The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-03-17

But IT is subject Of which my heart is full. and
nave not been willing TO suppress tie utter
ance OF its spontaneous sentiments. cannot.
even now persuade myself to relinquish it, with.
; OUT expressing, once more, my deep conviction.
I4at since 1t respects nothing less than the
On.on OF me States, 1t is of most vital and es.
senelai Importance to the public happiness. |
profess, sir, IN my career hitherto 20 have kent
steadily IN view the prosperity and honor of the
whoic country, and the preservation of our Fed
erai Union 1t is to that Union we owe onr
safety at home, and our consideration and d;c.
nifty abroad. 1t is TO that Union that we are
chiefly indebted for whatever makes ms most
proud OF our country. That Union we reached
only by the discipline of our virtues in the So
we're school of adversely 1t had its ORIGIN in
the necessities of disordered finance nrostr,ta
commerce, and ruined credit Under its benign
influences, these great interests Immediately
awoKe, as from the dead, and sprang forth with
newness OF life. Every year of its duration has
,eemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its
blessings; and although our territory has
stretched out, wider and wider, and our popu-
iatlon spread farther and farther, they have not
outrun Its protection or its benefits 1t has
peen to US all cop;ous fountain of national So
cial, and persnn@i happiness have not allow.
cd myself to look beyond the Union. 60 sec what
might be hidden in the dark recess behind, /
have not coolly weighed the chances of pre-
serving liberty, when the bonds that unite us
together shall be broken asunder. have not
accustomed myself to hang over the precipice
OF dlsunlon, to see whether, with my short sight,
can tathom the depth of the abyss below nor
should regard him safe counsellor in the
affalrs OF this Government, whose thoughts
should be mainly bent on considering, not how
the Union should be best preserved, but how
tolerable might be the condition of the people
when it shall be broken up and DESTROYED.
While the Union lasts, we have high exciting,
gratifying prospects spread out before us, for
US and our children. Beyond that seek not
70 penetrate the veil. God grant that in my
day, at least, that curtain may not RISE God
grant that on my vision never may be opened
what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turn
ed to behold, for the last time, the Sun in heay-
en-, may not see him shining on the broken
and dishonored fragments of once glorious
Union; on States discovered, discordant, bel
ligerent; on land rent with civil feuds, or
drenched, it may be- in fraternal blood Let
their last feeble and lingering glance, rather,
behold the gorgeous Ensign Of the Republic,
now known and honored throughout the earth,
still full high advanced, it's arms and trophies
streaming in their original lustre, not Stripe
erased or polluted, nor single star obscured-'
bearing Tor its motto, no such miserable inter-
rogatory as-WhGt is all this anorth Nor
those other words of deluson and foy-Liber-
ty first, and nniOn aftersoards-but every
where spread all over in characters of living
light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float
over the sea and over the land, and in every
wind under the whole heavens, that other SEN
timent, dear to every true American heart
Liberty and Union, now, and for ever, one and
inseparabe
1.-THE notes which accompany this speech
oh r-ll
is the substance of them.
Note l, is copy of vote of the Con-
gress of 1857, on report of Commissioners
OF the Legislatures of the States of Virgin
Ia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
and New York, in which the ineffcency Of
the existing government, and the necessity
OF further provisions to make it adequate to
the exigencies of the Union, are set forth,
and the States are recommended to send
delegates to a proposed Convention, to be
held at Philadelphia.
Note 2, consists of long extracts from two
speeches of Mr.. Calhoun in 1916, in which
the doctrine of tariff for the protection of
manufactures, and the right and necessity
OF the general government to prosecute In
ternal improvements are defended to their
fullest extent.
ANOtC -, COuIdiHS cAtTdCLS Vi proceedings
in the Legislature of Virginia in 1909 and
1910 on a proposition of the State of Penn
sylvania to so amend the Constitution of the
United States, as to establish a tribunal for
the express purpose of adjudcating on ques-
tons in controversy between the Govern
ment of the Union and the State Govern
ments. The subject was referred to Com
mittee who reported that the "tribunal al
ready provided by the Constitution, viz, the
Supreme Court" was "more eminently
qualified from their habits and duties, from
the mode of their selection and from the
tenure of their offices, to decide the disputes
aforesaid in an enlightened and impartial
manner, than any other tribunal which could
be created" They agreed that such a tri-
bnnal as it was proposed to create would
tend rather to invite, than to prevent, coll;s-
ions between the Federal and State Courts.
1t might also. become, in process of times a
serious and dangerous embarrassment to
the operations of the General Government"
They therefore introduced resolutions, dis
approving Of the proposition of Pennsylva-
MIA. These resolutions were unanimously
adopted in both branches of the Legislature.
JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE