Who would dare accuse him of subserviency to Jackson or to any man, for bread or for position?  He differed from Jackson about the tariff, and all Jacksonville could know it.  He agreed with Jackson about the bank, and the whole country would come to approve Jackson’s course.  Was nullification right?  Perhaps Jefferson knew as much about that as Mr. Wyatt.  Let the laws of the Constitution be obeyed and nullification would never be provoked.  What had created nullification?  The vile policies of the humbug Whig party, the old monarchist harlot masquerading in the robes of liberalism.  How did these people dare to use the name of Whig, how dare to resort to such false pretenses, when it was common knowledge that the personnel of that party, having been put down as Federalists for gross usurpation and monarchist practices had, being forced to change their skin, adopted the title of the liberal party of England, remaining more Tory than the party that tried to destroy American liberty during the Revolution?  And now this Whig party like a masked thief was abroad in the land to pick up what spoils it could, and to take from trusting hearts sustenance for its misbegotten existence.  It was already beginning to coquette with the slavery question, hoping to deceive the people with humanitarian and moral professions.  Very well!  If it was the Good Samaritan it pretended to be let it give up its bank and its tariff, which took enough money out of the mouths of the poor to feed all the niggers in the world.  Let the whiner about wrongs quit his own wrongs.  Let the accusing sinner repent his own sin.  Let the people of New England pluck the pine logs from their own eyes before talking of hickory splinters in the eyes of the South.

And then Douglas took up the history of the formation of the Union.  What went into the Union?  Sovereign states.  Who concluded a treaty of peace with Great Britain after the Revolution?  The thirteen sovereign states that had waged the war.  Who formed themselves into the Confederate States, each retaining its sovereignty?  The same states.  Who left that union and formed the present Union?  The same states.  What did they do?  They retained all the sovereign powers that they did not expressly grant.  They never parted with their sovereignty, but only with sovereign powers.  Where does sovereignty reside under our system?  With the people of the states.  What follows from all of this?  Why, that each state is left to decide for itself all questions save those which have been expressly given over to Washington to decide.  Who is trying to nullify these inestimable principles and safeguards?  That is the real nullification.  The humbug Whigs, who would like to centralize all authority at Washington ... “and Mr. Wyatt here in this new country, among people of plain speech and industrious lives, is the spokesman of these encroaching despotisms, which he has vainly attempted to defend to-night.  He dares to assail the great name of