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! VOLUME 7.

OAPK ISLAND. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY. JULY IS. ISO 1.

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more ok uscouto message. ji It wua not possible for u* to publish t ■ the President's Message, in our lent is- - ►tie, entire. We care the tno»t inij»or- » Unt pcrts of it. This week we putilish I the portion whieh Iras reference to tlie » rebel states' movement, atid other mat- ! ters. lie ant* : . "It might seem. at first thought, to' n be of little difference whether the pre- I sent movement nt the south be call ed ICC ess ion or rebellion. The n:ov- ' L em, however, well understand the ; difference. At the becinnltiff tbryltnew ' ■they could never raise their trm«oti to * any respectable magnitude by any name i which implies ttehlion of law. Thry I knew their poophi jw>*»e I us touch «»f ; moral sense, ns moflt of ilevotiiin to law and order, and a» mtieh prnl.* ih utnl rev. < or cure for tlie hi.-turv und g'urrtitjrenf ' £ of their common country as any other < -civilised nnd patriotic people. •'They knew they could make no ad- i Tancement dirrctlv in the teeth of these < strong nnd#nohlto aentinienW. Aecnr t _ diugiy, they cotnmenceil by an ittsfiiiou# i debauching of the public- mind. They bnented bo tageBtnn* sophism which, II conceded, «»« folio* <d by pcrfceily logical step* through nil the incidental.' — the ro'i'l'lyj" destnic: »••»« » she Union. The sophism itscfl I* tii iT"'i'>y S" ate of the Union umy, eoiuU'cutly with tin. national Const itnti":i, n'nd tlrer-.TortJ-htw folly and pcacrbiliy, wlThdruw from the < * Union, without the >• i.-ent of the Unioti or nny other State The little di# guile, that the Mipp.»-cd light i* to be cserciied only for » just cause, l.ec.all.c they themselves are- t" '«*■ the judge# of ila justice, i, too thin to merit any nutjer. With rebellion thus sugar coiltrd, tlirf huv .* been drugging tin* public mind or their section* for ttioro ttmu thirty year#, uud until at lt.ng.lt they Jiave brought many good uten to a willi iiguen# to take up uriu* ugiiin*! the government the day after some «-.• sciublagc of men have enacted the far c:cal pretence of taking their States mi; of the Union, who could huv o been brought to no ituch thing the day be fore. This sophism derive# much, perhnps . , the Vfliole of it« currency, frum t:ie us sumption that there ia some omnipotent mid sacred supremacy pertaining to n State, to each State of our Fedurnl Un ion. Our States have neither more nor less power than that reserved to them in

the Union by the 'Constitution, no one ef tbem ever having been a State out of . c the Union. The original ones passed } into the Union even before ih-y cart off s tbeir llrilisb colonial dependence. M- r cvpting Texas ; nnd even Te*«s. in it* « temporary iadepftidence, was never des- | Splinted u Slate. t. The new "ires only took the desiann « lion of Slut' > oil coming into the Un- c Ion ; while that name was Or»t adopted , for the old ones in and by lire Declare- l _ tiou (fflad^ndetMe. Therein -.he i United Colonic# were declared to lie t Tree an independent Suites. I r #-• But even then the object was plainly ] not to declare tlair independence of oik • < another, or of the Union", hut directly j , the contrary, as their mutual action be- | fore, nt the lime, and afterwards, r bund- . antly show. The express plighting ofji r laith, by_ i*nch and nil ef the original i [■ thirteen, in the articles of confederation. two year# later, lltal "the Uniou shall i I bo perpetual.' is most conclusive. i 1 . . « Having never been States, cither in ; 1 substance or in name, outside of Ihe | "Union, whence this magical .omnipo- , « trnce. of State rights, asset ting a claim ( of power to lawfully destroy the Union 1 itself ? Much unsaid about the sovereignty of the States, but the word even j I is not in The national Coastitution, nor, j , as U believed, ik any of the State conr stitations. Wtyt i# a sovereignty in tbe political straw of tern!*? Would it ; i be far wrong to define it "a political I < conitnntiitv without a political super- ! i i ! -L - j-.". ^

