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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
the authority of the Wheeling government if the United States soldiers were withdrawn. Mr. Powell, of Kentu measures against this belligerent power (the Confederate States), and the next moment disregarding every vestalth of Virginia before the Supreme Court of the United States. Notwithstanding the exasperation of feeling inf the formation of a general Constitution of the United States. And on another occasion, in the same place. *to the gift by Virginia of this territory to the United States for the common benefit of all. —— Virginia gave t would be far better for the people of the dis-United States to part in friendship from each other than to beuthority in themselves. Obviously, then, in the United States, sovereignty resides in the people alone. The sexists no such body politic as the people of the United States, considered as a single consolidated whole, the ble mode of taking its sense as a whole. In the United States, therefore, the ultimate seat of sovereignty is
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
, he said, regard this proposed division of Virginia as having received that assent from the Legislature of the State which the Constitution requires. * * * A number of individuals met at Wheeling and without any legal authority whatever, arranged a plan for a government. * * * The utter and flagrant unconstitutionality of this scheme—I may say its radically revolutionary character—ought to expose it to the reprobation of every loyal citizen and every member of this House. Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, had had grave doubts during the preceding session as to the propriety of passing the bill, but in view of the recognition of the Wheeling government by the President, by various heads of departments, and by the two Houses of Congress, he considered the question of the legitimacy of that government as settled by authority, The words authority, policy, necessity, are italicised in this. paragraph in order to call attention to the kind of arguments, or rather pretexts, it was found necess
Wheeling, W. Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
the northwestern counties, inviting the appointment of delegates to a convention to be held at Wheeling, on the 13th of May. There was no pretense even of a regular election of delegates to this Conn this faint show of respect for the principle of popular choice. A number of the residents of Wheeling and of Ohio county, in no way more entitled to seats than any similar number of private citizens of its existence to represent a varying number of counties never exceeding thirty-six, met at Wheeling on the 11th of June, 1861. This body, even nominally representing scarcely more than a fourth t not pass. Mr. Willey, Mr. Carlile's colleague under the restored government of Virginia at Wheeling, while advocating the bill, stated that he did not believe, much as he regretted to have to say Legislature of the State which the Constitution requires. * * * A number of individuals met at Wheeling and without any legal authority whatever, arranged a plan for a government. * * * The utter and
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
e were but two practicable and consistent courses open for adoption—either to adhere to the Constitution and abandon coercion, or to abandon the Constitution and adhere to coercion. Between these, and these alone, lay the choice. And so, at length, the theory of Mr. Stevens, while not, as in his case, candidly avowed, became the one generally accepted and acted on, though expressed, it is true, in somewhat more euphemistic language, as, for example, in that which fell from Mr. Noell, of Missouri, during the debate on this bill. * * * * we cannot afford, while the nation is trembling upon the brink of destruction, to split hairs on technical constitutional points. If I had power I would save the nation's life by the exercise of all powers necessary to the result. Or in the passage from Mr. Blaine's Twenty Years of Congress, in which he sums up as follows: The organic law would not have been strained, legal fictions would not have been invented, contradictory theories would not ha
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
opposition to the bill, and closed by declaring it to be his sincere belief that if the disposition to interfere with the rights of the States exhibited by that Congress was persisted in, the Constitutional Union formed by the fathers would be lost forever. Mr. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, said that if Mr. Carlile's argument had been addressed to the Committee on Territories, of which they were both members, he would never have assented to the admission of West Virginia. Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, thought it in every point of view inopportune to attempt to force Western Virginia at that time as a separate State into the Union, and trusted that the bill might not pass. Mr. Willey, Mr. Carlile's colleague under the restored government of Virginia at Wheeling, while advocating the bill, stated that he did not believe, much as he regretted to have to say it, that a single county east of the Blue Ridge would acknowledge the authority of the Wheeling government if the United States so
