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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The Constitution — not Conquest. (search)
ly be supreme over those societies, and the individuals of whom they are composed. It would otherwise be a mere treaty, dependent on the good faith of the parties, and not a Government; which is only another word for political power and supremacy We have nothing of our own to add to this lucid exposition of the nature of the Union from the pen of one of the most celebrated of its founders. It is not a co-partnership. It does not exist by virtue of a Treaty, but by virtue of a law. By what authority, then, does Lord Brougham, or any other lord, pretend that the United States are waging war for conquest? To assert this, is to be guilty of a gross perversion of the record and of language. The Supremacy of the General Government is the Supremacy of Law. An attempt to overthrow that Supremacy is a felony; and fine words about Independence do not change the nature of the crime. Let Lord Brougham understand this, or make no more speeches upon American affairs. September 24, 1862.