Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-01-10


lEse>tho governments of the people,
and there it is that popular sover-
eighty prevails. The federal govern.
mont is simply the child and agent,
doing business for the States, and il is
time that the ignoramuses who talk
Of federal majorities DO taught to ap.
ply the word to States and not to the
people. When we hear Democrats
and Democratic editors speak of Ma.
tional Democrats, we feel like telling
thcm that they are talking meaning.
less nonsense, and are only adopting
the cant and ignorant perversions OF
the enemies of the Democracy, and
the traitors and revolutionists who
seem intent only on overthrowing the
system Of government made perfect
us could be by our Constitution. They
have substituted new phrase for
Union Of States, and called it national
unity; which means, when you get at
the core of the thing, such a govern.
ment as they have in Austria and
Russia, where they have national
unity in elegant perfection; where
they construe it to mean national one.
ness, or a one-man power. In fed
eral system ofgovernment, in Union
of States, power is plural. 1t is as
lpgerous or many as there are States
il the Union. In the State govern.
ments, ii is governed by the number
OF citizens of the State. The States
bong sovereign power of the Union,
it is competent for majority Of the
whole people State, to elect a
Governor, but majority of the
whole people Of the United States
cannot, as we have shown, elect a
President, because the people as one
body have nothing to do with the
matter, In the federal system, it is
the business Of tho States and the
people of the States, in their sover-
eign position as citizens of the State,
or in their character Of organized po-
liiical communities. In intercourse
with foreign countries, in all matters
that concern our external affairs, such
as commerce, the general defence, &c,
&C., the States united form one ma
tom but in whatever relates to our
domestic affairs, in our intercourse
with each other, we are 50 many
nations, each perfect government
in itself, as separate and distinct from
the other as the government Of China
and Russia are from each other
Judge Baldwin-and tho Supreme
Court of the United States never had
an abler and purer jurist on the bench
says: "There can be no political
absurdity more palpable than that
which resulted from the theory that
the people of the United States, as
one people, have instituted a govern.
mont Of the people, majority of the
people government, or one which can
be altered by the majority, for that
majority has no one right, can do no
one act, under the Constitution" Do
not these words demonstrate beyond
a doubt that the phrase, "Pcople of
the United States" means simply the
people Of the several States that are
united? 1t may answer to tickle the
vanity of the ignorant, to tell them
different, but il insults the intelli-
gcnce of every thinking man to do so.
In our system "the people of the
United States" are no where recog.
nized us one people. They are the
people of the States, and these States
are united, or were united, under the
Democratic federal system, in one
federal system, in which the States
are everything. The States are the
soyercigns, the people have no politi-
cal existence, only rs they belong to
the several States, and have no power
only us they share ii through the
State governments and any attempt
to deprive these States of their sovcr-
eighty must, If successful, result in
the overthrow of the system of gov.
ernmcnt as established by our fathers.
In one word, it will destroy the gov.
ernmeut Tho whole administration
of Grant is directed TO this end the
whole force and power Of the mongrel
Congress is now directed to this trea.
sonable purpose, and when We hear q
man denying the sovereignty of the
States, we set him down as a fool or q
traitorous, revolutionary scoundrel.
II some muddle. head tells you that
the States yielded part of their sov.
creignty to the United States govern.
ment, tell him he is an ass. Let him
know that tho States delegated Ger.
tain powers, but surrendered moth
ing. They are still the States, as ever
holding the powers Of the States.
What they gave, they simply lent to
the general government for the benc.
fit of tho States
How To ENJOY LIFE.-It is wonder.
lul TO what an extent people believe
happiness depends on not being oblig-
cd TO labor. Honest, hearty, content
cd labor is the only source Of happi-
ness, us well as tho only guarantee OF
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