The Arkansas banner., 1845-02-26

maorities, except the constitution and a sense of right and propriety.
 "And yet towards the conclusion, he claiins powers for the general government m certain cases, because there is no article in the eoh- sttuion prohibiting it's exercise" This sen- tence is wholly gratuitous; there IS not sentence, line, or word in the communication of Cipis that any man who understands the Enolish language can torture into such n,onstrors GbsMrdifu. "To conclude that Conpress may do whatever is not prohibited bv the constitution, is indeed going stone's throw beyond the most eXtravaganily iatltn- d;nous construction of the old federalists.o If this sentence was intended as applicable to the communication of CiUis, l shall not al tempt to characterize 1t, except to suppose it might have been penned as mere set phrase or a stereotype dogma ot the writer It cer- tainly never could have been intended by, or entered the head of a sane man that such doctrine was contained in that article. Sir, that article was intended to illustrate the doc trine that the Congress nor the Executive could not % beyond the powers actually cranted in the constitution. And that the government had not done so in the case of l Louisiana and Florida. shall in all charity presume that the writer was replying to tne 1 ts crack brained scribbler in the Gazette of last summer"
 If to claim for Congress the power a to declare war. grant letters of marque and re- prjsal. and to make rules and regulations con- cerning captures on land and watef,o and also that "the President shall have power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided tWo-thlrds oi the Senators present concur" and that those powers have been and may again be properly exercised by the Congress and the Executive in accordance with and under the sanction of the laws of nations, Is going a stone's throw beyond the most extravaganty lattudlnous construction of the old iederalists.o Then indeed have learned democracy III the wrong shool.
 After having imputed to Ciuis doctrines, and assumed for him :. crack bralned2 posi- tions that he does not hold and never wrote, it is extremely consoling to find salyo at the end-something in the character of Spanish minister concluding diplomatic note, may your urexcellencY live athousand years which being translated into English, means, 1ge hare said aothiag aeiH C cie1c oj pfejadieiag Ciris M ite minds of our rcaders''
 In the last number of Ciris, minated that l might at some future time controYen the position assumed in the Banner of the 22d of January, ultlmo, ill which the reserved right of the individual States for the ac4nisi- tion of foreign territory is claimed as a coll- shtutional power, and the great danger that i i,r,t H. ,T. IL. ,I.- indirectly to the liberty of the people, il eX- ercised by the United s ates,2 is deprecated. ] This seems to me To be q new discoYeY,- and If political discoveries were authorized to be patented, then indeed this discovery l per eGceLicacc should have a patent for the l time prescribed by law, or had 1t have been known to the present Congress, 1t would have saved vas! amount of trouble, in the way of sPeechmaking. Arkansas hy virtue ef her re- servedrlghts, could have made the purchase of Texas and have sold to the t. States, and pro- bably have made handsome profit. But unless we should have had recourse to the Herculean power of '' imperative and utis- pensable necessity,n the constitution would have been like lion in the way, fer the tenth article Of that instrument contains the following prohibitions: no State shall enter 1 into any treaty. allowance or confedefatoH,'' mo State shall, without the consent of Con gfess, lay any lmposts, &c.;" :. no Siate shall. without the consent of Congress, lay any duty Of storage, keep troops or ships oi war, Tn time of peace enter into any agreement or compact with another State, CT with a foreign power, or engage in a war,7 Sc. Now. SIT will you be so good as to point out the ways and means by which one of the States ot this Union by virtue of any reserved right left her on that subject, may have the cousti- tuional right ol acquiring or purchasing in airy shape foreign territory. It seems to me though '' crack brained'' l may be, that these prohibitions cut off all the known modes of acquisition. " Treaties" ,"" alliances , " con iederacles," agreements" or :. compacts.o seem to cover all the heretofore known modes oi bargain orsale, if there be any other known mode for State to acquire foreign territory, It IS new to me. risk but liule in yenturinr the prediction that il would be equally new and edifying to numerous class of your readers. CIViS CONGRESS--O --OREGoN-T EXAS-WASHING
 TON CORRESPONDENTS
 WAsHINGToN CIrY.
 February 6H 1915. To Ate Edito,s oflte Banaer:
 GENTLEMEN:- On the Sd inst the bill to organize Territorial Government oyer Ore gon passed the House of Representatives. by vote of 40 to 5. Thus you sec the prin- cipIes of our free institutions are spreading wider and wider, and will continue to advance no doubt until they cover the whole continent. But in this instance, as well as the passage of the resolutions annexing Texas to the United States Congress was only securing undoubt- ed rights which had been embarrassed by reckless treaty stipuaions. Yet the Oregon hll has been so changed since it was report cd by the Committee on Foreign Relations. that Its passage Is now of doubtful policy. The ProDiso to the 6th section of the bill is m these words. "Prouided hospever. Haf