The States, in their turn, limited the power
of the Central Government which they volun-i
tarily created; and the power to annul the
written instrument, which creates it and
limits its authority, was expressly reserved to
the States.
As all men know, this reserved power of
revising the written instrument, and adding
to it, for the purpose of making it plainer,
or of extending its scope, has been exercised,
again and again.
Consequently, all the fads and all the reas
oning go to show, that the makers of the
Government never intended to give Congress
the terrible power to destroy our republican
form of government by means of a standing
army, raised by compulsion, maintained by
enormous appropriations extending over a
period of more than two years, and so revo-i
Thursday, June 7, 191?<.
