The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-03-27


! of ssedkpck can exist without the
4 preservation and being of manand
woman as husband and wife, II
j either the husband or wife dies or is
divorced the wedlock is destroyed.
Norris it competent for the Legisla-
ture, National or State, or for the
Courts OF either, to interfere or i'm
pair the rights Of either as they were
made by that compact, without the
consent, of both,
1.-THE thirteen ssatesi exisseds PRIOR
-to1zSl, when the articles-of Confed,
Grafton were 2 entered > into be,
tween tie several U Stat" for
self-proteetion., Through this a.
kind Of common government was
created to act in certain cases
for, and through the States. This
way or kind of marriage or union
between the States, was soon found
to be insufficient, consequently in Or
der to form a more peri ct union of
the States, the Federal Cons Tuition
was adopted in 17S9, giving tho T ed
eral Government certain powers, and
specially reserUing to the States and
the people, all other pomers not 80
granted co the United States govern
-ment. And as to those powers so
delegated and none Others, giving
the Federal government power to act,
not through or by the States, but in
dependently of them; and as to such
powers, supreme and above the. State
Governments; as to all other powers
not so deleQ ated.th States remained
sovereign and supreme, so that We have
two Governments.exercising supreme
authority over the same territory.
hut at the same time each wisely
limited to certain things-or rather
the Federal Government was limited
in it's supreme power and jurisdic-
tion, to. certain specific subjects and
Things, and the States respectively to
the residue of powers not 80 dele
gated to the Federal Government, nor
by the Constitution prohibited 10 the
States. The Federal powers were
such as related to and affected the
phole people and all the States; the
reserved powers were such as alone
affected the several States-so that
there was not and is not any Goa
| flict Of powers and jurisdiction.
when construed by unbiased Courts,
and as always heretofore con
strued; until now we hear the cry
for stronger Government than the
Constitution, that our foregathers
made for US; and hitherto that cry
has been limited to political parti-
sans, but now, alasl it has reached |
the Supreme Court of the United
States, the hitherto citadel and anch-
or of our liberties.
Yes, readers, the not merely fan.stical,
but reasonable cry is heard for a
stronger Government-for a Govern
ment beginning with big Ma consol
ill d. imperialism with lSu9rsme !
Powers as to eee,y thing mhd sab-
ject, allowing the so-calledF State GOV ?
e.nlnents none but purely rermissive
powers. Thus converting and per-
verting that Constitution, that was
made for the very and sole purpose
of making a more perfect atnion Of
the States than we then had; an IN
strument to, destroy that union, for
the Supreme Court has often said,
even since the adoption of the 18th,
14th and 18th Amendments, that the
more perfect union formed by the
NoHSbiIuuloil was ulliou VI otd1cS,
and that that union could not endure
a day longer than the States, so
united, were preserved and maintain
ed, each in their proper functions and
Jurisdictions. mr. f,i 3 3, ii. isia
So we see what is meant by a
stronger, Government, and a Govern
ment beginning, with a big n; which
is, that while union If The States
cannot exist only by preserving each
State in tact; but that stronger
form of Government, to-wit: a No
3tional Government, beginning with
"a big N, an Imperialism, can. Hence
these traitors cry down with the
Constitution and Government our
| fathers gave us, it is not strong
enough, not dictatorial enough, and
give us a stronger Govern ment, be-
ginning with a big ", in word
give us a National Imperialism,
ruled over by Dictator or a King;
and all this, when, it is not left to