The Arkansas advocate., 1835-08-14

positions sA constitution can op,.
 made by the people of , State in the, :. reign eapacity.s Would any portion ores country constitute a stale, without b,,s. ieasly formed eonstitltioflas ws
 zine not. We believe that the peoplein " sovereign capacity-kand except so fat ass
 have surrendered our rights by contract
 are as sovereign as any neoale)ee::.,.,. .,,-., ,. Convention and form a constitution, ana ! come state@wlliiiclli constitution Wooa take effect until Congress acted upon '
 How State could exist before it formal Constitution. and a Government, we arc ;, loss to know. It is true that we are dens I dant so long IS we are bound by the orsas'. E law of superior government but we :, dependant because we agreed to be so s,
 certain time, which time has now elapsed We are bound by the Organic Law--b0t iti. only by force of the contract which we ent,. s cd into when we came here. Ne agree5h be bound by it, until the Treaty and the On, stitution which arc both paramount to 8 should release us from it. Itis not true tb,t We < cannot become independent, or acan,s the fall and ample sovereign power, necsss " to the formation of . constitution. utl granted us by the superior We are ipd pendent and have that power inherent inn, and 1t is only suspended by . contract, Wbn5 ceases of itself. bacausa VIC have neses-n.l all the conditions-and does not wait tob dissolved by the will of the superior.
 We agree with Judge Patterson, ia k definition of coasttution-but the mise, tune of the Governor in our opinion, is, ta he eorfeunds the Constitution and the orea,.
 ie laW--tbe latter of which is only the crsa. ture and menial of the former. The latta has now ceased to be :. eonfoFmable" to the former. and Is therefore null and Yoid',--a
 will be, so soon as Ee form a proper constiiq. tion. and ask the action of Congress upoat flor then Congress- by the sovereign eonst. tuition of the United States, and the solemn
 Treaty of Gession, will have no right to re- fuse Us adalittanee.
 The proceaents of the mode of admission
 which the Governor quotes, are all correct
 but they are pfeeedeHts not settled or fs9ai- red by the constitution The Tefritetgef
 Michigan, is, as the Governor states, pfspat- ing for admission under the ordinance ql I787. The State Of Tennessee became e1i. tied in the same way-and the treaty of ess sion gives us the same power which the otdi nance gave them. Michigan is forming 6ei constitution under the ofdinanee-letu us fota ours under the treaty, and both will be ac. eepted without hesitation.
 We are sorry the Governor does not con sider 1t consistent with his duty to cali the Legislature together at an early day. He certainly could have done t, without alladng in any way to their action on the questiond State government. If they saw fit, ateI coming together, to act oil that matter, td' Governor could have vetoed it-and he woai have given no aid to 's this unlawful proceed ing.' Had the Legislature been convene in September, the constitution could haq been formed and sent on at the beginning the session of Congress, and Arkansas wOul have been a State. Perhaps the Goyerno has been too sensitive, and exaggeratedto highly t he blame which he would incur D calling together the Legislature. We stI conceive that it was his duty to do so-.an when the bill for Convention should hay passed, he could have vetoed 1t, and give his reasons, much more appropriately than an address to the people. The bill woul have passed by . majority of two thirds--an without the aidanee or abetting of the Gov ernor.
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