Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-19

community may rcquire-Tbis is sovereignty. When
hey form Government they do not cede their
the Government. They still remain sovereign and
ly depue 10 agents, trustees the power
particular things promote their good They i'm fact ex
ereSe themselves by their attorneys in fact the powers
inherent in them The end OF instituing Covcrn,nc nt
then, being TO promote the safety happiness of the
people, by doing certain acts which the people
WELL with facility, perform for themselves they are
under oblg atoms continue the Government longer
than they believe that these ends attained: and ~
ever they believe they can be better attained nv alteng
remodelling, or establishing the Gov, hy other ar
engagements, they may alter amend remodel or abolish
the old aud establish Government anew on other and
better principles. so the Declaration Of Indepe ndence
declares; and so is declared by II" the Constitutions of
the respective States formed since the separation from
Great Britain The compact entered into by each indi-
vidual, with theswhoe in the formation of the Govern
ment, is, that long they remain under the Govern
ment. every one will submit his will to the will of the
whole declared by their servants on all sucts en-.
trusted TO them The people do surrender any por-
ton oil their natural rights by entering into Government
TO secure the ohers-rhat would TO the full extent OF
the surrender defeat the end object of entering ill.,
TO Government The true fact is that they entered into
Government TO the enjoy ment Of ali their natural
rights and they entrusted TO the Government power
oil deridng, to certain extent, the manner in which
they shall be exercised
These principles all apply the States and to the Fed
eral Government The only difference between the two
cases is that Government is Instituted ly States al
ready formed and the other by community which forms
state or nation The individual whose happiness not
secured by the Government of which he is "A member
can secede, which is called expauation lie need not
leave the country but he becomes alien TO the Gov
" "eu we salety ana happiness oil State is
not attained by the Government Of the United States she
mas right to secede; and she alone decide in the
dS resort whether her safety and happiness
| by the Government When she secedes she becomes
alien to the Federal Government resumes the exercise of
all her rights as well those she had agreed not to exer.
else, or TO exercise by attorneys who were the Joint atr
neys OF all the States, or TO exercise concurreny with
nose Jo'nt agents. as all other rights which remained un
snee'ed by the compact This she does sovereign
State, individual does as one of the sovereign peo
Du'' even The States were not sovereign yet they
are organized bodies and easily ascertain the will of
majority oi the State, large OF consolidated
Empire and Governments State, upon principle when
ha mass had clearly dscerained That the greater part
oeheVe mat their safety and happiness secured
would nave right TO Withdraw from the consolidated
Empire, and establish Government themselves
the existing Government unchange,land this would not
oc NeVoiuuon. A REPUBLICAN l79S.
(Vnginid.)