The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-04-07
IN OR oUTOF The UNION.

WHEN did they go out, and HOW did, they &c
out7 They passed. ordinances of secession
and they fought TO maintain thoseordiaance Is
These constitute their offences. If they exist
now solely in Territorial condition, and
their people as nondescript communities with.
out any rights whatever, these must be. the
results of those two acts.
The South CLAIMED the right to secede :.the
North DENIED the right. The South. fought
FOR that right: the North fought against
them on that Issue. Did the North succeed,
or did itRo:a The~North succeeded, and'ia
succeeding it established the principle. that
no, State. could. desert the Union. Those
States denied, the right to. sscede, the fought
forit, and they established it. How then
came the Southern States OUT? WHEN did
they get QUIZ How is it, that in the very
act of achieving all We everclaimed, we hare
lost all? How is~it that we fought through
war~to establish the principle that a State
could not leave the Union, and having won
the fight, have established the very principle
our enemies commended for and failed to es-
tablsh Those States fought to GET OUT of
the Union. We fought to KEEP THEM M
and having ,triumphed, IN they are.
The stars upon the national flag were plac-
ed there by An act of Congress, ordaining a
new star for every new State admitted into
fha TrD;on Each rtor ranrosapfs a Ctoto M
the Onion. That flag came cut of the war
with thirty x.stans upon it. Why are they
there, if but twenty five States are in the
Uhion2 Is that fag, after aliy q, Haunting
lieY'
If not in the Union, those States mast'fave
gone out when those ordinances of secession
were passed: just as the authors of. those
ordinances claimed4at the time. If so, then.
secession was complete, and~these States be-
came foreign ration, and when conquered,
were entitledito all the rights which one for
eign nation, overcome by another, is entitled
to by the law of nations. AS such conquer
ors, we must assume the responsibilities of
the conqueror.s Foreign prisoners of war
cannot be-tried Ter treason. Why then is JEFF
Davis held in Imprisonment The rebel debt,
too, must be paid, if such be the case. for
the prevailing power steps into,theSsl1oes of
the subdHed and assumes all its responsible
itie5. Individuals may commit treason
States cannot. Whoever heard of an indict-
ment for treason, or any other crime, against
a State, county, city, or any kind of corpo-
ratiOn?, If these States lostrtheir< existence,
why were they counted in order to make up
the three-fourths of all the States, which was
necessary, to amend the Constitution If
they were living realities then, of what dis
ease have they died since r
If the Republican party is committed to
any theory, 10 is committed to .the.assertion
that State once in the Union, cannot deserts
t.. Congress and Presidents andspeople-are.
committed sothis theory. AL the legislation
during the war was based. upon it. Take
Tennesseesfor an instance. The adoption of
the act of secession was officially announced
in that ,State,on the Gath of June. lSe1s More
than six4menths after this, three members of
Congress from that State presented their Gre
isntials at Washington, and were daily ad-
nitted to their seats, and remained in them
during their entire terms, expiring in 1863.
One of those acknowledgements is one of
he members eject now asking his.seab,, but
denied it on the ground that Tennessee is>out
If the Unian. How, is she. more ouTrneEyI
han She WAS in 1861 ~ fsH
Ifnot in the Union, why did Senators per-
nit Andrew Johnson to retain. his seat-iny the
United States Senateras the representative off
Tennessee, years afterthe pretended act of
recession ? ? Why did the members of the |
Baltimore Convention, represen Eating the in
diligence and patriotism of the ,greataRepub-
can rartypominate Andrew johnson for the
ice-Presidency z. The Constitution declares
hat 0No person except natural born citi-
IN ora citizen of the o. s. at the sime<ofa the |
adoption of this Constitution" shall be eligi-
Die to the Office of. Vice President. If Ten
lessee was out of the United States, then
Andrew Johnsonwas noteligibLe. The Con :
Tention MUST have believed, the Union un-
dissolved, or it could not have nominated
IOhnson.S On the other theory, Johnsen-was-