The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-10-06

"worc wrong, and that Calhoun vas
right in his views Of the Constitution,
In answer to this charge it is only
necessary to refer to the book itself,
which Mr.. Attorney General may very
well wish to have suppressed, if for no
other object than to shield himself
from the exposure Of having made a
very unfair statement, not TO say palpa
/ hlc MISREPRESENTATION In the book no
! opinion OF Marshall is assailGd; but,
on the contrary, some Of the most i'm
. pOrtgUt positions in it-those doubtless
deemed b. the would.te Grown ON
Ger most "rERNlCIous' to his own
views, aims, and ohjccts--arc not only
. fortified but inrontcstably established
! by the authority Of this eminent Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
United States.
!. was he who announced from the
heHrh Of that court the most "perni
cious doctrinc' that the States com
posing t,is Union at the time, formed
/ their present Constitution as Sovereign
States.
/. va, lie who held aud proclaimed
from the same bench, that all the legis,
: .aHye1oTers Of the Congress Of States,
under the Constitution, depended upon
the viii! Of Il majority Of the States.
1t Was be who held in the Conyen-
/ tiyu VI Virginia that ratified the Con,
sti'u!ioo, that the powers conferred by
that instrument could be rightly re,
sumod Ivy those who conferred them.
This, perhaps, is the most "Perni,
claus or the doctrines set forth in the
book, which Mr.. Attorney General is
- anxious to have ''supprcsscd.' And
/ PERHAPS, moreover, the true solution OF
/ his unparalleled denunciation Of the
/ whole work is that the array Of facts
.pIp cntcd IN two volumes, and the ire
s>tiNic conclusion established by them.
are 50 "pcynicioas' to the schemes OF
/ TIE woUl,i- be Grown Officer and his
.CO-WorkGrS in the erection of a cen.
LraiHcd Empire over the ruins Of the
principles Of that wonderful Federal
/ Union, established by the "Fathcrs,'
/ that they cannot be tolerated by til IN !;
and hence the official mandate, that the
doctrines therein set forth "mua be
suppressed ~ Potent words these, and
OF thr most UminoNs significance com
Ing from the quarter they do! They
express the Uumistakahlc language of
tyraHn.cal men in power in all ages and
countries, when they feel the force Of
truths which are indeed dangerous and
most "yeyEir'OaS to their own guilty
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