Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-03-14
MULTIPLICATION TRIUMPHANT!

MULTIPLICATION TRIUMPHANT!
The cRESsIoNAL OUTRAGE CoMPLrrED-
The Constitution and law have been tEampled UNI
der foot, and political villany has tTiumphed! On
"Wednesday, the l4th inst, the loco foco house OF
representatives proceeded openly and deliberately,
pursuant to an agreement made in caucus, to null
LEY AN ACT OF THE LAST CONGRESS,
and receive 40 members the persons chosen in the
four States Of New Hampshire Georgia, Mississippi
and Missouri. BY GENERAL TICKET, in open
violation Of the law passed last session, requiring
such members to be chosen by districts.
The matter appears to have been 90 well arrang-
cd BY drilling, that with the exception Of three or
four from the south, not single loco foco member
of the House refused to sanction the outrage, or
raised his voice against it The deed, vile and
damning as it was received their unanimous apprO-
baton! All the wings, headed by Mr.. Adams, ex-
cept two, refused to vote, upon the ground that the
whole proceeding was in violation Of both consttu-
ton and law. ..r.. .....
To say that the act is of dangerous character,
is to employ language altogether too moderate for
the occasion. The movement is altogether reuol,s-
tso'sayy, and introduces precedent that may in
like manner sanction the notification of any or all
laws that any unprincipled majority may fnd upon
our statute books and which for party purposes they
may wish to get rid of. To allow single house Of
Congress thus to nullify and set aside law or
section Of alaw Of a preceding Congress merely by
its own vote, to abandon the government at once
to anarchy, and subsequent destruction.
What makes this case the more outrageous and
the less defensible, is the fact that tscetytco of
the twenty .six states have complied with all the
provisions of the act condemned, but to accommo.
date four multiplying and factious states, who have
arrayed themselves against the other twenty two
well as the last Congress- the Congressional null.
LITIGATION is carried out, thus violating our political
compact as glaringly az the constitution and laws
themselves.
What renders the affair still worse land proves the
hypocrisy ofthose whe seek to defend their infamous
conduct under the plea that the act condemned is
unconstitutional in requiring members to be chosen
by districts, is the additional fact that the nullca
tion is made to apply to the single section only,
which provides that the states shall be divided into
districts, all the other provisions Of the same law
having been complied with, even by the multiplying
states, as well as the others! Thus according to
the nuli6ers, the law, far does not interfere
those provisions Of the same act, which they wish
to get rid Of, are unconstitutional!
To show, however, that they had no ground
whatever to stand upon, we again copy the Consti-
tuition, defining the power of Congress to regulate
entirely, under an express provision, the in
article first OF the constitution says:
"The times, places, and manner of hold.
Ing elections for Senators and Represents.
tives shall be prescribed i'm each State by the
legislature thereof bst the Congress may
regulations, except as to the place Of chOos-
ing Senator's"
Such are the provisions Of the Constitution. The
power given to Congress to MAKE AND AL
TER" the regulations respecting the election OF
members, covers the whole ground and need not
be argued. The arguments sought to Justify the
notification are based upon A Liz, and the gull
ty factionists know it.
But to show further the entire absence Of all
right, under any circumstances, of the House of
Representatives to exempt four states Of the Union
from the operation of provision of law with which
81 eaEe k IN aa pal a
states that claim such exemption, we need quote
nothing stronger more to the point than the fol-
lowing sentiment from John C.. Calhoun. in his
late political letter the relative rights Of the
states as members Of the Union. Mr. Calhoun
says:
"That which they have urged with the greatest
confidence is. that each State has right to appoint
delegates az she pleases. Inject it,Br UTTERLY NE
NYING THAT THERE ! ANY SUCH RIGHT. That
each State has right to act as it pleases in what
ever relates to itself exclusively, will deny
BUT 1T IS A PERFECTLY NOVEL. DOCTRINE THAI
ANY STATE HAS SUCH A RIGHT WHEN SHE COMES
TO ACT IN CONCERT WITH OTHERS, IN REFERENCE
TO WHAT CONCERNS THE WHOLE. In such cases,
it il the plainest dictate of common sense, that
WHATEVER AFFECTS THE WHOLE SHOULD
SENT OF ALL, AND NOT BY THE DISCRE-
TON OF EACH"
Here we have the argument of an avowed NULL
fer which speaks as strong condemnation as need
be sought against the four nullifying states. He
denies as positively language can make it, that
states have RICH. to act in their discretion, each
for itself in matters that concern the whole But
the loco focos Of New Hampshire, Georgia, Mis-.
sissippi and Missouri claim they are the only Judges
as to how THEY shall elect members Of Congress,
and loco foco House of Representatives sanctions
the doctrine! The leading and ablest advocate of
notification itself il cast in the back ground by the
unprincipled managers and factionists, who have
trampled both constitution and law under their feet
to secure their party objects
The event, when weighed in all it's bearings will
20 far to render more certain the condemnation
that is to overwhelm loco focoism next fall 1t has
shown in language more significant and fearful than
any that has ever before been presented to the peo-
pie. that that unprincpled party if left in power,
even to partial extent, sooner than to submit to
those restraints without which the government
cannot exist, will undermine and destroy the gov
eminent itself Like the Jacobins Of France they
care nothing for liberty, but are traitors to the
constitution, the advocates of anarchy and licen-
tiousness.-P0s'ghkeepsie Journal + Eagle.
Oo-Receipts Of the Housatonic Rail Road in No
vember, December and January. ....
Nov. '43, for Passage S2,415 46. e..
=" Freight 6,436 So.
Mail 32S IS.
$s.lso IT..
Dec. 43, Passage $4,7i3 IS. ..,.r
" Freight 1850 81.
" Mail 1928 IS.
$i2,lo4 OF.