j lor I" Tested by tlii*, no one or our . States, except Texas gave np the char- r acter'ou coining into tiie UtJton, by t which act sin- acknowledge the Conatitu- t tiou of the United Siutts, ntffllo in pur- • < $upaco of the Conttltuiioif, to be for ; * lier the supreme law of the land. The » State i have their status in tbe Union, and rtiej have no legal status. If they* i i break from this, they can only do so ' < ! against law and by revolution. The ' Uufon and iiOl tlH-mvplres erpariOcd, . , procured lk(ir independence and their | lly conquest or purehose, the i Union gave each "I thant whatever i ituh-pcndenci' and liberty it has I The Union i« older than any of tlie . ! .Stales, and. in fnct. it created ahem ■ i as States. Originally, Mta« dejicndent i cv Kiiiies made tJic Union, and, in turn, 1 < the Union threw off their old depen- i deii'-c for them, nnd made Uietn Stales, i such us they ate ; not one of them ever i had n Slate Coit*lituliou iudepcndeul of ilia Union. Of course it i» not forgotten lint all the new States framed their Consliiutioinv before they entered the Union ; nevertheir** dcjieu'lrtit upon, aiid*prcparntory to coining into the UhImi. Unqaesihiriiibly the Smic have ti c powers uud ri^hu rewervvd to ihcni in i rti-d by ihc JJIwtio.n*'!. t'^neldo'i-o. ; bat among the*'*, surely, i.rc nol~ TfiBudpiT" all eoDceivaldtt jmocrs, iiowevr niiij rht^pnn or destructive, bat m must such only t» nero known in the world a! thu time a* governmental power.', ami c\tNiuly a power to d'MiroV tlie govcriimeni itm-ll » «. never krfuwn z* a ^ ivcinmriiiul vi mirely ad»uiiii«trniive pow«r. Tine relative mailer of naliouul pow er and Stele rights an a principle, i- do oth»-r tiiuH lbs ^iriuirjj'lowvl' gineruiity and locality. Whatever concerns the wbulO should 1^-ieH eNeiowueiy to the .*"tute TbU is nil there i. «<f -original jfriuetple .»bon', it. Whether the national Conslitutiou, in defining boundaries bc- - twecu the two* lias iqiplied the principle with exact oceuracy, ia not to lie questioned. We are al.-o bound by that defining without question What is ; now combatted la tho position that secession is consistent, with the Constitution, if lawful and pmci-fal. It is UOt; contended thiil there is nnv express law ; ; f.ir it, uud nothing should ever bo im- ; plied n> law n hicii leads to unjust or : ai.«urd contcqneuces.

Thu nation purchased with money the 1 cnuutries nut of which several of these Slates were formed.. i> it just that they ; shall go off without leave and without • refunding ? The nation paid very large ' sums — in the nggivgute, I believe, a hundred million* — to relieve Florida of the aboriginal tribes. Is it just tbalshe , shall now* gooff without consent or with- j : out making any return ? The nation is now iu debt for money applied to tbe j benefit of these so-called seceded Slate* in common with the rest. Is it just ci1 liter ihal creditors shall go uupaid, »r ! the remaining Slates pay the whole ? — of the present nafionni delft was • contracted to pay the old debts of Texus. I# it just that she shall leave and ! pay no part of this herself? Again, if one Slats may secede, >o I may another, and when all shall have »e- ; eidcd. none arc left to pay the debts. — Is this quite just to creditors ? Did we ' notify them of this sage view of ours : when we borrowed their money ? If we now recognize this doctrine by alilie sweden to go in peace, it la i difficult to see what we ran do if others ; choose to go, or to extort terms upon which they will premise to remain. Tlie accrdtni iindnt liiat oor Coastita- ; ! lion admit* of saccssiou. They having , i assumed to make a iiat oual constitution «f their own, in which, of necessity, i they have cither discarded or retained 1 the right of secession as they insist it exists in ours, if they have discarded it, I they thereby ednrtt thnt on principle it

