Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-07-04
Government.
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If our readers should say to us, as Plinius
Secundus said to bis friend Trio, "either say
something that never heard or read Of or
else hold thy peace :" we will answer what
can any man say that hath not been said ?''
We write as Tully and Boetius did "as
well TO help ourself as Others" that is to help
our selfa well as others to think. For we
were once as nation in the full career of
success and power: our flag waved wher-
ever civilization existed, but political disease
hath overtaken us, and she "pulleth Us by
the ear and maketh US to think, that we may
know ourselves. Therefore, "be it as it may
we will essay"
As aforesaid, the best reasons for the for
nation of union Of the ole thirte en- States
were not written in the Preamble to the con-
stitution, and it does not require very pro-
found political philosophy to know what
those reasons were. tits true that religious
intolerance drove the pilgrims from their ma
tive land to seek homes in the wild untried
regions of America, 1t is true that religious
dissension broke out among them after their
landing on Plymouth rock, and was carried
so far that such men as Roger Williams,
were compelled to leave Massachusetts, yet,
at the commencement, and during the con-
tinuahce, and at the close OF the war of the
revolution, the utmost harmony prevailed
among the people of. the colonies. When
the gun powder tea was thrown overheard in
Boston harbor, there was no treaty between
the old colonies of alliance or defense. Yet
every one Of the colonies stood by Boston in
that famous act. 1t is true that the act was
treason according to British law, but Mass
nchusetts committed 1t and all the other col
onies sustained her in it. Why? Because,
though they were not tenants in common of
the vast domain embraced in the boundaries
OF the old thirteen, their intents and purpos-
es were the same, their hopes and fears were
identical, their hearts beat as one in all that
pertaIned to their national and political
rights. They had shared the hardships and
sorrows OF seven years war; and they desir-
ed, at the close OF that war, to divide the
joys of long years of future national prosper
ity and success, which they had every right
TO expect. They were united in heart the
the best reason in the world why they should
unite hands and be az one people. There
fore, the union based upon the constitution
was formed.
Now, suppose we were to say, better for
the colonies had they remained as they were,
independent sovereignties; what would our
readers say to such proposition?
Suppose we were to say that in our humble
opinion, we are tending very fast toward
segregation. Suppose we say, that in our
opinion, our cool, calm, unbiased opinion,
that we are fast tending to our original sta.
tus, as colonies. What would our readers
think Of it? FIVE are, and do get back, will
we not be seven fold more the subjects, or
victims, Of anarchy (chld of the devil) than
we were before? let US pause and think over
1t little. Let US look at it as American citi-
zens-white American citizens, we mean.
The constitution is our national law, and
II it is not obeyed, whittier must we drift
No territory can pass any law in violation
of its Organic Act. No State can pass q
law IN violation of the constitution. The
national Congress itself. cannot make law
in conflict with that instrument. If they do
land, alas how many times have they done
it1 whittier must we drift?
We may try to evade and dodge these facts
as much as we please, but it is inevitable
that certain causes will bring about certain
results. ~ - ..a
We will continue this subject if our read
efs 80 please ~