Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-03-31

The powers of government, generally are in this
country thus distributed.
l. Those most wisely retained by the people in
their own hands.
2. Those enumerated in the Constitution of the
u. S. or such as necessary and proper d. e.
ff) 10 carry the enumerated powers into execution;
and which last are granted out of special caution
10 guard against the assumption of constructive
powers. They would have followed of course
.. The powers whether enumerated in their
respective onstitutions, not) of the states;
which are those not specifically given to the fede-
raj government, or reserved to the states or the
people, H. e. the people of the staies) respective
Iy. Thus one state government may have less
power than another, considered in reference to the
people whe may have made greater, or less, reser-
va'ions IN their own hands: but all the state go
vernments have the same rights in reference to the
federal government, because its grant is limited by
certain land marks, courses and distances; and
Congress cannot, by their patent, call for another
course or distance that not found in the survey
returned with that patent, and accurately recited
therein.
When Congress want cut off of our end of
| the loaf OF power, for whatever real or ALLEGED
public benefits if we let them take it, we must in
sst upon their giving up some of their end. If
they want some of our crust,let them give US some
of their crun'b; or shall be so crus.y as to deny
| them For ii taking out Of one scale disorders
the balance, then putting into the other scale what
Is SO taken out, counts doubly A pair of Scales
being balanced with two pounds in each. if YOU
AXE ou, one pound, then the proportion is two To
one But II you put that pound into the opposite
scale-it is three pounds i'm one scale TO one in the
other: three TO one, when "t,Do to enc arc fear
FIJI odds" Even children have sense ENOUGH tn
see, what's to be the end of this game; esaecialv
with Our present puritanical, dplomatical admins
traton.
Ii Is like Nebuchadnezzar' Image: but can the
IRON and the brass cohere with The Clay; and where
is the Gold9
Mark well that the very par, of the Constitution
which conspiracy of Federalis,s with he Trsi,or
| Burr forced us 10 amend alter ratherl is no,v
| iornd 10 require another tinkering.
Let this be lesson.
10 Would any prudent man encounter such a
danger for any but intolerable grievance, under the
circumstances oft the present case5
| III. What are those circumstances; VIRGINIA Ill;
vided upon this one Observation-Disclosures unit
ed and blowing up the flame, in order to palsy
her opposition TO their weak and wicked mea
sures.
~ What are the instruments used? p All tina,
viii cut, however dull--Sedtion- Law Federaliss
| mot John MsrshalD whi,e-washed into good re.
pnblicans, by shouting for Mr.. Jefferson and maj
ing pilsrmages to Monticello; not to carry offer
inss, but TO eat the Saint of their new Idola,rv
| out of house and home
lo My friends, suppose John Adams had been
reelected in lS0o-IS0l-Suppose the New York
election (Which rare we by the ,hroat-latcb
and Aaron Burr's Jockeyship) had gone agains,
lus! Suppose that Virginia had actually been
humbed in DUST and ASHES, 'and Mr.. Jsffe,.on
put where MIR. Crawford is now - where " ou,d
have been the pilgrims his shrine, the swear ers
by his name! Do you, in your hearts, believe that
| the Adams's would have written him anv love let
tiers. See The Cunningham Correspondence
| N. b. sc cunningham was a Traitor''-agresd
SO was Arnold, although no Southern man. or
| STAKEHOLDER; yet, who disbeleves what the Bri
fish wrote to Arnold, to induce him to betrav bis
trust,l
Doyou believe that the turn-coat Federa,is,s
who have changed their faith for the Glebe
and the l6 coo lbs. of Tobacco without ev.r
| having gwen In their experience, would have been
the Euogizers now OF defeated and deserted Jefrer-
! son! or that republicans spos,ate from State
Rights, would have had his name their lips and
| the highest toned FEEDER alism far beyond thar nj
| PUBLIUs, OF ALEX. HAMILTON, or JOHN Jaw
or " ILLIAAI PATTERSON, or OLIvnR Ellis
WORTH, or ROGER SHERMAN, and Other great
| wise and good men OF the cd federal party. in
| their hearts; aye and in their DEEDS I ask mar.
don of real federalism and .federalists; of such
as have not taken service like Dalgeity This new
| abomination is CLAYIsM.
| Would these Baptized Heathens, who build
lighthouses in the sky, their Towers of Babel
and whose gibherish OF oil sects and tongues and
nations beiIay them-woud they say, have bv
their vote canonized Mr.. Jefferson as their preo,
Apostle OF the Gentiles and political Saint iffbey
could hare put him and as ,cith him, dorm,
| five and twenty years ago?
/, And now let me not be misunderstood do
know among the real federalists, not the Office
seekers, one advocate of Convention, who is 7
believe pure and honorable man. His 11ue
think, is OpimiuS. may be mistaken u, that
There may be hundreds of Others, nav thousands
that don't know, but suspect they are you1.g
men more governed by Theories; beautiful. fasci
mating theories than by experience, the only sure
| guide IN politics, any thing else. John Mar
shall is not of them.
Among the Republicans know a great MANY
that believe TO be as honest and some of them
many OF them ADLER than can pretend to he
| who advocate the cause. Blu; they too are
| generally young men. Such of them as are ex-
perienced, seem 10 me TO be certain Subjects not
under the dominion of their confessedly great abil
tiles; or to speak more properly, they are run ayay
with by them.
| 100 have been a schemer-I too once turn.a
my back upon my best friends, Tobacco and In
dian Corn. But If l read myself into The ne,v
improvements L soon worked myself out of them.
j soon found that must abandon them. or NV
land. soon found that there is no royal road IN
| Agriculture, any more than 10 the science of oo-
vernment or to the mathematics There are no short
| cuts in either, that do not in the end prove tho
farthest way home. l found that could no, afford
TO bu, even ploughs. i found that the wagons
hat carried my crop would try the strength o9mv
horses without expensive machines, with hard Greek
names TO measure their force in drawing, when
they, perhaps, were nearly the lift and no corn
in the corn house My friends theory ,yilI M, do