The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-30
Communications.


of the Latter-Day "Peace" Democ-
raoy--They were never Endorsed
by that Party until it became Sub
servient to Slavery The Rebellion,
the Natural Consequence of their
Doctrines.
Charles Cotesworth Pinkney, the pat
riot, the soldier, the statesman-the
trusted friend of WashingtOn;-the one
man that stands highest and brightest
in the list of the great men Of South
Caroina--said in the Convention which
formed the Constitution AS quoted in
Elliott's Debates.
"Our independence arose from our
Union, and without it we could be
neither free nor Independent. Let us
then consider all attempts to weak
en- this Union, by maintaining that
each State Is separately and individual
" independent, as a species ofPolitica1
heresy, which can never benefit us, and
may bring us to the most serious dis
tresses."
Such are the solemn and prophetic
words Of this great man. The "serious
distresses" are upon US, and from the
very causes and sources which his po-
litical sagacity enabled him to foresee
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Of 1898 and 80 have done theirwork.
The Virginia resolutions as drawn by
Mr.. Madison, were denuncatory of the
Alien and Sedition laws, and as he un.
derstood them, "the remedy they con
templated," says Judge Robertson Of
KY, "was the procurement Of the re-
peal of the obnoxious acts by remon-
STRANGE and other Constitutional n ms" "
In 1899 the Legislature of Kentucky
adopted this additional resolution:-
"That the several States who formed
that instrument, being sovereign and in
dependent, had the unquestio onable right
to judge of lite infraction, and that 9
qualification by those soveroiguties OF
all unauthorized acts done under color
of that instrument, is the righyul rem
edy."
Here we perceive that the doctrine
Chat each State is separately and indi
vidually independent" and "that eacl
has an equal right to judge for itself al
we'll of an infraction as the mode anC
manner of redress" is incorporated auc
deliberately sanctioned by these lcgis
tive resolutions of the States of Virgin
ia and Kentucky. They absurdly de.
ny that the Constitution is "a supreme
law, or any law at all, of the People o.
the United States" Here we fnd the
, germ Of notification and rebellion.
"The i1ea of these resolutions" say,
. Mr.. Mansfield, "adopted by the States
Right party entirely local) produced
the rebellion-have laid the South il
4 ruins-destrOyed slavery and will to tai
f ly destroy the whole fabric Of South
$ crn society"
There was no Democratic party a
the time the resolutions Of '93 wer
passed. "We are all called Republi
cans, all Federalists" says Mr.. Jeffor
0 son. The resolutions of '98 were neve
adopted by the Democratic party, Re
i publican party, or any other part
o whatever. These resolutions were sen
= to the Legislatures of the several States
and but too out of nine agreed wit
them. Georgia and the Carolinas tho
it the part of wisdom to keep SILENT
Z Connecticut explicitly disavowed tn
= principles contained in the resolutions
! New Hampshire declared that "tho Stat
! Legislatures are not the proper tribr
uals to determine the constitutionalit
; of the laws of the Federal Govern
. ment." Vermont says that "the rest
lutions of Virginia are upOonstitutiol
al in their nature, aud dangerous
their tendency"
But the resolutions Of 1898, whic
70 had been rejected by the States, and b
~ the old Republican party up to tn
!, time, we're re-afirmed by the Demo-
q ic Conventions of 1882 aud 1856. TIL
resolved TO carry out the principles
these resolutions "ju their obvio
ID meaning and import" The party th'
in in power resolved to "uphold" and ca
es ry out" the principle of uulliacatiO
ch They thus deliberately repudiated Il
e. principles of Gen. Jackson's immor'
he Proclamation, which after crushi
in Notification and Secession with owe
zee whelming arguments, concludes in t
ITS following emphatic terms:
he III consider, then, the power to ann
en- law of tho States, assumed by o
- State, incompatible with the exister
- of the Union, oontradc ted expressly
nj, the letter of the Constitution, unauth
icy lied by its spirit, inconsistent W
,ly every principle on which it was found