The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-11-17


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those maNlm OF humanity, modcr
tion and honor ought luhnub ub.cryrd
hy both parlIos in mwmry uyll vur
Asa civil var /. u,ynt publicly
proclaimed, hy lhlt maine, against
insurgents, lis actual existence !. %
fact in our domestic history. which
the curt D. bound TO notice and to
know The truclr-t % it- existence
l- found in The writing or The sage.
Of the common law may hc thus
,ummarily stated "Wl cn the rcru-
lar course Of Justice Is interrupted by
revolt, rebellion, or in,urrcction, SO
that the courts Of Justice cannot be
kept open, cirH ma, cri.'s, and hos
tilitles may bc prosecuted on the
same footing Ms II those opposing the
Government were foreign enemies
invading the land. - Black, GG7.
This was the language OF that cx-
altcd tribunal, in reference to the war
through which we have Just passed.
The same court had said on n long
previous occasion. "Thc Government
of the United States has recognized
the existence of civil war between
Spain and her colonies, although it
has not acknowledged the latter as a
sovereign, independent government.
Bv this recognition, each party is
deemed hy us as hclligcrcnt nation,
having so far as concerns rs. the SOW
creign rights of war and entitled to
be respected in the exercise Of those
rights. The Santi-sima Trinidad, !
Wheaton. 2S3.
In the prize cases. the court further
said. "This greatest of civil wars wa.
not gradually deyelopcd by popular
commotion, tumuuous assemblies,
or local unorranlzcd instructions.
However long may have been il, pre-
vious conception. il nevertheless
springs forth from the parent brain
Minerva in the full panoply Of war.
The President was bound To- meet il
in the shape in which il presented it.
self without waiting for Congress to
baptizc il with name: and no name
given to il by him or them could
change the fact" 1t !, true there
was sometimes some vacillation in
policy, some variations in practice
induced bv fluctuations in the for
tunes of war. but at least from july
1861, the war was wagcd by the
Federal Government. not upon til,
basis of the Constitution, that is, moi
upon the doctrine that the Southern
States were under the Constitution
and laws of the United States, bul
upon the principles Of international
/ law.
The whole conduct Of the army in
| the field. wa, controlled hv the same
. idea. Gen. sherman. in hi, well
I known letter, published just as h'
was entering upon hi. last grand
campaign. in which he said, he would
teach the South what war was; an.
nounccd that war was unbridlct
power. let loose TO do what it pleased
II not only did not recognize an,
constitutional restraint, or impedi
mcnts. but pushed the rights Of war
growing out of International law. e
the EXTREMIST verge. The rrticrn
practice and pole, Of Gen. Gran
shows that hr fought Il out on tha
line too. The uniform and pcrsistcn
po.icy uf the United State. contin
ucI 10 the present. To refuse compcn
.ation ior properly used or dc.troyc,
by these. or sny other Of their ar
mics. proves that in thl, respect too
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