Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-03-18

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that has lon1 been nm object near his heart 10 IT
40 appropriated. THIS opinion lie has not renounced ;
and his inaugural silent 10 the power OF Congress
To abolish the trade slaves IN the District anu between
the States We do not hesitate 10 say, That Generai
Harrison has held opinions and principles on the sub
iect OF Abolition uRwarranted by the Constitution and
dangerous the rights and interests o the slavehoio-
ing States, while the appointment OF Granger ana The
whole and of the Inaugural, are not cacuiat-
ed to restore entirely anxiety about the course OF
events
lie blinks the Bank question ike all the rest but leaves
us 10 infer that II of those questions winch he con
sders settled by precedent and should be inc plea
of his friends 70 enact bank charter VIII ma no
obstacle his constitutional scrupes lie declares n-
self not nsensible OF the great difficulty that exists IN
devsng proper plan for the custody and sale Keep.
ing of the public money-but indicates no preference
for one plan over another. Knowing the Importance
which has been attached to It by men Of great ablli-
ties and patriotism, he does not complain OF the
divorce Of the government from the banks-lt is the
union of the Treasury with the Executive depart
ment which creates his alarm yet lie does not con.
descend to inform rs, how he would separate The
Treasury from the Banks, without entrustlng the pub
lie money te the custody OF executive oifcers-One en-
tire parapraph he has dedicated 10 the Remuneration OF
an exclusively metallic currency During the canvass
he informed us, that he was the trend OF banks and 81
paper money. With more than 500 banks III the u
States all manufacturing paper money, and with three
suspensions specie payments IN about as many years
we would respectfully ask OF the General, whether al
this time there is danger to apprehend an exclu-
,iyely metallic currency, exclusively paper cur
rency; and whether his demonstration would not have
been more proaby directed against the latter than The
former.
But the Inaugural contains opinions and principles
startling 10 State Rights man, and which could
have emanated from mind at all imbued with the
true principles of the Constitution Passing pas
saces of eluvocal import, which may bear the con.
struction that the Constitution derives its authority
from the People of the Union, acting great ma
ton: whereas know it adopted by the People
of the several States, acting separate and IN
de pendent soyereignties-Ye come TO his declara
ton that the General Government has seized or
none of the reserved rights of the States and again
at is consoatory to him to reflect that most OF the N
stances Of alleged departure froul the letter or sPri
of the Constitution have ultimately received the sane
ton of majority Of the people. Indeed, he says, th
spreat danger to our institutions is not from an ''as
sumption by the government of power not granted b.
the people If this be so, then has Gen. Harrison dis
covered that the Republican party, with Thoma
Jefferson at its head, has been in error from tn
adoption of the Constitution 10 the present time. Doe
General Harrison really think that the Alien an
Sedition Law, the two bank charters, the system
Internal improvements by the General Government
0 and the Protective Tariff carried TO the point
b prohibition, were encroachment upon the reserve
rights of the States-and s it really matter of consoll
ton 10 him TO reflect that questions of disputed powe
f have generally been settled by the people in favour
r the Federal Government Let that Government