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^ ' '"Vv/?:&V* :' ";/; V " mains of her distinguished and beloved . husband, the great and good President. It was determined, at this consultation, to re-1 movefile remains immediately to North - Bend, to be deposited upon a beautiful and ~ elevated natural mound,.where the tnonu-1 ment may be seen for several iniics up! rlrmrn f!m Ohi'l I'lVGf. * *' * *' j There, the traveller of distant ages will be refreshed by a visit to the tomb of the warrior, who was never defeated; of the patriot, who died poor? and of the statesman, who, from the proud height of President, "fell, like a star struck from its sphere," covered with glory and renown. From /Xc N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, IS/A intt. SUPREME COURT. r CASE OF ALEXANDER McLEOD. At a few minutes after 10 o'clock this morning the Court was opened, ami Mr. Wood, (he district attorney <>f Niagara, began p adiixr the documents deemed no cessarv by the counsel for the people. The first read was the enrolment of the I Caroline, dated 1st of December, 1637, and describing her as a steamboat of 45 1 - \\r:i tons 71 feet long, and oeioiiging m *?nJiam Wells, of Buffalo. Next her license of the same date, authorizing her to navigate the Niagara River. Next a deposition of Captain Gilman Appleby, taken before Judge llowen, December 12, 1840, when McLeud was brought before him on habeas corpus, after committal by a magistrate. The deposition described the attack upon the boat on the night of December 30. She was boarded by fi? e row boats, hav ing i on board sonic forty, or fifty, or sixty men; I tbere was firing on board when the assailants poured in upon the boat and after. Witness was roused by the watch on deck, and making his way to the deck was met on the stair-way by n thrust from a sword, whiz-h irlanccd unon the buttons of his " O - " t a dress, and did hint litilc harm. There was a lamp burning at the head of the stair-way and he could see the face of the man who thrust at him. Believed that man at the time to he MrLeod, whom he had seen and aided in Buffalo about a week before ; had no doubt then that it was McLeod. Is not so confident now. Mc Lend now has less fulness of face; the man who thrust at him had a full flushed face; McLeod, now present, does not seem so flushed. Cannot swear now that he is the same man?does not look so much like him. Did not see Durfee killed. Witness ran along the deck and got off the boat into the warehouse on the wharf. While he was in the warehouse five or six men came, whom he supposed to be of the boarding Vparty. They called for lights, and some of them said, "bring a light, and let's see if any of the Yankees are here. After they were gone, ?ome Iwenty minutes af* ter the boats left, he saw the body of Dor * ' -? TV r |. _? | fee on the rau-roact iracn; uunee was sum . through the head. When the men rame into the warehouse he jumped into the river. There was a straggling boy, named Wm. Bowen, about 12 years old. He npver has seen this boy since and supposes he was killed. Some of the men on board lost hats, others coats, others boots : tliey jumped out of bed and ran for their lives when the attack was made. All hud turned in ex'?&> cept l^e tvatch on deck. The man who thrust at him was ubout the same size and * figure as McLeod. Deposition of Leonard Anson?taken at the same time with Appleby's. Lived in Lockporl?went to Canada in 1836, and remained there till after the attack on the Caroline. Was at Chippswa the day after that affair, at the tavern. A number of persons were present, among whom was McLeod; they were disputin? among themselves who had done most in the attach. McLeod said, "I killed one d d Yankee, ond there is the blood." Exhibited a horse pistol, on the stork of which there was blood, lie hud u stvord also at his si-'e. Witness has known McLeod 6 or 8 months. Did not know any other person present except the bar-keeper. Becatneacquainted with M'Leod at Chippewa. Does not recollect what the others said, but they seemed to agree that McLeod had none most. Deposition of Norman Barntim, taken before Alderman Hall, of Buffalo, December 31, 1837. On the 29th of December was at the British encampmentat Chippewa. In the afternoon the Caroline was seen going from Schlosser to Navy Island; there was much excitement among the officers and troops. Some of the officers attempted to seize the Caroline. An expedition was arranged under the command of Captain Mosher. Heard Col. McNab say that if the cavalry would let their swords and pistols go, he would be answerable for their safe return. At nInK K/tnto rof rvfT* T.ltrhla ' mnvc uuato ov ? ??u? were seen on board the Caroline, and it w?s known thai she was moored at Schlos er. Witness knows that Captain Mush* er, Rowland McDonald and Alexander McLeod wereofthc pqrt7. Beacons were lighted on the shore to which the boats pulled on their return. 