Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-09-07

has gone before US lis the prolific soil whose har
! vest oil bitterness we are nov resping. In the
phrensy 1t produces, reason is longer heard.
| The grassest fslsehoods propsgaed and believ-
ed every object is sacrihc ed without scruple 10
| The success OF the idol"
MoNrIcELLo, Dec 20, 1928.
EXTRACT.
see you do SsitiI the ie-pes, aniic,iun,
the rapid strides with which the federal branch of
our government, is advancing towards the usurpa-
ton OF all the rights reserved to the states, and
the consolidation in itself, of ell powers foreign
and domestic, S that too by constructions, which
1t Legitimate, leave no limits to their power. Take
together The decisions of the federal court the doc.
trines ofthe President &c the msconstruc of The
constitutional compact acted by the Legislature of
the federal branch; and it is but evident that
the three ruling branches of that depart ment, are
IN comoinatlon to strip their colleagues the
authorities OF the powers reserved by them, and
TO exercise themselves, all functions foreign and
domestic. Under the power to regulate commerce.
they assume indefinitely, that also over agrcul. .
( ture and manufactures; and call it regulation too,
3. TO take the earnings OF one of these branches of
industry, and that to1, the most depressed, an
put them into the pockets of the other, the most
fouri-hing of all Under the authority TO es,a.
flish pos, roads, they claim that of cutting down
snountans, Tor the construction of roads, of dig
kging canals; X aided by a little sophistry on the
words F" general welfare" right to do, not only
the acts, TO effect that, which specifically emu
merated and peTmitted but Whatsoever they shall
think, or pretend, will be for the general welfare
what is our resource for the preservation of the
llconstitution! Reason and argument You mig ht
as well reason and argue with the marble column
encircling them.f The Representatives chosen by
ourseives-ihey are joined in the combination
some from incorrect views of government, some
from corrupt ones, sufficient voting together to Out
number the sound parts, and with majories of on
| or Z hOI IN tn ,laE
ance. fire re then to stand at arHis7'
| A few words are here omitted, relating merely
TO individual.
! No! tina, must be the last resource, not to be
thought OF until much longer, and greater suffer
inSs III every Infraction OF a compact of SO ma
ny parties, is TO be resisted once as a dissolution
oil 1t, none can ever be formed which would last
one year. We must have patience and long en-
DURANGO then, with our brethren, while under de-
fusion Give them time for reflection and expe-
rience OF consequences keep ourselves in situation
TO proht by the chapter of accidents and separate
from our companions, only when the sole al,erna
tiVes Left, are The dissolution of our union with
them, or submission TO a government without Ii
imitation OF powers. Between these two evils
when we must make choice, there can can be no
hesitation; but in the meanw lille, the states should
be watchful to note every material usurpa,on on
'heir rights Ito denounce them they occur in
the most peremptory terms, TO protest against them;
| as wrongs 10 which our present submission shalI
|
oents OF right, but, as temporary yielding TO the
lesser evil-until their accumulation shall over
| weigh that OF separation. would go still fur
ther, and give TO the federal member, by regular
amendment of the constitution, right to make
| roads and canals of intercommunicaiion between
the ststes-providing sufficiently against corrupt
practices in Congress (log rolling, &c.) by deca
firing that the federal proportion OF each state of
4 the monies so employed, shall be in works within
the slate, or elsewhere with It's CONSENT and with
due salvo Of Jurisdiction. This is the course :,
which think, safest and best as yet
You ask my opinion of the propriely of giving
publicity to what is stated in your letter. as hay-
Ing past between MIR. John Q. Adams and your
sell. VI this, no one can judge bur yourself. II
Is one oil these questions which belong to the Eos
rum OF feeling. This alone, can decide on the de-
gree OF confidence implied In the disclosure
Whether, und II no circumstances, it was to be
communicable to others. II does not seem to DE of
that character or at all to meet that aspect They
are historical facts, which belong to the present.
| as well as future time. doubt, whether a single
| TACT, known to the world, will carry as clear
conviction to ii, OF the corr ctness of our know
ledge OF the reasonable views of the federal party
OF that dayas that disclosed by this most Befari-
Gus and daring attempt, to discover the Union, of
! which the Hartford Convention was subsequent
/ chapter, and both of these, having failed conso-
lidation becomes the first book of their history -
| But this opens with vast accession of strength
! rom their younger recruits, who having nothing
In them OF the feelings or principles of &c, now
look to single and splendid government of an
Aristocraey, founded on banking institutions and
monled interpretations, under the guise and cloak
| OF their favored branches of manufactures, COM
meTce and navigation, riding and ruling over the
plundered ploughman, & beggsred yeomanry. This
viii be TO them next best blessing to the mo
nsrchy OF their first aim and, perhaps, the surest
stepping stone 10 it,
The foregoing includes the whole Of the poIiti.
/ fol inf
nation and remarks, purely private, and il thus
concludes
90 Our University has been most fortunate
in The hive Professors, procured from England
= hner selection could not have been made,
besides there being OF a grade OF science, which
has left little superior behind; the correctness Of
their moral character, their accommodating dis
positions zeal Tor the prosperity of the institution
leave US nothing wish. verify believe that
as high degree of education can now beobtsined