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A Presidential View

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
May
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho following „remarks aro reported s ha ing been made by Presideut Johnou on the occasion oí the presentatiou f a delegation of Iudianaians by Gov. lorton. They are in the saaie vein as einarks made to other deiegations, - nd raay be supposed to designedly give b e public the convietions of the Presient upon the position of the seceded jtates. He evidently believes neithtr n State suicide uor consolidation : " We find the government composed f integral parts. Au iudividual is an nteger, and a number of individuals orm a State, and a State itself is an ineger ; and the various States fonn the Juion, which is itself aa integer, they 11 making up the govurumeut of' tho Jnited States. Now we havo come to he point of my argument so far as coneins tlie perpetuity of the government. 'Ve have seen that the government is composed f parta, each essential to the whole, and the vhole essential to each part. Now, if au ndividual part of a State declares war igainst the whole, in violation of the üonBÜtution, he, as a citizen, bas violated he law, and is responsible for the act as xn individual. There may be more tlian juo individua!. It may go on till they ecome parta of States - the rebellion n'ay go on increasing in nutobers till State machiuery is overeóme like a man that is paralyzed on one side. But we iud in the constitution a great panacea rovided. It provides that the United States - that is, the great integer - shall yuarantee to each State (the iotegers composiüg the whole) in this Union a republican form of government. Yes, if rebellion has been rampant, aud set aside the muchinery of a State íor a time, there stands the great law to remove tho paralasis and rivitalize it, aud put it on lts feet again. When we come to understand our systern of government, tbough it be complex, we see how beautiftilly one part acts in harmony witb auother. Thun we see our government is to be a per petuity, there being no provisión for pul ling t down, the'Uuion being its vitali zing power, imparting life to the whole ot the States that move arouud it like planets round the sun, receiving thenct light, and heat and motion. üpon this idea of destroying States mg posilion ha been hereloore wett hiown, and 1 see no cause to change it now ; and I am glad to hear i's relteraüon on the present occasion Some are salisfied with the idea that State are to be lost in territorial and other división - are io lose their character as States. - But thoir lifa broath has bueu only sus pended, and it is a high constitutiona obligaiion we have, to secure each o these States in the possession aud onjoy ment oí a ropublieau form of govern ment. A State may be in the governraont wilh a peculiar iostitution, and by the operation of rebellion lose that feature. But it was a State when it went into rebeüion, and when it comes out without the insiitution it is still a State. [Great applause.] I hold it as a solemnobligation to any onu of these States where the rebol urmies" have been beateo baok or expclled - I care not how smal! thenumber of Uuion mea, if enough to man the ship of Stato - I hold it, I say, a high duty to proteot and secure to them a ro publican t'orm of government. This is no new opinión. It is expreased in confonnity with my understanding of the genius and theory of our government. - Then, in adjust'mg and putting the government upou its legs again, I think the progresa of this work must pass into tho hands of its friends. [Applauae ] If a State is to be nursed until it again gets titrength, it must be nursed by its friends, Dot tsmothered by its enemies. [Applause.] Now permit me to remarle that, while 1 have opposed dissolution and disinteyration on the one hand, on the other I am equally opposed to consolidation - [applause] or the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Sir, all this bas been extorted from me by the remaiks you have ofiered ; and, as I have already remarked, I might have adoptod your speech as my own. I have dttained you longer tban I expected ; but Goveruor Morton is respousible fór thal," SfT The New York Tribune's Washington epeeial says : Payne, the assassiuator of the Seward family, bas made a conftsa'ion of his guilt. He said it was úseles to withhold it louger. He had been fully identifiad by eix persoiiB, and the Governmant had other ovidenoe in its possession that he was the party assigned to that horrible crime, t A tin wedding comc3 aíter u douado of ccuuubial feliüity - if decayed conjiubiul felioitv dooá not prevelt it.

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Old News
Michigan Argus