9 McLeod boasted that his sword had drunk the blood of two. Col. iVIcNah knew and approved of the expedition. Mr. Hall then read from page 280 of Sir Francis Head's " Narrative," two extracts from his despatch to Lord Glenelg, dated 9th of February, 1838; one alleging that the expedition was composed of volunteers, who were ignorant of the service on which they were going; that si) the In* f v " v . V* : i^, ? - ?. '. ;. -. '. -' formation which they had was from Cap1.1 Drew's requisition,-which merely said that'c he wan!e:L " some bold men, armed with i cutlasses, who would follow him to the f drvil." f ' ..Tuaoither asserting that when the Caro- j line was boarded the American guard ( turned out and fired upon the assailants; | that Lt. Elrnslej' and a party of the assail- j ( ants advanced some 30 yards upon the < shore and took a position where they gal- < lantly defended the rest against the American riflemen, while the fastenings of the j J boat were cast loose. | [All this is notoriously untrue; there t were no riflemen, and there was rio firing i except that of the assailants. Mr. Hall's I object was to show, if Sir. F. Head could I be believed, that the assailants actually 1 set fool upon the territory of New York. Mr. Spencer remarked that if the account ' was untrue in part, it was probably untrue i altogether j i The next read was Governor Marcy's 1 special mes?aj?e to the Legislature, of Jan- I narv 2, 163S, describing the outrage?stat- t ing that number of persons 011 hoard at 33, ? of whom 12 were believed to have perish- I cd, (See, i Accompanying this was n letter from i ]\Ir. Rogers, the District Attorney at Bof- I falo, to Governor Marcy, with the following affidavits. I 1. OfCapt. Appleby, taken December i 33. 1637. ? Stated that he left Buffalo in the Caro- I line, morning of December 29, for Schlos- < scr, having cleared to run between Buffalo ( and that place. While at Black Hock ran I up the American flag; a volley of musket- ' ry was fired at the boat from the Canadian < shore, but did no-damage. Landed pas- i I senders and some articles of freight a' I Navy Island; thence went to Schlosscr, [made two more trips in the afternoon, landing passengers and freight as before. At 6, P. M. moored at the wharf of Schlosscr: His crew consisted in all often persons; twenty-three others came on board and asked leave to stay fur the night, as tlmy could get no lodgings at the tavern. All turned in about 10 o'clock. About midnight was roused bv the watch on deck, who told him that boats were approaching. Before he could reach the deck the boat was boarded by some 60 or 70 armed men, with cries of 4? G ?d d?m the Yankees J kill them all?give them no quarter." No resistance was made?all fled for ' their lives. After the boat was cut loose he made diligent search but could find only twenty-one of those w'ho were on board. James H. King and Charles F. Harding were severely wounded, and some others slightly. Believes that twelve were killed on board or drowned in going over the falls. Saw the beacon lights and heard the cheers on the Canada side. Depositions of James H. King, C. F. Harding, and five or six others were read, confirming that of Capt. Appleby. Mr. Hall then read the remainder of Mr. Forsyth's note to Mr. Fox, of December 26, 1810, of which part wa3 read by McLeod's counsel yesterday. In the part now rend Mr. Forsyth asserts the inde pendent jurisdiction ol tne several states am! the right of New York to lake judicial 1 cognizance of this matter?denies the pow- ' er of the Federal Government to interfere, 1 and its duty to do so even if it had the ^ right; asserts the ex stence of two distinct methods of redress, one by the national government for the national wrong, the other by the state of New York for the i wrong done to that state, &c.; and argues c in support of ihc course taken by the trib? 1 unale of New York, &c. I Mr. Hull then said that no farther evi-,1 dencc would be offered on behalf of the ^ people, it being deemed sufficient to pic- 1 sent a prima facie case in testimony. The e evidence laid before the grand jury which a found the indictment would not be pro-|^ (luccd, the counsel fur the people being if much in doubt as to the right or propriety I v of disclosing that evidence in the