their Legislatures. The formal de-i rlaration of Congress that these States wen States, could not have settled their status more decide lly than the action—or rather the failure to act on that occasion—by Congress and. Mr. Stkvk.vs had not a word to throw to a dog. His radical comrades were perfectly mum. The action of the five Southern States, deciding the question, was received as fair and ' legal. If the radicals now insist that these