Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-05-27

.,e law. will essentially impair the right
of the sovereign States to define ana PUNISH clime'
committed against their own laws, aha w'ihih !he"
- territory; and transfer the trial oil these crlies
" a. i;.r:, ;udpes of the u s. sitting at their cham
- .,d tscijinr both the law and the iact WITHOUT
h ,Ts,.v ne iurv No doubt my Wing friends De.
r ,h,s "a be The true policy OF the country; but u ~
nsysrb.less. startling fact, that more measures a.
rcctly tending towards constellation oi an .he
al ,oyer in the Federal Government have been ORGY
,,a, d,;no the bref period Of the present Admins
a,nn than We had witnessed since the great c-
vii revolution oil louo ;, .
.Mr President there has been no period when the
,a,ss or our institutions abroad have been inspired
~, h,o, homes than at the prese nj moment And
h.ro re1mit me TO refer to article IN The foreign
Quarterly Review OF January last, for the purpose OF
showing that the friends OF centralzation the pre-
conf asoect of our affairs with unsnPpressed delight
The writer congrauates himself INA, ne growing hl'
no,ance Of the monarchca party and the consequent
t. natural leaning to what the parent Slate ID our
cn,n,rv would be guaranty against war between
tho two nations The Mcleod affair, IN ms OPP.
non shas demonstrated the absuraty OF separate ana
dsnsodent Governments IN the different States. The
."u for this is pronounced to be Capitalization;
h;b e,vs the writer twill he the first decided step TO-
a,ds monarchy Let the people OF the United States
on feel the benefits of Capitalization, and they will
,so feel that Capitalization without monarchy, has IN
convcniences which II would be desirable 10 remove
.Orr oninon is that fifty years-perhaps twen:y-wi'l
40, mass over without monarchy; but that It will, III
tho first instance be rather the sembance than the re
a,v Of monarchy; that, by degrees, however, America
;li settle down into a sober monarchcal, and al the
same time constitutional, Stale
..And all this arises from the fact that MIR. Webster
,s Of able to take Mcleod from the custody of the
Snpreme Court of New York, and surrender HIM, with
ont trial TO the British Government. The States are,
therefore, be deprived of the Jurisdiction over crimes
committed within their own territory ana centraliza'
lion is TO be thus effected This bill, however unnen-
,onllv comes precisely within The range Of the foreign
reviewers prediction But there is another instructive
MASSAGE in this Review, which ought not to omit II
is as follows:
them more than one dpnma al foreign courts declare that
, evil a" the rcsen, y strongly felt that
civ practicable without the intermediate sep 81 ecia
Ization' !. ,,., Lc,-. H.
al wish We had such foreign dPlomatlsls before the
Senate in executive session. think We should make
short work with them. lfany such exist! they must De
men who have lived long abroad 10 have forgot.
ten the charms Of liberty the spendors OF monarchy,
nourshed by the tolls and groans OF subject ml''ons-
Never was there period when We ought 10 recu win
more heartfelt devotion to the republican principles oil
onr ancestors and derive instruction IRON ms pure
fountain Events in progress, which render
such a recurrence more necessary Than those
which existed al the dale OF the famous Virginia resp
lulious of l99S. shall read one OF these TO the Sc
nate as strictly applicable 10 the present tine 1t is as
follows:
..s, h,, sp has in snnry been manifested by
The Federal enlarge liz by forced constitute
lions 81 constitutional charter which deiirs hem ana ina,
indications appeared design 10 rxpn1nd certain general
phrases (Which having hren copied o The very iirh grant "f
prer> the iorcr articles oil confederation Were e aps
Ia he m,onSrued destroy The meaning and effect "i
the particular enumeration which necessarily explains ana i''
the general phrases, and soa 10 consolidate me states w
into one sn.cregniy the obvious tendency ana hesahe result
The n,ed States absolute best mixed monarchy
"Iet US then, under the influence OF this rerered
authority proceed 10 discuss The constitutional ques-
tons involved in the present bill.