Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-16
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ly, that This rs Government, as the CobsUtuuoh
says Of We the poopls. We, shs people, made the
States; we. the people, made the National Gov
ernmen'; we, the people, owe allegiance not to
the States and the National Governmentj but di-
reclly to the National Government"
Mr. Clay is inconsistent in dividing allegiance
lie agrees with Gen. jackson that allegiance IL
due 10 the Federal Gosernnentj" and that, conse-
quently, Virginia, not being sovereign State en-
titled to The allegiance Of her citizens, murdered
John Brown, under the false preiehce that he
committed treason. And here let me say that II
Mr.. Clay Is correct be is bound, as an hdnorabls
man, to publicly vindicute the memory OF John
Brown from the false charge Of treason, instead OF
charging him, through the Chicago Platform, with
lperpetrstng zone of tks 9rarest of crimes"
Mr.. Clay continues: IF a conflict should arise
between our duty to the State and to the nation,
the Constitution tells US to whom our duty is due.
The Constitution is the supreme law Of tho land;
the laws Of the States to the contrary notwith-
standing. Now gentlemen, we are lcfs without
ground for controversy, for tho Constitution tels
us that we owe supreme allegiance to the Union
the stars and the stripee." ''
Now kind reader look back, and see what con-
temptable, what contradictory, nonsense to draw
from Washington audience, addressed as gem
Remen," "Applause"- loud and continuous ap-
plause. First 1--WE owe allegiance to the Naticn'
a. Government" Second "Ws owe supreme alea
glance to the Union--the stars and the stripes"
! Who ever before heard Of "sapreate allegianeeS"
But this is not all that Mr. Clay's keen vision,
and prolific bran has discovered or invented.
Hoping for another round or applause from an
elite Washington audience, of ''9enaemen," Mr..
Clay announces his second discovery, or inventioni
in the science of government, namely that Every
one cf these SUD yiidatc sovereiguties is directly
and incOn!estably deprived Of any Of these pow
ers OF sovereignty" ~
Mr.. Clay was not disappointed. This sublime
announcement drew another round Of vociforous
applause from his entranceG audience. The dis
eoVery that the States are Subordinate sovereigL-
ties" and that "we the people, owe allegiance,
not to the States. but to the National Government,
the Union, the stsrs and the stripes" induced Mr.
Clay to'thank God" that 'if we 60 to ba.sle about
this question, there is no man but can see at once
may, but can feel-to which Govefnment ne
owes his allegiance" Loud applause egsin.s
Wender-f writing -thsss lsssays for the BuEie in
"Coastruetire 7reasoaf" Will "Eora North" an-i
swers During his controversy with Rev. John
Kentucky, Mr.. Clay, ("the man of contradictions
as the 'tcorld we live in" styles him. saySs
Il regard him as the worst enemy OF true li5er-S
.y who acquiesees in any usurpation Of the sovH
ereign power Of the State." What is the State OF
Kentucky from which John g. Fee, and his
friends, we're e&iled with tho appreciation Of Mr.,
Clay. Ia less than one year. after thus asserting
the Sovereignty of the State of Kentucky" Mi,
Clay, "the man of contradictions" discovers the
new science of "suprem,e allegiance" and subordi-,
hate sovereignty" which would have ensured HID
place in the oabinet .! The incoming President,
had not Mr.. Lincoln, in his indianapolis speech,
made ON improvement on Mr.. Clay's new theory,
by utterly discarding "subordinate sovereign
ty," as no moro applicable to STATE than to q
COUNTY.
The speech of the Hon. S. S. Cox of Ohio. is
as inconsistent and contradictory as that OF Mr..
Clay. Mr.. Cox says: 81 would not exagerats the
fearful consequences Of dissolution. 1t is the
breaking up of federatve Union; bht Il is NOT
the breaking up Of society. 1t is not anarchy"
This is a consOling view Of secession, and,
proves the triumph of the great American idea,
laid down in the Declaration of Independence, the
righi-the "ISALlENABLE righr of the people,
through the peaceful remedy of the "BsLhor
Box" to abolish their government whenever they
might deem y necessary to secure their safety an
happiness.
Mr.. Cox too that ours Is a Jcdsrattte Cnion."
Hence it is not State or Nation, but cohfeds
eracy Of States or Nations, according 10 Mr.. N.
Webster's definition, as well rs according to COM
mon sense. Taking then, Mr.. Cox's assertion,
that "dissolhton Is not anarchy" to be true IL is
absurd" for him to attempt to prove the e&stencs
of anarchy" by the negative position that mo
nation can be consigned to anarchy by some ab-
surd contrivanOe, either in the shape Of personal
liberty bills or secession ordinances"
OF sohth Carolina, Mr. Cox says "She even
goes out BY so-eaHea sovereign Convention"
Though this is not a direct denial of State sover-
eighty, it is omnous, from the fact that he says;
at ia an absurdity to contend that StateS which
yoluA.arily surrendered sueH portion Of their SOW
ereicutjes as we're requisite for National Gov.
ernment, can be equal in power to that National
Government"
If this bo true then the "creature formed" is.
contrary to the Stsrnal fitness Of things, greater
than the CREATOR To prove the "dosardfty' Of
Mr.. CoA's position, IT is only necessary to say,
.ha. the State legislatures If no: large majority
Of them, can destroy bis powerful National Gov
srpment" by refusing to elect Sehators. 'aaa"ap
Mr.. Cox continues: ''In America Ne have l.
N National Constitution. To il we owe and swear
Here Mr.. Cox differs from Gems
Jackson, who says "that allegiance il doe to the
Federal Government" "
Again, Mr.. Cox says: 'There must be in ssery
State some power to which all others yield, CONF
,etent TO meet every emergency" This assertion
$ unqueSlionAbly true. Il is equally true thar
south Carolina was . STATE at the date Of her se-
session from her co-S.ates. These two facts form
he premises. from which the conclusion nscessk.
lily follows that south Carolina, posed Of the M
te-" icct