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# State Documents on Federal Relations/15

15. Vermont to Virginia, October 30, 1799.
In the House of Representatives, October 30, A. D. 1799.
The House proceeded to take under their consideration the resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, relative to certain measures of the general government, transmitted to the Legislature of this State, for their consideration: Whereupon,
Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Vermont do highly disapprove of the resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, as being unconstitutional in their nature, and ​dangerous in their tendency. It belongs not to State Legislatures to decide on the constitutionality of laws made by the general government; this power being exclusively vested in the judiciary courts of the Union. That his excellency, the governor, be requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to the executive of Virginia, to be communicated to the General Assembly of that State: And that the same be sent to the Governor and Council for their concurrence.
In Council, October 30, 1799. Read and concurred unanimously.
[Elliot's Va. and Ky. Res., 15.]
# State Documents on Federal Relations/14

14. New Hampshire to Virginia and Kentucky, June 15, 1799.
In the House of Representatives, June 14, 1799.
The committee to take into consideration the resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 21, 1798; also certain resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, of the 10th November, 1798, report as follows:
The Legislature of New Hampshire, having taken into consideration certain resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 21, 1798; also certain resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, of the 10th of November, 1798:
Resolved, That the Legislature of New Hampshire unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against ​every aggression, either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.
That the State Legislatures are not the proper tribunals to determine the constitutionality of the laws of the general government; that the duty of such decision is properly and exclusively confided to the judicial department.
That, if the Legislature of New Hampshire, for mere speculative purposes, were to express an opinion on the acts of the general government, commonly called "the Alien and Sedition Bills," that opinion would unreservedly be, that those acts are constitutional, and, in the present critical situation of our country, highly expedient.
That the constitutionality and expediency of the acts aforesaid, have been very ably advocated and clearly demonstrated by many citizens of the United States, more especially by the minority of the General Assembly of Virginia. The Legislature of New Hampshire, therefore, deem it unnecessary, by any train of arguments, to attempt further illustration of the propositions, the truth of which, it is confidently believed, at this day, is very generally seen and acknowledged.
Which report, being read and considered, was unanimously received and accepted, one hundred and thirty-seven members being present.
In Senate, same day, read and concurred unanimously.
[Elliot's Va. and Ky. Res., 14, 15.]
# State Documents on Federal Relations/13

13. Connecticut to Virginia, May, 1799.
At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, in the said State, on the second Thursday of May, Anno Domini 1799, his excellency, the Governor, having communicated to this Assembly sundry resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, adopted in December, 1798, which relate to the measures of the general government, and the said resolutions having been considered, it is
Resolved, That this Assembly views with deep regret, and explicitly disavows, the principles contained in the aforesaid resolutions, and particularly the opposition to the "Alien and Sedition Acts"—acts which the Constitution authorized, which the exigency of the country rendered necessary, which the constituted authorities have enacted, and which merit the entire approbation of this Assembly. They, therefore, decidedly refuse to concur with the legislature of Virginia in promoting any of the objects attempted in the aforesaid resolutions.
And it is further resolved, That his excellency, the Governor, be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the Governor of Virginia, that it may be communicated to the Legislature of that State.
[Passed both branches unanimously; Elliot's Va. and Ky. Res., 14.]
# State Documents on Federal Relations/130