present n state of the prosecution. Mr. Bradley then rose to address the f Court. lie remarked that this was Hie first at-'n tempt to introduce a new principle in! * legislation?that ol holding individuals per- I' Sonallv responsible for acts done in ohedi-'1 ence to the constituted authorities of tlicir! t country; a principle whose magnitude and j g importance Could scarcclybe appreciated, 1 and which, if established, would effect a ' revolution in civic and nationnl relations, ' whose tremendous consequences no eye could foresee and no judgment rightly cS- f timatCk f It is the right of Government, he said, I to command : the duty of all subject to goveminent to obey. In a stale of nalureeach individual man is sovereigns-regulating r his conduct only by his own conscience,,/ his own judgment and his ow.i power. s Nations are in this respect precisely like r individuals in the state supposed; the individuals Composing them surrender to a T certain extent their free right of action as among themselves, but each nation regitlates its own conduct by its own wisdom, 1 its own sense of right, and its own powei * to sustain itself in the course it thinks pro- ^ per to adopt. * The sovereign autho:ity to decide must * oe vesica somewnere?in a single liividtial, j " as in despotic governments, in a combina-i1 tion of sovereign and legislators, as in lim- 1 itcd monarchies, and in a temporary pow- c er, emanating directly from the people, as ' in the United Slates. But wherever it re- a sides, the authority must be supreme, and * the duty of the subject or citizen to obey * is imperative. The former cannot be ^ denied, the latter cannot be withheld, with-! e out a destruction of the social compact. ' *> . / rr?"'v* .. ". y ' j '.' >* . *:-' 'v v If tTie duty required is deemed unjustqrltl ipprfessive, the subject niay reason against t< U and thus seek to effect a change of pur- JL >ose; or he may resist his obligation by P orco, and in a revolution overthrow the fi )ower which commands hi in to do what he a leems unwise or wrong. But while that ti )owcr exists, end is recognized, its man- n lutes must be obeyed, and there is 110 pow. l< ?r on earth to absolve the subject frotn his t( luty. g It follows, then, as an inevitable con- ti sequence, that wlintcver a subject of one ii Tovernment may doin obedience to the 1 p sovereign authority of his country, and l< under duress of allegiance to thatauthori- k Ly, he can never be held responsible for <S 'lis act to anv other power or government tl than 1 hat of his own country: >, s '.--.i n ii iiie aci ne is requucu >u |n,nui,n wrongful or unjust to nnollior country, it i v is not he that is to be held responsible ; he | a s but the humble instrument of a power s which he cannot resist. He has ceded to [ ti iiis government the right to judge for him | s is to the expediency and vhejustice of the : r let; that government is bound to sustain ; a iiim against all the consequences of his ( n ict, and to afford redress for the wrong, if e in the act there has been wrong commit- ti led. t This principle is recognized by all na- f lions which have treaties with other. It h s recognized, mutually, by the United S States and Great Britain. They have ac- t] tnowlcdged sovereignty, each in the gov- tl rnment of the other, as regards its own n citizens or subjects, and each is estopped e from denying immunity to the citizens or f< subjects of the other foracts done in obe- a Jience to commands emanating from the tl recognized sovereign authority of the na- l< Lion. (I The 6tate of New York itself is bonnd h ill us to recognize the sovereignty of Great h Britain. Ilcr common law is adopted by e >ur tribunals?in a hundred ways her na- F :ional existence is known and admitted? r< the courts, the Legislature itself and all the Si ltithnrities are concluded from denying it the sovereignty of Great Britain. What ri remains then? An aggression upon the a *tHte of New York by the kingdom of tl 3rcai Britain?by the constituted authori- tl lies of that kingdom. p It was a violation of neutrality?an ag- n grcssioii upon our soil; requiring redress c indeed, and affording a just theme for in- a lignant eloquence : but still an aggression ft by Great Britain, and demanding redress si rrom her. as it was the act of her consti- c :uied authorities. a Nations alone can preserve or violate c neutrality- That cannot be done by sub- ti ecl6 obeying the orders of their Sovereign, h A violation of neutrality is the act of <1 ine State against another. It mny be a committed by individuals indeed, but those b iicividuais are acting under