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Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered in the Baptist Church, Brookline: On the Occasion of the National Thanksgiving, August 6, 1863
The first great issue to be settled by this war is whether we have a Central Government of the people, or only a loose league of States. Our fathers meant to form a General Government, supreme, stable and enduring. They set it up, not in the name of the States, but in the name and by the authority of the people. We, the People of the United States, - nsuch is the official desig nation of the parties to the great covenant of our'union. The Union of the States was grounded on the Unity of the people. The States did not formally appear, either in the formation or ratification of the Constitution. It was desirable, indeed, that their organic life should be recog nized somewhere in the Government; hence the plan of State representation in the National Senate, this body being composed of representatives of the States, while the House of Representatives represents the People. The Union was intended not as a Union of the States, but as a Union of the People. It was meant that the Govern ment should be supreme. All questions relating to the currency, all regulations affecting commerce, all postal arrangements, all treaties with foreign powers, all deci sions of peace and war, and all matters of controversy between the respective States, were expressly committed to this central power. In fact the national authority extends to every department of the public life. With the exception of local and municipal affairs, the power of the Government touches every part of the political system.
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