Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-20

ahead of the fundamental laws CT p" this u
nion."
Willis, the principles, avowed by the author, as
the basis of the governmental right to pass the Ia
rid law, for the protection of domestic manufac-
lures present subjects OF the deepest Interest," The
writer proposes only TO sketch outline view oil
the most prominent, in the hope oil calling the at
;enton of others, to The whole of this most fright
full governmental municipalities the writer con-
ours in the opinion, that all this, some equiva-
lent, is Indispensable, to the justification OF that
law.
In the application of the authors elementary po-
litica economy, to the government OF g tins u
| nion,'' il hardly to have been expected that
any American citizen, would have preferred tue
derivation of its powers from analogies to the {
organization, powers and discipline OF army,
rather than from The Constitution of the u. States.
Still less TO have been expected, that such |
citizen, should have extended the powers, rights
and policy of the government, over American eit- 1
zens, beyond The power of the general OF an army, \
over his soldiers. But the author has done this, In I
| several hi hy important respects
Because, il has at all times been considered, that
| the organization and discipline of army, |
| were the consunmaton oil despotism al least in |
their application mill airy science; whilst herel O.
fore, it had been supposed that American citizens
had retained some important rights 10 themselves;
this Landed luminary of the school, has COM
pleely dissipsted all these mistaken supposi,ions
and his dcspotic theories, would seem 10 be the
practical guides of the present administration. The
chief characteristic of army, is that il acts.-It
thinks not.-The Gen. thinks for the whole army.
The army executes his thoughts. Ii a subordinate
were TO think Tor himself, in opposition 10 bis Gen.
and to execute his own thoughts, it ould be a mi
. lir" offence, involving CAPT al punishment. In
this point of anaog, the Legislators would think
for The whole American people, whilst the people
would be stripped OF the of the thinking faculty
altogether; or, at least, it would he subjected to
IL.
perfectly imperative for any purposes of their
The General has the power TO arrange his army in
TO divisions, brigades, regiments, companies. and
doons, at his pleasure. He can march, and
> couutermarchi it. He wheel il 10 the right or
10 the left. He can drill any portion of it for IA
tigue duties, Sc. SC. and a murmur accompanied
with act OF resistance is death 40 the daring
subordinate perpetrator. Can complete sys-
: TEN OF desposm enter into the imagination of man !?
" Yes, there vet some limits TO the despotism of
:, General over his soldiers, but these are swept
- away by this favorie fanatic of he new school,
through the influence eli his elementary principles
" in their application 10 the civil government. i c
practical military civilian, according his princ-
pies, becomes invested with he powers of muster
= ing all the different sections OF tie country, and all
i" the different occupations in society, and marsha
{ them against each other, SUIT his fantastic
e notions The civil cavalier march, and coun-
y termsrch. tie various occupations in society. He
:, driil them for fatigue duties at pleasure 1t is pre-
~ sumed, it must have been upon this principle of a
naogy to military tactics that Mr.. Clay suggested
- the drill of 100000, Gen. jackson 5000 far
Is mers sId planters, upon fatigue service in manu-
- featuring establishments; and they might upon the
- analogy apply the drill 10 the hole American
~ neans ~ are these despos ss sata occiyi civil
tons in society and hus as the writer THINKS to de-
~ grade and enslsve the American pcopIeu Ue,r
what The one says OF the other of these associated
n mitaiy civilians, in regard 10 his civil ouafca
# lions Tor poliical duties. MIR. g. says of Gen 7
: al one OF ms ridiculous eeciioa eerine dinner mar
g ues- couldn not, and did believe that il was
e my duty TO bestov my suffrage ON a gentleman
(Gen. J who came recommended To nv cbo;ce
n oy military qualifications chiefly if no, exclusive
G ~. Ihis exclusion would seem chiefly if mot
i, wholly 10 apply TO moral, as well IS scientific
quaiincationsi Tor the discharge of Legislative e, or
executive duties. Thus associated upon great
aesPohc principle of political economy, can either
nope to escape from that portion OF their corps
described by the Landed luminary OF the new scbooI
"a mass oil stupidity and gnorance''-especial,v
when supported by the opinion OF The one in rel,
ZION to the other of these associated political c,vs
: Hers, drilling planters and farmers for manuf,c,ur
. ing iaoors ought not both oftbem after the public
d avowals, they have made, 10 solicit tie public cha
rlty, TO ascrihe TO them ihouehtlessness as well 40
ignorance In political science to save their own
moral characters, as men: Their best excuses in
me opinion OF the writer, ould be- that thew h.
both become intoxicated, with the delirious effu-
via OF the electioneering spirit
4 ms marshaliing of occupations s. drilling then,
Tor fatigue les, would -eem to inieIieen, nol;t;
cal economists to involve the utmost ey,rernes of
! civii despotlsm; but this will neither satisfy tho
uocuines oil The new school; nor of the practical
government, as understood by the writer There
is one point beyond this extreme; and to ,ba, !,
Hvouid seem, the doctrine is unblushingl, extended
4 NAV consists IN governmental claim TO all The
P'i'"'e property IN nation, in exclusion of the
private right OF every individual to his own nro
NPe'y, mere Is governmental despoisu, far ahead
vi MILITARY despoii' m-1his is its ultimatum Ne
Pius uitra-Niark well the difference between civil
ana military despotism. The General of an army
mas no right to the pay of the soldier. The SOL
w. III can dispose OF 1t, as he pleases. He has
hght o buy from whom he pieases: and soil m
whom he pleases. So he may do with anv o,ber
property he possesses. The General has no rigbt
20 control him in either respect But this rich, :
cannot ne permitted TO The citizen
ilear this fanaiical fashionable in his own xvords
rage zO3, pot. I'd. " We often hear peonle .
,alk about individual rights, in strain that Vonld
ieau one 10 suppose that national interests and in
uiVHnuai rights, were in their opinion often at ga
rance Ihey seem to suppose ihst the riobf or :
popertyis absolute in the Individual ard thai eve
- one mas right to sell to whom he pleases. and "
" Ouy VI whom he pleases; and that any interfer- .
- " 'ne government in restraining he exercise
% ms night, IS arbitrary and tyrannicaI They u
"hi tel U.S. that government has no right 70 con :,
"ol mem IN the disposition Of their propertv =,
"eTeiy win view, that other citizens NAV deriye
"peheh' rom II. This is manifest error And =
again pages 200, 20l ' a.
NO man has, or can have, perfect exclusive ~
l'sla 10 property OF any description Every man -