interpose to arrest the progress of the evil, and to maintain
within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and
liberties appertaining to them," she meant no more than to
proclaim the right to protest and to remonstrate. To suppose
that, in putting forth so solemn a declaration, which she
afterward sustained by so able and elaborate an argument, she
meant no more than to assert what no one had ever denied, would
be to suppose that the State had been guilty of the most
egregious trifling that ever was exhibited on so solemn an
occasion.