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Jatriot& VOLUME VIII-GREENSBOROTJGH. NORTH-CAROLINA,, JANUARY 1847. NUMBER 41 IJubltsIjcD iDccUlil BY8WAIM* SHERWOOD PRIOR. „ j;.50, ir u TIIIIKK UOI.I.A11S A YEAR, WITH IX **B MOUTH 1FTHTII HAT! orli^Mitprirti. » failure on Ihe I'"1 of any customer loor.ler ■ Jiwonlin- „,„<-« vrithin the .uhscriiilion y«-»r, will he con.idcrvJ in- '•aieative of hi* wWl lo continue lhe paper. ■Oh LOVE'S YOfXO I1REAM. the 'I <>is aa.r-cc vc/o»nuee,, when lieuuly hii,;*! My heart'* chain wove; Wlcn my Jreaen of life, from morn UUajJfM. Was love, stall love ! New hope may Uoom, AnJ .lavs may comi'. Of mil.lor, eahnvt, beam; Bui there"* nothing half *0 sweet in life, .la-love's voting dream ! Oh ! there'* iiolliini; half *o MM in life, As lave'* yountf clicaru ! TkMpJkOH but loa |ili.t frame may HOST, When >il.!>ouib'«|Hi.l; Though hcwinlhe wise, mbofroivii'd before. To smile al last; He'll never meet A joy so sweet In all hi* noon offline, As when first lie SBBfl lo woman's ear II is *oul fell fame, . And, al cveiy close, slw blush".! to hear The one lov'd name ! that ln.llow'd form is ne'er forgot. Which first love trac'J ; Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot On memory's waste! 'Twas odour fled Tw** miirning's winged dream! 'Twaaa light, that ne'er can shine again On life's dull stream ! Oh ! 'twas light, that ne'er can AIM again On life'* dull stream. The third large town on iho road to Mexico is Puebla. The rood here is uninteresting—some-times leading through deep gullies, at other, along adusly plain, i'uehla is aboalCO mil** [romPe-rote. According to some aulhontes. it contains fitv thousand inhabitants; according to others ninety thousand. Al all events, there are only two places in the republic more populou* man Puebla:—they aro Cuonnjtia'i and ihe capital itself. The calhedral of Puebla is a very fine buildins. The lamps. lallu.«irat!e. and principal ornaments of ihe altar trre of massive silver, borne estimate of the vnluo of the large chandelier may | he formed from the fuel lhal four thousand dollars ' were paid for cleaning il a few years ago! I here I are many manufactories in Puebla; as loose of cn'ton goods, hard soap, and swords and bayonets are ihe principal. The people of I'uebla are very bigoted, bin energetic ar.d persevering. 1 hey arc braver than the generality of Mexicans. II is at I'uebla. and only at I'uebla. that an invading army would meet with any ihing like a vigorous opposition. , - After leaving Puebla. you have ninety mi es.o I oo before you reach Mexico. The road that leads ! thereto is well constructed, and kept in excellent , condition. Nine orten miles per hour are done by the diligence in the more level parts; of the road. Hero indeed the name "diligence is not ' a misnomer. There is a short cut to Mexico from ] Puebla; Santa Anna took it when he marched a-gainst the President Ruslamente in 1*11. W ho Iknewa but that an American army >ill have to Uake tbf = :nne route shortly! Stranger things | thnn this have happened—and will happen n-gain.—. V. Y. Cour. and Enq. ted, cried out-"Call Ebenczer Fich. Esq. — The Crier itarted from his slumbers to his leet. and sung out. -Ebenczer Squich-a-fire! amiu roars of laughter. A man who sat on a bridge wilh hi. feet in the water, was asked the reason why hedid so.w.ie he replied, "I am to sin remote allusion is made to it. The ten years mentioned, refer, exclusively to the period to in-tervene between each •• actual enumeration. — This whole section of the Constitution explain* it-self by providing for the enumeration, immediate Congress might have done, but The uniform prrclice of the Stales m the ap-pointment of Electors of President, and Vice Pre-ident, affords on apt and forcible illustration of he nosilions 1 have assumed. The second clause '• Oh •• AID AMI COMFORT."—A Whig member of the Illinois Legislature, conceiving il 10 be his du-ty 10 •• aid and comlori" the Locofocos. particu-larly in their present dilemma, recently introduced the following resolutions into that body: "Resolved, bu lhe General Assembly of the Slate of lllinoii. That we heartily approve of Ihe message of the honorable JAMES K. 1 OLK. President of the Ueited Btat-s. vetoing the bill passed at the last session of Congress or Ihe United Sim*, making appropriations for th movement of rivers and harbors ..