Litchfield enquirer., 1840-10-22

strucbOn ot our government What OO'iso 'S @ - man. Do not belong tO q State eho hay nol say, to n State which has done sone,Mhg Ogxe het- sef renOwn, and to her sons some nIue snTte O pai
 cipated distinction (Greai cheenng) say agaln' that the preservation OI State Rights on the one hand
 and of the just powers of Congress upon the oher IS equally indispensable to the preservation O' our Tree Republican Government. (CheersJ ,,
 And now gentlemen permit me to address to you a lew words in regard those measures ol me general knvernment which have caused the SSlsIlng excIG ftent throughnue the country. VIII pass I%pluy over lhem Go onJ Ineed not argue to you Demo; crats the question of the Sub-Treasury, (groans anu con'empous laughter and suppose ,;E naiGy R; aE' ccssary to speak to you of MT. Ponseus Mittia bll tLaughter.l Into which Of your mountains nas not its dscnss penetrated Up which ot on your winding streams has not it's echo hoated am sure ho must be very tired of it himself (Loud augntef' Remember always that the great prlnciEie cI me Constitution on ta, subject, is that the mfua IS me militia oi the States, and not o he cheers. and cries of yes, yes " and oeng mus ine militia of the States tlere part oi the Constltu- tion worded with greater care, and wHh more scru- pulous jealousy taan that which speaks o the power of Congress over the militia. Does say that Cth1- gress may make use of the militia as tt rleases--that lle militia may be called out to make war, to tram and discipline No such thing the ter terms used are may call out the militia to execute the laws. to sup press insurrec ciiO, and to repel foreign invasion These three cases are specified and these are ai- Gall out the militia to a G 'ne% % 8ro;n;o 'a Wee
 ing To be drilled Why, such a thing never entered into the head of any man-never, never, Qangner and cheering) What is very unusual ln tne Oons1l, tuition, it has placed negative on all other purposes fer the exercise O this power than those particulary enumerated and then follow those golden words n the Constitution reserving to the States inc That's it! (Cheers-" Yes. that's !) Read this clause. and then read in MT. Ponset's pr9iect tha! the militia are to be trained by the fres'de"t! Virginia more than justice, when lsay that she first laid hold upon this monsrous project, and has continued to denounce it, till she has made it's au' thors heart sick tcheerlng) and she don't mean to pardon 1t even now. (NO, noD , ... ..... ..rf As 10 the Sub Treasury, the subject is worn out. It is almost empty the Treasury itself tLaugf- ter and cheers had the other day the honor to ad- dress assemblage of the merchants of New ork. asked them among other things, whether all this eternal cry about separation of Bank and State, was not all mockery and humbug, and ten housan nd asy ae tionably that the funds of the Government are just as much in the custody of the Banks at this moment,
 as they ever ye a. ,hs s4me
 vast power to stop at it's pleasure, all the solvent Banks in the community. Such is the opinion every where held by the best informed men Tn the conmer' cal parts of the country. .r..,......a power quite novel in its character. refer to the power conferred upon sihe President to select from among the appropriations of Congress. such as he fy, and may give or withhold the public money ac- cordingly. This is certainly marvellously demo cratic doctrine: po you no. remember the emphnss ISIS subject of specific appropriations The law. as it now stands, requires them to De specific. If Con. gress appropriate so many dollars for building ot ships no part of the money may be applied to the pay of sailors or mariners BI. how has this legal provi- sion been treated7 The restriction remains in the statute it did hefore-.he appropriations are spcci' President, to dispense with the rssricton-and thus one specific is set against the other, (Laughter2- Let this process be carried but step farther, and Ss as aTe trust and confidence in the executive discretion, that the President will make the proper selections from among them, therefore, be 1t enacted, That what llt tie money there may at any time be found in the aeeaerang. to his own pleasnre: Loud lanahler.l
 now endeavolng to prove that of ali men on the face of the earth, you of Virginia, the descendants and disciples of some of the greatest men of the Revolu.
 ton, are most called to repudate and to condemn the doctrines of :his administration. call upon you to apply to this administration all that body of political truth which you have learned from Henry. from Jef. ana are justly proud and under this light to examine and to say whether this present only Democratic adnlinis- traton arc the favorers of civil liberty and of State Rights. or the reverse. And in fur.herance of this design. call your attention to the conduct ot tie Ere sident. of the Executive Departments, and o the Sc nate of the United States in regard to the right and
 
 purposes. Has it occurred to you what deadly blow they have struck at the just authority and rights Gt the stntes1 Let us follow this matter out little In the pamy times of the Treasury, when it was not only full but ovcriOwing with tho public money, the states to very considerable extent, engaged in works oi Internal Improvement and in consequence know that money can be had on much cheaper terms on the other connen! than on this: hence the bonds 9t tho States went abroad and absorbed capita! in Europe, and so long as their credit was unassailed and remained sound, this was accomplished for the most part at very reasonable rates. During this pro. cess, and while number of the States had thus their State securities in the foreign market, the President Of the United States. in his opening message to Con- gress a the commencement of the last Session, comes ont with a series of the most dscouraging and most dlspaEagng remarks on the credit of the States He have done and that they will find it difficult to pay the debt they have contracted; and this official Ian. gnage of the Chiet Magistrate to the Legislature goes held for sale. Then comes his Secretary, MT Wood ou!y with report in the same strain, giving as his opinion, that the States have gone far in this sumption of liabilities. But the thing does not stop Senate, declaring that the General Government ought not to assume these debts of the States that resou ton IS sentto committee, and that committee make
 pS as s a 9GSge gone overI the whole object and tendency of which. is 10 disparage the credit of the States and then Mir SSrnndy makes speech upon. it; What had Mr. Benton or MT. Gnndy to do with the matter? Were iley called on to guaranty the debts ot Virginia or of Maryland? lLanghter1 Yet. the effect very patt- rally and inevitably to depress the value 0f State the time. My own State had her honds in ,ha, mar ket: and what did see 2 The mos, miserable, pitt. ful execrabe lucnbrniions taken from the public press n New. York; endeavoring to prove that the states had not sovereignty enough to contract debts hcsc wretched productions declared thnt the bonds issued by the States of this Union a void that iney were no better than waste paper and exhSr.ed