Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-24

tion 70 the extent Of their common interests az
one united brotherhood, for all their international
concerns abroad and at home thereby establishing
political union, national as well as federal--a
paramount union Of The people, and eonsequen-
tial union OF their States; that this compound
union, so constructed as to secure primacy to the
popular over the federal element, and the national
over the local governments, was the chief end Of
the Constitution of the United States as all It's
provisions as well as the history of its formation
and Of it, subsequent ratification, win abundanty
prove that this Constitution of all is LAW for
all, and D'ast, therefore, necessarily be the supreme
ian for each and all whosc lap IL a..
That to maintain the constitutional supremacy
OF all over each a majority of the citizens of the
United States have, and mast have, the political
right to uphold IL against the opposition of mi.
norty OF citizens, whether they act in an individual
or corporate capacity; that for and To the extent
OF this national object the people denuded them.
selves OF local sovereignty and constituted COM
mon government, vested by themselves with pow
ers sufficient for maintaining the harmony, nteg-
rity, and longevity Of the UEion that though the
General Government can possess no other than
derivatiyc power, yet this embraces resulting and
implied as well as the enumerated powers, such as
the inherent right of selfpreservation and uninter
dicted disposition of its own property, which re-
suits from the very creation of every being natural
or artificial and also the right to employ any
adaptable and unprohibited means for effectuating
the ends Of its express powers; for when the
character Of, its authority delegated an express
power and thereby imposed trust, it necessarily
implied an authority to use the means, which
the constituent might have used aud did not
choose to prohibit, for executing tho power = i
fulfilling the trust; and, consequently, r. ,.iu
tent OF unprohibited means relatip~ lLe es-
OF express powers, all necesssr- 70 .he enus
whether resulting or lmpn = OF proper power
delegated by the con-" ..ed' mas Deeh as hiuci,
powers themsolvc .utution as the enumerated
mower Iar as the General Government has
IT,, express, resulting, or implied, no State,
.ough it may often possess concurrent, can ever
constutionally exercise any degree of antagonistic
power; that, though no act not authorized by the
Constitution can be law, yet, to maintain the uni
formity and nviolabity of the Constitution ITSELF
tho United States, through their judicial organ,
have, and must have the ultimate right to decide,
between citizens or States, whether 1t has feen
violated; and therefore the people established the
Supreme Court Of the Union as the umpire in all
such cases Of q judicial character and expressly
gave it final Jurisdiction coextensive with that OBJ
ject; that when, as in cases of foreign commerce,
for example, the people of the States transferred
to their common government all their power, the
trustee, in regulating commerce, has authority to
protect American capital industry, and enterprise,
agricultural, commercial and mechanical, just az
each State, before it surrendered the power might
have protected its own elements of wealth against
foreign labor foreign capital and foreign legislation,
and whenever the only depository Of the power
to protect national independence fails to do
it judiciously, the constituent benefcaries have
right to complain Of breach of trust that Con.
gress has power to repair or make post roads, to
improve harbors, internal as well as maritime, and
to improve the navigation Of rivers used as high
ways Of INSTRUMENTATION between the people Of
the States and that whenever it fails to exercise
any of those needful powers, in needful case, it
is guilty Of betrayng its trust and deserving the
interests Of the people, and that in all ordinary
cases the General Government and that of each
State ought prudenty to forbear to exercise doubt
full power and that the Constitution Of the United
States should as far as its letter may permit, be
construed, as best to efectuate the great national
ends Of Union and Liberty, Peace and Progress,
for which il instituted in spirit Of patrarchal
magnanimity.