Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-07

And in this very speech of MIR. Frelinghuysen, in
which he so very indiscriminately and unjusty de-
nonnces h,s State pride, this everlasting aspiring
Of State ambition" that pernicious spirit which he
fears) is at the bottom of all this difficulty The
refers Immediately after TO this ambiguous and ex-
ceptionable phrase, we, the People of the United
States" "a word more, in passing, to the Senator
rom New Jersey If this State pride, or, rather
tins regard for the Rights of the States did not ex-
list, what barrier could the Union from CONSOLE
dation, and consequent monarchy p
How the phrase, We, the People of the United
states" could have appeared even in the preamble
10 such federal instrument, the Constitution of
the U. States, has struck many Republican with
surprise. 1t is most unfortunate that such phrase
should have been introduced there mt ALL because il
IS susceptible of much neutrality-suspicious. Most pro-
Daddy the true reasons have been explained by
Messrs. Madison and John Taylor of Caroline-the
former in one of his speeches i'm the Virginia Con
vention-aad the latter, in the 43d page his Con-
struction Construed"
BY .hr. .HadisOn-"Who are parties to IL The PEG.
pe-but not the people composing great bodv-but
the people composing thirteen soveregnties Were IT,
as that gentleman asserts consolidated the
assent OF majority OF the people would be sufficient for its
establishments and, as the majority have adopted < alrca
dy, the remaining States would be bound by the act of
the majority, cven they unanimously reprobatcd liz were
sueh government as IT is suggested, il would be now
Ondng on the people OF this State without having had the
privilege OF dclberang upon it, But sir no State is
bound by IL, as il Is, without its consent Should all
the States adopt it, it will be then governne nt establish.
ed by the thirteen States OF America through the in
PREVENTION OF the legislatures but by the people at large
In TINS particular respect the distinction between the ex
istlng and proposed governments is material The
ertstng system (confederation) has been derye, from
me dependent, deriudre authority Of the Legislatures
the States whereas, this derived from me superior
po,oer Of the people"
BY COL TdyiOr.-"But the parties though recoynized
as being the same, were not strictly The authority of
the people oil each State resoed in the last Union
III preference to that OF the government Of each State BY
which the old confederation formed. This crcum
stance 6y no means weakens the force of the last obsor
vaon because the recognition of existing political parties
able to contract, the The States i'm referring
TO the old Union, only admit themselves to have been
bound by their governments they possessed the right
oil making treaties. But the State governments were
the parties TO the first confederation and as such had A
mutual right TO destroy that treaty, this danger
another reason for the style and principles of the
Union Among its improvements, that by which il is
CHIEFLY made "nore perfect the substitution of the
authority OF "he people of the u Staes for that of The
government 81 The United States; with an intention
oi excluding from the new Union the idea of compact
the States, but OF placing that compact upon bet
ter ground, than that upon which il previously rested
The term "Unon" has been applied TO describe
government established by the consent of individuals:
nor do any OF our State Constitutions il i'm that
lhey speak indeed OF individuals "uuiiing' TO form go
Vernment not to form Unon and do not recollect that
single compact between individuals for the establishment nj,
oil government has ever been called Union though
multitude oil cases exist in ,hch that name has be en-
gwen TO agreements between indepen dent States IT,
therefore, THIS term comprised the whole evidence TO
prove that our Union the of distinct bodies poll.
tic, composed of the people within different geographical
one hne without any such discrimination would be sui
hcicnt"