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lnlon. Iosay that any State may at ] pressure seeede from lhe Union. js to say that the United States are not a na- ton, because U would be a soiecisn te, l contend that any part ot the nation hilshe dissolve its eonneNion with inc koiher parts. 10 theif iniur, or ruin. without coninittlilg any offence.

 

 The States seyeralIy have not retain cd their entire sovereignty. II has i'eeii shown that iD becoming paris of ;, hataon, not members of q league, they surrendered ii'sfily oif their cssentIal parts of sovereignty. The right to make freaties--tleeiare Msf--lleyx tax es-- exercise exclusive judicial and le- gaslatlye powers wereall of them func- tons ot sovereign power. tihc States fhens forall these important purposes, were no longer sovereign. ,rhaall;, a'leeoi their citizens was transferred, in eiae liFst instance, to the GoyersIment oi the United States they became American eitizens, and owed oi,t..t,iii- ence to fbe Constitution of the IJnifaa SlHtes and to laws made in cofiorn,i,v with the powers 1t vested in l,4:.a .&=:S Ihe last positionhas not been, and en,,- not be denied. How then can that State be said to be sovereign and inde- pendent, whose citizens owe obedirsoc to laws not made by t, and whose ma. gistrates are sworn to disregard those jaws, ui,eD they como in conflict Will. those passed by another9 What shows eoneluslyeiy that the States cannot De sala to have reserved an undfvidcd sovereignty, is, that they expressly ce- ded the right to punisl. treason-not ineasess < sssi;::sstt If separate powcr biit treason against the United States. Treason lsan offence against vERErt:N- Ty, and sovereignty must reside with the power to punish it. But the re- ! served rights of the States are not less sacred, because they have for their common interest made the General Go- .yern'neat the depository of these pow-

 