North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-05-20

most latitudinarian doctrines to Federal authori
ty, but who now seeing what bitter fruits the rank
growth Of Federal power generates, what frightfuT
results Federal exorbtance produces, comes back to
the of power his St ate. aud for his personal
rights = citizen and freeman claims protection
there. I look round me- and I ask you to look
round with me, and every personal right we have
to liberty, to property to safety, to health
guarded by State authority and vindicated in State
courts. duly estimated what once were the priv
ilegcs which the Ancient Union gave me with its
patents and copyrights i'll were an inventor or an
author and in oil my relations to the world abroad
but they are as nothing compared with what my
State gave me Ind guaranteed me ; and when find
as do now under the legislation of tho late Con-
gress and the usurpation of the Executive that
relations Of Government have been creatsd-and
that the Federal authority is to tax me and enroll
me-turn the militiaman into q conseript-the local
volunteer into regular soldier for three years or
the war;" Is enter my hou,e and do what it
peases with my family, and that instead of Sheris
and Constables, and Baifs, and Supervisors, to
whose gentle discipline am accustomed, am to be
Judge Advocates, and Provost Marshals, and FEEDER.
al deectiys, and Pcstoface spies, responsible not to
local supevson but to that mysterious and distant
entity Cabinet at Washington. may be pardoned
pause and ask you pause on tho edge Of this
this great centralized whirlpool that 10 to ensuK and
crush to pieces all that is left of each of that gallant
fotilla-the old Thrteen-with its State flag flying
and its 5 tate emblem displayed, and which was
freighted with all that precious in local tradi-
tions, State pride and municipal privileges
is in the States that the last battle of constitu.
tonal liberty is to be fought in the North The leg
isaton of the late Congress is that of an Imperial
Parliament over an unrepresentrd population. Its
direct tendency IS to oblitcrate local privileges and
to revive, in form offensive than ever before
was dreamed Of the false dogma, that Federal leg
slation can by virtue OF implied power reach indi
vlduai citizens So it is avowed to be, and beire 90
s!@ccd aud avowed, denounce it in hostility to the
Constitution which guards the States quite as ieal.
! ously as it over was meant to guard the Union
| say its aim is avowed. On the 9TH Of March, the
Chairman Of the Military Committee in the House
of Representatives, New York Abolitionist, who
has been appointed Judge by Mr.. Lincoln since
Congress adjourned used this language in reference
to the Conscriptiou Bill which, he said, had been
prepared, by the best and enlightened intellec.
of the army.
" 1t is the frat time in the history of the Repub
lie that the power to raise and support armies has
oeen IN the proper sense exercised by Congress- /,
does not ask the co-operaton of the States Tb,
idea of calling under the state. to furnish troops has
its origin in the accursed doctrine of State rights and
State sovereignty"
The dccursed doctrine Of State RICH hti-think Of
tn sc words citizens Of this sovereign State Tbinl
of the curse which, from his little Noun, Elba in Con
gress this Creature of moment ares to hurl al
"h ch the Constitution guarantees, and which Penn
sykana had and enjoyed, and Tough: for before tn,
Constitution existed. Think of representative from
New fork-a State Whih came into the Union too
ase to vote for George shincton cursing the right
of Virginia, and where Washington was born and
where, in the only border spot which civil war ha,
not desolaed. his ashes retose-where John Marshal,
lived and died, who, in every constitutional opn;or
ne gave, recognized and respected these "accursed
rights aud expressly the Sovereignty" of the State
the land Of Jefferson, and Madison, a nd Monroe
aid Henry, and John Taylor If Carolina Imam de,t;
ned to live in story when the fierce fanatics of this h
Of sorrow shall be forgotten, and whose names viii,
survive either ON the temple oriis ruins when the storm
and the earthquake shall pass by. Think, citizen, nj
Pennsylvania of this irreverent railer this t
sentative of party of destruction from his place
fancied security, daring to fling bis maledctiop, al
the keystone of the broken arch hanging as it doss
doubtfuliy over the ruin and gravitating below -
Think, Pennsylvanians for such you were before tbs
Union had aud existence, an such you will proud,
be if, in the Providence of God the Union has no
gone from u.s. ct those rights being cursed which you
ancestors thought they gave you. Think Of all tbi
and then l ask you, in the name of the Copstitu
tlonal Democracy Of Pennsy yvania to stan D., sbeuIde
to shoulder, in the new conflict now impepdipg-fo fo
the Constitution and the rights inalena3le indsstruc
tlble State rights that guard our fresides and ou
homes Maintain these sacred local rights as yo,
would the domestic purity of your families Let th en-
be broken down, and you will sink with all your na
tionaity If there arc no water-tight compartmeut
they be destroyed depend on 1t the flag won't saw
the ship from ioundering
One other word. For what T say tonight no hu
man being but myself is responsible My opinion
may be far in advance of othcrs. Such as they are
they helt in all sincerity They have never beef
concealed. If there is hope in the future, it is on
such opinions that hope will rest