Democratic banner. (Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo.) 1845-1852, 1851-06-11
"UnrED We srAsD-DIvIDED VIZ rALI.''

IcO0StItutlOn, ana refuSe0 Oy H'uoctSiVs
vote-the power to establish corporation
flor instance. But yet, through tlls piastit
Influence of the rule Of implied ec6nstruc.
Ition, corporation W as iestab biiiked. almost
the equal ofths goveInmentsi9 sihf1encs
aud its superior except When STACKED AbS
a popular idol, of remarkable irnness,, Of
uaequall~d energy, Of dsspsrasss courage,
who waged battle with strengiA dnkhewn
to fOrmer political conHicts.z The far
mers Of the constitution, when thry gave
Congress power to dig ard collect taxes.
and to regulate cotnmsfce, !" cohfdnct hsvs
supposed that they were comforting. az sp-
Ipurtenant TO them power which they re-
fused to create independently to ineorpor-
ate. Nor could they have supposed. when
they limited the powers of Congress, over
money to its coinage and the regulation sof
the value thereof, ,shat Congress would have
conferred onsay corporation Alright 70 issue
a different kind Of fmoney-one which sfect-
ed the very standard they were bound to
provide. The departure from the plain
object and intention Of the trainers ,of the
constitution in this instance established a
principle of construction which, if persisted
in and applied to powers, would have con.
founded all disticntion between the two sys-
TENS, and made the theory of governing
through constitution too ridiculous for
adoption by other nations, and shown its un-
fitness to carry us forward to safe and q
high condition.
Two features of an important character
were thus established:
l. That the power to lay and cole ect tax
les might be exercised bya corporation, and
that public officers, subject to removal. i'm
peachmsnt, and punishment, might be disPsn-
sed with.
2. That, in order to carry into effect q
specific power, an institution might be es-
tablished to exercise other and different and
higher authority under the pretence that it
was means to an end-such other and diff
ferent and higher authority not having been
conferred upon Congress.
II the general goyerome Mt may undertake
the business ofa banker ss apart of the su-
thority to lay and collect taxes; it may un-
dertaks the business Of carrying passengers
as part ef the authority to carry tie mail.
If it may create corporation for banking
purposes, it may establish a steamboat
and stage corporation to carry passen.
gers. ifit may dispense with public SER
wants and officers in collecting & disbursing g
the revenue, why may it not also in the con.
duct Of our foreign negotiation? The sP-
plication Of the rule to other subjects might
work change in the form of government
entirely--from one conducted by official per
sons into one managed wholly by corpora
tions.
The present arrangements for collecting
and eisbursing the revenue are entirely in
harmony with the constitutions; they are at
tended with no assumption Of fdoubiful pow
ers;they interfere with the private pursuits
Of none; they alarm no section by an at
tempted stretch Of authority; they are sim
pie and effectual; they show the wisdom Of
the great and good men who framed the con-
stitution of the United States, and of the
Congress which established . measure SO
much in harmony withit.