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Show 20 THE GOLDEN HOUR. such State codes as still in cxi. -ten co ? Would this o-ovennncnt return a £C \v rco-in1cnts of youth under b . ? ab o-c w·ho . d t ~ 1 t for us to thc1r parcuts . Is Wl -he o llg l ' . itb n' ot anxl. ous to d r~a w away frotn rclJcl hncs all of these it can? f 1 · It docs not r 11 tl t the State as a mctnbcr o t us 10 ow la ' o·overnn1Cllt, has C0111ffi'lt tcd suicide '. hut only . that al. l ib t ha by 1• ts own sop aratc authonty, csta. bhshcd, 1s la1. d 1.1 1' ruu. 1s. Tl1 0 blow aitncd by States' R1ghts at the . f tl t) authonty o 10 Hu. tion strikes to the h. eart of tho ·e very Ri.g hts, an d tll OS0 alone '. for the crunc place• the State before t 11 0 supr" CillO ba ovcrnlUCllt in the attttudc o f a cn.m 1.n al , u'hose al,le (bY 'iance is st,ill perf. ect, Lut wh. oso rights arc cxac tlY ' ~Vhat the supreme trtlJunal dec1des thcn1 to be. . No State can affect so Inuch of its existence as lS derived from, and dependent upon, acts of the gcnm~al governtnc n t . It can destroy its own courts, but not Its United States Di trict Court. The United State . is cugagcd in an unju tifiablc war, 1'f J· U d gc-u1 by any other theory than that the sec edcd States are in a state of anarchy ; and anarch.y is emancipation, because Slavery rc ts upon ccrt~m special (exclusively) State cnactlucn t ·, \vhich Lmng now withdrawn, it falls to the ground. If not, let some one show us why, of all peculiar and dotncstic institL~· tions,- such as the laws punishing as critninals antl· slavery men and aL o tho e who tcaeh negroes to reau or write,- s'l ave-ownership alone has an ark in wlu.c 1 1 t 0 IN COMMON tA \V. 21 survive the deluge. If thjs war is a real thing ·with us, our govcrJ1lncnt is engaged in establishing laws and their fonn in places where all laws ha""rc been overthrown, with all the rights aud wrongs held under them: universal law jt may establi h there, but not local law; and if Slavery exists any more in such localities, it will be by an act of this government, as purely arbitrary and infamous as if it iinportcd so many slaves from Africa. For the United States occupying Virginia to cstabli h there the local laws and institutions which had existccl in that State, any more than those of Now York, is ultra vires. The United States not only has no such authority, but in the present case to recognize the relation of rna tor and slave in the South is si1nply to follow in the fearful furrows of civil war, and sow them ·with the winds whose harvests shall be whirlwinds such as ·we arc to-day reaping. To all the technical objections oiTcred to this position, -based on the idea of Centralization, the twin-error with State-sovereignty,- 'vhich hold that a State cannot violate its co1npact with the general government, the law replies with its maxim, Via facti, via juris. But however important these views may be, the argtuncnt for Emancipation need not rest upon them: indeed, so systematically have the negroes been kept from the means of knowing their rights, that their liberty must rise upon them, clear and unmi takable, like a . unri c. |
