The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-09-21

tevery city, town and hamlet in. tke, le$i
States; and, if its exhibition would be .
I Flowed, in every corps division, brigad'
and regiment Of lthea loyal srmisss m
= among the weary, suffering, patriot saT
. Itives held rs prisoners 0f Baf by I'll
: rebels. .a4sdgt. Is hr.u
Z fIae &fesst 4lnt5r Z
4 31a' 7; state sHiGhlssesa Ttsas
i The most important work to-day, smi' d
the wild politicel speculations and theo
ries afioat, is to guard the, populsr min,
against the sinister infu, noes that arc, et
erted to lead it in the. wrong Idircction
The men in power, ambitious oflretainine
lit, and utterly interruptions, as !, to .thi
weans by which thy asethplisH it, AZ,
striving with might and main. to under
| mine the corner stohe of 6ar .rephblisaf
system of Government, the true State
Rights doctrine of 1.-The Fathers. The
ginia aad Kentucky Resolutions of '9s
and the Reports accompanying them
| though drawn by Madison and jefferson,
are secuted as. heretical in the extreme,
and people are taught that to declare in
favor of State Rights is ttcasohabfs to
| the Goyernment-that the Consultation
was the work of the whole people consti-
.uiing US one nation, and that to recog;
nize any sovereignty in the Statcs N6tld
be an effort to disturb the inherent sose-
reignty of The Nation. - 1;edi b9bas13
| Such postulates exhibit either gross ig-
| n6raLce or unbounded reliance upon the
stupidity of the great mass Of our people,
Nor have the men in power conteutea
themselves with the simple advancement
Of the theory, but they haze, for the las.
three years been reducing it. to practice.
Step by step they have advanced, absorb
ing the reserved rights of the States and
of the people. State jurisdictions have
been laughed to scorn, and under the
plea of the necessity Of the hour, powers
have been assumed by the Federal Gov
eminent which, if acquiesced, in, make
that Government, consolidated despotr
ism utterly unknown to our Constitution
and the theory of our system Of 9otefn-
ment.. 5-.5 81 aso.a015 :,1lsEz ss5.is.' su...
Now what is the true theory, sustained
by those who made cur Constitution, and
by all cetetnperafy authority? e 10 sim
ply this. The Constellation Of the United
States Is - social compact made. by the
inhabitants of certain territories, which,
previous to its adoption, had local Gov
ernments established Within them, organ.
lied with powers, which acknowledged
no superior, as long as they did not over
step the limits set to them either express
" or tacitly in their respective State Con-
stitutions. But in the adoption Of the
general Constitution, the suptemscy of
the State as we'll as the independence of
the States was cemented only rs they! be
came bound to obey all laws lasde by sir=
tue of the general Constitution .-.-.-s
I If the people of the United States had
intended to adopt Constitution ia their
collective capacity as one great nation,
without any reference to- territorial or.
State GoverntbeHtf, or to the indepea-r
idsncn Of each Individual State, there
should have been no calling of separste
State Conventions for the adoption Of tho
Constitution, but delegates should have,
been chosen from all the statss to one
general Convention for the purpose Of de-
lhberating upon, and adopting and ratify-
ing it. But in fact, after the Constitug
ton was approved by the Convention.
whose whelel Authority ih stfictness was
confined to revising the articles of con,
federation and proposing alterations in
them, the ratification of the Constitution
was given BY delegates chosen BY the
several States for the purpose of delibera-
ting upon; ands if they, saw fit, adopting
and ratifying it. !, The Constitution, there.
fore, was adopted by the citizens Of the ]
several States, acting as distinct nations,
the notifications being given by fhe fg. /
spective delegates of each meeting In
State Convention y8 sas4.aag7l:j -.ysdl
y If tie Constitution was instaptapeous-
~ abolished, the Union would be resolved,
not into one nation In state of anarchy
as to national supremacy, but into several
nations inbabiting The territory of the
respective States, and under indepe ndent
and supreme heads; for, all those powersr
wh.ch az, taken from the State Govern.
mehts expressly BY the Constitution, or |
tacitly by the mere act of adopting 1t, if
she Constitution should be abolished, will,
without any further act Immediately 70,
turn to the State Governments respect !
lively. Of Agafu. if the Constitution was
framed and adopted BY the people Of all /
the Stutcs acting as members of ope great /
nation, then this absurdity would follow I
that If there had been majority ID |
any individual State against adopting the
still that State must have TO I
come in, beealse the majority Of the peo-
ple of the United States were III favor Of I
It. These States, however deerp
I'd sufficient to ratffy, and bind "the
STATES SO .ratiYvfag tie sdnss.s :, Nov
these States might have been :. fninoffty
If af,TsbsT yeor,le.s which shows SonclusiyeSf