Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-12
IypIAxAPolIs. Nav 6. 1864.
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CRElGHTOS DANDY,
Corresponding Secretary.

Creighton Dandy. Esq Corresponding Secretary
Of The Democratic Club OF LGwrencebarg:
DEAR SlR-I am in receipt of yours of April
%. ultimo. enclosing copy OF a resolution of the
Democratic Club of Lawrenceburg making me
an honorary member of that society.
Absence from home has prevented an earlier
acknowledgement of It's reception.
thank the Association tor the compliment,
and YOU for the kind manner in which it is com
municated IL is true. | am unacquainted with
your constitution and by laws; but a man rarely
goes smiss in acting with old Union loving De
mocracy under whom the country always
happy.
The resolution speaks apprOvngyof my hum
bic efforts TO sustain the constitution and laws,
and courts of the country. | am rejOiced to
witness this feeling of respect for law and order
Let me say that the war. with all its attendant
evils. which now affllcts the country, is but the
tuition of the United States expounded by the
Judicial tribunals OF the nation
Less than one hundred wears ago. our fathers
framed and adopted "A constitution for the United
States; and in it they provided that all questions.
arising about IT. meaning and the respective
rights of the States and people under il. should
be decided by the courts Of the United States.
and not by the States and peonle themselves
according 10 their own several notions. upon the
higher law principle Had this provision been
uniformly respected. peace and prosperity would
now have regned throughout the land
IL has been disregarded in three memorable
instances
/ Nv the New England Federssts.
= By the Southern Nulli6ers
By The Northern Lincoln men
FiRST-THE CASE OF SEM ENGLAND.
IL was during the attempt TO establish New
England Conleieracy, that Mr.. Josiah Quincy
one of the ablest and most accomplished men OF
VI Massachusetts,. the near connection OF J q
Adams then Feieraisi and now a radical. ami
ardent supporter 81 Mr Lincolu's Administra-
.tiOn. gave exposition OF the constitutional
views held by the federal and radical SecessOnisls
of the eastern section of the Union The par
.ticuar occasion this: Soon after Mr. Jetisr
son became President. LOui,iana was acquired
whereby the United States got the control OF the
Mississippi river New England opposed this
acquisition because il tended to increase the
power OF the South and West: and thus relative
" diminish hers anu on tue 18th of January
1871. on the bill TO provide for the formation of
State Government IN part of the acquired
Louisiana territory. Mr. Quincy asserted that the
passage OF the nill would be- ipso facio. a di,so-
luton OF the Onion Excitement was produced
by this pr0Do>iton Mr Poindexter. a leading
Southern statesman from Mississippi. and a
bosom friend of Henry Clay, called Mr. Quincy
10 order. declaring that at was radically wrong
for any member 10 use arguments going dis
solve the Government. and tumble this BODY
itself To dust and ashes F"
Mr. Quincy repeated and justified the remark
he had made. which. to save all misapDrehen.
sion. he con united u writing IN the following
wo-,'s: II ,his bill passes il i nv deliberate
oun0n that il is virtually dissolution OF this
Union; that il will free the States from their
mora. obligation, and, rs il will be the right OF
all. 50 il will be the duty OF some definitely 20
prepare for a separation. amicablv II they can.
violently ii they must" And the Hon.e by
three majority refused 20 sustain Mr. Poiudex-
ter. Of M.ssiss ppi. ami decided! that Mr. Quincy>
reasonable remarks were IN ORDER and he
proceeded in his speech, 90 enforce them thus:
al will add only few words il relation 10 the
moral and political consequences of u>urping this
power. | have said that il would be virtual
dissolution OF the Union: and gentlemen express
great >enshiity at the expression But the true
source OF terror Is not II the declaration ] have
mad out IN the deei YOU propose Is there
mora principle Of public law better settled, or
more comfortable TO the plsues; suggestions OF
reason. than that the violation OF a contrac; By
one Of the parties may De considered exempt,
lng the other from IL obligations = Bent
Deb 2 326. Ell seq
sEcoNp-THE CASE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
congress enacted a tsrlf iIw IL was oppre>-
sive upon The South The South declared il
violation OF the Constitution: aud. failing TO gel
the laS repealed. South Carolina proceeded. in
1852, 10 pass publication ordinance prohibiting
the enforcement of the law IA that state Gsn.
jackson Vas then President He,came out in a
message declaring that, however II NAV be al
lesed thst a violation OF the compact THE Con
stitu.,ool by the measures OF Toe Government
can affect the obligations OF the parties IL can
not even DE pretended that such violation De
PREDICTED OF these measures until al the consii-
tuiional remedies shall have been fully tried. Ii
the Federal Govern nent exercises powers not
warranted by the constitution. and immediately
affecting Individuals. il will scarcely be denied
thst the proper remedy i recourse 10 the Judi
cary" 10 Bent Deb, p H. And in his proc