Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1860-01-02
From the Chronicle and Sentinel
Has a state the Right TO Seceds!

As a Georgian, never will we admit that
Georgia's individuality is merged into q consoli-
dated mass. Our Government Is compact
formed BY, submitted to, and adopted by, the
States; formed for "our mutual benefit and mu-
tual protection;" failing afford either. Georgis
or any other State, plant herself on her re-
served rights, and throw off that Government.
To support the position we re.er TO Troup. Jeftr
son, Madison, Barbour, Livingston, Macon, Ran
dolph and Tszewel.
Perhaps before referring to these, ii may be as
we'll to state that Massachusetts, full of liberty
bills and negro equality, seems to hold the right
Of secession, ss on the records o; ber Legislature
are to be found the iollowing:
Resolved, That the anne xatior of Texas is ipso
faetO. a dissolution of the Union.
ResOlued, That Texas being annexed, Massa-
chusetts is out of the Union.
First-The Kentucky resolutions of I795.
drawn by Mr.. Jefferson: " that the several
States comprising the United States. are not
united the principle of unlimited submission
to their General Government; but that by COM
pact, under the style and title Of Constitution
for the United States, and Of amendments thereto,
they constituted n General Government for
special purposee; reserving, each State to itsef,
the residuary mas, OF right, to their own SELF
government; that to this compact each State ac-
| ceded as State, and as an integral party; that
this Government, created by this compact, was
not made the exclusive or fnal Judge, of the er
tent of the powers delegated to itself, since that
would have made its discretion, and not the Con
sttu,ion. the measure Of its power; but thar, as
in ell other cases Of compact among parties hav
| ing no common judge. each pa ty has an eqzal
right to Judge for itself, well of infrac.ions
Of the mode and measure Of redress"
Gov. Troup, in writing to Messrs. Taylor
| Brown Butler and others, il 1880, said: ssW hat
ever the people Of South Carolina, in convention
shall resolve for their safety, interest aud hsppi-
nes., will be right, and none will have the righ
| to question il. You can change your own gov
erument at pleasure, and therefore you can thrOv
OF the government OF the Union, whenever th,
| same safety, interest and happiness require IL
IL ambition and averice shall make of the Fede-
raj Government a curse, and the States are TO b.
held to it against their will, our condition differ
in nothing from the old provinces of Turkey o
Persia.
There can not be greater fallacy than tha
the Union is to be preserved by power in tn
General Government 20 coerce the States Tn
existence of sovereignty excludes the idea O
force. Ours is a Govern ent OF opinion-of cs,r
sent-of voluntary assOciatiDn-the only qua
anty for union is justice.
"The Constitution, administered according Z
its letter and SPIRIT can dispense nothing but jus
tice, and the character of the american peopl
is sufficient warranty that no State would sepl
rate from the Union withous iustfable cause.
Third. The Virginia resolutions of '95. draw
BY Madison, "Thst this Assembly doth explici,l
and peremptorily declare that il views the pos
ers of the Federal Government as resulting frol
the compact 10 yhish the States are parties, {