The daily morning oasis., 1918-03-13

the most limited to the general government and
planted in the federal government at the beginning the
of dissolution which sprouted and grew to
American development that prooed only by the harrow of
strife He doubted the power of the Chief Executive to
compsh the Louisiana purchase without change the Cons
tuton yet the purchase trusting securing after the
event amendment to the fundamental law which he got
To Settle the growing contention slavery the Con-
which admitted Maine and Missouri 1921 adopted he
Missouri Compromise under the terms of which all the country
north of SO deg 30 mn slavery
The implication that slavery might exist south of that ne
taken and accepted Yet sixteen later the
anavery people Congress repealed that compromise
and the Republican party the issue that
there should be further extension of slavery.
the Constitution of the United States adopted the
large Substantially New York and Vrgnawere dubious
about rang the proposed instrument They feared the
gession of the smaller states combining against them 1t is
whether the two states named would have entered the
federation had not Alexander Hamilton in New York. and
George Washington Virginia the conventions which
elected to pass upon the question of ratification that those
found themselves mistreated by the general government
thy might withdraw from the federatonan assertion of the
secession which threequaer of century later
lcombatted successfully by the force of arms.
But what's the of multiplying such instances? The
books are full Mr. Hards article nothing and
read him and approve have another guess coming
The man of action The job hand to
crush kaisem there time to waste in listening to
reading such ucubraons that of Mr. Hard It cannot be
permitted.
During the Civil War like Mr. Hard who insisted upon
recounng inconsistencies of history set to packing
sand in construction of Notifications at Acaaz Island at the
inlet of the Golden Francisco harbo
fined in Fort Boston Harbor In such times those
Civil War; and these confronting such fellows as
William Hard Clement L. Vaandgham Henry Clay Dean ct a
are "a peent BROOD and they have be suppressed while
repeat their mobbed and destroyed
That was what happened Civil War; apt to happen
now
another angle at which to view these things
may that the great American republic forces unwilling
people mes they did in the Civil War; when eleven great
states sought oose and they doing the Philip
pines Rco they plant therein the seeds of demo-
institutions that into the development of sefgove
ing communities all parts of the Great Republic and that even
tay advantages of the American federation will become
apparent other republics the American continent will be
seeking admission into the galaxy of American states under the
protecting aegis of American Constitution.
&c. then gentle reader of "The Oass whenever anyone
reads to you with concealed gee such articles that by Mr.
William in the Metropolitan Magazine just put down in
your that person sympahizer with Germany in this
kind treated during the Civil War; Tell them the
of democracy to be mpeded by criticisms and
political inconsistency nsncey "for
progress of people nation not like that Of man
wakng-uprght straightforward but it like the sinuou
and devious way of serpent the rocks"