Is Davis a Traitor Or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War
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Webster, that " the Constitution is not a compact between sovereign States, '' and which is adopted as the title of his speech, was certainly not approved by Mr. Madison; for this premise, beside being direct opposition to the doc- trine of his whole life, is denied again in the very letter in which the above compliment is found. Mr. Webster has, indeed, very little to say against secession. His argu- ment is almost exclusively directed against " nullification, '^ the point then in debate betwe...en himself and Mr. Cal- houn. But the little he has to say against secession, is based on the idea that the Constitution is not a compact between sovereign States. Every argument, and every * American Union, p. 245-6. 174 IS DAVIS A TRAITOR? assertion, levelled by him against secession (and they are but few in number), have no other than this false founda- tion. Hence, Mr. Madison could not have approved or applauded the argument of Mr. AA^ebster against secession, because he regarded his premise as sound ; for he was most profoundly convinced that it was false.
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