Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-02-19

their sovereign, corporate characters, can be found
able to divide and resis, the gigantic, colossal
| soi'dated mass Of powers, claimed, and now prac-
| tised upon by the Federal Government
NOTE.
STATE Right Extract frem Mr. Aasus letter to the Mas.
n the .seei': Of their respective functions the ss,-
l.vs executive, and judicial authorize, Of the Union on One
rect collision With each other the relations the par
Ties are no Inses those oieou,nona right but ofindepe
oen tee Each party consrus the compact
'e The constructions together Their. l. no
innate aber OF the right between stain, bu.
SsMssn u: I.absrs VI one body polite therefore hold
authorities State to ooy act Of Con.
es OF pronounce IT. UNCONSTITUTIONAL they do thereby des
Union That there case IN which he p.o
pc o. State nigh, place ths@,ev., .,tude by the
sun b. they have delegated power to their les
an insa"sl to e"e% Se :sen 81 the he
so.nt Of roPuIou: city TO set Gre his dwelling house.
Behold Mr. Adams views Of relations between the Fe
S sie Governments. Do they net result in the
resa,.. equal. Sovereign admit. Of no SUPERIOR ",
N Mr. As views OF the relations between the General and
theU the State Government, the Gene
qusny they cannot stand 10 sqn,
subjects aud the General of course
hso the boa.,.d Of he mst M
H. TINS not the with pendent Then
IN: ssay H.l. not .PP as.
ldson, founded upon Of the Mr.
because ,hey wss III. uupr. Of &. sword
will nsee',arly apply lie, then the Eessures look
teal doctrine Of the General Governmsni, at th, day, in
oPpo'on to the doctrine Of Virgins, contained in Mr. adi
sehsfePoft OF 1893, 1900 Look well Tit.
COMMUNICATED. j,
NO man respects or admires MIR. Fiizhugh Of
rairiax as gentleman, citizen, and man, more
than do; yet as politician, am sorry to differ
| with him toto cGiO. listened to his federal
speech with infinitely more pain than pleasure
The grace Of his style and the ease Of his eIocution
could not conceal the monsrous deformities of his
constitutional doctrines, the glaring errors Of
! his policy. His doctrines were the most extrava-
gant Gicta oil MIR. Hamilton; and his Political G
| economy was borrowed from the schools which ex-
| isted, years before Adam Smith. Perhaps might
DE safer In saying that they were rather extracted
| nom the newspaper Essays of Mr.. Matthew Cary
and MIR. Hezekiah Niles, and the learned labours
ot the Harrisburg Conveniion-Mr. Edgngton,
who succeeded him on Tuesday, might very east
| ly have quoied these Industrious Sages, by chapter
| and verse.-His references to the speeches of
Madison and Ciymer in the first Congress, his
quotations from Huskisson, and his views of our
CONNIE rec, were happily trailed after MIR. Cary's,
Hamilton" and the Harrisburg Convention
and /; Is only to be regretted, that he had not
thumbed and dog-eared his Documents with more
| care and readiness Such is the way in which most
Of your great speeches are got up!
Mr.. Edgington was genuine Federalist in the
or rather he is Ultra. lie would scarcely leave
spire OF grass (of what called State Rights)
standing. His scythe has sweep that carries
every thing before it. He claims for the Federal
Court jurisdiction, which Madison's Report Pc
| remporiiy denies toit-And though Mr.. +. speaks
highly enough OF Mr. Madison's Tariff letters
and Of MIR. Jefferson authority-yet " he remem-
bers to forget Mr.. Madson's protest in his report
and Mr. Us (kentucky) resolutions, against the
power OF either party (much less apart of one
party, the Court, TO settle all disputes that arise
| between the parties?
And then to the Constitutionaiity of the
Tariff, whoever dreamt Except the widest Lat-
tudinaran Of the Hamilton schcol) Of looking into
| the purposes OF the preamble to the Constitution
| Tor the po,oe,s Of the Goyernment?-The Pre-
amble is no part Of a law-and all the soundest
authorities III this country, " the Federast," Mr..
Madison, the Virginia Convention, have denounc.
ed any attempt to seek in the purposes of the
Preamble for new powers to the governmental
truth, we might as well according to Mr.. + :,
sponge away the Constitution and let the Gene
raj Government claim 90 any thing and every
thing"
AS to the erpediency Of the Tariff, when Mr.
r. can prove TO me that the balance of trade is
any thing but an exploded phantom; that when we
receive so millions worth of produce in exchange
Tor 60 millions worth Of British goods we lose in
stead OF gaining nearly 10 millions per annum-
that the rate Of exchange between England and
the u. s. is to be received as an unerrng criterion
OF tire trade, when in fact it principally iises from
D
and gold in England; and gold being estimated
higher there than silver is here; that do not
give from 60 TO l2O per cent. for goods than
we used to do because that is the per centage OF
Duty; that high duly is really the cause of low
price; then for one, will swallow all Mr.. F's pa
radoxes gospel truths. l will believe that Free
Trade is nonsense; and that a. B. & G.. at Wash
ingon know better how many pair of shoes and
how many yards of cloth ought to make, than
we know ourselves.
And what doctrines are those, which arc now
soiemn'y impressed upon us' They are exploded
even III the old country; and furnished up for
the benefit of new country But il is like new
wine poured out of old bottles. Its like admins
tering regimen to vigorous youth, which had
been prescribed for an old man-and the best oil
II is that the wises ply scans have proscibed il as
the nostrum Of a Charlatan. The balance Of trade
1t almost standing jest to the abest Political E
economists. Must we cease to de al with G. Bril-
tain, even it we were to get more from her than
we send to herr Must we restrict eur trade
under the ridiculous idea Of reducing that balance.
Does shoemaker cease to buy his bread OF ba-
ker, because the baker does not buy his shoes Of
him. The one buys his shoes; and the other his
bread, where he can get them the cheapest In the
eye Of the true political Economist the whole
globe presents one general MAJ ketIt is the inter-
est Of our citizens TO sell the dearest g. 10 buy the
cheapest. Suppose g. Britain does not take our
breadstuHs though she has the BEST and the cheap
est clothes in the world to seil-If we can sell our
breadstufs elsewhere; to her W. Indies, for in
stance, or 10 South America, why may we not sell
our flour there, and with its proceeds in silver or
in bills, buy our clothes from G.. BritsiD2-And
who is the best judge OF our interests in this res
pect-we ourselves, whose business il is TO study
our own interests, or a set Of people at Washing