Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-23
r ALEXANDRIA, I'd. CO.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER IS. 1885
POWER OF CONGRESS.

lie in the Congress of the United States, com
nosed of the Senators from the States and the
Representatives of the People. We showed, the
9th err day, where, unfortunately at present, u
did in reality exist, and expressed our tears that
the Executive was encroaching upon the rights
of the Legislative department We gave our
views candidly and fairly. and are pleased to
see them extensively copied
Congress is the democratic branch OF the CO.
yernment, and should claim, particularly, popular
favor and support. The Constitution designed
that it should be the depository OF the liberties
and the happiness Of the Union. President
was created to execute its decisions, and Judges
were appointed 10 expound its laws. TO its care
was entrusted the treasury Of the nation: 0y Its
authority war was to be proclaimed and peace
maintained, and generally. under its direction,
every thing, not reserved to the States. was to
be directed in furtherance Of the common tie
fence and general welfare.
1t wss never contemplated that its deliberate
expressed opinions should be lightly disregard
edits we'll considered acts repeatedly reject
edits legal authority overtopped by another
and differently constituted power.
Who so we'll able to judge OF the will OF the
people as the immediate and direct representa-
tives of the people? Who so proper to act upon
this will as those who are responsible, every two
years, for their conduct, and are obliged to re-
turn constantly to their constituents, and give an
account Of their stew ardship.
True Republicans have at all times been anx-
ious to support the rights and privileges OF Con-
press, because on its freedom and the fair exer
else of its powers depend so many OF their prIn'
cipies: Such, for instance, as the purity OF 60
vernment-the subordination OF the military tn
the civil authority-the permanence Of the pow
err of the people in regulating their own affairs,
&c. &c. They have always been jealous, and
yerv Justly so, of any attempts to lessen its dig
nity or subvert its established and legal privi'
leyes. If power is safe any where in republic.
it Is safe with the representatives of the people.
They cannot abuse it long. 1t is not their IN
ferest to abuse it at all. When they abuse it.
they are responsible for their guilt, and can be
made to feel the indignation OF those they have
wronged.
These views, we believe, are 10 accordance
with the ends and designs Of those who founded
this republic and prepared its constitution.
An effort is made to connect the nulIifiers of
South Carolina with the recent nulIlhcatIon pro-
ceedines in Alabama. Possibly this may be So,
but we want "more light" Certain it is that
Alabama notification is Of mushroom growth.
it has sprung up in night, whilst all the rest OF
the states were sleeping.
We have received New Orleans dates to the
9Th inst. The papers say nothing about the
health Of the city.
Mr.. Thomas P. Moore and Mr.. Duff Green
are writing about and against each other in reIa'
ton to their doings upon Gen. Jackson's election,
and beautiful expose is made OF the late Min
lister to Colombia.
Further returns make it more certain that Mr..
Lumpkin has been reelected Governor OF Geor-
gia.
The Globe soft soaps the Richmond Enquirer,
and declares, pom honor. that the editor OF that
paper stands high in ITS affections; but, for all
that, it will persist in its amazement and NOR.
tiicaton!" We have a curiosity to see how our
good friend Of the Enquirer will take such an
amenne. Probably, however, the pill, being
gilded with compliment, may be swallowed
more readily than we can imagine.
Notification is and will be rare remedy, say
its Sophisticated: but not in the sense they
use the word. Rare and notable is the disco
very tUdt, III uu'eu TeP uohCs oue be"oe' Sou
arrest The general law, and set the rest at def
ance. Give the power, however. and the use Of
it will not be rare. We have sufficient evidence
Of this fact in the case Of Georgia, South Caro-
lima and Alabama.
We were looking in the Baltimore Marine List
in yesterdays American. for ship news. and
came plump upon the following, in the midst Of
arrivals and departures:
I" The 2Sth OF November has been appointed
as day Of public thanksgiving by the Governor
uf Connecticut I"
This paragraph had strayed, like lost sheep,
into strange pasture.
"Some iudicrous accidents have lately occur
red on the new Railroad 10 the South" says the
Gazette,-and Immediately subjoins |
an account Of the burning Of part Of the
Charleston Railroad, and the destruction of a
car and twenty.one bales Of cotton. If this is
one of the iudicrous accidents, we wonder what
our friend of the Gazette would call serious