Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-02

apply TO every other object of municipal repula
ZION, over the internal Improvement, when made
This internal improvement mania seems 10 have,
become general and to have swept before IT, every
think ike disPas>ionate reflection, and calculation
-he ncurabie disease seems TO have arisen from the
happy success of the grand canal of New York:
and SO 10 have Infected the administrators OF the
peneral Government, as To have determined them
per las aut nefas, outstrip N. York ia the glory
OF canal-making. But it seems 10 the writer. that
~. y Tar from aforlins an example in favor of the
usurPation by the General Government, exhibits at
,i's moinen the strongest in point against it.
NProves mat state government, to be fully compe-
tent 10 all the purposes OF internal improvements
without the aid, or intermeddlng of the general so
vernment II completely takes away the plea of
necessity as the justification of the usurpa,ion.
Governor Clinton, in his splendid mutfarious
message, TO the N. York legislature, cuts IN. as
II would seem to a stranger, The great state of NJ
DIRK into mincc meat, by plans for roads and canals
Tie work OF century would seem in other hands
and yet he invokes not the aid Of the General Co.
vernnent. So far fIom it, he appears to be alarmed
ut the general governments voluntarily stretching
ior'h It's voracious claws, towards the grand canal
already completed. He is already upon the look out
Tor protection, against their apprehended destriic
tive influence lie calls upon the states for new
constitutional provision for that purpose He re-
commends the Senate of u. s., as a proper tribunal
Tor deciding all questions jurisdiction between the
general and state governments; whilst Mr. Cla-,
volunteers his good Offices in proposing to refund to
N. Y. all expenses incurred in making the grand
canal. Two consequences would probsbly result
from this oticous liberaty, if accepted II xvould
produce grand waste for the proceeds of he pre-
sent UNJUST enormous tariff and afford pretext Tor
Keeping II after every other object .or which If
was imposed should cease, except the protection of
manufactures The Jurisdiction over the canal. might
perhaps be obtained in consideration reflndna the
y.~f..N IL. NJ
above $1,000 600 of the proceeds of the impost for
nothing Governor Clinton seems nevertheless
resolved 10 shun these mereiriciols ovcrt,res-
inner states are also competent all the object of
internal Improvements within their own limits
Even within tile limits of each state there is room
Tor great sectional injus ice in every plan Tor in
terna Improvements. This sectional injuotice must
increase, in proportion the extension of The Limits,
OF Its exercise: and mus, become intoierabe under
system OF the general gov neni; which essential
ly consists In derayng all the expenses out of the
proceeds of the inposts. These proceeds being
paid in one place and expended in ano,Iler- the
writer thinks it would result from this view of
tie subject, That in Withholding the pow er of max
Ing internal improv ement- from Tie general govern
ment, the people did perform their work so ineably
stupid as Mr., "A. would conceive Whether or
not MIR. a. has not subjected himseifo the rebound
OF this courteous expression, let the sober, reflect
ing part of the community decide
But Mr.. A. not content with this bolj sloc,-;na
proceeds 10 Illustrate 1t meiaphorcally. Thus: The
hrst OBJECT OF human association is the improve
ment oil the condition OF tbe association. Road,
and canals are among the most essential means of
improving the condition of nations, and peosle
which should deliberately by the organization of its
/ authorised power deprive itself of the faculty of
multiplying It's own blessings would be as wise AZ a
creator, who should undertake 10 constitute human
being without heGr,.' Mr.. AS first asser,io, i,
rlcht IN the distract; wrong in the application
NOW, lei MIR. AS creative metaphor be anal ysed,
and applied 10 the real state of things. The creator
III 'e metaphor Is Intended 10 represent the people
creating their constitution. The act of consitutine
human being, the OF constituting their ooverp
ment; the heart of the human being-internal i'm
provements. Let thea these various metaphoricat
illusions be applied to the practical state of facts
When the people undertook TO organize their au-
tiori,ed power, or in plain English TO make their
federal constitution, they divided into thirteen
distinct states under thirteen distinct governments.
loosely bound together by articles of conlede, alton
= " hen MIR. Awrote his letter, they were under
twenty Jour distinct state governments and one
general government; the effect of compact The
people of the thirteen states, finding that some
OF ts>ir more general interests could moi be adj
tageously managed by distinct state governments.
undertook to establish government for the better
management OF such interests In this under akng the
sTelt consideration was, in wbar manner the disri-
bullion oil all the governmental powers should be made
between the state and general governments Tor the
purpose OF producing the gener al welfare of the
people, then associated in distinct states The PEG
pie determined, that their welfare would he besr
promoted, by retaining the power OF making in
ternal Improvements to the states, TO be exercised
oythe Stale SoS efnrnents respectively then thr cen
now twenty-iour; and accordingly did So Hge
then are twentyfour states each invested with the.
power oil making internal improvements within its
own limits. This power OF internal improy ements
Is represented in the metaphor by the heart of the
human being proposed to be created. Could any
thing be more " inedbly stupid" than TO tear out
the hearts of twenty four human beings, already
grown to fail manhood, and crowd them into the
bosom oil one human being? The tw enty -four hum y,
beings IN that case would necessarily be DESTROYED
by radical depletion: The one human being by re-.
dundant plethora. MIR. A. has doubllessly heard of
the disease OF the perturbation of the heart This
sometimes happens when one heart is allotted
TO one human being. What then must be the
effect oil crowdng twenty-fouf thuripers into one
human bosom!! The application of this anslytical
Illustration OF Mr.. AS own metaphor to the actual
condition Of the political institutions of the u s.
Is most respectfully submitted 10 himself, and 10
every other political Solomon
!, yERBUM SAT SAP.
:, February 10, 1925.
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