Year: 1863

The New York Express forcibly meets the
Abolition doctrine of the oblitera,ion of State
lines, and carries out the idea logically. indeed,
but to an extreme that would hardly be palatable
to the most rampant Yankee advocate of the ex-
punging process. When the New England
States are made to see clearly whittier their new
idea must lead, if made practical, we shall have
all Yankeedom eloquent in defense snd advocacy
Of sstbe accused doctrine of States rights" and
denouncing as reasonable the ideas they are now
so hotly enforcing. 1t would not be the first
time that these self-constituted "schoolmasters
of the nation" have turned squarely round and
buffeted their own teachings


We copy from the Express of Thursday even
ing:


STATE ASNIHILATIoS, ETc.-From Massachu-
sets. we hear with more patience than from else
where, this new doctrine of State suicde-State
annihilation-because, if anywhere in the Union,
States ought to be stricken out and territorial
lied in order to be re-stated t is In Massachusetts
There ought to be but one State in New Eng
land-not Eve, with ten Senators in Congress
that State the State of New England; be-
cause two Senators in all, democraticaly or re-
publicanally speaking, New England is entitled
to by its population. All Rhode Island is not as
populous part of New York that u man can
walk over in ten minutes.


Hence. when we hear that Major General But
Ier has taken the field in Massachusetts, to
preach State suicide, we are not discomposed
The State League of Massachusetts has elected
it seems, this Gen. Butler, and Mr.. Claffin of
Newton, delegates at large TO the National Union
League, which meets at Washington in Decem-
Der. Delegates from each Congressional District
were also chosen.


Gen. Butler being thus chosen, addressed the
meeting choosing him ct length, taking ground
with those who believed that the seeded States
have annihilated themselves as States, while the
power of the General Government still remains
intact over their territory. He opposed the po
sition of member of the Cabinet, that the rebel
Commonwealths, by throwing down their arms,
should be received into the Union with unimpair-
ed rights, with their old local institutions His
reasons for debating terms before allowing the
incorporation into the Union of these heretofore
hostile sections, spring from considerations vital
ly affecting the interests and safety of the nation
If the Confederate States re admitted, and
their Representatives take their seats in Congress
before some radical change is effected, what
guaranty is there that the Federal national debt
will not be repudiated, or made to stand upon the
alternative that the Confederate debt must like
wise he paid? Let this question come before
Congress, aud all the appliances of corruption
would be set in motion to secure such decision
as would place the Federal and rebel Indebtedness
upon the same footing Gen Butler contended
that the rebel States must be regarded destroy
ed. or it would be almost impossible to choose
another President, for the reason that no candi-
date likely 20 be selected would receive such a
support in the North as to give him majority of
the whole Electoral College. constituted of all
the States, both loyal and rebel Transfer the
question to the House of Representatives, where
each Commonwealth casts only one vote, and
majority of such votes is required, and the diff
Guilty will be greatly increased. The policy of
safety and Justice was to restore the Union in the
South only as fast as the principles of freedom
and loyalty are exercised over the now rebel do
main.


Well Well Let US begin again de nOuo-
thus