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About The Western herald. (Auraria, Lumpkin County, Ga.) 1833-1??? | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1834)
reedings, and if from that record it shall appear that such was the fact, we shall have advanced anoth r step towards establishing the position, that the government of the United States, was established by the States, and not by the people ns an aggregate mass. In the first place, then, we learn from a pe rusal ofthe credentials of the delegates, that they were all chosen by their respective State Legislatures, as representatives of their res • pective States, and of those States alone, and: in the sccon ! place, that they were appointed {or the purpose of revising the existing articles of confederation. The sccon I Moirday of May, 1787, was the day fix'd np >;; for the meeting ofthe conven tion at Philadelphia. The Journal informs us, that on that day, which was the 14th of the TD-mth, “sundry Deputies to the Federal Con vention appeared, but a majority of the States not being represented, the members present a Ijourned from day to day, until Friday the 25th of the said month” when the convention Commenced its labors, after electing George Washington its president. The question then presented itself, did they act as the Representa tives of sovereign, tree, and independent States, or as the representatives of the People, as an aggregate m iss? This question is answered by every vote upon which the yeas and nays were recorded. The votes were given by States, and not upon the principle of proportion ate ropres' ntafiun. Each State, whether small or large, had one vote. The weight of Dela ware with her sixty thousa id population, was a gre it as th i* of V irginia, with her eight hundred an 1 fifty thousand, and so entire a disregar was and to proportionate representation, an essential element in a constitution framed by an aggregate people, that some oi the small States had more deputies Uan some of the large on s. If any doubt could < xist on this point it would be dissipated by this simple stateim ni The p pul ition of the five larg< st states, rep resented in the Convention was 2,501,649 whilst th .t ot the six smallest states, was but, 1,123,528. Now by the trims upon which the constitution was formed, each state having one vote, it may well have happened, that some of its most important features were adopted by the votesofa majority of the states, containing less thin one-third of the whole population, which wcul I never h :ve been acceeded to, by a majority ofthe people, had the government been understood to havt been formed upon the prin ciplcs of one aggregate mass. In this statement we have taken only eleven states as represen ted in the convention, that being the greatest l number at any ti no present. Rhode Island never appeared at all, whilst New Hampshire | did not lake her seat until the 23d of July, subs quent to the withdrawing of New York, which took place on the 11th of that month. Nor does this evidence terminate here. The constitution carries on its face a declaration that it was formed by the States, and not by the whole people as one cnsolidut :d mass. The very title ofthe government, given in t at instrument, “The United States,” implies moi viduahty in tiie States, and simply means tiie States at that time United. The Ursa Ide too, which declares that the object ol the con stitution is amongst other things to form “a more perfect union” can only have reference to the union then suiisi-ting, which we have shown to be a union between Sovereign, tree, and in dependent -tab’s, and it explicitly asserts, that the Constitution is ordained and esta'dishe i for “the United States of America,” and not for the pci'plc. And here we must pass oter without nonce, the iiupoitant and * (inclusive fact, tint in the article <t the con titutian which designates the agency by which the States are to enact laws, for the government of the * ,on federacy. the term “< 'engross, ’ and not lai bainent or assembly is used. Ihe term “t ongress,” is one specifically applied t > an assemblage of nations, in the persons oi their SOVCrotgti-, ,»« tln-tt ,c|H. <M-ntnhrc', nnl hence the legislative proceedings ot th federal Government, were always styled th ■ proceed ings of “The United Status mCon-rress assem bled,” and not the proceedings ot the people. The modo too, provided for amending t c constitute n, is also ♦ xphcit on this subject.