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[CONTINUED]
f will now pioceedl to shew, in a few
wou.s, that from art experience of the ac
tual operation of the general government,
we have as litllo cause to apprehend finger
asfrom.be principles of i, s organization.
, lVe we no ' *' s nation enjoyed nil the
happiness which it is i„ ,he power of g, v
j e.n nom to confer? Whrte is the m,,, that
I ’’*' 11 '".pre-siv,. am. of the general
•government? fn the wf.ole history of j, 3
p ogress you cannot point to one solitary
act of oppression. It has wrested from no
man hi« property; t has deprived no nun
nl in.s hb. t ty. But .ve have seen itssaluta
ry and protective e.,e : gi,- s directed against
a fore,go foe. W e have seen ,he pride of
tnat han-hty f ( »o humbled !.v the victorious
urm * ~f ,h ® repubhe. \V-r have seen oar
wrongs avenged; onr rights vindicated, and
out national character exalted; all bv the
general g .vermnenf. And seeing all this,
we have rejoiced that it is the g UV ernment
ol our choice. On the other hand, weh.vrf
huen involved in great embarrassments, by
the refiactory and unconstitutional proeee
d,ni’* «C 'be s'ates In the very
war which raised the character of the gen
, government, so much in the cnr.fi lence
arid affections of the people; the refusal of
the Governor . f one of the E .stern States
to obty the call „f the President, threaten
ed to throw the coiintrv into the most alarm
tng condition; to paralyze the very arm to
"iticri we all looked for protection. Rest
assured, then, the general government is
noj an object of dread. Our ancestors
did not create it to he an object of terror >o
J.ie p fipjt $ Imt “to Sf*f»irß tho of
!' b ' ; "y *° themselves and their posterity."
I hey reared it as a dgrable morinme, : t,
which should carry their tames, in glory
to fii’ure ages They wi'l not be deceived!
As long as there shall he a heart to feel
for freedom, and a head capable of un
derstanding its principles, those who or
ganized the general government will he hal
lowed as the wisest of statesmen and tho
best of patriots. And l im well assured
that the government they created, will n-f
he the less evincive of the wisdom f its
framers, because it den .rts from the nrinci
ple of a mere confederacy. 1 shall show
that its admirable balance can ho jeopard,
zed only by the eccentric and centrifugal
tendencies of the State.
Q.»* 1 -'ll ** nr .Ji-,* »
views, tending to shew rhnt the fears yoo
profess to entertain, that the general gov
ernment will prostrate the State S 'vereign
lies, are wholly unfounded either in the na
ture of things, or the history of nations
That there is in reality, no such danger
will tie apparent to any at all fn.nilliar with
the history of human ambition, who will at
tentively consider ihe nature of the pow
er* which, under our federative system,
f ll t the share of the state governments
For it can be cortclusivo'y shewn, 'hat these
constitute precisely the class of political
powers til it has the least attractions for am
bition, and which even the most desontic
gr vernm nts, possessing extensive teriito
ties, Have voluntarily thrown off as inglori
ous incumbrances, and committed to local
or provincial authorities. The powers of
the state governments are limited to those
moss ires of local recrtiiati.m which, taken
together, constitute the internal police of
the respective states. They establish rides
of properry: fix and dr flue the riehts of per
sons; and provide for the security of both
by appropriate rivil remedies, and rrimioal
sanciions administered and enforced by
their judicial tribunals. The subjects em
braood within the scope of those regulations,
though highly important in the estimate of
national happiness, have nothing of that
imposing and attractive splendor, which
can dazzle the minds of ambitious rnlprs.
Cast your eyes into history, that bloody
record of the sufferings of the people, and
the sins of their rulers. Survey with atten
tion those mighty waters, through which
ambition has held its lofty career, end in
which he lias reared his proudest and hlo
diest trophies. And when vou have done
so, consult the record to ascertain the ob
jects'hat stimulated, and the means that
facilitated those mighty and desolatine a
chievements. Was that ambitious conquer
or, who waves his iron sceptre over the
trembling and subject nations that have \iel
tded to the terror of his arms, stimulated
in his bloody march by a desire to regulate
the domestic police of the conquered pa
pons ? Was it the power of fixing and
defining the individual and private rights
of his subjects, that furnish the means of
agrandieementj, No lie was stimulated
by higher, though less worthy aims, and
sustained by mightier means. These I
shall presently consider. The states are
constitutionally restrained from “ entering
info any treaty; alliance, or confederation;
granting letters of marque and reprisal; and
also from “laying any duty of tonnaee; kee
ping troops or ships of war in lime es peace;
entering into any agreement or cor. pact
with another state, or with a foreign pow
er, or engaging in war unless actually inva
ded, or in such imminent danger as will not
admit of delay; without the consent of Con
gtess. ’ The powers if tiie state govern
ments, then, are not only limited in their
operation, but essentially pacific in their nn
nire From all “ the pride, pomp and Olt
. umstances of glotions war;*’from all the*
class of political actions, in short, whicl
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORJfING, DECEMBER n, IS3O.