■■r ■,,:-,. , , .sbas.lo-. .rrow. ond.m now endeavoring to take cold to prepare my voice." ••That is really thesmallest horse l ever .aw." ...d a counirym.n on viewing a Shetland poney. •• Indade now," replied his Irish companion, but I've seen one as small as two of him. ■ HR. RA¥MER'S HUM SPEECH, ON THE DILI, FOB RE-DWRlcrl.NO THE STATE, , /,! the Route of Common; Dec. «. 1810. MR. HAYNER said, lhat in first introducing the Hill before the House, and in now rising to ad-vocate it. he hod been, and now was conscious ol ihe responsibility which he incu.red. He was will aware of the vituperation and obloquy which awaited him. He might well expect that his course and his humble name, would, for some lime to come, afford a iheme of denunciation to a ma-lignant party Press, and of unsparing abuse to ev-ery unscrupulous demagogue in the State. Hut for himself, lie had counted the cost, and was rea-dy and prepared lo abide the result. My own honaei convictions, (said Mr. K.) and the appro-bation of the just ami reflecting portion of my counlrvm.n, must and will sustain me. Uivine wisdom seems lo have decreed, lhat in the mora government of the world, no good O- ■ . • ... ha K.IFIIUII I i to be ochiev the enumeration of its inhabitant.! made once in ten years only—and I freely admit, that this apportionment as lo number, must re-main for ten years, and no Slate legislation can affect it. . , . , . But what sayi the Constitution in regard to ihe manner ofchoosing Kepresenio'.ives' 1 he fourth section of this same first article, declare, lhat " The limei, placet and manner of holding e- " I'l-fioii! 'hall be pretcribed in each State by the 'legUUlurt tlureof: but Ihe Congreu may, at •• any time, by law, make or alter tuch regala- ■• riant, except at to the placet ofchooting Sena- I lore ihe control of ihe •• manner." as well.. of the "limes and places" of holding elections. ... in ihe obsence of Congressional acuon left to the Legislature of each State; .ubjec.lo no other limi-lation bui that such State .hall elect no more members than Congress may have apportioned lo 11. unil'T an enumeration of its people. _ I he word* •• each Siate" in that clause of the Coo.sti-tutinn last mentioned, shows lhal it was intended to leave the manner of election to Iho peculiar wish or fancy of every Slate ; without requiring uniformity, unless Congress should see fit lo alter the State regulations. And until the passage or I the lavtnpporuonin.nl act in IMS. no uniformity ' has ever existed in the several Slates a. lo ihe Some Slate, hove elected by general lieuitv-certainly the Stale, can now do. whal' public good. Whilst ihe Senate repesen a lh» ■---■"- bui has not done. | people in their relation of .epur.lely ogsnized communities, as Slate.—the llou:e of Kepreaer-talivea represenu them in their numerical force. The great principle which lies at the foundation of our republican system is, thai ihe people are capab'* of self-government—that all power is de-rived from them—and lhal their will when con-sliluiionaHy expressed, is and must be the >u-preine law. By the people a. constituting iho body politic, I mean those endowed with the right of suffrage, whose voice, and wishes ought to exercise a controlling influence over ihe govern-ing power. The only practical, and in fact, pos-sible way of making this controlling influence peacefully-available, is by giving to majorities, in the various lelation. in which the people ate cal-led on lo act, iho power of expressing the sense of ihe whole. That •• a majority oughi to rule." has become so<nie« maxim, specially with thil political party from whom I may expect opposi-tion to the bill now before the House, lhat 1 need not further attempt to enforce ft. Although I do not adopt that theory to the extent uroed by tb.i Democratic parly, yet I insist that when ihe people nuance of llie forms, and in conformity KlecUrt tonal to Ihe whole number of Semitort and Itepretenlativet to which Ihe Slate may be entitled in the Congrett." Here the authority of the Stale in the manner of appointment is left entirely untrammelled.