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The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The ship Thomas Watson. (search)
re are no United States. --The arrogance with which the Yankees affect to call their Government the "United States," and to regard those who do not subscribe to Yankee rule as rebels, has often been well exposed, but never so well as by Mr. Breckinridge, in his late address to the people of Kentucky. The United States exist no longer as a political association. The Constitution by which the Union was created, and without which it cannot exist, is gone forever. It has been rent into a thowhich it was created, has come to an end. The war waged upon us, therefore, is no civil war; it is a war waged by one nation upon another. The object of the one is conquest; the object of the other is defence. Let us follow the argument of Mr. Breckinridge, and see if it is not conclusive. When it becomes impossible to execute the stipulations of a contract, that contract ceases to exist. No court upon earth will decide that each stipulations shall be carried out. Now, the Constitution o