The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-14

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This convention, with patient delib-
Grafton, considered all questions of
interest common to all, jealousy
guarding the separate sovereignty of
the States against possible encroach-
ment. The interests in common were
specified by name.
Having agreed upon the interests
IN common, the convention created
a common agent to execute the will
of the sovereigns who were parties
to the compact. This agent they
called "a Congress of the United
States" to be composed of two dis
tlnct bodies, one called a Senate, the
other a House of Representatives !;
the former to be chosen by the
States. the latter by the people of
the States. The suggestions by the
source whence those two bodies ema-
nate, are of profound interest, but it
must suffice here to recognize the in
tention to prevent anarchy from the
one, aud despotism from the other.
The founders of the Government,
while they subordinated every prop
osltion to the paramount claim of
the right of self-government, sought
to adapt what was wise and fit from
theautocratican and aristocratic theories
of the Old World. One President,
under the safeguards of the Consti-
tuition, gives us all the benefits, with
out the burdens and the dangers OF a
King. Our Senate represents the
conservatism of the aristocracy, and
u House Of Representatives, of the
people, and from the people, are al
ways on guard to protect and defend
their liberties and their rights. The
colossal power of all is bound to de-
fend each against all alien enemies,
and domestic ones when asked to do
SO, and yet the great State of New
York may not pluck a hair from the
head of the humblest citizen of soy
ereign little Delaware, contrary to
law. "
These memorable facts, in defiance
of the specious tergiversations of
sectional zeal and a moneyed oil
garchv. declare that the Government
of the United States was brought into
existence by the pre- existing sover-
eign States for purposes of their
own; that it derives all its powers
from the States; that it can do no act
not authorized by the States in their
power of attorney called a Constitu-
ton for the United States Of Amer
lea. The founders of the Union were
warned by the lessons of history that
power constantly gravltated towards
centralism. They were so jealous of
the unimpaired right of self govern
ment that the first eleven amend
ments to the Constitution were for
the purpose of limiting and sustain
ing the central power. The wisdom
of our fathers in constructing a gov
eminent all powerful for good while.
impotent for evil, may justly com
mand the admiration of the world,
and their children ought to stand
erect and call it The best Govern
ment the World ever Saw" They
must watch the stealthy hand of in
novation which is per~sistently seek
ing to subvert the fundamental
truths that the government belongs
to the people and the people do not
belong to the government that
otfice-holders from the least to the
greatest are our paid servants and
not our masters. If they would
preserve the priceless inheritance
descended to them from a great and
good ancestry, they will not be die
tated to, nor subsidized by an ig-
noble oligarchy. MEMO.