Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-21
From the Charleston Mercury, Sept. %.
JUDGE NENNING AND STATE RIGHTS
DANIER OF THE UNION.

JvpGED ENN1XG has delivered an opinion, in the
State Of Georgia, affirming the iHdepeadesce q
the Courts If tie State Of Georgia, in Meir decisions,
of the Coufrs Of tie Uiitel Suites. The Judge is
. staunch vindicator of the rights and sovereignty
of the States and if reformation by words was
prac;ic lble, would be q powerful supporter Of thC.C
views of the Constitution which Jefferson ami Cal
heun put forth the res 5nrces Of their giganti,
minds to establish. But the day Is well nigh past
for Stale rights, and State sovereignty, as matters
Of practical efficacy in the Union. The Courts OF
the United States will override any decision Of any
State whereby the authority Of the Courts Of the
States is putin conhct with their supremacy. And
then what will Judge Benuing's Court do? Sub
nit, of course. And what Will the State Of Gcur-
ra do? Submit, too. And If this will lie the
practical result, Of what avail is Il to make an os
t~cntatious show Of rights, only TO be ~trampled up
on? If State rights and State sovereignties are
ever yindicated, il Will be, not by the lead or agen-
cy Of the Courts of 4 State, but by its Government
organization; and not upon mere questions OF
judicial Jurisdiction, involving the rights Of irdi-
viduals only, but upOn questions which strike ut
the welfare and security Of all. The time was
when the rights Of the States could have been vim
dictated, without the dissolution Of the Union,
Those were the true Union men, who endeavured
to vindicato those rights, and to replace the Fed
eral Government on its original haSis-the soyer
eighty of the States. On this ass it might have
lasted forever. But they failed-f1iled IN 50, ant
again failed in 80. The Government has swep
on its career of consolidation ard national domin
ion. Il has drawn into It's vortex all questions O
rolicy and all interests. 1t now arrogates Authnri
ty, INST only over the Courts Of the States, bat oye
their social institutions. At this moment, q gram
nnti-slavery organization is going on Throughout
all the Free States, IL prohibit by Congress the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into any Of our territories
or the admission Of any more slave States into th
Union. The Fugitive Slave Law, We suppose, the
might consider as repealed by their Illegal an
faithless violence. These are the optposts to b
gained, preparatory to the abolition Of slavery b
Congress. There is the great matter of confic
in which all the Southern States and people mus
be involved. That will lie the great occasion fu
the Southern States to Yinlicate their sovereignty
VIII they do it?
And if they do, can the Union continue? Wi
the Free States, after all their arrogant pretensioi
to superiority. allow themselves to be checked i
their career Of Abolition? VIII fanaticism coas
hunting its prey, and leave us ut peace, with tn
Union resting on its original foundation-ofa pei
feet equality between the States? Judging frol
the past, experience would declare that the Sout
NAV submit, but the North will never yield il
aggressive policy. The world has yet to witne'
any stay in the progress of anti-slayery aggressio
in its march toward Abolition. Malta TetroysHl
res.iQia," may well he its motto. In this last COZ
test. which we deem inevitable, we doubt not tn;
Judge Benning will be, MS he has heretofore heeI
an atle defender Of the rights and honor Of til
South,