The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-20
NO 1911

exercise none that are not delegated,
there will never be any conflict betweeh
the States and The Confederate Govern
ment IL the States will exercise their
reserved powers properly, and the Con
federate Government exercises its deIb-
gated powers properly, there will never
be any difficulty. ttb n.Hi nj .am4s D.
4 say 10 gentlemen here who make susho
elamor in defence of State sovereignty,
Tor which they say this war has been
waged, that IL they will recur 10 history
they will ind that The great R,ause Of tEel
disruption was the interference. bv States,
with a compact into which they had sol.
EMMY entered. ., No man found cause for
dissolution In any thing The Federal Gov
eminent did; for all declared they want.
cd to preserve the Union until IinnoFa
was elected Not against the Suprems
Court--tbat tribunal was faithful 10 the
last Not against the Federal ConRrsas
for there you had majority. Not against
Mr. Buchanan-pd1 eEoelLsnct the mas
chosen by the South. Whatwas the diff
fculty, Mr.. President? The Northern
States, sir, passed their personal liberty
bills and nullified the acts of Congress-.
The State Governments would not render
up fugitiVes, declaring they were not
criminals because they stole negroes.
which were not property; and the State
judges took il upon themselves, in their
State courts, 10 set aside The acts of Con-
gress for carrying out the fugitive slaye
law. These were the enormities that
drove She South 10 her condition of de-
termined secession know that through
my section of country, these facts had
more influence upon the popular mind
than any other; and when Mr.. Lincoln
was elected il was thought he was SEEK
ing not TO continue the Federal Govern
ment but pervert the Government and 10
accomplish, through Federal aseBcy,
what the Northern States had already
soughtto do. That perfected She argu-
ment.
am not national in one sense: I am
not federal in another, am sure. l re-
gard the reserved rights Of the States
as much as any other man, and will never
seek to entrench upon them The powers
| am sworn 90 exercise will exercise
with strict reverence for the purposes ST
The grant. think we would all 20 70
work in the exercise of delegated powers,
and act instead Of theorizing, NO would
accomplish more satisfactory results for
Tire people.
/ Mr.. Wigfall. propose TO answer the
gentleman, with the simple PREDATORY re-
marks, that | am as much astonished at
his recollection OF th6 facts as his avowal
of principles. For Senator 60 arise in
this Confederate Congress, within a few
brief months after the nation has been
dissolved, and declare the Federal Gey-
eminent Of the United States never tres
passed upon our rights
Mfr. Hill never said that
Mr.. Wigfall.N Ifyou did not, you said
something bearing wonderful resem-
blance 20 IT, go.
Mr., Hill. said the trespasses of the
Federal Government were not the evils
alleged by the people in seeding il was
not the trespasses Of the Government that
Influenced the people 10 secede, said it
was the trespasses Of the Northern States
in their faithlessness TO the common COM
pact. always held the. Missouri COM
promise was unconstitutional, and things
of that sort but the Federal Government,
as such, did not commit these trespasses
which drove the people 10 secede
Mr.. Wigfall. Well, ask ii they had
any complaint against the Judiciary
Mr.. HILL, None. ,.,.,, ..,.... '..r...
MIR, Wigfall. | need not ask him
about tke legislative branch, for he SAYS
! we had no cause Of complaint here
"Surely not, he says, rfor you had
majority there" His language is plain
I al an
| Congress the Black Republicans had an
overwhelming majority in the hall against
us, aud a tie vote in the Senate, with =
Black Republican casting vote.
Mr. Hill 10 was not from any act Of
/ the Supreme Court or Of Congress, or Of
1 the Federal Executive we seeded. /
| do not say they always did right /
| was utterly opposed TO the Administra-
/ tion of Mr.. Buchanan. 7 Int
Mr.. Wigfall. In He forgets Congress
passed law abolishing slavery in the
District Of Columbia, declaring no slave
should be sold there.
I Mr.. Hill. When did IL pass r
Z Mr.. Wigfall In 1850 ... rr
Mr.. Hill And the people expressly
said they would not sscede on account
OF H..
Mr.. Wigfall do not know what
Georgia politicians said
Mr., Semmes, call the gentleman 10
order.
The President. The gentlemen will
make no remarks not pertinent to the
issue.
Mr.. WigfalL The Senator asks if An
drew Johnson is traitor He gets up
and makes terrible 10 do about my
denying the right Of taking up arms 10
resist tyranny, and trying to hold men
TO their allegiance. i never denied any
such right. A man may change his allegi-
aDce provided he does IL in good time and
good faith Nc man has ever asserted
the contrary--hnd il il were not for the
lax notions Of the Senator about the
organization of the Government and ths
patent, palpable errors he has fallen into
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