The Whig standard., 1843-12-23
PUNcHISMS.
pESArEs OF rHR LOGICAL ABSTRACTION SOCIETY AT
mETAfHys sICAL HALL--CONTINUEp,


pEnArEs OF THE LOGICAL ABSTRACTION SOCIETY AT
MErAPHys sICAL HALL--CONTINUEp,
Question--"Ho,c can the Constitution be amended 2"
Mr.. Frenchman contended that it could not be
amended at ALL because the members of Con-
gress and Of the several State Legislatures, the
only bodies which can propose amendments or
adopt them, having taken an oath to support
the Constitution, it was evident they could not,
without forswearing themselves, vote to amend
it. Congress is unit, and therefore she must
act as unit. "The Constitution is unit too;
there is but one Constitution and one Ia female
Congress" Ergo, the Constitution cannot be
amended.
Mr.. Wiseman expressed himself under great
obligations to the gentleman who had just taken
his seat, for the very lucid, profound, and COM
prehensive argument he had favored them with.
He had announced that he had ga new idea,"
which he wished the world to understand, and
he must do 81 his friend" the Justice 10 say, his
idea was new, and to him, professed abstrac-
uonist, very interesting and important one.
door to all amendments of the Constitution, and
yet, he thought amendments might be arrived
at. There was time when the House of Rep
resentatives was House, and yet the members
were not sworn. This was after having elected
a Speaker, and before they were sworn; now at
this precise mement they might propose or con-
cur in an amendment without being foresworn
because, not being yet sporn, they could not be
| foresworn.
| MIR. Frenchman, and other members of the So
ciety, expressed the high qualification they felt
hearing the forcible andingenious argument of Mr..
Wiseman, and their entire conviction that it was
the way, and the only way, amendments to the
Constitution could be proposed or concurred in.
And thereupon the Society adjourned
MExIco.-The barque Ann Louisa arrived at
New York on Tuesday from Vera Cruz, which
place she left on the 3Oth ult
Santa Ana was at Vera Cruz when the Ann
Louisa left, preparing the forts and getting in
readiness for the arrival of the British fleet,
which was expected every day from Havana.
FRANCISCO MendeZ, passenger IN the Ann
Louisa, is the bearer Of dispatches from our
Minister at Mexico, Gen. Waddy Thompson.
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce states that
some remarkable ruins have recently been dis
covered in the department of Oaxaca.
In accommodating the district Of Teotitlan, in
order to ascertain the best route for road, the
surveyor, Rafael Villa Gomez, came upon " the
ruins Of great town" (poblacion.) 1t had been
only partially explored at the date of our ad-
vices, but the ruins of more than one hundred
houses had already been observed, and the guide
said the principal edi6ces were still beyond.
These ruins are called "The Palaces of Militia"
They exhibit style of architecture altogether
unlike the styles known in art, either ancient or
modern; yet they are not wanting in Just proper
tion, symmetry, and beauty, which give splendor
and grace to the whole, as we'll as the parts.
This ruined town must have been built by a race
which preceded the Mexicans, but whether by
the Indians or people still more remote, is a
question which belongs to the antiquarians, and
we are not disposed to go into it here.
From The Sandwich Islands-Letters from an
officer the U. S. ship Constellation dated Oahu,
9Th August, state that the ship would sail for