— Alterations must be ratified by "the I .egislatures pf threc-lourths of the several States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof,” so, tnat were it now desirable for seventeen ot the lar gest States to obtain an altciation ofthe c insti tution, to authorize acts which are n t n w authorized, it would be in the power oi ftv s< ven smallest States,containing less than oin’twltfii part ofthe p puiatmn ot the whole country to prevent it. H ith t is fact staring us in the sic, will anv one pretend to say, that th” gov ernnu nt was formed by the p npL» as in nggn*- gate mass? It s>, he must consider the pc pie of 1757, as w iollv ignorant of then rig its, <>i ’ a.v destitute of wisdom, in sanctioning a- ’t< m the practical effect of which at this day, is to enable a traction of a little more than one mill lion 0i people, ta defect the wishes cf near twelve ndlhons. But this is not all. Tita seventh and last article ofthe constitution declares, that “The ratiti afion t'l uno States shad be sufficient”—(Jo; what ' —*‘!or th” cst d lishincnt of this constitut on etween the Statasso ratify ing the same.” In this aitide we have the fol’.nvnsg indis putable iidmissi ns Fns?. Chat th” S at- stormed th' constitu tion, tor it was oifv I" - ih-ir ratification that it v es made to exi-t. S eo idi't. That it >v is only to be binding up on the States tint -I* Iso ratify it, I- aving those who should refuse to do so, in the full enjoyment of th* ir s 'vereig'.ty, freedom and independence, toremttn as separate nab ms. Os to unite under sea; ' t ; ew instrument ot federa tion. And as if no d>»ubt shcu'.u be left upon the minds ot the people, as Io the federatee char acter of the govern ent. th very attestation to the instrument of the members t the conven tion, declares that it was “Done in Conven tion, by the una:*r >' « r * -r:! th-' States Let us now follow up our history, and see what was the form of the ratification. The convention adjourned to the 17th of September 1787, and transmitted to the Cong; ess still ac ting under the articles of confederation, a report of its proceedings. That body, on the 28th ofthe same month, adopted the following reso lution: “Resource? unanimously. Thet the said re port, with the resolutions and letter accompa nying the same, be transmitted to the several Legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegate’s chos< n in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the i c solves of th-; c invention, made and provided in that case.” In conformity with this resolve, the Legisla ture of each State enact*! a la*, calling a convention of the people thereof, in their sepa rate capacity of members of a sovereign, free, and independent state; & t > these conventions were submitted the constitution for ratification. By these conventions it was ratified, and so clearly were those ratifications the acts of the States, and -iot of the people as an aggreg sty mass, that it w isin the power of the five small est States, containing a,population of only 622,030 person-, by withholding teeir assent, to defeat the adoptton of tiie constitution, against the wishes of the other 8 States, con taining a population ofupwards ol three millions. Had the constitu ion been intended for a new Government,proposedto t bef rmed bythe people of the w,ole Unite I States, as an aggregate mass, very different would have been the form ofthe ratification. Nothing less than a majori ty of the whole people would have be-n requi red to defeat n, and instead of Delaware being allowed as much weight in determining the question as Virginia, she would have been allowed only the proportion of influence which 60,00 peopk bear to 850,000, that is tne pro portion of 1 to 14. That these ratifications, although executed by t/ie/>eop/e of each State, in their separate and sovereign apacities, and not by the State Legislatures, were in the farm and mode pre scribed by t e 7th article of the constitution, that is, that they were ratifications of the States, is apparent from the following proceeds ings extracted from the Journal of the old Congress. “United States in Congress assembled, | Wednesday, July 2, 1788. j “The Slate of New Hampshire having ratified the constitution transmitted to th»*rn by the act of the 2Sth of September last, mid transmitte . t» Congress their ratification, and the same being read, the President reminded t ongress that this was the 9to ratification, transmitted and laid before them; who eupon it was “Ordered, That tin-ratifications 4'tlie con> stitution ol the Unite States, transmitted to Congress, 4>e r ferrod t > a committee, to ex amine the same, and report an act ot Congres for putting the sai ; constitution into operation, in pursuance ofthe resolutions ol the late Fed eral Convention ” And here it m y not be amiss to remark, that the term “Fed' ral,” here applied by Congress t" tin convention, be ng terived from the Latin word foedtis, a league, a stipulation betwean two or more, is an additional confirmation ot the confederated character ofthe Governm nt, m contrast with consolidation, and so universal was the a kiiowledg'-ment of thispohtical truth, that even longsulisequ nt to th removal of ttie government to ’A ashmgton, that city was called “the federal city,” an i which of you tn re pres* ent, ever heard th.it tht great Fcrfera/procession of’B9 in this city, was to commemmate the cstabhsment ot s consolidated government Ata sa sequent day. viz: on the 13th of September, 1788, the ( ongress passed a itso* lution in the following words: “/icso/rr.l, I'h I) the first A ednesda. in January ii xt, be the nay tor appointing dec tors tn the several which, bifore tne aaid day shall have