Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-21

destined to labor and the rich by the advantages of
education independence and leisure qualified for
superior stations
The Constitution RECOGNIZES the ndcpendcnce and
sovereignty of the respective States. Mr. Fcnno the
court printer to the Elder Adams abiding to the Ge-
neral Government and the thirteen States says: at
rs high time we should get rid Of this huge SOW and
her tarrow of pigs"
When the Convention which forms the Constitution
first met the Consodationsts (Fcdcrasts) had small
majority, and SO fearful they that the people
might PROSTATE their designs that they sat in secret
session and prevented the members from taking copies
OF resolutions extracts from the journal with
out formal motion and for pcrmssion-( Elliott $
Debates iv, page 81 Luther Martin called up
on by the Legislature of Maryland to disclose the
proceedings OF the Convention, and he states that
there was in it a party "whose object and wish it
was, to annihlac all State Governments, and to bring
forward one General Government over this extensive
continent, of monarchical nature, under certain
strctions and limitations" This was directly avowed
by Alexander Hamilton (Ell. Deb. 13 4, 5, S2. He
boldly says 81 have well considered the subject, and
am convinced that no amendments OF the Articles OF
Confederation, answer the purpose OF good gov
eminent, long the State governments, do tn any
shape erist" al despair that 4 Republican form
| of government can remove the difficulty | be-
leve the British government forms the best model
the world ever produced" All communities, divide
themselves into the fcto and the many the first are the
rich and well born, the other the mass of the people,.
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice OF
God, and however generally this maxim has been
quoted and believed il is not true in fact The people
are turbulent and changing; they seldom Judge or de.
termne right" '.Nothing but u permanent body can
check the nprudence of Democracy. Their turbulent
and uncontrolling disposition requires checks
John Langdon Senator from New Hampshire, and
afterwards Governor of that State, in letter to Sam
Ringod Esq., dated October l0th 1900, declared, that
Mr. John Adams, in his presence, expressed hope or
expectation to see the day when Messrs j. Taylor and
Giles of Virginia Ito whom he then speakng)
would be convinced that the people of the | s. would
not be happy without an hereditary Chief Magistrate
and Senate, at least for lte Mr. j. Taylor appeared
in court and was sworn the trial of Calender, who
was indicted under the Alien and Sedition Law; but
Judge Chase would not let the testimony so to the Ju-
ridual.
Judge Read Of Delaware, another of the Federal par
", said II would have objection If the Govern
ment was national; but the proposed plan is so
great mixture of both that it is best TO drop It altoge-
Their State Government is incompatible with &c.
neral Government. The plan of the gentle.
man from New York alexander Hamilton) is certain
" the t"--EN Deb. iv, p. ll3
Mr. Morris, another star in this constellation, then SO
fercely blazing in the ascendant used the following
language: "'rhe two branches equally poised cannot
have their due weight 1t confessed all hands, tina,
the second branch ought to be check upon the first
for without its having this effect, iii perfectly useless
The first branch originating from the people will be sub
UrecfVtHNFH,
ence evinces the truth Of this remark without having
recourse reading This only be checked by abb
lily in the second On the plan proposed, can you sup
pose branch will possess il more than another! The
second branch ought TO be composed of men OF GREAT
AND ESTABLISHED PRoPERTY-AN ARlSTOCRAC1
men, who from pride will support consistency and per-
manency; and to make them completely independent,
then mast be chosen for it they will be useless bo-
dy Such aristocratie body will keep down the tur-
| bulency Of Democracy.
tod actol National
vcrsty doubtless to educate their national arstocracy
but the Democracy of the Convention refused to grant
the power.-EU Deb. ~, p As.
The Federaliss sought TO give the National Govern
ment power to charter banks and to make roads ana
canals and these very powers which expressly re-
fused Ell Dcb v Pr. l%, 1872 were assumed by tins
Federal party as soon as they obtained power
have now shown that the question, as assumed and
boldly avowcd by the early fcdcraists, (who were
known by the term Consodationists,) was Po'ccr IN
the fec orer the principles Of hc many They contend
ed there natural aristocracy and that Tins aris
tocracy as natural had the divine right to rule THIS
is election and reprobation with vengeance.
| These views of the Federasts strike at the tounda
ton of the Constitution They at war with human
rights They would take US back to the divisions OF
rank and power under their good Old England =
| They were Englshmen in their hearts and Mr.. Rves,
in the dying glory of his career, could quote and re-
commend reference TO the conservative principles OF
"Old England forever.
lOSt'Ilr 10 me CONSTITUTION was 'Hs iou'Sai Pi''S
pie of action with the Federal Party, and from Their
earliest existence party, find all the odds and
ends of factions, who would and who only can attain
their ends by destroying the Consttuton-hy ramplIng
on its sacred compromises arrayed on this sIde.Ihe
Funding System Of old me-the assumption OF State
debts to.day-the National Bank of Alexander Haml'
ton and the National Bank of Daniel Webster-the
Protective Tariff of Hamilton and the American sys
TEN of Henry Clay-the Alien and Sedltion Law Of
John Adams and the gag law Of the peer the .fdas
/ 8 Nav Mr. (riften1pn-tlp Console
daonists and the Abotonists for these last only
drive to their purposes the ruins of the Consu
! ton.
The history and Identification of these will be resum
1 ed MaooN.
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