The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-29

receipts OF the Treasury. As yet, little addition Il
cost has even been experienced upon the articles bur-
thened with heavier duties by the hast tariff The d.
nestle manufacturer supplies the same or akindled az
ticle at diminished price, and the consumer paws tb
same tribute to the labor OF his countryman which
he must otherwise have paid to foreign industry and
toll.
The tariff of TIE last session, was, in its detail,
not acceptable TO the great interests of any portion
of the Union, not to the interest which ii WAS
specially intended TO suserye. Its object was 10 bal
ance tie burdens upon native industry imposed BY tie
operation of foreign laws; hut not to aggravae tie
burdens of one section of the Union by the relief a.
forded to another 10 the great principle sanctioned
by that act, Of those upon which the Constitution
itself was formed, hope and trust the authorities OF
the Union will adhere. But if any of the duties i'm
posed by the act only relieve the manufacturer by aa
gravang the burden OF the planter, let a careful r..
vlsal OF ITS provisions, enlightened by the practical en-
pcrience Of its effects, be directed to retain those
which impart protection to native industry, and re-
move or supply the place of those which only aleyi
ate one great national interest by the depression Of
another
The United States of America, and the People Of
every State of which they are composed are each Of
them Sovereign Powers. The legislative AUTHORITY Of
the whole Is exercised by Congress under AUTHORITY
granted them in the common Constitution. The eg
9ldu'e power Oh each stale Is exercised BY assem-
blles deriving their authority from the Constitution Of
the State. Each is sovereign within its own province
The distribution of power between them presilpposes
that these authorities will move in harmony with
each other. The members of the State and General
Governments are all under oath to support both, and
allegiance Is due to the one and to the other The
case OF conflict between these two powers has not
been supposed; nor has any provision been made for
1t IN our institutions; a vrtuous Nation of ancient
times existed more than five centuries without law
for the punishment of parricide.
More than once, however, in the progress of our
history, have the People and the Legislatures of one or
more States In moments Of excitement, been nstiga.
ted to this conflict and the means of ehecting this
impulse have been allegations that the acts of Con-
gress to be resisted were unconstitutional The Peo,
pie OF no one State have delegated to their Leg
lsature the power of pronouncng an act of Congress
unconstitutional but they have delegated to them
powers by the exercise of which the execution of the
laws OF Congress within the State may be resisted
II we suppose the case of such conflicting Legislation
sustained by the corresponding Executive and Judi
ciai authorities, Patriotism and Philanthropy turn
their eyes from the condition in which the parties
would be placed and from that of the peope of both
which must be its victims.
The Reports from the Secretary of War. and from
the various subordinate offices of the resort of that
Department, present an exposition of the public ad-
inIstraton OF affairs connected with them, through
the course OF the current year. The present state of
the army and the distribution of the force of which it
is composed. will he from the Report of the Ma
Jor General. Several alterations in the dsposal of
the troops have been found expedent in the course of