The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-26


Two very notable political productions hay,
appeared recently. One OF these is the lette,
or JET Davis declining to be candidate TO,
tho United States Senate from Missssipp
This letter discusses the question NJ STATE
tigh.s, and announces the true constitutional
doctrine to be that the Union is "compact
between the States,'' and that "ths checks and
balances, the distribution OF powers and the
cautious reservation in the tenth article Of the
amendments, all distinctly show the purpose
TO organize General Government which should
be respors to the States and the people."
Mr Davis asserts there is il the Nortbern
"'nd "an unreasonng opposition to the doc
trine o. State rights, and that my (his) ssser
loo o. 1t. with whatever conclusions ware
necessarily deducible therefrom, has made him
the special object OF sectional hostility, The
ex-Oonfederate President distinctly claims he
represents Southern opinion upon State rights
as he asserts that the North unreasonably on
poses his doctrine, and he s correct In regard
to Northern hostility to the belief as he d.
scrioes It, which would make the General GOV
eminent a mere play thing in the hands Of tbe
States. JEFF Davis is still the Southern cbamp-
ION upon the point of the respective powers OF
tbs States and the Central Government ue
has not changed whit since he was at the
head o. the Rebellion. lie looks forward
sooner or later, to the triumph of the ideas for
whIch the South fought. But he labors under
romarkable deluson In that respect. The
ieS'ons OF the civil war are craven as with
points OF stee! upon the tablet of the nations
memory. The people, admonlshed by past eI-
perience, will hereafter Illustrate the efforts of
sectional disturbers before they acquire sniff
cent momentum to threaten the peace OF the c
country. Tbs tendency and drift of events is
not towards State rights, as formerly and still 8
he'd by the Southern leaders. g
Az statement OF tho true patops, oronn5 r
. resident hsyess exposition at Youngstown, o
on'o' strongly puts the case in the interest q, G
cop7erVausm, the preservation OF concord be- @
tween the sections, and that allotment OF power "
20 ths General Government without winch !, 10 ~
- NNA pOiAuC"l system, pOWerless fo IL
execute ITS DEGREES. President HAYES exhibits <,
ihs tallacy Of the Southern view that the Up,ed F
states Government il accountable to the States h,
instead OF the people-n a word. that STATE -,
overelgnty Is paramount. The Executivo III
Iuotes the following, which cannot be ,oo T.
ften repeated, from Mr.. LncoIn's first nes- ed
aga TO Congress: :,
=" The States have their status IN the Union :.
nd they have no other legal status. In thew al
read from this, they can only do 80 against FL
wv, ana by revolution. The Union, and no,
themselves separately procured their lpds-
Shdsnce and their liberty. By conouest or sir
urchase, the mon gave each OF them what tn
yer OK independence and liberty it has. The a.
nioh 10 eder than any OF the States: and In 'n'
'cs' " created them as States' w,
II - apparent that the path of prudence and att
l's'7 hes in the direction Of discoursginc and OF
creating the schemes OF all politicians intent gol
'on ctppinS the prestige and power Of tba brr
ovarnmea; which represents the aspiration, ert
II strength OF The nation as aunt. tia