The Indians finally were forced to remove to the Indian Territory. (See Phillips, 83.) Worcester went to his Vermont home.
[1477] Debates, 21st Cong. 1st Sess. 58. The debate between Webster and Hayne occurred on a resolution offered by Senator Samuel Augustus Foot of Connecticut, "that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of limiting for a certain period the sales of public lands," etc. (Ib. 11.) The discussion of this resolution, which lasted more than three months (see ib. 11-302), quickly turned to the one great subject of the times, the power of the National Government and the rights of the States. It was on this question that the debate between Webster and Hayne took place.
[1478] Ib. 64. Compare with Marshall's language in Cohens vs. Virginia, supra, 355.
[1479] Debates, 21st Cong. 1st Sess. 73.
[1480] See Marshall's statement of this principle, supra, 293, 355.
[1481] Debates, 21st Cong. 1st Sess. 74.
This was the Constitutional theory of the Nationalists. As a matter of fact, it was not, perhaps, strictly true. There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States. Had manhood suffrage existed at that time, and had the Constitution been submitted directly to the people, it is highly probable that it would have been rejected. (See vol. i, chaps, ix-xii, of this work.)
[1482] Debates, 21st Cong. 1st Sess. 76. See chap, iii, vol. iii, of this work.
[1483] Debates, 21st Cong. 1st Sess. 78.
[1484] Ib. See Marshall's opinion in Cohens vs. Virginia, supra, 347-57.