Year: 1863

ssy There is right way and a wrong
way. The wrong is conflicting continu-
ally with mans best interest All judi
cious, honest and loyal men desire to
know the right way, and be therein, for
it is way of safety and of peace. There
is principle composed of these four
numbers: Justice, truth, love and wis
dom, which is the most extensive of any
now known; it is known as the principle
of righteousness. 1t is guide to our
path, and light to our feet The whole
history of life should be wound up with.
in its limits. There are other attitudes
that don't belong to man, that never
bring comfort, nor any genial iphuen ce
to the human breast, they are strife,
dreary, turbulent, tumultuous and dis.
tracing to the soul Love is not found
there. Truth don't dwell there. Justice
is not there, and wisdom is an entire
stranger. The above named principle
will not admit Of any change, or revision.
1t is full and complete without more, and
anything less would render it imperfect
and incomplete. This principle is the
foundation of all well regulated govern
( ments. There is no assurance to any
I government, OF peace, prosperity or per-
petulty on any other principle. The
American government is founded on this
principle. 1t guarantees its privileges
and its blessings to all its subjects, OF


whatever age, rank or profession There
is no power in the government but what
belongs to the whole body. The forming
and regulating Of all such governments is
belong to the civil power. The people
or their chosen representatives. is the
civil power. The military power is
creature of the civil power, created by
it, for the protection of the civil power,
and the country. The military power
has no right to do wy, or make null
and void the acts of the civil power, but
has right to suspend the action of the
eiyu p0ger.-if-need be. during their On
ing the government and country, until
that salvation is secured. This is the
law of all civilized and enlightened ma
tions-all agree to this Necessity, from
which there is no turning, makes it so;
and the exigency Of things place it above
all civil law and civil power, even above
the Constitution of the United States
And there it must remain aud maintain
its right until country and government
are secured. Then again it becomes
subject to the civil power. All govern
meuts not founded on this principle may
soon be convulsed and torn to pieces, and
finally destroyed. When this princi pie
is not respected, and men do not regard
its wholesome and just claims, the most
disastrous and destructive consequences
ensue. In case of the infuriated confed-
eracy and their sympathizers, they don't
claim this principle to be their founda-
tion-they have other foundation; they
claim the negro to be their only founda-
tion. And though the negro is esteem
ed not able to have any part in the max.
ing of the government, nor in its admin
istration, yet he is the only foundation.
The negro is estimated by them to be
capable of but little, and scarcely to be
classed as man, yet their manners, re-
spectability, science, literature, educa.
tion, moral and judicial, is on this foun.
dation. And it is hard to tell where else
they will find a foundation for Ignorance,
superstition, rebellion and traitorism but
the negro, though the negro never was
traitor or rebel. But query: How
did they get their foundation? Did God
ever relinquish his right to the negro,
ard confer it on them; or did the negro
ever barter, sell or coovey his right to
liberty and self.possession? Not all the
exchange that has ever been made for
the negro could ever secure the right of
one negro to them. The confederate
doctrine is also with its sympathizers-
that the whole administration be chang.
ed, aud the rights, power and interests of
thirty millions of people be placed upon
some less than four millions of negro
slaves. Christianity, too, must be fet-
tered, receive the secesh caste, be stamp
ed, and made subject to the bidding of
the Shareholder. And with this fearful
assurance Of things, will Northern men
sympathize and sign their own death
warrant. Our property would soon have
other claimants, and life would be no