This would restore the Senate as the House of States as originally instituted by the Constitution, wherein the Senators are elected by the state legislatures and the Senators are held responsible to the State. This would again certify the Tenth Amendment powers and rights of the States, and of the people. And ANY legislation by Congress beyond the limits of the power designated would be trespassing upon the rights of the States or the people, and would not be the supreme law of the land, but null and void. It will be slow going, there is much to be done, more even than the above, slogging through the mud and debris and detritus of past mistakes, but they can be set right. I repeat again, that we ought not to schismatize on either men or measures.
Principles alone can justify that.
If we find our government in all its branches rushing headlong, like our predecessors, into the arms of monarchy, if we find them violating our dearest rights, the trial by jury, the freedom of the press, the freedom of opinion, civil or religious, or opening on our peace of mind or personal safety the sluices of terrorism, if we see them raising standing armies, when the absence of all other danger points to these as the sole objects on which they are to be employed, then indeed let us withdraw and call the nation to its tents. But while our functionaries are wise, and honest, and vigilant, let us move compactly under their guidance, and we have nothing to fear. Things may here and there go a little wrong. It is not in their power to prevent it. But all will be right in the end, though not perhaps by the shortest means.