The spirit of Hayne and Calhoun is still the star that lights the pathway of the Southern man in his duty to the government.
He recognizes no sovereignty more potential than that of his State.
Long years of agitation and bloody war have failed to decide the rights of States, or the measure of protection which the National government owes to the individual members of States.

We still grope in the sinuous by-ways of uncertainty.

The State still defies the National authority; and the individual citizens of the Nation still appeal in vain for protection from oppressive laws of States or the violent methods of their citizens.

The question, "Which is the greater, the State or the Sisterhood of States ?" is still undecided, and may have to be adjudicated in some future stage of our history by another appeal to arms.
FOOTNOTES: [2] I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare * * * that, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, and thenceforward, and forever free; * * * That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States.--" President Lincoln's _"Conditional" Emancipation Proclamation_..