Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-11-13

s,f iaI omDac was wade bt ma" - ha mere
mus, have been man, or ra,hrr many men, be-
fore the social impact existed l"is was
the STATE Of nature. In fact, he though there
mus, have been an intermediate state between
the states Of ma ur- AID OF socie'y, VIZ: the do
mestir stat .One Of the gen'l M N had gwen
az acc oun, OF The safe of Adam and Eve. II
, h. had gone on 10 he sac. ot Cain and ABEL,
he would have found he right OF property; Tor
Cain dr. o ed himself TO The cultivation al he
land, and off red u, his fruits to God,bu Abel,
TO The raising OF sh--p, and devoted IFS vicums
to thu Lord A domestic state then rxls ed -
AID IN did no: think Of publishing Cain tor The
mur de Of Abel; bu God 'ook 1T into his hands.
md set mark upon Cain. and sent him 10 he
lane of Nod, VIII, re he took wife |! any per-
sou shou dispute he "isorv of Adam and
Eve. what then? The sacred historian had on
" given the same account OF them, as would
have been true II any other family in the same
| situation. ~
One gentleman from Accomac had said, so.
, cip,y had risen from the feeling Of properly
This might wave cohtribu ed 10 such stale,
bu, il had principally arisen from me wants
and necessities Of men. |. eemed a, II God
/, d de ermined % drive m IN from stale OF
nature into STATE Of society; 20 much had hr
formed man de gendant for his necessities upon
his fellow men.
NJ. G. remarked upon the new fanelrd sys
tens, which had brcome so fashionable OF late
years-the stae 6f Independence, as il was
called; he American System, &r. which had
do so much Injury since lSl6-and each Of
which had cos, ne. people OF Virginia al least
one million Of dollars each.
H. proceeded TO enquire wha, we're The grca
objects of COVE rnm nt The one was 10 pro-
tee, persons, and The other TO pro'sct properly;
the one personal rights, and the OTHER 'hr rights
Of pr"p,rty. Then, it brco,nes necessary 10
determine how z vrrnment sh III be so organ
'zrd as 20 give po,oer enough, and no more. II
you inend to max, il psss.v- machine, you
must invest il wIh a compare lively small share
Of power; If ar active ma, hine, you must extend
the power And here hr atimadverted upon
the doctrine Of some poii'ioi, s. that the whole
power of controlling the .bo' and concerns Of
snciery was transit rred 10 The G. neral Govern
menf; but If this were true we had n" pusi
ness here, for, if we had no modicum left 10 US,
why should we p,e'end to maxi any cons,iiu-
| ton for ourselves? II, intended, thar in go
! ing from the iaie Of natu, to the a'a:e OF go.
vernm- nj, man gives up only two OF his rights,
viz: he righ IF doing him>e justice. and Sc
condly small S are OF his own labor OF its
proc. eds, as is necessary to d.fray expenses
| L e reason why these two rights are 10 he given
up lis, that in a state Of nature man eanaoi do
him, If justice, or might carry il 100 far.
| He on'essed his surprise at hra,ing the gen
tleman from Brooke, and others eulogising so
much the Bill Of Rights, and f,undnY upon 1
the principl-. Of government. He agreed with
those gen,lrmen, IN their eulogiums in part,rot
in all r, sp-c,s. Mr. G. then proceeded a. au-
alyse ,hr three sc tions in the Bill Of Righs, on
which gentlemen had relied
As to the article IN the Bill Of Rights whie h
declares t at all men are born equally fee and
indie pendent, Mr. G denied that II was univer
S ally true Was a slave born FIRE? ID rs not
h- number of nond bear great proportion to
those burn Tree
He mined the mex, clause, iha, all power
is derived from the proplr-in this posi- ion he
perfec ,ly agreed-ss con radistingui hing our
form Of government from all others founded
on 70. ce and fraud.
He then proc edrd 10 the Sd clause and 'hr
18Th article. In re'nark'ng upon the .xorss
SION in he last clause f. quen. recurrence
10 fundamrn al princiDlrs," he expires sed his
regret, that the FEDERAL government, which hr
had or'erm'n,d no. to bring into III discus ion
had forgotten ITS own funda mental prine Ipe,
Hr st,led that the present prac sal go,eInn,r nj
|
originally fran d-thst we were i" fac, living
under very different ON, from that whi' h
had prevailed when We went ino the gov
eminent; hut hr was Arid that they lad
gone far that going back would
more difficult than going forward and a,
so many fundamrnral principles had been for
goI en-, that no rights would be left 10 the
States
Mr. G. was proceeding in his argument,
when Mr.. Taylor Of Chesterfield. moved The
CommiIee 10 rise in order to give his colleague
ano'h opportunity Of being heard.
Mr.. Giles rema. krd. tina, he certainly could
go on farther, though he was SO mu' h fa'igued
already, hat hr was afraid he could SCARF ely
do i, 10 his own comfort, or that Of e.. Com
mi,ue.
The Commute then rose; and OIL Mr. Pow
rll's motion 'hr Convention Immediately ad>
journrd.