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
admission of this new State. No Senator pretends to claim that a majority, that even a third of the people of the State of Virginia have ever had anything to do with rendering their assent to the making of this new State within the territorial limartisans. Mr. Conway, of Kansas, went directly to the root of the matter, and declared plainly that the restored State of Virginia was in his judgment no State at all. I do not, he said, regard this proposed division of Virginia as having receivenew State. Not one. And again. It is trifling with the spirit of the Constitution to say that any portion of the State of Virginia which is left has consented in any way, in any form and substance to the dismemberment of the State. Mr. Segar, is hers; let her enjoy it; let her forever wear it proudly;——. Nor should it be forgotten, says Blaine, that the State of Virginia might well be regarded as the creditor, and not as the debtor of the National Government. One of her earliest acts
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
ional Government. One of her earliest acts of patriotism as an independent Note the admission marked by the word independent italicised here, and compare the utterances of Mr. Blaine himself elsewhere, and those of others belonging to the same political school, especially the extraordinary misstatements of notorious historical facts contained in Mr. Motley's letter to the London Times in 1861. State was the cession to the General Government of her superb domain on the north side of the Ohio river, from the sale of which more than $100,000,000 have been paid into the National Treasury. * * * It may surely be pardoned if Americans shall feel a deep personal interest in the good name and good fortune of a State so closely identified with the early renown of the Republic—a State with whose soil is mingled the dust of those to whom all States and all generations are debtors—the Father of his country, the author of the Declaration of Independence, the chief projector of the National Cons
Europe (search for this): chapter 1.3
r. Force may indeed restrain from the exercise of a right, but further than this it cannot affect it. it also-would have left an indelible stain upon the brightest of shields. It was inconsequence of her refusal to be guilty of this act of baseness, to cry craven and desert her flag, when called upon to sustain with the sword the principle she had so long advocated with tongue and pen that she was subjected to an outrage similar to those which have left the foulest blots on the pages of European history, Alone among the States, she, the oldest of them all, the mother of so many of them, who had labored far more than all the rest to avert the conflict, suffered, in the loss of a large portion of her territory, the last calamity of foreign conquest, a calamity inflicted on no new and half-formed community, scarcely conscious as yet of its separate existence, but on an ancient and renowned Commonwealth whose record, even as presented by her enemies, may challenge comparison with that
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
r the admission of West Virginia was taken up in the House of Representatives, and here again the palpable infraction of the Constitution involved in its passage gave pause to some even among the staunchest Republican partisans. Mr. Conway, of Kansas, went directly to the root of the matter, and declared plainly that the restored State of Virginia was in his judgment no State at all. I do not, he said, regard this proposed division of Virginia as having received that assent from the Legislatu96 to 55, the Democrats voting solidly in opposition, as did also a number of prominent Republicans, including Mr. Dawes, with a majority of his colleagues from Massachusetts; Mr. Conkling, of New York; Mr. Thomas, of Maryland, and Mr. Conway, of Kansas. The act thus passed required an amendment to the Constitution of West Virginia on the subject of slavery, as a condition precedent to admission. This condition was complied with, and the Constitution as amended was ratified at an election in w
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.3
was a task beyond the power of human accomplishment. The Constitution, in letter and in spirit, from the first line to the last, looks solely to a voluntary association of co-equal commonwealths. There is no point in the whole instrument so jealously guarded, so fenced in by precaution on precaution as the absolute equality of the States, and it is utterly impossible, in accordance with its provisions, to discriminate between them, to lay down one law for Massachusetts and another for South Carolina; to retain New York by consent and Georgia by constraint; to govern Ohio by the ballot and Mississippi by the bayonet. Once embarked in the essentially unconstitutional enterprise of coercion, day by day and hour by hour, such insuperable obstacles arose in the way of prosecuting it within the limits imposed by the Constitution, that human ingenuity strained and tortured in vain, at length, in sheer despair, abandoned the hopeless attempt. Of what avail laboriously and painfully to dis
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