The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-08-28
BELIEVING IN THE RIGHT OF sEcEs-
SION AND MAINTAINING THE PER-
PETUAL EXISTENCE OF THE UNION.

PETUAL EXISTENCE OF THE UNION
Our heading, incongruous as it is
states the premises upon which stand
the quibbling transcendentalis,s Of the
Democratic school. Their dogma Of
State Sovereignty has been brought by
the blows of civil war into the con dition
Of an exhausted receiver-or q squeezed
orange-yst, for the sake of mere dog
gedness Of opinion, they nurse it and
cherish it as an irretrievably ruined
merchant holds and preserves the mus:y
records of his disaster. Now, while We
cannot withhold some admiration for
that principle in the human breast which
eherishes a love for old associations, we
cannot but regard as . weakness that
stagnant condition of the intellect which
makes men and parties cling to an ex-
ploded creed As against living princi-
pie, and which prefers dead and buried
theory to something which il active and
applicable.
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia,
whom We regard IS the subtlest political
hypocrite and the most insidious and
plausible Of the Southern traitors, has
written . book which he chooses to
entitle !" The War between the States"
thus ignoring, in the very title of the
volume, tho existence, as a self,asser-
tive power, of the National entity. This
book has come into the possession Of
the State Capital Reporter, the Copper
head organ at Sacramento and that
paper proceeds, in very mild and gin
gerly way to review the same. The
reader who remembers that Alexander
H. Stephens is the author Of the une-
q,iEocal averment that the Confederacy
was to be a nation whose cornerstone
should be African slavery, and that be
occupied the position of Vice President
of that defunct affair, will be amused at
the following reference to him b. the
Reporter. Says that paper:
The long and eminent services of the au-
thor, his great ability, strong attachment to |
the Union, his honesty of purpose and un-
suliied character give great interest to the
work, and will make it standard book of
reference for all time.
"Strong attachment to the Union
aud "his honesty of purpose" are where
tee laugh comes in. But the Reporter
has reutured upon better thing, even,
than that. /. says:
All students of our politics and Of our his
tory will read the book and discuss its merits.
II it should convince the reader Of the right
VI secession, it will not induce him to carry
the doctrine into practice, but it will point to
him the duty of maintaining the sovereignty
Vi the States as against the consolidation of
power in a central government. In this it is
most useful, and is a valuable acquisition to
the literature of the United States.
This last sentence will do to read over
carefully. 1t takes some study to enable
suo to understand it. We have been
giving it puzziing investigation and
We arrive, troubled and uncertain, at a
conclusion which we shall attempt to
.Iucidate as follows: elf it should
convince the reader of the right of Sc
session" las it is Intended to do) it will
make him look upol the Lost Cause"
. something which was unconstitution-
iiy assaulted by Lincoln and bis hire
aga, but cit will not induce him 10