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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)
ed to be quite a universal scholar, should know a bit of law, a little chemistry, a morsel of philosophy, something of political economy, more or less of metaphysics, and should know absolutely nothing of the American Constitution-so little, indeed, as to be unaware of the fact that it is the fundamental law of the land, and that in no possible sense can a war in its defense be called a war of Conquest Tipstaves who catch rogues are not conquerors The constable who carries a pick-pocket to Bridewell is not a conqueror. The thief who breaks jail certainly asserts his independence, and is in pursuit of his liberty. But we do not believe his aspirations would appear to be remarkably sublime, even to Lord Brougham's catholic mind, if the thief had been in custody for picking his Lordship's pocket, or stealing his Lordship's plate. There seems to be a notion prevalent in English society, that the American Union was originally a limited co-partnership, from which any member has a right