ratifi d the said con titution; that the first tYediesday in bebrttar n xt, lie the da. for the electors to ass inble m faeir respective States, and v< tr for a President, anti that the first Wednesday in March next, i the time, and th pcs nt >• at ot Congress the place for commem ing proceedings under the said constitution.” In conformity with this resolution, the elcc* (ions were held. On the 4th ot March, 1 789, the first Congress unfit r tiie new constitution, assembled at New \ uk, and commenced its duties, and on the 3oth ot April, George W ashmgton, who had been unammously electe i President ofthe United States, was conducted into ofli e. Amendments to the constitution w« re suns qm nflv made,in til • form prescii > d t>v that instrument, an I illustrating i.i practice the manifest truth, that the Stales wa re the cicx ators ofthe (iovt rnment. By one ot those am ndment-, it as nphatieally declared that “tiie powers not d»-b gated to the i mted Mates bv the constitution, n< r prohibit, d by it to the States, are n sen td to tue States respi ctively, or to the People.” Now a- the rcscrraliiai of rights implies of nec< ssity the pre-exist' nee of those rights an as it is very clear, that no rights wer” conferee I upon the States, by the Federal Government, whose « reature it was, it follows tnatthose rights thus reserved to the States must have been rights inherent in the Sovereignty ofthe States. Thus have 1 given an account < f the origin and chara ter <»f the Constitut on, as brief as was consistent w ith tiie object m view, whuh was that of proving from documentary evidence the rii’Kii taut fact, t at the governrm tit tirni-i which we live, is still a confederation of sovc r- ijn, tree and independent States, and not •• consolidated empire'. It I have don? this (■ voc.r satisfacti.m, it isonly because the evideuc within re ich has been so abundant, and because tt has been recorded in so plain and intelligibb a nature, that the most imlvttared rrmid ca< ' compreh nd it. Indeed it is ditn nit to ima ”ine with such a bodv of harmonious testimony j before him, how any unprejudiced man cat I advance the position, that the government o the United States wa- form I by the wnoh • ’ n<'ople as < m aggregate mass. It is true tha w’.:' r• ur.ta.n fid-? roly net a | much upon historical evidence, as upon verbal e criticisms, as if great questions of liberty were r 'to be determined by criticisms so close as that - whichjcould split a hair, t “’tixt west and south west side.” I? The use ofthe term “national” occasionally - employed in reference to the federal govern ment, has been seized upon, as of consolidating - import, and yet, under the old confederation, - the debt of the government, was at that time 1 spoken of in the public documents, as the “n«. a tinned debt ” The term “constitution” has also e been urged as proof ofthe es'ablishment of the government by the people as an aggregate mass, i upon the ground that “constitution” is an ex. pression which is not applicable to a compact xisting between ludep- ndant States, and yet i I have adduced in this ad iress, sev ral cases - wherein the term “constitution” was applied, . befnn the formation of the present instrument, to the very articles of confederation. . The main reliance of the advocates of con. > s didation, for the support t>f their theory, is upon the phrase, “Me the People ot the U. Stales,” where it occurs in the preamble to the ■ Constitution. As this is a point which is fro. queutly urged in discussions on the Constitu. , tion, I will encroach a little longer on your , time, whilst I give a detailed a count of the • origin of that phrase. By referring to the Journal of the conventi- n, ■ it will be found, that on the 6th of August, tiie ; first craft of a Constitution was reported by a i committee appointed for the purpose. The i preamble to that draft, commenced as follows: “We, the people ofthe States of N. Hamp, shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Prov. ; idence Plantations, Connecticut, Nev. York, i New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary i lanu,’Virginia, North Carolina, South Cai. li. i na and Georgia, do ordain, declare and estab. • lish the fallowing Constitution, for the govern. meat of ourselves and our posterity.” i In this phraseology, it is manifested, that ; '‘We, the People,” were the people of the sev. ; eral States enumerated, and no inference <an ■ be dr<*wn trom it, favorable to the doctrine ol , an aggregate mass. Li this form, the pream ble was adopted unanimously by the Convention on the 7th of August, the day after it was re ported by the committee. After a discussion on the provisions of the draft, until the 7th of September, during which time it does not appear that the preamble was ever again brought into view, a committee of five was appointed “to revise the style of and arrange the articles agreed to by the House.’' On the 12th of September, the committee of revision reported the Constitution as revised in style and arranged by them, in which th'- pre amble read as follows: — “We the