The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-06-18

sfliciencytn the loeoI Governments The
former is impossible" M Reed said,
"if we do not establish good Govern
menl on new principles, we must either
20 to ruin, or have The work to do over
,gaii." Mr.. Wilson said,fo see no in.
compatibility between the National
and State Governments. provided the
latter (i..e. the State GOverumehtS,)
wers restrained to certain local purpo,
seti nor any probability of their bling
devoured by the former. In all Coincide.
rated systems,ancient and modern,the re-
verse had baPPened;the generality be.
ing destroyed gradually by the usurpa.
tons Of the parts composing IT," Mr.
King, said, II am filed with astonish.
ment, thai, If We were convinced that
every man in America was secured in
his rights, we should he ready to acr-
fee this substantial good 10 the phantom
of Stale sovereignty. DC" While the
Father Of the Conslilulion--Jomes Mad
ison--t thus expressed his views: "a ten
dency to encroGchments on the Federal
authority has been sufficiently exempi.
fed among ourselves, as well az n every
other Confederate Republic, ancient and
modern, Were it practicable for the
general Government to extend It's care
to every requisite object without the CO.
operation Of the State Governments, the
people would not be less free as mem
bers of one great Republic than Of thir-
teen small ones" When considering
the fatal dogma of States rights, he said,
"supposiug a tendency should be LEFT
with the State governments toward an
independence of the General Govern
ment, thea the gloomy consequences need
not be pointed out, Tho imagination Of
them must have suggested 10 the States
the experiment we are pow making to
prevent the calamity and must have
formed the chief motive with those pres
ent to undertake the vr.uous task -
Blu, enough; it is patent to all, the en-.
crossing theme for thought, consultation
and Discussion was, TO frame Consti-
sutton where States should be subordi.
mated to the Nation-where the Parent
Government should act no! ns afore'imo
through State organizations, but directly
upon the individual citizen regardless Of
State lines a,tar a
That was whatthcy convened in con.
yonlion to do, that was what they de,
| liberated long and well upon, and that
was what they actually did do, as quo
tstions from that immortal cbarter-the
product of their labOrs and prayers =
would demonstrate; but want Of space
! precludes moro extended presentation.
The doctrine of States Rights, carries
the doctrine Of Secession. l States are
independent, they may remain in, or 60
out of the Union at pleasure. This doc
tfinc inhered in our first form Of gov.
ernmeut-the Articles Of Confederation
but was studiously and surely exelu.
ded from our present form, Of govern
ment--ihe Constitution of the United
States. .e Ea.a- ya4s
lfStates had no constitutional right
to throw of The National autl ori.y peace.
ably, their violent attempt TO do so, was
an act Of war, and has, as matter oil
fact, necessiiated from the General Gov.
eminent more sIupenduous efforts, and
Z greater exhibitions o military power than
any other Nation of modern times, was
ever called upon to exert to forefend ma
tional dissolution
The assumption Of doctrines not found
in the Constitution. has brought the
horrors Of civil war to the very doors oil
our deluded enemies in the South; while
the absence of such destructive opinions
has saved the adhering States from the
ravoges Of war.
! After seventy.four years Of inlorna
pesce,and after i've years Of bloody war
the doctrine of States Rights or Secession
isseriously attempted to be inculca,ol
among the northern people, by desperate
demoralzed, traitOrous, politicians, A
Convention of them las, week, went
through the farce Of nominating To-
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