New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-21
"COFRCJyGu STATES.

The World professcd throughout 70 support the War
for the Union and always acted in direct antagonism
to its professions. SO now with reference to that
clause in the Address Of the Union National Com
mittee which says:
.ci., how utterly sl.pt and blank is Federal Con.
uiion touching treatment Of i9surgent states; A.
comhlure."
whercupon, says The Horde
The statement Witch We have pot iq italics
conroycrtedbn remarkable on account OF the source ron
which IT, at this late day emanaes H. Is precsey the zoe
message precisely the point Of that part q the message
against which the whole Republican press OF tina day raised
res0undnF chorus II oboquy The Constitution being
uiy silent bouF regard the treatment % nsufgn
q b.. not by any means silent and plank IN REGARD
the treatment u insnecuon but as BY the iorma the
onci. confession OF the Republican party, the Constitution
grants power 20 deal with nsugens HdieS u follows
assumption by Congress TO deal with them sheer
usurpaton.'
We cannot see how The Borids premises justify
It's conclusion The Constitution, it is agreed, Is ST.
lent and blank touching the treatment of nsurgent
States-which proves, says The World, that " the
Constitution grants poreT TO deal with insurgent
States" o mo! that is a horse Of another color
The Constitution does not contemplate conspiracy
OF ten or a dozen States to destroy the Union, and
heHce fails to make express provision for that contn-
gency but it by no means follows that such a con-
spiracy must be pas5yely allowed to take the Union
by the throat capture and garrison is fortesscs seize
and empty its subtrcasurcs, and devote its custom
houses to the collection Of imposts levied
by it on the products Of the non-conspir-
ing States. There is abundant authority given in the
Constitution for resisting such conspiracy with such
weapons, and in such force, as may be required to
overcome it, The provisions that the United States
shall guarantee to every State in this Union re-
publican form of government" which it cannot do
if such conspiracy is allowed to riumph-tht this
Constitution, and the laws Of the United States,
which shall be made in pursuance thereof,
shall be the supreme law Of the land; and the judges
in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in
the Constitution laws Of any State to the contrary
notwithstanding that Congress shall have power
"to provide for calling forth the Militia to
execute tho lars Of he Union, suppress in
surrections and repe invasion - the ex-
press inhibton-"No State shall enter into any
treaty, alliance or confederation nay, even the
stipulation that the citizens Of each State shall be
entitled to all privileges and immunitcs OF citizens in
the several Sates-each and all, with several others,
emphatcay negative The UOrlfS and Mr.. Bnchanan's
suicidal assumption. Among the powers granted to
the Federal Government by the Constitution is
the power to exist, and to cause its authority
to be respected over the entire territorial
area of our country-alike over that portion
of it which has been erected into States aud that por
ton which is distinguished the Territories. The
"power to deal with insurgent States results in
evtably from the fact that they insurgent, and
that Congress is clothed with authority to call out the
Militia to execute the laws of Union" and sup
press instructions" No power is specifically con-
ferred on Congress by the Constitution to erect a
Capitol; vet who doubts the legality of such erec-
toni Rigid old John Robertson Of Virginia, who
died while Representative in Congress, protested,
with his dying breath against being laid in the Con-
gressonal cemetery because he could find no warrant
for such cemetery in the Constitution. We respect his
fidelity TO a cherished conviction; but the country
has outgrown the narrow teachings of the Virginia
abstraconists The Constitution is utterly silent
and blank touching the treatment of an insurgent
TerritOry; ("sOr1egn Territories" they resolved
lateyin Coorado;) but it by no means follows that
Territory may defy and seek to destroy the Nation
The World has been taught constitutional interpreta-
ton in bad school, or allows its unacknowledged
sympathy with the beaten Rebels to impel it to talk
as though it had been.