The Democratic advocate., 1866-05-03


Kentucky resolutions of179s&i99, Zee
Baltimore Gdzcttc, March f3, 1867 :!
Senator Wade in 1855 endorsed tho.
Virginiaand Kentuck yresolutioNs. We
quote from his speech in the Senate,
(see baltimore Gazqttc, March, IL '66.)
"Who is to be the judge in the last
resort ofthe violation Of the Constitu-
ton Of the United States, by the enact
ment of a law? Who is the final arbi-
ter? The Gvnoral Government or the
States in their sovereignty? Why sir,
to yield that point, is to yield up all the
rights of the States to protect their own
citizens and to consolidate this Govern
mentiuto a miserable dcspotism''---
--"But Southern gentlemen stand here
and in almost all their speeches speak
Of the dissolution Of the Union, as an
element of every argument, rs though it
were peculiar eondcscension on their
part that they permitted the Union to
stand at all. If they they do not feel
Interested in upholding this Union, il it
really trenches on their rights, If it Gu
dangers their institutions to such an ex-
tent that they do not feel secure under
it, if their interests are violently asaailed
by means Of this Union, J. am not one Of
those who expect that they viii continue
long under H. ! an not ono Of those
who would ask them to continue in such
a Union. 1t would be doing gioieEce 10
Hc yigtfiDal gf ne party 10 irhfch 4 be-
hag We have adopted the old Decla-
ration Of Independence as the basis Of
our political movement, which declares
that any people when the government
ceases to protect their rights, when it is
80 subycrtod from the true purposes of
government "a to oppress them, have a
right to roecdc 10 fundamental princi-
pies, and II need be, ~ destroy the gov
crnmcnt under which they live, and to
erect on ! 8 ruins another more condu-'
Give to their welfare. fhoH hat they
hanc his right ,eR aot blame any
propL toy cscrcis'ay Il trhcHctcr hy
think The contingency has come. You
cannot .forcidg lott mca IN this Union
tor hc oHempt IN do so, Il seems 10 me-,
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