It will thus be proper for the several States to await the ultimate disposal of the obnoxious measures recommended by the Secretary of War or pending before Congress. and so to use their power. according to the character these measures shall finally assume. as effectually to protect their own sovereignty and the rights and liberties of their citizens. Shade of Jefferson Davis. how thou art justified by the voice of this old father in Massachusetts which comes up to cast down and rebuke his son! And this. which it was recommended should be insisted upon as an amendment to the Federal Constitution: No person who shall hereafter be naturalized shall be eligible as a member of the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States nor capable of holding any civil office under the authority of the United States. Oh. how the whole contingent of Pats and Johanns. young and old. male and female. foreign and domestic. should rush one over the other in their impetuous zeal to follow the son of old George Cabot. who promulgated the proposition I have quoted and made its adoption into the Constitution of the United States a condition to his loyalty. as he now gallops away on a mad crusade against the South. carrying disorder and dismay among the happy and prosperous people of that section. who are patiently working out to some just solution the grave and difficult problems which surround them. in a vain effort to lift up the negro suddenly and make him. nolens volens. fitted or unfitted. the ruler and arbiter of the States. Mr.
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