, 1866-01-27
SATURDAY. JANUARY 81, 1868,


Should not be perpetuated, and therefore tn,
lao-called) Senators and Representatives iron
the South should be admitted by Congress-
The only objections to such an argument ar,
that the premises arc fnlse end that. wer,
thor true, the conclusions would not follow
from them. i
A State Is destruct}ble.
When Gibbon wrote Of 4tthe decline and fa1
OF the Roman Empire," !" be traced from tts su
prcmacy to It's destruction the micht,cst state
of which history bca1s record. Where now
arc thc States OF Babylon, Nineyaf. Chaldea
Tyre, Judca, Egypt, Athens, Sparta, Macedon'
Carthage, Venice, Tho Empire OF the CalIp,,s.
the saraccn Empire, Lombardy, Normandy
Poland, aud last not least, " The Confederate
States of America ~ States have been des
troycd by subdivision rs Rome, by conquest
as Athens, by.sabsorptIou as Hungary, bY dis
pcsaicn rs Judca, by dcpopulatfon Is Car
thaec, by surrender OF It's statehood as lre-
land, and l,y any Other means whereby 'the
pcoklc inhabitlnC auy portion of tile earh,s
surface have ceased to pnrtictpate In a c,nm.
mon government. The Goycrnmcnt Il the
State and tic Sta.c il the Government. Trac
there can be no State without popnlat,on
and a territory, But the nonulation is mi
the State, for In nearly ali the Cases ahove
cnu1ncrated. fin Donu,ot,on bsva ,,cno1nad
..'.1a e, 49, 60 tno popumt.ou nave sc"alnea
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mi W. d, 1ncan II At +bc ,,or.rnmcnta1 ~
aa.ixation. consjstfn,, at ~ txrcntiyc. 1ccis.
Iatiyc and Judicial officers. and the 1noss NJ
voters which Ind heretofore l,ecn ,ccor,,;,cd
by the Federal Government as a STATE md
lad through Its Senator's and Representative,
In Congress formed part of the Federal Gnv.
crnmcnt, has withdrawn from such counec-
lion and refused to be any louec- State in
the Union. THIS secession Is the act of the
Governor. Legislature, Contressrcen and ro.
ters. Who constitute the living s,ate ~ Gov.
ernmcnt. II wus ACCOMPLISHED comn,ete,r
and perfectly In 1861. For time these
State organizations maintained war with thc
Federal Government but finally succumh,
cd. It was in the power Of the Federal Gov
eminent to have made peace with them MS
States General Sherman in his truee With
Johnston proposed to do 60. But the people
would not Listen to it, the Federal Govern
ment refused IT, and every one of the State
organizations was ignored and tlotted ont nv
conquest as fully as we're the Roman Enpire
or Hungary OF Poland, leaving the terrjforr
and people Of the former States absolutely
without government, and therefore without
statc- 1t does not follow that the
people or territory Aforesaid were out
Of the Union any more than are the people
and territory OF Colorado. They are both in
the Union, though ING State Of Colombo is
mol se1 STATE IN Inc Union, and may never
DC. Our Government Is E Pluribus Unum-
many IN one. II Is made up Of i"iseria In t'n-
pe,ao. Ihe cnion is comprehensive, impe-
I1ai sta.e' "hsch Includes and Eo!e5na all
tne People ana territory between the Atlantic
anu fae'ne, ano between the lakes and the
gull "ns.nef 'ofmeo mo e'a1e goTefnmmts
os mol" aenee, tne en1ne people AND Terri