The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1867-04-20

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cial proclamation N The President,
and, as she believes, b. tbia court.
Even II any NJ these acts were
Irregular, Which u nm admitted, snill
when The people of Mississippi did
- assemble, II WINS M nssemblngc NJ
the highest power ~ the State. and
above The control oi The President or
Congress, 80 far ~ their State Con.
stiiuiion WIS concerned, and neither
could imparI power 70 the people or
do moro than aid them, since u "a .
fundamental principle, "that govern
mcnts are instituted among men, de-
irving their just powers from the
consent Of The governed" The pco-
pie assembled voluntarily, and not
by compulsion Of the President. A
copy of the original and amended
constitution Is herewith presented.
The said State further AYERS that
she has exhibited her good faith and
adhesion TO the Constitution Of the
United States by electing Senators
and Representatives to Congress, ms
OF right aud duty she was bound to
do; but her Senators and Rcprcscn-
tativcs have been and are wronginlly
excluded from their right to partici-
pate in the legislative department Of
the Government, and her people have
been compelled to pay the taxes and
bear the burdens OF the Government
without representation. And the
complainant charges that, after the
exclusion of the Senators and Repre-
sentaiives of nine other States, al or
most of whom applied for admission,
but were rejected, the Representatives
of twenty-six States have assembled
at the seat of the Federal Govern-
ment, and, legislating as the Com
grcss Of the United States, have
passed an act, which is now the
special object of complaint, entitled
can act to provide for the more eff
cient government of the rebel States, y
hereto annexed as exhibit B, and
both prayed to be taken as a part Of
this bill. The title of these bills ad-
( mits that they are States, and yet
, power is assumed to establish Gov
ernments for them, and this assump-
ton is founded ON the prctext set out
in the preamble, that no legal State
Governments exist in the said State
Of Mississippi and other Southern
States adequate to the protection Of
: life or property, which IS believed to
be wholly erroneous, since the people
of Mississippi, the only source from
which State government can emanate,
have, as before stated, formed for
themselves a Government fully adc-
quate to the protection of life, liber-
ty and property.
J This act, and the act supplement
tary thereto, utterly annihilatc the
State and its government by assum-
, ing for Congress the power to control,
! modify and even abolish its govern
ment-in short, TO exert sovereign
power over il; and the utter dcstruc-
tion Of the State must be the consc-
quence of their execution. They
: also violate a well-known salutay
principle in governments, the observ-
, ancc of which can alone preserve
them, by making the civil power
. subordinate to the military power,
and thus establish n military rule in
the States enumerated in the act, and
make precedent by which the Gov
| ernment of the United States may
be converted into military dcspotism,
8 in which every man may be deprived
: Of his goods, lands, liberty and life
5 BY the breath of a military comman-
. der or the sentence of a military
! commission or tribunal, without the
benefit Of trial by jury, and without
. thd observance Of any of those re-
) quircmenis and guarantees by which
J the Constitution aud laws so plainly
protect aud guard the rights Of the
. citizen. And the more eiicctunlly to
, accomplish this purpose, said acts
: divide the ten Southern States into
, five military districts, and make il
J the duty of the President to assign
: an officer to the command Of each
, and to place a mfIicien. force under
. him, whose will is TO he the law and
: his soldiers the power that executes
IT, Il is declared to be his duty u
| protect all persons in their right o
person and property, TO suppress In
/ surrections, disorder and violence
and to punish, or cause to be pun.
r ished, an disturbers of the peace an,
: criminals; and he may organize mil