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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 134 (search)
ne, that secession asserts its legality. The history of the Constitution repudiates it; the grounds on which its adoption by the people was resisted reject it; the fears anticipated from its operation repel it; the instrument itself, in clear terms, denounces it; and its administration, by every department of the Government, from the days of Washington to the present hour, scouts it. If, as is possible, there are men of capacity and intelligence who sincerely believe in it, the remark of Beaumarchais on the Girondists is even more applicable to them: My God! What idiots these men of talent are. But they have brought the minds of thousands to credit the heresy. At war with reason, and fatal to any Union of States that may be formed — sure in the end, and at no distant period, to work its destruction, they have made it a part of their rebellious Constitution. This is done but the better to accomplish the delusion. The very incorporation of the principle demonstrates that they know