New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-19


Of Tennessee, Daniel Of Virginia, and Campbell Of
Alabama, dissented, and, in the course Of the DIS
senting opinion which Campbell gave, is to be found
the following passage:
For my part, when consider the justice modern
top the restraints upon arbitrary power, the stability
OF social Order the security of personal rights ani
eeieral harmony which Xsted in the country before
me sovereignty Of governments was asserted, aud
when the sovereignty Of the people was living aud
operative principle, and Gorernments rcre ddm'His-
terd SUBJECT to the limitations and rih T0ereH1c
70 me ,Tecfc ends for Thch thy rere orgd7'-sf AMI
their members recognized their res possibility and &c
pencence; feel no anxiety apprehension 10 leay'
ldg the people Of Obi, "a complete power over their
Government and all the institutions and establishments
II has called into existence"
1t is well remarked BY The Erening Post that
this passage, on careful scru my, will be found to
make directly or by implication the following aver
nents:
Fust: That tie sovereignty OF the people in this
country is no longer a living and operative principle
as II OLcc was;
Second: That the Government is no longer admin
istered subject to the limitations and with reference to
the ends for which it was organized;
Third: That the members Of the Government, in
GLIDING, of course the juji,ary, no longer recognize
their responsibility and dependence but are arrogstlng
to themselves powers which the States have never sur
"Fo.rh: That there arc less justice, moderation,
restraint upon arbitrary power, stability OF Social Of
der security Of personal rights and general harmony
than existed before these evil days when the sovereign
ty Of the Government is asserted instead OF the sove
reignty of the people"
In these averments of Judge Campbell, in this
emphatic condemnation Of the present policy OF the
Federal Government, we must express our entire
Concurrence, as Daniel did in the whole opinion at
the moment of its delivery. NJ, st certain it is
that the " sovereignty of the people is no longer
living and operative principle among us, having
been entirely superseded by the sovereignty OF the
Shareholders. Most certain it Is that, so far from
the Federal Government being administered sub
ject to the limitations and with reference to the
ends for which it was organized VIZ, "to form
"more perfect union, establish justice, insure do.
''mestic tranquility, provide for the common de-
"fense, promote the general welfare, and secure
'the blessings Of liberty to ourselves and our pos
"terity," every one Of those ends has been dehb-
eratey sacrificed within the last ten years, and I'M
der the corrupt and wicked administrations of
Tyler, Polk, Fillmore and Pierce, to the extension
of Slavery into States and Territories where it had
once been abolished and prohibited.
However, it will not do to put any great reli-
ance on any aid from these three learned judges
toward restoring the powers of the General Gov
eminent to their true limits. Though the doctrine
has not been expressly enuncated yet it is plainly
the current opinion at the South, that it is only
Shareholders and slsveholdng States that are emit
tied to the ben fits of the Constitution, the nom
slavehOdiDg States and their inhabitants holding
position under it much the same as that which, ac-
cordDg to the views of the State Department. as
recently expressed, is held by the free coored
people born within its jurisdiction.