— The only instruction is as lo the number. And ihe number of elector, to which » Stale i. entitled, is as much dependent on every ten years enume-ration of it. inhabitants, as the number of iis Hep-re. entatises in Congress.. Both depend on the apportionment by Congreas. under the enumera-tion. And if the first arrangement by a Slate, of the districts for Representatives, after every ap-portionment, must remain for ten years unaltered, so must of course the arrangement of electoral li. ,ieu_fur both depend on he operation of the act in pur.uance oltne lorn... ana ,n co.„or,„„r esleem ana supiioi* oi ...*- ".-- . —- ■ I disinterested effort to promote the happiness and welfare of his country—he who devotes himse I to Ihe task of avenging the wrongs of the injured known that a lew yeara mvrax .»=-.-•-. -■ ---- . .iiuorl oninenl bi under tDe census or JOIU .".«"i;» — --■— -----, ,v bama changed her system of electing by districts ; Wff ,nl0 0 110n, ,hi, act wn, repealed., Let us examine the pres.fnt arrange,, et, of ha to thai of general ticket, and before the next dec- , had fcon. P a> „,.,„,,._ und ,he AM oflhe C-emra Assembly , lion, returned again to the old mode. I. ,s also »»;»«^^ ■lions for th. itn- and in aiding the efforts of the deserving, must pre- ^^.^^ .h>l t|nce |he ,„,. Dpp0rl,0nment was hns'since been repealed, and the e-1 ImJ down. I pare himself lo meet the peltinga of manv a pill- . n|>J<>_^ Slal(,8 uf New HiD,rj.hrte, Ceorrjin,, ^ ubl Psloblished. Never hove In looking at thi e course of the , less storm of censure and denunciation, l or my- ^ N]isiOI|n |,a,,. e|ecled uy the general ticket , . *g . of lhe gw... l0 a|„.- lh(l „gu. lhe Uislricts, il wil n compromising i self, I ask no higher honor, than to receiveMM m_ 0||(] yt.t „,, a|| lhree since altered their ^ manncf rf ,|,poiBllflK electors- porlionment act of the details of an arrangement of "I be recollected that the op- Cor.gress of'-12 requires, that mules are men of honesty and aubsianco ; they and their aervants are well armed, and somclimes they have fierce encounters with robbers. The worst part of lhe road lo Mexico—partic-ularly for fool soldier*—it that which is contigu-ous to Vera CrUI R» the soil is aand, and tani almost as hot as thai used by chemists to ma sand bath. Here the by eight powerful ho along," at the rate of soldiers would find in road eslremely diific this, as indeed in the -advisable to march at from Vera Cruz ilie surprising- Cacti, a high price, are he Hsoine places, win a gigantic plant put ence you are sealed bouis, are as richlv L_. th.te it a clow. rank, church-yaid smell in the sell as a candidate for " military g or) i™. which is any thing but pleasant, ar.d which | Lieut Marlin could not prove lhe sincerity , n. QAhlBaSU Retrimentof our intentions ana tne propnciy in uui cu»..«. , ^ , 'Jhe nuyor proposition must On S. ord.s Dec. A h, the .W J^J"*01« ,„ considcrinf; ,hi, proposition to re-arnrnge the • „i;„of_ona |, . B,Dle can. „, ,b, ab- N. Carolina Mili.a ossennblec n.Ins ' P» Congressional Uislricts of the Slate at lh,. time. «"»• ff„ionll| rt.„riciion. so change the rt*ZZ!fc^2l2tttj2ESBmlK lh"«nr8 lw0 prominent po-nls of view „. whKh j^ZffESSm* into one; certainly (so iE*&£J22Z&tJSf&0& : it presents itself lolhe mind, first-have we the J^JJJ,- lhem hy such a re-orrangeinent ol Mexico. 1 h0'\'\S'™Xa "wanp ech " which I Constilutional power lo do .1; and ,econdly-ad- , «.c 6 ^ ^.„ con(c>r,mlv , co... proceeded to make a war snet««■ w< ,,av0 ,h ou,r, is i, exped.ent and ^U Aclof Congress, of separate and dist, a'tiODI nec.ssarv arid proper towards lhe exerci.-e lion should ever take il into account, when il can oflhe powei conferred. When these regulations be done in accordance with a due observance of are found lo be imperfect, or unsuited to the great other requsile considerations. The third princi-nurpose for which the apportionment of Repre- pal element which should enter into the details Uulutive. among the Stales, according ;o federal of such arrangement, is equably of natnbers, n ulalion. was designed-1 mean the ju.l reflec- neaily as can be nllained. 