Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-05

Hill, is credited by the public press with de-
clarng that among the prime motives Tor chang
lug tie constitution Of Georgia is to strike from
its pages toe assertion that tho late war was
rebellion, and fulther, TO erase and annui that
maiestic uttcrauca contained in the thirty third
section OF The declaration OF fundamental prln'
cipes," which expresses more true patriotism
than was ever before proclaimed on the SOIL or
Georgia. It is ia these memorable words:
The State of Georgia shall forever remain a
member Of the American Unloo; the people
thereof are part Of the American nation; every
citizen thereof owes paramount allegiance TO
the constitution aud government OF the United
States, and no law or ordinance Of this State in
conraveDlion or subVersIop thereof shall ever
have any binding force.
Mr.. Hill is reported as saying that this pa
ttiolic provision should be struck from the or
ganic law of Georgia, and he concluded his
speech BY assuring his hearers that the tull
| powcr Of the South is just dawnlDg, and that
the day in not far distant when it will control
the government of the Union. -,
Ia view Of these significant facts. and still
moro significant tendencies 10 the Southern
psrt Of our country, ask men of all parties here
assembled to day On The sell of Connecticut II
they think it wise to provide DOW by the acqul--
siiion Of Mexican territory for the creation OF
additional States holding these views OF the ma.
iionaI government, as inevitably they would
hold them by reason Of proximity OF location,
and l;7 the character and creed of the men who
would naturally nhablt aud control them. 10
the States north Of certain lice Il countless
majority Of the people Of all parties believe
their paramount allegiance to be due 10 the
government Of the Uuted States, so that con.
tiict between northern State aud the United
States is practically Impossible.
LIZ u majority Of the States south OF the same
iine the great mass Of those who term them
selves the governing class belleVeln al allegiance
| to their respective local governments superior
to that which they owe 10 the government o.
| the Union. It is the same hcrcsy that hurried
tens Of thousands OF brave and honorable mca
into conflict with the government in 1861
A5d now sixteen years having elapsed with
;hGir irishtIu! record Of war aud OF blood, o.
cru:Ily and of carnage, the tragedy ends III one
;mporlaat asncct Just where it began with The
met who rrecipilntrd the conflict, in solid pow
er from Maryland to Mcxico. resolute in pur
pos and holding with tcnacity the creed tha
! upicray the lcbelli0n--a creed that Is utterly
irrcc ynciiabc with lasting devotion to tht
union Of the Stlt"s. do not have the slight
est doubt thai these views arc honestly held bl
th0s: who avow them; they are proclaimed b5
able men with the force and skill, not Indeed o
logic, but of a sophislry which deceives the un
wary aid sometimes entraps even the watchiul
There can be go doubt, think. that al over
whcIlnlng ui1j yrity Of the people Of the country
and especially Of The North, are hostile to fur
Their auncx .lion Of Southern territory.
believe hat Southern control 10 the gov
crnmcut of the Union ia the worst possible re
suit even for the South itself. believe tina
il is meuaciue aud dangerous to every loteres
10 the land / believe that the men who il
battle and 10 council saved the Union SHOULD
govern it. believe that the men who for year
sought the lie Of the Union should not be en-
trusted with lis supreme control belleV
that the hcresy Of the ctizeu's primary allegl
aGce being due to his State heresy which
has already wrought So much misery and shet
SO much innocent blood, should be coufned t
the States that cherish il, aud not permitted t
Install itself in the government Of the nalloD
aad finally believe that any policy which COO
templates, or by any possibility involves the 40
nexalion OF Mexican territory, or any other adj
dlion to the disturbed elements Of the South
is at war with The highest interests Of ever!
American cilzcn, Of the generation that now is
and CT the countless generations that in thu
providence Of God shall succeed to Our prouC
title and to its continually widening re
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