The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-31
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
SOME CONFEDERATE SECRETS.


(From the ST Louis Globe Democrat)
The last survivor of Jefferson Davis cabinet Hon John
Reagan who has just rallied from illness which at one
time looked serious could if he wanted to- tell strange
tales of the internal troubles which the Confederacy
tered He could make interesting story for example,
about the way the doctrine of secession after the
founded got into operation hit back at the Sc
cessons BY the logic of their position the Conederaes
were compelled leave themselves open the sort of
assault which they dealt against the Federal
ment The preamble OF the Confedeacys constitution after
recne that we the people of the Confederate States, in
setting forth the objects Of that charter departed from the
United States model by inserting the words each State act
ing in its sovereign and independent character in order TO
form etc Here was the State sovereignty doctrine which
advocates had tried read into the United States consti
tuition forth formally and explicitly in the Conederacys
charter BY caamitous consistency, here for the first time
since the world began government framed in which its
consciously and deliberately planted the seeds OF its
own destruction.
Many of the States before Conederacy had been long
existence threatened put the State sovereignty idea
into concrete form by Withdrawing from the government
Governor Joseph E Brown of Georgia for example angered
some the of the Confederate
pension the habeas corpus CONSUMPTION and other things
talked back obusty Jefferson Davis Governor
Claiborne F. jackson Of Missouri Governor Francis W.
Pickens of South Carolina did in April 1867, Abraham
Lincoln Brown in substance told Jefferson Davis that
State had just good right to secede in 1868 from
as eleven had in 1861 from twenty-three And of course
Brown The State in his case, had far
right seced than the eleven had earlier in
enton Of the trainers of the constitution formed Phia-
delphia 787 make perpetual union while none
the who favored the State sovereignty clause
stutiou OF 1861 framed Montgomery were innocent
enough imagine that there approach perpetuy
about charter with such provision that Every
Der Of the Montgomery convention who projected himself
imagination forward year in time must have seen
the dynamite which that State sovereignty clause
The exposmaster general could tell too, about how
of his State occasions read the
riot act the president of the Confederacy That stawart
old patriot Sam Houston, who governor of Texas in
1861 blocked the way of the secessionists time until
they efaced him. but under the Confederacy TeSas had
governor Pendeton Murrah, who rampant secessonis
threatened in 1868 and again 1904 cut loose from the
secessons government Zebulon B. Vance North Caro-
nas threatened in 1868 call out the State
militia to drive Jefferson Davis troops out of the State
William w Holden also secessonst who was governor
OF the State in the reconstruction declared his paper
the Raleigh Progress, around the middle of the war; that eff
North Carolina had the right break off from the Federal
by act of her convention has the relative
right to break off from Mr. Davis government" This sort of
talk was heard of the States of Confederacy at
one time and another although the outside world did not
know OF it Nobody in the loyal States the dark DAYS Of
1868 and 1864 Of the Damoclcan sword which
hung over the head OF the Conederacys president The Sc
cessionists of 1861 did indeed.
Teach
Bloody instructions which being taught return
II plague the inventor.