Excerpt from The Princeton Review: May, 1884 In considering this subject it is to be borne in mind that the extent to which the Federal Government may be concerned in an exigency affecting given States is a question apart from the exigency itself. The interest of the nation, legally rather than sentimentally considered, and the nation's responsibility, in a given case, are properly limited by the degree in which the exigency is in effect national and not purely local. An exigency which vitally concerns both local and general interests may confront the people of New York, and be so clearly subject to the control of its own legislative and civil authorities as to make Federal interference neither necessary nor justifiable. On the other hand, a contagion in the ports of Louisiana may pro vide an exigency, not only of vital importance to the citizens of that State, but of such general concern as to demand the prompt interference or assistance of the national legislature. Interferences in affairs within a State for the purpose of check ing the spread of cholera and yellow-fever, of which we have many examples; for the purpose of checking contagion among live-stock, a matter which has just furnished occasion for heated debates in Congress; and in the matter of education as a cure for the evils of ignorance, are acts similar in kind so far as the prerogative Of the National Government is concerned. In the first instance, the justification for Federal action is in the danger to human life; in the second, the danger to property; and in the third, the dangers arising out of conditions which afford nourishment for social, industrial, and political evils, - any one of which, while largely localized, may unquestionably affect the general welfare through the interdependence of the States, and the necessary intimacy of their relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.