Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-10-07

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I have found IN certain resolves Of my
native country sent i 10 tho late Jolly
Convention, io which body ! was elected
u delegate, but Tho anti bond caucus mem.
bors lramplcd II Ondcf foot, Tho 70.
solves, containing the standard alluded To-,
were unanimously adopted byo public
Injecting In Fairfax county, July 18Th,
l77l, at which George Washington pre-
sided as Chairman, Benjamin Harrison,
father of William Henry lIenrrson Noted
as Secretary, and George Mason of rcvo.
lutionary memory, as reader. II was re.
soyodat the said meeting, "lhnt If the
destruction of The tea ut Boston be rcgor-
ded as an INVASION of private property
that we [thc people Of Fairfax shull be
willing to contribute towards paying the
East India Company the value, bu, as We
consider the said company as tools and
instruments in the hands of the British
Government and the cause OF our presen,
distress, we should forbcar from dealing
with them,' aud "lhat all tea, now in the
Colony, be deposited in store house until
a sufficient sum Of money be raised 20
pay the owners the value aud then to be
publicly burned and destroyed" (See
Fairfax Company Resolves, Washington s
writings, vol. 9, res. ~
"The duty on tea, for ras NC a reve-
nue. IN America" was by the same NEE
ting declared to be grossly unconstitu-
tonal. Yet Washington, Harrison and
Mason and the people of Virginia, did not
make the anti-bonders plea of unconstitu-
tionalty an excuse for invading the rights
Of private property. On the contrary
they vindIcated the constitution, and al
the same time most scrupulously respec.
ted the private rights Of their most bitter
enemies. The Fairfax meeting com
planned, that their constitution had beer
violated, not only by the duty on tea, bu
by taking away the right Of trial by ju
ry and ordering persons charged will
crime to be tried in another country ;
they complained of the unconstitutional
ity Of the bills, then be fore Parliament
"to abrogate the charter Of Massachusetts
and to protect murderers ofthe people Q
that provinces" they complained that til
vengeance, then being inflicted on thC
Bostonans, was unconstitutional and they
opened a subsc riptlon, 10 raise money Il
purchase provisions, to send TO the suffer
ing poor of Boston, whom the British
were trying to starve into submission
yet with all those multiplied violations
Of the Constitution, the great Washington
and his cotemporarcs kept an eye single
to the private rights of Individuals
They next proceeded to point out the
means to enable them to be Just and at the
same time generous. The l4th Resolve
declares:
"That all manner Of luxury and ex-
travagancc should be laid aside, and that
it is the indispensable duty of all GENTLE
MEN to set examples temperance, for
titude, frugality and industry and to give
encouragement to arts and manufactures,
to pay attention to the cultivation OF flax
an cotton and to the breeding Of sheep"
Washington and the Virginia patriots
further resolved to buy nothing they
could do without--'no linens exceeding
fifteen pence Qwenty cents) per yard
They moreover resolved: "that every
little Earring interest and dispute which
ever happened in the colonies should be
buried in oblivion They recommend a
Stat convention 10 nominate delegates 10
The first American Congress and appoin-
ted Washington and Broadwater to rep
resent Fairfax county in the convention.
have thus given sketch of the proceed
ngs Of the frst Congress. In the report
% the Union Bank, page 1888, House
ournal l842, The anti-bond chiefs have
put forth piece of imitation patriotism,
which has induced many good democrats
o believe that the anli.bonders occupy a
similar position to that assumed by our
evolutionary fathers in their glorious re-
sistance TO an invasion of their constltu-
iona rights. No one objects to the anti
bonders for unfolding the doctrine Of
constitutional rights, but the objection to
hem lies in their making that pretext TO
invade the private rights Of property
/ was their pretext for the regulators
dict and for their letting the assets Of the
Union Bank be wasted. 's.'3a
The Virginia patriots resolved to dress
n course linens and woolens, to deny
themselves every luxury and 10 lead a
ile of industry and economy TO enable
hem to pay the if enemies the value Of
goods to make a bonfire Of;
md then took their stand on the rock Of
nstice TO mailtain their constitutional
ights; whereas the anti bonders began
heir pretended defence Of constitutional
lights by jumping into the mire of repu-
iation.--No violation of the constitution
an be plead in excuse for depriving any
ct Of men Of five millions Of dollars by
n exparte trial before an improper tr lbu-
aE II. the iagl0rioas refusal TO pay be
he sentiment Of Mssissippi, let II be ea- I