The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-23
DestractioI Of states.

The sphere of State sovereignty, $50
called" has been "entered according to
act of Congress-" the invasion has been
sweepingly destructive, and the supreme
authority of States over their own af.
fairs has been male thing of the past.
Hereafter we will hear but little of Sow
ereign States; the term, so far as it
may refer to members of what was once
the American Union, may as well be
dropped from the language. So far as
actual realities are concerned it has no
significance. 1t il of no more utility
than the title of u mummied monarch or
the name of q lost star. Its value is
simply historic; it will only serve to re-
mind men Of what has been. While the
Union, as originally formed, lasted, the
words, Sovereign State, were frequent
ly heard in the halls of Congress and in
the State egislatures-whenever states
men discoursed of American institu-
ton or considered the relations of the
States to each other and to the
Government. With the departure of
the men who understood and respected
the significance of the words, the words
themselves have fallen into disuse.
Dwarfs cannot WELD the weapons Of
giants. and the political pigmies of the
present have felt their incompetency to
grapple with the governmental theo-
ries that engaged the attention of their
predecessors. The new race of rulers
have simplitied vastly, the perplexing
features Of the old political fabric. They
have determined that there must be no
such thing as sovereignty, even in a
qualified sense, existing in the States of
the Union.
The States must be to the Union
what the counties have heretofore been
TO the States. They can exercise no
power except by the consent of Con-
gress. They cannot be permitted to
send representatives to the National
Councils, unless those representatives
are in perfect political accord with the
majority there ruling and reigning.l
The process of innovation upon the
rights OF the States" says the Roches-
ter onion, "has gone so far and received
So little in the way of rebuke from the
people that it is difficult to predict just
where it will stop. 1t is safe to say
that if any one of the Northern States
should change its political, complexion |
and send 20 Congress Democrats they |
would be denied admission. We pre- |
diet that this will be the case with the
representatives from Connecticut, some
of whom probably may be Democrats.
4 proposition has been gravely enter
tanned in the House TO reorganlZe the
State of Maryland and change her laws
SD as to make her q Radical instead OF
a Conservative State. Maryland has
lust elected Senator and his creden-
tials are presented by his colleague Mr.
johnson. The Senate refuse to receive
him, notwithstanding the fact that such
a man as Mr.. Johnson vouches for his
LOYALTY. Such vagabonds as Jim. Nye, !
representing one of the mushroom conf |
munitieS beyond the Rocky Mountains,
calls in question the right OF an old
State like Maryland to representation
and casts aspersions npOn her people
and her representatives. Mr.. Thomas
the Senator elect from Maryland is
gentleman whose shoes this Nye is not
wsrthy TO unloose. To what pass have
the affairs OF this Republic come
that such things are done in its capitol
and done by such base Instruments!
There are but two more acts to be per-
formed 10 complete the work OF rum
that the Radical Congress has been en-
gagged in for the past three or four
wears. One is 10 remove the President,
and place in the chair creature of
Congress. The other is to declare the
present Congress a permanent body, to
hold Office as long as the majority de-
sire to remain in power. This done,
and the last vestige of that Republican
ism which the founders of the Constitu-
ton planted will have been rooted up |
and thrown out of the SOIL And this is
not long stride in the march OF these
fanatics, who have been moving so rap |
illv in the direction of absolute power
for Congress and absolute submission
by the States and people.