And let me say, that all men who say that Congress has no power to restore and defend the rights of her citizens, have not the love of the truth abiding in them. Congress has power to protect the nation against [HC 6:159] foreign invasion and internal broil, and whenever that body passes an act to maintain right with any power; or to restore right to any portion of her citizens, it is the supreme law of the land, and should a state refuse submission, that state is guilty of insurrection or rebellion, and the president has as much power to repel it as Washington had to march against the ‘Whiskey boys of ,’ or General Jackson had to send an armed force to suppress the rebellion of South Carolina!

To close, I would admonish you, before you let your ‘candour compel’ you again to write upon a subject, great as the salvation of man, consequential as the life of the Savior, broad as the principles of eternal truth, and valuable as the jewels of eternity, to read in the 8th. Section and 1st. article of the constitution of the , the first, fourteenth, and seventeenth, ‘specific’ and not very ‘limited powers’ of the federal government, what can be done to protect the lives, property and rights of a virtuous people, when the administrators of the law, and law makers, are unbought by bribes, uncorrupted by patronage, untempted by gold, unawed by fear, and uncontaminated by tangling alliances— even like Caesar’s wife, not only unspotted but unsuspected! and God, who cooled the heat of a Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace, or shut the mouths of lions for the honor of a Daniel, will raise your mind above the narrow notion, that the general goverment has no power— to the sublime idea that Congress, with the President as executor, is as Almighty in its sphere as Jehovah is in his.

Fort Hill, S. C.”

“Thomas Cartwright was baptized November 6, 1843, unknown to his wife, by elder Jonathan Pugmire Sen. but she had mistrusted he [HC 6:160] had gone to the water, and went to Pugmire’s house the same evening and inquired [p. 1849]