Subverting The Constitution

The secessionists have repudiated tlio Constitution nnd all nllegiance to the governmcnt existing under it, have estnbüshed a separate governinent, and aro waging a war to niiiintairi it. There can bo no doubt ns to their meaning, ncting either individual!}-, as States, or as "Confedorate States." They have taken position. befo re tho world, nnd are at least entitlöd to tho credit of frankness. Bot, in the Union, and pmfessctlhj acknowledging nllegiaoce to the government which derivos tu ezisteoco írom the Constitution, nnd wbiob has no rightful existence without or bevond that instrument, are a class oí men who are as certainly endeavoring to Biibvert tho Constitution as are the governments of the eeeeded or Confedérate States or tho Confedérate armies in the field. And these Union-subvcr sionista would necorripüsh their purposo by tho adoption of BUch resol ut ions as those recenlly introduced into the Seríate by Ciiarlks BdSTNEK, for which see first page oí this day'e issue. We take t that tho States, at least all tho original ones, were at one linie Colonies, independent oí cach other, having no assoeiate goveiTiment, and owing no allegianco save to Great Britain, Wo tako it, also, that these Colonies or States were brougbt togetlierby the old articles of Confcderation, that tha Constitution of tho United States is the succe#sor of those articles, and that whatover power the Federal Government exercises or can exercisc over Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and so through the list of seceded States, it derives írom the Constitution and (rom no other source. The Constitulion is the law of Congrcss, and Congrcss lias no single power nol givcn it by the Constilulicn. The Constitution created or at least perpetuated the Union, and it gives Congress the power to admit now States to bo created out of the coramon territory, or out of other States with their consent, but in no artiole, no section, no clause, either by direct or indirect construction, does it confer upon Congress the power to destroy States and remand thein back to a Colonial or Territorial condition ' No State has a right to tecede, noither has Congress a right to (Jeprive a single State, however recreant it may have been to its obligalions, of its constitutionul oxisteuce. It mimt deal with the States under tho Constitution or not at all, and it is simply folly to talk oí States having coinmitted suicide and forfeted pil rights, for to concede their right or power to commit suicide is to conceda their right to secede. - Divest Sumner's resoluties of their eophistry, and lliero is nolhing of Ihem save an avowal of a duterinination to snbvert the Conatitution in order that (Jongress may strike at the '; peculiar jnstitution " of tho South. We care not a tig for this " peculiar nstitutioD," but we believo in abiding by the Con stitution, restoring tho Union, and leaving tho loyal mön ot the South to 6ettle their ovvn domestic concerns. " Oecasional," the able correspondent of Forney's Prcís,supposod to be Fokkey bimseli, says in a recent letter: "Af'ter a somewhat careful consulta" tion with many leading men represen" ting loyal constitueneies, North and " South, of b ere tof o re diffuring sentí" ments, I have come to the conclusión " that tho on!y policy to be puruued " when our arras havo effeotually con"quered the rebel?, is tolcavethe great " question of governing the Suttlhcrn " Stales o the Union men nfsuch Staies, "attiited hy the Federa' aulliority, and " tv8tained whereoer uecessary by Fede" ral bayonets." No Ten itorial machinory about that ; no appointment by the President of Governors, and Judgea, and Councils; no wiping out of State linea. lts doctrino is, drive out the recreant State offioers and let the Union men of tiiu Southern States tuke tho reins of governmont. And such is our doctrine. - Resioro the Union and let slavery tako care of itsulf, sar we, and if the Union men of the South, tho Andrew Joiinsons, and Holts, and Maïnakds, and Bsowmlows, crush the serpent's head, "bo mote it be." Abolish slavery and hold thirteen Statos as conquered provinces says Sumnku. tSF" The Detroit papera say that Col. John B. Palmer, oí the Eigliteenlh Regiment, cnpturod ftt Fort Donelson, was formorly a resident ot that - ín 1857-8 ho was President of the Young Men's Society. To BK Mustkkkd Out. - A.n order has been eued thát the field and stuif offieors of the Lnncers, with the coinpailiei not transferred to the Stockton nnd Mulligan Rogiments, 'A'ill bo mustercd out of service on Monday nest.