The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-12


nl seryiiude.
The States of the Union are, by force of
the Constitution co equal in domestic lrgis
lative power. Congress cannot change law
of domestic relation in the State of Maine; no
more can it in the Stale of Missouri Any
statute which proposes to do this is mere
nulily; it takes away no right, it infers none.
If il remains on the statute book unreppaled,
it remains there only rs Il monument "t error,
and a beacon of warning Ia the legislator and
the statesman. To repeal il will be only to
remove imperfection from the statutes, with
out affecting, either in the sense of permission
or of prohibition, the action of the States, or
Of their citizens.
Still, when the nominal restriction of this
nature, already dead letter in law, was in
tcrns repealed by the last Congress, in n
clause of the act organizing the frrritOrics of
Kansas and Nebraska, that repeal was made
the occasion Of wide spread and dangerous
agitation.
II was alleged that the original enactment
being compound of perpetual moral oblga-
lion, its repeal constituted an odious breach
of faith.
An act of Congress while it remains unre-
pealed, more especially if it be constitution
ally valid in the Judgment of those public
'"".''"""'rs "" f'"''o','I. ~,
conscience of each goud citizen of the Re-
public. But in what sense can it be asserted
that the enactment in question was invested
with perpetuity and entitled to the respect of
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