Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-08-06

would be most cifcctually defended by
bringing "thc old doctrine of state rights"
into discredt.
Tho cold" doctrine Of state rights i'm
plies some theory formerly held, but now
regarded as obsolete. We do not 60 to
Mr.. CALuoUN's writings, nor to any seces-
sion sources, to learn what this doctrine
is. The secession school is comparatively
modern we must 60 further back to find
the origin of the cold" doctrine of state
rights. We will not even seek it in the
famous ''resolutions Of '09,' drawn by
Mr.. MADISON, and so long regarded as
the cornerstone of the Democratic creed
those resolutions, with oil their great
merits, were a party exposition, and the
state rights on which Mr.. LINCOLN is max
ing war can be amply supported by auth.
orty open to 10 such charge. The "old'
doctrine oil state rights is in the tenth
amendment to the Constitution, which re-
serves 10 the states oil powers not delega'
ted to the federal government. The 'old
doctrine Oh the subject Immediately in
question, and on which Mr.. LINCOLN
makes the continuance Of the war to huge,
was announced by the first Congress, in
1890, in these terms, BtSo'ceG That
Congress have no authority 10 interfere
Gin tho emancipation of slaves, or in the
"treatment of them in any Of the estates )
"M rcmainang wiM The SeccraI STATES alone
'to provide rules and regulations therein
''which humanity and "true policy may
"rcquire." If the Times thinks these
"old" authorities obsolete, we can support
the same doctrine by some comparatively
recent Endorsement; as, for example, the
Chcago platform, Mr., LINcoLN's inaug'
ural address, and the instructions to Mr..
DAYTON, in which it is asserted as an in
contcstabc truth that the rebellion gives
the federal govornmcntno jurisdiction over
the subject of slavery, which will rcmain
equally under state control whether the
rebellion succeeds or whether it fall; md
moreover, that if either Congress or The
executive should order differently, the
Supreme Court would, and ought to, de-
clare their action null and set it aside
Mr.. SEWARD, in that document, declared
this doctrinn IincontCstahln -
1t IS 'incontcstablc," then, that Mr.
LINcoLN's declaration that he will not
permit the termination Of the war till the
South consents to the abandonment of sla
very, is q violation Of the old doctrine of
state rights as guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition, oxpouudcd by the first Congress,
maintained by all our statesmen, rccog-
nizcd in the Chicago platform, and main
tanned by Mr.. LINCOLN and his Secretary
OF State in well weighed public documents.
Mr.. LINCOLN can not amend the Const-
tuition; that instrument provides for its
own amendment by the concurrence of
three .fourths of the states, but not for its
amendment by tho mere discretion OF the
commander in. chief Of the army. And
yet he assumes 10 do what he has himself
solmuly declared that he had no authority
to do either direct or Indirect. lie prefers
to tear half million more white men from
their homes by conscrption to continue
war for the abolition of slavery, rather
than to entertain proposition for the re-
turn OF the seeded states with their old
rights, which they exercised without qucs.
ton for seventy years after tho adoption
Of the Consttution.--N Y, WoHL