Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-12

ed to that extent, In The ncw Constitutions Most eH'
cellent ogican, ndetd For, Isl. As We have shown
the power TO establish any Bank under the coniedeia'
ton denied by Mr. Madison and others; and, 2dy
The confederation and the Constitution are entifeiy
distinct caegOries. No power pass IRON Tue Que
into the other. The "LeglsIaure" the Congress) Of
the Confederation IS essentially distinct IRON Tue Con-
gress OF the Constitution. When The last congress
created, 1t endowed with powers and car
RED nothing with 1t out of The confederation-to even
itself wns not there.
Every argument of this writer, then, is founded on
the grossest faucy. And 10 have another. for
The purpose OF eking out his position, he resof's 10
other cases by way OF analogy He says, propos',cn
was made to insert in the Federal Constitution tl's
clause "fhc Liberty of the press shall be 'nV'oaoy
preserved, and was rejected can We therefore nier,
that the bsrly of the press shall Not be preserved
nvioate ? The analogy does not hold, and, thefe-
fore, the argument falls to the ground II he haa con-
suited the Madison papers, he would have founu why
The proposition was rejected
".ur Sherman. II is unnecessary. The power oil
Congress does not extend to tie press and, Mer"e'
it was rejected.
Another analogy which he is pleased to rely
proposition made ard rejected, to add to the oh
article proviso. "Tha no State without It's assent,
shall De Affected in its internal police, or deprived OIL lis
equal suffrage in Ibe Senate And therefore, are we
to conclude, that the General Government have power
to NEEDLE with our internal police "What nuts, me
e1clams,) for the Ab,lonis:s - Whist execrable
stuff, say we In the first place, the man is ignorant
that the last portion of this clause mns subsequently
adopted, and forms part of the 5h article OF the
Constitution. But the original proposition as to police,
nc, was met by this objection of Mr.. Madison. "Be-
GIN with these special provsos and every Stale VIII
insist on them for their boundaries exports, &c.
The last case which he cites is of proposition
made 10 add TO The llh clause, which gives the power
Ito declare war, the words, "and make peace, and
rejected unanimously -and, therefore, says this poll
teal Solomon, "wi!l it be hence inferred that the
power does not exist Or Will it be taken for granted,
that IL esteemed such necessary incidentto the
power to "declare war;, that it would be idle waste
Of words 10 insert III the Constitutions We leave it 10
readers TO decide And we'll il that is left 10
wiser mead an his to decide Congress has the
power "to declare war, and the question was whether
they should give them also The power 10 'make peace,
or lave il 10 the Executive to mske peace Thu
Convention unanimously determined, and for sufficient
reasons, TO leave it in his hands, by and with the nd
vice and consent OF the Senatsns necessary conse-
qrence OF The foreign relations and Treaty making
power
So much for the constitutional argument. We refer
to the ncontrovertible facts which "A Disciple Of JEFF
ierson states in relation 10 The constitutional doubts
and scruples Of IN. iliusrious Washington, as ind
eating The deep impression which the of the Fee
derul Convention still preserved over his mind.