The Arkansas advocate., 1831-11-30

5yi'Icif fiiiiii and reid iEs.: E not new, nor ire fisose vIlo now maintain it re- sponasIle for its jptrodnction. It has been the vital disease of coniederacies from the day when Philip of Maeedon obtained aseat among the Amphyetions of Greece. IL has never been, per- laps, involved in quite so much absur- Elity. as when appearing in its newest ! hape. ftisnor the claim for one State of this Union,by virtue of her soye-
 FeigntYs not only to make, bat to an- make the laws of the twenty four, each l Ie4aally soyereig0 with herself, This Iciaim in ifs extent is most emphatically Illustrated ny lis application to reyen- inc Iav. The constitution of the Unit led States declares that all duties, inl- Iposts, and exercises, shall De uniform throughout the United States. 1t for lbids any preference 10 De given, by any lregaiationof commerce, Or revenue, to 1 the ports of one State oyer those Of an lolher. The claim fos the sovereign lState $ to nullify these provisions Of the !Constitulion, indissolablY connected Iwith all the acts Of Congress for raising Irevenue. The constitution of the Unit led States, in express terms, slpefeedes tall the State Constitutions and laws lconfiicting with it. The sovereign ISfate claims bY her laws to sapeFeede Ithe Constitution of the United, and the flaws of all the other States in the tn !ioa. As a member of the Union, this advances a claim of appeal from the Ewhoie to a tWenty-fourth part. As a l.aveseiga ] State, claim to make laws 1 not only for herself, but for others. Phi
 Ilosopliically, politically, morally eonsid Tered, t Is an inversion of all human \ lreasonipg; il cannot be conceived with
 Iout confusion of thought, it cannot bf
 xpfessed without solecisn of language
 :4aa terms of salf.contra2iction.
 l Is nosf'hideoas aspect is,not that i. rae. siroperatios, must issue isi a st
 Iveraaee of the Union, bat that if sah
 sttItes physical force in the place Q
 lha deliberate Legislation. Stripped c
 1 ith saphistical argnmentation in whiet
 shis doctrine has been Inhabited, it's nak
 ed nature is a effort to organize iHsae
 faetion against the laws of the Uuitee iStaies;to interpose the afm of statt s3yereig8ty. between rebellion and ihf lhalter, and to rescue the traitor ffon iittssic iittssic ssEsess. The plan which t prope lses, # pursued bY merely individual as. lsociation, would be ieyying war against Ithe tTaited States. 1t would not the Hess be leYying war against the Union Iifcondpcted under the auspices of State 1 sovereignty; but as State cannot b. Eparashed iortreason, Modification would lease aefseif ia tile complete steel q Isovefeign power, IS the heroes of an-
 eient poetry were furnished with paao- Epiy from the armory of the gods.
 1 You have seen, my Eeiiow-cltlzens. lfrom the Declaration of Independence. l that the states of the confederation we're EtAe oaspsag of the Union; that theis sovereignty is not, and never was, q Isoyereigaty as defined by Blackstone, land the English lawyers, identical with unlimited power; that the sovereignty, linus defined, is in direct contradiction
 to the Declaration of Independence, and incompatible withthe nature of our institutions; that the States, united, and lthe States, seperate, are both sovereign but creatures of the people, and possess lnone but delegated powers; that the Ipower of nallifying an act of Congress, navot has Laaa daiaoa{sJ tN orr,