Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-30

. lord, and rights were secure ouly as th
people overcame the absolute supremac
of either.
This was the truth which was SO plair
ly seen by our fathers that they made
the corner stone of our system. 1t is
government of the people, not of tn
States. 1t is complex. indeed. bccaus
with the necessity of supreme head tn
advantages of modified local independence
we're plainly seen. But whatever MAJ
have been the whims and theories ant
speculation hitherto, the last great appea
has decided that our system, in Mr. Lin
coins phrase, is government of the peo'
pie, by the people, for the people, aud
that States are convenlehces by which the
people propose to secure the great end Of
government, individual security Of life,
liberty, and property. For this result the
States are permitted certain local inde.
pendcnce and supremacy, subordinate al.
ways to the supreme authority in Con-
gress.- For the laws of the United States
are made supreme-by the Constitution,
any conflicting State law nJtwithstan-
ding.
AT the end of long and fierce war GER
tain States are left without any civil gov
eminent whatever, and they can obtain
one only by the action of the supreme au-
thority in the State. What is that su-
preme authority but the people of the
United States? Is there political au-
thority in the State of North Carolina su.
perior to that of the United State LII
there be, that authority is sovereign in
North Carolina, and the United States is
not. Is that Constitutional doctrine =? Is
It the doctrine expounded by the war?
But if the United States be thus sovereign
n state. does it follow that Congress can
'lect Governor for New York? Not at
III because the United States have
greed upon the conditions urder which
New York shall elect her own local vfi-
ers. But if renouncing these condi-
ions, declaring her independence of the
Jnion, New York takes up arms to main.
ain her separate sovereignty, and is de-
Gated, and by the very act of defeat is
eft without any civil government what
YER, she can acquire one only by the in.
'rvention of the suprame authority, and
pom such conditions as it may impose
'nsonant with its own organic law. 9
This is what Congress is doing; and t
lis it is which Is so iercely assailed as t
attempt at consolidation. 1t is deter q
ming upon what conditions States which
I'VE vainly sought to destroy the Govern
cnt, whose internal social and political
stem has been uprootcd, vast numbers
whose people are capitaliy liable as 0
litors, and are still hostile 10 the Gov. L
nment, shall resume their rights in the o
nlon. 1T is in no other sense danger n
tendency toward consolidation than l
uniform actions of Congress in the ad-
sslon of Territories as States And un- Il
s 1t is asserted, as Alexander H. Ste
ems plainly says. that States have a Il
'ntinnous right" of representation in Il
Dgress, despite their remuneration of it fc
the attempt to enfore the renuncia- n
n by arms, and despite the disappear CT
'e of all valid civil authority within d
III borders, and despite the national le
flare, the cry of Capitalization is a cry V
rely. The common sense of the people Il
the necessity of the case arc against al
Congress proposes to say upon what nj
ms the late rebel States may resume nj
ir full functions as equal States in the ca
ion. Nor has there been as yet any W
'gestion that the necessary functions of &C
tate in the Union should be ABRIDGED til
e power to establish Slavery or polit.
exclusion has been found not to be a
essary function ola State in the Union di
PERMANENT peril to the nation, and in
will be, therefore, forbidden. This to
he kind of Capitalization which the sw
ntry demands for the common safety ra
III the States more than this it Meth. en-
asks nor would tolerate --l2arper's an
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