Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-01-06

still left one Roman or two, who ever VIII
ling to risk all and every thing upon the
altar OF their country's glory, where now
had been the proportions Of that beau
tiful fabric which has been cemented win
the blood! Ind established in the wisdom
of patriots acknowledgements The sover-
eighty and independence ofevcry State IN
this Union, would have now been bye
word and reproach throughout continen-
tai Europe, and the pioneer and adventur-
er through onr western forests, would
have before this administration shall have
terminated, held the tenure OF his soil, at
the will of some Lord Of Manor. But
times have altered. Near twenty mil
lions of free people, as if by fiat of intui-
ton, have awakened from their fatal leth-
argy, and i eiependentIy proclaimed to the
universe, that this is a government OF pop
ular choice; that they are the Sepreme
Judges Of the measure oftheir wrongs, and
altho' crippleds worn down, and enerva-
ted by dictatorial administration, Vhey
yet arose in the majesty oftheir strength,
and have bursted the ligaments, which
long bound them down, to the seductive
incantations Of miserable Demagogues.
But friends to the Rights Of the States,
be not too sanguine in the belief that no
cloud may not again overcast your rising
sun; it is the province Of wisdom, to re-
tain as well as gain victory. Have you
not reason to dread, least, the poison of
which we have so long been drinking, is
yet lurking in your national counsels2 Are
you not boldly told to your faces, that you
are not the judges of the time, place and
manner, Of electing your members to Con-
gress! Do not the very men, whom you
sent by a special delegation, and delegated
by your suffrage for limited and prescrlb-
ed period, with unblushing affrontery and
at too, upon the very floor of Congress,
tell you, you did not know what you were
about, when they were sent there to repre-
sent you? Shall it ever be recognised
as precedent in this Government, that
any Foreign State, or number OF States,
(for we recognise all the States as foreign
to one another, so far as respects their do
nestle relatlons,) shall become the arbl
tiers, Of the intention of any State, relative
to the administration Of its internal and
domestic policy? Had even the purported
author Of the proclamation of 1889, which
has done more to derange the harmony Of
this Republic, than all the contemplated
treason of Aaron Burr, have dared to adj
vocate such a principle, is there one soil
tarv deyotee. of that remarkable Cheftaln
that would now presume to sanction SO de-
testabe heresy. II then becomes every
devoted friend to the Rights of the States
to Join in solid phalanx, and denounce witt
merited opprobrium, this daring outrage
of Federal aggression, to tell In Language
not to be misunderstood, those delegates II
Congress who have so daringly violated
! the most sacred rights of their constltu
ents, that the Constitution of the State, an(
!, the people of the State, are the judges, ant
not the delegate, the Judge of the tenure
Off office. By boldly and unhinchingl,
, thus defending the rights of the State, al
; will be we'll; the machinery of our gov
eminent will ultimately work in concor
D and harmony; but let us once yield one sol
itary State right, once recognize the slight
/, est aggression in the assumption ofpowel
the character Of our State abroad mus
h dwindle into sickly degradation; mis-
l. trusted by ourselves, and despised from g
, broad, we shall compose but nomina
r speck in the aggregate Of the Union, tn
line of demarkation so legibly marked OF
- between the sovereignty of the States an
the action of the Government, will ceas
"a any longer to exist. This will ultimatel
g prove the forerunner Of that melancholl
= era, when, under the reign Of anothc
&C Nero, the columns Of our capitol sha
h. stoop in tumbing ruins, and the pillows
! our constitution lie strown in broken fra
ments around us.
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