Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-02-28

the votes of the people we've taken in separate mas
seg and not IN ono II vas more eanvenient-bui
it was not the S,ptes who gave force to the Con
stimiion. Tie Convention sen, the instrument "a
Congress aud asked them 10 submit II to tbs stntc
l.cgislaiures-bu did the State Legislatures nj
upon 1T No. And why 7 Because they could
never use the language, We the People They
were not the parties 10 II they could not givc II
their sanction they called Conventions OF The
People To decide on the snele question, and the
fconle adopted the Constitution, commencing with
tho words We the People, Il had been the net
ot the People collected ia separate comanntes,
but forming one People, whose sanction alone gave
TO the Constitution all It's power.
lsen had Lie states az States unanimously IA
tlhed l. It would have been dead letter, until the
people acted upon II. In iaet ii was III tina very
point that the difference lay between this hstra-
mcnt aud the Contradictions The neIh'yef5 world
have them to heoue md the same. The Cuntcd
Grafton had been created by the State Legislatures
and by Congress They went on the principle
that this was not Government bntn Confodcra-
/ ey Therefore II WIS FIRST made by the Sth'e L.
gslatafes ond Afterwards by Congress- The PEG.
pie had never acted upon II at oll-thcy had had
no put or lot IN making II aud II was because
such IN instrument WIS found in practice to be
wholly inefficient and thai Il would be impossible
for the people of tins Union to live happily or
pcaeeaby under IT. that they went h worl. another
way.
liere, however Nj A said that he was wander
! ing from the SUBJECT hefore tie Committee.
The position he hid assumed va that the Go.
Verumen was bound 10 protect the great interests,
al The great interests Of the ctiaeaH Wherever
any gleat interest VESTED IN the community, there
tbe protection Of Geeelument must Of ,l,.ht be ex
tcndea Bun protection rnigln bc extended IN da
Il
ue tl1l the interests ri ono potion al
the community could often be protected only
At tita expense of SOM oolt potion OF it II
was the complaint OF the -allldcrs thlt the Cavern
mont took money out Of the pockets Of one portion
Il tn Union L. put It INTO the pocket, ri another
Apd. II extending protection, tbs NUT always
more or l,s, be the ease But thcn while the ,ighls
OF one patty wcrc protected III THIS way, the rights
of The Other patty were protected equally, but IN
different way.
lie woudlllnStrate tbs position.
In the southern and the South western portions
oi this Union there existed certain interest which
hc need not more particularly designate which
enjoyed under the Constitution, md the LairS OF
tbr altcd States, AZ cspcel protection, peculiar
10 ltself ltWas potestad 6fslby Rp,cSeafdiioa
lhcte were ON that floor upwards Of twenty mem
bers Who repfes sntra whatln other state ha1 no
representation at all Nh a believed that II was
NOT three days SINCE h. h1d heard itdedarel bya
gentleman from Georgia Nj CtAYro>i) that the
species Of population he now alluded TO- eonstltn
ted the Machinery of the South Now that
! Machinery had twenty odd Representatives IN thnt
Representatives, ecdednot blythe machinery
bit by those Wio Owned IT. Was there my such
/ representation IL any other potion oi the Union Z
Dd tin manufacturers ask Tor any representation
II Their m'eataery IL believed thelr looms AMI
.ft4TIfa It1 .tft t,t4tF4 hui HE tf,rlI
merry Of the Soudl had fh'tc lhan twenty reprcsen
YES on that llOOr nd lac should back O