Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-03-14
Vol. III.-No. id.

and afterwards at Phadeiphia TO create confcleo
cy tiight enable us to carry the with moro
ehect against the common enemy. At first She wac
not The common Cneny-wc did not So consider her or
call Ierwc did indeed call her our unkinG mother
fbut 'veproessed the duul love her and only
ASKED 10 be treated on the footing of her ether children
we distinguished between her and the unworthy hands
10 which she had committed her arthority-but avowed
mat IL she would deny us the rights which claimed
as british subjects, her legitimate children Of voting
away our money; would insist and persist 10 do
what VIC suffer every day 10 be done hcre-purre her
hands nto our pockets al hJihu, onoyc, dG ccpo
lot purposes utterly foreign 70 Interests; should
be driven, however ;c!uctantly 70 resist Ter inu5-
ticc.
This was Cougrcss-s object wos the formation Of
ne" Conicderacy, and the is eadeaed 20 every
man OF the good old thirteen States of America and IS
deservedly dear To them and the shoots the scons
that have sprung from hcm-he other states; aud what
are the other States, They are boEc Of chr lone o,I
flesh Of flesh. This ;rrrd Conorcss SIR was desnr
rediy dear TO the American people, for out of grew
teir Confederation and their Independence and when
the new Constitution made, the Trainers Of il were,
rHen well cnougl vcrsrd in human nature 10 know that
words were things, and they called the project the
congress of the United States of America. 1t is n
Congress by force ofthc Constitutions but 20 all inton,
ana purposes II Is not Congress according tic mean
ing OF the word in the English language. What, icn
Is lt IT is convention or legislature, like another
proposed Congress for coptcdcracy. Suppose tiia:
u"rihg The late war, every State in the had sen
dePutaticn Mr. Jefferson had said--tC te Hart
lord Nation'-it would have been Congress such as
we are now invited TO. Suppose now under the Con
sttuIion, convention 10 be got UP 20 amend the C,i
shuon, according 10 its provisions in article five will
ii not bewhat the Constitution declares it to bca con
'ehton-a coming together cfStatcs for particular prlr
poses NOW, sir, IN reference to that which my
resolution bears suppose that, during the last war
France any other neutral pow err rance was not a
neutral powcr--any neutral power fsuch could have
oecn ioundiad sent deputies Congress ut Hart
lord for purposes certainly % embarrassing ln,,cI
less Of cHdan@ering the Union but Of giving force and
eiect-such understood to have been the ayowcd mo-
I'VE OF that moctHg-to the war--cOuld they lave
shewn authority from their Government for 81 Goiroa
would they not have paralicn Of Your hclrercn ma
uirc and character: go further and say, that, in 4
Congress o states, il is strange sort Of bargain
that one Congress should be constituted by deputies
from each OF its and ,2c twenty four States
should be represented by deputies only tie aegrc-
gate body OF States. Ii 10 GO. let as 90 tie
Representatives OF AL the States let each of orr Staoa
be represented as well as their S'1c7; nd why not3-
ihs IS the iact--thcy Spanish American Confede-
ration, are orc body polite, wc, as a North American
Conoderacy are another. Whoever acard OF a Con-
gress %! Ministers from two Governments: no, Sir
should as soon expect TO lear of a two in
strumente; might have duet but who ever heard Of
a Congress where there only particso We
have treaty with @. Britain that makes special FRO
vision Tor an umpire 10 decide in certain cases Of diff
tc'cncc Our umpire is Hcad-h he does not secp he IS
dead-and his death will constitute any man who can
and VIII lock before wei allcIuho moi erorcs-
SGD wIh the rrcsen--and That with lis own advance
mcna consideration that will make him pause be fore
e does any thing that might influence difcciIg or IN
directly, the peace the a..cty the neutrality i ,hcsc
United St4tes which under the circumstances in
Wiicl INC World - 3hCnt 10 he placed, shall
no easy matter 10 preserve without an foreign entail
clements.
Mr. FOX was statesman; lie was not ONLY an olator
confesscdIy tic FIST dc5aicr that TIE world over
Out statesman of those who think dial ils
world has been much nlnrcd by parliamentary cIs
quencc 10y false notion, that ability uf This sort i ,
necessary qualification for and England
otcr dlinE tay-If she ovcr does devil repent her
of the dalectics Of Mr. Pitt lie was admirably c,aI
I'ec Tor Professor Of lhotoric lie would have filled
u!@t CHAR well at iam5rdgc- do mean Can;aLri.
! - nv. - ~. 0rsy lsE
hut AZ minister, his great measures all failed H.
was, indeed, most expert gladiator on lie Goor ~
Farafnent-a good PaiuurGs IN srrotl ,vafer-brt -
o" must be soldier, and from thai dav IS 10 his mo-,
ures they every liIcd and his friend and ,d,riro
Rlr. Nndham assigns TIER failure in Justification
ils vote Of refusal to grant him honor of rubIi,.
iuneTaior there, and every where bit here ,nbI;,
funeral counts for something ought 20 don the
ground that public funerals ana monuments slorld
never be erected except to onjncntIy surccef, tatq
men, generals admrais, not to ihe clefcited-and
me public funeral and thc monument of Pitt, MIR
NIndham with his many independence and sanacitv
o. character, was unwilling 10 pay fOr-fhe did p,t
grndge the money-tlIa another consIera ton
he voted TO pay the debts Of Pie and dat funeral and
monument voted TO tie defeated statcsman-the rlonr
ncnt to the pilot that did weather the sorrl-,ras
the orerunper of the monument voted 10 General Pac
bingham forhiS glorious attack y eyv Orleans Ibs
is the way to render hat Clcap and worthless, which
is above all price that which indeed may well be O. lea
the cheap defence OF nations.
Mr. Fox said. speaking OF thc history of jams d,r
Second and Charles the Second, that of aI Govern
ments in the world, RESERVATIONS were Tic worst lie an
Piled il 10 the restoration of the House of Stuart not
against Che consent Of tic PcorIc-but by general ac-
clainatlon which led 10 n general vote Of cxpui-
SION, OF iiai misguided, uBcaChaho, bgct race. Tho
itousc OF bourbon, restored bv foreign bayonciz or
ced upon France against the i,hes OF LARGE majority
OF her people, was not then an example 10 which Che
Iiustrous historian could have recrfcda set strorr
or proof Of The truth and sagaciiy Of that wonderful
man: There Is, said Mr.. Il another restoration of
another ilustrious house, push the parallel no fur
ther--by what means il has been brought back nrrn
MS, shall not noo stop 20 inquire though in mn Heart
and conscience believe The sceftrc having been
cuched, this Tic last four wears ~ the adr"ri.tr
ton OF the father, renewed IN tlc person of !a SON
am not afraid OF the enactment OF tic sod i,on w.
No not nj all One Of our drioHajlsts said, in Pair
think, speaking Of their Irof,au vcza,;oaS OF our
commerce. That he mode only not tie measure was
changed So it Is herc--Ior old Tr1eralsfn--rc have
ultra Fcderalism--l DO not speak IN tic future bu in
The Mus y,,g0 yrJJciIg0.