Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-01-28

threatened scourse Of licenlious press, which
has already thrown 4 stain upon their escuicheon,
that years cannot erase they should refuse 10 strike
one stroke for the South, woe be unto them! The
People Of Virginia will redress ihemselves-and
10 their tribunal the appeal will be made. They
will be swept from the public confidence, like
chat before the Winters wind
ALI. ABACK!
The an,i-Tcxas Wings have been terribly
dumblounded By The majority Of - in The House
of Representatives They had INDUCED the fiat
tering hope, lha, The Wings and the doc-iace De-
mocra,s would constitute a decided majority in
The House, and give the coup 4s grace 10 the mca-
sure The Washington correspondent OF The Bal
timorc Patriot denied on Thursday last, that the
Texas men could come NJ 10 their count, viz
sl05 out and out for the measure, and then upon
some - who will he somewhere in the skirmish
But. instead of 49, the resolutions passed with
800 The Richmond Wing is quite chap-tallen
upon The maltcr-seeing how lis confident cal
cula,ions OF defeat have been blown 10 the winds
by The votes OF the House, precisely As lis GER
tainiy Of Mr. Clay's election was blown skyhish
By the voice Of The people.
But OF all the presses which are thrown most
aback, is The National Intclligenccr In lis yes
IL
transactions of The preceding week.-Mrs. last
gloomy chapter being on "The eighth week Of the
session" Itdwells on the vote Of Saturday in the
most melancholy >tylc-objecls 10 The acquisition
Of Texas, except BY the forms of Treaty
urges a new constitutional objection, that Con-
GREss CANNOT MAKE A CONTRACT WITH FOREIGN
SATIoS--lllat THE LEGISLATIVE POWER NEVER CAN
DO THAT WHICH Can BE DONE EY TREArf-an1
that WHATEVER REQrIREs THE CONSENT or ANOTHER
NATION. BELONGS TO TIE TREATY POWER, AND CAN
ONLY EE REGULATED ~ IT."-lt then appeals 10
the Senate for protection against this gross ont
rase-lels that august body, which has SO often
thrown lis shield over the Constitution OF The
country. that TO them is now presented The issue
whether they will give their consent 10 do that by
legislation, which can only be done By Treaty,
and which they themselves have declared 10 be
unwise and inadmissible in that more solemn
form Whether they will permit their conslltu-
ional rights 10 be stricken down. the public peace
and the public faith 10 be compromised anu The
Union iise!t-,his happy Union OF the Old 'Thir.
teen, and their legitimate ollsprins-ulinaely and
| surely, though il may be dsiantly, rent asunder,
and those who are now brothers and members u
/ the same glorious family 10 become aliens and
strangers by this ilstarred vote Of the Represen-
rativcs Of The Peope"-ana winds up lis melan-
| choly did,rbe b. Gaming about war, ard de-
/ the blood Of the Revolution finally throws
down It's disconsoa,c pen with the pi,eous elacu-
lalion ave have not he hart al present 10 go any
further into the particulars of last weeks dolngs
deaths doins>" they NAV be TO the late sansuine
hopes OF the National Inleligencer
| 1t is strange, but yet most amusing, that like
| the poor Irishnan's back, you can never whip
these men 10 their own satisfaction. Nor they
cry ont for Treaty II can only be done by
treaty. Like the currcr leather is now The only
thing that is good for fortiiication-the lntesen-
Ger, well knowing, OF course, that 1t has been
tried, and cannot be acquired by Treaty-and
that, according TO his advice, OF course, Texas
| would be- forever lost 10 rs. But It IS most ainu-
| sing TO see, that in 1903, when Mr.. Jefferson OBJ
| tanned Louisiana, the Fedcralisis, and Mr.. Ross
| at their head maintained that The territory could
be acquired by Legislative action alone-and not
! hy treaty Now the wind blows the other way
/ Thus the Fcteraliss are consistent only in their
inconsistency, BY recommending that mode pre-
cisely which would not fail 10 defeat the great OBJ
iect in view Surely the Inielligencer canno,
have forgotten, that the Federal party tried 10 ex-
cludc Louisiana by all The means in their power
They denied the power 10 admit her, and even
threatened force TO prevent H. They too, talk
ed Jus, as sby OF dissolution then, and war, and
blood, as the more modern disciples OF the Fe-
i
| Texas.
| The " lnielligencer, however, is 50 much oc-
| clIpicd hy its own notions about treaties, COM
pacts, and ihe Joint action of The Senate with The
Executive power" 10 the exclusion OF The power
Of The House OF Representatives, that II entirely
strikes ont Of The Constitution the clause which
says that ".Nc1r States may be admitted ny TIC
| Congress into this Union'-(not BY The Joint ac-
ton OF the Senate with the Executive power
mark We but by 'lhe Congress Does the In
telligencer deny, that il does not require an I'M
dersanding, contract. call il what You VIII, be-
tween the United States and the new Stale, be
fore tits admitted? Why, that proposition would
| he absurd Does il contend, that none but New
States" can be admitted. which are carved out OF
the then existing territory ofthc Z. States! Then,
We ask Tie InlcIligenccr what becomes Of that re-
markabe opinion OF Mr. Madison (in the lith No
of "The Federalist?D "A second objection 10 be
made is, ION The objection drawn FRA. ne euthi
| of countU.) that The immediate object OF The re-
| dcral Constitution is 10 secure the Union OF TIC
thirteen primitive States, which we know 10 be
practicable: and 10 add 10 Mcm such States a!
man 0riSr il, tir,r arm bosomS, OR IN THEIR NEIGH
BoRnouDs. 7rh,ch IRE cdnhai d0uH toJc equity Prac
EcoAe" And what becomes, too, OF the prcce
dents of The new States of Louisiana, Missouri
and Arkansas, West Of the Mississippi, which
| nave Deen carved oUt OF n"Wii dC9uitu vi li'Vil
not then in "our own bosons,' but lying IN on
''neshborhood 7"
Pshaw! The argument cannot hold water. Tn,
whole article OF The lne'ligencer is last and des
peraie effort 10 prcrail upon The Senate 10 rampie
the Interests of the whole Union under their feet
and Law the interests the rights and the lcelng'
! Of the South al the feet of the abolition spirit
! Ifthc Senate should be now so infatuated as 10 dc
spise the viii! of the people, and disregard the
majority of - of their Representatives, God save
the Wing party, say We
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