They are worth a thousand disquisitions on the admirable working of federalism.

But there is no need to rely on a traditional story, which, however, is an embodiment of an undoubted transaction.

The plainest facts of American history all tell the same tale.

No Abolitionist could in 1850 without peril to his life have preached abolition in South Carolina; difficult indeed was the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law and small the practical respect paid in Massachusetts to the doctrine of the Dred Scott Case.

Unless all reports are false, the Negro vote throughout the Southern States is at this moment practically falsified, and little do the Constitutional Amendments benefit a Negro in any case where his conduct offends Southern principle or prejudice.