Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-04-08
STATE RIGHTS.

be found in the first volume of Gariand's recent
Life of Randolph. 1t must be recoected that
the speech from which this is an extract was
delivered as far back as 1900:
"Should the Federal Government, therefore,
attempt to exercise. powers that do not belong
to it-and those that do belong to it are few,
specified, we'll deGned-all others being reserv-
ed to the people and to. the States-should it
step beyond its province, and encroach on
rig hts that have not been delegated, lis the du-
ty of the States TO interpose. There is no 9TH
er power that can mterpose. The counter
weight, the opposing force of the state, is the
only check to overaction known to the system
ain questions of mentm ct tuum, where rights
of property are coseernsa and some other ca
ses specified in the constt Hon, grant you that
the Federal Judiciarysanay yFpron"unce on the
validity of the Law. HI in questions involving
the right to power VII this or that power
has been delegated or reserved, they cannot
and ought not to be the arbiter; that question
has been left, as it always was, and always
must he left, to be determined among the SOW
ereignties in the best way they can. Political
wisdom has not yet discovered any infallible
mathematical rule, by which to determine the
assumptions of power between those who know
no other law or limitation save that imposed
upon them by their own consent, and which
they can abrogate at pleasure. Pray let me
ask the gentleman--and no one knows better
than himself--who ordained this Constitution 2
Who defined itspowers, and said, thus far shalt
thou 90, but no farther2 Was it not the peo.
pie of the states in their sovereign capacity g
Did they commit an act of suicide by SO doing2
g, fhonk
they did not but are still alive, and trust are
becoming sensible of that Importance of those
rights reserved to them, and prohibited to that
government which they ordained for common
defence. Shall the creature of the states be
the sole Judge Of thelegality or CONSTITUTIONAL
ty Of its own acts, in a 'questinn of power be-
tween them and the states? Shall they who
assert right, be the sole judges of their authori
| tyto claim aud to exercise ita Does not all
power seek to enlarge itselfg grow on that it
feeds uponl Has not that been the history Of
! all encroactiment, all usurpationi fthis Fed.
eral, Government, in all its departments, then,
! is to be the sole Judge of its own usurpations,
neither the people nor the states; in a short
time, will have any thing to contend for; this
creature of their making will become their SOY
efclSt, anu tlIe Oily tesut "! thC i"oo'o VI ool
revolutionary heroes, in which. patriotic band
this:yenerable gentleman was most conspicuous,
will have been achange Of our masters New
England for Old England-for which change
Icannot find it in my heart to thank them
Col JErrxRsos DAvIs.-We are informed
that this distinguished hero. and Statesman,
will visit every part of Mississippi, previous to
the meeting in Congress, in Desea'ber next, and
address his fellow citizens on the dangers that
surround the South. Cordial welcome a.
waits him every where. Heis one Of the Jew
els of Mississippi that she defightsto cherish
and honor. He led her sons to glory and fame
that never dies, on the bloody fields OF Monterey
aud Bucna VISTA He is Soldier and States.
man, that any State, or nation may well be
proud Of Miss. Jacksoaiaa..s z rs..-,t, . u.
-s----- aHa> $3.50.
Was Washington born in England.-The
Boston Transcript publishes an extract from
letter dated Isleworth, Middlesex, England.
Feb. 25th 1851, and addressed to Geo. Harvey,
ESQ.,, Winthrop House Boston, Mr.. Field has in
possession aI. original portrait Of Washington's
ernment Mr.. Field is Is years old, and gen.
| ten1an III every way I'D ue relleu ,H' he idiSeS
the question of Washiugton's native land, by
the following paragraph:
at happened when / was boy, that being
in the neighboshood Of Cookham, Berkshire.
with an uncle Of mine, he pointed out pretty
country cottage in which the parents of General
Washington resided, and from which they re-
moved to America. Our road led to green
or common, where there resided Mrs. Anna
Morer, whose maiden name was Taylor, who
there showed me the portrait Of Mrs. Washing
ton and other reliques of the family, given to
her when they Quilted the place for America, to
which country her aunt and mother, she told
me. took their son George Washington in her
arms believe use her own expression
Damages against the Telegraph Company
The proprietors of the New York Express have
recovered from Morse's Telegraph company for
their failure to deliver despatch in New York
which had been paid for in this city, the clerk
of the company at New York having withheld
the despatch, because payment of previous
demand had not been made.
Washington Republic.
Mr.. Whitney, despairing of Congress ever
making his railroad to the Pacific, goes out in
the steamer by invitation from Eng gland, it is
said TO negotiate for route through Upper
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