Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-07-31

again marshaling its hosts, and now sum-
monlng US TO the field of political combat,
on these same issues. That party, at their
/ National Conventions, In 1856 and 1860, re-
adopted what are known as the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions of l79S and 1899,
as part OF their platforms. These iesolu-
| tlons are known as the embodiment of the
old State rights and Calhoun doctrines.
/ They do not II gard the relations of the
States or people thereof to the United States
| as constituting a 9Orernneat, in the ordina-
| ry and proper sense OF the term, but declare
them to De merely compact, and that 'dS
az dH other cases of compact among parties
hGcts9 no common Judge, each party has an
equal right to Judge for ITSELF as peN Of IN
fractions, as the mode and measure Of
redress :"
Under this free Democratic charter for
rebellion, the lawful election of Abraham
Lincoln as President of the United States
was claimed by the people of the rebel
States as an 'infraction" of the compact,
and they chose secession and civil war as the
mode and the destruction OF the Union and
! State independence as hemeasures0 OF redress
| The Democratic party, at its last National
Convention, proclaimed the war a failure,
and 1t has now put in the field lifelong
Free Trade and State Rights candidate,
whom Judge Black endorses as one who will
stand by the Constitution and give pure
| law viz: who will stand by the Constitu-
tion as the State Rights party construe it,
and give us such ''pure law as Judge
| Black has given President Buchanan and
Andrew johnson.
| Judge Sharswood and his party friends
have not only denied the lawful power of
| the National Government to coerce rebel
! llOus State, to make and enforce draft, to
make paper money a legal tender, to eman-
| clpate and arm negroes, to punish rebels
and traitors by disfranchisement, to suspend
| the writ Of habeds corpus in time of rebel
| lion, or to arrest and try offenders in time of
war by court-martial; but they hold that all
| these things, though actually done, were IL
| legally and wrongtully done, and therefore
| settled nothing! Or, as the Democratic or
gan, (the Philadelphia Age in recent
| elaborate editorial on the Republican State
| Platform, thus expresses the same idea
| I'VE put it to the sober thoughts Of the
! people Of Pennsylvania, whether they would
not have all these grave pending questions
! decided according to law, and not according
| to war Just, az fact, as they 1eoutd hare been
decided had they arisen eight gears ago, or
| had no lrur tdken place.
! Is, then, the lost cause" not lost? Has
the late dreadful war decided nothing? Is
| the right of secession IN open question
| Has slavery not been abolished? Are not
| the four millions of bondsmen free? Has
our national debt no legal existence? Have
| the victors no power over the vanquished? ?
| Have rebel States and people lost no rights
| by rebellion? Have our sacrifices OF blood
| and treasure been all made IN vain? Fellow
| citizens, weigh we'll these solemn questions,
and answer them at the ballot-box on the
| second TueSdav of Octoher neSt
Having concluded to reserve for future
| occasion some remarks on party organiZa-
| ton, and other topics, this address might
| here properly close. But, it may be asked
| by some, is Judge Sharswood, indeed, the
| political hereto herein set forth? "a man
is known by the company he keeps, says
the old aGage. We have the right to as
sumo, and have assumed, that the Judge is
Of the same political faith as his party, and
the public will hold him responsible for all
the guilty acts and omissions Of his party
| There can be no mistakiug the true position
of the man who recently delivered an elab-
crate opinion denying the constitutional
power of Congress to make paper money a
| legal tender See the case Of BOrie u.s.
IroH, Legal MtetHgenccr Of Iiarch 18TH
| 1864. page %. And when we go further
back, and examine his early history, we find
ample justification for all we have written
and more. So long ago as April 1884, he
appeared as The Orator Of the Day, " at a
meeting of States Rights Association in
Philadelphia. We here copy some of the
proceedings of that interesting convocation
from The Erdnainer and Journal of Ro-
Hticat Economy, Deroted to tie 4dcanoe-
naeat Of the Cause Of State Rights and Free
! TRADE, Vol |, page 800.
| Tie orator on that occasion delivered a
long and carefully prepared vindication and
eulogy of the State Rights Virginia and
| Kentucky resolutions, herein before cited
and summed up his elaborate endorsement
| thereof as follows:
- We comeback to oar starting place and
finding nothing III the Con$titutioA establish
| ing day final Judge Of the enumerated p0lC-
ers. prohibitions, and reserredr1ghts, 1t must
rest upon the admitted principles of general
LaU, IN cases of compact 6etUeen parties
hdCiRg no common superior. Each State
has the right to judge for itself OF the IN
.factions Of the compact, and to choose for
itself the most proper and efficient remedies. 4"
The better to exhibit still further, if pos
| sible, the true character of that meeting
toasts are copied from the proceedings
Same uOtunle, page 3l2):
Toast. John G. Calhoum-The first to
throw himself into the breach against Fed
eral usurpation. Nay he Ire to see has prip-
ctpLes predominant throughout the ,corld. ,"
Toast: 1.-The Patriots, othe,7oiise called
Nullitfers Of South Cdrolina-their memo
ries will be cherished when the advocates of
the Force Bill are forgotten, or remembered
with execration.
Toast: The State of South Carolina
as her principles are cherished, ace need not
fear us.upat,on, either in the Legislative,
judicial or Executive departments of the
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