The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-29
STATE RighlN

The following is extracted from speech
/, delivered by John Randolph, in reply to
/ Patrick Henry, on the subject OF State
/ Rights 1t may be found in the first volume
OF Garlands recent Life Of Randolph Il
must be recplleCted that the speech from
which this l. an extract was delivered as far
back as 1900:
Should the Federal Government. there.
fore, attempt to exercise powers that do not
belong to it-and those thai do belong to It
are few, specified. well-detiu, d-ai Others
being reserved to the peope aud to the
State should il step beyond its province,
aud encroach on righ t. at have not been
de,egalcd, II l. the duty OF the States to IN.
terpo>e There is no other pov er that eau
mIeFpose. The crunterweIghr, the oppo>-
ing force OF the State is tn. oniy check to
/ Overactlon known to the system
/ IN questions of meUm et tUuas, where
nights of property are runcered, aud some
other eases specified in the Constitution,
grant yon that the Federal Judiciary may
pronounce on the validity of the Jaw, But IN
questions involving The right H. power, Whe-
ther his OF that power has been delegated
or reserved, they cannot aud ought Lot to
be The arllter; that question has been elt.
as ii always was. and always must be left,
to be determined among sovereignties in the
best way they can Political wisdom has
not yet discovered any infaliibe mathemati-
ca, rule, 10y which to determine the assump-
non OF power between those who know no
other law or limitation save that imposed
upon ihelh by their own consent, aud which
they can abrogate at pleasure. Pray let
me ask the gentIeman-and no one knows
better than himself--who ordained this Con-
stilution? Who defined its powers, and
said, thus far shalt thou go, but no farther
Was 1t not the people of the States in their
sovereign capacity? Did they commit an
act of suicide by so doing IAN act of self.
annlhllation! No, thank God they did
not; but are still alive. and, trust, are be-
coming sensible of that importance OF those
rights reserved TO them. and prohibited to
that government which they ordained for
their common defence. Shall the creature
OF the States be the sole Judge of the Iegali-
ty or constitutionality of its own acts. in u
question of power between them and the
States! Shall they who assert a right, be
+ the sole judges of their authority to claim
and exercise it? Does not all power seek
, to enlarge itsef?-grow on that it feeds
upon! Has not that been the history of all
t encroachment, all usurpatlon If this Fed
, eral Government, in all its departments,
, then, is to be the sole Judge of its own
| nSnrpofianc ho Lo
States, in short time, will have anything
to contend for; this creature OF their making
will become their sovereign, and The only
= result of the Iabors Of our revolutionary he.
, roes, in which patriotic band this venerable
; gentleman was most conspicuous will have
: been change of our masters-New Eng
land for Old EngIand-ior which change
cannot find it in my heart TO thank them
" Our suhmssonist friends in the
; South, have surely never inquired tn
what their course will lead. 1t is the
r object of this paragraph to tell them,
} and try 10 Sc them 20 thinking. They
: live so far from The free States, thai
e they have bul very little per onal in.
e iereSt in the fugitive slave law. They
reason thus: my negroes will nev
er run away, if they do, they will mol
: go tar :" and fold their arms in carna
= security, not retiectiong that great ant
r vital principles are at stake.
q Now, 4 lame Submissive spirit has
already led 10 the loss of Cali 0rni
v and the territories, and also The aboli
!. ion Of The slave trade in The ID $ ric
It Of Columbia. The mex step will 1T
lhp ab, ion there, Of slavery; ibei
;, It's abolition in the Safes, aud h
4 .ou bern Fields will grow up p--,lu u
!. can clirs vii br depopuIai ed -p,tea
{, ~ AM DISTRESS wi'i take br pitc
j. ps~nn i 4 el, II. und ii r,lv tw1r q
~ eTtermjaotiOa lhrgwren tpe two r;a
/, ceS 1851 "at "a
Th = ia a< cprta n "a the Lar
,r reignrth," Then would it not be We
"a to stop and reflect on lhe deep dsa,
II ters which their course must rnfa
,o upon the country. .-SOuthrOn,
81 CIVILIZATION OF INDIANs.-Some very il
p terestIug movements are now being made
le Northern Michigan, among the Ottawa al
ty Chippeway Indians they are now a
D. mitted to the elective franchise in that Stat
Al The Indian settlements at Little and Graz
Traverse last year, exported 1000 bushe
y or potatoes, 1000 barrels of fish, and mat
ed nearly one ton Of sugar 70 each family.
INDIAN WAz IN PRospEcr.--The Ohes
,v kee Advocate OF March 4th says;