Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-02-24

My principles do not admit the rignt even
of the people, still less of the legislature,
Of any one State in the Union, to secede
at pleasure from the Union. No provis-
ion is made for the exercise of this right,
either by the federal or any of the State
constitutions. The act Of exercising IT,
presupposes departure from the princi-
lple of compact and a resort to that OF
force.
If, in the exercise of their respective
functions, the legislative, executive, and
Judicial authorities of the Union on one
side, and Of one or more States on the
other, are brought into direct collision
with each other, the relations between
the parties are no longer those Of consti-
tutional right, but Of independent force.
Each party construes the common COM
pact for itself The constructions are ir-
Ereconcileable together. There is no UNI
Ipire between them and the appeal is TO
the sword, the ultimate arbiter of right
between Independent States, but not be-
tween the members of one body poltick.
| therefore hold it as principle without
exception, that whenever the constituted
authorities of State, authorize resist
ance to any act of Congress, or pro-
nounce it unconstitutional, they do there
by declare themselves and their State
quOad hoe out of the pale of the Union.
That there is no supposable case, in
which the people of State might place
themselves in this attitude, by the primi-
tive right of Instruction against OPP
preston, / will not affirm but they
have delegated no such powers to their
legislatures or their judges ; and if there
be such right, it is the right Of an indi-
yidual to commit suicide--the right of
an inhabitant of popuulous city to set
fire to his own dwelling house, These
are my views. But to those, who think
that each State is sovereign judge, not
only of its own rights, but of the extent
of powers conferred upon the general
government by the people of the whole
union; and that each State, giving its
own construction to the constitutional
powers of Congress, may array its sepa-,
rate sovereignty against every act Of that
body transcending this estimate of their
powers--to say of men holding these
principles, that, for the ten years from
1904 to 1914, they were intending d dis
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to their principles. al'
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lates a,e necass.rv E;ss. 80 dr5ss s
of S.onrrass ,ul,;., ,a,s,,a $500 a. -
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&c ovc;tomont ,no,,Ir i, - III esss,
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a.n,ad ~ ,r,dn.o 80. - az co. -
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75,ongress ResoJnt;ons &c az Ies;.lo
tures deny;na tba nowors of On ,sr .sss
arc tho 6rst stens II tb;s ,nar.h .oiJ;s, ~
an h,,t tbey .ra;l no,b;5r ~,
sem,ent and CORRESPONDENCE act;as II 1
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hal;erad - 10 Observation-Disclosures - ~ =; -
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onences - tho ,vboIe ITn;on ,,sa.a -,
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;ng i ~ 80 th a Iab. oss'ly = no.u-
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at;oa ,nat nh n.har d;sa po.sa pa
herad fin the att,cL ~ the a ai Sun
the CbssanaaLe s,llowad b. ~ CT. oa
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to the embarco Of the GOD Dace asJ. 'e -
tb.t vear Tbe ,;rst nf thasa l.,,,,., !.
brougbt the nation to the br;nI &c s ,,ss
With Great Rr;ta;n and thasa ! va
reason to hel;yeya that the sacand 4 S.a syou
tar1ad &c ,oas,,sa III $3.50 saS ~
If hat oovarnnent to s,geen az, ,,, o .a.
, $500 g., .la -Soa - ~.
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t;nn r ,,ndm .ba .aas "a haIa;, S na u Z
thor caraoas and thor cra,vs =, so, s,s,.l