Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-01-31

Question OF constituionality had never been made
because the gross injustice OF our revenue laws
nad never forced 1t upon us,and such a systematic
uesigh conceived,as we have lately witness TO mix
the federal power like the frogs and ocus,s of Epyp
Ia all our neutrality-suspicious.: to regulate the whole
TABOR and capital OF the country" and TO tax one
portion oil the coniederacy for the emolument o.
the other. Does any man believe, that if the oues
':oh haa ,hen come up, and under such dark aus
pices as the PRESENT. ii the present tariff had been
then any thing else than the widest supposion tina,
nose who threw out such an unprecedented and
inauVer'ent an expression would not have re VOTED
rom such an abuse OF the powers of the Gov
ernfnehE Mr. Jefferson even under the tariff of
Is2i' repeiied the usurpaton OF the power-What
would he have said u that of 1923
f1an me question never been forced upon us by
great abuse, we might have gone on, with no
uouot oil lis being all welithat ihe power ia r,; az
rather higher duties on a few goods Vas M, o.
Jecuonaoie-buf, now when il is forced upon M
ana II IS ser'dfn discussed by all the lights of the
convention and the principles OF the Constitution
VINO is so weak as to be hurried into these excess
es by any opinion, so hastily formed, or still more
hastily thrown out:
AS TO the views which were then taken nv
the Committee OF the expedency OF the plans.
take TINS tact they proposed 10 make the cap,at
stock oil the Company consist of $500 OOO-we do
not believe even $4,000 was put on paper!
AT the dinner given at Nashville on the s,h of
January by the Nashville Guards, the following
toasts, among others, were drunk:
in the wild, Of Al.b,s the spani,d. before the -s, Of
,hsv sSa the p:in. Of oIls.o. and yet,
o the second, and the vaor the skill and the u
The Old look her in e,ery time of need
,he has ever stood firth The champion Of state and the
right, Of the people.
Jobu O. Adams and hi. travelling Cabne-.ttep,;op, ou.
ward iaes your post thome) by the step march
Wm F. Wilson, Gen. Jsekson-the aure i which hs, onx
luaurised on the Military Chisan. brow i. now en,sins5
with the civic wreath.
1.-THE LIST No. of George Clinton, 10 opposition
to the Banking System, is received, and WIN soon
appear.-The author is respectfully requested 10
forward the rest Of the Series as soon as be can
make il convenient.
u Weunderstand, that Mr.. Adams has couyep-
ed the new Senate to meet OIL the 5th March a.
greeably to the usage in such cases-Th.v win
have TO pass upon such appointments as the new
President will be pleased to snbmitto them.
COMMUNICATED
In reply to the publication of Mr. Jpo +. Nav
In the Enquirer OF Tuesday last, have only TO
repeat the facts contained in my note 10 General
tarker. Whatever may have been the meaning
INTENDED to be conveyed, the language which /
attributed TO MIR. May was used by him, and am
in this declaration by the recollection
OF several gentlemen, who were then present =
ne conversation took place in the drawing Room
Oh boarding House, in the presence Of twelve or
ni,een gentlemen and could not therefore be con-
suered or intended az private. 1t is little sinsu-
and yet that he should have so purtieulcyIy oh
served the energy with which " struck the Ia
ble." WIN n TFRRiII
sOih Jan 1929
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WAsHINGToN, Jan. % In the Senate, YES.
terday, several private bills We're acted upon. The
Senate refused, by vote of seventeen to TWENTY
one, to go into the consideration of executive bI,
siness-The bill for the relief Of Thomas l.. Win
.ntop ana o'ners' directors OF an association, called
me "Mississipp Land Company" was considered,
and debated at length, by Mr.. Seymour in favor
oil the biil, and MIR. Kane in opposition to it,
The House OF Representatives, after some pre-
llIninary business, went into committee of the
hoie on Inc State OF the Union on the bill for the
preservation and repair of the Cumberland Road.
when the committee was addressed by Mr. Ander-
son oil pennsylvania in favor of the bill and MIR
Ramsay against il S in favor of the amendment.
Mr. Stewart then spoke at some length i'm favor of
the bill, when Mr.. Weems obtained the floor and
the Committee rose 1855
Ihe House yesterday adopted resolution fly
ing the 'hour OF meeting after Thursday next at
III O'Clock, instead of IL O'clock. There are about
hrty-siA bills oil private nature, reported at tie
last session, to be acted on, independently of the
bills OF similar character reported during tho nro
sent session; and Mr.. Whi,esey stated tina, he had
been given TO understand that ary of this class ri
bills sent from the House 10 the Senate after The
nrst DAY oil the next month would scarcely be act
GU o"' Nat. Tour.
GENERAL JACKSON
"AsHTNGroN, Jan. 29.-We are gratifie3 to
say, that we are we'll convinced that the report of
the death OF General Jackson is not true
In the Senate yesterday petitions were present.
ed by Mefsr5. Siisbee, Hayne, and Smith of Md
lhe resolutions submitted by Messrs Foot and
yier, on Tuesday, were considered and agreed
10. l ne gay was consumed principally ~ the dis
cussion Of the bill authorizing subscrip,ion on
the part OF the United States to the stock Of the
louisville and Portland Canal Company, in which
Messrs Rowan johnson, ofKy., Johnston, of Lou.
ana Noble, supported, and Messrs. Chandler and
nrancn, opposed the bill. 1t was finally ordered
to be engrossed by yeas and nays 24 in the affr
native, and Is in the negative.