The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-03

Of The revolutionary consdsrscy stood forth invested by
the laws Of nature and of nations with power TO deter
mine with foreign gosernmsnts questions of war and peace
TO raise and equip armies impose taxes and coin money
clothed short with all the privileges and mmunitiss Of
sovereignty On the 2lst of February 1884, the old Con-
gre ecslly proclaimed its weakness and handed back
the power which It had temporarily exercised to the people
70 whom IT belonged.
In the convention which framed the constitution two
powerful parties contsnded for vctorythe advocates of
consolidated government and the friends of federal
Union. Long and interesting the debates supported
each side by array Of talents such the world has
seldom but the friends of Individual rights triumph
cd and when the constitution adopted il was under
stood that rights had been surrendered by the States
except those named In the instrument So determined
however, fathers to forever the privileges
for which they had shed their blood that the first
sion OF Congress amendment was proposed in these
words Article x The powers not delegated to the Uni
ted States by the constitution prohibited by 1t to the
States arc reserved to the States respectively the
people, Upon the ratification of this amendment the
doctrine established and the word went out to the
world that our government OF limited powers;
that the lines were distinctly traced which the central au
hory could not transcend without absolvng from their
allegiance all the States of the Union and our theory may
to-day be expressed follows The individual citizens of
each State enjoy the right at all times to remodel in
gauc convention the laws and constitution of that State
to enlarge restrain their privileges regulate
their own police and do everything in their midst
which absolutely Independent powers may do The States
In their sovereign capacity sustain the relation to the
federal government which the individual members of the
States do TO the States respectively.
We in the habit of discoursing eoquenty against
what is termed nulcaton and it must be admitted this
doctrine has been urged beyond Its legitimate bounds
nevertheless people that desire be free should not
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upon the original consent but upon the continued scqui
of whatever portion of mankind it designed
affect The primita and ndestructibe privilege of pri
Judgment belongs to every State of the Union just
as does to every member of the human family We
render the States the right correct violent abuses of
the laws OF nature and of such arbitrary political nsttu
tons as necessary to the existence and webeng of
csy but the great beauty and value of system may
be discovered in the fact that nothing left to be implied
whatever is not expressly granted is expressly withheld
So long the general government shall continue ope-
rate within these limitations II will be the duty of each
State to tsrsqurements but whenever the bloody
lines of law and justice shall be transcended and conse
dated despoism shall attempt to trample upon the rights
Of Individual States, OF
REVOLUTION WILL BH BORN WHICH NOTHING BUT INTELLECTUAL
MORAL WEAKNESS FAIL UNDERSTAND, WHICH
NOTHING BUT PHYSICAL CowARDIcE WILL NEGLECT ExER-
csL Il
Slavery had been recognised in all the colonies the
holy ministry everywhere had endorsed it; William Penn
had boldly sustained the ugtiyeslave law the city Of
Boston had accumulated untold wealth her foreign trade
in African slaves The army of the revolution was led by
saveholda the Declaration Of independence was writ
ten BY one; there in fact North South At the
time Of the adoption Of the constitution the institution Of
slavery existed in nearly every State of the Union;
gnia regarded not only equal in the confeder
ay but by universal consent admitted to be the very
nursery of Gland Of scholars and the
the most gallant Of the living
AT that day political a6otionism was regarded as p-
acy and the penitentiary ncarcerated until the gaows
could execute the who dared to practicable its abo
nations The great Of New England did not consider
honorable to carry FIRE and sword and orphanage and
sorrow into the southern home. But progressng
Wilson has taken the place Of the giant nteects of
other days the genius Of the Old Bay State bows her head
in grief and shame while her senator prostitutes all the
gifts Of God to In insane crusade against the land
that gave him birth cannot WONDER sir, at the stern
and protest of that genuine sculptor of southern
sloquence-Hon A. G. Brown, Of Mississppi-a lover of
Sate-rghts without ultraism patriot without official
avsrce classic scholar without pedantry and mbod
ent Of that consciousness of personal honor and lofty
chvary which neither submits to offence oends with
out cause:
ait is not true that the intellectual giants of the South
who have guided the destiny of the nation through so
many years but the feeble progeny of mbecile
rendered morally obque and intellectually impoent by the
existence Of slavery in the southern States 1t is not true
that three hundred and fifty thousand slavehsder living
In junges with activity Of mind, and energy Of
body have excited the fears of the senator from New
York. When we compare our Washingtons, Jefersons
Aadsons Henrys Marshals Jacksons, and Calhouns with
your greatest and best men, say with truth
that we have cause to blush
ASr the democracy has stood for fifty years like our
own ocean-bound republic The waves Of faction have
upon it. and they have broken in Harmless rpples at
feet 1t stands to-day fit type Of our glorious
try the hope OF the oppressed In every land and the bea
con light to the of freedom throughout the world 1t
will uphold the constitution 1t will preserve the Union
Ii vi dssppoint the tyrants of the Old World and the
enem les Of liberty in the New. Democracy will 60 on
conqu sring and to conquer, until all parties shall con-
to the abme truths which it teaches This is its mis-
sion
1--WE Luean Mr. President to settle this slavery question
firm and lasting, because just LIBERAL and const
tutonal basis. We to stop agitation we mean tol
give rspose the South, and quiet to the whole country
rout the aboonists and bury black republic
cauism 80 low that the sound OF Gabres trumpet will
reach it the day Of Judgment This is our hope this
prayer this confident expectation but II we shall
be deceived in hisfit shall please God to prosper our
enemies there shall be settlementif agitation is
kept up-R the South can have peacef our enemies
have the power and resolved to II in breaking up
the Union and tramplng the constitution under foot
then will turn 70 the senator from New York, the
great chiean Of his party and the author Of all woes
and will say him and his infatuated allies Abram
said to Lot: Let there be strife pray thee, between
me and thee and between my herdsmen and thy herds
men, for brethren Ia not the whole land before
thee Separate myself pray thee from me If thou wilt
take the lett hand then will go to the right or thou
depart the right hand, then will 60 to the left II this