people ofthe United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, e isure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the g; m ral welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty ft> ourselves, and our p« steritv, do ordain ami establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The reason for the change by the committee in the phraseology of the preamble, by the in sertion of the words “United States,” inst» nd of recapitulating the nanus of the several States, is apparen* enough, if we admit the absen. e of ( all design on the pait of the committee to be 1 guilty ol a wilful fraud, as we must do, when we consider their high character, and when we see that they weakened the str ngth of the original language, by declaring that the Constitution was I ordained for the United States and net simply i for “ourselves and our posterity.” It was not 1 at that time known, whether all the States, then ' united tinder the existing articles of confedera tion, would continue in the union. Rhode ! Island, as has been seen, did not even, send ‘ delegates to the Convention, and conseqilentiy, the insertion of their names, should any of them refuse, w mid liav< rendered m cessa y an alter ' ation ofthe t onstitution; and besides tins, as 5 the phrase “United States,” had reference to ! the Slates railed, a that time under the con-1 “ federation, each one of which, it that moment was in full possession of its “Sover< ignty, frec ! dom ami imlep. nfience,” and as it was intended ‘ I tnat th,- people of each State, as a distinct and ! ■ separate community, should ratify the ('onstitu tion, no me..,her oi the committee could have I anticipated, that the day would arrive,’when the , term, “we th'* people,” would be construed to 1 ; mean the p -cpL- ol States, whic.i had not retain >l edth'-ir sovereignty, freedom and independence. Accordingly, we find, that <m the 13th of Sep- . tomb' r, the day following t,i<- repoitot the re vised raft, the Convention proceeded “to the ' <’omp».ri>ig of the report from tne committc of 1 revision, with the articles which were agreed 1 to by the House, and to tin m r. brr- d fbi ar ‘ rangemvnt,” and the same was read by para ‘ graphs, compared, an : i some places, corrcc— ‘ ted and mi vn led.” It does nut appear that anv proposition for restoring the original rea ’ ding ofthe preamble, was made, ?n the con ‘ clu.-ion is self evid* nt, that the Convention did ’ net disceft? in the change of phraseology, any 1 change m the character of the parties to the : Constitution, and accordingly, “ A’e the People . ’ ofthe the United States,” was left as the lan - ; ‘ linage of that instrument in the engrossed copy ; 1 that was signed, anil which this day exists. - But, let me ask, fellow citizens, whether the - phrase, “Ac the People ot the United States, was not the one best adapted to express who a were th** real tramersof the federal government, s It is verv certain tnat it was not formed by the h State Governments, but by “ the people” o‘ the c several Stat* s, m their sovereign i ipacity, and r t<> infer from the very fact of an exercise of that - sovereignty, that the States were no longer sov. a ereign, is one ofthe most extraordinary deduc. a tions that can be imagined. As well might it e be said, that the term “th good people ot these e colonies.” employed m tne Declaration ot inde. r ! pendence,amounted to proof, in spite of all the n testimont furnished to the contrary, that the i- people ofthe colonies were one eonscJidated v mass, oefore they were separated from Great n Btnain. >fi Having thus, I trust, conclusively established e the fact, that the constitution was formed by at thirteen Soven ign states, and not by the people : ot t'..e th’rtc *.! States as an aggregate ma a <, the question may be asked, what great principle connected with the liberty of the people, or the Union, of the States, is involved in the contro versy ? Os what consequence is it to us and to our posterity, whether the one or the other theory of government be the truo one? ' 1 ime will riot permit me to leply to these questions, but I cannot close without remarking, that upon the Sovereignty of the States, depend State i Rights, and the momentous issue, whether the I federal government is a government ol limited powers, or a despotism—whether we are frees men or slaves. This could be made to appear,! but as I have already .occupied too much of your time, I must refer you to the Kentucky & Virginia . Resolutions of’9B and ’99 : to Mr. Madison’s i •’eport in favour of the latter; to the procee dings ofyour own Legislature, wuen d moera cy was something more than a name, and to the, opinions pronounced by Uhiet Justices M’Kean and Tilghman, in the Supreme Court of this State, in the cases of Cobbett and Gid eon Olmstead. , APPENDIX. The following is the order in which the thir teen States ratified the Federal Constitution ; 1 Delaware,' Decembsr 7, 1787 2 Pennsylvania, “ 12, “ 3 New Jersey, “ 18, “ 4 Georgia, January 2, 1788 5 Connecticut, “ 9, “ 6 Massacnusetts, February 6, “ 7 Maryland, April 