River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-02

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| regulation of his trade with Indians;
the other, if he committed crime.
These he had delegated to the govern
ment; all the rest he had reserved
under this clause that says, ''All pow
ers not delegated are reserved to the
states or the people" Therefore,
when man left state and went into
a territory and got the title of the
government to the land the govern
lnent had no further power over him,
except in the two cases mentioned, if
he kept off their land.
Now it is very interesting to see how
the leaders of the Republican party
were led by STATE rights free soil
Democrats and states and territorial
rights Douglass Democrats to go on
record and take the advance step for
| freedom they did at this time in ref
| erance to the states and territories
governing themselves on the true JEFF
fersonian Republican plan. We will
now introduce Mr.. Seward-Congress-
ional Globe, page $40, Feb. I'd, 1858:
"Well, sir, if the army is to be re-
| tanned in Kansas it has got to be paid,
and it is Congress that is to grant the
supplies for the army. When / look
over this chamber and the other and
see how they are constituted have no
fear that the Congress of the United
States this year will appropriate
money to maintain an army in Kansas
to enforce constitution on the people
which they have rejected, land to which
they will never submit"
Mr.. Hale, same date and same page:
"Give me a president disposed to
use that military power in order to
coerce the people of these States to his
purposes. and with the command of
the federal treasury and with the
means of concentration which our
multiplied system of railroads and
steamboats, furnishes, and can come
like the lightning of heaven at any
moment with this concentrated and
tremendous power upon any state. or
upon any portion of the people that he
chooses. The same. page $50: Here
let me say that while that most dan
gerouS, that most fallacious, that most
nonStrouS doctrine which has lately
been preached and practiced upon by
the executive of this country,
| rhat under the general power to see
he laws faithfully executed, he has
light to call out at his will the army
| md navy under the name Of Il posse.
iIhilA fhaf 1nnft ina IL nrnPl oil and
acted upon it is not time for me,
however it may be for others, to
strengthen the hands of a MAN who is
| disposed to use it for such purposes
aud on such authority. | deny here
| utterly and totally and forever that he
| has any such right, and / say that it Is
| for such purposes and on such author
| ity. | deny here utterly and totally
| and forever that he has any such right
| aud | say that it is a usurpation, Il
| dangerous, an alarming, fatal one.
| That if it be tolerated by the govern
| nent will bury our liberties beyond
| the reach of resurrection
This, Mr., Editor, is strong language
| but true.
| CONTINUED.
Out of courtesy to Judge Foster
| we give him space to briefly air his
| views upon the question Of State rights.
We still insist that the Republican
party as an organization has during
the years included in the extract quot
ed from the JOURNAL, cOmbated the
principle popularity known as State
rights, enumerated by John G. Cal
houn, jefferson Davis and those trail
tors to the Government they had
sworn to support, who followed them
aud that it has thus far done so with
favorable results, to the great chagrin
of the Democratic party. The opin-
ions of Judge Foster, Mr.. Hale and
w. H. Seward, whatever such opinions
are or may have been. do not and can
not successfully controvert this fact.
We believe that the record will sus
tain our view of this matter, and
there are not only goodly number OF
those whom our learned friend sar'
castically styles "bOy editors, but
many patriarchs as old and as wise as
the Judge himself who are of the same
opinion. One of the cardinal princi
plies of the Republican party was re
slstance of the political heresy of state
supremacy, and during Buchanan
administration so turbulent and in
tolerant became the State rights or Sc
cession element that the people were
prompted to place the Republican par
ty in the asceEdency. No one WHIT
has his senses will attempt to deny
that the Democratic party is essential
ly State rights party, and it is equal
Nv true that the Republican party i
unequivocally committed to the doc
tgine of National supremacy. This IS
sue has practically been involved il
every Presidential campaign during
the past twenty years, in each o
which the State rights folks nave 20