Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-02-13
From the Richmond Compiler.
THE PUBLIC DEPosITEs-ANDT THE vIR
GINA LEGISLATURE.

Well it is all over at last The lie.
+ glslature yesterday morning finally dis.
posed of this troublesome subject. We
copy the preamble and resolutions as
adopted by the Assembly,
Whereas, it is deemed essential by
the General Assembly of Virginia, that
the power to levy taxes, to appropriate
money, and to control the public reve-
nue., should be made to abide, in prac-
tice, where alone it has been confided
by our constitutions, in the immediate
representatives of the people; and
whereas all experience of the actual
operation of governments demonstrates,
that the assumption and exercise by
them of unauthorized powers, become
precedents, if silently acquiesced in,
for progressive and still greater en-
croachments:
Therefore, Resolred, That the re-
cent act Of the President of the United
States, exerting control over the Fe-
deral Revenue, by causing the same
to be removed, on his own responsible
ity, from the U. S. Bank, (where it
had been deposited under authority OF
an act of Congress, purporting to char
ter said bank, is, in the opinion of
this General Assembly, an unauthoriz-
ed assumption, and dangerous exercise
of Executive power.
ResotUed, That this General Assem-
bly, will ever sustain the President OF
the U. s. in the exercise of such pow
ers as the Constitution has clearly con-
fided to him, it nevertheless contem-
plates with anxiety and distrust the dis
position evinced to extend those pow
ers beyond the proper limitations OF
that instrument; disposition clearly
manifested in the recent subsection oil
the Treasury Department of the Fede-
raj Government to Executive control,
in the exercise of an important discre-
ton, for which it was made solely re-
sponsible to Congress. Deploring as
this General Assembly does, that inter-
ference as illegal and unconstitutional,
and firmly persuaded that no nation
ever long maintained its freedom,
which surrenc cred to, or permitted TO
be grasped by the same hand, a pow
er over the purse and the sword.
Resolved, That our Senators in Con-
gress be instructed, and our Repre-.
sentatives be requested to adopt prompt
and efficient measures to remedy the
evils occasioned by the late unauthor-
lied assumption of power by the Presi-
dent, over the public moneys Of the
United States.
Resolved, That the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia cannot sanction the
power which has been claimed by Con-
gress to establish United States Bank,
because, in the opinion of this General
Assembly, that power is not given to
Congress by the Constitution of the
United States, as has been frequently
and solemnly declared by the General
Assembly Of Virginia.
RESOLVED, That this General Assem-
bly, does not intend, by the declaration
of its opinion in regard to the uncon-
stitutionality of the Bank ofthe United
States, to qualify, or in any manner to
impair the force of its disapprobation
of the removal of the deposites.
A sixth resolution was passed re-
questing the Governor to transmit CO.
pies of the above to the Senators and
Representative in Congress from this
State.
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