Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1867-04-19
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lead rejecting men to CONSIDER what
four wears Of violence and blood has
established, and what condemned -
Without assuming that it has estab-
lished any right, as sacred and inal-
icnable to the people, it ncvorthe-
less has established, and the lcgis-
lation of the country exemplihed a
fact; and that fact is the power Of a
State to withdraw from the Union Of
States, thus destroying the eonfed-
Grafton Of American States, united in
a confederatea Union under the Con-
s.itution.
The seeded States are regarded
as conq%Sea, with no rights that a
conquerer is bound to respect. Ii
this is not an admission Of secession
asan accomplished fact, it is the pro-
mitigation ola state Of facts destruet-
i've of union Of co-equal States,
and denying them the enjoyment OF
their rights nnimpairea.
If the Southern people did not
succeed in getting cut Of the Union,
then they could only be tried and
punished for the attempt, in the
manner and form as prescribed by
the Constitution itself.
The dominant party in the Gov
crnment mainta ms that the people
Of the seeded States are subject to
the will of Congress bat have no
rights as citizens. Ii the premises
are correct the South succeeded in
secession but lost their independence.
In other words as an independent
and separate people they made war
and we defeated and subjugatcd them.
This is a plain admission, if not Of
the right, yet Of the fact Of scces-
sion.
In the meantime the people Of
the Northern States have seeded
from the Union repudiating the Con-
stitution of 1889, with its amend
ments, declaring sacred the, inaliena
lle rights of man. True the Northern
States have not rul,n"nS passed Or
slinances of secession, nor is that
necessary. Sovereign States may
adopt such methods OF seeding as
to them seemeth right. If they re-
pudiate, annul, or by additions and
amendments destructive of the orig
inal purposes Of a people in the
auupt1on VI unuIr constitution, that
is the practical fact Of secession, and
if the people sustain them in it, it
becomes an established fact. Notice
has not been formally given to any
of the high contracting parties to
she compact Of States, by Congress
Of the accomplished fact, but as
sovereign dictators, the form of that
notice may be such as the supreme
power wills, or in its discretion it
may familiarizs' its subjects to the
change always withholding forma!
notice.
Our own opinion is that the great
question established is, not what
States have a right, but what they
have the power to do. We admit
our inability to see the difference
between defying the Constitution, or
subverting its objects by other
means, SO far as practical results
may 60. Either really amount to
secession when accomplished, one
brought about by force alone, the
other by fraud, stealth, and such
degree of force and violence as may
be used in the sacred name Of liber-
ty and law, without arousing the
people to the impending peril.
We know that Eve monarchies
have been established; that the sub
jects number ten millions; and that
the civil, military, and judicial pow
ers of each of these Monarchs is
absolute; that they have no law but
their own wills.
Of course such system of Gov
eminent could not have been broach-
ed, much less established, had not
those originating and cnacting the
plan, seeded from the plan Of a
Constitutional form.
That this has been done by TWEEN.
ty-six States does not mend the
matter; nor is there any more bene
1T ofa multiplicity of monarchs thar
in a single one. To multiply des'
pots or monarchs, is no better thar
to attempt to take away the natura