1 ; rrl rau-vs-fi**~*g~j£C 11rsL, ulars rctta on lhe same authority, and is i ap|ilicaiion of these principles? Spain. Al lhe present day. a similar fair is held am paltry village in the interior of Mexico—call-ed San Juan. Almost depopulated ot oilier limes. at Ihe time of the lair, fifiy, sixty, and even eighty •fliousand people are congregated al San Juan. The next plafca of importance on the road to Mexico is Perot*—lh* villages of La* Vigas, l.i jVlova and St. Michael intervene between il and Jala'pa. The road from l.as Vigss to Perot* is very bad and sleep. When you are in Perot*, vju aro in whal is called the tiena fria, or cold r*egion. AA nnd.l ,cold enough ,t is, in all conscience. A day or iwo before, you wore perspiring al eve-ry. pore ;—now, your cloak and comforter ore in requisitionf Perot* is iboui 70 miles fromjalapa, and contains S.WK) inhabitants. It is 76W le.t above the level of the^ea. "In houses are 00«- a'oried. very gjoomy looking, but very strong. •The Englisli log*l maxim—'every n is bia caslle.'ll equally true s. different sense. Near. . casileofthai name. Thrice has Santa Anna been • n inmate ofih* castle—the list tune as a priso-ner of sijte. It is not impossible that ere long be •nay again he en involuntary guest of the (Jover* nor of the CatUo *pf Peyote> In the vicinity ol |"cro1evtnet* are leeeral fill*gei, inhubiied solely If cMBtd ". The Miies ol whom may' be sun |U»*1ITIJ: ttVml (Vroiviii Mi* iiovs li»< ii-tt live ■rural ul'vks' d.!I,,ytKt discouraged him. -Victory is a good thing." said he.-but whv put -Victory or I'enth. Put It • Victory Of Cripple,' said he," anri I'll go that. WINTEK. Ti* winter, and no more the breeses, Buzz among the budding treeses; And whilst lhe boy with ragged Irouses, Shivering homeward drives the cowses, f Nearly frpsl-bil ore his looses. And bless mv life how blue hi* nose is. * —— 1 • NotlC-hal Superstition.—During a thunder 1 slotm the Jews open iheir doors and windows; as i it is in a siorm the* expect lb* coming ol their ! Messiah. The Catholics ol'Suabia and other dis-tricts of I Ivrinay, mil bells of their churches todop-recale the eflirst* of lightning ; and in Senegal, there is a tribe, who sn at the-door of their bill*, e ,nVpe'rot."'Tho.igh""in »«. «»•«• unwearied delght in seeing "lhe spirit lAroie, is lhe famous *f '»« »'•""" «»« •»«•»■ their .mountain* oj «and. ', " •■I lid you nottell me sliisjnorass was bard-nt the hoitoin (" said a young horseman lo a coun-tryman, when his horse, had sunk up lo lhe sad-dle girth. " Ves. I 'I'd, but you are uol half faj' b Uom y.l." laid lh* lellot*. The ••Cner" of a Maisachuieut cnust tras spirited lo be encouraged ; how ore the conflict- ' ins claims of sectional interests to be harmonized! BUM b*J been polled, we hud lhe average popu- ..g ol 8.cuonal we uurutuuMwui |lir vnlt. „| |h* whole Slate lo be about NJ.OUU.— Auti if it is right and proper lo redress wrongs JJ.. fUIi|,er examination wo find, inking these six and to repair error in die particular, why not in ,|eciJons, I be average niajorily ol the Whig pan/ regard to the elective franchise, the great polili- ' „, ue ,„.„, 7,000. Now, allowing the nveiuge ot cal inheritance of lhe American citizen, and lhe j aj I.HX) voters to each Dialrwt, according to every great Comer stone of our republican fabric ! | fair principle of proportion, lhe Whlgl are em,. ' This brin-s me to lhe consideration of the sec- tied to live out of lhe nine members. And ytl ond branch oflhe subject—I mean the expedien- , in the face of nil '.his. the Deuiocratic LegUI*lUf-i. d propriety of passing the Hill now before of -M1-:! dared, in defiance of nil llwul.ligiilioiisu|- ,• House. Let u. looli ot the object cuii'em- fairness, juslice and constiluiionnl dlltj —in nil piaud by iho Constitution, in apportioning R.p- disregard of all their stereotyped professions «: .Massacnuseiis «"U»i sens w »■».».>«»« * ."H, ../„,«, Aea«al uidl • . _ •'..... , ' • •.• ,«j . v. •••*••'".'*.".
