Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-12-08
THE PRESIDENTS .NESS.aGE.
SPLENDID GOVERN IESVt

/ Thanks TO the extraordinary exerIons of Mr.
20 ter, The contractor Tor the Northern Mail we
received copy OF the President Message and
oil Tuesdays National Ineiige ncer-yesterday
morning at Sun-rise, in about IA i-2 hours from
the City of WASN'T Eton ! The Steamboat brought
them TO Potomac Greek; and thence by Expresses,
who travelled all night to this city. We seize
This Opportunity OF acknowledging the mertorious
Efforts OF MIR. Porter 10 conlrIbu to the public ac-
c0mmodai.on. IL is such men that the able Posi-
Master-General OF the u. s. should call mo the
public service.
We took up the Presidents Message, with
! conscientious desire 10 do him usuce even with
conciiiaiory feelings ards Dir. Adams himself
He'd II been such Message as we could have non
esliy approved we would most cheerfully have
pald II Tie humble, very humble, trioutc which it
was In our po"er 20 pay II. We are satisfied
with contention, and could have been happ,
to have gone with him in promoting the happiness
| OF our cpuatry We perused about thirds oi II
with some sa,isiacion, (exceping 30 far the Pana-
ma Mission.) Ii was SO Tar comparatively unsm-
bilious IN It's style, and unpretedng in its doctrnes
buI what friend 10 The reej principles of The Con-
sIIlutIon can read from the paragraph beginnil,.
Upon TINS fist occasion of addressing the Legs
| laure oil the Unioh,'' Sc 20 the very end oil The
| ch'pIer (wi;h some exceptions) without species
OF indignant astonishmeni the style is as excep-
honabe, tue doctrine: Ii that of an ambitious
are the most hIsh-toned and ulr-, OF those OF
any Message which has even been submitted 10
the American people, scarcely ever saving and ex-
cepiIns The messages OF Ms John Adams
| We have no room to-day for an extensive Re-
view OF this important paper.--rne President has
accepted lie iDvitaiion 10 The Congress at Panu-
.Ha. lie recommends, by sorl of side-,.Ind a
bankrupt systeni--aiso the proper organization OF
the militia the extension of the pension iaw-the
| establishment OF .Nu0at School of Instruction
The establishment OF .hdtiOnaL Uaiuersity--
the exploration oil the whole norn-wes o. this
contlnentby tie equipment OF public shp( why not
upon his own syoNed principle, enterprises for the
| circumnaviSaiOn OF the globe fine season per
haps Tor j. g. SSmes to offer his services for the
exploration of the Arctic Hole Pile recommends
also the erection OF an Astronomical Observat ory,
one OF - these lignhouses of The skies" ARE we
really reading siate-paper, a school-boy' 5
Thesis = For 1t is mos, melancholy to reflect
that we are cutting ourselves from the means OF re-
turning hght for light, while we have neither
observatory nor observer upoa one half of the
globe, and the earth reUOiUcs IN perpetual Itr6-
ness 10 our uIlsedrching eyes. - The President
also recommends new Department oil the Late-
ri0T (and really If all his splendid schemes are to
De Carried iato execution, we are at a loss 10 know
nov many Departments or Boards, we shall no.!
reqpfe TO superntend our national att rs \ TO keep
down" the cumulative weights" which the con-
tempated [" exgencies of the public service may
produce. RE recommends also the enlargement Of
the Judiciary revision OF the Patent laws
and the erection OF Marble Monument to the
illusrious Washington.
lie recommends, indeed, as we understand him, the
passage OF " laws promoting the Improvement OF
Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures, the
cultivation and encouragement of the Mechanic and
OF the elegant arts, the advancement of LiteTa-
lure, and lie progress oil the Sciences, ornamental
| aft1 sol, Il. 4
dry OF passing such laws, declaring that their re
framing to exercise such powers for the benefit of
the people, would be treachery to the most sacred
oftrusi.li''
lie deduces this extensive range Of powers at one
time from tine widest construction of the express
enumerated powers given by the Constitution; at
another, from the still wilder and still broader ground
OF " She great Object of the Institution If eiuil
| government RSeD,' sometimes presenting our
dWy to exercise some Of these encroacImen,s az a
" debt" an " engagement we nave i" Contract
ed' will" the civilized nations OF the eartb:''
| Sometimes upon the extraordinary ground that
Liberty Is P0t0er; that as blessed with mo G
liberty, we must be the most powerful nation in The
world; that the condition under which we hold this
power 49, that g. ID shall be exercised to ends of
\ benhcencc." And IL 4 single individual was to
reply, we ,he people, are already displaying the
miracles wrought By Liberty; the States too are
exercising their energies in the same direction" Mr
Adams takes care 10 set u- righl about this natter
- can we Gays he) Inc Representative Authorize
OF the Whole Union, fail behind our fefow-ser-
wants IN he exercise OF the tru-t committed TO Us
Tor the benent OF our common Sovereign. By the &C
comp-hment OF works important to the whole, and
TO which neither fbe authority nor the resources o
any one can be aiiequste?' (Thus claiming for the
General Government all such powers as they MAJ
think ihe states are 0e' aasguats 70 discharge