duress of w -heir allegiance ; they are not "free agents, si out bound by an inoperative duty which all b nen owe. ' a The crime, therefore, if there be crime, d itlaches not to them but to the authority si jnder which they act?the nation of which bey are the instruments; and from that p lation must redress besought. h The documents read this morning prove a .lie national character of the act. The p icense of the Caroline was national?the j< riolation of <hat license was a national o vrong, and must have national redress. - o Pram the Charleston Mercury. c The Abbeville Letter.?The lost ef- u ort of Mr. Preston's ingenuity, would A >pen a wide field for comment, if ihe icople needed any further light now as to si lie Sena tops position; hut by this time ii hey know him like a book, and it would | it le as tedious hs unprofitable to turn over'd he pages thoroughly, of his every new f< dilion of himself, whether bound in calf, I s when bleating alter Mr. Webster, at a tlexandria, or in sheep, responding the ft otential voice" of the Kentucky bell- u rether, or inverinhle lion skin, "a lion S rnong curs," roaring to the doctors gent-1 n y as a sucking dove, the "proscriber of 1 proscription!" o The answer to the Abbeville people is a lore elaborate and plausible than that toll) St. John's Colleton, but it does not place - - ? ? <? I T1 im in any more dignified aliunde fieiore i l he public, fie still exhibits himself as fi lie voluntary creature of party contin-'ti ;encies. held by his leaders at Washing-J tl on, like a greyhound in the leash, to be f< et slip at wi'l, as it may suit thern to use S lirn, "according to his mediocrity." I tl As to his denials of what the Whig r >olicy is, they are in the teeth of the c ormal avowal of the Bank, Tariff, and ' a distribution policy, by the official organ jE it the Whigs, the National Intelligencer, j ti He professes aversion to a Bank, but is ; I eady, it seems, to yield to a paramount, i< )arty (for there is no other) necessity, if \ ueh necessity be apparent to the Whig E narlagcrs. * A lie holds that he was re-elected to op- n lose and break down certain men, and the o loubt of his election arose from an appre- h tension thai he would relax ill his opposi- o inn to them. Be it remembered, this A vas before the extra session?before ihe w Am Bnren Administration took a position c villi lis, in which we were forced to be villi them, if true to ourselves?before the d ivowal of State Rights principles, iden- n ified with those of South Carolina, by L he Baltimore Convention of the Demo- n :ratic parly?principles to which lliey c iavc since faithfully adhered?before the ti iddress of the Democratic members of ii congress? avowing the same principles ? icfore it was indisputable that Martin " /"an Buren was a Northern man of South- u irn principles?before the Van Buren ad- a niuistration could have held out any in- ii - ' ;. -: .,' i - .' . * " ./ . ucement to a South Carolinian KoTftfier > join therp, except thetemptation ofpfce. It was thOn apprehended that Mf. reslon was "wavering-, aod'Gov. M'Dofe's denunciation in his message, against Carolinian taking Federal office, at the me, was significant. Bnt South Caroli* did not send back Mr. Preston merely j oppose men, whatsoever their' position awards her principles; she always rearded men nothing, principles everyking', and while RCting with the Whigs ? opposition to Jackson; and the earlier art of Van Buren's administration, she aok care to lei these bank and tariff whigs now that she was with them, not of them, fhe did not identify herself with them, hat in their triumph she might share the poil. If she had sent a Senator to opuse men, regardless of principles, it nonld have been an act unworthy of her, nd a base office for hirti, which no man of elf respect could have accepted. At that ime the democratic parly were deemed tablv secured in power, but when they isked all by adopting Southern principles, nd leagued against them the powerful noney interest, the Northern stock interst and British influence, they then gave he Whigs the elements of their present ritimph; it then became the path of preerment for a Southern man to identify imself with the whigs. It was then that outh Caiolina rallied to support the pary which incurred risk for the principles, hat the whigs found her cast iron sentiel impracticable, unmalleablp, and launtd him for his folly in sacrificing himself ir principle, and tvere as surprised, as bove, when John C. Calhoun shewed tern that he was sent to Washington not i oppose men,"or join in making Presients, but to maintain the interests