Year: 1863

ing to commit ourselves to all his views, but


at the same time withoutintending to com


bat them. we have only to say that we shall


cordially welcome him to our columns


whenever it may please him to embellish


them with his communications, assured that


they will be read with interest and profit


even by those who may not adopt all the
! ar.te For the Bulletin.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,


rights common to humanity, cannot be se-


cure to any in state of society, without


danger of encroachment; hence the necessity


of mutual assistance; to this end covenants


for protection and consequent submission


have been entered into and improved as
man advanced in civilization. These cove


nants. called government ara as variant in


structure as the exigencies Of society have
required changes to ameliorate evils arising


from existing defects or violent infractious


ofthese covenants. Our Saxon and Norman


ancestors have handed down to us much


experience in what we term constitutional
government. Thus we have been for ages
approaching the point of pure liberty; the
intelligent have learned that the higher the
order of intellectual Improvement the com
munity attains, the more closely that COM
munity can approximate this point: This
marks the wide difference between civilized
and savage condition, salutary government
aud anarchy, though anarchy is not always
coupled with the savage condition. for it
sometimes springs up like a rank weed in
high faction in the civilized state, OUT
topping every other growth; the strongest
feature marking this condition is the exer-
else of might without right,-strsnge to say
we are in it. Why is this? Because those
chosen to rule US, have disre garded the most
essential provision of our constitution. The
machinery of this government is made up
of three distinct departments, legislative,
executive, judiciary; of these the latter is
the regulator that like the scapement of
clock, causes the machine to move steadily
and without which the whole must run wild
and the wilder will it run in proportion to
the increase of the money power. We are
in war about the rights of half savage race,
which the high disposer Of human events
had placed under our jurisdiction, in pure
ly savage condition, to learn civilization
They have been in this condition of pupil
age, DOW, about two hundred years; the
Caucasian race has been ten times as long
aud have not yet learned all they ought to
know. This wal Is a controversy between
States, or controversy to which the United
States are party. This war is waged by two
departmeuts of the government, against a
norton of its own members, without the
concurrence of the third department. Let
us look into our form of government and
see what our fathers directed: In the arti-
cles of confederation, under which indepen-
dence was established, article ninth provides
for the arbitration of controversies between
two or more States, ''concerRing any cause
,Uhatever." This was government simply
legislative, without executive or Judiciary
instituted by the States to provide principal
ly for the exigencies of wsr. After the es-
tablishmeut of independence, it was found
inadeosate to commercial and financial pur-
poses, and the present constitution was en-
acted by the States as an mendment or
substitute. In this amendment the most
prominent feature is, the establishment OF
the judiciary, to which was transferred the
iurisdictio over "controversies beti0een ttOo or
Dzore States" Jurisdiction was also given
this branch of the government, over con-
troyersies to which the +" United States should
Be a party" Each State retained its sover-
eighty within its own sphere, comprehend
ing all its domestic affairs, each having
Republican form of government secured to
her with the power of euactiug and execu-
ting laws. 1t was manifest to the fathers
of the constitution, that shese State powers
and those of the general government would
sometimes interfere, each with the other;
hence this wise provision in the judiciary
department No power is any where given
to the President. or Congress, or both, to
make war upon State for any legislative
or other sovereign act, without the sanction
Of the Supreme Federal Court. 1t is the
Presidents duty to "tats cars the la'0s are


fa;tafully erecuted;;'' but he is not made the
Judge of the laws. Legislation of Sovereign


States must always be supposed right, until


the contrary is judicially declared; and for