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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Presidents Message. (search)
as ratified. But is it beyond the power of a State, like an individual, to yield a portion of its sovereign rights to secure the remainder! In the language of Mr. Madison, who has been called the father of the Constitution: "It was formed by the States--that is, by the people in each of the States, acting in their highest sovereiof that body, that on the 31st May, 1787, the clause, "authorizing an exertion of the force of the whole against a delinquent State" come up for consideration. Mr. Madison opposed it in a brief but powerful speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed; "The use of force against a State would look more likf the States and that of the United States. This appears from contemporaneous history. In this connection, I shall merely call attention to a few sentences in Mr. Madison's justly celebrated report, in 1799, to the legislature of Virginia. In this he ably and conclusively defended the resolutions of the preceding legislature aga