Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1821-07-21

uleu 10 SIX good articles IN our constr
tuition and prepare to receive in their
stead, new tangled noiions, (for you
must know they are Of Yantee origin,)
aud 10 the space Of two years. l verify
believe, there will not remain rag or
vestige Of that solemn instrument, a.
greed to in convention by the good
people Of Missouri, as the basis Of
their rights and liberties.
Among the most prominent of these
alterations, the Judges Of the Supreme
and Circuit Courts, are to be elected
every sic years by which the in-
dependence Of the judiciary will be
Frustrated at the feet of the legislative
power, and instead of upright, inie-
pendent judges, we shall have an cleo
pioneering, paltry, time serving set Of
fellows on the bench, who fear, in at
tempting TO retain their popularity, will
lose their virtue.'
The following bill has passed the
House of Representatives., and been
sent to the Senate for their con-
currenee.
A SOLEMN PUBLIC ACT
Declaring the assent Of this State to the fun
damental condition contained in the reso.
luton passed by the Congress of the United
States. providing for the admi sion of this
state into the Ualon on a certain condition.
Whereas, the senate aa6 house of repre-.
sentstives of the United States, by their re-
solution approved on the second day of
March, in the year of our Lord, eighteen
hundred and twenty GA did deciare, ,t7t
Missouri shall be admitted into this Union,
upon an equal footing with the original states
IN all respects Whatever, upon the tuudamen
tai condition, that the fourth clause OF the
twenty sixth section of the third article of
the constitution sub .'tted on the part of
aid state TO congress, shall never be cons,ru,
ed TO authorize the passage of any law, and
that no law shall be passed in conformity
thereto, by which any citizen of either of the
states in iris union, shall oe excluded from
the enjoyment Of any OF the privileges and
immunl;ies TO which such citizen is entitled
under the constitution vt the United States
Prouided, That the legislature of the SAID
state, by a solemn public act, shall declare
the assent OF said state TO The said fund en-
tai condition, anc shall transmit To the presi.
dent oi the United States, on or before the
fourth Monday in November next, an au.
thentlc copy OF the SAID act; upon The receipt
whereof the presideu. by proclamation shall
announce the fact; whereupou and without
any further proceeding ION The part o. con
gress, the admission OF The SAID state into thi,
Union shall be considsred compieie.'
Now Tor as much, Us the good people Of
this state have, by the most solemn aud pub
| ic act 10 their power, virtually assented to
the said fundamental condition., whereby
their representatives, in iul and free conven-
| ton assembled, they adopted ,he constitu.
ton OF this state, ana consented to be incor.
porated toto The fedora! Union, and govern.
ed by the Constitution OF the United States,
which, among other things, provides that the
said Constitution, and laws of the United
States, made In pursuance thereof; and all
treaties maze, or which shall be made, uuder
the authority of the United Stases shall bs
the supreme law OF the land, aud the Judges
| in every state, shall be bound hereby; any
thing in the constitution. or law of any stale,
| 20 The contrary notwithstanding And al
though this General Assembly do most So
iemnly declare that the Congress of tue Uni.
ted States have no constitutional power 10
annex any condition To the admission OF this
( state into the Federal Union, and that this
General Assembly have no power to change
| the operation OF the Constitution of this
state, excep: in the mode prescribed by the
Constitn ion itself, nevertheless, as the Con.
gress of the Uaited State, have desired this
General Assembly to declare the assent of
this state to sd ID fundamental 0u6itIon, and
Tor as mucn as such declaration will neither
restrain nor enlarge, limit nor exieD5 the o..
peratIon OF the Constitution of the United
States, or OF this state; bat the said consli
tutions VIII remrin IN all respects, If the
SaIi resolution haG never passed, add the
desired declaration was never made: and
because such declaration will nos iivest 4ns
power, or change the duties Of any of The
constituted authorities of this state, or of the
United States, nor impair the rights Of the
people OF this state, or impose any additional
obligation on them, bat may promote an ear
iIer enjoyment OF their vested federal rights,
and this state beiDg moreover determined 10
give her sister states, and to the weird, the
most nnequivocal proef OF her desire to pro.
mote the peace and harmony Of the On on
THEREFORE,,
BE it enacted and declared, by the Genera
Assembly OF tie state OF Missouri, and u IS
hereby solemDIy and publicly enacted and
declared, That this stale has Assem- ted and
does assent, that the fourth c,anse of the
twenty sixth section of the third article of the
Constitution oil this state, shall never be
construed 20 authorize the passage of any,
and that no law shall be passed in conformi-
~ thereto. by which any citizen, Of esther Of
the United States, shall be excluded from the
en|oymen, OF any OF the privileges and immu-
mites, to which such citizens are entitled,
under the constitution of the United States