Year: 1863




gress and at the White House


are striving TO Do.


The Washington City Republican,


an Administration organ, in an article


on the Emancipation, says:


"Tbat lullaby of knaves and fools,


THE UNION AS IT WAS, has outraged
the common sense of the country long
enough. The Union as it was is bu-
ried in grave from which there is no
resurrection. No Union is now possi-
BILE, except of free States"


We like the plain speaking of the
Republican. We agree with it that
the Union as it was is buried in a
grave from which there is no resurrec-
tion. Radical Abolitionism consigned
it there, and threw the "clods of the
valley" upon it, Lincoln, with spade in
hand, acting as sexton. Meth
er he nor they have any tears to
shed over it; nor will they plant a
flower ON the grave where it is buried,
as memento Of their affection for the
departed. They murdered the Union
and have buried it, and are now seek
ing to construct new one, better fitted
to their tastes than the old one. "No
Union" we are told, sis now possible
except of free States


1t WAS that we might have a Union
of none but free Stetcs that this war
was begun, has been and is being pros
ecutcd by the Administration. Con-
gress and the Executive seem to have
combined to make reunion between
the free and slave States impossible.
We need not recount the various acts
of these two Departments of the Gov>
ernmcnt pointing in that direction.
They are familiar to every one. One
half their object has been accomplish
ed! the Union has been ovprthrown.
Shall they be permitted in their own
way to construct new one? Are "We
the People" to have no hand in the
work? Is it to be done under "a mil
itary necessity" or under the ''war
power" of the Constitution?


Weprotestagainst any such assump-
tion of power on the part of Congress
and the Executive, or either. If a new
Union is to be formed, and we suppose
that has become necessity by the de-
struction Of the old one, the example
of the Fathers of the Republic must be
followed. Each State inhst act as a
sovereign and independent body, and
meet it's co,soSereign and co-indepen-
dent States in convention "to form
more perfect Union" ltmust be done
by independent, separate State action,
as was the case when the Confedera-
ton was abandoned, and more perfect
Union formed. The States should not
permit Congress and the Executive to
make for them a new Union--to de-
eide what shall be its character. The
assumption on the part of the RepHb-
Hcan, as we'll as on the part of the
Abolitionists in Congress and the
White House, to form new Union, of
a character different from the old one,
without the consent of the States, will
never be submitted to by the people.
Nor should it be submitted TO. 1t is
a violation of the great fundamental
principle upon which all free govern
ment rests-the right of the people
themselves to institute new govern
rhent, laying its foundations on such
principles, and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety and
happiness And, yet, we find the
Abolition leaders endeavorihg to over
ride that sacred right by attempting
to form new government without the
consent of the people Of the respective
States. 1t is an impudent assumption
of power that demands the indignant
rebuke Of the people. - Enq.