The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-20
For the Arkansas Baaner. DEMOCRACY.
ND 3
 A. A..

MR. EDITOR From the facts stated in my last communication, assume that the in- dependence and separate sovereignty of each State of the Union, never was at any moment conceded, or i'll any manner renounced. The confederated States consented that this sove- reignty should not be exercised on the ob- jects exclusively committed to the federal government, by the Constitution of 1787.- These objects are severally stated, defined, and limited by the Constitution. Many pow CTS and objects proposed during the debate on the Constitution that took place in the Convention, were rejected by the Conven- ton, and finally, by the 10th article of the amendment of the Constitution, it is declared ''that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States re- spectively, or to the people," Thereby ton of the United States was an instrument conveying specific, express, and limited pow CTS, and those only; that the government was federal government; a creature of the several independent States that consented to 1t; and that so far from being sovereign, in dependent, and uncomfortable, it was origin ally created, is now kept in force, and may be altered, limited, and controlled or annulled, at the will of the several independent States or sovereignties, who united to give it exist ence.
 All this agrees with the plain and obvious meaning of the State instructions to the Del | egates from the twelve States, who met in Philadelphia to form the Constitution of the United States. Thus, as an example, from one of the States they were instructed to meet on that occasion and ''devise such alterations as may be thought necessary to render the Constitution entirely adequate to the actual situation and future good government of the onfcderated States" None of the creden- tials contained word of a national govern ment or a national Union. This delegation of State (not national) representatives met and was organized at Philadelphia, on the 29th of May, l7S7 There were at that time three distinct parties in the delegation, as ap- pears from the account given by Luther Mar tin, and by the propositions actually made and debated in the Convention. The three parties were these.
 One whose object was to abolish and an- nihilate all State governments, and to bring i ioi eutd OHS SCiiCidl SoNttniiiChl ohSi ttliS extensive continent, of monarchical nature. under certain restrictions and limitations The characteristic expression and counter sign of this party was '.Rationaln The lead CTS of this party was Col. Hamilton, whose plan of government to this purpose was read end proposed by him in Convention, on the 18th of June. It did not succeed. Mir. Ran- dolph, MT. Fierce Butler, Mr. Governeur Morris, Mr. Pinckney, were in favor of es- tablishng national government in lieu of a federal Union, of giving to this government supreme power, and of annulling every State law that interiered with the acts of the su- preme and paramount federal government notmuch differing from Col Hamilton's pro- posal, which converted the several States in- to provinces. The leading opponents of this plan, and the defenders of State rights, were MT. John Dickinson and Mr. Patterson. Tho