furnish the most interesting tl. m.s of l.isto
ty, and attract in their rrciul, he nlirilis
cx. lusive attention of the mass of .a ankimt,
the state* are absolutely and wisely ex, Id-
LC'l. When, . therefor*, we consider die
nature (if ambition; when we r-fi-d that
it is desirous of perforating those actions,
only, w-uc.i Insto.y records with i.A bitgli
t. st and most enduring colors, and nil Hi us
behold with tlie highest admiration, the f- l
ly of the apprehension that the general g. v
erinneiit will subvert the government of
the stales, is must strikingly appmMil.
But still more strikingly appari nt will be
the folly of such an appieinusion, when ve
come to compare the powers, which have
been clearly and. unequivocally d»leg,.td
to the g'Uetal govcrmi.e.iit, with .huso
' V{,un it can acquire by encroachments uu
the state authorities. By the express letter
"I tut! I\ itional Charter, Congress has
power "to lay and Collect rises, dut.es, , tIl .
post, and excises; ’ to “ declare war,’ to
“raise and support ai minx,’ and M “pro.
vide and niai.tairi a navy,"— I’u. s« poa
ors are granted in tho most gen.nl and utt
limited terms. Upon the disrption of
Congress in "laying and culleciise taxes,”
and m “raising mid supporting armies,”
there are no rcsuictiuns but ibftse imposed
by nature, t oi.gross may pu-h these p< w
eis to tin* utmost Verge indicated by (lie
physical capacity of tho countiy. They
may, upon the slightest occasion, and fur
the most unwise, improvident, and wicked
o ds, draw from the people (of the ‘state-’
100 !) the turn st farthing tltai , m bn spur
e-i from then suffering families, to fill the
national coffers; ,nd call «ut the last man
that can be sp ned front laising the neces
saries of life, to fill |ip n,.tional armies and
fight the battles of ambitious rulers. And
all tins, hewevei in. xptdieof, unjust and ty
.aunical, they’ can do, wi.hout tif.nscendiug
tlie limits ol their constitii’innul <«utli€.ii,v.
The general government is thus invested,
(safely and Constitutionally invested) with
unlimited command over the purso and
sword of the nation; those mighty and re
sistless iusttuments of lawless ambition and
encroaching p-.>wei;*hnd yet the very rulers
in whose h mds these tremendious engines
tie harmless to the people, and terrible on
ly to their enemies, are held up aud .h
--uounced by a our warning voices, as the
depredators tipou the more peaceful, iorfii
fieri!, and utiaUr ictiVe powers of tiie state i
it verunieuls. Weiuu called upon to be
.eve that oor federal rnUrs Hill u.-o wiih
in.deration the very powers by which am- j
bilious men tiave in all g < built up the ;
i.ot.unients of men own aggrsndtz tuent i
upon the mil.s of the constitution, ami a- .
nidst the exercrations of tlie people; a.id
. -_;n - ......ynurrt th---
u. bilious purposes, and subvert our liber
n s by tlie paltry and petit laictny process
f pilfering little hagments from the temple
f state sovereignty !!! It one of you
.v re to trust a madman with a b.oad-gword,
nd yet be alarmed least ne should arm i
himself with a weapon to attack y u liy tu
vaditig your wife’s pincushion, your f- a.s
would not be mur>- ridiculous, nor your m
cousitency more palpable. Be ass mod it is
not in tlie couise of ambition to descend, j
for “iu its p.oper motion ’ it “ascends.”!
The supreme judiciary of a state would j
hardly bo iticiined to u.urp jurisdiction o- j
ver the class of cases that fall wifhin the j
exclusive ami humble jurisdiction of a com
mon magistrate. Ab.uactedly considered,
power bus no allurements, it is only de
sirable from its imposing associations.
I will now proceed u> cut.firm ihe lore- •
going course of reasoning, by lilustraiious
drawn from our own expe.ieuce as a
nation, and from the history ot other na« ;
turns.
