Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-14

stop 10 wasteiu expenditures upon an
scheme OF internal improvements. Public sentiment
seems TO have gone with hm-and since the payment of
the national debt the Tariff has been reduced was i'm
lair way OF being brought down revenue wants
Under these circumstances where the existing prac-
uca inequalities in the laws, that great, that
we ought TO break up the Union rather than submit
TO them, and try and get relief in some other and
saier way !Is IL not more prudent and patriotic TO
bear with partial evils that within the scope of re-
medy, than pursue that involve the greatest
oil national calam,es? Our liberties can never be i'm
danger so long preserve the Union, support
he General Government, in the exercise OF its consu-
tional and just powers. That Government may err but
the evil cannot be OF long duration. il the proper corec-
yves be promptly and energetcay applied Its move
ments are always watched with sleepess vigilance by the
press, the State Governments and by the people in their
PRIMARY meetings and assemblies. This watchiuness,
s jealousy on the part Of the States OF the manner in
which the high powers they have parted with are used is
an additional safeguard. But on the other hand is there
no danger to be apprehended from the improper nterer
ence OF the States, by the exercise OF powers utterly
suucuve oil the ends and objects OF the Constitution?
State ieelng State PRIDE and State sympahes are too
70 hurry all the State officers and agents into extremes
In the recent discussions Federal Relations we heard
much said of State Rights and but little the rights of
the sderai Government Indeed, that Government as
treated, in the nain though il ours, but TO-
reign government And yet il surely has rights and
responding duties II they original and inherent
'hey are delegated or derivauve; coming from the same
people, who established the State Governments and are
TO be exercised for the common benefit The peope of
me States ought therefore, that neither set OF their
agents encroaches the other.
elr Convention did soemnly declare, in the very act OF
rahying the Constitution " that the powers granted un-
der the Constitution being derived from the peOple of the
UNITED STATES, may be resumed by them, whenso-
ever the same shall be perverted their injury or OPP
presonand that every power not granted thereby
mains with them and at their WILL Is not this declare
ton very similar that of the President which is the
ground Of so much censurc' Does this declaration say
mat the States granted the Powersl The expressions
derived from the SiateS'' from the people of The re-
spectIve States-or from the people oil the Individual
safes would all have heen less liable TO
IMAM the terms used. What are we TO understand by
'he United States!" L. not that the political name OF
our OnioH Does II not, like the name, Great Britain
convey the idea oil a nation! But although the powers
were derived from the people of the u. States - vet
some portions oil them, constituting particular States,
errcd more power than the number OF people else
where-Mr Madisons explanation. after ALL is the true
one But the mode Of nstituting the government is not
so material to the enquiry, its character operation
afterwards Have not shown that the whole people of
the United States, according the enumeration of federal
numbers IN each State the constituents of the Presi
deht, vice President and House of Representatives
hhu ts Is what the President in his proclamation
ana TINS Is what is denounced the doctrine OF consolda-
On!
Delaware coded IS much legislative power TO the H. of
Representatives as Virginia, and yet Virginia exercises il
that body more than twenty times as much as Delaware
but this ia balanced again the federal branch of Con
gress making the system Of the compound character be-
fore described.
IL the expression, derivcl from the people of the
Cned States he not SYNONYMOUS with the phrase s'the
respective States, then State at her
VIII ana pleasure, or resume the powers she has granted
That The convention did not mean reserve the ndivi
dual right of State seccde only TO be inferred
from the terms used but from the fact that Congress
gwen power only TO pass laws Of general cha
racter. caro-