Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-01-14
>iTIRDlY MORNING. JAN. II. lSf5.
Who Are tAe Nulli6ers .

Who Are tAe Nulli6ers!
On Wednesday Of las; we-k. the SPEAKER
of the Hou.~. Mr.. Dugan. in MS remarks upon
the Special Contract Bill. said tina, Nulli6ea-
ton had been for many years past ohargat'e
to the elements composing the Republican
party. spd should the bill return to the House
he would "ventilate the whole affair, and
place Notification to the credit Of the party
to whom it belongs"
Mr.. Dugan has our hearty consent to pro-
coed with the g ventilation" which he seems
SO ready to undertake. We have this to say,
however, that no amount Of ventilation, no
matter how plausibly applied, can remove
the stigma of reasonable notification from
the shoulders of the Democracy" and ac-
credit the same in act or theory tn the Re-
publican party. The prcsumptive and perni-
cious doctrine of State sovereignty is the pro-
life source of all multiplying acts and resolves
In reverting to our national history, as far
back as l79S-99, we find this State sover-
eighty assuming an attitude Of resistance to
the acts of the Federal Congress. This re-
sistance was manifested in series Of resolu-
tions introduced in the Kentucky Legisla-
ture, where they were adopted as the sine qua
non of the political creed of tina: State. They
begun with resolve that the Federal Gov
eminent was compact between the States,
as States, by which was created general
government for special purposes, each State
rescrving to itself the residuary mass of pow
er and right; and that as in other cases of
compact between parties having no common
judge, each party has an equal right to judge
for itself as we'll of infractions as the mode
and measure of redress This was the shape
in which, with only two or three dissenting
votes, the resolutions passed the Kentucky
Legislature on the 4th November, 1898. aa
Thomas Jefferson, the reputcd father Of
Democracy in this country, was the author Of
the above resolution, embodying the the sui
cidal doctrine that State governments are Sill
rreme over the General Government. Sim.
liar resolutions, from the pen of Mr.. Madison,
were soon afterwards introduced into the Vir-
ginia Legislature and adopted. and accom-
panied by an address were sent out to the
several States for their cooperation in sus.
tanning the theory therein manifested. Mr.
Madison, the author Of the Virginia resolu.
tions, was co-pol;tical worker, with Mr.
Jefferson, both Democrats, and holding q
front rank among the most illustrious men Of
the country during their time, but experience
has proved the error of their theory on The
relations existing between Federal and State
Governments. H4it-.. .sft! inaa.
We next find this grievous invention Of
Jefferson and Madison, whereby State
would have right to nullify the acts of Con.
gross and to be its own judge of the constitu.
tionali,y of law. brought to direct issue in
the case Of South Carolina, in 1928, under
the leadership Of Mr.. Hayne and John c. Cal
houn, both Democrats Of the raLid. State
right school. Sustained by Virginia, Alabama
and Georgia, Conve ution Of Delegates a.
sembling in South Carolina in November
in 1882. declared the Congressional tariff
acts of 1928 and 1892 null and void. and no,
binding upon the citizens Of the States. and
it further declared that il the United States
should attrmPs to enforce them. by naval o,
military power. the Union wss to b dis
solved and couvrniion called to form gov.
rrnment :or South Caralsaa. and it Lke~ III
provided that no appeal should be Pssnisss ID
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