Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-09-24
they seldom Judge or determine r;ght A.

See the excellence Of the British Exec
utive. He IS placed above tempta,ton.-l
Nothing short of such an executive "a
kIngi can be efficient.-A. Hamilton.
The second branch of the Legislature
ought to be composed of men Of great and
established property IN aristocracy, men
who, from pride, supper: permanency.-
To make them completely Independent, [of
the people, they must be chosen for life.
Such an aristocratic body would keep down
the turbulence of democracy.-Speech of
Mr.. Morris, leading Federalis,. in the
convention that framed the Constitution
Freeholders are, commonly speaking,
persons of sober, frugal, and temperate ha-
bits, little disposed to abuse power, or for
get right. But what is the character of
the poor? Generally speaking, vice and
poverty go hand in hand-Judge Van
Ness, noted Federalist of New York.
Is there in human affairs an occasion of
profigacy more shameless or more conta-
gious than general election? Every
spring gives birth and gives wings TO this
epidemic mischief.-Fisher Ames, a lead
ing Federals,.
Our Constitution is no better than any
other piece of paper, nor so good as a
blank, on which more perfect one might
be wrtten.-Fisher Ames
Our Federal Republic was manifestly
founded on mistske-on the supposed
existence Of sufficient political virtue in
the people, and on the permanency and
authority of public morals.-F Ames.
CT hot i,a IL ( o L.,
Constitution did not make some regulation
of the right of suffrage, so as to secure to
men of property their due weight and in
tluence in society for ii ought to be deemed
a first principle in all free countries, that
property shoule govern.-A member of the
Hartford Convention.
There is tendency in the poor to cevet
and share the plumber of the rich.-Chaa-
cellor Kent, in the N. York Convention.
That man who holds in his hands the
subsistence of another, will always be able
TO control his will. Such a person will
forever be the creature Of the one who
feeds, shelters, clothes, and protects him.
This class of persons Tlaborers and all
persons employed at wagesl should be as
subservlent TO the will O! their employers
as persons of color. Judge Spencer, ia
the n. Y. State Convention.
Those who merely perform military la
Dor and service on the roads, do not ordi-
narily compose that class of electors that
can be deemed independent; and every
man should be excluded from voting, who
has not the capacity to give an impartial
and independent, sufrage-Rufus King, a
distinguished Federais, in the New York
State Convention.
They 1.-THE foreign emigrants] are men
whose wants, ii not whose vices, have sent
them from other states and countries, TO
seek bread by service, i not by plumber.
Elisha Williams. distinguished FEEDER
alist in the n. Y. Cons ention.
The man who feeds, clothes, and lodges
another, has real and absolute control
over his will. Say what we may, the man
who is dependent upon another for his sub
sistence, Fl. e. gives his labor for his wa
ges. is not an Independent man, and he
will vote in subservience 10 the dictation of
his employer.-Judge Spencer, repeated in
the ~ Y. Convention.
knavery, associated with knowledge, is
more fit depository Of power than honest
gnorance.-N ational Inteligencer
One argument we hope the Pennsylva-
MIA Convention will take from the expert
ence OF New York-not undulv to enlarge
the right of voting. By making hat RICH,
universal in this State, the Consequence, as
general rule, has been, the throwing of
the whole political power OF The State into
he h,n Of b,. L.
in the community, nor knowledge to distn,
guish between the claims aud characters
of opposing candidaies.-N. I. American
wing paper.
Bad as was the character of Aaron Burr.
his election 10 preference to Mr.. Jefferson
would have oeen a blessing to the country
N. Y. Com. Adv.
Tie great mass Of the people are, and
always must be, very incompetent Judges
OF the qualifications necessary for the chief
magistrate of grea: nation. Webster,
whig leader.
Ii would seem therefore TO be the part Of
wisdom. to form government on property.
Daniel Webster.
Men who have an interest in the soil
only are allowed to vote in Rhode Island.
Our elective franchise is so free, so I'M
checked, So heedlessly ruinous, that Amer
leans are not rulers Of :heir OWE land
Rhode Island has shown US the value of
checks and restraints on this right of vo-
ting .-N. Y. Star, whig paper.
The representative should no, be palsied
by the will OF his conslituents-John @.
Adams.
Neither prevention nor punishment is
within our mcans-the self-governing peo
pie are no; TO be restrained by their own
right impulses, and our system affords no
N. T. American.
We venture TO assert, that country
cannot be well governed. without some
more efficient agency of prevention than
exists in ours.-N. Y. American.
1t is the dictate of benevolence and hu-
mainly 10 sell poor man, at a sherifT's
sale, into involuntary servitude. until he
EARNS enough to pay the fine imposed BY
the court.-Elisha Whiulesey, whg Con-
gresham from Trumbull, Ohio.
Meeting NTH Rebuf.--PlIcher met