, 1841-10-02
BOWLNGG9EEN, MO. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 I81.

(. cAcCul'S lux ieepieseutdtSe UriUCn, ID
1 sell degradation, stripping itself of all const
r %rutional po wer, and submitting TO be the 81
$ lent slave oil those who are its constitutions
: interiors.
II is among the Gogmas of a party thu
revolutionizing American Government, tina
the Supreme Court of the United States pos
sesses not only an absolute veto upon oil act
of Congress. but that its constructions O
5 them are conclusive and binding upon al
the other departments Of Government, in
GLIDING Congress. Let those who have wit
messed The proceedings of The iaie eytraor
binary ses.irn. nbediehi To- that dhgsI.s, Gnac
Inc mat learned court assisted bv grave
counseliors, Constituting meaning ont OF suci
acts OF Congress Is the machinery bef,r.
designated necessarily produces. 1t mus,
be a much greater farce than tie imposrurr
of augurs predicting iurUrily IRON the ca
trails oI slaughtered beasts. The false in.
terpretations are incalculabIe to he thus mi.
gated into law.
proceed I, prove that forced legislation
makes laws. according to the experience of
the hundred days. as much fewer rs they
are worse. President Madison conven,d
Congress on the Gath May, 1918, and they
remained in that extra session six,y-eight
days, during which time, With the usual free
dom o: debate, infinitely more business was
done. and infinitely better done, Than dur
ing one hundred and six days of the late fet-
'er"'! -eSSr"n; i"r Numbers oi Congress. like
"th"r zen. VIC L uuch better Tree than en-
: we'd. Al rllr -->>r"n. under Mr.. Ciay's
eX 49,. - g .h"i>riu. T. lie ry'-ruclc, nt
a.. Nm. -..n,., ,,-l IL, ., -, =, e. H.. -.
,"pI'S;;r"n If an able. bold aud fciric or,
party, when Prriy excitement WIS gtrarer,
and pr"ini.t action much mnie necessary.
lhIn now. No restraint WIS put on debate.
All motions and speeches were perfectly
Tree. Resolutions were unrestricted. PcII-
ti"ns, pubic and private. were received, us
the People desired, and acted up"n. There
MAS no committee of rules, cnntiuu lily flbri.
eating Additional letters. Mr.. Webster,
bya ]SerieS"i resolutions, arraIrned President
Madison lar %crrnIunl miSconGuci, and the aC-
CusiiI"n WIS debated us long rs II ~viru!ent
opf">Iri"n thought proper. IL voted for none
al the supplies. The prevI"uS question was
seldom Ir>"rted in-nrvcr without great &C.
"->"n. C"mHnirIrc> were !aiiiy composed.
The ~" IOr'iv onj"lrd every parliamentary
UrINirgc. Tao committee al which was
then. ~ how. - II" m "r. Mas equally divided
between lie 3 tIr.. ~ ercaS am nuw put
down III 4 .nIn"iIiy ~. three la six. Nav.
compare free with forced legislation. Dur
ing the late one LundI,d AID SIX GAYS. but
twenty-five acts have been passed, all told.
and the rwo which occupied tw" thirds OF
the session, frustrated 10y veIoes. During The
former Session of sIyiv-ei.ht DAYS. fiirv five
acts were regularly deliberated and enacted.
cumprehendIng 4 great variety of the most
important laws, public and r~rivate; among
the rest Il cumrleie system OF complicated
internal revenue, one single one of which
tax laws, The land lax, is as voluminnus. as
intricate, and. IN every respect. rs difficult
of adaptation Ia general acceptance, as all
the laws of the late session. taken together.
Such are the fruits and proofs Of free and
forced legislation Respectively The mere
method at IL without reference. 10 the matter.
The natural reaction "f compression render
ed one hundred and six DAYS almost aburtive.
whilst sixiv-eirht DAYS of freedom. under
similar and stronger circumstances Of diff
Guilty. we're greatly more productive.
let us contemplate. next, the strange and
resolving characteristics of The laws made
by dragoGn'ng dupiicaie bank b:llS-one done
come on-a Bankrupt bill enarted
into allegiance, like Il bears cub, to be lick
ed into future s!lap"; 4 pi,triI urion bill,
which is 4 more palrering de!usion mutIlated
rs it is of its productive fnculties: u Lean
bill. the mere basis of The blessing of nation
al debt and n new fund ne system; larger
explicitly nLnouned hy the head Of
the Finance Commit, 4 d that head in the
which it is impossible to wink SO hard
as not TO see mus, be followed ~ direct
fnr. like the deplorable Stale debts,
they can n"ver be redeemed by other expe-
Il Revenue bill, which taxes in the
Jump, so thai neither merchant nor manufac-
.urer can possibly comprehend its oracultr
provisions, incidentally declaring prohibIto-
~ hosriliries with France, when war with
England is imminent; The Post Office put on
he custom house Tor snpport-It required
he ra- ing deli ium of upsiart party madness, +;
'naucurate such measures. Nothing but
veto S. sustaining n strenuous and
udicious minority, prevented as any one
nay ascertain by simple computation, the !
;ost of the late hunderd days misrule being
ne hundred millions Of dollars. A million {