From obvious considerations of policy,
tiie framers of the federal coitstiiutioo vested
in the National Congress unlimited -t;id ex
clusive powers ol legislation over whtievei
district of country snoulJ become tiie seat
of tiie National Government, if Congress
had that voracious appetite for local tegula
tion which you seeur to imagine, they have
heie an opportunity to indulge it; tor, as to
the District of Columbia, they have precise
ly those powers in then fullest extent
which they are charged with wishing to tt
surp Irotn the state governments. Yet, not
withstanding the small extent of the teritory,
which renders incomparably more conven
ient and practicable for Congress Ur super
vise its conceens than it would be to super
vise those of the stales; and although they
have peculiar inducements, from its being
the seat of legislation, to give it a wise and
wholesome police ; yet the fact is notorious
.that its affiiis have been so much neglected,
that it is almost derelict and without gov
ernment And as a proof of the indiffer
ence, and even aversion of Congress to ex
ercise tiie miuor powets of which I have
been speaking, a proposition has been seri
ously citlert iued by that bodv to abdicate
government there, atid return to the people
of the District of their original pow er of or
ganizing « government sot themselves.
Upon the same piinciple die several state
governments are in the constant piactice of
delegating, by acts of legislation, an tlagous
portions of liie'r power, to city and counlty
corporations. Aod it cannot fail to strike
every dispassstonate inquirci, that the rea
sons why it is convenient and burdensome
for tbe slate legislatures to superuteud the
affairs of the city, are exactly tho same with
those that would reuder it dcsirahe for the
general government to rid themselves of
the powers of the state governments, eveu
if already invested with them.
An illustration of the sant" truth may be
intuit trout the history of Great Biitian,
htle these state* were her dependent col
ouies. The British government stood to
the colonies in the relation ».f a de.-uolic
power, iiiasm.ii it as tlie colon oa i. of ~ (J .
re*“nr.Mive in'any of its a- parim.mts ; yet
me Monarch of that country so fei L .>m ...-
sui .g lli-d il.egnvui i.meiu tl.eie shot.l in t
ulate tlie internal .ffiirs »- f tlie c-.mics,
(granted Ri mers, by which tfi«- coion.st were
In many instance s', pernilUcd to elect tho:*
| "'ii legislatures, for tlie n’gulaii. n id such
jaf.irs. And when the British Ministry,
! hr their unwise and oppressive meusuia-s,
j alien .ted the affeclions of the coloms’s and
! disn.einhered ilie.r empire, n w is Hot by at
tempting to usurp tiioso pownx of domestic
regulation, which ii is pretended Cungiess
will esurtr fro.n the states; but L>y aile.npi
ing to ra.se a revenue from the colonies, a
power udich Congress undoubtedly pos
sesses ever the-states or what is mom, the
people of [lie states. So far, then, as JaU
iljpsirttion is nutlioiiiy . Congress are in die
full fruition of the only powers ihat they
w mld be inclined to usurp ltnni the slates.
If you ever read history, it might not be
- for you to look into the govein nents
of triose countiies ’.vliere despotism r. tgns in
the most un< q-iivocaf fi>rnis. You will find
the same principles opt. uting there also.—
Tho anc.eut Kings of B. rsi* dtshtird. tied
themselves from th» c-.rus <d local guvern
nr-bt, by delegating these functions to loyal
satraps, who itiled over the provincs with
an almost unhm'ted discretion, bill were
bound under the hlocdiest r»s,iousiOiliiy to
pay over to the King a retrain sum as the
nett proceeds >f 'iifc provincial trvenua.—
The same principle prevails to the pieseni
despotism of Tuakey. And in the exten
sive empire ot Russia theie are ntanv prov
inces that have scarcely ever beeu vented
by a solitary ray of unpeii .1 power, They
are permitted to appoint then own ieauets
and to manage their own internal concerns
in their own way. Aud when they coniri
bu.t men ptupui udui vo vt.u imperial tieas
•try and army, tuny raise the revenue by
offices of their own appointment, and send
'the ti.-ops under the command ot tlit ir own
officers
From tiro foregoing example it is appar
ent, ihai if govern nents are fond ol power,
they are aiso fond of ease. That they artj
unwilling to be incumbered with functions
tint can add nothing to their splendour and
glory, aud are constantly eudeuvoiiimg to
get rid of the trouble of gnver ing their
provinces, colonies or other subdivisions of
their extensive n ri .tones ; res- rvinp only
to iheinselv- , ’lt’ tlidiinited poaer of draw
lug men iiul money from their subordinate
govei nine ms, ,v j.ower which Congress can
ex rcise directly upou tlie people ol tlie
stab s, iu opposition to the w ill o; the goc
mentsf <f lire stales.