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Title | The Greensborough patriot [January 16, 1847] |
Date | 1847-01-16 |
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Swaim, Lyndon Sherwood, M.S. |
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Jatriot&
VOLUME VIII-GREENSBOROTJGH.
NORTH-CAROLINA,, JANUARY 1847. NUMBER 41
IJubltsIjcD iDccUlil
BY8WAIM* SHERWOOD
PRIOR.
„ j;.50, ir u
TIIIIKK UOI.I.A11S A YEAR,
WITH IX **B MOUTH 1FTHTII HAT!
orli^Mitprirti.
» failure on Ihe I'"1 of any customer loor.ler ■ Jiwonlin-
„,„<-« vrithin the .uhscriiilion y«-»r, will he con.idcrvJ in-
'•aieative of hi* wWl lo continue lhe paper.
■Oh
LOVE'S YOfXO I1REAM.
the 'I <>is aa.r-cc vc/o»nuee,, when lieuuly hii,;*!
My heart'* chain wove;
Wlcn my Jreaen of life, from morn UUajJfM.
Was love, stall love !
New hope may Uoom,
AnJ .lavs may comi'.
Of mil.lor, eahnvt, beam;
Bui there"* nothing half *0 sweet in life,
.la-love's voting dream !
Oh ! there'* iiolliini; half *o MM in life,
As lave'* yountf clicaru !
TkMpJkOH but loa |ili.t frame may HOST,
When >il.!>ouib'«|Hi.l;
Though hcwinlhe wise, mbofroivii'd before.
To smile al last;
He'll never meet
A joy so sweet
In all hi* noon offline,
As when first lie SBBfl lo woman's ear
II is *oul fell fame, .
And, al cveiy close, slw blush".! to hear
The one lov'd name !
that ln.llow'd form is ne'er forgot.
Which first love trac'J ;
Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot
On memory's waste!
'Twas odour fled
Tw** miirning's winged dream!
'Twaaa light, that ne'er can shine again
On life's dull stream !
Oh ! 'twas light, that ne'er can AIM again
On life'* dull stream.
The third large town on iho road to Mexico is
Puebla. The rood here is uninteresting—some-times
leading through deep gullies, at other, along
adusly plain, i'uehla is aboalCO mil** [romPe-rote.
According to some aulhontes. it contains
fitv thousand inhabitants; according to others
ninety thousand. Al all events, there are only
two places in the republic more populou* man
Puebla:—they aro Cuonnjtia'i and ihe capital
itself. The calhedral of Puebla is a very fine
buildins. The lamps. lallu.«irat!e. and principal
ornaments of ihe altar trre of massive silver, borne
estimate of the vnluo of the large chandelier may
| he formed from the fuel lhal four thousand dollars
' were paid for cleaning il a few years ago! I here
I are many manufactories in Puebla; as loose of
cn'ton goods, hard soap, and swords and bayonets
are ihe principal. The people of I'uebla are very
bigoted, bin energetic ar.d persevering. 1 hey
arc braver than the generality of Mexicans. II is
at I'uebla. and only at I'uebla. that an invading
army would meet with any ihing like a vigorous
opposition. , -
After leaving Puebla. you have ninety mi es.o
I oo before you reach Mexico. The road that leads
! thereto is well constructed, and kept in excellent
, condition. Nine orten miles per hour are done
by the diligence in the more level parts; of the
road. Hero indeed the name "diligence is not
' a misnomer. There is a short cut to Mexico from
] Puebla; Santa Anna took it when he marched a-gainst
the President Ruslamente in 1*11. W ho
Iknewa but that an American army >ill have to
Uake tbf = :nne route shortly! Stranger things
| thnn this have happened—and will happen n-gain.—.
V. Y. Cour. and Enq.
ted, cried out-"Call Ebenczer Fich. Esq. —
The Crier itarted from his slumbers to his leet.
and sung out. -Ebenczer Squich-a-fire! amiu
roars of laughter.
