The Arkansas banner., 1845-03-19
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 CT parse Sales, ussaout t1e .coasent os .4t L. s4.gra. u. ,iia 5.a.as concerned as ae.ias oi t3e G agcess.'
 lia.e W1s universal, unlimited rule "New S.ates may be admitted, aaj "ajH4it- tsj 5y Goa5y s2,iaso this Unian.# Theez. cepI9a, aea only exception to the power was that Il the new Stale was formed cut Q aaS.aie 5f parts ot S.a.es already existing, l could aat bs admitted without tae consent O the States in,crestei Was ever language clearer or more comprehensive New States nav be admitted" What was Sale! Vattel says that
 sNaaons or States are bodies politics, so- ceties o men united toze,herior the purpose ol promoting their mutual saie,y and aitfaa- tage by the joint efforts of their combHed strength. Such society hasahef affairs and her Interests; she deiberates and takes feso- lations n common, thus becoming moral person, who possesses m understanding and wal peculiar to herself and IS susceptible ol obligations and right"
 Cab5e's SYnonmes said that State was the most general term which could he used, equally embracing the vast empire ol Russia and the smallest German prineiPality.
 The constitution said that "aew 5 atee8 might be admitted. What, then, swas he HegcuIean task imposed on the opponents of these resolutions They could Hot stir one step unless they interP6sed the words "agis- ing within lhe territory of the United Siates;n and to iaielpoate such a clause would, ac- cording to his notions, be indeed .consafae- ton cpnstpel." "New S.ates nay be ad mitled bY Congress into the Union" Now. all knew perfectly well that every word, nay. he might almost add, every syllable of the constitution. had been subjected 10 the seyer- est scrutiny before the convention which pre- pared t. And what had been the character of the men who eomposel that most illuzfi- ous assembly. forming as they did the organ- ic law of l great people, laying the deep foundations of government which was t6 tn- dure for ages They framed t with ali the care and anxiety and deliberahan which t was their duty to exercise in matter so gave and momenloas. They were men ef the highest reach of intellect, and of more devoted patriotism than belonged to mca who had since rlhatmightaqain bless heRepuaic.
 And what wa the rule laid down for the consuming of such public instruments' Vat- te says
 '''Fhe first general maxim of.interpretatioa Is, that | $ n1t aIlo5ea5is 10 a'sfprct ,r5a' has 20 @sed of iatTpfsta'i1a.. When dead Is wordad iH eIaaaanl precise terms --wheH is nearing is evident. and lea.isto no absurd eaaclusi9a there can he ao reasea for retH- sing b lmii the meaning which sach deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere ih searca oi eoaj jettHfes, ia ofdee te restrict ef# extenl t, s but an attempt te elhde il, It' uni; dla4efaus method he once allnittesl, there VII be no deea which t will no! fea- der useless. However luminous each clause may he-aaWeyee ctearand precise the terms in which the deed is cauchetl--all this will be of 10 avail, if ilhe allowed to % in quest of extraneous arguments, to prove that t is no tl he understood n the sense winch il naturally preSonis.p
 Was there e5er quotation more strictly appropriate? {? The worthy Senator from Kentucky had gone all the way to Patagonia for the sake ol constrang away the plain lan- gaage of the constitution. He had invoked the aid of the small-iooted beauties of China; nay. he had even gone to the land of the an- thropophag. ''men whose heals do grow be- heath their shoa!dcrs.o Yes; he had brought cannibals into the Senate to devaur honora- ble Senators, and all to avoid the plain read- iag q. plain clause in the constitutions When men of his capacity and ingenuity re- sorted to such expediens, t showed very plinly how soielv they were pressed by the force of truth The honorable Senator in this part oi his argument resem5led the strong man Fl the midst af the Sayhoniaa bog-the more he struggled. he plunged hut the deeRer i'll the mise. What had the Supreme Court Of the uaited States said oa tais subject ?- Chief Justice Fancy says:
 ''in expounding the constitution of the l. States every word must have it's due force and appropriate meaning, for t i5 evident from the whole instrument iiat no word was un- necessarily used or heedlessiv added The many discussions which have taken place on the construction of the constitution have proved tie correctness of this proposition, and shown the high talent, the caution. and the foresight of the llusteoas men who flama3 l. Every wosl appears b have been weighed with the lIlmost teIibefation, and its force aai eiiact to have been fully under stoa3.o
 New States may bs received; vet his in genious fHenls inteepoleted the additional words. 'agising within the existing tergitotv of tae laiIel S.aiesn But what would de thought of this argument when it Was found that ;he vesy convention which framed the clause as ve now found il iA the constitution had had before them the express question whether Il should be thus limited OF noi. and had had these yeFY waeds, or wotJis of q sim- illr import. under consideration for weeks together, ai'l had deliberately rejected them The reeofds of the convention established that fact beyond dispute or question. Ar B. had mate some references to lhe journal Of their proceedings, and had noted down few extracts which he weHll nov real.
 On the 29!h May, l787, alr Edmund Ran dolph offered his famous resolutions to the convention. The tenth of these resolutions was in t.e following words:
 ''RzS5lesd, .ihal provision ought t1 he made for lhe almissiea of states. IarfalfH