130. Resolves of Connecticut.
Resolved, That Congress has full constitutional power to prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States, by legislative enactment, and that it is the duty of Congress to pass, without unnecessary delay, such strict and positive laws as will effectually shut out slavery from every portion of their territories.
Resolved, That Congress has like full constitutional power to remove slavery, and the slave trade, from the District of Columbia, and that this power should be at once exercised for the immediate prohibition of the slave trade therein, and for the abolition of slavery, upon such terms of compensation to the slave-holders as may be just and reasonable.
Resolved, That in the name of the people of Connecticut, we do hereby solemnly reaffirm an unalterable attachment to the ​Federal Union, and our inflexible determination to adhere to our national constitution, and abide by all its compromises, to the letter and spirit of the same ; while with equal unalterable and inflexible purpose, deterred by no threats of disunion, we shall forever oppose any and every measure of compromise, by which any portion of the territory now belonging to, or which may hereafter be acquired by the United States, shall be given up to, or left unprotected against the encroachments of slavery.
Resolved, That the integrity and permanence of American power on the Pacific Ocean, the increase of our commerce and wealth, the extension of our institutions, and the cause of human freedom on this continent, require the immediate admission of California into this Union, with her present Constitution, and the boundaries therein defined, without any reference to any other question or measure whatever.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the legislation necessary to give effect to the clause of the Constitution of the United States, relating to the delivering up of fugitive slaves, is within the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress, we hold it to be the duty of that body to pass such laws only in regard thereto as will secure to all persons whose surrender may be claimed, as having escaped from labor or service in another State, the right of having the validity of such claim determined by a jury in the State where such claim shall be made.
[Resolutions of transmission.]
[Res. and Private Acts of Conn. May sess., 1850, 141-143.]
# Songs of Action/The Storming Party

Said Paul Leroy to Barrow, 'Though the breach is steep and narrow,  If we only gain the summit  Then it's odds we hold the fort. I have ten and you have twenty, And the thirty should be plenty, With Henderson and Henty  And McDermott in support.'
Said Barrow to Leroy, 'It's a solid job, my boy,  For they've flanked it, and they've banked it,  And they've bored it with a mine. But it's only fifty paces Ere we look them in the faces; And the men are in their places,  With their toes upon the line.'
Said Paul Leroy to Barrow, 'See that first ray, like an arrow,  How it tinges all the fringes  Of the sullen drifting skies. They told me to begin it At five-thirty to the minute, And at thirty-one I'm in it,  Or my sub will get his rise.
'So we'll wait the signal rocket, Till . . . Barrow, show that locket, That turquoise-studded locket, Which you slipped from out your pocket  And are pressing with a kiss!  Turquoise-studded, spiral-twisted, It is hers! And I had missed it From her chain; and you have kissed it:  Barrow, villain, what is this?'
'Leroy, I had a warning, That my time has come this morning, So I speak with frankness, scorning  To deny the thing that's true. Yes, it's Amy's, is the trinket, Little turquoise-studded trinket, Not her gift—oh, never think it!  For her thoughts were all for you.
'As we danced I gently drew it From her chain—she never knew it  But I love her—yes, I love her:  I am candid, I confess. But I never told her, never, For I knew 'twas vain endeavour, And she loved you—loved you ever,  Would to God she loved you less!'
'Barrow, Barrow, you shall pay me! Me, your comrade, to betray me!  Well I know that little Amy  Is as true as wife can be. She to give this love-badged locket! She had rather . . . Ha, the rocket! Hi, McDougall! Sound the bugle!  Yorkshires, Yorkshires, follow me!'
Said Paul Leroy to Amy, 'Well, wifie, you may blame me, For my passion overcame me,  When he told me of his shame; But when I saw him lying, Dead amid a ring of dying, Why, poor devil, I was trying  To forget, and not to blame.
'And this locket, I unclasped it From the fingers that still grasped it: He told me how he got it,  How he stole it in a valse.' And she listened leaden-hearted: Oh, the weary day they parted! For she loved him—yes, she loved him -- For his youth and for his truth,  And for those dying words, so false.
# Songs of Action/The Old Gray Fox