A man who sat on a bridge wilh hi. feet in the
water, was asked the reason why hedid so.w.ie
he replied, "I am to sin
remote allusion is made to it. The ten years
mentioned, refer, exclusively to the period to in-tervene
between each •• actual enumeration. —
This whole section of the Constitution explain* it-self
by providing for the enumeration, immediate
Congress might have done, but
The uniform prrclice of the Stales m the ap-pointment
of Electors of President, and Vice Pre-ident,
affords on apt and forcible illustration of
he nosilions 1 have assumed. The second clause
'• Oh •• AID AMI COMFORT."—A Whig member of
the Illinois Legislature, conceiving il 10 be his du-ty
10 •• aid and comlori" the Locofocos. particu-larly
in their present dilemma, recently introduced
the following resolutions into that body:
"Resolved, bu lhe General Assembly of the
Slate of lllinoii. That we heartily approve of
Ihe message of the honorable JAMES K. 1 OLK.
President of the Ueited Btat-s. vetoing the bill
passed at the last session of Congress or Ihe
United Sim*, making appropriations for th
movement of rivers and harbors
..■■r ■,,:-,. , , .sbas.lo-. .rrow. ond.m
now endeavoring to take cold to prepare my
voice."
••That is really thesmallest horse l ever .aw."
...d a counirym.n on viewing a Shetland poney.
•• Indade now," replied his Irish companion, but
I've seen one as small as two of him.
■
HR. RA¥MER'S HUM SPEECH,
ON THE
DILI, FOB RE-DWRlcrl.NO THE STATE, ,
/,! the Route of Common; Dec. «. 1810.
MR. HAYNER said, lhat in first introducing
the Hill before the House, and in now rising to ad-vocate
it. he hod been, and now was conscious ol
ihe responsibility which he incu.red. He was
will aware of the vituperation and obloquy which
awaited him. He might well expect that his
course and his humble name, would, for some lime
to come, afford a iheme of denunciation to a ma-lignant
party Press, and of unsparing abuse to ev-ery
unscrupulous demagogue in the State. Hut
for himself, lie had counted the cost, and was rea-dy
and prepared lo abide the result. My own
honaei convictions, (said Mr. K.) and the appro-bation
of the just ami reflecting portion of my
counlrvm.n, must and will sustain me. Uivine
wisdom seems lo have decreed, lhat in the mora
government of the world, no good
O- ■ . • ... ha K.IFIIUII I
i to be ochiev
the enumeration of its inhabitant.!
made once in ten years only—and I freely admit,
that this apportionment as lo number, must re-main
for ten years, and no Slate legislation can
affect it. . , . , .
But what sayi the Constitution in regard to ihe
manner ofchoosing Kepresenio'.ives' 1 he fourth
section of this same first article, declare, lhat
" The limei, placet and manner of holding e-
" I'l-fioii! 'hall be pretcribed in each State by the
'legUUlurt tlureof: but Ihe Congreu may, at
•• any time, by law, make or alter tuch regala-
■• riant, except at to the placet ofchooting Sena-
I lore ihe control of ihe •• manner." as well.. of
the "limes and places" of holding elections. ...
in ihe obsence of Congressional acuon left to the
Legislature of each State; .ubjec.lo no other limi-lation
bui that such State .hall elect no more
members than Congress may have apportioned
lo 11. unil'T an enumeration of its people. _ I he
word* •• each Siate" in that clause of the Coo.sti-tutinn
last mentioned, shows lhal it was intended
to leave the manner of election to Iho peculiar
wish or fancy of every Slate ; without requiring
uniformity, unless Congress should see fit lo alter
the State regulations. And until the passage or
I the lavtnpporuonin.nl act in IMS. no uniformity
' has ever existed in the several Slates a. lo ihe
Some Slate, hove elected by general
lieuitv-certainly the Stale, can now do. whal' public good. Whilst ihe Senate repesen a lh»
■---■"- bui has not done. | people in their relation of .epur.lely ogsnized
communities, as Slate.—the llou:e of Kepreaer-talivea
represenu them in their numerical force.
The great principle which lies at the foundation
of our republican system is, thai ihe people are
capab'* of self-government—that all power is de-rived
from them—and lhal their will when con-sliluiionaHy
expressed, is and must be the >u-preine
law. By the people a. constituting iho
body politic, I mean those endowed with the right
of suffrage, whose voice, and wishes ought to
exercise a controlling influence over ihe govern-ing
power. The only practical, and in fact, pos-sible
way of making this controlling influence
peacefully-available, is by giving to majorities, in
the various lelation. in which the people ate cal-led
on lo act, iho power of expressing the sense
of ihe whole. That •• a majority oughi to rule."
has become so |