Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-08

That by the necessary and proper measures, 10
be concrrrentiy and comparatively taken, i0ers
meant measures KNOWN TO THE CONSTITUTION,
particularly the ordinary control of the People and
Legislatures of the States over the Government OF
: the United States, CANNOT BE DoUBTED."
sit is worthy of remark, and explanatory OF the
intentions of the Legislature, that the words not
law, but utterly null void, and Of mo force or effect
. which had followed in one of the resolutions, the
word unconstitutional were struck out By COM
mon consent. Though the words were, in fact, but
: synonymous with unconstitutional, yet, TO guard
against misunderstanding Of this phrase as
more than declaratory Of opinion, the word un-
constitutional alone was retained, as not Liable 10
8 that danger.
.The published Address Of the Legislature TO the
people, their constituents, affords another concu
: sive evidence Of its views. The address warns
them against the encroaching spirit of the General
Government argues The euncons,ituti0nality OF the
alien and sedition acts points to other instances
: in which the constitutional limits had been over
leaped; dwells upon the dangerous mode OF der-
wing power by implacaton and, in general presses
: the necessity of watching over the consolldafing
!. tendency OF the Federal policy. But nofhsng q
said that car, be undersfood to look to means Of
maintaining the rights Of the States beyend me
: regular ones, WITHIN THE FORMS Or rHE CoNsTI-
TUITION. Hi N
"If any further lights on the subject could be
needed, very strong one is reflected in the an
swers to the resolutions by the States which pro-
tested against them. The main objecticn OF these,
+" beyond few general complaints Of the indamma-
s tory tendency of the resolutions, NI&e directed
/. against the assumed authority ofa Su(5 e|1tufe
8 To declare q law Of sho Uuited EfnfSo x l,3<n<
z tional, which they pronounced a.
Z interference with the exclusive jugl
8 Supreme Court of the United 119l
z resolutions been regarded as GcoeelI
Z tanning right, in an indiuiduGt 6yd6e 6lxesf,
: By force, sse execution Of a iaU Of ne O1nifed
: States, 1t must be presumed THAT m WOULD
: HAVE BEEN CONSPICUOUS osgDcT OF THEIR
: DENUNCIATIoN."
We conclude this brief notice of the attempt 10
make Mr.. MADISON responsible for doctrines which
he wholly repudiated, by introducing to our read
ers, and recommending to the very serious consd-
Grafton Of the Editors Of the "Southern Press"
the following Opinion OF that iNustrious Statesman
being nearly the last sentences which, towards the
close Of his life, he committed to paper:
"ADv1cE TO MY COUNTRY
SIS this aduics, if 1t ever see the light, wsa not
do so till lam no more, it may be considered as
issuing from the tomb, where truth alone can be
respected, and the Happiness Of man alone con-
suited. 1t ,oiA be entitled, therefore, to ,chateuer
,0eigM can be deriued from good Intentions, and
from the experience Of one sOho has served his
Country in uarious stations through a period Of
forty gears ,oho espoused IN his youth, and adj
hered through his life, 10 the cause Of its liberty ];
and ,oho has borne a part IN most Of the great
transactions which ,0iA constitute pochs Of its
destiny.
"1he aduice nearest to my heart and deepest in
n,y convictions is, that the UNION OF THE STATES
be cherished and perpetuafed. Let the open enemy
to it be regarded as a Pandora with her boz
opened and the Disguised one, as the serpent
creeping ,oihh his deadly aoiles into Paradise"