, the very opposite Of science, which i'm
plies truth as we'll as knowledge. There seems
to be no remedy for this but to educate men
how to reason. 1t is true the instincts of pa
t:iotism aud the common sense of men 90 far
to neutraze the sophistres daily put forth,
but they are still insufficient. If men would
be able to judge correctly in politics, it is in-
dispensible that they have correct knowledge
Of our system of Government and CT the
nature of Government generally. "One swal-
low does not make Summer" nor does one
proposition or idea however much discussed,
make statesman.
To illustrate we will make here some re-
marks upon the question so often put forth by
SO called Democratic papers, to wit: Are, or
were the so called seeded States in or out of
the Union? This, which ever way answered,
is by them considered the trump card in their
game. If it can be successfully answered, to
their confusion, all other points of lesser i'm
port raised by them may be considered as
thoroughly disposed Of One of these Demo
cratic papers of the 18th ult., says: The
seeding States certainly could not have been,
under any circumstances. both in and out of
the Union at the one and same moment" j"
Now in respect TO this we affirm 4" that the
seeding States certainly could have been
under some circumstances, both in and out OF
the Union at the one and same moment"
Nay more, we affirm that such States we're
during the rebellion both 10 and out of the
Uuion at the one and same moment. The
original ground Of all title is possession. Un.
disputed possession for reasonable length OF
time creates title or right of possession But
except in the case of those who are the first
possessors, there are two things requisite 10
make a complete right first. the right to pos
sess, and second, actual possession. The one
is the title de jttre the other, the title de faeto,
and the right is not absolute and complete un-
less held both de jure and de faeto. James
II was the rightfui King of England by its
Constitution. After he was expelled from the
kingdom, he was still King de jure, but not
de facto. Not being able to recover posses
sion, new succession commencing with Will
liam and Mary, supplanted the old line and
became the rightful one. Nobody now dis
putes that Victoria is the lawful hereditary
Queen Of England. The independence of the
United States dates from the 4th of July,
l776, not from the Goth of January. 1888,
when peace was concluded because they sue
cessfully maintained their right de tdcto, and
also by the treaty of peace acquired the right
de jure. The seeded States during the re-
beion were both in and out Of the Union.
They were in the Union, because de iure, the
United States had the right of possession /;
they were out of the Union. because de taeto
their Confederate Government held the actual
possession. Had the Confederate Government
succeeded, they would legally have been out
of the Union both de jure and de .taeto. But
having failed, they were legally in the Union
de jure all the time, and on the failure of the
rebellion were also legally in the Union de
fdeto, when the right of the United States
became complete right. If the foregoing be
true, and the principles are laid down fully by
such authors as Chancellor. Kent and Black
stone, what significance has the assertion
above quoted that "the seeding States
certainly could not have been, under any cir
cumstances, both in and out of the Union at