Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-08-08

apaws, delivered q, q piocy on the Stu oi
lazy;
rr,tow C,r,zrss,.-f 'rrspas unen ihe
,ad,lsence that l have invoked. Iifne fsls
mo To- pass in review The e1P"rienee - me
o,h.r nations OF The European nontnan',
wh;ch in the lat hall century. have hsfn, AMI
=, &c cousnl.ed with the revolutionary spif-
i. In comparing their history during tins
ner,od with onr osn ihrre Is one point 81 iii
ssrnnre beiwesa thstn. which our attention
.aono, hr too intensely riTsted. Our Drelafa-
,;an az indenrnbane.. our Confederation, re
Constitution ofthe uniis9 States, an I'll our
sta,e Constitutions, .illiahi single PERCEPTION.
have teen yoloutary compac;s, dertsine AZ
,b-ir authority fram the nee conseH OF tue
par,iss 20 ihem.--it NAV be- do1bfsd "hp'hef
, single constitution has On rrmed n LII.
.ops. or in Southern America. without spnie
violencs some sdmiffare of conflicting phys.
zeal force in its CONNECTION. ln ne early anu
siso,6cen, nre 9th. ancient m,ttologs. ti's
ga .f.,,n.iarie. wns he ooly deity never 20
ia ,,,,tinted Nv sacrifices OF blood. lie
ion aps tbe only ed who refused 10 yield his
,i.ce even 10 Inpter. Here u The landmark,
poodisss end imtuoyshie, mare unerring than
tho ,erprt from the Pole, firm a. the ever
I,.tiey hills betaeen ireedom and force. II
- not in the pveelamstinn OF priaeipies
D,clats,ions OF the rights Of man, rs full. rs
sopious As formal rs orr own, have decorated
me constitutions of I. srore.--Thase consiitn-
,is,.. arer a short and f fui existence, have
nsssea into the memory Of things beyond the
s,od. leaving heir principle. behind-blood-
.ts,opd and defaced-mopumeniso nly ofiheir
owo notiaion We have proclaimed the
nr;ociplrs. We have adhered 20 the practice:
and our history bHs been tccord Of lnternzl
aesce and general prosperity almost uninst-
ruptsd. Let the contemplation Of the past,
he the instructive lesson of the future And
in this connection let us survey with calm. un-
hlenrhinp eve thu newly revived doctrine oi
notification a word which contains "rhn
itself an sb.urdiiy, importing pretended
,,,ht Of une Stale in The unioo. nv virtue Of
her sorereigniy. 10 make that null and void,
which Il pre-sapposes 10 be null and void
before The doctrine is not new, nor are those
who now maintan 1t responsible for its miro.
duciiop.
\, has been the viinl disease OF cOnic1erne,es
from tbe day when Philip OF Macedon obtain
ed n seat among the Amply ctions OF Gfeeee
II ba, oeyer been, perhaps, involved 10 qnio so
much absurdi,y, MS when appearing ~ MS new
est shane II is now The claim Tor ooe State,
of this Union, by virtue OF her sovereignty
not only 10 make. but 10 unmake the laws oil
the twenty four, each equally sovereign win
herself This cla,m in ITS extent is most EN-
revenue law. Tire Constitution Of the United
s,ates declares that all duties. imposis, aud
excises shall be uniform throughout the Unit
Cd States II forhids any preference To be
given 10 .ny regulation Of commerce or feVe-
nue, 90 the potts of one State over those oi
another The claim tor the sovereign oia'e Is
10 nullify these provisions OF the CONSTITUTION,
ind,ssoluby connected with al the ac's o.
Congress for raising revenue. The 1onshfn
lion OF the United States, in express 'ern', su-
mercedes ali State constitutions and laws con-
Glctine with il. The sovereign STATE claims
b, her laws 20 snpersede the tons'hn'ion OIL
the Dotted States, md the laws OF All 'he o'hef
eleies in the Union. As a member oi the
fJnion. ,h,s advances a claim of the appeal
from the whole 10 twenty lourth part. As a
sovereign Sat-, n claim TO make laws, not
only for hersell but Tor oihers. -Phiios bPh,cal
IL. politically, mntally considered u rs an IN
yer,inn Of all human reasoning II cannot be
conceived without, confusion Of thought. It can
NOT he EXPRESSED without sole cism OF language,
md terms Of self contradiction
Its most hdeous aspect is, not that its prac-
iirai operation must issue IN severance OF
the Union, but that IT substitutes physical
fore in tho place of deliberate legislation.
Srirped OF the sophistcal augmentation IN
which ,his doc,riae has been habued, iu naked
k u
ton aeains, The laws Of the United States 10
ioterpose the arm of State sovereignty bc-
tween rebellion and The halter, aud TO rescue
the traitor from the gihbei. The plan which
IL proposes, If pursued by merely individual
nsso citation, would be levying war against the
United States. II would lot the less be leyy,ne
war against the Union, " conducted under
the auspices Of State sovereignty but as u
State cannot be punished for treason, MULTI
cation would case herself in the complete stee
of sovereign power, as the heroes Of ancient
poetry were furnished with pauoply from the
ermory OF the gods.
You have seen, NV hllows citizens, from
the DeclRra,oa OF Independence, that the
States OF this confederation were the offspring
OF the Union thai heir sovereignty is GOT aud
never was sovereignty ne siefHed by Black
stone and the English lawyers, ihentio-l with
unlimited power that sovereignty thus dtfn-
Cd ia in direct contradiction 20 The Declaration
Of independence, and Incompatible With the
nature Of our institutions The States, unit
ed. and the States seiarate, are both SOW
ereiRn but creatures of the people, and
possess none bot delegated powers that
the power OF pollilying an act OF Goa
pIess, never has been delegated TO any one
81 tie, or 90 my partial combination OF
States, and that any. aud every attempt at
such notification, nv one OF more States, less
than the number required, and otherwise than
in rhe forms prescribed for amendment of The
Constitution, would, however coloured, aud
however Vanished. be neither more or less
than treason, skui4,ng under the shelter Of des-
poiism.
Notification is the provocative to that bru'
tai and foul contest of force, which has hilher-
10 batiled ell the efforts OF the European aud
Southern American nations, 10 introduce
among them constitutional governments Of lib.
erty and order. II strips Us OF that peculiar
aud un,miated characteristic OF all our legis-
lat,ou--free debae. IL makes the bayonet
the arbier OF law III has no argument bu, the
thunderbolt. itwere senseless TO ina CINE that
twenty three states cf the Union wouli suarr
their laws TO be trampied upon by the despe-
tic mandate of one. The act OF nuIl,hcaiiun
would itself be null and void, Force must be
called in to execute the law OF The Union