The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-23
TUESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1900.
SOME TYPICAL NORTHERN NON
SENSE.

Last Sundays New York World has an
editorial article upon ..ti1e consent of the
governed" which begins thus:
II there is anything fundamental and
distinctive in the American system of re-
publican government it is the truth de-
clared to be .self-evident'-that govern
1nents derive their just powers from the
consent OF the governed.
In attempted palIiation Of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's war in the Philippines certain Of
his supporters cite the suppression OF the
southern rebellion. the Louisiana purchase
and our dealings with the native Indians
TO prove that there are exceptions TO this
principle.
The analogies do not fit. The people of
the Southern States gave their unrevok-
able consent to government within and
by the Union when they applied for and
obtained admission to that indestructible
Union
And men who know no more Of our
institutions and their history than this
writer knows. set up with great opinions
of themselves TO teach the people of the
United States their duties as citizens and
their relations to their government We
would like for this wiseacre TO tell us
when Virginia or North Carolina, or
South Carolina or Georgia applied for
and obtained admission to the Union?
They were free and independent sovereigns
when the Union was formed, except as
they had surrendered trifing parts of
their sovereignty by the old articles of
confederation, which really amounted to
nothing. and they made no application
to any one for admission to the Union.
The people Of all the States thought their
good would be promoted il they formed
q closer Union. so they sent represent
atires to Philadelphia to confer together
as the representatives of free and sover-
eign States, with a view to seeing whether
any terms could be agreed upon that
would form g closer Union of sovereign
States When their Representatives had
reported their plan for closer Union Of
sovereign States. each State took the plan
under consideration, and the people of
each State determined for themselves that
they would enter with the new Union
upon the terms of that plan. it being dis
iinctly understood, however, that they re-
served the right to withdraw from that
Union whenever the members of it pro-
duced such a state of things as made
further membership for any one State in
tolerabie. There was no applications by
any Stale for membership OF a Union al
ready in existence. All the existing States
met together, by common consent, and
resolved that they would set up and es-
tablish closer Union witt the most lin
it.d power and authority SO far as the
subjects over which it was to have juris-
diction were concerned. Those are the
facts and all the clatrer and clanaor about
Southern rebellion. - treason and de
ser,ion'' by ignorant penny-a-hners or in
terestea demagogues can never change
these facts by one jot or one little. 1t
is by this sort of Misrepresentation of the
facts of our history that the writer's for
the Northern press continue to parade
the South before the world as rebels and
traitors. L is time thar all this nonsense
were ended. There was no treason or
rebellion whatever in the secession of the
Southern States. They exercised a plain
and indnbitable right in seeding from
the Union. and the North made an UNI
just, cruel and nnjustiaable war of con
quest upon them The North was sue
cessfnl in that war. and surely its sue
cess ought to be sufficient qualification
10 It. IT Is weak and contemplate in it
10 try and perrent history. to gloss over
its wan:ons and unjus;iaabie invasion of
The home OF a people that asked nothing
OF them but that they should be left alone.
Let the North leave us alone now and
We VIII IN time work out of the labyrinth
OF misfortnnes that it created for us, and
the South viii become the most orderly
and conservative part Of this Union
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DEATH OF s,ss. SHERMAN.
The death Of John Sherman closes a long
aud distinguished political career Mr..
Shcsznan was elected {. member Of the
Ik fourth cmSrsH and vas almost