The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-12-06

P'o'Seo 'sc'i 10 respect Md perform
Its obligations. The origial were re
quired to ratify and adopt in the for
nation ofthc Union. Without this nc
Union would ever have ben made
This being done, each coming into tn,
Union subsequently, have under th,
Constitution, been required to conform
to it in all things, and do n, net in VIC
lation Of it This is he plightcd
faith Of the several States each one tc
the others.
10 fail or refuse to do hese things
is a violation of tho comppt-the ar
ticles Of fopartnership-tIo terms oI
Union. vS II nullifcatior OF the Su.
preme laWof the land, re,udiation OF
the terms Of Union, and thee !ore dis.
solution Of and retirement from the
Union. If this is not so, our Constitu,
ton is anuIlity in itself and keeps its
place upon your statute book not rs Il
guide and eompass@ TO- law- makers and
law-cXpounders, but as monument to
the folly Of the fathers Of the Republic.
presume no Tcnncssean will con,
trovcrt this position, and will proceed to
the solution ofthe eproposition hat there
IS no President elect Of tic United
States because ofthc iIIegalityoftwelve
Sovereignties calling themselves, with
oat right, States Of the Union.
BY the 4th article, S. ,, sub.3, Of the
Constitution Of the United States, it Is
provided that "no person hdd to ser
vice or labor in one State under the law
thereof escaping into anothcr shall in
consequence Of any law or regulation
therein b, discharged from such ser
vice or labor, but shall be delivered up
on claim Of the party to Wlom such
service or labor may be due.
Agreement to this plain anc intelIi,
gible clause eff the Constitution was
part Of the solemn contract ly which
each State was permitted to c)me into
the Union. It's violation is n brfcturc
OF benefits and advantages Of Union,
and violation of one provision is and
sht to be as cifcctual in the produc.
ton ofthese consequences as would the
violation of the entire instrument.
The twelve States alluded to, and
which claim that Lincoln is the Prcs-
dent elect Ct the United States, have
not only violated the provision | have
just read you, but have absolutely,
though their Legislatures, passed laws
avoiding it, nine making it rcnitcnti.
ary and heavily fncablc olfcnte to a.
tempt its execution or the execution of
the act Of Congress passed to carry the
provision VI tllc CONSTITUTION lIllO cllttt'
In this notification and regulation, it
is not only the breach Of faith pledged
by these States to the Union, and its
terms Of Union that we have to lament
over, but it is also The further and START,
ling fact that that notification, that re,
is sustained and supported
by perjury, either moral or hgai, or
both; and presume both, as tits usual,
and right. that members
)f Legislative bodies take onths to
support the Constitution Of the United |
States, and this clause being part Of
that Constitution. Such members Of !
hose several Legislatures as voted for
| State law, making it crminalto obey |
he Constitution Of the United States,
ire necessarily guilty ofpcljury. And
he Governors Of such If these States rs
lad the power and !ailcd to exercise it
If vctoing the anti-tggitive slave law,
tand in no better attitude than tbs
members to the Legislature.
TO make the wrccklessncs9 and dis.
cgard OF the compact rights Of the
Southern section more glaring, one Of
hcsc States, New York, passed. her
tatutc to defend the fugitive in the
ccth Of n decision Of her own Supreme
;ourt upon this identical clause Of the
Constitution, when she had such men
: Kent upon the Bench The history
f that decision j. about this: At one {,
imc, (and that too, AS strange as pres
mt circumstances may make it seem,
ince some who hear me were full
rOwn men, New York was Il slave
tate. During that time, one Glenn
wncd in that State a slave named
Iarry. Harry ran off and went to
'crmont, Il free State, and set up for
imsclf rs free man. Just as runa-
-.ys do now in New York, hc was
here two or three years, and became
ldcbteI to one lIjdscs. Iii, master
.arEcd his whereabouts, sent aiterhim
Ie was seized rs slave, and started
ack to New YORK Hodges took him
.ith an attachment for his debt The
'ermont Court decided against the
wncr. and he left the negro. Glenn
nught Hodges in New York, sued him
n the negro and recovered his value.
he cntirc ground for this recovery,
: stated by the Conrt, being the
lau.c have read, and the act Of lIo3
,r its enforcement. T-is case u re-