...follows : — 'The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of taeli State to order and control its own domestic institutions,...judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic institutions,...

...of directly opposite character, in thesa words : " That the maintenance inviolate of the rights •/ the States, and especially the right of each State...and control its own domestic institutions according toils own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and...

...inclination to interfere with slavery where it existed, and that he would maintain inviolate the rights of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment. But this had no effect in staying the progress of secession. In April Fort Sumter was bombarded, and...

...the last Presidential election, declared its doctrine on this point in tho following words : — ' That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each to order and control its domestic institutions, according to its own jndgment exclusively, is essential...

...domestic instiVOL. II.— Doc. 19 tut ion» according to its окп judgment exclusively, it ettential to that balance of power» on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends ; and we denounce all lawks» invasion by armed force of the »oil of any Slate or Territory,...

...clear and emphatic resolution which I " now read:—' Resolved, that the maintenance, invio" late, of the rights of the States, and especially the "...power " on which the perfection and endurance of our politi" cal fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless " invasion, by armed force, of the soil of any...

...treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever silence. 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends ; and we denounce the...

...Government, we will now, and ever, steadily, heartily and patriotically stand by the Government. Benolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclnsively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and perpetuation of our...

...judgment of this house, that the maintenance inviolate of the constitutional powers of Congres-!, and the rights of the States, and especially the right...of each State to order and control its own domestic intitulions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which...

...Government involves a fundamental change in the Constitution of the United States, by force of which " the right of each State to order and control its own...domestic institutions, according to its own judgment," is taken away; a right which the Republican party has declared " was essential to that balance of powers...