28, “ 8 South Carolina, May 23, 9 New Hampshire, June 21, 10 Virginia, “ 26, 11 New York, July 26, 12 North Carolina, Nov. 21, 1759 13 Rhode Island. May 29, 1790 North Carolina existed as a separate State or nation, sot upwards of eight mouths after the Federal Government com cnced its operations under the present constitution, and Rhode Island, for near fourteen months, and both, bad they seen fit, might have continued to do so up to the present day. FROM TIIE AMERICAN TURF REGISTER AND SPORTING MAGAZINE. x .2 couple of Jcux D’Eisp. it, from the Correspon dence of the late Hon. John Randolph of Roanoke. “On Dr. IL delivering a very fl w ry Ora tion, with a roll of barley sugar brandished in his right hand. “ .Vith a razor keen As e’er was seen, A Barber they call Phill, In Congress rose, And by the nose Took i.ir. Hemphill’s bill: In huge affright, At such a sight, I saw a Jersey dandy Attempt to stay That razor’s way . - With a stick of sugar candy.” “ Wynn, the Virginia racer, sold Dr. Thorn ton (ot great notoriety on tiie tuif, as well as lot s ienc*, wit and philanthrophy) a racelioise named Ratler, and was obliged to brmg suit for payment. Thornton pleaded that Ratler was good for nothing, (as a racenorse,) ami Vvyim proved that lie ha been brought to teat condi tion by starvation : “Wynn vs. Thornton. “ How can he hope to win, wiiat v .’is speed, ith his iiorse unfed and his c u se! unsee-d? His horses unfed will loose lam races His lawyers unfeed wdl loos, him Ins cases.” The latter impromptu came from the pen of my esteemed frien 1, the late Benj Lincoln i.ear, Esq. of Washington city, dm mg the trial, at which your correspondent was present. Dr. Thornton was cast. I • Fra a k lins 51) r a Is. Franklin, the American pkilospher and states man; drew up the following list of moral virtues, to which he is said to have paid constant and earnest attention. Temperance — Eat not to fulness: drink not to elevation. | Silence— Speak not but what may benefit i others or yourself; avoid trifling *'onv< is ifion. j Order—Let all your things have their places; let * ach part of business have its tunc. Rcsohdion—Revive to perform what you. ouglr ; perform without fail what you n solve. Frugali/(/—Make no expanses, but do good ( to others or yourself, that is, nothing Industry— Lose no time: be always t mploy-, cd in something useful; cut oil all unnecessary j actions. Sincerity— Use no harmless deceit; think innocently and justly ; and it you sp- a;-., sp< ak accordingly. Justice—Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duly. »Vodera/toi»—Avoid extremes; forbear re senting injuri* s. Cleanliness—Suffer no unclcanlincss in body, clothes, or happiness. Tra.iyuilily—Be not disturbed about trifles, or accidents comm< n or unavoidable. Something .yiyste'ious. — I he body of a man i was discovered floating in the river about a mile below this place, Dy some negroes fishing ; on Sunday last. The body was brought to land > —a jurv of inquest h* 11 over it, and consigned t<> its mother earth. From the appearance of the corpse, the individual must have been some tune drowned. No marks of violence being discovered, the jury of riqmst concluded that the man came to his end either by voluntary or accidental drowning. It is supposed that his name was Boswell II Bell, as one < r two open letters were found on the body addressed to that r.atne, at Poulain’s Bridge, Greene County, Geo. A small sum of money in silver, was found with the papers. — Southern Banner. “Halloo, Snooks—what’s the matter with you to day ? “ Iv’e got the deposile fever” “V\ hat’s that?” , “Why, one empty pocket and nothir g in the . other.” THE WEST' RV HERALD. DAHLOHNEGA, GEORGIA, APRIL 18, 1834. ih pres-nf numb* r concludes the first volume of the Western Herald. (-ur Editorial career has been too brief to authorize the appearance before its patrons in an anni versary address. Under its first fearless and vigilant editor, wc.knowthat it was notan inefficient instrument in the gr< at cause which it professed to support. It has been and wiH be our pu posoto make it still an accepta ble ally in that cause. We have embarked in its conduct, with little that, was selfish or exclusive to gratify—little to hope of pecuniary advantage—nothing for individual aggrandizem nt. If we shall succeed in any degree, in constituting it the successful channel through which will pass to the people of “western Georgia,” such political doctrines as upon the prevalence of which, we sincerely believe, depend the future prosperity and glory of our country ; our reward will be ample, our aim will have been accomplished. We bring to this undeitaking honesty of purpose and a zeal we trust not altogether without know!'dge. >'e would remind such of our subscribers as have not paid their subscription for the past yr ar, that it is princi pally due to the former proprietors of the Herald, and that it is to be collected through the present. This ar rangement was made for their convenience in its pay ment and we hope that they will find it convenient to transmitto us the sums severally