The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-02-19

ish the over, act, and they must be leagued
in the conspiracy"
The only actual attempt BY State Cor
ernment in its corporate capacity to resist the
lawful authority Of the United States, Of which
we have any recollection, is that which we
alluded to lately as having occurred 10 Penn.
sylvania, and which ended-as things are We.
ry ap, 10 do which are undertaken with more
zeal than knowledge-in a total failure
We recur to il now more particularly as Of.
fording an illustration Of tho principle denied
by South Carolina, that any lumuIUous as.
semblage of individuals, with intents hostile
to the constitutional authority Of the United
S,aies, is equally amens BILE 10 The law, whether
acting for themselves or under the authority Of
State.
The case referred to is tina, o. a corfcl Of
decision between the Courts of the United
States and the State of Pennsy lvania (in wha,
was known as the Olmstead case, in which
the Legislature of that State undertook to in.
terfere, and (asseriing the right Of Pennsyl.
wanna in the matter in dispu.e) to authorize
the Governor to call out a military force 10
resist the decision Of The Federal Court, pass
ing at the same time resolutions asserting the
right of State n,erposi,iou against the Judi.
cial authority Of the United States Of very
much the same tenor as those Of The State OF
South Carolina in the palmy days Of nulli6.
cation.
The Judiciary of the United States was,
Of course, 70, deferred By the action Of the
State Legislature from the discharge Of its
duty. The Marshal was ordered to execute
ment Of Pennsy lvauia militia was called out
under the command, If we RENE nber right,
Of Gen. Bright, and stationed in from, Of the
house in Phiadel phia in which The process
Of the Federal Court was TO be served
Brave and determined, doubtless, were the
citizen soIdiery who assembled that day al
the call Of their gal!an, commander. Many
we're they who offered to devote the mselves
TO the cause, ard die in the last ditch. Not
more resolutc and confident Of victory we're
the emba,tled Nullihers in certain South.
ern State en- the dread first of February,
1888. But, alas for the chivalry Ct the city
Of Brothsrly Love Willis, the military force,
with its colors flying and it's drums beating,
were still stationed in from, Of the house afore,
said, the United States Marshal, through =
back door or window, entered the house and
ssrred the process This being done, the
matter terminated ia farce, and was the
cause Of much merriment. The brows Of
The gallant soldery were not, indeed, " bound
with victorious wteaths," bu, certainly "theIr
stern alarums were changed TO merry meet.
ings," Tor greelings,) and their "dreadfuI
marches to very different ifno, " delightful
measures" There was proba bly, some covert
understanding between the authorities that no
blood should be shed on the occasion Penn
sylvania was too patriotic to push her opposl.
ton to the extremity Of war. However that
may be, this attempt at resistance Of the Az.
,horiry Of the United States had oil the OR
Of being laughed out of counienonre.
May the next attempt Of the Government,
or the People Of any S,aro to oyerpo~er The
Government Of the United States have no
more disastrous issue