ought not to be in curs. If they have ; J retained it, by tbeir own construction of 1 ' i our*, they show tb it to lie cousisivnl j 1 . they must.Stccde from one another when- . ; ever they shall find it the cumi'si way of M-'Uiing their debts, «»r effecting nny oth- t er s ellbh or unjust objeet. The prinei- ' , pie it#elf i* one or disiiiiegrolion, upon , which no govcrenmcnt can possibly endure. ' 1 If all the States save one should i.s- ' lu rMUc pywer to drive ilia' one otU of 1 1 the Union, it is presumed tlie wholr vTu** of .seceder politicians would at once deny the power and denounce the act a* , the grvnirst outrage upon Stat^ rights. , ■ suppose that precisely the same aet, l instead of being ealled dri ving the one i out, should lie called tho seceding of the 1 others from thnt one, it would be* xactiy what the seceder# claim to do, unless ^ indeed, tlicy inako the point that the | one, neennse it is a hiinoririVltniy rightfully do what the other*, because ihey , are n nwjnritv, may not rightfully do — , : Tnesc politicians are .subtle and pro- . found on the right# of piinoritic* ; tin-v i arc not partial to that pptver whicU innde 1 ihe ("'••nstifntioh, and Eapcaks from the • preuiublc calling Itsrifp'Tlic People."' lr may well b« questioned whether there is, to-day, n umjoriiy of the !cgully qualified voters of any Slut*.*, oxo -pt. iH'i'luips, -S»nnh Oiifaliiuu j.n f 'v'T nl iii#union. There to much reason to bellvvi- dial the Union n;vii are tho nm- • ' jonty in many il not |a every other one 1 uf the so called svcvdlfe State#. As the contrary hn* not bicn dcnionsitnted in -uny one of theTn. it. is tentared to affirm thls cvcn of Virginia ami Ttiinisvee, for the resfill of an elcclioh held in military vompl, where the tap- - nets were all on one side of the quest ion voted wp»n. eiiu scaij-elv he consiikred as u demoiistrntion *of popular senii* racnt. At #qch up eleoiijn all thai Urge class who arc »ot nt- .nice for '.hiUnion nud ngninst coercion, would be coerced to vote ngsinst the Union. It may be affirmed", without e.xtrnvugatiec, tlinl the free institutions we en- J 1 1 joy have developed the power and ini. . proved the conditiun of our whole peoi | lie brvond any example In the world. — Of this we now have a striking and im- ' preisivc illustration. So large nn army : as the Government has now on loot was never before known, without u soldier in > it but who had taken bis place there of ■ his own free choice.

Hut more than this. There are many ! regiment* whose members, one and j i another, possess full practical know I- J : edge of all the arts, sciences, profcs- ! sions, and whatever else, whether useful ' ' or elegant, is known iu the world ; nnd i ' there is scarcely one from whieh there j . could be selected a 1'iesldent. a Cabinet, , n Congress, nud perhaps a court, nhnnduntlr competent to aditpuisler the gov- 1 eminent itself. Nor do I say this is not trne also in 1 the doings of oar late friends, How ad- ; ferearicK, in this content- Jiut if it is. 1 so much belter the reuMm why the government, would, which has conferred . Mich benefits on both thein and lis, , should not be broken up. Whoever, in uny section, proposes to abandon »ach u government, would do well to consider in deference to whot principle ii is that he does it ; what better he is likely to get in its stead ; whether the aubsti- , lute will give, or be intended to give. so-, much of good to tbe people. There j ' ; are some foreshadow ings on this subject/' Our adversaries haveadupted some dec- ' ! bunions id independence, in wliicb.