Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-01-20
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sArURDAY MoRNING, JANUARY II, 1929.

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SATURDAY MORNING, yANUARY II, 1929.
The Georgia Protest, ssc.--It is d subject we be-
eye of general if universal regret that the pro-
ceeaings of the Legislature of Georgia against the
: Tariff have reached the General Assembly IN shape
which may involve the necessity of considering them.
The General Assembly has now been neatly seven
weeks IN session-they have done nothing as yet of
general interest, and have before them an Immense
mass of local, besides all the public business of the
session. The great queston:of convention, after
lnanydays deliberations remains very much in stub.
nothing has been yet agreed npon, and no man
can say when the Legislature will reach any result or
what THAT result istobe. Unless the General ASSEM-
bly, cut short the BUSINESS Of the session when they
have concluded the convention, there is every pros
P:i chat the sossioawn be the longest know in si,
history Of the commonwealth. And at what time
IS tins great increase of the pnbc expenditure ncir-
rcd' When the country is ground down in debt and
embarrassment, and when the extra expenses of the
convention are hanging over the Treasury.
Tins then is no tune to be engaging in .ln,oreti-
cal discussions and abstract resolyngs and re resoi-
asiss In the name of Heaven, has not the General
Assembly made confession of political faith often
enough Must they do it every winter Must the
people OF the state be subjected increased faxes
that the General Assembly may protest and nuke fine
speeches upon Constructions Construed and Consttu-
lions Violated? We should be glad to learn that good
The abstract resolutions of tire last three four wears
have done. Wesee no converts made nor any change
IN the measures of the general government effected
There never was more unfortunate time for en-
tering INTO the consideration of the subject of the
Georgia Resolutions. The General Assembly could
hot under many days do Justice to the vast and almost
unfathomable question of the Tariff or to themselves
The Convention completely and properly, engrosses
tbe attention of all men, and nanciers are already
deiberating how the expenses which it must involve
are to he met This is the time when Gov FORSYTH
asks the General Assembly to involve itself and the
people of Virginia, in the labyrynth of Tariff subtle
ties, and Constitutional metaphysics We hope the
General Assembly will do such thing; but extern
ding to Georgia the respect to which sovereign Sis
ter is entitled politely beg be excused from the We
~ arduous, prolonged and useless task enacted
We do not make these remarks from any political
apprehensions. We have none. 1t is precisely the
same thing to us, whether the General Assembly
shall pronounce the Tariff constitutional or uneonsti,
tutioia and have such confidence in the relative
superiority ofihs House of Delegates to others that
have seen in the CAPITOL that we firmly believe
discussion of the Tariff would result in vote of its
consttutonality. But severy season has its reason'
no man would ask another to unrddle an enigma
when gr eat city on fire, and Georgia ought not
to expect Virginia to enter into abstract discussions
when the Commonwealth is shaken to the centre by
question of immediate, pressing vitaland all absor-
bing Importance. We trust that he Georgia Keso-
lutions will sleep quietly the table, and that the
people may not be double taxed in order that they
may be considered. The substance of these resolu-
buttons has already been published.