Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-10-17

pondnsly reduced. The simple question,
nay, the whole question is, whether, when
we doubled tho prices Of May !, lSGl-then
considered high any reasonable man can
justly complain at the standard Of reduction
on present prices, proposed by this BILL
Tho eHtortioner may-the patriot will not
Another decided merit of this bill is that,
IN effect, it revives very old statute con-
cerning ordinary keepers and requires the
county and Tlustings Courts to regulate the
charges Of the keepers Of ordinaries, private
entertainments, restaurants and boarding
hnnsos. This will probably bring down their
bills from three or four dollars per dny to
nine shillings. And when the prices Of all
their supplies are equally reduced they can
have no just cnuss Of objection. But it ia
said the prohibition proriso in the bill against
expectation is unconstitutional, because, by
the Confederate Constitution, Congress has
the power "to regulate commerce among the
Several Slates.' AS q State-rights man he
could never sanction such doctrine. He was
aware the Supreme Court Of the United
Stntes had decided that the word commerce, %
in tile Constitution of the United Stalcs, ne
cessarliy 3, included tndpigatioa," and: that
therefore, the commercial power Of Congress
| extended into. the lnnits and interior III every
Stale, NJ FAR NJ 'Hariyatton" extended. Bnt
il was never clninlci. rs far aa he knew, that
| the commercial power OF the United States cx-
tended into any State beyond this. On the con
uary, it was adudged, thut just so soon as
| goods from one Stale were delivered on the
soil OF another, and became embodied i'll the
general assets Ut that State the jurisdiction oi
| Congress ceased and thai Of the State instant
~ attached. And SO it is Uice rersa. with
| goods Outward bound, as we'll as with goods
inward bnund. 4 hundred barrels of Hour
for instance. are placed on the South-side
railroad nj Farmyile, bound for New York
| (taking matters as they were formerly to test
the principles of these decisions.) They
would he within the sovereignty and juriSdir'
ton nI Virginia, until they We're delivered on
board The outward bound ve.p:rl. rnnarc's, hs'
never attempted to regulate trnde within a"y
Estate II cannot masn HE sell nv r,ohm,r !"
you, nor you yours to me. Neither tan II
| make the people of Virginia trade with tn"ss
! Of North Carolina against their will. But he
said il was needless to argue this question any
farther North Carolna and Georgia, too, he
had heard, has resorted to export pro
hii,itions lor tho necessary supply OF
.hcir people, and. we must take care OF
ours i'll the Same way. In conclusion,
h. said, the times are afflicted with a
dreadful distemperature. Extnrtion ls the NAL
udy. 1t rnortities the heart and maddens the
brains, and runs its victims mad. Truly, the
lore Of money is tie root Of aH coil.
y word Of explanation, and he was DONE
lie did not mean TO Say that every lnan who
sold at high prices was guilty of eyicrton II
he honght nj high prices, it WIS but just that he
sell at high prices. II is he wl,u sc!s at nn-
rc$"nabie lr9dts upon his purchases, that We
seek To re,tc--ho wha would rather win Il
f1,ta"s for himself, than freedom for his coull-
try