We started from the Valley Pride,  And Farnham way we went. We waited at the cover-side,  But never found a scent. Then we tried the withy beds  Which grow by Frensham town, And there we found the old gray fox,  The same old fox,  The game old fox; Yes, there we found the old gray fox,  Which lives on Hankley Down.  So here's to the master,  And here's to the man!  And here's to twenty couple  Of the white and black and tan!  Here's a find without a wait!  Here's a hedge without a gate!  Here's the man who follows straight,  Where the old fox ran.
The Member rode his thoroughbred,  Doctor had the gray, The Soldier led on a roan red,  The Sailor rode the bay. Squire was there on his Irish mare,  And Parson on the brown; And so we chased the old gray fox,  The same old fox,  The game old fox, And so we chased the old gray fox  Across the Hankley Down.  So here's to the master,  And here's to the man!  &c. &c. &c.
The Doctor's gray was going strong  Until she slipped and fell; He had to keep his bed so long  His patients all got well. The Member he had lost his seat,  'Twas carried by his horse; And so we chased the old gray fox,  The same old fox,  The game old fox; And so we chased the old gray fox  That earthed in Hankley Gorse.  So here's to the master,  And here's to the man!  &c. &c. &c.
The Parson sadly fell away,  And in the furze did lie; The words we heard that Parson say  Made all the horses shy! The Sailor he was seen no more  Upon that stormy bay; But still we chased the old gray fox,  The same old fox,  The game old fox; Still we chased the old gray fox  Through all the winter day.  So here's to the master,  And here's to the man!  &c. &c. &c.
And when we found him gone to ground,  They sent for spade and man; But Squire said 'Shame! The beast was game!  A gamer never ran! His wind and pace have gained the race,  His life is fairly won. But may we meet the old gray fox,  The same old fox,  The game old fox; May we meet the old gray fox  Before the year is done.  So here's to the master,  And here's to the man!  And here's to twenty couple  Of the white and black and tan!  Here's a find without await!  Here's a hedge without a gate!  Here's the man who follows straight,  Where the old fox ran.
# Songs of Action/With the Chiddingfolds

The horse is bedded down  Where the straw lies deep.  The hound is in the kennel;  Let the poor hound sleep!  And the fox is in the spinney  By the run which he is haunting,  And I'll lay an even guinea  That a goose or two is wanting When the farmer comes to count them in the morning.
The horse is up and saddled;  Girth the old horse tight!  The hounds are out and drawing  In the morning light.  Now it's 'Yoick!' among the heather,  And it's 'Yoick!' across the clover,  And it's 'To him, all together!'  'Hyke a Bertha! Hyke a Rover!' And the woodlands smell so sweetly in the morning.
'There's Termagant a-whimpering;  She whimpers so.'  'There's a young hound yapping!'  Let the young hound go!  But the old hound is cunning,  And it's him we mean to follow,  'They are running! They are running!  And it's 'Forrard to the hollo!' For the scent is lying strongly in the morning.
'Who's the fool that heads him?'  Hold hard, and let him pass!  He's out among the oziers  He's clear upon the grass.  You grip his flanks and settle,  For the horse is stretched and straining,  Here's a game to test your mettle,  And a sport to try your training, When the Chiddingfolds are running in the morning.
We're up by the Coppice  And we're down by the Mill,  We're out upon the Common,  And the hounds are running still.  You must tighten on the leather,  For we blunder through the bracken;  Though you're over hocks in heather  Still the pace must never slacken As we race through Thursley Common in the morning.
We are breaking from the tangle  We are out upon the green,  There's a bank and a hurdle  With a quickset between.  You must steady him and try it,  You are over with a scramble.  Here's a wattle! You must fly it,  And you land among the bramble, For it's roughish, toughish going in the morning.
'Ware the bog by the Grove  As you pound through the slush.  See the whip! See the huntsman!  We are close upon his brush.  'Ware the root that lies before you!  It will trip you if you blunder.  'Ware the branch that's drooping o'er you!  You must dip and swerve from under As you gallop through the woodland in the morning.
There were fifty at the find,  There were forty at the mill,  There were twenty on the heath,  And ten are going still.  Some are pounded, some are shirking,  And they dwindle and diminish  Till a weary pair are working,  Spent and blowing, to the finish, And we hear the shrill whoo-ooping in the morning.
The horse is bedded down  Where the straw lies deep,  The hound is in the kennel,  He is yapping in his sleep.  But the fox is in the spinney  Lying snug in earth and burrow.  And I'll lay an even guinea  We could find again to-morrow, If we chose to go a-hunting in the morning.
# Songs of Action/The Irish Colonel

