Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-01


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veteran dffst 1S5rlSs IRE 81
tie 1Ibra Ties ot q pro- s., cllt Us
what he calls Tie e51Insn on the fiits ii
secession in q nut shell
he old ccpfedefeey, Of tbich pntb
Carolina was member gIqs q PER IsfttRl
Union. u WAS league of Stqtsg NE
federal repnblic which sueeeeded It was
abltEhed /. as its constitutional preamble
iidecleres, tin order TO form Slofe parted
Union, and was not q confederacy of SOW
etefgn States but a new oTganization Of
governments lade;, also declared in the
preamble, 81 The pople Of the B11Ied
States ftaat IS; of the States already
united in q perpetual UnfonE) 1t Was 4
new Distribution of ppWers by. the people
+ in their 5oFereign capacity and they might
have made any other or different distribu-
ton Of powers. u stripped the States of
All lnternAtIohal soYereignty-such as trea-
kty, alliance, enlarg or contraction of
limits, army am nary in peace, WErand em-
1b1tsJ-and left them With mere munich.
pal sovereigntS, sabiect to the Gonstitu-
ton. the pursuant laws of Congress, aud
public treaties, as the supreme Law of the
land. II consequently operates through aud
over every state aud upon every individu-
al.of every state. AL this has been set
tied by the Supreme Court South Caro-
lima assented to II by her ratification of
the Constitution. It vas an unqualified,
unconditional ratification, to which the
people of all the states, In their delegated
action, gaze their SANCTION. New York
was disposed 10 limit the ratification 10
seven years, and Hamilton. one of its dele
&ae
that 6nch q ratification would be no ratifi-
cation all. 1t must be unconditional and
FOREVER. If otherRise, how could the
Onion be a more perfect Union than that
of the old coufederaeS2 But the pream-
bic of the ncE national government fur.
Their declared It's object, BY the people, ito
PerPetnate The blessings of liberty 10 their
Postes5tp-. Clearly. theyssdid not eoutem-
plate that the Union was rope of sand,
to be fragmented By every gust of passion
or freak of ambition. If otherwise. why
did Madison, Hamilton and Jag elaborate
those immortal pages which comprise the
Federahst Let the political spectators
of South Carolina, who are under the
deIusion of peaceful and prosperous
secession, read carefully the frst foaE-
teen numbers of that great work, and
ifthey do not pause in their frantic career,
then, indeed may We infer that God, ii he
has not made them mad, has left them as
free agents to their own wilful destruction.
If they comein collision with the general
government there appears to me no altern-
alive in those who have sworn to support
the Constitution, than TO summon TO their
aid, if need be, the whole executive energy
of the nation. 1.-THE Constitution and the
laws are supreme, and the Union indissol-
uble," said Gen. Jackson in his .proclalna-
ton against South Carolina, and his fol-
lowing message to Congress in 1872;
and the sum of the argument against this
new dogma of right of secession, which
embraces, of course, notification and dis
union, may, in conclusion, be given, in
the words of a recent publication
Throughout the geograp hicaIly and le-
gally defined territorial, maritime and civ
Il divisions and boundaries of the United
States and of each State the laws are
supreme and the Union indissoluble No
minority of States, or peoples ofstates can
nullify that supremacy nor abrogate that
Union. It's one and indiTisible-tbe be-
quest of the past, the patrimony Rof the
present, the heritage of the futnre-a
trnst for the world, held By the people OF
tue United States in perpetual succession .
US1oS.