The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-12-26

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prcau.blc, tn. in ordes 10 form more perfect
Union,r &c, hey ortlaincd and established the
..Coasttution Ger the Usited Statss;' bu- some
thing like this kngas g sso.ild haye been used !;
I'VE. the people Of the American Uhion' N Oh
der to supersede the present State governn>r 2,
and to consolidate these States int enc poll. icI
body, &c, do ord:;n and establish this cons..-
tuition for the ilepubIie Of America" Bat such
was not the purpose Of the CsTentiou.i That
body itself was not composed Of members rep
rcsenting t,apeople Of the Cnlop Is al age
gate bod, u of delegates from the dii.sFvnt
SITES as inispendent goreran'eats, appoh -
by tleir respective legislatures. each deiesstcl,
as sort Of plcnipotentiaries to Congress Of
nations, representing The OF, :sed sovereignty
Of its O, State. II, positi !, IS further proven
be- var, 20 provisions Of the Constitution ITSELF
which in detail would too greatly extend the
limits of this article. The equality Of repre-
=. .sation in the Seratc; the provision that each
+, q. shall have .nc vote in the election Of
President whenever that election is thrown INTO
.,.a House Of Represcntatigcs-appointr ent O..
Presidential electors by the States States and
Lot by the people in the aggregate (; and the
resc. walton to the States respectively or 10 .hc
people, o. I'll powers MT d. 70 the fci
cral Government nor prol,iL,.y, to the States,
are instances. Eut il anythi...; else be wanting
to remove all do y, the ina attesting ciacse
Of the Constitution seems to put the matter fi'
ever at rest 1t begins with these words:
.Doae in Convention b. the unanimous edeita..
of the State, present" &c. Nothing cinld be
more plain and explicit If L go, stitution, a,
some contend, was the WORK o the I'e.ple Of tAe
whole Urion collectively, as one BODY polite,
that clause 81 ,uld have been to this cfec.:
'ilone by te &c pie of the United State, :
1 the ,Llaaila,us consent # their rePresehiit 6
in Convention assemble ;, G.
1T this is not all constitution, like
all ether compacts ,r,ss sovereign r;rs,
! was rot to take e!iect, : d 4 any va. in
J my STATE until ratified by lonv, ution "a he
people thereof The delegates Of the contq, :
| Jig parties, in th;p International Coayrcss, { r
,he Convep o which framed the Constitution
may l'e lre 20 called Ike the plelir tea
1 Il. lies Of q { iIizcd paticl4 II modern tines
d;ti 10 undertake to bind the = which they
represented; but Wien the. had mutually
4 agree, !, .h2. 81, !, Of the compact, reserved
to t.s,se -, ;, in t; cir sovereign capacity, eoch
in ii.,li, !, ccers or reject it. Tie people Of
Sir were to be bound, until in a, fcpycn-
ton representing their own sovereign VIII q Z
separate ard Independent ppli. cal community,
they should ratify it. Tn uah twelve of tne
Thirteen States then existing s,,1uld ratfy It, and
one .n.Ie ,uld refuse, that State was not to be
a,cetcd i It's FRO .sions, but to remain an IN
depe,de'' severely. as Ghodc Island actual
ly did fo' nearly two years after the corstitll
zion had been adopted by the requisite nii'l,cr
of 81 .es FIR organizing the Government. NoG,
if the Constitution had been tie act If the peo-
lie OF the United States as ono body polite the
ratification OF l,ajoiit' would have bound the
whole And in That case a totally different
mode Of ratiacnton would have been adopted.
Instead Of havine hacn referred to Conventions
in the s-vcrcl States, !: woul,; have been sub
mittcd to vc.e of the pro 'e Of the whol:
cnon at tho h.llot box. or to che general en-
vention representing them, without rcfe. ice to
State lines or State distinctions.
think have now shown cclcl b,vely, that
the Constitution is the creation % tie States,
acting in their separate capacity as Independent
sovcreignties, c'd not of the people Of the
whole country as an aggregate body. In my
next nninbcr propose to pursue the suffice.
ctill further, and to develop some of the logicfl
ses, ,.cnces that necessarily flow from this doc
trina and to sl,ow that the right of State to
seed, stands upon impregnaslc foundations.
Loly Springs, Miss. - SIC,A