The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-07-31

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And ! 5 S Wei 81:
States and the voice Of illegality is de-
iclared to .peryade. all .of them, The sobli-
cations of consistency bind the Legislative
bodysass well assthe indiyid duals: who COM
pose t.iss now too late to say that
these ten political communities are not
States: Of this q nion 81. ;os...,;e
ID eclarations TO the contrary made in
these their. acts, are contradicted again
and again by the repeated acts of legisla-
tion enacted. BY Congress from the. year
|; 1851 to the year 1861 During that
period, while those States were in active
rebellion, and after that rebellion was
! brought to a close. they have been again
and again recognized as States OF. the
Union: .Representatio has been appor-
toned (. to. them as States. They have
been: divided into judicial districts[for the
holding of district and circuit courts of
the United States, as States of thesU Union
cangonly ySbezdistributed. - -
The last act ono this subject was passed
.,JnlyS22 81, 1866; byswhich every of
{ these ten States was arranged into dis;
tricts and circuits: They hayelbeen called
npon3s By Congressto act throug their
Legislatures pom sat S1eas stW o. end1
:ments to the 4 Const titntion ofathe. United
States. As:States: they have ratified one
amendment, which required the vote Sot
tWenty:seven States Of the thirty six then
composing the Union.s. w hen the requi.
site twenty ty.seyenn ties were given in ia
vor. of that amendmen t-seyen OF which
votes were given by seven Of these, States
twas proclaimed to be part:ot the
Constitution of the United States, and
slavery was declared not longer to exist
in the United States or any place subject
tot theiriurisdiction. If:these seven States
were not legal States Of the Union, it fol-
lows as the inevitable consequence that
in some of the States slavery yet exists.
It does not exist in these seven States,
for they have abolished itsalso initheir
own State Constitutions but Kentucky
notshaving done 80, it .would:still remain
in: that State. But, in truth, If this as
sumption that these State Governments
be true, then the abolition Of slavery by
these illegal governments binds no one,
for Congress now denies to these States
the power,to abolish slavery. by denying
to them the power to elect q legal State
Legislature, or to frame constitution for
any purpose, even for such q purpose as
the abolition of slavery. 80.
As'to the other constitutional amend
ment having reference to suffrage, it hap
pens that these States have not accepted
lit. The consequence is that it has never
proclaimed or understood, even BY Con
gress, to be q part of the Constitution of
the United States. The Senate of the
United States has repeatedly given its
sanction to the appointment of judges,
district attorneys and marshals for every
oneof these States; and yet if they are
not legal States no one of these Judges is
authorized to.hold a.court. SO, too, both
Houses of Congress have passed appro-
priationsbills to pay all these Judges, ,at-
torneys and dsoffeers of the United States
for. exercising their functions slin these
States. Again ,sin the maehinefy of the
internal revenue laws all of these. States
are districted not S7as .sT Territories but as
Estates. -, ..l.1ss $50
Sosmuch for continuous legislative re-
cognition. The instances cited, however,
fall short of all that might be enumerated.
Executive recog gnition, asis we'll known,
has boon frequent and unwavering. The
same may be said as:to the judicial recog-
milton: through the Supreme Court of the
United States That august tribunal,
from first to last. in the administration OF
its duties an banc and upon the. circuit has
.never3failed to recognize these ten CON-
;munities as legal States Of the Union.
The cases dependingsin that court upon
appeal and writ of error from these States,
when the rebellion began, have not been
dismissed upon any sideaof the cessation
of jurisdi They were carefully con-
tinued. from term to- term until the rebel-
lion was, entirely subdued and peace re:
established, and they were called Tor
argument and consideration as. if no
-insurrection had intervened. NewScases,
occurring since the rebellion, have come
from these Statesesbefore that court by
writ of error and appeal, and even by
original suit, where onl y~a State can
bring such o. suit. These cases are enter
tained by that tribunal in the. exercise of
its acknowledged jurisdiction, which could
not attach to. them if they had come from
any political body other than a State of
the Union. Finally, in the allotment of
their circuits, made by the Judges at the
Decemb ber term, S65, every one of these
States is put: on the same footing of le-
gality with all the other States Of the
Union. Virginia. and North Carolina,