of is State. Mr. Calhoun proved then as e had proved before, a most inconvenient olleague to more practicable nullifiers. le would not bend, and his inflexibility pbuked them from accomodating themslvesto circumstances. He adhered rigMy to Southern principles, refusing to isebutbythe triumph of our princij-Ies; II who adhered to these principles with' ic same pertinacity, must have postponed ieir hopes of Federal promotion, for the robability of a Southern triumph was reloie and doubtful. They were thus preluded from a share in Federal honors, nd the limits of a State were loo narrow >r their ambition. They saw too that hould Southern principles triumph, the hief honor must enure to Mr. Calhoun, s the unrivalled champion of those priniples. He kept litem bark from promo, on abroad by his example of fidelity to | is State?and they tried to break him 1 own at home.. But when Mr. Calhoun _ ctcd, lie knew our people?knew that e risked nothing here; their principles 'ere as east iron as his own, He was; nfe here, and Mr. Preston would have) een safe here had he stuck to our cause, nd not thinking more of men than he id of principle deemed it "servile'' to do i>. When Mr. Preston speaks of the 'spoils arty" he means to adopt the old slang of is present confederates, but it recoils gainst himself. Whigs are the "spoils, arty" which the "venal" are tempted to I >in. Witness the unprecedented rush of ffice seekers to Washington! Mr. Preston's "straightforward course" f which he boasts, is illustrated by hisdelaring at Columbia that Mr. Clay was ot the man for him, or lie the man for Ir. Clay, and then going straight to the forth, and lauding Henry Clay to the kirs, and ever since obsequiously eclioig his potential voice, and obeying his larching orders even when it came to odging behind the Vice President's chair ir it. It is mere slang, and not the fact, as he sserts, that the Sub-treasury system has illen. The ruin and huge dismay around s is from the explosion of the Banking System^ pampered as it has been by conexions with the Government. The Sub'reasury System has not failed, and the _i ...u.. ,1._ U7t.: I my rrn&uti wiiy uie ffings caiMnn long with it is that it is the honest sysim. If Mr. Preston's aversion to a National lank is not, as he says, increased by the ightful results from the Bank of the Unijd States. He errs greatly if he supposes tat he can weaken with the people the >rce of that warning, by calling it a mere Itale Corporation. The people know that *e same elements which produced such esults in a State Institution would have aused them in a national or federal one? nd that the plague spot was upon the lank while it was yet in the odour of naonality, while it was a National Bank.? t had then within it, all the seeds of its oitonness and death, when the Virginian Vhig was declared the omniscence of liildle's "little linger," the New York Ltnerican denouncing the President for ot becoming the pupil of the Grandee f Midas, who condescended to offer him is counsel, and Mr. Preston declaring in ne of his high tragedy passages, that lr. Biddlc's management of the treasury muld be worth a hundred millions to the nun try. Tne Abbeville letter would be a valid efence?if there was not a cloud of witesses in those who were members of our legislature in 1S36, and if our people had o memory. VVe publish it in another olumn, as a part of the history of the rnes?and, if ?'e have misrepresented it a aught, Kt it speak for itself. Near the close of the letter, we have Hiren here!" and the Senator flushed riill his victory over old Mr. Rawls, encts Caius Martius in speaking of his havig prosecuted the war on the late ad i! ministration to ft glorious streeess, almost f SiClainfing - with the .glufifying Roman, ' t% "atone! I did il!"?wlfep all know that he S| followed "according to his mediocrity" - J where Clay led, * fringe, upon his skirt, '^Ig ' O'er hog,, or Steep, through straight,'tough, denw, :??|| or ra/e." ' \ . '' " , > ; ' Mis calling the Democrats the high Tiriff party, and pretending that he is, or that lie thinks he is, .fighting against the Tariff, by taking service wiihihe1# bigs, / in the face of the notorious facts^thatthe Van Bureu ad minis! ration! has Seen decidedly Anii-tariffin prolusion and in tice?in the face of the Anti-tariff i course of the Democratic Keviejf, the | Boston Quarterly, the Globe, amf all the leading organs of the lateAdminist ration, in the face of the Anti-tariff ple'dgw Baltimore Convention, anil the Antbli^/^a address of the Democratic'Tffembers of . Congress, shews but -the wretched shift* to which he is driven. The pretence is pitiful, it will never pass wijh the people, nor do they acquit him of attempting lf> pass the base coin, knowing it to be such. So the people say?and Mr. PrCTiqu rtfasi ^ content himself with atrain enffctmff Corio ' - laniis, and exclaiming? "Hang 'em! thpy say? ? They'll ait bythe f;re and pretend to know What's done in the Capitol." "And so lei fiim go to the'Tolsclann!