The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-07-13
State Sovereignty.

To the Representative:
What is the meaning of state sovereignty?
The word state" says MIR Bourier, in
his law dictionary, "signfes a self-suffi-
cicnt body of persons united together in
one community for the defense of their
rights and to do right and justice to for
eigners."
Evidently to be "self-sufficient," a state
must have control of it's own local cur
rency, and without this power. the very
name of state is u mockery and a farce.
The sovereignty says Mr.. Bourer,
signifies the power do everything in state
without accoun ia bility,' and the supreme
court of the United States, in the celebrated
legal tender case Of Juilliard VS.. Greencan,
decided at its October term, 1882 said: The
power to issue legal tender treasury notes
was a power universally understood to be
long to sovereignty, both in Europe and
America, at the time of the framing and
adoption of the constitution of the United
States
Speaking of this constitution in August,
1900, Mr.. jefferson said
1.-The true theory of our constitution is
surely the wisest and best-that the states
are independent as to everything within
themselves and united as to everything re-
specting foreign nations"
That was good states right doctrine, but
was 1T true? How could it be true when
the constitution says that NO state ShaC
emit bills of credit make anything a
silver COIN
This provision reduced the states to PROV
inces. 1t was exactly what the British par
Lament had said in 1913. act which was
the cause of the revolutionary war; accord
ing to Hume's History of England.
But 1t appears that after the close Of
the revolutionary war the trade power and
money power of old England and New
England formed a conspiracy to plumber
the nation and divide the spoil. ana the
IoI f(,o
destruction Of the legal tender state treas
ury note. 1t was necessary, therefore, to
get the states together in a national con-
vention. which met at Philadelphia in 1877,
and that convention" says an able and
distinguished writer, was the coffin of
honor, the cradle of war" The work of
that convention was a gigantic fraud, and
it was so considered by the Democratic
party for 60 years, this party having filled
the country with state bank notes, which
were bills of credit issued under state au-
thority, and which Senator Thurman. OF
Ohio, said gave the people remarkable pros
perity.
But when the Southern states withdrew
from the Union in 1861. New England be-
came the controlling force, and March 3
! 1867 an act of congress putting tax OF
10 per cent on state bank notes destroyed
| all the local currency in America, thor
oughly established for the first time the
| supremacy of our fraudulent national con
| stitution, completed the overthrow of oul
federal system of government and made
| the relation of the Northeastern states tC
| the South and West like that of old Eng
| land to Ireland and Scotland, the South
| of course, being Ireland.
| In a letter to Washington soon after the
| adjournment of the national convention O.
1877. eX-Gov. Harrison, Of Virginia, said that
| in his opinion the new constitution, i
adopted, would make the states south o.
| the Potomac merely appendages to thos,
! nOrthward of it.
| This opinion entertained also by
! Patrick Henry, William Grayson and many
| other distinguished men. They believed thu
new constitution would be curse to tn,
| South ard Patrick Henry refused to holt
| an office under it, even though he VA
| elected to the United States senate by th'
| legislature of Virginia. and was offered thu
| position of secretary of state and chic
justice of the United States supreme cour
by President Washington.
| The new constitution reduced the state
| to provinces and made the northeastern
section the nation, with the South AM
| West merely appendages, like a dol
| with two tails.
John r BREASLEY