Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-30
JENKINS OF WISCONSIN.

it 10 said, has been prepared with great care
aud notsonly its main points, but the nruc.
TIRE. Of its~sen3p11eA have, been Ddbnisted
I'd hi; 1~visels, whosejadgaent
has been adopted on all debated phrases
and arguments."
Last Monday evening Mr.. Jenkins dsliv-
cred the speech to q very large and intelli-
gent audience in the assembly chamber in
E4his city. The larger portion Of twas di.
Erecteds to an elaboration Of the position of
the democracy on the question of state-rights.
To give point to it he dug up . set Of old
resolutions which had been introduced in
the assembly of 1859 and voted for BY the
republicans, when they we're smarting under
the %indignities heaped upon them BY the
infamous fugitive slave law, and criticized
them in the severest terms. The resolutions
were as follows:
Resolved. That the government formed by
the constitution Of the United. States vas
not made the exclusive or final Judge of the
extent of the powers delegated to itself; but
that, rs in other cases Of compact among
parties having no common Judge for itself, /
as we'll of infractions as of the mode and
measure of redress.
RESOLVED, That the principles and con-
struction contended for BY the party which
nov rules in the councils Of the nation 1.-THE
democratic partly that the central govern
ment is the exclusive judge Of the extent of
the powers delegated to it, stop nothing
short of despotism, since the discretion oil
those who administer the government, and
not the constitution, would bs the measure
of their powers ; that the several states who
that instrument, being sovereign
and Independent, have the unquessionable
right to Judge of its infraction and that q
positive defiance Of those so%vereignties, of
all unauthorized acts done or attempted to
be done under color of that instrument. is
the rightful remedy.
In ~denouucing these resolutions a. the
doctrine Of the republican party. Mr.. Jen.
kins used the following language: "There
was, however, q doctrine Of notification, .
doctrine of secession and disunion, once
held BY desperate men, now happily over
thrown and laid to rest in its unholy grave,
fifty expressed in these resolutions.
These resolutions do not express the doc
trine ofthe rights of the state. They declare
the doctrine of South Carolina nulliication
they assert the dogma of southern seces-
sion-they breathe disunion, and, l regret
TO add, they formulate the creed of the re-
publican party of Wisconsin in 1859. y
Those resolutions we're bald notification,
born OF incipient treason. l should be 10th
to believe that my distinguished opponent
entertained like opinions At the present
time. l find these resolutions, however, to-
day disgracing the statute-books, Of the State
"a blot upon the fair escutcheon of Wis
consin-never repealed, e%xpunged, or pub
licy repented Of. AndaI assert that it i'll
becomes any man or party which supported
th1on nooo1s,eS~~o IN 80 H---1 -
dangerous the doctrine of the rights of the
states IS s%xpounded BY The fathers of the
republic and held By the democratic party,
and enforced Today throughout the length
tribunal therein"
In a previous portion of his speech he
had spoken of the doctrine of the democra-
cy as founded by the Immortal Jefferson"
New pablisaaed thespeech in full, and re.
ierred to it editoriaiiy in the most fulsome
language. The latter sheet spoke Of it a.
follows:
"No candid and honest man can read this
speech Of Nj. Jenkins' without iacknowl.
edging it to be the most statesmanlike pro-
duction that has appeared in print in this
state for many years. In fact it will remind
the reader Of the days Of Clay, Webster,
Calhoun and Benton. In the ifst chapter
he deals with the all important question of
state: right, and defnes the position Of the
democratic partyiin the plainest and moot
statesmanlike manner In which it has ever
been done in Wisconsin, and thereby open.
ing to plain view the gigantic legal and
statesmanlike interest of the man." =
All this was very we'll, but when it ap.
peared, as it quickly did, that the resolutions
which had been 60 vigorously denounced
by Mr.. jenkins as "the doctrine once held
by desperate men" "a doctrine of secession
and d%isunion, !" 1.-The doctrine Of South Car.
olina qualifications" breathing disunion,"
as bald notification, born of incipient
treason" ETC., we're but extracts from a series
Of resolutions phich had been prepared b.
Thomas Jseerson himself, and which had
been passed BY the legislatures of Virginia
and Kentucky, and known ever since to
every one familiar with the political history
OF the country "a the Resolutions of '9S and
,9e." Mr.Jsnkins' chagrin can HelIbe In
laglned. Hill embarrassment u heiKhtepd
BY the further discovery that the saule rao-
lutions were reaf6rmed by the democratic
national conventions of 1852, 1856 and 1860.
in the following Language:
RAeofoed, That he democratic
party VIM faithfully abide By md upSeid
the principles laid down insths Kensucky
and Virginia resolutions Of f796 and 1893;
that it sdopts these principles q,
c~onstitutiug one Of tie malnsfoondations o
it, political creed. and. IL raaolvsd 10 CART
them cut In their obvious meaning and In.
Iport.
The osly difference between the two set,
OF r~esoauttons 10 the word sformed' in III,
hrat resolution Was .screated'' In the orlei
nal; snd 10 the second resolution %. vordI
positive defiance" are used instead Of III,
word "nullidcatlon,p asin the original.
II fudge Doolittle, who presided over th
|. convention thSt nominated Mr.. Jsnkinl
: had been pleseat atthe conAssuce WHEN 81
speech vas revised, he probably would hav
: saved Mr.. .Jenkens from falling into, II
awkward positionl be did, for Judge DooNl
. tie h!mself. when . candidate for the senst
" 1867, dntfpctly referred toythese reeolu
. ooos and gave them his copdiei indorse
. ,A~f.SJenkins, while recognising The ridi,
nlous position he has assumed In laudin
J effers0n Is the father of Oemoo,.o- =,