Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-04
See, also, President Lincoln's Inaugural,
where he saws.

See, also, President Lincoln's Inaugural,
where he says:
have no purpose directly o. Indirectly 70 interfere
with ne institution Of slavery IN the states where
believe have no lawful night 70 do and have IL
elination TO do
So, on the 2Sd of March, 1890, an expires
son in Congress was spread on record as to
the powers of the Federal Government on
this subject Many of those who had assisted
in forming the Constitution being then pres
ent, and aiding in this expression as follows:
That congvss have no authority to interfere IN the
emancpationSf slaves IN the treatment Of them. IA
any OF The States il remaining with the several States
alone 70 provide any reguations therein which humaEy
and true policy nav dicfate-HLfrefl's Hsforv IF fIe
J7itsd Sffes, rol. I, second Ssries.
So the fourth resolution of the Chicago
Convention that nominated MIR. Lincoln is as
follows:
That the maintenance invioate Of the rights Of the
States, and especially the right Of each order
and control its domestic institutions according to is
own Judgment exclusively : es>rn 20 that balance OF
power which the perfection and endurance Of po-
htical fabric depends. &c.
Mr.. Lincoln, in accepting the nomination
of this Convention, SAYS in lis letter:
The declaration Of principles and sentiments which
companies your letter meets approval: and IL shall be
my not 10 violate disregard il in any part.
Any one who sees proper to pursue this point
further than We have limits TO elucidate it. will
find the colonies, in giving authority TO their del
egates TO the colonial Congress, TO bind them TO
a uniform mode of action and declarations-as
the Declaration of Independence tself-reserved
10 themselves, as in the case of Maryland. ''the
sole and exclusive right of regulating the inter
nal government and policy of the colony to the
people thereof"
So in the formation of the Articles of Con-
federation, in 1871, by the second article:
Each State retains it, sovereignty freedom and inde
pendence and every power jurisdiction, aud right which
is not by this Confederation expressly delegated TO the
United States In Congress assembled.l Rer. statute D.
I.
These Articles were found insufficient. be-
cause trade, commerce. and many other ques-
tions were left under the control of each State,
whereas a more general control by the Federal
Government was deemed essential. Therefore.
at the instance of commissioners appointed TO
regulate trade. the Congress recommended the
assembage of the Convention which formed the
original part-not the twelve amend nents, of our
Constitution.
Upon being informed Of the probable change
in the form of Government, Mr.. Jefferson who
was then minister TO France, wrote, August 4,
1857 10 +. Darlington:
MY general plan would be make the states 10
everything connected with foreign naiions and several
everything purely domestic Also Letter 10 NJ.
Wgtle, Sgt. 1871, l7s7.
The work of this Convention was submitted
TO Conventions in the several States. In adopt
ing ii various amendments were insisted upon.
Some of them upon the suggestion of Mr.. JEFF
ferson. His objection was that there was no suf-
ficient bill of rights.
Providing Gle ry. and without the aid Of sophsm for
freedom OF religion freedom Of the press, protection
against standing armies the eternal and unremtng force
of the heoJRs CORPUS law and trial by Jury"-Leer %
NJ. Madison Dec. 20tA, 1877.
These objections were urged in the Virginia
Convention bv Patrick Henry, (see 2 vol. FL
liott's Debates), with an eloqucnce never sur
passed. The Congress TO which the Constitu-
ton and proposed amendments were submitted,
therefore, recommended amendments-ten were
then adopted, MANY of which arc in the nature
of declarations of the rights of the people and
the States, and limitations Of the powers Of the
Federal Government. See amendments I II. s.
p. 80.
1t was supposed that certain rights were there
by secured from any Infringement by the General
Government:
First The freedom of speech, of the press,
and of the right of the people 10 assemble aud
petition for the redress of grievances.
Second The right of freedom from arrest, or
from search of houses, or seizure Of papers, nm
less upon q warrant regularly issued.
Third. The right 10 speedy public trial, by
a jury Of the State, after indictment BY Grand
Jury, on all charges of a capital or infamous
crime.
Fourth. "The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by 1t 10 the States, are reserved TO the States re-
spectively, or to the people"
Thus it is seen that the Democratic party, and
Webster and Clay, were right TO the reserva-
M tha Of ha f,ai
internal affairs and also as TO the point that
"the Federal Government, is one Of delegated
powers. All powers not delegated TO it, or in
hibited TO the States, are reserved 10 the States
or 10 the people," III Peters Reports Supreme
Court United States. l6 Peters 539. In which
it is determined that each State might, By law
declare slaves, held in other States, and coming
into their jurisdiction free, under their exclusive
right 10 regulate their internal affairs if il was
not that the control over that question-of fugi-
tive slaves-was expressly delegated to the Fed
eral Government, and was. therefore. not re-
served to the States.
SECTIONAL PARTIES.
In open disregard of the Constitution. and of
all these well settled and vital principles, there
have been in the Northern, or. free States, for
twenty-five years, organizations under various
names, as Anti-Slavery Societies, The Liberty
IdTlN-TTct DtmOCIdCN-TTec SOlcrS-E1nl-
grant Aid Observation-Disclosures and finally
the name now assumedis, Emancipation Leagues.
Among the proceedings of the American
Anfi-Slavery Society" at their annual meeting
on the lst of Nav, ls44, may be found res
olutions declaring that ''every act done in favor
of the American Union rivets the chains Of the
slave" and again that "1he Abolitionists of
this country should make II of the primary
objects of this agitation TO dissolve the American
Union" See New York Observer Nav 2 ls44
Wendell Phillips was in that meeting, and there
fore could well saw in his speech during the lfst
winter at Washington City, that he had labored
nineteen years TO drive fifteen States out of the
Union and from the delivery Of which he was
invited 10 the White House by the President, and
TO the floor of the Senate bv the Vice Presi-
dent.
They have all aimed at one object, which can
be no better described than by quoting from
speech of Mr.. Clay, Of the 7th of Feb. 1889
With this class the immediate abolition Of slavery in
the District Of Columbia and In the Territories the pro-
hibifion Of the removal of slaves
limits the institution Of domestic slavery are but 80
many conducting 10 the accomplishment Of the ul-
innate, but perious end, At which they avowedly aim
but short IN the long and bloody road
the distant goal which they would finally arrive
Their purpose abolition universal abolton-peaceabe
il II can forcible If IL must.
The object Of these people was 10 dissolve the
Union, much any secessionist of the
South, as witness their resolutions at q Conven-
ton held in the city Of New York, in 1859, TO-
wit:
wHxkEAs The dissolution Of the present in nrlorious
Union between the free snd the sla-e States would
rof sha