Facts for the People (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Facts for the People The existence of such a right can not be conceded, although claimed, and perhaps, honestly believed to exist, by those who inaugurated the late rebellion. The admission, of such authority in a State, under our form of government, would involve all who sustained the Federal Government in the late fearful struggle in the wicked position of lending their aid to coerce and crush down a whole people for asserting a constitutional right. This would be pure despotism. Then, laying aside and keeping out of view, any question as to the provocations, or from what section they came, which resulted in the adoption of those ordinances of secession, we must assume that the insurrectionary States by such enactments, were in the wrong; and the Federal government in the right, in disregarding the same. It surely follows that if the Southern people were legally wrong, in their efforts, these ordinances were mere nullifies, and in law said States were still members of the Union, although in fact the exercise of their rights, as such members were for the time being interrupted by force of arms. When the military power thus interposed was broken down by the forces of the United States, the States and the people were left to resume their practical relations in the Union - relations that had been thus interrupted by military array. It would seem to follow as a logical result, based upon the assumption that we were right - that the Confederate government was a usurpation, and their military array a crime. This usurpation and crime having been overcome, the Constitution, by virtue of its inherent powers, was reestablished over the whole country lately in re volt, and the Union was, at that instant, in law, restored and as a fact would be fully restored - and as the United States government could re-establish the civil authority thereof within the revolted States. How can it be said, then, that any condition can be imposed, by those in authority, to enable that people and those States to resume their civil relations in the Union as a practical fact; when legally they were never out of the Union? If our premises are correct, the conclusion is inevitably that no conditions could be rightfully required. And if the practical restoration of the Union, by requiting the acceptance of illegal conditions, is prevented, those requiring such conditions are disunionists; for they will stand in the attitude of preventing a re-union in fact, and will be as much to blame for results as if they had severed the Union in the first instance. To illustrate: Suppose Smith should break the leg of White, he might be greatly to blame; but Dr. Johnson being called in, should prescribe so effectually that, with the nursing and assistance of Smith, who is repentant, the healing and knitting process should be going on beautifully and without much pain; but Dr. Sumner is not satisfied with the system of practice of Dr. Johnson, and insists that certain foreign substances, such as a tooth, or a finger nail, or a lock of wool off a negro, shall be put, and kept between the knitting, re-uniting bones, ligaments and muscles. How can they, then, re-unite, heal, and become strong And if they do not. who is to blame? Smith originally; but Dr. Sumner eventually. Smith perpetrated the injury; Dr. Sumner will not permit the healing process to go forward, as it would by the laws of nature, if let alone. So, if those meddlers and quacks who insist upon thrusting in unnatural laws and conditions, will stand aside, and let the knitting process of social and commercial intercourse, between the people of the sections, have its course, a re-uniting, in fact, of the parts will speedily follow. But it may be said: conditions were required of, and accepted by, the people of the revolted States, before they would be heard on the question of restoration; and as one condition was so required, why not others? We an
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