Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-04-25

From Niles Register.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE
PEOPLE
I have deliberately adopted this head
ing for short series Of essays, because
believe, and feel myself at liberty to ex.
press the opinion, that secret power.
unknown 10 the constitution and 10 be dep.
reca,ed by every thinking man in the re.
public, is daringly at work to gather TO
itself, and exercise for its own benefit, the
rights viii CHI belong TO the freemen OF
tho United States, and which cannot be
parted with without yielding the principle
contended for by Legitimate princes" and
established priests, that it is themselves
who ore appointed 10 make and expound
and administer the law and the gospel,
and possess the fat things they afford, civ
j, and ecclssiastic.
/, is not the frs. time this power has
b.en erected in our country. Under DIFF
feren, names, it hath acted TO accomplish
the same balelul purpose OF acquiring
domination. lis seat was once ~ Inc east
IL isuow in the south. TIE frs clam-
ored that an s.energetic govern&eni
might be tuilt up-thai their Partlzans
should take the chief seats IN the syna-
gogae and be called rabbi-the last talk
about liberty, and ga preservation of The
great republican party" that its o'cn man.
ayers aud ministers may direct The at.
.airs of tie nation. and rule The rglgar pop
ulace And thus, though the two oPpos-
ing llntas seemed TO have opposite cours-
es, each desired to accomplish the same
oblec, for itself, aud both, to consider
able extent, attained it, at different periods.
The eastern junto is defunct-but the
southern is making desperate struggle
for existence and lis logic, that il is need
full to dlvesl the people of the discretion'
as TO the management Of their own affairs,
that the republican, party may be preserU-
ed, is just such as person would use
who should recommend the decapita,ion
of a man to relieve hin Of the tooth-ache.
The republican party. when denied or
deprived of the right of suffrage, aud an
unrestricted fieedum ia the election OF
those to be placed in authority, may well
be compared TO headless trunk, tit only t
for rermin TO feed on, except that theremay {
be a reneral of the "spirlt OF man ,
within The PROSTATE carcass, with moral I
aud physical power enough 10 drive out c
the worms, and. by exposing them to The G
light and heat Of the sun, reduce Them 10 G
dust and cause them TO be scattered o
where 10 man knoweIh, by The whole o
SOM breeZes of heaven. Such has OF i,
en been the fate OF aspirates of every age b
but it is mol the habit of such to profit by b
experience. A renewal oflhis spirit, S,
and an exeriion OF this power, is as ne o
:essary as was in $500. Names are Il
must acknowledge that l y
would rather an avowed opponent Ahan al
protesting friend, should do me wrong III
fwrong mus, be suffered; and, as an pl
Id democratic republican, am vexed ST
hat persons should have combined or con- al
pired, under the name of my party, 10 u
commit the same acts which we depreca- ST.
I'd in what we called the "federal repub. IL
can" party being only change of In
ersons and not of things. | alluded par nc
cularly 20 the proceedings had in New en-
ork, in which this secret power made re
But the seat of that pow re-
is not in New-York. The '.execu- ID
re directory"is at Richmond*--and the 10
st are mere projects and governors, VIC ~ ~
oys or regents. II is by the system thus y
tablshed, that the many are managed. :"
he sitting ofthe caucus may be regard -;
permanent. Its eye is never closed 10 -,
II mean exactly al Richmond, and Its neigh go'
rhood, which has kad great influence over syl
rginia, but no more belongs to the people OF
9 srate than its branch, at Albany, belongs he'
thtse ofthe state OF New York. i lica