The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-08

Taking advantage Of the Constitu-
ton, the people of the North asserted
and maintained the doctrine Of State
sovereignty, ~ no Southern State ever
had the courage to do.
Massachusetts. Michigan, Wisconsin
and other Northern States defIed and
successfully resisted the United States
Government, In its ridiculous and false
claim to supreme sovereignty over the
States, % they had right to do under
the Constitution.
They de6ed the so-caa1od Nation,
and made it . crime against the sover-
eign States to aid in the enforcement
of the odious fugitive slave law.
They had q right to do %, for then
this republic was . league, not . ma
tiOn-a United States, net State.
But this browning act Of infamy
by the slave-h0lding Barons of the
South kindled the fires of q revolution
destined to sweep them and their insti-
tuti0ns from the continent.
The North rose in its majesty, pur-
ged the halls of Congress Of their
slave-holding and doughface MAORI
ties,
Placed Lincoln in the Presidential
chair, and, inscribing Freedom ON its
banners, swOre by the eternal gods
that this great republic is a nation,
that liberty is national, and that any
State that dared to resist by virtue Of
any pretended sovereignty. should be
cOerced.
This was not constitutional, it il true,
but revolutions are the higher law, to
which all constitutions are sub0rdina-
tod.
And the advent of Lincoln to the
Chief Magistracy was the elimination
Of the peaceful part of the revolution.
Up till that time State sovereignty
was q sectional shuttle-cock, tossed
fr0m State to State and from section to
section, as party and political exigen-
cies required.
Eleven sovereign States resumed
their sovereignty and detached them
selves from the United States but it
was then too late.
The election of Lincoln was . politi-
cal revolution, whose very essence was
the transforming of the United States
into q nation.
The eleven States refused to concur
in the revolution.
But revolutions never 90 backward.
And blood seems to be a. necessary
to Iegalize revolutions 40 preachers
tell US it is needed for the souls salva-
ton. Enough.
The doctrine Of the revolutionists
was indorsed by the god of battles,
and those who had dared to resist
them we're rebels and traitors.
The United States ceased to exist.
The constitution, which had been
suspended during the cruel test of war,
was patched up and by y pretty little
fiction restored.
But the doctrine that this republic is
nation, having q National Legisla-
ture, whose authority is supreme, was
established in the North, where the
revolution originated.
That is, the North recognized it -
an ABSTRACT proposition.
But the South, the barbaric South,
equally incapable of progress or the
comprehension of fact-still exists.
And with reason.
The North has contsnted itself with
asserting and accepting the PROPOSE
ton as an abstract truth.
And vociferates fiercely inspolitical
platforms and Fourth of July orations
about this being nation, not league.
But 1t has not the courage to embOdy
thekprop0sitiou into the concrete. form
of legislation.
h yells and screams and sings and
shouts about the Nation. but it recOils
from concentrating it, Thought.
No weakness now, DAnt0n. The
name United States must Be changed
to q name that expresses unity.
A State is body polite with the
attribute Of sovereignty.
United States are necessarily CO.
partnership of equal members.
No union between equals can con.
tinue longer than the equal partners
are willing to remain.
This republic IL no longer = confed-
Grafton OF States, but q nation.
And NO State can withdraw, for the
potent reas0u that there il now only
one State-THE NATION!
The name United States perpetuates
the hallucination that there are still
separate States.
It is q treason breeding, sedition-
generating, State-sOvereignty imply
ing. insurrection- provoking, rebellion
melting, rebel Brgadier-in Congress
iustifying title, aud ought to be retired
to the anti-revolutionary period.
There now! Jump mp, o, sentimen-
tai swash- bucklers. Tear yOur hair
and vomit wind, wind, wind.
And roar in words Of sixteen sylla-
bles that 1--WE will never, no never,
change that glorious historic patro-
nymic."
Bosh!
II was lust zach fools a. y0u that