Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-05-04
Considerably Mixed I'm.

The gallant little Confederacy, with its splen-
did chivalry of boys in soiled gray, went UP. :
And everybody said Nov you see-you can't
break the Union--Secession is vile heresy-
Long live the Union - We said-''Yes, we
see it. . There was another continental burst OF
patriotic music, and they played Yankee
Doodle in all our Southern theatres. Not a
we were in deed and in truth very United
States. sg0
That was about four years ago, and how do
matters stand now? With reckless disregard
of appearances these four years have been spent
by the same victorious Union asserters in keep
ing the Seeding States out Of the Union-in
wriggliDg and twisting to make out that the
bond of union was snapped-in establishing
that the fundamental law of the Union lay not
merely in the constitution, but in the Constitu-
ton and in WARM giving to eleven States Of
the aforesaid indestructible Union the imprint
of territories-in governing them as military
districts number l, 2 8, 4 and Sin excluding
them from the National Councils-in stamping
into the ground every yestige of all that consti-
tuted them States-in recognizing from turret
to foundation-stone their social forms-in
Erlnlzlng. and Polandizing such realm as the
Old Dominion so much for the indestructi-
bility Of the Union.
The practical effect Of this new theory pres
ents curious result. First, We still have the
United States-but where the lines desperation
between the States and the Territory of the
Union would be run, should some inquisitiye
geographer undertake to construct a map,
would depend on the complexion Of his politics,
and even his politics assured, would be still as
undetermined as the mind of the Supreme
Court. Firstly, if the man was one Of the con-
tributors to the Ants- Slavery STANDARD, he
would roho t,l7 bauo III
of Kentucky and Maryland. 1t would be gen.
orally allowed, we suppose, that some of the
Southern States had gotten in. Tennessee, for
example. Alabama, we presume, would be
claimed, although she rejected the terms on
which she was invited to decide for herself
whether she would come In or not Arkansas,
many think, rejected also her constitution, but,
we suppose, she is In per .fds AIT mefds Geor-
gla IS suspended between Union and Secession
in mid-air, like Mahomet' coffin, and her Sena-
torsrefused their seats. South Carolina has few
representatives In Congress, portion of them
being still excluded. Louisiana elected dele
cation to Congress, but has not representative
in either house Mississippi is clean out Texas
is like wild ass-still at large. West Virgin
ia is very questionable State Virginia has
been in and out several times-in, when she
seeded, according to the Lincoln doctrine; out
after. her surrender, according to the Stevens
doctrine In, under the Alexandria government,
according to the 37th Congress; out, despite
the Alexandria government, according to the
Reconstruction acts-and out, according to Gen
eral Webb, now
To render confusion worse confounded, the
Supreme court, in the Texas case have just de-
cided that all Of the States are in, have never
been out, and can't get out! We start up with
the cry: Are We in the Union or out of it p
Do we belong to Congress? or the Supreme
court? or the Constitution? or are we merged
in the War-making Power?
Il run the gauntlet Of file of doubts,
Each one Of which down hurls me to the ground
Rich. Enquirer