The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-25

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al constitution by fraud and unsurpation.
Secession Is no where countenanced in the
Declaration Of Independence Articles of
Confederation or present Constitution, but
perpetual Union was intended by every
implication as well as by express terms
and the Union then established under the
constitution can only be intertered with by
d clear three .fourths of the states, who
when thus united exercising sovereign
authority may effect any alteration or
amendment that may to them seem proper,
even to the substitution Of new consttu-
ton. Two.thirds, and no less, of the states
may propose amendments, but an united
three-fourths, and no less, enjoy sovereign
power. Consequently one or any member
of states less than three fourths are power
less to act Tor or withdraw from the com
pact. These self imposed restrictions do
not however lead to the other extreme Of
federal sovereignty, no less perncious and
dangerous than individual state sovereignty,
for it tends rapidly toward Capitalization,
military despotism and final overthrow of
the popular; and erection of tyrancal
forms Of government
Article g Of the Articles of Confedera.
ton reads thus; "EAcH STATE RETAINS ITS
SOVEREIGNTY, FREEDOM AND INDEPEYD.
ENcE AND EVERY POWER, JURISDICTION AND
RIGHT WHICH Is YoT By THIS coEPEDERA-
TIoN EXPRESSLY DELEGATED TO THE UNITED
STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED which is
clearly antagonistic to the idea Of central-
2ation Amendments and 10 Of the
constitution say THE ENUMERATION IN
TIE CONSTITUTION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS
-HALL NOT DE CONSTRUED TO DENY OR DIS.
PARAGE OTHERS RETAINED BY THE PEo-
PIE. The POWERS NOT DELEGATED TO
THE UNITED STATES BY THE CONSTITUTIONS,
NOR PROHIBITED BY IT TO THE STATES, ARE
RESERVED TO THE STATES RESPECTIVELY OR
TO THE PEOPLE" which language cannot
I've otherwise construed than as Limitation
Of power. Another strong and conclusive
refutation Of the Capitalization scheme Is
the fact that no where in these three
remarkable documents are the Unit
cd States referred to as a
unit, but frequently as them
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Republican idea that the states are the
creature Of the constitution, and that the
people, not as citizens Of their respective
states but as citizens OF the United States
formed the Federal government
is fully met by the fact that
the colonial or state governments
were formed and in operation many Of
them some time anterior to the adoption Of
either, the articles Of confederation or con.
stitution, and further disproyed by the clos.
ing article OF the constitution in these
words: Done in convention by the unan
nous consent Of the STATES present"
If the constitution was created by the
STATES, and in that act Of creation pre-.
scrbed and limited it to the exercise Of such
well defined powers as were absolutely es
sentia to the harmony and well being of
the whole, they certainly could not
have been created by ii. The pow
ers delegated were those, and
those only which could not have
been retained by the individual states with
out producing conflict Of laws, and dire
confusion, not only among the various
states, but between them and foreign ma
tons, by reason of each state having 10
treat directly with every other state and for.
egn power in matters pertaining TO natur-
alization and rights of citizens, commerce,
navigation, postal laws, coinage, treaties
and such other regulations as people hav
ing like interests would desire in common.
II will readily appesr 10 the casual observer
that uniform laws governing naturalization
Of foreigners, establishing the rights Of cti.
Gems among the states, regulating commerce
postage, coinage Of money and intercourse
with foreign powers, together with the
pledge to protect and defend each other
against invasion or instruction, and the
right to maintain in common an army and
navy for the common defense are indispen-
sable. These are the powers Of the federal
constitution, and that instrument thus
limited no where directs or limits the states
in the free and full exercise of all and every
power that may be exercised by any sover-
eign, free and independent state, excepting
the few above enumerated, which were by
them checrfully resigned for the common
veal"
, WILL THEY STAND IT.
The colored Republicans of Cairo are in.