If| ■f*- ■ -*« • uua vuvia *niU| j x*»j tUII*
tiuue to dread the extinction of tlio state
'governments m one great consolidated em
pire, 1 must for the present, give you up as
incurable; 111 the hope, however, of produ
cing some effect hereafter, by showing that
there are dangers much more imminent and
alarming, to be apprehended from an oppo
site direction.
That the real danger, which it demands
all thc> wisdom and putiiodc vigilance of the
Amelia tit stiiesm tit, to obviate, proceeds
from the centrifugal tendencies of the states,
was the doctrine invariably held by the
fra tiers of tlio federal constitution And I
wish distinctly and emphatically to impress
it upon you, dial at die very era ol the con
stitution, w lieu the tine ‘ principles of the
revMutiou” burned with a living and holy
fervour in the bosoms of those who had
breasted the rudest sit ck- of die ri volu
tionary war: V\ ashinqt n, Wadis- k and
llaiiilT- n, ere (he It.m .fid inusieily sup
poiieis ■! this very doctrine* The vi, vis tit
the tw«< fast named statesmen hiu recorded
in “ The Federalist, ’ that able ami unan
swerable commentary, on the'federal con
stitution; which is noiv almost universally
received as the standard of politnal ortho
doxy. And nis the most extraordinary
thai iu your effected “ rerun once to funda
mental principles,” you have entirely over
looked tiie opinions and commentaries of the
friends and authors of tnat constitution
which will stand amidst the rvrcck of em
pires as an imperishable monument of their
wisdom; and have b ised yourselves upon
the visionary fears and dismal forebodings
of those who weie opposed to it. Wnether
1 am to understand that you aie at tins day
not only oposed to the administration, but
me constitution of our govoruuient, and w ish
not only to change our rulers, but m destroy
tint constitution; or that you suppose that
the opponents of that instrument tinders! md
its principles better than its authors-, I con
fess lamat a loss to determine. For if
you are sincere in your professions of at
tachment for the “principles ol the revolu
tion/ and if the federal constitution, and
uot acting a part in a great political mm cpj
vte; if you are honesilv seelting for the
truth of piinciples, and not for the means of
individual aggrandizement ; to what oracle*
could you have applied so likely To gave \ < u
an unerring nspdose, ■ s the immortal pat
riots and statesmen whose names I have
just mentioned? But with an infelicity
which seems to be your peculiar cbarnrtei
istic, you place your pi incip and reliance upon
those opinions of Patrick Henry, which
by your own,admission, lie himself renouuc
ed, after experience had dispelled the de
lusions by which his warm imagination had
boon carried away 1‘ eiermttnte. It. w ev
er, any further remarks on ihe question of
authority, I will endeavor to slo w by ar
guments drawn as well fiom the ‘ fuuda
mental principles'’ of genuine tepresenta
live republicanism, as from our actual ex
perience, tbs’ we have more cause of ap
prehension from the states than fiom the
gone ia! go vet ume at; ur, in other words,
VOLUME rl.tSi M/vJ ! R
t *•• lllßft- IS 111 t,t|
, .. ‘ J jU • t *• tCQ
uem:v o disunion ihuii r. coixolulatiyt
Ii Wi. b- oliected Ula. t.je i» sm-nsi
bility • f public functionaiios is the oidv’
line and -id- quaie security xr lib* j’T ‘tin,’,
‘on t.-d nun til-: or anti it tod of tin* v.,'l oils
t-eparlmeuis of our po lilt it system. -And,
«i. one ver, iu the raii.ifioadunV id that sys-
U B, » "v fin'* any part in ahuh U V (Tiiuci
[lv of responsibility dues not op. r ,.ie co.ex
tensive, y with sjtliere and cuinpass . f ilu.
power winch it i« l.ileu ~U to f. stiairf, w e
li iVe just grounds to appre nnd dial iho
li irainny .and the system will he disiuib u bv
in.- irregular aud ecccmnc w un-ei in. * ii
ihy power I litis puadeqsutely rest. iaed.
N.-w it results from the ptautcal operation
..four complex system, t a,n the guvajniuent
of each state, (hough elected by me p.-.oplo
ol tiiat state, and -responsible to them only,
may, notwithstanding, .fl it by th. it pro
ceedings ‘lie vital interests of ail the Unron.
