The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-08-24
TIE RIGHTS OF STATES AGAIN.

lie klSHIS OF OiA iA@o n - ai-''
Now the first point is the supremacy of
The Union, the cutting up OF secession by
the ROOT, root and branch the utter des-
truc,ion oil all Rotation against he au-
,hority of the government of the United
States; that's the first principles Of the
call and hare is the second: The rights,
the dignity and the equality Of the states
in the Union, including the nigh, of rep
resentation in congress, arc soleinniy
guaranteed by that constitution, to save
which from overthrow so much blood and
treasure were expended in the late civil
war y tt at is the second idea. First, the
unity o. the states; the rights OF the
states under the constitution, and subject
onIy TO the constitution. 1t is the right
of states 10 exercise those rights which
are reserved to them by the constitution :;
among these is right which is sacred and
which congress cannot take away 1t Is
right Of state TO have an actual repre>
sentation in the seuaie undertake to
say that by the constitution of the United
States, every state in the United States,
evely state in the Union has an actual
right to representation In the senate of the
United States, and congress has no right,
no power to change it; and if congress
undertakes to change it, it is revolution.
(Applause.) The rights of these states
under the constitution, are the very things
for which we fought; they are the grand
objects for which our brothers and our
fathers and soEs have laid down their
lives.
HOW HUMAN RIGHTS ARE SECURED.
Fellow citizens, when men talk to me
about securing human liberty 10y enact
ments Of congress, by caucuses Of the
house of representatives or Of the senate,
doubt whether such men fully under
stand the theory upon which our govern
ment Is based Who defends my rights
and liberty here in Wisconsin, Who
defends NE in the en- oyment of my home
here? Is it congress Not at all. 1t
is the state of Wisconsin. CHEERS J
Who defends me in the enjoyment of nv
wife and my children? Congress Not
at al, not at all. 1t is the right Of the
people Of Wisconsin to govern themselves,
pass their own laws, under the con,ttu-
ton Of the state of Wisconsin to enforce
them by their own tribunals, which
guard us by day and by night, which
guard our homes from burglars and from
arson, which defend US 10 the enjoyment
Of all those liberties we prlzs most dear,
including life and property, reputation and
family, wives and children. Oh, fellow
citizens, when VIC forget to look to the
state as the 4E5is which protects our IT'D,
critics, those liberties are alread ' gone.
SECESSION AND EXCLUSION THE SAME.
Again, there is no right anywhere TO
dissolve the Union, or to separate states
from the Union, either BY voluntary with
drawal, by force Of arms, or by congress
sona action: neither by the secession Of
the states, nor by the exclusion Of their
loyal and qualified representatives, nor by
the national government in any other
form
Why, fellow citizens, what is the differ
ence between the sece>sioniots and the ex
cIusionists9 What is the difference be
tween the disunonists who insists that
eleven states have right to withdraw
from twenty five, and tho exciu sionists
who say that the twenty-five have right
to expeI the eleven? They are both born
of the same falsehood ard lead to the
same results; it is dissolution, secession,
and both involving the same principles.
1t all lies in this: have states the right
to secede, one state from the lest, or ;he
rest 10 secede from that one, or in other
words to expel that one, for it comes pre-
cisely to that, and the doctrine of these
eXcIusionis;s is precisely as dangerous as
the doctrine of secession 1t IS secession,
and, feIlow-ci;;zens, that djsunion it is
your duty and mine by al! honorable
means to prevent. (App'ause.)
THAD STEVENS AT PHILADELpHIA.
Perhaps you ask the question whether
ThadGeus Stevens could 90 into this con-
ven:ion? For myself l do not believe
he would undertake to cross its Threshold,
certainly not without a very great change
Of heart, change of principle ard profess
sion, change OF creed too, because be has
maintained this doctrine of exclusion,
maintained this doctrine Of dead states,
this doctrine of conquered territory from
the beginning and from before the begin
ming OF the present congress. But after
all if Stevens, as bad as he may be, should
appear and claim to be regularly elected
from some district Of Pennsylvania, and
desire TO take his seat in the convention at
Philadelphia and will subscribe openly
to this creed, and declare that he believes
and cordially approves Of all the doctrines
set out in that creed, bad and mischiev-
Gus as believe him to be, much as be
Iieve that he has been the very Mephisto
pheles of congress, that has produced all
the trouble of the present winter, | would
not vote 10 exclude him. Because if he
PROCESSES this creed, do not know what
power | wonld have to exclude him, I'M
less after he shoult enter the convention
he should begin to make war on its creed :;
and if he did we would expel him in two
minutes. Great applause.)
SLAVERY.
We now come 10 anothe; point: "Slav-
cry is abolished and neither can or ought
TO be reestablished in any state or terri
tory within our jurisdiction
Thus DO one who is in favor Of slavery
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