New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-03

We United StateS, do orCain an0 eetahilso this
CorfsiiutiOn for the United States OF Ame ica,
they contend that lis Government was ordlined and
ESTABLISHED by the whole people for the States and
Vie States eonseQ uenily binding the States until the
whleIeoIle of the United States relieve them OF the
obligation TO obey il. Tisconsiuctin il contradi1ted
alike by the facts If istory and the words of the Con-
e'itwion History shows that it made and agreed
70 by tie States, the smaller -ates having an equal
vosce with the larger States In tie adopt Of every
cia1se in IT, and that was ratified and established BY
the States each acting independently by i;s,lf and for
nel and the words OF the Constitution in the seventh
article follows: The ratification of the conyen-
ton OF nire States shall he su lent for the estabh.
ent of this Constitution between the States so rafy
Ing the same. Thus the Constitution agretag with the
lacs OF history, shows that it established by the
State and not 10y the whole eore of tho United States
and TO be binding between the States that ratified
1t, end not over them; binding between the States
wi ish might ratify and not between them and States
refusing TO ratify. For the ratification of twelve
States could and did not make il binding between
tkea and the smallest State of the former COnfederacy
Rhode lsland-until on her own terms aud in her
time her sOveTtiln act made her of the States
OF she new Confederacy. Again it is asserted that
be supremacy Of the Federal Government over the
States establbhed and agreed TO in the seventh
clause OF the sixth article Of the Constitution a. fol-
lows;
1hs Constitution, aud the laws Of the United which
~sich shall be made under the as.hory Of N. United state.
sa IL the law Of ,he land and the Judges every
bws Of any State to the contrary notwithstanding"
Tlis clause the supremacy Of the C0nstitu-
ton, laws and treaties Of tie Federal Government
she Constitution Laws courts and citizens Of the States
so long they remain united but DOES not touch and
not intended to touch the question of the right of
State to resume this with the other granted powers
ard 10 TO be Of the Uuited States This Con.
siuii0n, tie laws and treaties declared TO be the
supreme law of the land What land The Terrific
res OF tho States remaining In the Confederacy aud
nos tie Territory OF State after it has Withdrawn
from it. The Stes cid in tits clause of the Con-
stt1tion surrender tie lit ich they bad 80 eolsly
watched over through Ill stages of it's formation
1t thus seems to clear that the right TO be gov
Erped only by their own consent and to withdraw from
the Government for tyranny and Oppressi IN. is the
birh-Iight of the States which father guarded for
NJ, never losing eight OF it, surrender lag it,
AID we must guard it for our sons 1t is today in
more imminent Iei than al any time snce Washington
crossed the Delaware That danger not from the
FAC, that Mr. Lincoln lis to be President for the next
four yeas; that, it unattended by other threat.
emng circumstances would be matter OF small mo-
EDent. But VIXEN ii Is remembered that struggle has
been going on between tie two great sections of the
C0ufederaCy for forty years. the North struggling for
domination, for the power to inlure the South, the
Southern States defending their existence equals in
The Confederacy asking nothing but what given by
the Constitution and guaranteed by Osths and when
that dominant, hostile, Northern section has attaiIed
numbers sufficient 10 place itself permanently In the
sscendnt and add tie powers Of the Federal Govern
ent TO its means OF oppression, well may we regard
Ills the great danger tLat strains of all par
tes in tie South TO bury party euds and band together
ff defebse. Our delyerance from this great danger,
In my opinion TO be found in the reserved ghts of
witch retained by those who formed this Govern
reut for Just such emergency this. Embodied In
tie reserved rights OF the States Is the soul OF Ameri
can ibertythe great saving principle TO which alone
The Southern States look ana hse. This saving
yIDdIls must Perish under Black Republican rule.
Then 20 down into Egypt while Herod reigns in
Judea is the means OF saving the HE OF this Emanu-
81 of American politics. and when in after years ii shall
be told you that they who sought the life Of this
Prince Of Peace and Fraternity dead, you may
cone out Of Egypt and realize all the fond hopes OF
patriots and sages OF pence on earth and good VIII
aIDOng men, under the benign influence OF reunited
Government deriving its just powers from the consent
Of the governed.
That the State Of Mississippi may evince TO her
Southern sister States the interest she feels in the
non danger, i recommend that Commissioners be sp-
pented 20 visit such of them a. may convOke their
Legislatures call Conventions TO take into consldera-
ton the threatening attitude OF tie Northern States
and the Northern sectional Administration about to be
jpsugurzted at Was ingtOD, that they may be in
formed that Mississippi does not lneDd 10 submit 10
tlat Administration, and we may learn III the most a
1Lentic form what ter aims and purposes In the
premises. o.h
l recommend that appropriation be made TO each
roluuteer company Of suif,leDt 10 pay all rea-
senable expenses attending on uays aP
pointed for exercise and Instructions keeping ti.l'
Yyms ard equipments that the young men wIo give
their time and undergo tie labor oil preparing item
selves a. sCl0ers defend the nights VI the Sa'es may
ot he re1uired TO eXpeud dollar Oi thelr private
rrssna / recomm end that coat OF arms De adopted
for the State of Mississippi In view Oi tDe unsettled
eondiiion of our political affairs and the probable great
Ieranpement of monetary and commercial relations
he country and 10 prev the runous sacrifice Oh he
Iroperty ii the people OF tits State recommend ina
an act be passed staying the bringing VI suits aud the
collection of debts by execution sales until the close Oh
he next regular session of tue Legislature. .
AS il is more than probable that many OF the citizens
Of the border States may GEEK market ior ther slaves
in the Cotton States recommend tue passage VI an
ect nroliLitipR the introduction Of slaves into thls
State uuless their come with them and become
itzens and proLioiing the Introduction Of slaves LOT
sale bv al Iersons whomsoeNer.
Permit me in conclusion again to refer 70 the great
dancer ~ The State which has brought you from your
Aones and to exhOrt NY countrymen not 10 De caug'
NV TIE fatal bait of temporary and quiet not 10
e4bnit 10 great Cisgraceful, and certain evils IRON a
dresd IF others which may prove 10 be imaginary III
we faler now we and our sons must Jay me penalty
in future years Of bloody if not truiess efforts 10 re-
trieye the fallen fortunes of the State which, hnSy
Hnsuccessful must leave our fair Land bHhted-eurSsd
with Black Republican politics and iree.negro morals,
10 become eerspOOl Of vice, crime, aud lniamy'
Can we besitate, when one bold resolve, bravery
executed makes poweIless the aggressOr, ana one
p1iied effort makes safe our homes May the GOD OF
our fathers put it in the hearts OF the peo e 10 make H.
SPEECH OF THE HON. JAMES GUTHRIE.
The following remarks were delivered by the Hon
Jsmes Guthrie at meeting held at Louisville, on the
9th of November: