The War Between the States Or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to
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And it does so by virtue of its own inhierent, and inalien- able sovereignty. If it should be said that the people of the several States made, but can not unmake, the compact of the Constitution, as to themselves, it would follow that the people of 1T88 alone were sovereign. But the people of this generation are sovereign as well as the people of that generation. The attribute of sovereignty is, according to the American doctrine, inherent, and inalienable. The people of Vir- ginia, then, in th...e year 1788, did not, and could not, absorb and monopolize the sovereignty of all subsequent genera- tions, so as to deprive them of its exercise. If this could 1 "V^'ebster's Works/' vol. Vi. P. 221. 120 The War Between the States be so, then the sovereign people of one age, or generation, might deprive the sovereign people of all ages and genera- tions of their power and freedom. But this can not be. The living, as well as the dead, are sovereign. As the people of Virginia in 1T88 acceded to the Union, because they believed it would be for their good ; so the people of Virginia in 1861 had a right to secede from the Union, because they believed it had been made to work their in- sufferable harm.
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