The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-11-13

from the Republican Herald.
FREEMEN OF RHODE.ISLANDi
On tho 2ist day of November,
you are called upon by law, TO give your
votes for electors of President and Vice
President Of the United States aud you
will probably have three tickets before
you, from which to select-and a. you
will know for what candidate the cleo
tors on each ticket, il chosen, intend to
vote, you will, Of course, support those
for electors whose opinions, as 70 the
merits of the diffsrent candidates for the
Presidency, agree the nearest with your
own.
The National Republican party have
been striving, to the utmost Of their in
fuence, TO carry Rhode-Island against
General Jackson. Their object is not ST.
much the election ofany other particular
persor, as TO defeat his election--and no
matter by what means, whether by Goa
lition abuse, or Misrepresentation. They
have acted ON the maxim, that "the end
suncti6es the means )" and if they could
but get General Jackson out, their con.
sciences wouldn't be very scrupulous as
to the manner in which il was done.
There is no sort Of abuse that has been
spared against the President. Not only
have the nets Of his administration been
misrepresented and placed in false
hrh', - deceive the people, hut his pri-
yate character has been shamefully tra.
dncrd. In the remarks we make, we
shall continc ourselves principally to bis
pnhi'o measures. HIS rrivsvv IIfo has ui-
ready stood the test Of The seveycss and
closest scrutiny The people have de-
clareds ny their votes, that they would
not lend their sanction TO those who
would so wantonly violate domestic pri
sacy ard destroy the peace offamilies.
The charges against the President re-
dace themselves to q few prominent
heads his veto On the Bank cbar:Gr, his
opinions on the Tariff. his removing GER
ton men from office, and hrs negotiations
with Great Britain about the West India
trade. These we will examine.
In respect 10 the Bank, you are aware
that many honest aud patriotic statesman
| have entertained doubts Of the constitu-
tionaI power Of Congress to create such
corporation. BY the Constitution,
Congress are authorized to 'lay and col
lect taxes, duties, and exercises :" to
"coiu money and regulate the value there
offs" and to snake all laws which shall
be necessary and proper for carrying in-
TO execution the foregoing powers" No
| M ~ ,,f tha rop sfitnt;au cor fare m, Cnu
gress the pnwer to create Bank, unless
this does aud the Bank advocates are,
therefore, obliged to derive it by con-
struc'ion from the clauses we have men.
toned.
I. Ifso momentous power can be deriv-
! ed from tho constitution merely by infer
ence. why cannot Congress, in the same
way, claim the power to create corpora
ti0ns all over the United States, for other
purposes as manufacturing, &c. The
power to create commercial corporations
might be inferred from the power to
"regulate commerce." with just as much
plausibility, rs the power to create hank
from the passages we have mentioned.
4 Tho question:, then, is, whether, the
power to create a bank 10 necessary fof
the collection ofthe revenue, and the reg.
ulation ofthe currency.-The evils fow-
ing from extensive issues Of paper and q
deprecated currency, are sufficiently OBJ.
vious--bu, is IT the United States Bank
that has prevented then, 7
But 10 It not stssnge, you will ask, that II
the United States Bank Is uuconsitutiona nal
no one should have discovered il until now ;
T'his objection 10 not q new one. In l79l
Jefferson and Madison were opposed To
Bank on constitutional grounds. Mr. Jeffer.
son, in his printed Official opinion given on
, that occasion, says, 'rhat in ths convention
which formed the constitution, proposition
ives made to give Congress the power q
make corporations. and was decidedly 70.
jected and one Of the reasons urged for re-
jccting II, was, that Il would give Congress
: power To create a Bank"
, Mr.. Madison, in his splendd speech sRsins
. the p.rs held this emphatic language ;sRe
v,..,.s ,e sosi.i,ntion with On eye u thos,
pos,;ons, 70 was impossible 10 discover In \
THE POWER TO INCORPORATE A
BANK. In fine, if the power were in th,
constitution, the immediate exercise Of /
} cannot be evsen,ial not there. the sxercis.
, Of it involves the guilt or usurpstion, and %.
tsblishes 1 precedent Of Interpretation, level
ling all the barriers which limit The power
, Of the General Government, and protect ,hos,
Of the STATE Governments. II sppeared ov
The whole, h- concluded. that the power ex
srr'es BY the bill was condemned BY the si