The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-18

H'aS so' w aSHinStON. - Ufts uay, Tie A.tcf
Justice o! the United States, and another Judge
ofthe Supreme Court, are natives of Virginia,
and fcteraists. Both of them, rs well as the
present President OF the United States, were a
mong the actve supporters of the federal cons.i-
tuition, and members of the Virginia State Con.
vention which adopted it, In the election which
has just taken place, four federais,s at least and
two or three others, as far from the political
system Otthe President, as federalism ITSELF have
been chu en- members of the House of Repre-
sentatives Shall we be told that all this sigaiGes
nothing /! That they are all Oiigdrchs And that
all these federalists of Virginia, are moved only
by considerations of policy, ' and the hope offn-
ture success from their ntrigues ," Sucl, is MIR.
Ames's argument.-Such is the standing doc
trine OF his select and exclusive friends. But OF
all this may he truly predicated, what Mr.. Ames
says of federalism-It is all " founded upon a
mistake"
The same distortion of objects from their real
character is apparent in the second extract above
quoted. The amendment of the Constitutions
which exempted the States from stability by in
dlviduals, in the courts ofthe Union, is represent
ed as having been effected by the great States
OF prsinid, Pennsylvania and Nrsp lork--and as
having exempted them IN Form from fhc obiigati-
ons Of !Justiee.
Why was the odiun Of measure, presented
under such m nvidious description, confined e,
Pirgfnia. Pennsylvania < Nctr .1oyk +? Why was not
Massachusetts included in the number Had Mr.
hnes forgotten that this very amendment was
introduced into the Senate of the United States
by Mr. George Cabot then a Senator from the
state OF Massachusetts why was the measure
itself presented in such an invidious light! Had
MIR. Ames forgotten that as n member OF the
House OF Representatives in Congress he had vo-
ted tor this very amendment himself, 1t he con-
sidered 1t as scheme to exempt States from the
ooItSdton 2f Justice, he stands seif-condemned
upon charge OF no trivial culpability A
charge, of which 90 not believe him to have
been guilty II is not hisvote in Congress i'm
l194, but his representation in 1906, of the mca
sure Tor which he had given THAT vote, which
dlscloses the partial and the prejudced mind
mat amendment oftlie constit. ton, was called
Tor by the general sense of the people throughout
the union (; its object was not to exempt the
states from the obligations Of Justice, but from
being made parties at the suit of individuals be-
tore the courts of the United States The con-
, cluson to which the argument leads is tina,
confederation like that of the United States is inn
practicable, because the powerful members Will
not submit to the laws of,the whole body. This
opihoh Is not new but our experience hitherto
mas NOT shewn It's accuracy. Il is the most sa-
cred cuty OF the American people, to continue
Tue PROOF that a cenfederated republic of many
mighty members is Practicable expedent of
| human association-and it follows as n du,v no
less incumbent upon their statesmen and sagcs
10 ihcaicate such principles and stch sentiments
as nave natural tendency to give duration and
stability to their Union.
Inc reflections IN the two last of these ex-
tracts upon the southern and western sections
" y, .c ouio"' are not only iiagrant examples OF
tnat spirit against which we were so earnestly
admonished by the paternal voice of WAsHINC-
TON they are as uniounded as they are un.
iiehdty. American patriotism, con;empiates
wti very difIerent sensations the rapid progress
ol ,nese settlements the active enterprise al
iardihood OF character which distinguishes many
OF the settlers the rapidity with which popula-
uoh, cultivation and social enjoyments are cor.
staptly multiplying, with wealth and art, and sci.
e"ce III tlicir tram. To compare our fei!ow-citi-
Zeis Oh The southern and western States with
wandering Iartars or Indian Hunters TO utter
seriously the opinion that they will probably siak
i1fo 6ar6drtSDt, is demonstration of Tho. most
deplorable blindness to the true state OF things
| Great numbers of the settlers both in the south
ana west, are emigrants from New-fiag gland.
lhey are literally our children and our brethren.
Ohted to US not only by the ties OF civil society,
| put oy those OF Kindred and consanguinity. Were
one OF their distinguished orators, (and orators
they have with whom MIR. Ames himself wou..a
not have been disgraced by being compared ! to
afirm tilat the inhabitants OF the Atlantic states
were sinking fast into piracy and barbarsm that
they had no more patriotism than Alrern,es. and
were not malt SO fond of glory; the picture
would not be more unkind, nor more un
IKE than that against which L am here except
ling.
except against il the more earnestly. because
IT Is one OF the most pernicious and fatal errors
LOT the people ofany one part of this union to adj
mt into their minds such sentiments against the
rest-beca,lse, not only the publication of this
volume but multitude OF newspaper ESSAYS,
party resolutions, and incendiary pamphlets.
| WITHIN the last year have shewn systematic at
| tempt TO disseminate among the people of New
] England tins groundless jealousy and hatred of
the southern and western people Above all,
| because the poison OF this same jealousy, and
hatred has been circulated in late address ofthe
| Legislature OF Massachusetts to the people of
the state 1t is time to say and to prove that all
these Wsidious lnstigations against our own coun-
trymen, are Jonndedo on mistake. They expose us
| To the merIted contempt and scorn of those who
are thus slandered, and their most ineyitabls
tendency is to excite and provoke that hostility
which they proclaim. Preiudices and PARTIAL
tIes exist in every part OF the union but to the
disgrace OF New-England, her portion is the first
where men distinguished as Mr. Ames, and even
Legislative papers have given countenance and
credit to these fictions ignorance affecting to
be wise, and these phautoms of vulgar fear, af.
tectng to be provident. The Legislative address
indeed, after its hour of authority has gone bv.
Will be numbered with the dead Its patriotic
glories are already whitening upon the stalk But
the cloquence of Ames is destined TO longer life
Hi's genius will still be admired, when its faila-
cous colors will be detected at a glance and la
mented as the fading yellow of a iaundieed eve
Had his friends valued his reputation ; had tLev
been capable of discart!ing, for moment, the
contracted and sordd passions of cancusinp CAM
7,Ittfec, they might have compiled from his writ
ings and speeches real monument of unsu,l,ed
fame. AS tbs, they have exhibited him, as the
herad OF party Islander, and the dupe of British
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