The weekly Butte record., 1867-10-19
.selessness Of
government to
discussed and set.

.,ughs ou. .th the same result a
il thegs who establiatsd the government ar
peac.bly. The It down the 4infamou,
<in # secession, OF argument and reason, on
Rs. attempt to I've it a resting place on the
.cky and Vi1ania Resolutions, by giving
false sa5~fcked construction. The secoat
..-.b establish the infamous doctrine of Sc
cession. was killed by a proclamation from Presi
1ent jackson. Before closing we may refer to that
&proclamation, although it should be familiar tc
every one conversant with public affairs. As We
shre now combating the Infamous doctrine of Sc
cession," which was never advocated except ty
designing knaves, and believed only by arrant fools
Butte county and to incorporate it in the platform Of
political party, is our excuse for presenting it to
the public. We would not have the public mind
debauched by false doctrines, nor lied to and de-
ccived by those who, if they know not better are
unfit to furnish the public with any reading matter
whatever In order that we may fairly present the
subject, we give the Kentucky Resolution, which is
claimed as the foundation of the doctrine of
sion
Resoired That the several States composing the
United States of America not united the
principle OF unlimited submission to their general
government but that, by compact under the style
and title of Constitution for the United States,
and of amendments thereto, they constituted a
general government for special purposes, delegated
to that government certain definite powers, reserV-
ing each State to itself, the residuary OF right
TO their own self government; and that whensoever
the general government assumes undelegated pow
erS, its acts are unauthoritatve, void and of no
force; that to this compact each State ded As
State, and Is an integral party; that this govern
ment, created by this compact, was not made the
exclusive final judge OF the extent of the powers
delegated to itself, since that would have made its
discretion, and not the Constitution the of
its powers; but that. in all other cases of COM
pact among parties having no common judge, each
party has an equal right To judge for itself as well
of iniractions, of the mode and measure of re-
dress.
This is the first of the famous Kentucky resolu
tions, drafted by Jefferson. and claimed as the
foundation of tine doctrine of secession. In the
resolution, appears in the Butte County Press
the word '(State,)' is interpolated after the words
leach party so that Jefferson is not the author of
the doctrine that paper wauld have the people be-
lieve and endorse. Against such Interpolation and
Misrepresentation Of former PATRIOTS there two
appropriate remedies. viz: Intelligence the part
of the part Of the people 10 detect the imposition;
or club on the head Of the head of the scoundres
who thus deliberately attempt to deceive.
We deny that there is anything in the foregoing
resolution upon which to base the doctrine of Sc
cession. 1t is simple declaration that unauthor-
lied acts of the geseral government void. and
that State has the right to poin ont the remedy
within the Union, as a second violation of the Con-
stitutioa is no remedy for its violation in the
first instance. The General Government is the re-
suit Of compact between the several States-not
between the General Government and each State
but between the States themselves. and no intel
ligent or sane person ever has, every will assert
that State has the right TO violate that compact
without the consent of the other States, who are
parties to it. Nobody but knave would assert
that party to compact. has a right to rescind
the compact without the consent of the other par
ties and nobody but fool would believe it after i;
= asserted. The resolution then simply declares
he equal right of the States, and the Virginia
resolutions. drafted by Mr. Madison their right
and duty" "to interpose for arresiing the PROCESS
Of the evil. and for maintaining seeding
and abandoning-Ep REcoRD. within their res
pectve limits, the authorities, rights and liberties
sppertaning TO them It will thus be seen that
the construction of these resolutions which makes
them the gronnd work for the ''inamous doctrine
of secession is a violent and unwarranted one
That such was the view taken by Mr.. Jefferson
we have abundant proof. In a letter to Mr. E. Car.
Igton he says:
when two parties make compact. there re-
suits to each power of compelling the other 10
{ execute it,"
Farther than this, Mr.. Jefferson was in favor oi
eoercing a refractory State, even under the old
Articles of Confederation. In letter tc Colonel
Monroe. dated Paris, August II, ,l7s6. Mr. Jefferson
speaks thus:
There never will be money in the treasury unit
the Confederacy shows its teeth. The States mus
zee the rod; perhaps it must he felt by some O
them. | am persuaded all of them would rejoice
TO see every one obliged to furnish their contribu
tions. II is not the difficulty of furnishing sheG
which besgars the treasury but the fear that other
will not furnish as much. Every rational citzei
must wish TO see an effective instrument of coer
cion. etc.
So much for the author of the Kentacky resolu
tons II seems almost probable that Senator
Chandler obtained his idea that Little blood let
ting was necessary for the good of the govern
must be felt by some Of them says Mr.. Jefferson
Now let us examine the opinion and actor
of the people of the State that first adopted them
November l9. 1873. The following year. on Nov
ember 22nd. l7se the Kentacky Legislature pass
ed further declaratory statement in which occur
the following:
THAT if these who administer the general gov
eminent he permitted 10 tranSgresS the limits hNe'
hy that compact by total disregard Of the special
delegations Of power therein contained. an annihi'
latioa OF the Stste Governments, aud the creation
upon their OF general consolidated government
will be the ineyi'ahia consequence that the princi
pie and construction. contenGed for by sundry o
the State Legislatures. that the general govern
ment is the exclusive Judge Of the extent o: tn
powers delegated To it, stop not short OF deSpoii>n
since the discretion of those who admin Ster m
government and not the constitution would be th
measure Of their powers; That the several State
who formed that instrument. being sovereign an
independent. have the unqqestonable right
judge of tie intracton; and, and that nulliacs
fioa, by those severeicntieS. of all unauthorize
acts done under color of that instrument, IS ii
'fsatfai remedy. That this commonwealth does
nnder the most deliberate reconsideration, deciar
that the said alien and sedtioa laws are in their OPT,
ION, palpahle violations of the said coastitgtou an
however cheerfally it may disposed to surrender il
opinion to majority of its sister States. in ma
tefs of ordinary and doubtful policy. yet in M
tons regulations ike the present which so '
wound the best rights of the citizen, that
! consider silent acquiescence as high