Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-05-24

mucDJ nave a Certain prospect oil better
things. Hope with all her Establishments
would suggest to his heart, that when the
period arrived for the emancipation of his
children, he might by good conduct IN the
interim, obtain the privilege of accompany
ing them, 10 the land Of promise, especially
as be would then have arrived at a time OF
life, when thenceforward he could be but hi.
Tie else than a charge upon his master, and
this would render bis condition comparative
ly happy. This would impose on him one
OF the strongest obligations to good conduct,
and thi, is one Of the immediate benefits we
should promise ourselves from some scheme
of grand emancipation, and although as Mr..
u. says cit would not remove a solitary indi-
v'dual for thirty years. we sincerely believe
the law itself would add to our security.
But the human mind is subject TO strange
vagarHes, and the view Mr.. B. has taken
might be correct. Certainly however, those
who were the subjects Of the law, who were
TO acquire by it liberty and independence,
would not risk these, and life into the bar
gam, by combining with those clark. design
Ing desperate rebels'n When they came to
constitute a large portion Of the active mass
Of society, of that physical force on which
those rebels must depend for the success of
their schemes, the hopelessness OF succeed
ing without their aid, must keep the others
IN quiet, though it might be in unwilling sub
lection. Most of the speakers in the late de-
bate, admitted that we might always be la
bic TO such ''pe.ty affairs as the Southamp.
ton massacre, but consoled themselves, that
whosoever might be victims, the affair itself
would be easily put down But the uncer-
tainty where the storm might fall, or who
might be The victims, does produce a feeling
oil insecurity throughout the community
Now even in MIR. BIS. view of the case. one
effect flowing from a law for gradual eman
cipa'ion would be TO change this feeling of
insecurity, which Ito use Mr.. BIS. expression
on the tenure o! our s@laves) lis an sagous 10
a iCG sitiiptt III Jul idHbo " UHt NiiOSG term
would be limited at mist TO l6 or 10 years.
A political advantage well worth considering
would Immediately ensue. All born after the
commencement OF the law, would change
their character, from slaves, 20 persons held
to service for q term OF years, and from the
moment of their birth we would be entitled
tn a full apraaaptafsn e. H., -. 1t
tionai legislature. But we must close our re-
marks on ME-, b for the present
A Washington correspondent of the New
York Enquirer, says
''in sending out Mr. Nelson 10 Naples, the
President gave him very p%eremptory ins,ruc
tons on The question at issue between the
governments; and ii the Neapolltan govern
meet has not acted honorab!y, quickly, and
decidedly in the demand, he assured the A
merican dag, in no good humour, will soon
float in the bay of Naples, 10 some essential
purpose. The navy, now under the able
management of Secretary Noodbery, was
never in a higher state OF efficiency and or
der, and, | have no doubt, thousands would
like the chance of a brush with the Neapo
iitans."
Ii seems 20 he forgotten that the preroga /.
tive of uar is given 10 Congress, in the Con
siitution. and not to the President. We are
not aware OF any act OF Congress e,npow-
ering the President to wage war upou Ma
pies, however just or expedient thst proce
dure might be as an alternative. Il here IL ii
new kind of consolidation much TO be appre-
bendeti; we mean the concentration 0t all
real power in the executive branch OF the
general government IL is ar infringement
Of the rights of the states, and the rights Of
the nation, who are Jointly and s~eyeraily en-
titled to the constitution according to its
text. with that d;strhution OF faculties
! which forms one Of its essential merits and
Distinguishing features. The attributes to
| the executive department have been alarm
ingly multiplied: under the new theory and
practice, the President may expound in the
last resort, boil, the constitution and the
! laws; he may nulIify acts 81 Congress and
decisions Of the Supreme Court; he may
| make appointments without The advice aud
| consent Of the Senate; he may virtually give
office to men whom the Senate have reject
ed; he may lombard a capital of his own
! notion, he may exercise the retD or disap
prevail: which the trainers of the constitu.
ton intended for extreme constitutional ca
ses: on any occasion, and with a view to
party controversies and objects All this
| amounts to complete supremacy; II is eqai
valent to an absolute fnal control over The
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