Said the king to the colonel, 'The complaints are eternal,  That you Irish give more trouble  Than any other corps.'
Said the colonel to the king, 'This complaint is no new thing,  For your foemen, sire, have made it  A hundred times before.'
# Songs of Action/The Inner Room

It is mine—the little chamber,  Mine alone. I had it from my forbears  Years agone. Yet within its walls I see A most motley company, And they one and all claim me  As their own.
There's one who is a soldier  Bluff and keen; Single-minded, heavy-fisted,  Rude of mien. He would gain a purse or stake it, He would win a heart or break it, He would give a life or take it,  Conscience-clean.
And near him is a priest  Still schism-whole; He loves the censer-reek  And organ-roll. He has leanings to the mystic, Sacramental, eucharistic; And dim yearnings altruistic  Thrill his soul.
There's another who with doubts  Is overcast; I think him younger brother  To the last. Walking wary stride by stride, Peering forwards anxious-eyed, Since he learned to doubt his guide  In the past.
And 'mid them all, alert,  But somewhat cowed, There sits a stark-faced fellow,  Beetle-browed, Whose black soul shrinks away From a lawyer-ridden day, And has thoughts he dare not say  Half avowed.
There are others who are sitting,  Grim as doom, In the dim ill-boding shadow  Of my room. Darkling figures, stern or quaint, Now a savage, now a saint, Showing fitfully and faint  Through the gloom.
And those shadows are so dense,  There may be Many—very many—more  Than I see. They are sitting day and night Soldier, rogue, and anchorite; And they wrangle and they fight  Over me.
If the stark-faced fellow win,  All is o'er! If the priest should gain his will  I doubt no more! But if each shall have his day, I shall swing and I shall sway In the same old weary way  As before.
# Songs of Action/The Old Huntsman

There's a keen and grim old huntsman  On a horse as white as snow; Sometimes he is very swift  And sometimes he is slow. But he never is at fault,  For he always hunts at view And he rides without a halt  After you.
The huntsman's name is Death,  His horse's name is Time; He is coming, he is coming  As I sit and write this rhyme; He is coming, he is coming,  As you read the rhyme I write; You can hear the hoof's low drumming  Day and night.
You can hear the distant drumming  As the clock goes tick-a-tack, And the chiming of the hours  Is the music of his pack. You may hardly note their growling  Underneath the noonday sun, But at night you hear them howling  As they run.
And they never check or falter  For they never miss their kill; Seasons change and systems alter,  But the hunt is running still. Hark! the evening chime is playing,  O'er the long grey town it peals; Don't you hear the death-hound baying  At your heels?
Where is there an earth or burrow?  Where a cover left for you? A year, a week, perhaps to-morrow  Brings the Huntsman's death halloo! Day by day he gains upon us,  And the most that we can claim Is that when the hounds are on us  We die game.
And somewhere dwells the Master,  By whom it was decreed; He sent the savage huntsman,  He bred the snow-white steed. These hounds which run for ever,  He set them on your track; He hears you scream, but never  Calls them back.
He does not heed our suing,  We never see his face; He hunts to our undoing,  We thank him for the chase. We thank him and we flatter,  We hope—because we must -- But have we cause? No matter!  Let us trust!
# Songs of Action/The Song of the Bow

What of the bow?  The bow was made in England: Of true wood, of yew-wood,  The wood of English bows;  So men who are free  Love the old yew-tree And the land where the yew-tree grows.
What of the cord?  The cord was made in England: A rough cord, a tough cord,  A cord that bowmen love;  And so we will sing  Of the hempen string And the land where the cord was wove.
What of the shaft?  The shaft was cut in England: A long shaft, a strong shaft,  Barbed and trim and true;  So we'll drink all together  To the grey goose-feather And the land where the grey goose flew.
What of the mark?  Ah, seek it not in England, A bold mark, our old mark  Is waiting over-sea.  When the strings harp in chorus,  And the lion flag is o'er us, It is there that our mark will be.
What of the men?  The men were bred in England: The bowmen--the yeomen,  The lads of dale and fell.  Here's to you--and to you!  To the hearts that are true And the land where the true hearts dwell.
# Songs of Action/The Home-coming of the 'Eurydice'

