The Ripley advertiser., 1843-09-23
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served inviolaie. Either Of these te.ul,
cannot be ton much deprecated, or too .ed,
'ou'ly guarded against by all true lovers 9
tho Republic.
II IS incons. .sien with tho proper limits q
. nm address like This TO dwell any longer Of
The first brunch Of our subject, and We viii
therefore proceed To consider The second.
Little indeed will be the satisfaction af
iorded to US by SUI ceeding 10 The elevation
OF our fayoriio candidate to The Presidenc,
u the star which represents Nj. sissippi n
moug the galaxy Of Wing States, shouI.
continue TO be veiled and shrouded BIZ the
dark cloud frepudidtion: contrasted with
her political allies, she would attract onI '
the glance of suspicion and mistrust--sbe
would resemble in The procession of her
sister States The ve.tal whose chastity had
been sullicd by The AIbenian tyranf, and
like her, excite among the beholders emo
tions Of pit, and scorn, mingled with excra
IT, n against those who had thus been in
strumen'al in corrup'ing and degrading one
ot a pure and honored throng. The fiIlet
of honor would wi,her on her crimsorcd
brow and the serpent of remorse encircle
her blasted foim with its envedomed fold,
But admi, II to be practicable to divide
communities, by plain lines Of demarkalion
into distinct generations; it does not follow
necessarily, that one generation cannot
bind succeeding ones, so far as reIutes 10
'he government ofpcrsons and property.
By what right does parent clog his estate
with mortgages or other membranes so as
10 bind his soE who inherits that estate 2
We need only reply that This right is sane,
tuned by all Governments and has been
i'nmemoriaIIy attached to The right Of prop.
cry, from tho earliest ages of the wol ID
And what is a State debt but an obIigs ton
con;rac ed By The citizens Of the State,
owning The land, negroes and other heredit.
amcn's il the Safe, acting collectively and
moi Individually? Aud who compose The
next generation, but the children Of these
inheriing as such the property
which thcirancestors acquired and improve
fdf And why should not the property
thus Inherited, be subject to membranes
rharecd upon il By is former owners uc,ing
in The same manner, il they
had acted iudinidnalty? No jusl distinction
in point of principle, can be reasonably du-
iuced from the immaterial difference in
poinr OF fact. Such distinction once ad
mit,ed, would be fa'al to all government; il
would absulye each successive generation
from the law IF decent and distribulion-ilI
would destroy mans light to transmit his
props rty by devise--it would annihilaie the
right Of properly itself, and Of course abol
sh every law intended to guard that prop
ery u. ainst fraud, heti, rapine and des-
rucnon. Even the constitution would lose
lis authority unless approved anG adopted
new al stated periods, by each successive
and society would thus be at in
ervals, resolved into its original elements
Bn, il is needless to descant On This subject;
III na'ions. including our own, have imme-
MORALLY exc. ed The righ, of borrowing
money on The filth Of the State or sover-
Federal Government has but recently ex>
lngui>hed pubic debt Contracted in a
season of adversely and peril and without
which, the sinews Of war would have been
,aralyz and the blessings of peace nevcr
,,lainei r enjoyed We have been on
he eve Of war with several foreign powers
n consequence, not of their refusal, but of
heir mere failnre to pay to US sums Of
money claimed by our citizens, as iniem-
,ily for spoations committed by usurpers,
luring seasons Of revolution and anarchy
Not one Gihe nations thus indebted, stopped
% the ignomini, us plea, that such debt was 8
BY their constitutions. II was {
enough for them to know, that persons
:laimng to be sovereign and de facto, exer- a
;ising all the powers Of sovereignty, had i
the injury for which our citi {
.e1s claimed redress Whenever people &
permit their ostensibe government to per.
orm acts which result in injury to other H
nations, such people are bound to make 4
'ull restitution therefor. This results from q
he power Of such people to regulate and
model their own internal affairs and the i'm q
possibility 70 other nations, Of the task Of I
INVESTIGATING The title Of such actise sover- /
,ign,, 10 the prerogatyes which they pos
,ess and exercise. Spain affords but one
exception to the general example that the
lcis Of each sovereign arc binding on hisd !;
successors. BY their organic law, no mon
lrch can bind his successors, and therefore,
la,ions or individuals dealing with Spain