The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-12-01

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count 10 lhe csoa already fcfcffsd 10
Mississippi AZ thu. originally .
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oul limitation, and demanding thc
unqualified allegiance u her citizens
aud for years after the passage of ;'l'
act IN question, she maintained BY
iurcr Of arms The claims She asserted.
In the case ol Swan Va. Buck, not
yet reported, in speaking of the ohli-
cation Of the state 10 pay the sala-
fics Of its civil officers, for services
during the war, this court has said,
"thc State Of Mississippi Is to-day
the same State that occupied the
limits before the 9th day Of January,
1861, and since that date. H. con-
stitution and It's laws are the same,
except so far as they have been
altered from time TO time by lis own
act J rights of property are to be
governed, contracts are to be- CON
strued, and crimes are to be tried and
punished by the same laws that cs-
listed before the date of the act Of sc-
ccssion, or that have been enacted
since. Ii is not a new State, or a
new government, but the samc State
and the same government, ' >
The State is not relieved Of lis debts
by the revolution through which it
has passed and the salaries due to
its officers for the period during the
while they were IN the discharge Of
their functions, stand upon no less
favorable footing than other debts
before the war commenced or con
tracted since"
[rhe opinion here quotes from 7
Peters, K. p. s6, 81; ! Peters, X. p.
j42; II Wheaton, i3S; 10 Peters,
p. 720, 729, 73O, and . Peters, 734;
&C., &c. Also I'd Gallison's X. p.
500, aud largely from the case of the
United States, Va. Rice, 1 Wheaton.
Admitting, then, that the act Of
secession was nullity, the State Of
Mississippi, neither in fact nor in
legal contemplation could be annihi.
lated by void ordinance. The at
tempt to change her relations toward.
the United States Government only
involved her internal relations. With
in her limits ther. remained a regu-
lsrly organized government d, j'r,
as well AZ de Gdcio, which vas never
disputed. The United States Gov.
eminent never claimed the right tr
regulate or control her internal aud
domestic affairs, not 10 violation o'
the Constitution Of the United States
And Chief Justice Marshall in III,
case of the Trustees Of Dartmouth
. College vs. Woodward, ith Wheat
SIS, in reply to the argument thai
the prohibition in the Constitution
"to pass any law impairing the obi
, CATION OF contracts taken in it,
broadest sense, would compreheu,
: the political relation between III,
: Government and its citizens; woul,
= extend to officers within a State f.
State purposes; >
{ would be an Improbable and yeSa
tious interference with the interna
: concerns of the State; would unnec
c essariy and immensely embarras- il
!, legislation; would render immutabl
! those civil institutions which are Is
r tablished for purposes Of interna
/ government, and which to subserv
e those purposes ought TO vary wit
!. varying circumstances; says 9Th
: general correctness Of the Observa
r tions cannot be cOntroyerted. Tha
/, the trainers Of the Constitution di
y not intend to restrain the States j
,f the regulation Of their civil institu
: tions, adopted for internal govern
: ment, and that the instrument the
,f have given us, is not to be 20 cor
: strued, may be admitted"
4 IL was never claimed or insistc
f that the Government Of Mississippi
Ie was usurped or not rightful. \
IF other power ever assumed the rigl
s to administer the powers Of goverI
d ment within her limits, or disput,
ct her right 10 exercise those powers,
it she had previously done, in subord
le nation only to the Constitution
ie the United States. a. the npnn
ID law Of the land. Her existence as
a State, WIS never the subject Of co
ir troversy. But her relation to Il
m other Siates Of the Union. her riE
ir to dissolve that relation and form
a new compact with other State, "
se the disputed question.
II, then, her ordinance Of secessi'
cd was void, this could no more atic
y her government or her sovereign
al as n gy,,Ie In bf f,uiou. than III