Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-09-08

APPRECIATION or admiration of the Nullfers. On
the contrary, IL seems pregnant with immense
mischief to the State of Mississippi. by rendering
her tributary to the city Of New Orleans. This
proposition is much more easily sustained than
the repeated defamation that National Bank
will fasten upon the South letters OF commercial
dependence upon the North. But the danger by
far the most alarming to the friends OF freedom,
is from the overwhelming accumulation OF pow
er that will be conferred upon the Executive Of
the Union, by the establishment fsuch system
History teaches us that of all the departments
of Government, the Executive OF u nation is the
most dangerous; and this truth flashes upon our
vision from its every page, that union Of the
purse and s,cOrd is the essence o. despotism. II
becomes us then, as State Rights men, to battle
against this amalgamation.
The golden lure spread out to catch the Null
fers, is, the separation Of the money from the pO.
htical pOtcer. Now this is either without any
meaning, or the doctrine ofmonarchSts. Let us
analyzc the princi 4es of our Republican institu.
tons. Where lies the political pOlcer? All State
Rights men will answer: in the hands of the
people. Where is the money pOper? 1t is in the
hands of those who possess thA money. The
people, then, being the possessors of the money,
must, of course, possess the money pO,oer. The
political and money pO,oers ARE, then, in obedi-
ence to the structure of Republican Govern
ments, placed in the same hands; unless it can be
proved, that lnanimate matter can possess money.
No State Rights man can wish dissolution of
pO,perS that are by the nature of our institutions
inseparably united. Our federal Government is
the Government Of the people of the States
The money collected to defray the expenses Of
that Government, is the money of the people of
the States. What does the Sub-Treasury pro-
pose? ltproposes thisvery separation that strikes
at the foundation of our Government. II propo.
SEES to strip the people, or their representative
Executive, or, as the celebrated Protest terms
them, his mere instruments. 1t proposes to
place their money as far out of their reach as it
possibly can, by depositing it one step farther
his instruments. This is, indeed, beautiful
State Rights system 1t levels an assassin blow
at the very principles Nulliers boast of cling
ing to. 1t shivers to atoms every pillar in the
temple of State Rights; yea, tumble into dust
the whole fabric of Republicanism. Its career
will be marked by the ruin of every State Rights
and its termination will be in the
contamination of the most hopeless despotism.
Some, however, contend that Ldps can restrain
the Executive from the control of money in the
hands of his instruments. The doctrine of the
Republican party, or the party the Chronicle
styles Republican, is that the power of removal
ad hbitum is a constitutional power. No law,
then, restraining the Executive in the exercise
of a constitutional power, can be obligatory upon
that high functionary; more especially if he is
"pledged to follow in the footsteps" of one who
claimed the Government as his Government
who executed laws as he understood them-who
pronounced all officers appointed by him and the
Senate, his tools, and whose watchword was al
took the responsibility" A law in opposition to
the constitution is no Go at ALL So say Nullif-
ers. And yet it is contended that something,
which is in fact nothing at ala mere cob-web,
can restrain the Executive in the exercise of his
proper powers, as some urge them to be. The
futity of such reasoning can readily be discern
ed upon the slightest reflection.
But this address is becoming rather lengthy,
and must be brought to close. To the State
Rights men who have SO long sustained the un.
designed in the discharge of duties the most ar
1uous, no admonition is intended, for the doc.
.rine of the party to which We belong is, that
zach man must think for himself. In leaving the
Editorial Department of the Advocate, he returns
MS most grateful acknowledgements to it's pa
irons, and can only say that this most cheering
has been realized in the smiles and ap
probation that his friends have bestowed upon
MS editorial career. The Advocate is left under
he supervision Of one whose zeal and talent de.
serve the confidence of the State Rights party.
JAMES J. GRAVES.
MMARY.