Show I 1 i isal IS OR oft ARE barey one of the questions that will I 1 down because the newspapers will osa let it probably is that of whether abw th united states as a nation should sar spoken of in the singular or the eluam number there are or have bey weighty authorities on both eldik aila ewd and the matter seems te have h ave settled down to one A ar personal preference in with oties ones training aAning tr w prejudices whichever the deciding te tor may happen to be it is noticeable in this thia connection taft tha the bulk of authority tn tavor avor of ab QS plural proposition comes from ante bw bh lum as relates to our civil war tl ti mei it is thus spoken of in the old consia Co naU aution and the state papers of many artap of the presidents this is not to be wondered at no matter how the reaal reader may view the subject on the coltrara cont rara the old timers could scarcely adopt st sow other view and be consistent with the logic of the situation as it then th en was wair the national fabric was simply a compact growing out of the n necessity fy mutual action as a means of internal in teriMA growth and defuse defense against the coninie co mik ninae enemy like the t e people of a village ia the troublous days with the savages ja common peril united them and commode collnot com mote interests kept them more or less uni but each household was as and independent as the community fact it self it was in fact an aggregation ot of sovereignties sovereign ties the individuality of eab being maintained and asserted through out no matter how closely they bound together by actual or imputes compacts so with the colonies consal cons tl the original thirteen states aft a long war with gre 0 britain they found themselves all e once invested with independence dependence afrait so great was the tran transition sitton so novel ibia situation that for a time even the jhc baw abts and wisest of the revolutionists weft bewildered such a thing as a compa ibl and inseparable aggregation having bat one head and front and one commo common and indivisible purpose was not to bethought of for one reason because V nation from which they had just b liberated was conducted on that pl and something as different from it could be and a national fabric of a atay a kind yet remain thing taatia no individual and no state must t log his hia or its identity nor must 1 ai 1 be even obscured A union of stata meant not such a union as obliterate state lines but one that represented a and ana rested upon such lines lilies while it wow preserve and perpetuate them A e calr alt magistrate over all wa was provided tofek but he was not to be chosen by the na tion tian but by the states which fora the ria riat tion lori and his powers abilar privileges es were so safeguarded that hist tenure would always depend upon fu of the representatives of the under such the sturdy patriots of the latter part of the sta atiat t century and their immediate su suco megs easi in the first part of this one would raa ben been looked upon as I 1 unpatriotic it if v 1 W I 1 irreverent had they of the no tin al coin dorn pact in any amr way dixy that wol have cabedo the entitles entities to a du pear for even the time b rt f waa he united n e are re 11 in order that the individual states would always be spoken of and thus kept in mind but fet the student of history contemplate the sequel let him give thought to abat such a state of affairs brought about it made some of the states ar others aggressive others ten and all insecure those that had adopted slavery as a feature of their social and political fabric realizing bow strongly they were entrenched in the defense of that system not only 1 fate many times before its wow fell upon them but in their blind fanaticism and insolence ought foght to carry the curse beyond their VW am domain do main and plant it in the new states where the climate conditions and were all against it one led to another until finally the section Bee tion wild if not mad in its sadahei ed severity seveT ity demanded of its active eIrp arters in the other sections that iber ahw abjectly surrender in order that 13 president might come from and te a representative of the demand was refused and the latter fut the party with they were rate nominations representative of the slave ng section the result was more n foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed it was designed and tarried out the conflicting elements fould no longer even live together and he be looseness of our national structure ode 6 possible lyle if it did not invite the raa oveat t struggle which followed it was a teu 9 serle all to bo determine whether the V I 1 a was to be maintained in its or whether any portion of it auld id at will withdraw and maintain be separate parate establishment the slavery ea tion was the immediate mediate lim agency by felch the conflict was brought about uku but tor for that the quee question tion of jutes 9 rights could not have been we ought ugh t up to bo the extreme phase which boade a coll collision islon inevitable the great adle aid ent abraham lincoln before the tuggle le began gave voice to the pre sentiment of the unionists when ate cling said that the nation could not exist allf f tree free and half slave this meant ast slavery must be abolished by one loftaas lofta as or another and the war to pre 0 the national natio naJ structure in its en y became the means slavery states rights brought on the war W and the war freeing the slaves ggs arved the union and demolished demoll shed so much inch of exclusive state sovereignty as aired the ahe solidity and threatened perpetuity ot of the structure as a dwle le 20 sum up the looseness which motorized the federal fabric by wa of giving undue prominence to entitles entities has haa been completely remd fe by leaving the sovereignty of h 1 portion but g tor for the right to secede the higher zad better right to be on terms of ritty aty with each and every other por that is a better union to te from the preamble to the old has been established and be maintained a union that while ot effacing any of its parts does not t any or all of them to efface it epluribus unum un um butof out of money one ambas a been reali realized zeI unto us as one of the of our fought out ahding It in other words the states and the namon Is |