Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-07-16
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VOICE OF NEW HAMpSUIRI

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bcrs OF the Senate and House OF hol.
dan at the Eagle Cofse-house in Concord. June Is,
lsSo-Samuei Til,on, E'q. was chosen Chairman and
james Fsrrington Esq appointed Secretary. The
Convention being organized and called to order. the
following preamble and resolutions unanimous
" adopted and signed by nine members OF the Sem
ate including the President and by one hundred and
| twenty Members of the House of Representatives,
| including the Speaker:
On the DECLARATION of Independence In l776. each
State. then represented in Congress. became separ
ate and independent Republic. Conscious incompe-
tency to carry the with Grea, Britain separate.
", led to a Confederation Of the States. Afer the
close of that war; the confederation wds found in
adequate the purposes for which de signed The
States then formed the present Constitution.
This instrument designed TO preserve the States
not TO destroy them. designed to protect each
State in the exercise Of all the essential rights of self
government Separately, they wsre unable to guard
against foreign danger, or prevent intestine commoon.
To accomplish these ends, the chief object of the
Union. Other powers granted, bene fetal 10 all
which each could not efficiently exercise. The prnc-
pal Of these the powers establish post offices. and
post roads, TO regulate commerce, to create uniform
currency, and to settle conrov between citizens
of different S'ates.-But that the States able 10
prescribe rules Of property, TO punish crimes, TO
schools TO make roads and dig canals, never doubt
ed The States never complained, that they lacked a.
blty 20 ex"-cse these powers did they create
other Government TO do these acts. This not one
Of those evils which gave birth 10 the ion Each
State contributes its share Of the taxes direct ind
rect, which make mp the revenues Of the General Gov
el the Union that she would be taxed to make aroad
for the benefit IF parcnlar town neighborhood i'm
Kentucky, any other State' Did she bind herself to
contribe money 10 make roads dig canals for the
OF the people beyond the Hudson the Potomac, be
yond the Allegheny or Son-y Mountains? On the con-
trary did she expect that her Of internal i'm
provenen would be left untouched by the General CO.
vcrnment to he appsd according to the will Of her
people? She has mads her roads, and can keep
them in repair. In proportion the general govern
levie' make roads in the other Sla'es
the sama proportion does lessen ability 10 make
and repair our OihAr States consume means,
and we taxed, not for " ths common defence
general welfare but for the convenience and profit of
particular towns anil neighbohoods If such appropria
tons are admissible, they should he equal. To each
State should be given its due proportion, that the
may return to the source whence II comes. But
IL even this polite, IL Observation-Disclosures should
profit nv W The tax must be collected by Of fe
deral officers and distributed by another Much would
be lost in salaries, commissions, and frauds; and often
for many dollars paid by the people, few would be
turned Is IL not better to collect and dsburse this
through own State officers? Is il wise intro
duce among set OF foreign officers, independent OF
our wil and often hostile to government, to take
our domestic affairs ont Of hands live upon
substance, weaken the State and strengthen the
of the General Government? Does this not lead direct
~ to consolidation? They will seize our roads-wha
shall prevent their seizng schools? Under the pre-
tence OF giving us money when in fact they procure IL
by tax ourselves. they may seize and control
schools as well roads. Our College has already
been made independent of our government and by an
appropriation this institution may be made tho property
at 1nat or, and be arrayed against the rights of the
vortex, all our institutions. The General government
has only TO give s money TO make every thing Deepen
dent on ITSELF Atleng,h it may pay the salaries of our
Governor and our Judges, when New Hampshire, in
stead of being aproud and independent State, will again
become humble and degraded Colony.
The system NJ approprations,t to promote local Objects
Is an effort to bride the people with their money
That which ia drawn from them in petty streams ia
thrown back to them in flood; and although much
has svaporated since it left the pockets of the people,
they are expected to Look the returning remnant,
boon oil great value Every eye is 10 he directed to
the general Government, the benefcent source of
all political good and arul politicians attempt to buy
up all that receive, all that expect, and all that hope
these brilliant favors We have confidence in the
intelligence of the people They cannot but perceive
ha. such system combines robbery, bribery and fraud
They robbed of their substance TO support of
federal officers; bribe is off red them in promised
preparations IL they will support particular men, and
they rauduleny told that this process of buying
them IN, with their money, is conducive to their
own good, and the Internal Improvement OF the coun
| ty.
| A hundred millions OF dollars would not make the
roads and canals viii CHI have been actually surveyed in
| the United States. The revenues of the British EN-
pire, for hundred years, would hardly make those
which have been proposed and talked of. We have
heard OF rail road here, canal there; turnpkes and
improvements of rivers, every where, that hope
could be excited string OF sefinterest touched
1t Is an attempt al wide spread general corruption,
tending directly to the consolidation dis union of the
states the destruction OF democratic principles and the
extinction Of liberty. Good roads good things
but Liberty s better. The people of New Hampshire
would he free amidst the fasnes Of her noun
tains, than slaves amidst the luyury Of good roads
and splendid public works-he price of all corroding
corruption.
1t is happy for the Republic that have man az
its head who meets this enemy Of liberty, with the
same fearessness that he me; foreign invader. II
will he the contamination of his glory TO conquer
ruption in all all ia forms While driving out Of the
pubic Offices at Washington, he attacks il also, in the
more fearful, because plausible form, Of appro
priations for the benefit of States and Territories
Whether he find it in appropriations for single road
in section Of single Slate, in twenty appropria
tons for the benefit of twenty States, he meets the
my with equal frmness, and arrests its bold advance
| Therefore
Resoloed, BY thic Convention, that the only object
in establishing the general Government to pro-
ect the States in making roads, dig ging canals and
ercising every other power OF an Independent Gov
eminent, not directly involving the interests Of TO-
reign nations OF other States Of their subj
citizens.
ReSoued, That the appropriation OF money, collected
from the whole people of the United States, to the
making Of roads canals for the benefit Of particular
States, neighborhoeds, ia departure from the orig
nal object Of the general Government-unequa un-
just, and corrupt in its effects and dangerous to the
Union.
RESOLVED. That the taxes levied on the people, d..
recly or indirectly, shoud be greater than
cessary to accomplish the legitimate ends Of the gene
raj Government and that any surplus remain, after
accomplishing those ends, II would be polite and
wise to divide il among the S,ates-to be applied TO In
ierna improvements than that should be appropriated
TO those objects by Congress.
RESOLVED That for his attempts to reform and purify
this Government, and particularly for the stand taken
against this unequal unjust, corruptng and dangerous
system Of appropriations GENERAL JACKSON has