The Litchfield County post., 1828-05-15


 To you is submitted the prOpriety of mOr, specifically prescribing by law the duties "' the scfuoi visitors, with additional sanction and of frequiring the board in each society, i
 the month of September annually, to report
 to the Comptroller, the qualifications and at
 tainmcn's efthe teachers, by them approved;
 the number of visits made to each school {;
 the length of time, school shall have been
 kept in each school district; the branches Ni 1 learning taught therein; the progress madt l by the scholars; the books used {; and gener
 ally the condition of theschOOl societies. The l operation of our presentsystem might be thus 1 officially and accurately ascertained, and d
 body of infurmation collected, highly useflI 1 in guiding future legislation. Such reports would also naturally produce increased ener- gy in the yisitorssby enhancing their respon- sibility: excite spirit of emulation among the pupils, especially conducive to their ad- vancement in learning; and cause the exciu 1 sion OfincOmpetent prrsOnsarOm an employ
 ment of transcendant importance. The real and durable glory of the enlight | ened nations Ot the world, has been derived less from tie victories and conquests of their l armies and nayies, than from their advance I nent in useful knowledge and general science. combined with the liberal and successful culti vation of the arts. The mode ofrxa!ting th' character of our state is plain. Our literary institutions of the highest order are perenni~ al sources good, and their benignant inAu ence has been diffused in her states. The attachment thus created between the mem bers of our union. forms d strong guaranty of its continuance. To the well cultured minds annually issuing from our colleges, dissemin- ating throughout the country the benfts edu eaton, they will be the objects ofgrateful re- collection and iIial support. The sons in sue cessve generations. may be expected to visit the fountains which gave intellectual vigOr, "ndOwment and elevation. to their fathers. Such anticipatiOns, however. can never be- re- alized, if our colleges shall be refused patron age equal to the exigencies resulting from the improvements Ofthe age, aDd the advance ment of science. Connected directly with the reputation and welfare ofthe state. .and contrib uting to preserve its literary as 'dancy alike gratifying and useful, our colleges now labor ing under pecuniary embarrassment. are rec om mended to your liberal and favorable con- sideratiOn
 The Legislature of the State of South Car Olna, has resOl. ed "that the acts of Congress known by the name of the Tariff Laws, the object of which is not the raising of revenue, qrs the regulation of foreign commerce, but the promotion of domestic manufactures, are iOldtiOns of :he constitution in i's spirit. and ought to be repealed" and "that Congress has no power to construct roads and canals
 m the State in whose limits those improve ments are lnade.'
 A report of the committee on the state of the Republic In the Senate of Georgia. rpla- ting to the powers exercised by the General Government, " for the purpose of PncOurag- ing domestic manufactures, and effecting a system of internal improvement" declaring among other things. that they "dO most sol emnly believe that such policy is contrary to the letter and spirit of the Federal COnstittl- tiOn," and that the state ought to oppose it in every possible shape, the exercise of the pow CT on the part of the general government to
 ' encourage domestic manufactures and in- ternal Improvements" has been sanctioned by the Legislature of that State. The report is accompanied by resolution requesting "his ExCellency the Governor of Georgia. to forward copy of the same to each of the other States, to be laid before their respec- tive Legislatures, for the cOncurrepce of such as may approve of the principle therein a. vowed; and as due notice may assent from the same, that GeOrgia as one of the cOntraC- ting parties to the Federal Constitution, & possessing equal rights with the other con- tracing parties. will insist upon the cOnstruc- ton of that instrument, contained in said re- port and will submit to no other
 Copies of the preamble and resolutions of the State of South Carolina, and of the re- port and resolutions adopted by the State of Georgia, received from the Governors of those States respectively. are now communicated and recommended to your dispassiOnate con- sidrration. to which they are entitled, not less on account of the grave importance of theY principles they assert. than the source whence they have eminated. The solemn declara- ton by two members of our ctnfederacy, that powers hitherto and still exercised by the General Government, are uncOnstitution al, may excite aprrehensiOns as to the results of the constitution, which was the work of profound political wisdom, and sagacity. and has been deemed the safe guaranty of the paramount interests new decisively & warm. ly assailed. It is believed, however, that a majority of the States composing our Union, vill, with due mOdpra but unshaken firm ness, maintain the constitutionality of pow CTS, the exertion of which has already advan- ced the hest interests of the nation, and will continue to augment individual aud national prosperity and wealth.
 If the authority to spend the gradually in- 1 creasing revenue. accruing from the customs and sales of public lands. for the general i'm provement of the country, have not been del .A>.1A -l