The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-12-13

powers, the Constitution Of the United
States is as much a part of the Coustitu-
ton of each State, aud is as binding
upon the people as though it had been
teztually iusertodthcrein.
This Government therefore is
great and powerful government invest
ed with all the attributes and sover-
eighty Of the special subjects to which
its authority extends. It's trainers new
er intended to implaut in its bosom the
seeds Of its own destructou nor were
they at its creation, guilty Of the abb
surdity Of providing for its own dissolu-
ton. II was not intonded by its fra
mcrs to be the baseless fabric Of vis-
ion, which, at the touch of the enchant-
or, would vanish into the air, but
substantial and mighty fabric, capable
of resisting the slow decay of time, and
of defying the storms of ages Indeed
well may Jealous patriots Of that day
have INDUCED fears that a Government
Of such high powers might violate the
reserved rights of the States; and wise
ly did they adopt the rule of strict
construction of these powers, to pre-
vent the danger; but they did not fear,
nor had they any reason to imagine that
the Constitution would ever be so inter
proted as to enable any State, by her
own act and without the consent Of her
sister States, to discharge her people
from all or any Of their Federal obliga-
tions 1t may be asked, then, are the
people Of the States without redress
against the tyranny and oppression of
the Federal Government BY nomeans.
The right Of resistance on the part of
the governed against the oppression Of
their Governments, cannot be denied
it exists Independent Of all Constjtu-
tions, and has been exercised at all pc
riods Of the worlds history. Under it
old Governments have been destroyed,
aud under it new ones have been re-
placed. 1t is embodied In strong aud
express language in our own Declara-
tion Of Independence; but the distinc-
tion must ever be observed that this is
revolution against an established Gov
ernment, and not a voluntary secession
from it by virtue Of an inherent consti-
tutional right Ia short, let us look the
danger fairly in the face Secession is
nothing more nor less than revolution.
1t may or may not be iusJiiable revolu-
ton, but still it is revolution. What,
in the meantime, is the responsibility
and true position Of the Executive, who
is bound by solemn oath before God
and the country to take care that the
laws be faithfully executed? From this
obligation he cannot be absoyed by any
human power. But what if the per-
iOrmanCe Of this duty, in whole or in
part, has been rendered impracicable by
events over which he could have cxcr-
cised no control? Such, at present, is
the case throughout the State Of South
Carolina. So far as the laws Of the Uni
ted States to secure the administration
ofjustice by means Of the Federal Ju-
dietary are concerned, all the Federal
officers Within its limits, through whose
agency alone these laws can be carried
into execution, have already resigned
We have no longer a District Judge or
a District Attorney ia South Carolina.
n fact the whole machinery Of the Fed
cral Government necessary for the dis
tribution Of remedial justice among the
people, has been demolished, and it
would he diFcnIt If NOT impossible tn
ro,I,co il The onIv nets of Conoress
an tbo stotpto-boo< 6eoring unon tbis
snbioct oro those or tbo oS,b Fobrroru
I165 and All March 1897 1bcse NM.
lhori1e rbe president oncr he sbau
baya' oscortoinad tbot tbe marshal with
his nosso contains is unable TO- exc
cnfo ciyiI or criminal nrocess In anv
n9rTicnIa, case to c,Il fortb the militia
pnd omnIov tbe ormv and novv TO aid
linn in pcrIorminr fbe service b9vino.
frst Inv nroclomStion commanded tb9
insnr~Snts to disnerse and rerprp poace !
ahIy 70 thcir rcsnective obodes within a
In},od time f.bis dntv cannot bv
nossihilitv he nerrormed i'm Stale
gLara M iudicial optboritv cxists 10 is-
sna nrocosS and where there is mo mar
s6oI to crecute il and where eyen- if
,boro woro surb an olicer tbe entire
nonnIotion would combine in one solid
rojnmn IN resist him Tbe hare resis.
tonro of These provisions proves bowip-
odronate tbev are without further leo
isI,rion to Gvercome united opposi-
fon in q sinoIe Stote. not TO speak of
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