Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-11-15
/. e.CIay, Liberty and Union,' y
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II oath as Governor oil the State OF New Jer
sew, we find the following remarks, which lay
down the true doctrine, and contrast admira-
bly with the pernicious sentiments avowed in
the Veto Message. We believe they win,
party aside, be generally adopted as correct
BY all sensible men:
The proper course for state officers is, to
exercise fully and faithfully the powers given
10 them, and to resist encroachments upon
them: but not to act as guardians, and render
void the acts Of others, whom their common
masters have deputed to perform other servi-
n cps connected with their rights and interests.
They may not do it unless the authority has
been given to them; and in our State Con-
Fl ,titu;ion-our warrant to act-no such guar
dianship is prescribed. The correction Of
errors is to be found in the power OF those
who can recall the authority, and IN that tn
bunal which has been constituted to declare
the limits of the grant, and the conformity Of
their actions with those limits To these sour
Ses of control it is wise to leave the correc-
ton of errors The Supreme Court of the
United States has been found safe and sure
guard against encroachments of the one upon
the other, and to its authority il is right to
people, which created us and it.
This tribunal is not only the expounder Of
the relative powers of the Two governments,
but the arbiter Of controversies. between the
states,- the substitute, IN our system, of wis
1 dom and law for force,-th Amply ctionic
4 Council, which, while it remains uncorIupt,
will not fail to guard with equal tirmness the
weak and the strong. Ii is not IN the view
which | take of constitutional principles, wise
in the feeblersmembers Of the Union, TO de-
preciate its authority, or weaken IFS influence;
and especially in the people of New Jersey,
who have appealed to its decision for the
peaceful adjustment Of claims which they re.
gard as dear to their interests and honor.
In looking for guide to direct me in the
discharge of my duties. | shall seek it in the
letter and spirit of the Constitutions Of the
State and of the Union, and of The laws pass
ed in conformity with them. To this | shall
presently be bound by the oaths which am
about to take. My mode Of constituting them
is, to seek the obvious meaning of those who
created them, and not to carry their provi-
sjoas beyond the expression and manifest de
sign. In doing this my own Judgment and
conscience must guide me, wherever their
construction has not been authoritatively fix
ed, by those who have this right, in tie last
4 resort. To that must yield. and 1t will be
sometimes required of me, by what has ap
peared to me to be encroachments on our
State Constitution. Bot my own Judgment
not to be deemed infalhbie. The people
Of New Jersey made the Consttntion-they
have a right to say what was their meaning;
and when they have said it, either by them
selves or their constituted agents. their deci-
SION is binding, even upon the consclences OF
e.. -, L.
error in the decision, the remedy is not to he
found in disobcying and dlsregarding II; but
by seeking in the proper channel and from
the proper source, correction OF the error.
different course savors of presumption, and
leads, in the end, to tyranny. 1t is unbecom-
ing in him who is but fiduciary Whose Of
fee was not created for him and his benefit,
but for them and their interests,--is but an a
gency under the people, the great principal,
The Vojce of CaroW- A VOICE FROM
CHARLES CARRoLL, Of Carrolton, the last of
the slgners of the Declaration of lndepen
dence, being an extract from a letter written
by his dlrec don to relative residing IN New
York
ale is alive to the FEARFUL CONSE.
" ENCE.S OF MEASURES NOW A
VI n Ill IN OOh wv
Oils. aud he ueprecates policy that may
bring in collision opinions and practises ad-
verse 20 the received principles and practi-
sees adverse to the received principles and
practices Of our Constitution"
"On New York and Pennsylvania will de-
"pend the future dessinies OF this nation -
eff the sense and virtue Of the people should
exercise their suffrages in the support Of
party feeling, reckless of consequences, WE
MUST LOOK FOR SUFFERING AND
"RAPID DETERIORATION; and the
world will lament the miscarriage OF an ex
pertinent on whichthey had fixed their hopes
land affections; an experiment that was to
serve lnture generations as rule for sociai
happiness and political security under the
dominion OF self government"
The original of the above may be seen on
any appllcaton.-.N. Y. Com.
,,r > ernlont.-A letter from Montpelier says;
he election Of Senator Of the Z. States
ook place yesterday, when Benjamin Swift,
Vi 81 Aibans, was chosen. lie is. as Mr.,
= bids me assure you, as true TO the
sood cause as himself" Mr. Swift was sup
sSp n,: both by National Republicans and
anu Mssons
p h'een deaths by Cholera are reported in
"NIolnore for the last week.