New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-13
STATE SOVEREIGNTY.

bx AIS D., delivered o.
" MsmGoneck on Juiy%
aper,it me 10 refer to some circumstances tending
10 sho that The Usos was the direct product oil the
Revolution OF 100. .
"fjSder The British Government the States were en-
tircly separates but they existed only as PropiHce
They bad no connection with each other. They had
no existence az sovertigptes. They were eolonies-
mere dependencies upon The British Crown.
"No one can deny that they became sovereign and
indepen6ent States in and by the Declaration OF indie
pendepce-together, not separately-by sngle joint
act 30 that il is untrue that any State ever had sep
aate sovereignty as q separate state IL L. only M
uH ted States that the sovereignty OF the siases was
achieved. go , a.
"There IL no, a solitary public act from tho ith day
Of July 76 when the United States ceased TO lie coli
ONCE that recognized separate existence oi any STATE
disconnected from the others.
In the first General Congress that ever met, III l,
18th. dlltnciOn. between virgiusn' rsnp,yv..,1 New
Yorse and Se~L a., no es a. a.s
but American All dhhno'i0ni arc thrown a'"h' I'll AN
erios Il thrown Into one mss''
In i775, an ordinance passed by Congress that
colonies should in future be distinguished as the troops
of any particular colony, but as tho forces oil The
United Colonies Of North America.
In the articles OF tho Confederation proposed by
DR.. Franklin 10 July, l775, the Let article was:
"Ths n.lne Of this Coneder.cy shall hsnesfoh be Tho
United Colonie, Of north Americ."
AsTicIE II The I'D lifted cCOni.; hereby .,ysr,y
a.. f Is. !Dcsa % sf ar. Gs
the .sisy theft person. and families and their mutual snd
ers welfare " finally declared that on failure OF
peso. With England this Conedsaolh 70 % des@ed per-
The Declaration Of Independence, which has Just
beeu read to YOU says when In the course Of hu-
msn events IL becomes necessary for people TO dis
solve the political bonds which have connected them
with another and closes with tho assertion we,
the representatives, Of the United States Of
America declare that these United Colonies are and
of right ought to be, free and independent States
The articles Of Confederation adopted IN l1', are
entitled, Articles Of Confederation and perpetual
Union
"ByA IL, 1, isdeclared. 'The Union skaH be pr
pefnai. The present Constltulion, which went INTO
operation In 1885, says: We the peoDie Of the Uni
ted States in order TO form perfect Union, es-
tablish Justice insure domestic tranquility, provide
s,r the common defense promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings OF liberty 70 ourselves and our
poeterity do orJain and establish this Constitution for
the United States Of America.
" And article G, says: This Constitution, and the
laws Of the United States, which shall be made IL pur
suance thereof shall be the supreme iaas OF the Land
and the iud9ee In every State sbal be bound thereby
ANYTHING IN the Constitution or idEs n any STATE 10
the contrary notwithstanding
with these historical proofs before M, there can
be 10 doubt that 1t the United Colonies that
made the Declaration OF Independence IN winch
thew procaimed themselves one people. II was the
United States bound together by the Articles Of Con.
federation into perpetual Union which secured
onr indie pendence BY their armies and II was the
people Of the United States that formed the present
Constitution Of the United States, and declared IL 10 be
the supreme law Of the land.
$50 in truth there never separate indel pend
Tie very act which brought into life as States
made us United States.
"And our forefahers declared the Union to DO rer-
peual, binding on themselves and their pOeteriy."