The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-03-03
STATE sovEREIGNTY--N 2.

Authentic Proofs from Political His
tory.
There appears to be a prevailing idea
among modern politicians that the sew
eral States came into tho Federal Union
by organizing State constitutions, by
which they adopted the Constitution Of
the Federal Government, which was rat
iiod by the Federal authorities in 1887.
The colonies had been in the Federal
Union under the compact, oral and
written, thirteen years before tho State
constitutions were organized, with the
exception Of South Carolina, which
formed constitution in 1875, before
the independent authority Of tho Fed
eral Government was established against
British supremacy, therefore when
South Carolina saw the supreme FEEDER
al authority established, she in 1890
discarded that Constitution. which had
been formed by her own authority,
and formed a new ono under the author
ity of the Federal Constitution of the
United States, by which she avowcd al
legiaRca to the Federal Government for
her more perfect safety. South Carroll
ma, previous to this transaction, was
under the supreme control of the Fed.
eral compact BY the sanction Of her
members in Congress.
If organizing State constitutions in
the place Of colonial charters, was the
means of tho several States coming in
to the Federal Union. Connecticut,
with her members in Congress enacting
Federal laws for her profit and safety,
,0as not IN the Federal Union until 1918,
when she formed State constitution,
having been governed by the Federal
authorities a years, administering her
State Government all that time under
her colonial charter, (Which was grant.
ed to her by Charles II, in 1862" Ac.
oording to the politics of Coppcrhead-
ism, Connecticut was ont Of tie Union
all this timeI Rhode Island, with her
members in Congress, adopted the
United States Constitution in 1900, and
acted under her colonial charter, grant
ed by Charles IT, in 1868" The Uni.
ted States were governed in Federal
Union, IS years by the "Fedoral cont =
pact" before the Federal Constitution
was formed and adopted. "T'ho adop-
ton of the Constitution did not repeal
the Federal compact, but rendered its
governing influence useless; therefore
it is fled away in the national archives,
as a standing evidence Of lasting and
perpetual bond of the Union of these
United States of America"
The Constitution, which supplied the
place of the compact, made some addi-
tions to the legislative and executive
departments of the Federal Govern
ment, which made it h0noraJy polite
to offer it to the States for their sano-
ton. "Virginia adopted the Constitu-
tion Juno 6, 1885, New York, July 16,
1888; New Jersey, December 6, 1887;
Delaware, December 7, 1887; Conn
icut, January o, 1888; Maryland, April
28, 1898; Rhode Island, May 20, 1890
North Carolina, November 21, 1889;
South Carolina, May %, 1888; Penn
sylyania, December y, 1887; Georgia,
January 8, 1888"
ola 1854 more general Union wal
attempted, according to plan which
in several of its features, resemblod th,
present Constitution Of the Unitet
States; and although adopted by a con
veution Of delegates from Massachu
setts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland
with tho Lieutenant Governor an,
Council of New York, it failed to re
osivo the appreciation of either the Pro
vineial Assemblies, or the Kings Couu
cil." This proves the sovereign will @
the people for the Federal Union 70
national security, at this early date,
Perhaps the political fault-andOl
for the lack Of proof or argument t
disprove the preceding facts, may al
tempt to overcome them, or prejudic
the public mind against them, by daub
ing my political character with the odi
um Of "Federalist" Yes, brother fault