The North-Carolina standard., 1843-12-13
TIE WRIG PROTEST..

1t will be perceived, by EeEereaee to the Con
grcssionaI proceedings, that, previous to the or
gahizalion Of the House OF Representatives, Mr..
Barnard of New York. and ffysOne members,
protested agains admitting their seats the snem-
bers elected un;ier the General Ticket system
from the States of New Hampshire, Missouri,
Mississippi and Georgia This Protest Is signed
by MHssrs, R,yncr, CRngman and B.rringcr Of
this State. Ii is 10 substance as follows 1t as,
sumes the Act Of Congress of June 25th, 1912,
/" for the appor,onment of Representatives among
the several States according to the sixth ccnsns"
and directing the legislatures of the States to lay
off districts and elect from them to be constitution
al, and therefore binding upon the Suites afore-
said; It says, that after the passage of this law.
election by goneral ticket is election; and that
therefore the members coming fton the aforesaid
States, have no right to take seats upon the floor
of the House. In fine, it proposes to throw out
of the House of Representatives four sovereign
States Of this ConfderacyI
We are in favor Of the District system. 1t is
the one established IN nearly all the States North
Carolina among them butwe believeit to bcthe sole
general province Of the respective States primarily
TO adopt in their own good pleasure either the Gen
eral or the District systcm. The following is the
article in the Constitution relied ON by the Wings
in passing the law in question:
"The t.nes places and manner Of holding elections
for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in
each State by the Legislature thereof but the Congress
may at any time BY law make aler such regulations
except as to the places of choosing Senator'S"
Here is division of power admirable as it
is delicate. TO have given the sole and entire
power to the National Legislature, would have
been utterly destructive of the rights OF the States
IN this matter; every permanent Government must
have in itself some Of the elements necessary, in
the last resort to its own pFeservation therefore
it is thought it would not have been proper or safe
to have given the sole power to the State Legisa-
lures; and for these reasons it was invested first
in the States. and ultimately in the Federal Gov
vernment As Mr. Hamilton said, it is power
to be used, the part Of the F'edeVa1 Government
"IN THE LAST RESORT" Here we meet the
Federahsts with the opinion of their own great
leader II is TO be used, not as the Federaists
are now trying to use it, to expel from the House
members bearing about their persons the "5rOad
seals" Of their respective States, but when any
State or States shall utterly refuse to elect Repre-
sentatives, or when, in the midst of anarchy and
violence. men who have no right, under the pro-
visions ofestablished law shall aspire to seats in
the House. at is not pretended" says Mr..
Hamilton, in the Federalist, :" that thiss right
aOouId eOer be used for the exclusion Of any State
from its share IN the representations" But Mr..
E4amiton's disciples are worse men than he
thought they would be. They have endeavored
to go farther than even has dangerous principles
Justify them in going; and among these Wiling
followers in the footsteps of Barnard and John
Quincy Adams, we are sorry to see Messrs Bar
ringer Rayner, and Clingman. a