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4 CASE OF CONvEparpr1

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II there bo III nil tliy world mn o,4;+v y,
'nsut'eton needing conversion to good nrin.
ciplos and good morals, It is d mor,,;no ;our.
mi of this city, once tho organ of tl,a no,, 1
oofa,,o party and Of tho Rebellion, ut present
"What-is-it ~ but claiming to bo n ronro
sentative of independent journalism T,ur
TRIBUNE has already mndo.some headwov Il,
bringing about reformation in tho prino;-
fles, II not in tho morals, of this nontleuori,,t
saeot. We had, in a recent ISSUE Of Tur
tribune, mndo certain remarks on the cbor-
actor and nnture Of our Government Theae
remarks wero not to tho taste of tho whi,om
organ, OF what is now called by it Is putrid
fem'nlsoonoe." We wore charged with claiu-
ing that the United States is a nation
nation in an unqualified scnHo,-as much n
nation as france, Germany, or Great Drita;n
No, answered tho nondcscript, tive are not
anation; we are both anation md confedero.
cy." To say TINT we are not both nation
ind confodoracy is pregnant with ercat evil,
IL IL leaning towards Capitalization" We ro-
pllod that the principle TINT wo were, iu anv
ssnse, n confeaeracy, justified secession on
condition broken Of tho compact or CONTRACT
on which the confedcracy was based. Where
upon tho morning What-is.it ?" 1nnhcs
answer in substance as follows: nYon fo,.
SHY; l never aaid we were a confedoracv in
any sonse' We are not a confeleracy at all.
"e arc nation, pure aud simple. always
sud we were nation. Don't know TINT. if
wero to maintain that this country is con-
1ederacy in any sense whatever, should bo
maintaining the right of secession on condi.
ton broken never said we were ron.
tederacy." 1t is instructive to quote the prc-
ciso words of tho short but doeigive
controversy. says the Times, Nov. "a; "Tho
1sases, no more satisfied with tho haf-told truth
OF tho socessionists than with the half-told
truth Of the contralist, rejects the conclusions
OF both; md, bringing out the whole truth.
aif1rms the true theory Of the Constitution to
10, that VIC are both nation and a confei-
eracy OF States; in some things re aro ua-
tlonnl and not State or foderstive in nl1
others wo arc State or federative, aud not
Says The TRIBUNE in reply, Nov.
~: "Both c1aims arc in tho wrong accord.
ing to tho Times for it informs US tbe
United States is both Il nation and q confea-
eracy We take issue with it just there
The United States is a nation, in
no sonso confoderacy. On tho SUPPOSE
ton that VIC are, in any sense, confoderacy.
'ho door is left open for notification or
secession Oh the ground thnt Tho terms of
'ho compact on which the confederacy was
'asad have beon disregarded. The right Of
secession, on condition broken, is insopara-
>la from o confederacy."
And the Times, Nov. 27: ITO recite even
small part of the overwhelming mass
It evidence which our history has pro-
Lueed, showing that We are nation, and
lot in any sonse confederacy of nations,
would require volume" A copfederacy Of
ations ls precisely the same as confci1oracy
States, since confedoracy Gun bo formed
MY by tho contract sovereign parties, and
tate and nation, when sovereign bodies.
lean precisely the same thing.
Now here is a genuine case of conversion.
he quondam organ of the "putrid reminis-
ence " is made q prosolyte to good Republic
u principles, and leans rs much towards
0ntralization as do We. We could only wish
Int 1t might porsevore twenty-four hours in
1880 good principles. If it believes in them,
hy does it not, instead Of wasting its energy
no purpose, turn aboutand advocate them ?
he atlheronts Of the "putrid "reminiscences F"
i'll read its columns, and it certainly can do
better than endeavor to e1egate them to
least the moral level which it has reaohad {
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