Speech of Hon. Andrew J. Hamilton, of Texas, on the State of the Union
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Andrew J. Hamilton, of Texas, on the State of the Union: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 1, 1861 The House having under consideration the report of the Select Committee of thirty-three - Mr. Hamilton said: Mr. Speaker: In the hour allotted me under the rules, I am very sensible that I shall not be able to express fully the views which I entertain upon all the subjects embraced in the discussion now pending in the House. But, sir, so far as I shall be able during the time allotted to me, to express myself at all, I do trust that I shall not be misunderstood by gentlemen on either side of the House. I shall do little more than state propositions which seem to me to be true, and the conclusions which I deem just. Much has been said in this discussion, in regard to the question of the legal or constitutional secession of a sovereign State. I will state my conclusions upon that subject, after stating one or two propositions which, I think, are undeniable, and then pass from this branch of the subject. Whether the Constitution, so called, is a compact between sovereign States, or whether it is to be regarded as the act of the aggregate people of the several sovereign States composing the Union, it is, nevertheless, the Constitution of the United States. I confess, Mr. Speaker, that I have been somewhat astonished recently, in reading the debates in this House and in the other branch of the national Congress, at what seems to be, for the first time, an effort made to satisfy the public mind, that the organic law of this great Government - and which for more than three-fourths of a century has been regarded as the Constitution, the "organic law, the supreme law of the land" - is something less than a Constitution. But not being able at this moment to recur to all the arguments which have been made, for this purpose, I may be permitted, without intending any discourtesy, to allude to the able argument of one of the Senators from Texas, delivered in the Senate a few days past. A gentleman of high attainments, not only as a publicist, but an able jurist, who for long years wore the ermine of the State I have the honor in part to represent, as her highest judicial officer, and who, within my own knowledge, time and again in solemn decisions, has proclaimed that the Constitution of the United States is "the supreme law of the land," to which not only the people of one State, but of every State in the Union must bow in obedience; and before which Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof, all the constitutions and laws of the several States must submit, when found to be in conflict. But, I find in his speech there is an ingenious, but, I must be permitted to say, I think a specious argument, the object of which is to establish the fact that it is something less than a Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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