The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-10

citing LEGAL preiudicos on both sides. Sentiments
| are mutually ascribed ts us which neither ever
entertained By THIS means, party press is en-
abled to foment jealousies and to destroy that
generous spirit of brotherhood which should eX-
! ist between US. All patriotic men ought care
| fully to guard themselves against the effect 81
| arts like these.
| And here | am brought to advert for one mo-
ment to what | constantly in all the Admin
istratiOn papers from Baltimore, South. 1t is
| one perpetual cutlery, admonishing the people OF
| the South that their own State Governments,
and the property they hold under them, are not
| secHre if they admit Northern man to any con-
siderable share in the administration OF the Gov
| eminent You all know that that is the general
cry. Now have spoken my sentiments in the
| neighborhood Of Virginia, though not actually
within the State, in June last, and again in the
heart of Massachusetts, in July, so that 1t IS not
now that proclaim them for the first time-but
ten years ago, when obliged to speak on this
same subject, 1 uttered the same sentiment In
regard to slavery and to the absence oil all power
| in Congress to interfere, in any manner whatev-
| err, with that subject. delivered my sentiments
fully in Alexandria IN the month of June, and in
| july at Worcester, in Massachusetts,. | shall
ask some friend connected with the Press, to cir
eulate in Virginia what said on this subject in
the Senate of the United States on the 3Oth OF
| January last / have nothing to add or to sub
tract from what then said. | commend it to
your attention, or rather desire you to look at
| it. / hold that Congress is absolutely precluded
| from interfering in any manner, direct or lndl-
rect with this, as with any other of the IHstitu-
; tions of the country. ['rhe cheering was here
! loud and long continued, and voice from the
! crowd exclaimed, 'Ewe are here from Maryland
to Louisiana, and we desire that the sentiment
Just expressed may be repeated Repeat, re-
Peat.1 Well repeat it--proclaim 1t on the
wings of all the winds-tell it to all your friends
-Tcries of eve will, we will'l tell it, say,
that standing here in the capitol of Virginia, be-
meath an October sun, in the midst of this as
semblage, before the entire country and upon all
the responsibility which belongs to me, say that
there is no power, directly indirectly, IN Con-
gress or the General Government, to interfere in
the slightest degree with the Institutions oil the
South Immense cheering, and voice from
the crowd exclaiming, "that is two thousand
votes for Harrison.O
And now, said MIR. W., ask you only to do
me one favor (yye'n do it, l ask you to carry
that paper home, 1--WE will, we will,) read 1t,
read it to your neighbors; and when you hear
the cry, 'Sshall ,AfT. Webster, the .4botitontst,
be allowed to profane the soil OF Virginia" Cloud
shouts and repeated and prolonged cheers, with
cries of "welcome! welcome! welcome?O that
you will tell them that, in connexion with the
doctrine in that speech, hope that there are two
governments over us, edCn possessing ITO OWii
distinct authority, with which the other may not
interfere. may differ from you in some things,
but will here say that as to the doctrines OF
State Rights as held by Mr.. Madison in his last
days. do not know that we differ at all, (cheers)
vet am he, and among the foremost, to hold
that it is indispensable to the prosperity OF these
Governments to preserve, and that he is no true
friend to either whs does not labor to preserve
that true distinction between both. (lmmense
cheering)
We NAV not all see the line which divides
them alike; but all honest men know that there
is line, and they all fear to go either on the
one or the other side of it. 1t is this balance be-
tween the General and the State Governments
which has preserved the country in unexamplsd
prosperity for fifty years-and the destruction oil
this lust Balance viii be the destruction OF our
Government What believe to be the doctrine
of State Rights, hold as firmly as any man.
Do not belong to State? and may not say,
to a State which has done something to give her
self renown, and to her sons some little share OF
participated distinction? Great cheerlng2
say again, that the preservation oil state hlghts,
on the one hand, and Of the just powers OF Con-
gress, upon the other is equally indispensable to
the preservation of our free Republican Govern
ment (Cheers.)
And now. gentlemen, permit me to address to
YOU few words in regard to these measures OF
the General Government WHICH have caused the
existing excitement throughout the country. |
will pass rapidly over them. Go on) need
not argue to YOU, Democrats, the question OF the
Sub-Freasury, (groans and contemptuous laugh
ter J and suppose it is hardly necessary 10 speak
to YOU of Mr.. Poinsett's Militia Bill. (Laugh-
ter) Into which of your mountains has not It's
discussion penetrated? Up which OF all your
winding streams has not its echo aoated? am
sure he must be very tired of it himself. cloud
laughter.) Remember always that the srea,
principle of the Constitution on that subject, lst
that the militia is the militia of the States, and
not of the President-(Loud cheers, and cries OF
eyes, sn0-and being thus the militia OF the
States, there is no pant of the Constitution word
ed with greater care, and with more scrupulous
jealousy than that which speaks of the power OF
Congress over the militia. Docs 1t say that Con-
eress NAV make use of the militia as it pleases-
that the militia may be called out to make war,
10 train and discipline? No such thing: the
terms used are the most precise and partlcuiar-
e,rhe President may cali out the mliitia TO exc
cute the laws, to suppress instruction, ana 70
repel foreign invasion" These three cases are
specifed-and these are all. Call out the militia
to drill them3 To discipline them? To march
the militia Of Virginia to Wheeling to be drilled!
WHY, such a thug never entered into the head
of any man--never, never, daughter and cheei'
ing1 What is very unusual in the Constitution
it has placed a negative on all other purposes ior
the exercise of this power than those particular
" enumerated; and then follow those golden
words in the Constitution, reserving to the States
the appointment of officers and the disciplining
of the militia. That's it! (Cheers-'EYes, that's
itpO Read this clause, aud then read IN Mr.
Poinsetts project that the militia are to DC tram
ed by the PRESIDENT (Shouts) Lock on this
picture and on that. do Virginia no more than
Justice, when i say that she first laid hold upon
this monstrous project, and has continued to de-
nounse it, till she has made its authors heart
sick, (chcerlng,) and she don't mean to pardon 1t
even now. mo, noD
AS to the Sub-Treasury, the subject is worn
out IL is almost as empty Is the Treasury 1T
self. daughter and cheers) had, the other
day, the homer to address an assemblage OF the
merchants Of New York. l asked ther@, among
other things, whether all this eternal cry about
separation of Bank and State, was not ali
mockery and humbug-and ten thousand iaer-
chants, intimately acquainted with the whole
subject, cried, eyes, yes--it is~-The fact un-
questionabiy is, that the funds of the Govern
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