Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-03-31
RIcHMoMD, MIAROE 81.
COALMUNIC.g7ED.
bACTs and HINTs.-For them that can think
and 3cY think

iIfpE
and ,ciU think,
They who can't think or won't think are every
where servants 10 them that can and do think ;
whether negroc slave, his master; whether a
pauper, or country squire Of IS 900 ycar-for
what pays in person the other pays in purse. as
the negroe in labour; his master in being TARIY-
FLED for others profit. Thinkers are master
spirits: 1h'akeeS are giovelling beings e Of the
earth, earthly" born for their use He w no do
head toork must and shall do hand ,rorls- must
hew wood and draw water; and make bricks with
out straw. 1t is Z" the law of God and nature -
and executes itself, without Abolition Socetyto
enforce it.
1s,. Thirty seven years ago, the Federal Con-
siitu,ion was put into operation.
I'd. II was the work OF as good and wise men
as we are now likely TO NEE; wi,h-Washington
at their head.
3D. Its construction or meaning, is so far from
being settled by The practice under it'' that
new cases OF squabble and OF usurpation daily oc-
cur. See the Statute book, pasSim, (tlroughout)
and the doctrines of the late and present PREs1
DENT, respecting the POI, ers of the General CO.
Ternment; the last mere especially.
4th. So far from being settled, The writer heard
the Chief Justice of the u. S. say, less than a
fortnight ago, that they could not be expected 10
be settled in half century.
9Th. Whatever difference of opinion NAV exist
as TO the soundness of the decisions of the Supreme
Court, no one can doubt the sasncity of its presid-
ing officer.
9th. To save trouble, the writer differs from him
upon many OF his great constitutional decisions,
(upon the Bank, Cohen's case, and Hunter case
among others, but not on The occupying claimant
law OF Kentucky but he believes him TO be one
OF the greatest and purest of living men, or of men
that have lived: on this consideration more anon I
The writer does not believe that The cases oris-
sRs under this Constitution, will be settled in a
century, if it shall last long
7th Altho' the Constitution of Virginia. be only
thirteen years Older than thai Of the Federal Go
vernment, yet "a ats construction is'' pretty veil
fixed and settled an practice;' because
While the blacks OF St. Domingo have paid in
money fora quasi acknowledgment of their exist
ence by France, and the Spanish Americans have
offered egregious TO old Spain for her bare
acknowledgement of their Independence; while
even Bolivar, the " CHIEF CAPrA1N'' holds ou,
a" great sum to obtain this Freedonp," We
like PAUL, aUeye 6" free -bors, - Would Genera,
Washington Congress have ever offered to
George 3D., exclusive commercial privileges, or
any other boon, in lieu of our Independence? or
would the people have submitted to /: more es-
pecially after the capture of Corvallis (FalI of
st. Juan d'UIloa.) Did we not scorn it, even
while the enemy held New York, and had the I'M
disputed command OF the sea, after Rodney vic
tory over De Grasse: 18th April, 1881
Ii, after our successful struggle against British
usurpation, had then, for the FIST time To learn
the A. Il. Z. of free Government; to learn how
TO impannel jury, and TO discharge the duties of
juryman; to claim the privileges of the writ of
Habeas Corpus and other judicial franchises; to
elect Bargesses 10 make our laws, and Law the ne
cessary taxes for the support of Government
AND NO MORE, Ito pay for bayonets or bun up,
Or TO bride the presS,) we should now be in the
condition OF nations far beyond these Spanish
american States in knowledge and fitness, for free
Government, among which, even the last and
most degraded by KING-CRAFr and PRIEST
CRAFT (old Spain and Porugal) are more en-
lishtened and less inf. (by a homogeneous popu-
laion, or people all OF one sort colour for free
Representative Government. For, from the IN
safuflon Of the PASSOVER to the latest erpeyi-
ence Of MAN, no two nations essentially Differing
IN race and name, and prejudices (f you will have
ever lived under the same Government, except
IN the relation of master and slave, or servant
An Exodus (out-going) the only means that
Infinite wisdom itself devised for freeing the Isra-
elites from their ta-k-iDasters.
o. Are you willing that even as good and as
wise men as John Marshall (mhen YOU can find
them) shall for the lifetime Of yourselves and your
children certainly; and PROBABLY for that Of your
grand children, be called upon to expound YOUR
new constitution, so as TO make IL something else
than you took it to be when you adopted it,
o. Or UNWILLING to trust INN, and such as him)
will you commit your and your children's liberties
to be explained away by peitfoggers who, to cur
~ favor with men in power, will always make the
Ink and Sheepskin speak what their employers
please? N. y. John Marshall was 100 wise and
too honest TO uphold the Sedtion Law; which
John Adams the father and John Adams the son
did. The father signed il and prosecuted under
II, and threatened VirginiaEs with humiliation
When (before 1906 y did the son disayow any
one principle Of his fathers administration and
when has he even since that period dsavowed
/ any onefact oft? Let time and place Of dissyow-
Abe specified.
In regard to the federal government il was abso-
lntely necessary TO have written enumeration of
the powers parted with by the states to them, be-
cause II is government limited 10 certain specific
objects; chiefly external Except to regulate the
Post Office, in time Of peace, the general govern
nehl has scarcely any Thing to do, that it may
lawfully do, and session of one month would
amply suffice for all our matters the care Of which
IS deToivvd upon Congress, iu time Of peace.