So fur, Hi. n, as the interests of me “(ieo
p!« (if Ih.t ('Olte.l St. I.—” aro liubl.. vo bo
impaired or destroyed by tint measures of
the goveriiuieut of a particular state, they
all- exposed to I lie iittiou of a power abso
lutely it responsible to them. If tlie goner
-.J government should encroach upon tho
power- and violate the lights of the states,
ib- y would in(ring upon the interests,
reusing the in luuatiou of the soven igu
power that created them, the people of inu
states; and would of course feel all ihe tc
s.raint iii.t responsibility could impose.
But tho couveise of the proposim.n docs
ti i hold true, ll a state go ver ii me i should
infringe up m the iuteitsisof .he Umoii, or
mote precisely, of the people of all tho
other states, their indignation, however
just, would be vain aud powerless; for the
principle of iho responsibility could not bo
hi ought t bear upon the usuipiug or ag
gressing state government. Mippose, lor
example, that duiing a war upon w hich tho
vety liberty of the country depended, a par
ticular state, under the i. fluence of some
violent local excitement, should attempt to
paralyse the arm of the geueral govern.m ut
by restraining and iiiuili.ig then power of
recruiting soldiers, or by refusing to otuir
out the quuta ot militia constitution.dlv dc.
mndud b> ihe general government. These
me not extreme cases, lot the lutiei actual
ly occuired in one of ‘he Eastern S ates,
and (he foimer eulier occurred or was agi
. tied in another, during (lie late war with
G tut if.i.rtj. i f ixk what ( ousiituiloiial
nie.ius have ih. people of the U.huii ins ich
cases, to bring back .tic ruleis of the itf.ac
tory states to a sense of their dutj \ Can
they hurl them fioin the “bad eminence’ to
which, perhaps, their views have raised
ses ol taction aud sndtiimit k>%o ...c , K...X. „
ftooi their grasp tin fi.ebtaud, w hich from
iho heights ol their constitutional power
they threaten to cas- “ id<-0.,s rutti tud
combustion ’ into the tejitle or vction I
Nu. As long as the 1... . < Stitt-mint u s
their cons'ituents shall prevail, the ut.ami
mous and indignant voice of all the people
of the Union besides, cautiot shake the
foundunniis of their power.
I*, then, there ba any vntuc in the great
principle ol political aitraciiuu which sus
tains the harmony of our admirable system
of piactical freedom ;ii is quite obvious that
whenever a cage oceuis, in which the mal or
imaginary interests, the passions or prejudi
ces ol a particular Stine, shall stand opposed
to tho toieresis «>f tin Union; that attrac
ioi; instead ol binding the state rulers to
lie genera! interest, will absolutely ctfiy
Item from it. And are wo permitted et
her by a knowledge of tbe principles «.f
hum,to nature, or a view of our own bttef
experience as a nation, to doubt that such
c ises will fit quettily occut ? He must have
read the lessons ot history to little; purpose,
who dose not perceive that the -people of
particular states are liable to fall, occasion
ally, into a daugen us and morbid excite
ment upon patttcular subjects; ■ rid that un
der this excitement, they will impel their
talers into the adoption of measures in their
tendency destructive to the Union. Nor
will any considerate man look upon this
source of danger but with the deepest con
cern. H< w many local causes are there,
calculated to generate feelings hostile to tho
general government ? Diversity and pecu
liarity of local interest, whether rea' or ini
agiDuiy. Political prejudices and opinions,
peculiar to one nr a few states. Embarras
merits growing out of a vitiated currency,
which thegenetal government may find if
necessary to correct; a duty of the highest
ntoial and political obligation, yet ungra
cious in its nature, and, for a lime, appar
ently oppressive If to these ivi add, the
selfish and ambitious views of designing
demagogues, we shall li tve a spec.men < f
the numerous and multifarious canes ot dis
union, which exist iu the passious of meu
aud ihe pride of the states.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
Nortb-Carolisa. —A lottor to the editor of th#
Fayettevlle, Observer, dated at Raleigh, on tho
!24th inst. says—“ There is no doubt that the ad
ministration party havo an overwhelming majori
ty in the Legislature, but they do not appear to
act in concert. The politioal Resolutions, how
ever. introduced yesterday by Mr. Sawyer, of
Edcnton w ill bring them, I think to rally. These
resolutions, which I will rend you when printed,
approve, in strong and olaquont longuage, of tho
tvholo course of policy pursued by Gen. Jackson,
and his t'abinet. Tbe veto Message is particu
larly expatiated upon as indicative of tho deter
mination of the President to rcstoro tho ConsJi
pition to its original limitation?.