Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-02-24

April 10. 1920. IL was declared =
That all the laws OF the United States
not locally iDappIicable shall be extended 10
the State Of Alabama, and snail have the same
force and effect within the same as elsewhe.e Q
10 the United States.
Congress ex ended our judiciary system
over Alabama. dividing the State into
judicial dstdcts; aud since that time, year
by year, Congress has bten covering Alaba-
ma with Federal legislation rs With
network Of steel. Has Alabama
broken all these bonds2 She has done
all she could TO break away from the Union,
but she has not been able TO destroy or
reuder invalid one law of the Republic =
Alabama let go Of the Union, but the
Union did not let 60 of Alabama. We
have held her through for four years of
war. and we bold her still When she
tried to break the Federal bonds we called
ont millions Of men in order that not one
iot or title should pass from these laws,
but that all should be fulfilled. r
Let the stars Of heaven illustrate our
constellation Of States. When God
launched the planets upon their celestial
pathway He bound them all by the resist.
less power of attraction TO the central
sun, around which they revolved iu their
appointed orbits Each may be swept by
storms, may be rivcu by lightniDgs, may
be rocked by car'i qnakes, may be de
vsstated by all the terrestrial forces and
over heImed in rain, but far away in the
everlasting depths the sovereign sun holds
The turbulent planet in its place. This
earth may be over shelmed until the high
hills are covered by the sea il may tsemble
with earthquakes IN les below the SOIL but
il must still revolve in its appointed orbit.
SO Alabama may overwbelm all her mu.
nicipal instructions in ruin, but she cannot
annual the omnipoeu, DEGREES of the
sosei eign people of the Union. She must
he held foreser 10 Der orbit Of obedience
and duty. .... . n r1-
Nix STEVENS. II the gentlem an front Ohio
| M GARFIELD will lpetmt me. / q III ask bim
II question. Sou.e Of the shgels under ook
to dethroue the Almighty, but they could
not do it, A I'd they we're turned out OF
heaven because they were unable TO break
its laws Are those devilish aUgels in or
out of heaven? Laughter f.th
Mr.. GARFIELD thank the gent'tttfni
from Pennsylvania Mr. STEVENS for
his interruption. The ang''ls that kept
not their e st estate! WHAT was their fate?
1t was the Almighty who opened the
shining gates pf heaven and hurled them
down TO r,erual ,uin Tney did not go
without HIS pei mission and helr. Aud il
these States are out Of the Union il must
be because the sovereign people Of the Re
public hurled them oni; because they
| pleased 20 let ihem 20. l am glad the
gentleman interrupted NE; 1t happily
illustrates my position. 'l' -ai ." se.aa
| l will not dlscnsss what We might do
with Alabama, but simply what was Ala.
bama, herself able TO d., and what she as
not able TO do toSard breaking up thi,
Union. Two years ago. when had tn,
honor for the & ST time to address thi
House, the same q ,estion that is now be
fore Us was under discussion l main aine
then, as l hold to day, that the rebel Stale
are not in any Legitimate sense OF the word
Of The Uuion | thea derlsreed as
declare now. that by their own &C
OF treason AMI rebeliol they ha(
4 forfeited all their rights IN the Union, bur
they had rele ised themselves from none o
their obligations. IL rests with the peopl,
OF the Republic TO enforce The performance
of these Obligations, aud. 80 soon as The
na!ioual SAFE y will permit, restore lhsm to
their rights ,.g... a..f..r sa.i.
Now, lei US ioq lire 6o'@ the surrender Of
the I'D lilary power of the rebellion affected
the legal coudition of lhose States
! When The rebelI,on collapsed, aud the las,
armed man Of the contederaey surrendered
10 our forces, ufi m that there was not
ID one Of those States single gnverntneu
that we did or could recoguz,. There wa
not iu Que Of those ates, from G ,verno
down to constable, q single mnu whom VI
couli recognz, as authoriz 10 exercis
any oifi.ia function whatever. They ha,
formed gov ernments alien aud hostile C.
the Uu,on Mt only had their ti1i:er
tIkeu no oitbs TO support the Constitu ior
uf the United States, but they had LeapeC
oath Upon oath 10 destroy il.
I go further. l hold that there wer,
iu those States no constitutions OF an!
binding force and effcc;; noGe that VI
could recognize. A constitution, in thi
case, can mean nothing less than cor
stitution of government. A constitution
must constitute something or it is no eou
stitufion Wheuwe speak Of the constitution
Of Alabama We mean the cons s'i'ution o
The government Of Alabama When tn
rebels surrendered there remained no con
sti, ytjen ia Al ibaTna. because there re
manned no government Those States re
yerted into our hands by victorious wal
with every municipal right and ever
} unicipal authority utterly aud completel
swept away. Whose duty was it Il
assume the con,rol o! them under suel
circumstances! '.'" ".'
Iu the 6rst instance II was The du'y o
the President of the Um'ed States Con
} gress was lfut then in session. Militia
resistance tO.the armies of the Uniou hn
ceased, and the laws Of war pervad"d ever
! inch OF the cong red territory. + sppei
, 10 the highest authorities iu 'nierna,ions
! law, as quoted by IL illeck chapter .hirt,
Two, section onr:
The government established over an enemy
territory during It's military occupation ma
exsrc,se an the powers given by ihe laws
, war 10 the cot qlerOr over the conqnere
and is subj,ct to all the restrictions wh'c
tha. code imposes II is Of little Consequent
whether such government be called a ml,lar
D or civil government; It's character Is the sam
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