*' 'There is a.world elsewhere]" THE MEETING. '"i Charleston has Spoken. Well may Mr. Cajhoito,^xclaim ns he did, if ever a Ilep^esentat^e -.twd. ?bw ; to be true to his constituents, J?e was that representative, and our people thfcte'eon stiiuenis, and well /nay tltey.'haveresprm- m ded, if ever a people had cause to be proud of a Representative, we are that peopjel What a glorious burst. from the -old.true Carolinian heart ofCharleston^; thajjwhicJi gushed overwhelming, and sparkling to welcome him on Thursday ntgh'llTifstBW- -! ed as if the whole population of, oor City had rolled itself tugeiher/iia jlj^ fiw Theatre, whiqh was thronged from the back of the stage lo jhe roof?every.tier of boxes, the pit, the lo^bie8,/|Wrtytrtdotvs; the doors, all crowded, andhun? dreds going away unable to obtain an eu- trance: and what cheers were ^hosfc that rong to receive him, and accord. vWELL .X DONE for the past, and GOD.SPEED for the future." Never saw. we e nobler gathering?a more exh derating; spectacle. The Whig? by their movement on Saturday had rashly troubled the waler^rthe fountains' of the- mighty Jeep < sentiment were broken up, and as ureixiki. 'y ea over ine ses 01 neaus, ineir rapt tuuu ^ speaking in their eyes, that hea-VSd 1*1 *h? body of the edifice, and rose wave after wave from tier to lter,like.ejM>Umjf fefh lows sweeping in towards /oti*. trijsted patriot, we envied him the pro.ud;ntojnej1.t.. ' "'Twas worth ten years of comroOn We, Ono glance at that array/' Charleston has spoken?and the feeble :'/? effort of the Whigs Imrc is crtislj.eit^f<M^ ever. Let the union change is it jnrtay, there is a fixed majority of republic?ni*p| in the Palmetto State, whichis unshikert as the basis of her mountajij^^amavea>'. ble as the solid earth of her soil. Let.nur friends in every district respond?and let the one voice of Carolina beiteard! The official account of our meeting, ' . will be furnished, us for publicetioiv in Monday's paper?iti the meantid?erV6 need only say that it waVsucH as tpgcati* T-*" fy the proudest feeling* of every Carolinian. the largest and most enihosiastie gathering of our citizens ,that^tte, ever saw or heard of in Charleston. The first and second tier of the elegant PfewP-Uftte*tre showed a galaxy of beauty sutq^asjpg any thatevergraced it before ahd besides, it seemed as if all our citizens were there, ~ and that the country had rushed hMo town. The Hon. Henry Dea*. presided with that promptness and dijnity, characteristic of him as a presiding officer?-and opened the meeting in a brief address, pervaded by that glow ol enthusiasjn yrhtch carrying the feelings of youth intrx^old age, shows thnt the heart cannot die. After the Address and Resolutions had been read and adopted with acclamation, Mr. Calhoun was called for and.tw no man but he in the Union can be received.by r Charleston audieuce, in a brief tirf.lucid exposition of the grounds of opposition to the now avowed policy of the dominant party in the Union, he carried conviction to the minds of his hearers?and left none to doubt hisposition upon every question involving our constitutional tights. ,.Un> like those who addressed, the Whigs on ~ Saturday?he avoided all persbhal-allw- "j sion?all approach to it?he aenVnad- to ' pick up and throw back?-he did not feel ?the envenomed darts which thei?ptmy whipsters'' had hurled at him. Itwas evf' -- -- Lit. (lent that they had passed mra u ums ??? wind. Messrs. Burt, Seabrook. and several other gentlemen were railed for .and ad* dressed the assembled Democracy. *The > X*' most perfect order prevailed throughout ; ? the proceedings?uninterrupted, except by the thunders of approbation a* some truth or cherished sentiment was uttered, and none were more cherished than those of pride thntsmall as Caroliaa is?and as that congenial pair, Messrs. Legate and Preston taunted her with being?her heart is hig? that she is proud to be isolated by refusing to follow a multitude to evH, that having nailed her Palmetto standard to.the A-" 1 -r .I.a Pnnciltiifinn--. when " siiaucrcii masi wi mv the cry is that the waters of Federalism are rising, and that the ship boarded by pirates and scuttled by traitors is sinking #. ' v ~ *"