-au-like lhc,good old one peuued by Jh-ffer-son, they omit tbe word*. "All men are created rquaJ." Why ? They lmve ' I udopled n temporary uational consliln- ; j tiou, in i!o» preamble of wideb, unlike i : -iur good old one, *igiud by Washington, lUcy on.it " Wc, the people," Mid I I i xabskilulc "We. the deputies of ihe*ov. i c reign und iiidependenl States " Why? '| Why this deliberate pressing out of . I view tho right* of men und the authori- ! i '■ tr (-r the prt'pft '

Thi# i.- e-se nliafiy a prKjJo'ii Colli", t. , I On ihe »|J* of ihe Union it i- a strogg!.* at | fur maintaining in the wg<rh! thai fonn and h i s'ib'lusi-i- i f eovcronn-ni wbawiuding ab- | v •vet i> lo clevsK- 1 Im etfmfition of men ; lo f. iill arjin. inl wvighl# from all shuuider, ; :•> w ( clear the Intlli# of lauitable pursuit ioe all ; 1 n afford all an unfettered start, and a hiir : il I cl'.anct' in ll»e race of jife. c' Yielding to partial "tod tooipbrary d*. r. puciures In n. nece«iiy. tins is ttic leading , r • object oF-the government • lor »Uwo exi»- ' t. j tciicf Wi' contend. f I uiu iiooi happy tobvli"*e that the plain p.-:.| lll.Mv.---l.il..! illl ! IVCIlltr li.'v II Ii- wi.iiny of nui« il.ot while, in tfiis the ! n gAtrraini-iii * hour « l trial, lurgw namber# ' o of l Lutein tbe army and navy who have been fuvurud with th« office* have resigned and prated fulMi lo baud which had pam-n-U tln-m, not one comuiuu soldier or ■tailor is known to have deserted his ffac. ) ^ Uicul honor is duo to those office! * who K i have remained true, despite tho example ol j |( Iheir treseheious ursociules. j (| Hut the s* real 6ft hiroor. and must impor. i , tual fact of all, i» the uinm mou* linnne#* ! ( of ihecounm u soldh>n awl common reil- ! # or*. To ihe last man, #i> far u- known, j 0 Itiey h«vr lafM.tfBiljr resisted the traitor- • j. o«* efforts 41 those whose command- hut j ( do hour Im-IW they obeyed :i» absolute law. ; ( Tnfs is the putriotic tiistiocl of plain p. «- : t pie. TI.ey under-tund. witWcut an argjioven I, thai the destroying of ^h« govern- j u au nt which was ,tnudtr by .4fi'a«hiugloM ; (| mean* nn good to tin in. ] f tlur iM't-ul-.r jiOVeiiiment hu» often t-eeu | ralbd i n rlprbMl. Two JailWW^It iti^, our |H-i.| [e have already Kittled— I lie sue , Ce-sml establishing and successful pdm.nts- ^ teiilK* of it. . line -till jo'mains. It.< -ocee-.ful mail.. , •tfui.ee i . • toimolMlile :'ie.-n .. at- i .tem-u-IIHle to the world that lh..V^wl»<u!, call fairly twij 'in election can a/to *np- ~ press u ivbeibuu : thnt ballots Wb,, fai.h , .1 ron-Tifiti<.nr% tterbledriier-'ean l.e , ll<> surcestlil appcli! rXCepf"i.i ImIIoIs thems.iV*)i a! succeeding eluDtioiis. Such will ; j l»." a gredT lesson oV peuwH ■ toacbiug men. r that what<tl ey^-atiin>l tske by an olectiow , neither e-n thuydmke ).y war, tentd.mg all . , • he lolly of being the l.eginnei* ol war. , i.C\t there be soma uneasmesX in tlrat4 iiiiliil* oKcondid V.ieti n# to what U to ! course— td tho governnu-iit toward* the southern Stsre* after the rebellion shall . have be- ii sopphsMd, the lfxcculiee deem# ( il proper to say it will he hi» purpose thso. . ii» ever, to Im guide^l by the Constitution | and the laws, and that he probably twll , ; Imvc tin different utideretuudhig «>r the 1 power* and duties or the Federal govern- j | nient relatively to the righ'.l of the State* ! ' a 'id people under the Constitution than ex. i pressed in the iimncuial uddress.

