, 1876-10-18

as Mr.. TtIpEN terms II, "federativo
agency" constituted and appointed by tho
States acting in their sovereign cnpheity;
that the Union Is nero league, a confeaor-
alton Of Statos, bound, as Mr.. TlpEN statoa,
In n "singlo, slender. conventional tic,"
which any State may "anap" asundoF at
pleasure, and no power existing anywhoro
to enforce any general authority. The Pros-
fdent, ,.sbeing the mcre agcnt Of tie federation
Of States, cannot exercise any power With
out the consent Of each Of tue sovereign
members Of the league. It waa upon this
theory Of tho Government that tho South
Withdrew from the partnership in 1861, aud
1t was on this ground that Afr. TlLDEN op-
posed tho War as illegal aud violatlve OF lilo
Constitution, and It is upon this theory that
T11pEa and tho solid sixteen Southern States
demand compensation for tho damages in-
I1ictcd In tho prosecution Of the unconatit,i.
tionnl war upon them.
TammAny Half, 1tIpEN, and the Solid
South united, will accomplish such change
in tho Government as but fow contemplate.
In his famous letter to Judge KEsr, hlr. T11-
DEN took tho ground that, outside Of the few
measures intrnstod to tho foderntive agency
at Washington, each State was foreign TO the
other. He particularly laid 1t down as fun
damonta1 principle OF tho confederation that
South Carolina was, go far rs slavery was con-
cerned, as free, sovereign, and independent
Of tho Union as was Franco, and had tho same
right TINT France would have to ropel any
interference with the institution. Tho United
Gk.kn Il Il fs.&n t,<s
war, did inYado tho State Of South Carolinn,
aud did tako and destroy private property.
This invasion WIS, according to Mr. T1IpEs,
revolutionary, was an act OF us.rpation, was
M outrage which, being wholly illegal and
unjustihable, must bo compensated, Tho as
Bun1ed consent OF tho South to tho abolition
Of their property WINS not FREQ but enforced.
Md is no longer binding; and the confeder-
ation reorganized can only be rcorganized on
tho principles Which existed before md were
violated by tho War. This is nll Alr. TIL
pEa's own toaching; this Is tho claim
md demand Of tho Solid South !;
and tho great "chango" which must
follow the election of T11pgN mud the union
Of Tammany Hall and the Solid South will
bo the edenatiounlizatiou..o of tho, United States;
tho recognition Of tho absolute right OF each
State 10 govern its own people, free Of in-
reference, and to fix tho status, civil and
political, Of its own Inhabitants. It requires
no prophet TO tell where this will lead. II
requires no prophet to foretcll that the
slayery Of the blacks will be practically re-
established under laws regulating labor; and
! it requires no special wisdom to know thnt
tho freedom Of these people, and the nation
alisy Of the American people, must bo re-
stored aa they were maintained, BY tho force
Of nrns.
The election Of T11pEN, the union Of Tnm
many Hau and the Solid South, tlo reasser
ton Of State supremacy, and the reduction
Of the blacks to servitule, will be tho speed.
and tho inevitable fororunners of nnotho
civil war to recover American nationality
the freedom Of the citizen, md tho liberue
Of the Union. T1IpKN will be The socon'
BUCHANAN