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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
ard there was an appeal. He thought if we acknowledged the amendment proposed, we should not only commit an error in theory, but be guilty of a mal-application of terms. He hoped that the gentleman from Princess Anne, if he should hereafter notice his argument, would confine himself to a reply to the question, Can a State be absolutely sovereign who has delegated her material powers to another Government? Mr. Wise had never heard such a catalogue of questions so often reiterated. Bean Brummell before George the Third, with all his impudence, never did exceed the bold bravery of the old Federalism which spouts out from the gentleman from Richmond. The mountain which he had raised did not reach the magnitude of a mole-hill. Mr. Wise proceeded to define the term "sovereignty," and cited the examples of the Papal States, and Turkey in Europe, who were sovereign, though subject to the dominion of a controlling power. He denied that the thirteen original States of this Union, in