Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1846-04-11
Correspondence of the Times.

Correspondence of the Times.
Messrs. BEssoN & GREEs:--As Il is raining
and canno: in consequence be ploughing,
have concluded that perhaps | might be Of some
use to the public by saying something respecting
the thing commonly called the New Constitution,
but which conceive 70 be jumbled up mass
Of incongruity. And this, some designing men
will insist on us taking in preference to the Old
Constitution, because il is easily amended
Now, this is all hoax, and they know it; for
you cannot propose an amendment TO the thing
for four years. and in that time the old one will
force an amendment its self to the most objec.
tionable feature, viz: Representation. The SOW.
ereign people have already condem ned that fea-
ture Of the old one by an overwhelming majority
Of near twenty.6v thousand; but let the thing
now presented be once adopted, and these de.
signing upstairs who are now advocating it will
Immediately cry out it is the peoples Consttu.
tion-they have approved Of it, and it should not
be touched. Mark my words; this will be their
course.
Then lei us fall back for the present on the
old Constitution, and II we cannot get another
Convention, in four years we will force change
so as to have Democratic or Republican Rep.
resentation. By so doing we will show those
upstarts that the bono and sinew Of the land are
yet supreme, and that their will must and shall
prevail; and If our necessities require Banks, we
will have the power to make them without Con.
s,itutional restraint. Already has there been
much complaint amongst the farmers that they
could not get their money for their tobacco, even
when sold and delivered; and am informed the
faul. is not with the buyers, but the Bank cannot
afford the facilities often when good paper is Of
fered-and had there been no bank their situa.
ton would have been much worse.
This Convention, judging from their work, ap'
pears more like body Of men met to vex and
perple1 the people, than deliberative body as.
sembled for the general good. At present, and
for many years past, there has been much COM
plant Of our excessive high ia Z, yet we mus
have it increased threefold, whether we can beal
it or not, for the purpose Of keeping up free
schools, whether we have children to educate OF
not; but am reminded that Mr.. c. F. Jackson
has found new definition Of the word "shall, u
which believe is, you "moy" If you want to-
and although the Constitution says that each
member Of the Legislature and all officers
'shall" take an oath to support the Constitution
it only means they 'may" take an oath to sup
port the Constitution! Agreeable to said Jack
sons logic, If you take an oath to support thu
Constitution, and that instrument says yor
"snALI" do thing, still you are not bound to dc
it! You may, or you may let it alone-and ir
either event be innocent or at least not guilty o
perjury. |, however, think my old friends con
science has got too elastic, il these are his opn
ions. He may, however, have set his eye OF
Congress, and consequently never expects te
take an oath to support the Constitution, and i
he can make others believe the command is no
obligatory it may answer his present purpose.
j SANCO.