Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-26
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VOL. XXXV.

VIOLENCE TO TIE PLATToRK or THE PIRTY
Rsk3s es az M Ssss s, o sG
cal no9ennents which declares that any people when
their Government ceases to protect their rights
pose of Government as to Cypress them. have A
Rse5f sss5 to e principle and if
WHICH they LIVE. Gad t. erect oNIIs RUINS other
%GJs sy % H gutS her 1 welfare HOLD THAT
peopt, 1or' ezercfsfno, dt. whenever a7r THE yea
think thee ntingency has come. l certainly shall
be the adgocdte of that same doctrine whenever l
30 to TIE SE679oW To WHICH
BELONG. that free people ought not longer TO en-
being h x,i R2S FSs3 nD9 but
that CONT. gency never having come, have never
II, You oAsNoT FoRcIBLY HOLD MEN IN THIS
UNION, FOR THE ATTEMPT TO DO so, II seems to IL e,
GovsRsGESr W m W USpEa WINCH CIV VIZ III LIVE no
soHat G1aos s4f1 Congress. 3D. Session, page Is.
"There some Senators who profess great
regard for the rights of the States. am one of
those who have quite regard for the rights
OF the ates as some yho make louder professions
on the snp3ectt an do, am one OF those who.
time. tin =, BELIEVE IN TIL WISDOM, THE CON
THE VIRGINIA. RESOLUTIONS of 1913 AND
l.ss ground myself upon those resolutions, and.
STANDING upon them. denounce this bill IS vio-
ation. not ony of the spirit of those resolutions,
put as an attempt to trampe upon the rights of the
oeates nuo Deprive tnem of tue power to protect
their own citizens from aggression aud abuse. Do.
gentlemen suppose that the States now awakened
to keen sense of their rights aud the danger of
generalization, will ever submit to such a bill as
thisf tell you nay"
R1o Is to6 Judge TIE last resort of tae 0ioza-
ton of the Constitution of the United Suses 6y the
endctMcHt Of a tGeof Who is the final ei ter!
The General 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
ment into miserable despotism tell you sir,
whatever YOU may think of it. if this bill pass. col
tts1ons t1tu arise 6ettoeen the Federal and State
Tfsdtctions- -confcts more dangerous than all the
fiicts i'm which the states will never
yield, for the more you undertake to load them
with acts like this the greater will be their resist
II stated that this bill was intended to promote
and help the execution of the fugitive bill. The
Senator does not deny it. said there were States
IN this MON whose highest tribunals had juged
that bill to be unconstitutional, and that was
Of those who believed it unconstitutional that my
the old solutions of 1913 and 17g9 State must not
only be the judge of that bat of the remedy in such
a case. =
in the ch ir invoked in l79s to free yourselves from
the exerci Of power that threatened to reduce you
TO slavery. Your great ancestors against ii,
and made the declaration of the plItform on which
stand to-day. and on which you, who are honest
Democrats stand, an from which you will not
shrink in the day of trial. unless you mean to in
dorse them at Ba timnre and deny them at Wash.
ington. GLaughter.] Tbeu l am not to be condem-
ned IS nullfer or disuniOnist unless fall with
the great Democratic party upon the main plank in
the last p'atfsrm which thev ere"ted."-See Con-
gressiondI Globe App:ndic 33rd Congress, Ind Ses-
sion. PIP 2i3-15. ....