. The Civil War : the national view . tion which empowered the legislatureto admit negroes to the suffrage on the plan suggested byLincoln. While the Baltimore Convention which renominated Lin-coln was in session, and was considering the clause in itsplatform in favor of a constitutional amendment abolishingslavery, the State Constitutional Convention also assembled,and on June i6th, just a week after the Republican Na-tional Convention adopted its platform, adopted a clause forits new constitution declaring the paramount authority ofthe Constitution and laws of the United States. On the24th,
. The Civil War : the national view . tion which empowered the legislatureto admit negroes to the suffrage on the plan suggested byLincoln. While the Baltimore Convention which renominated Lin-coln was in session, and was considering the clause in itsplatform in favor of a constitutional amendment abolishingslavery, the State Constitutional Convention also assembled,and on June i6th, just a week after the Republican Na-tional Convention adopted its platform, adopted a clause forits new constitution declaring the paramount authority ofthe Constitution and laws of the United States. On the24th, the Convention adopted a clause abolishing slavery inthe State: the new constitution was submitted to the elec-tors and ratified by the meagre majority of 375, the anti-slavery vote of the Maryland soldiers in the Union armyat the front. At the time that Maryland was revising Its organic lawand abolishing slavery, the people of Nevada were assembled BATTLE-r«i-t 4/ ; 1 SI , •)«( I- s MAJOR GFt HJHOM/>S HI Il 1 \HM\ oeneralhood. j1 ti ^;r^^ Map of battlefickls in fr(M-it of Nashville, Tennessee. Frow a print inthe Map Divisio/i, Library of Congress, Ifas/zington. THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE WAR 453 in Convention at Carson City, framing a new constitution tosubmit to Congress for their admission as a State, Thenew constitution forbade slavery and adopted the doctrineof the paramount authority of the Constitution and lawsof the United States; it went further, by declaring in itsbill of rights that the Constitution of the United Statesconfers full power on the Federal government to maintainand perpetuate its existence, and that whensoever any por-tion of the States, or people thereof, attempt to secede fromthe Federal Union, or forcibly resist the execution of itslaws, the Federal government may, by warrant of the Con-stitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience toits authority. This was the annihilation of the doctrineof State sovereignty and remains the single declarat
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