The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-21

country ceded, both national and municipal,
for the purpose of temporary government,
and to hold it in trust for the performance Of
the stipulation and conditions expressed in
the deeds of cession and the legislative acts
connected with them. The Court also say
in the same case .'The United States has no
cons titntional capacity TO exercise municipal
iurisdict ton, sovereignty eminent domain
within the limits of the State or elsewhere, ex-
cept in cases in which it is expressly granted"
Forts, &c., are buiit, &c., out oil the money OF
all the States, and before the Uni ted States has
any right or power TO build them in State,
the State must give permission by cession, &c.
As soon as the State reassumes all of her SOW
ereign rights, and if she refuses longer to re-
cogniZe rs her agent the Federal Government,
the Federal Government has no longer any au-
thority or right in Grover the State: the rights
once delegated and eeded by the State revert
again exclusively to the State Thus, sup
pose your land is condemned. or sold by you
for railroad, road, OF street, &c, and yon are
paid for it whenever said land ceases to be
used, &c, as required it reSerts back to you,
or your heirs-the fee simple was always in
you, subject to the right of way, &c.
l take ii, the same rule or principle of law will
apply to the Federal Government owning
ment only holds by express grant from the
States; it has no constitutional sovereignty in
Il State, &c, as before shown.
From the debates and from the views of the
men who assist ted i'll framing the Consti ton;
from the express declarations and reservations
of the States ratifying the Constitution, set
1OrIn III the state CONSTITUTIONS and the
Constitution of the United States, and from
the decision of the Z. :. Supreme Court can
! il be possible that any intelligent man can or
viii hereafter deny the States the inherent
right 10 reassume all OF their sovereign rights
and ilcwers, and to take back or leassume all
the powers once delegated to their agent-the
Federal Government? Where DO men find
the right or power in the Federal Govern
ment to coerce or use force against State
after a State has withdrawn from the Union
and after it has ceased to recognize the Fed
| eral Government any longer as its agent /?
When State secedes and goes out of the
| Union, 1t takes with it and reassumes ali of
! the powers which were once delegated or en-
| trusted to the Federal Government The Fed
| eral Government, we have seen has no mu-
| nicipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, etc, in q
| State, by virtue of the Constitution, even
| when State is in the Union. Why, then, or
! how can 1T claim such powers in 4 State which
/ is no longer in the Union To give the Federal
| Government these powers, Il State in the
| Union must expressly delegate such powers.
Ifyou examine the Constitution you will find
/ that the Federal Government does not claim
anything therein as an inherent right 1t only
! claims powers which We're delegated 10 it by
| the States. Yet with all these plain princi-
! pies clearly set forth and manifest to any in
| tellgent mind you will find men holding the
| Federal Government or, as they term il, the
| Union, up as an idol, which they worship
| and which they would have the States (Which
are the creators of it, do so in like manner, nc
mat how corrupt it is may become -
These men would also give to this crea ture OF
! agent unlimited and underlined rights and pow
ers. The President, in his last message, says
| he intends to enforce the laws in South Caro-
lima, although she is no longer in the Union. -
Ha>has as much right to put the laws which
he refers to in force in England, France, &c.
as he has in South Carolina.
Why did not the President enforce the law:
in the free States? These States all claim tt
be now in the Union, yet they have for years
past and now are violating the Constitution
and laws of the United States. The violation
by the free States of these laws is the cause o.
all the evils now upon they are the source
from which all these troubles have come upol
us. Why don't the President now enforce th
laws in the free States He had better sent
his Major Andersons, Gen. Scots, &c, there
and not make war upon sovereign States III
longer under his jurisdiction. l appeal TO tn
young men of this country, and also 10 the oil
men, to examine the subjects l refer to 10
yourselves. Do not trust 10 the views ant
opinions of corrupt and designing demagogue
and politicians. Inform yourselves of you
States rights, and protect and defend them
for yourselves and for your children. G.