Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-03-01

reignty or to carry ont the powers
which a loyal people instituting loyal
State governments and sending loyal
members to Congress can do, for the
reason that the authorities and people
of those States went into the rebellion,
as have stated, together with their
representatives in Congress who with
drew from these Hallb for that pur-
pose
Their right to new State govern
ment, to resume their practical and
original relations with the loyal States,
undoubtedly exists under certain con-
ditions and restrictions. 1t seems to
me that it necessarily follows from the
relation of Government and people,
which is of allegiance on the one hand
and protection on the other, that if a
portion of the people refuse their allie
glance to the Government and make
war upon it for its destruction, and are
defeated in the attempt, they have for
felted the right of protection and are
at the mercy of the Government.
said they were entitled 10 resume their
original relations under certain condi.
tions and restrictions. Who is to be
the Judge of those conditions and what
they shall be Shall the red-handed
traitor be the judge? Is he to pre-
scribe the conditions Of his own re.
turn? No one will contend that. The
whole practice of our Governments UNI
der the last Administration and the
present has been against it.
Shall foreign nations be the Judge +?
No, thank God, in our darkest hour
Dur Government resented even the adj
vice of some of those nations as often
sive and impertincnt And now we
stand magnificent and peerless among
the nations Which of them shall
thrust its Judgment upon usg Will
the autocrat of France We say to
him that if his intermeddling with af-
fairs on this continent i'm defiance of
the time-honored policy of this country
does not cease, the army of blue will
again be in motion and Macmillan
will be hurled from the throne of the
Montezumas. g.gH
shall not perplex myself with ab-
stract propositions or enter into any
discussion as to whether the rebel
States are in the Union or out of it.
No one contends that they have legal
ly severed their connection with the
Union. The territorial boundaries OF
the States still exist We have the
right still to compel their obedience to
the Government they owe allegiance
to no other but as Mr.. Lincoln, in his
great good sense, in a speech made a
few days before his assassination, says:
"Thev are out of their pratical relation
with the Union.''
Practically, they have been out OF
the Union, and practically in feeling
and sympathy they are out still and
ours shall be the task to bring them
back, not simply to power without I'm
ion, but so to reconstruct as to secure
true Union with power. And while
State, considered as simply legal
institution, cannot be destroyed, still
its government can be overturned and
its members and people 60 into trca
son, so that practically it is destroyed
for after all
/ g What constitutes a Slater
Not highraiscd battlements, CT iabored mound
Thick wall, or moateh gate
Not cities proud with spires and tnrrets crowned
| Not bays AMI bread armed parts,
| Where, laughing al the Storm rich nayies ride;
| Not starred and slangled courts,
Where low browed baseness VAN perfumes 10 pride
/ No! men, high minded men !"
not traitors.
| Where do you get your constitution
| al power to keep their Representatives
from Congress to organize military
tribunals over them suspend then
courts, their Legislatures, their Stat,
functions Ask gentlemen on tn,
Democratic side--you are revolutiona
ry, say they. The land groans undel
your despotism, they exclaim. Thcs,
terrible assertions would alarm as die
we not " consider the source Thes,
same persons and their party said
when treason's gripe was at the ma
tion's throat, and its guns commando,
this capital, and our Government wa
i trembling in the balance, "Oh yo'
cannot coercc State !" You mus
not make arbitrary arrests 7" Yo'
cannot make your Government credit
legal tender |" You cannot legal,
draft men into the army you are rev
olutionary you disregard the Consti
tuition" They said the war was a fail
ure, at Chicago they were the first al
ter the war to grasp hands all red wit
the blood of our slain brothers an,
now they are in these Halls still harp
ing on the subject.
They had not long since the Demo
4 cratic party with three quarters of tn
States and year by year and one b
one the people thrust them out as falls
prophets and guides and now the
have not State Except few recor
| structed rebel ones in the South) tina
they can control and here they are,
lean and hungry band of thirty-five G
forty, uttering their notes of discor
as ever, and now crooking the pree
nant hinges of the knee' to PresideI
johnson, that thrift may follow fawI
!. ing" And they, thus repudiatcd an
disowned. are still repeating their ol
cry Of unconstitutionality. say I
them that they learn nothing by exp,
ricnce, nothing from history, or the
would have seen ere this the hant
; writing upon the wall" and read thei
own fate in that Of the Tories of til
Revelation and the Federalists of Isl;
They assume to be the special champ
ons Of the President, whom not Ion
ago they denounced usurpcr" an
"tyrant." Do they think the Presiden
anxious to share their fate, to go dow
! with them to political death frol
, which there will be no resurrection
! No, gentlemen be admonished tn
J President understands you as he di
when the southern wing of your pa
ty drove him refugee from his hom
. and hunted him like a wild beast.
Had your counsel been followed !
: time of war the nation would have pc
! ishcd. The people will not listen