Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-28
JUNE %, 1889.
Bind Guides.

The northern Republicans arc 50 much
preiuliced against the South that il is I'M
possible for them 70 do justice 70 her his
tory or her sons. Not ono IN hundred of
the northern Republican editors has IN his
library any of the books, State papers, or
other documents which show what the
fathers of the republic thought and taught
as 10 the nature Of the union between the
States which was effected IN l7SS. In fact,
orr northern Republican adycrarNs do
not desire TO know the truth rs 10 the
rights reserved by Virginia and New York
in I7SS when those States entered the
Union.
We recently called attention to ME fact
that in its discussion with as as 10 what
the fathers Of the republic taught concern
ing the right of State TO secede from the
Union, the Chicago 7l1'pae had made not
one single quotation from their writings
which it bad not taken from our columns.
The Tribune, upon seeing our article con-
tanning this statements, decided, no doubt,
T. redeem its character as a student Of
history and furnish authority for ct least
one Of its cortentions. But II was so i'll
informed in the premises and so poorly
equipped for discussing the questions az
issue between Us that its attempt proved
to he a total failure. II says that Chief
Justice MsfslIAII. in renderingtbe opinion
OF the Supreme Court in the McCULLOcH-
Maryland cslse in 1904, said
THE great principle Is that tho Consti-
tUp0n and Tho laws made IN pursuance
thereof ara supreme: that thcv control
the Constitution and laws OF the respec-
tive States, and cannot be controlled by
thcm.'
"1he States have 10 power to retsrd.
impede. burden. II in any mNnDer control
the operations ~ the constitutional laws
adopted by Congress tO carry into eKccu-
ton tho powers vested IN the General Gov
eminent
JEYFEgsov Davis, WILLIAM J.. YANcrY,
ChiefJustice TANET, and all southern law
fors, whether seceSionistso or not, held the
opinion thus pronounced by CLief-ustice
iABsHALI, There iSnot a doctrine in that
opinion which is not set forth in the Fed
cal Constitution itself Paragraph 2. Arti-
g VI, reads as follows
This Constitution and the laws e The
Cnitol States which shall he made in pun
suanee thereof, and all treaties made or
which shall uc made under tho authority
Of the United States. shall be the supreme
iaw Of the land; and The judges ia every
State shall Doe bound thereby. anything in
the Constitution or laws If any State 10
the contrary Notwithstanding.
The southern reader viii sea at once that
Cmef-Jc-tice MAIsHALL said nothing in he
opin,or quoted 10y the 7r'one which has
uot always been recognized as true doc
trine IN this section of the country. What
d. said applied 10 States as component
parts Of the Union-not after they had left
the Uniou-iust rs General WAsHNGToS's
oa,h asau officer IN the British army bound
him only solonc as he continued to be an Of
flcer .n thatarray. When Virginia exercised
her reserved right and seeded from the
Union. 3D.. was I'D longer bound by the de-
C.sion or the opinion of Cmef-Justice HAB-
SHALL. OF course we DO NOS mean 20 say that
Virginia now has tho right to secede from
the Union. We speak of what the revolu-
tionary fathers taught in TINS behalf-not
what was learned At the point OF the bGyo-
net between 1861 and 1863.
This explanation renders it altogether
unnecessary for IA 70 say anything "a to
the Tri5,s,8s comments upon ChiofJus-
tee MAEsHALL's opinion, those comments
being based entirely upon tho false As
sumption that that opinion applied to a
State after IL had exercised its reserved
night 10 seccde from the Union.