[Lost, with her crew of three hundred boys, on the last day of her voyage, March 23, 1876. She foundered off Portsmouth, from which town many of the boys came.]
Up with the royals that top the white spread of her!  Press her and dress her, and drive through the foam; The Island's to port, and the mainland ahead of her,  Hey for the Warner and Hayling and Home!
Bo'sun, O Bo'sun, just look at the green of it!  Look at the red cattle down by the hedge! Look at the farmsteading—all that is seen of it,  One little gable end over the edge!'
'Lord! the tongues of them clattering, clattering,  All growing wild at a peep of the Wight; Aye, sir, aye, it has set them all chattering,  Thinking of home and their mothers to-night.'
Spread the topgallants—oh, lay them out lustily!  What though it darken o'er Netherby Combe? 'Tis but the valley wind, puffing so gustily --  On for the Warner and Hayling and Home!
'Bo'sun, O Bo'sun, just see the long slope of it!  Culver is there, with the cliff and the light. Tell us, oh tell us, now is there a hope of it?  Shall we have leave for our homes for to-night?'
'Tut, the clack of them! Steadily! Steadily!  Aye, as you say, sir, they're little ones still; One long reach should open it readily,  Round by St. Helens and under the hill.
'The Spit and the Nab are the gates of the promise,  Their mothers to them—and to us it's our wives. I've sailed forty years, and—By God it's upon us!  Down royals, Down top'sles, down, down, for your lives!'
A grey swirl of snow with the squall at the back of it,  Heeling her, reeling her, beating her down! A gleam of her bends in the thick of the wrack of it,  A flutter of white in the eddies of brown.
It broke in one moment of blizzard and blindness;  The next, like a foul bat, it flapped on its way. But our ship and our boys! Gracious Lord, in your kindness,  Give help to the mothers who need it to-day!
Give help to the women who wait by the water,  Who stand on the Hard with their eyes past the Wight. Ah! whisper it gently, you sister or daughter,  'Our boys are all gathered at home for to-night.'
# Steamboat Burns

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United States Supreme Court
76 U.S. 237
Steamboat Burns
THESE were two cases brought before the court by what purported to be writs of error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. The writ in the first case referred to a judgment in that court in a suit 'between the steamboat Burns, her tackle, &c., appellant, and James Reynolds and James Aiken, respondents and appellees,' in which 'a manifest error hath happened, to the great damage of the said steamboat, her tackle, &c., as by her complaint appears.' The citation made the same recital. The writ and citation in the second case varied from this only in the names of the defendants in error.
This form of the writ was endeavored to be justified by a statute of Missouri known in that State as the Boat Law, a statute which it was said sought to establish in the State court the plan and procedure of the admiralty. By this act proceeding was authorized against the res, and the vessel was a good deal treated of by the language of the act as the defendant in the case. However, one section of the act (section 12th), provided that the owner, captain, agent, consignee, or any creditor of the boat, might appear to the action, on behalf of the boat or vessel, and plead thereto and defend the same; and another section, the 38th, that the captain, agent, owner, consignee, or other person interested in the boat or vessel, might appeal or prosecute a writ of error to reverse any judgment rendered against the boat or ressel. And, indeed, in this very case the record showed that one Adolph Keinecke had made claim in the inferior court as owner, and as such had defended the suit in the name of the steamboat. He had likewise made affidavit that he was the owner, and gave bond to enable him to appeal to the Supreme Court of the State. But instead of taking the appeal in his own name he took it in the name of the steamboat.
The question now was whether these writs could be sustained.
Mr. Wills, with a brief of Mr. Rankin, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. G. P. Strong, contra.
Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

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