The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-04-08
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HON. G EoRG E Il. PENBLE TON,
Milwaukee, Wis.,, Nov. I'd, 1867.
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Milwaukee, Wis.,, Nov. I'd, 1867.
Mr.. PENDLEToN was introduced by the
President, and was received with many
cheers. He said:
IL thank you for the friendly manner
in which you have been pleased to greet
me, Twas told if visited your State
you would give me q cordial weIcome.-
You have fulfilled that promise. Al
though see around me few faces which
have ever seen before !; although five
hundred miles separate my home onsthe
Beautiful River from yours on this mo-
hle lake although some of you may posi-.
bly, differ with me, to the largest degree,
in political opinions, I cans not feel that
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3 Are We not citizens Of the same coun-
try, bound up with her in a common des
tiny j? Is not her honor orr honor ;. her
prosperity our prosperity /; her glory our
liberty Z. Does not the ,benefcence of
her government reflect at once the wis
dom and secure the happiness of all her
people? Are we not ali children of one
mother, who opens wide her arms, and
forgetting our fol1ies and pardoning. our
crimes, senfolds US all, Democrats. and
Republicans alike, to her warm and 10y
ing heart 2. And are we not bound each
to the other by the common tie which
binds us all to her; Citizens of Ithe same,
country we cannot be. altogether strangers
children of the same mother, in the midst
of your hospitable homes; I can not adj
dress you except as feilow-eitiEens and
friends - - -
1 am oppreseed.. tiIeT presesce in
yhichI<taHu. 1 have traversed your
State from the lake to the river have
seen its attractive scenery, its productive
fields, its exhspstless mines. have seen
its fertiie4soil respond with ibean ifulihaTD 2
vests teihe touch of the husban dmon -
Il have seen its people contented with the
abundant rewards OF a cheerful industry
| stand in the midst OF your city, which.
rises in peerless beauty from the bosom
of this inland ocean, populous, rich, the
centre of mighty com mmerce-the wheat
market of the world. meet the busy
crowd which jostle through it's streets
1 sec the spacious stores where business
plies its avocations the roomy schools
Awhere, education lends it's powers to the
patural faculties the handsome churches
where religion seeks to soften the asperi
ties of lite; the luxurious homes where
culture and refinement give new charm
to wealth the courts where Justice is
administered-and over all, I feel that
the genius of law and social order and
LIBERTY presides, and that spirit of con-
tentmsnt which marks a prosperous, free,
end happy people. remember when
your State was territory-further back,
when it was part of Michigan further
back, before your city was founded, when
all this vast territory did -..ut contain one
tz---.ivrn part of the population of your
municipal limits to day. And when
r.call,,that past, and compare it with this
present, bow in reverence before the
bene6cence of that system of government
which presents your State as an integral
part of the.Federal unit which rises SO
splendidly among its sister sovereignties
of the ;world, and yet leaves in its hands
the entire regulation of all lis domestic
and local affairs. Acquired from Virgin
ia at the close of the Revolution, the Fed
eral Government did in fact hold and
govern this territory until lS48, and then
it abdicated its power as owner here, pro-
claimed you a sovereignty, recognized
your equality with those elder States
which had formed the, Union, declared
that you did possess all the rights which.
had been reserved, on the sole condition
that you would concel lie the powers which
had, been delegated. 2'~a g .'-
l viii not analyze that system. I will
not seek to define its form or to give it
name. Its whole foundation is that in.
terDatienal and interstote affairs are in
trusted to the Federal Governm ent, while
TO the State itself is confded the care Of
life and liberty and property of, its citi-
zens, the maintenance, Of social order,
the administration of justice, and the
definition of that body of citizens in
whom. political power shall reside It's
whole philosophy lis. pressed ia these
two provisions that the tConstitution
and ali laws passed in pursuance thereof
are the supreme law, and that all pbwerrs
not delegated TO the United States by the.
Constitution, nor prohibited BY it to the
States, are reserved te the States respect
lvely or to the people It's whole history
shows thaL,if, publication and secession
are revolufioh GO Sc {he2 part u r ne TIE ssates,
usurpation, at power by the Federal Gov
ernment isrevOlution also, and equally
iibeIties of the people, The Constitution
defined the terms of unienfo Il bresthed
into the Federal Government the breath.
of life1 It prescribes. the powersavhich
shall be used and the manner of their
exercise;f If we seek the powers of the
Federal Government, we must. look to
the powers; delegated blythe Constitution.
| If wes seek sthe, powers of the. States,
we must remember that all powers not
delegated NOR prohibited, are reserved.-
There Is mo- inherent power, etno power
arising from necessity; "no power of
| a couqueror"in the Federal Goverpm emit
unless it is delegated by the Cohstitution,
'sfor all powers not delegated are re-
served. x(2isS 80 Fl II -
/ viii Contest with. no man about the
tpame which this system should have IF
de recognize these fundamental laws of
its existance. he may call it by whatever
name he pleases. But if by giving it a
name he seeks to change its form; if by
appeals to- our partisan spirit, or love of
tsp1endor, or lust for power, or even our
calm convictions of what would be right,
he seeks to give the Federal Government
other powers than those delegated in the
IGonstit6ticn, then he is an enemy Of our
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