The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-12-20

ereigu so.far as their sovereignty is not
affected by this Supreme law.
The national government possesses
those powers which it can be shown
the people have conferred upon it, and
no more. All the rest belong TO. the
State Governments, or to the people
themselves. So far as the people have
restrained State Sovereignty, by the
expression of their will, in the Con-
stitution of the United States, so far,
it must be a1miStted, State sovereign
ty is effectually controlled. I do not
contend that it is, or ought 20 be, o
trolled farther.
Why is not Mr.. Morton content to
rest in this sound and tenaole doctrine
of the greatest Of our constitutional
lawyers :? Isit only because lie wishes
to remove all obstacles to the establish
ment of a great, overshadowing cen
trail imperialism on the rufus of the
political system which MIR. Webster
expounded and defended. Nothing
else can explain either the untimein-
less of the strange discourse, or the
WALL ~
CT its positions. Even if. it were true
that the States have no rights which
the general government may not with
draw, what occasion is there for
preaching this. doctrine at present, if
not to lay the foundation and prepare
the extinction of State rights
We will copy a few specimens of
the fustian and folly which abound in
this address: -f SIS .aL
The man who believes that there's
no God, no Immortality, and that
when he dies he will melt into the ca, tn
to be seer no more, like the snow
flakes siuking into the ocean, certain
ly wants M of the most powerful
stimulants to intellectual and moral
advancement. beautiful sentiments
III the mouth of a notorious libertine!
The man who has no country has been
presented as The most conspicuous ex-
ample of human isolation and desoiu-
ton. The soldier who feels that there
is en- army behind him rushing ON to
his support is. made strong and bold
by that consciousness, and the senti-
mcnt of nationally is an element of in
dividual and of personal power The
man who does not possess that senti
ment is Intellectually and morally
weak in many Of the positions and
trialss of lite. 1T is an@element Of
strength and courage to feel that you
belong to a great nation, and especial
ly to a nation that loves liberty better
than any other, and is not surpassed in
wealth and power and vaior by any
other nation, E12 HrEE3JE
We MCSr HAVE \ NATION.
It was a necessity o! our political exist,
ence, and we find the countries of the
Old World now aspiring for nationali'
ty. Italy, after a long. absence has re
turned. Rome has again become the
centre and capital of a'great nation.
ERuled by a king. The bleeding
fragments of beautiful land have
been bound up together, and Italy
again esume Ter place among the
nations. And we find the great Ger
nranic family has been signing for a
nationality. Under an Emperor.
That ace, whose, ovcrmastering civil
lZi!=Oii Is icNSSh ny "l 1tS
world, has hitherto been divided into
petty principalities and states, such a:
Virginia and South Carolina aspire to
be, but now are coming together and
asserting their unity, their %nationalcx-
istcnce, aud arenow able to dominate
all the nations of Europe [By AZ
irresponsible n man power
The States are'but subordinate parts
| OF the nation, and the nation is over
all even as God is ouer the universe"
(ApPlause.)
The purpose OF this bonbastic stuff
is to impress the people OF the United
States with the idea that the States are
as subordinate TO the nation as coun-
ties are to the State Governments, or,
as this libertine ~profanely expresses it,
as the universe is to God. 1t the PEG
pie can be brought to admit the alb
s%olute, unlimited supremacy of the
| Central Government it will be but a
Eshort and easy step Ia the personal
| embodiment of that idea in a national
sovereign with Ulysses the First Oh
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