Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-01-20


the House OF Commons, are 50 directly In
consonanee with our opinions sn the subject
of Modification and Internal improvement
that we feel pride in transpianting them IN
! our columns.
! LeCislatirs. Thursday last the Resolu-
tons submitted by Mr.. BYSUM, in which ''the
ASSUMPTION by C6ngress, of the power to APP
propriate money to execute projects Of Inter
nal Improvement, such as making roads, and
cutting canals within the individual States, -
is declared to be 'entirely gratuitous and a
direct and palpable violation of theconsttu-
/ ton" were adopted by the House of Com
mons. They were subsequently laid on the
table in the Senate by vote OF 48 10 10,
from whence they will most probably not a
gain be taken. We hazarded prediction in
our last, that these resolutions would be re-
Jeeted, and it seems now in fair way of be-
ing realized. We thought however, that the
| House OF Commons would have done this,
without troubling the Senate. Our belief
was predicated on the fact, that but a few
days previous, resolutions had been almost
unanimously passed instructipgour represen-
tatiyes in Congress to apply to the General
Government for assistance in re opening the
old Roanoake lnlet. And although consis
! tency seems no longer to be regarded as a
virtue, we could not expect the Legislature
to act so strangely, as TO deny to the General
Government the right of doing, what it had
been solicited to perform.
The Resolutions deny specifically, that
Congress have the right to cut Canals, yet
the Legislature asks them to cut one at Roan-
AXE lnlet-for If it be not Canal, what is
it' They may call it ga big ditch" il they
choose, but let them refine as much as they
will, il is to all intents and purposes, Canal,
80 this compilations, it must come at last"
Should these Resolutions pass the Senate our
delegation in Congress will be placed in an
awkward dilemma, that is, if they consult
the decisions of the assembled wisdom of the
State. On one day, they are requested to
apply to Congress for an appropriation, aud
this too by an almost unanimous vote. On
the next, they are told by the Legislature,
that. Congress has no right to grant the APP
preparation thus applied for, and if they vote
for any such unconstitutional disbursement
they do IT at their peril But the glaring in
consistency of such legislation is sufficiently
apparent without further illustration.
Notwithstanding the vote in the House Of
Commons, on this subject, we conscentiously
believe, that If the proposition involved in
the resolutions had been submitted to their
good sense, on its naked merits, considera-
bic majority would have put the seal upon
them-liow then, it win be asked, was so
different result produced? We answer by,
eonjuring up the ghost Of party, and sound
INC the tocsin Of political alarm, at which,
the well trained bands never fail to file off in
to tho ranks of their leaders and follow them
to the onset.
1t is with feelings Of high qualification, we
| refer our readers to the proceedings of the
House of Commons on Friday last It will
be seen that the doctrine Of Modification. was
| constitutionally nullited by an overwhelming
MAJORITY. The debate was most animated
one and continued for several hours The
| only argument advanced against the adop-
| ton OF Mr.. Worth's resolutions, was, that
it was highly in,iecorus and improper for
| North Carolina to reflect upon her namesake
OF the South. When it is borne in mind that
the citizens of this State naturally entertain
feeling OF warm attachment to the people Of
| South Carolina, and the most exalted respect
| Tor the distinguished men to whom she has
| given birth, the vote ON this subject shows
most conclusively that the chord Of private
! friendship is but an attenuated thread, com
mon with the Liongripe which binds North
! Carolina TO the Union
| Let South Carolina no longer look to us
| for countenance in her unconstitutional mea-
sures--F'let her not lay the flattering JUNCTION
TO her sour we were the last to come iRto
the Federal compact; but we shall be the
| last to go out of it."
MIR HENRY of Fayetteville, in the course
of his eloquent remarks, said-Mr. Chairman
notification is treason, and they who advo
cate it, are traitors to our dearest rights.
say this, Sir, on my individual responsibility,
let gentlemen make the most of it. They
who endeavor to foster a spirit of dsunon,
with view to effect the overthrow of our
beautiful fabric of government, deserve to
expiate their crime upon the gallows,
-"And doubly dying, to go down,
To the wild dust from whence ,heysprung,
UnweP:, unhouor'd and unsung."
! General jackson and The Judiciary. Hints
fer retiectioa.-An independent, talented, and
wise Judiciary is the guardian ofour liberties
and the palladium Of our Constitution: and
the Supreme Bench Of the United States is
that tribunal upon whose broad Ataatean
shoulders the foundation of the Union rests
Its decisions, though they have opposed the
interested views of different sections Of the
country and have been al times the theme of
loud complaint, have yet been acauiesced in,
and their justice finally acknowledged.
These decisions compose a commentary
upon the Constitution replete with wisdom,
and if we be indebted to the trainers of that
instrument, for the,incomparable legacy they
have left US, yet are we not the less so TO the
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