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Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Introduction. (search)
pted by us in Convention on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States nited States, which the people of South Carolina adopted in 1788, just as much as they ever adopted either of their State Cotution. Here you perceive that South Carolina herself in 1788 desired a provision to be made and annexed inseparably to hamendment, expressly authorized to do it. South Carolina in 1788, by a sort of prophetic foresight, looked forward to the poting to the people of Virginia alone what the Convention of 1788 claimed only, and that by way of impression, for the Peoples or the ignorant to the conclusion, that the Convention of 1788 asserted the right of an individual State to resume the powhe People; its great champion in the Virginia Convention of 1788, and its faithful vindicator in 1830, against the deleterioid Mr. Edward Rutledge, in the South Carolina Convention of 1788, from not preferring the Northern States by a navigation ac
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Appendix. (search)
Appendix. Appendix a, p. 9. after the remarks in the foregoing address, p. 9, were written, touching the impossibility, at the present day, of repealing the instrument by which in 1788 South Carolina gave her consent and ratification to the Constitution of the United States, I sought the opinion on that point of Mr. George Ticknor Curtis, the learned and accurate historian of the Constitution. It afforded me great pleasure to find, from the following letter, that my view of the subject is sustained by his high authority: Jamaica Plains, Saturday Evening, June 8, 1861. my dear Sir: Since I came home, I have looked carefully at the ratification of the Constitution by South Carolina. The formal instrument, sent to Congress, seems to be much more in the nature of a Deed or Grant, than of an Ordinance. An ordinance would seem to be an instrument adopted by a public body, for the regulation of a subject that in its nature remains under the regulation of that body;--to op