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1 James A. Hamilton, The Constitution Vindicated: Nationality, Secession, Slavery 1 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/covinns0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 863 B ROADWAY,. • o. .0 TUE CONSTITUTION VINDICATED. BY JAMES A. HAMILTON. The Government of the United States, the result of the earnest and pat-iotic labor of the most illustrious body of practical states- men ever assembled for any political purpose, is perseveringly rei.-esenteJ, not only by its enemies now in rebellion, but by leading partisans and influential men in public stations, who sympathize with treason, as a mere compact between sovereign and independent States. They dare to say, The Government of the United States is the agent through whom the States com- niunicate with Ibreign. nations. Dr. Thomas Cooper, of South Car,' ina, taught the people of that State, thirty years past, to believe that, The citizens of the various States owe their obe- dience to the Government of the United States, because their own State, as part of the Confederation, enjoins it; but alle- giance is a term applicable only to that submission which we owe to our own sovereign State. The Government of the United States was created by the existino separate States. Jeff. Davis said, ' State sovereignty leads legitimately to secession, and thus the ,f/t of a Slate to secedefrom the Union is an essential atti- blate (f State soverc;ynly. Let the States' Rights party take the legitimate consequences of the dogmas they teach, and avow that they are secessionists. Thus we find that by the apostles of secession we are thrown back to the political conditioj in which we were before the existing Constitution was established. The Government thus described was that formed by The Artieles of Confederation, and no other. It was an imprac- ticable absurdity. That disastrous experiment brought the

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