He desires to preserve the government that it may be administered lo all u» ll was udmiuisiried bv the men who made it Loyal citizens everywhere htve the right to claim Ibis ot their government, und tho goYastnuu'iil ha* no right to withhold or nog-fs-cl it. it is not perceived that in giving I it there is nuy coercion, any conquest or salijugaliun in any just sense of tho>e terms The C'viiiStituiH'OD provides, and all the : state* have accepted the provision*, that ' the United States shall guarantee tu every ; State in this Union a ItepuMican form of ' government. Hut if a iitnte may lawfully ' ' go nut of the Uniou. having done so, it , may also - discard the. republican fonn of; ; government; *.. ih.it, to pievuiil its going ! ' out, It U nil in-i*peu*al't« to use every j - muuiit to lire end or luaiiitaining the guar- I uuty. Whun an end is Jawful und obligatory the iudi«|M>ii*atde means lo obtuin it ! 1 are also lawful und obligatory. i It wm with t|e-d>repe*l regret that tlie I Kxeciitive found the duty of cmph.yiug the i I war power iu tlafenea of the goveriwreiH, i i forced upon him. I4*i could bat perf .rm I this duty or furrendet the esUtdacw of tho ! gi'Verii'i.gtit. No coni|>ruini*e l»y public m-rvuntsici'uld in- this cave l>u a cure. Not ' tbwt compri'intses are not often projier. hut I that no popular gnewrtiureui can lung sur- . vivc n fatal precedent, that those who curry | at electiuu ean only save, the government j j from immediate destruction by giving up 1 l 're main- -point npon which thu people gate ] the elcrtioo. .Hie people thcnlsclv. ninl out thVir wurvBUUi can safety reverse tbeir ' ! o«n tlelilH-rate decision*. As apHvsta etttxeo the Kxecutivu could ■ rot hate cablraAi that thvs* in-lit utiuii* i f.hall perish ; much U-s could he, iu betray. ' : al of »o vast end no sucrcd a tnisl us tin - ' fee. v ia.-l.cot.8dct! tu lire.

lie foil tliat he li.i'i im monii right to uv nn to cunt the chance . «<f. ©tin lite m wh:it might billow, ]u full view uf-hi-Vreut restn.ii«ibil:l>, he im* SO fur dott* wjtat he ho# d*»i: • d dutj. Tow Will now. iie<,-»nling .to jretr- own wise ju.ignient. iwrforui coots, lie srneerely hope ; thnt w;r v.rwr* on.l your anions unty so «rCord with his o* tu r*»ure all faitbfei r'.ti. Zens nhu t.u-c turn disturbed iu tkiir tigbt*. Of a certain nnd tftrij icstoratina to tbi'tu under the Con#t itu;;«n and the 4aws. Ami hating thu* chosen our curve without gu:le an. I with pure purpose, let u» rt - our in-t in Hod, and go forward with* ■ ■ I out tear ami -v it U manly heurt*. Ann, ii am Liscix. July J. libjS. . itEPORT OF THE SECkEIABV OF XAVY. W'c hav« a copy ut tlie aottiml report « f the head of this lb-pai liHettt— lion. * ideob Welle*— bill on account of its length, caniret give il ii^fuU. ftltd must, ihcrefot.t, ennourrelie- w ith a brief. synopsis : t)n- ■ the fuortb March our. wavy cuisistrd of [ h? available ve.sel*, carr.ing 13IC gun*, tit' i which there were iii einnmi-rfotj 4"d vo*s. U i-of U5 gun-. Tim l.nht Iiowbrrnf ve«eU ' the liiivt nt* JO, cartyiag ^ll-'»gtin» - * !T'.e home -quadrnw cmKh-led of only j twelve v.v-U ..i tq7 gun*. tlfthoC'J tv. v. .