duo. The growing im portance ofthe estern section of Georgia, its increas ing weight in the politico! scale, and the Herald stand ing alone in the support and maintaincncc of their doc t'ines, authorizes 1 ha* we should ask and expect for it the support of the State Rights pa ty. The meagre ac count ul official advertising in our columns evidences the official majority largely against, us, and that for its ex istence without pecuniary loss to its proprietors, the Her ald is mainly dependent, upon their subscription patron age. If this is extended to it, we will be enabled to battle on in the cause, looking confidently forwar 1 to a day not far distant, when its principles shall triumph, and when curs shall be the preyud r flection of having con tributed something to this result. ’ “ —— The Mails.—A mail route has been established di rectly from A m aria to Ellejay, in Gilmer county. The mail leaves Auraria every .Monday morning. There are Ro two villages in the State of Georgia, between which there is more communication than there is between this andClar svillc in Habersham county, and no route of the same extent that would more certainly <1 fray its own expenses a profit to tin Department. Such a route would form an immediate connexion with the mail to Union county, to the principal post offices in Haber sham, and with the adjoining districts in South (’arolina. > e solicit its cstablishm mt on the part of ourselves and the people of all parties. By a new arrangement, the Mail Stage runs to and from Auraria, tri-weekly. Leaves Auraria, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings—ar ives at. Athens same day.—Leaves /Athens, Vtonday, V. vdn sday and F iday mornings—arrives at Auraria same evenings. Our day of publication will in consequence of this ar rangement, in future b • Saturday instead cf Friday, Tiie’ .ditor of th “Standard of Union,” since he has got ‘ long side of the Government,” seems to have be come quite s lf-nnpo:t;;nt, to rank himself among the “'•ig fish,” and to suppose that he is not tp be “nibbled at by minners.” It. wont do, “.Mr. Standard” —you arc too well known indeed you arc. All the importance which your Executive support and patronage,— added to that brought into the apcount by your being made the keep rof Mie p iblie purs —and all the swelling strut ting and puffing which you may do for yourself, will tn v r attach to you that dignity and importance wiiic h you would fam assume. Wc rcmerab' r once before you became a changeful weathercock for office sak<, to have hoard you n late an anecdote, in sub.-tance—that it was the custom ofa certain people, in ancient days, when any of th' ii friends b' came distinguished, or to use your own language "‘di I any tiling v rv smart,” to take 'hern out and hang tie. m—l st by some subsequent ar t they might tarnish the reputation which they ball thus acquired. »• appr* Ir ii I that if your friends had have pursued this policy with yours< If, b. fore the reign of Union i'emc eratic Republicanism, you would have carried with ye t mon importan o an.l more reputation, at least for polit ical consist'ncy, to the gallows than you will ever ac quire in the service of your new associates. hour un authorized interference, though with Executive sanction, in tie J udicial p oseedings of the Clierok c Circuit — your attempts to forestall public opinion in cases 'which we e p n-ling and u idecid'd -io enlist party cxcitcnicyf. and to txcite resistance to the decisions ofthe Court, if they sh,,ul 1 b<ma le not io accordance with your own, and bis Excellency’s sago opinions—richly • merited, and webeli've have received, the reprobation of all honor able and just mon, even in th' ranks of your own party. We wouid fain hope that ere this, you had scon the er ror of your own iaientions, and had repented of the means which you had taken to carry them into cflect. i We have only to inform you in conclusion, that whenev r rcircumManccs shall require if, we shall uvad ourselves i for the “present,” and for the future, of the kind indul- I grnct L’ivcn cf [ laying around “your hook,” For, wliat '<v r may b-our private opinions of your greatnejr, the | L'gislaturc has attached to you sufficient importance, Ibv making you Treasurer--and the Governor, sufficient • to yourieipenaf “.Standard ” by making it the oracle, of i .x' cutive opinions, to entitle both you and it to the notice ofa': th “HttL ’as well as the “big fish,” We publish the following correction of an error into which we liad inadvertantly fallen, with regard to the ! ditmialuliip of the Washington News. We thank the Editor for the kind manner in which he has correct*.d cur I error, in decking the brow of another with the laurels which he hid won. Wc thank the Editors of the Western Herald, for their flattering notice of us—but will take thr* opportunity to correct an error into which ’ they, with’others, have been led. They speak of the “ venerable Editoi of the News,” mean ing, as we suppose, the Rev. Jesse Mercer, who, by the way, has no connexion whatever in the nublicatioD of our naner.