> Ill re:,.. ;iV4itabV, the I." ton', wn* h-t iii 11... F.itlon -eired at IVesacia, i umS one frigate, tu.. sIih.jk and or.ebii:: | ut N-.r/olk. Tfcs .dl-.»r v««r-cl* dr- * ». i stroted ill i . k were w.Ali.le-*, Tliw j t.-/i I. Aiiui.:.- — i.,..nr.i,- ,„!i4.r 1 hrtlWt avt. ii" w i.i oomuiujieM. <;r w iff ».«.ii U-. •- Xrrpl tbe -bin of the life Vcrtftoot, ~ f~| f»t.*»le ill, III. lye ill.'. *l.Hip tb-rutur Ol *«.sn . tender .t'.tiw II. week, tbe »w., ial. ■j til 0 g II*. :n.djF<aihns ves-el*. and there i *!.:»» •- tiee.it vfTtiltered 'J steamers earring iioui g tof! iiiiii# ceh. by nhicb addition* ■ the r.aviy force in ■•t>Mini;*«ioii ha* been iircria«u.ijlo Ki ve»*elr, with 110l> gubs ami i ileu . exclusive of officer* and tnunn.il. w < \i . "■ »vycra| strain„i„i w« ,:i rruft wh.ch are Aempurarlty - - .' serv.ee ,d the KiivcMiweW. Kailtng bio slKUHiet*. duly. Tlie sqa . ■ »n in t ho ,-Vtluntie. iui.br OiwiiwdtHW htrin-ham, , I'l'iisistS of -- vessel", with 113G gun# uud 31(00 men ; and tbe Gulf squadron, under t'nmgiodore Mervimi, ol !!i vwukb with ; 2H2 gun* and 'SVW men. Addition* In. v.. | been madtt to each of in. -*- aqnadreor of . two or three small vessel capttu. d und t«>Ken into- tire n-rt.ee. 'hhe lva*i Itn nt, • Mediterranean. Hrazil and Afri- '. . » quad- . ' rons have all been recalled, except «m« vessel of euell of the two latter, and thus A will add to thu blockading squadrons- 200 gun* and "A'-OO men. Twenty. three gunboats have tie e ii contracted for. each nt toti# buvllien. boitdea -eti-ral larger aud fleeter ves-el*. Kight sleop-of-war id. > ure now being constructed at the um theiu tutvy ;ani;. .Since tire 4«h of March ofliceia nf the ' ua-y have reivgnctl «>r tweii disiui-scil. To some extent the delte.rocy bus Im-cu siq - ) plied by reapjMiintiog loriirer i flicBr* tvh» ' had retirnl tucivii life. TJjg rcciuitmg it' •' seamen for Ihe ftav/tiuSfr tho it.crea*e-i i levy lias prtiv .-ded with cxtiaord.nury rej - r i idity. so thai «i'» vrsetls hare been manu,d f ■ a* la»t as they could lie prepared, urmrd. 1 j pud equipped. The marine carp* has uh--r! bctn incieoMit to 2&XI privates ; i-u« the ■ ' t.m.:. r*jjre i,.*uffic»vnt. and ought «" i nreuted— ' touch Il'u Secretary recommeMii. • j us well ai the epjirti r»orguiiiSulioli ot tb" • eorp*. A» res*»d* Maury » doaafUon uf iff* Ohservatrey, tho Sucre lory #uj» that a I geiiSeiireu sfl'-c-eds hitn wle> bad long been : : idaXtUfird wnb tt. «pd thnt iu many f • ,|Kictv tho chuugc an improrenit ut. The . i re port recmmriids an luctewso of s ' j tho establn-hu'cnt ot an oreiinanco butu-a. - j with a director, and the reorganization of - , the Na-al Acutlyaiy- ' j Ota Tbium to Tjuiwit*-— To Jeff, t'on* the i ope, uithdut tires benefit of clergy, ' To Twiggs, and all fiber officer* that hav.i rt j Tw.igt.ed, " l.c bruttd'of lioscrtci.-. T« 'To Flovd. tbe peuileulary fur lib. To ; «... .k,-j. ... »«i»« -> «« -1- , • cbc*. To- South Curoluia. m.ttraUathra '■ . 4 1 a New Li'R.and A. l Soco-ty. ..'lo Haitif 1 mote ttm shells *»' Fort I f the j ' wuutu South, the dutlr #ingio* ot lL*:. "•."•.iur 1# j 8pai.gl.Ml Hamier." and tbo poyingut of tho , ! vt. eusc. .-! the war, HjTA.lvttilw yonr business.