Wabash Herald, Volume 1, Number 40, Rockville, Parke County, 14 January 1832 — Page 4

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. from the New-York Mirror. SONG. OF MARION'S HEX. BY VIXtlAM C. BRVANt. The exploits of General Francis Marion, the famous partizan w arrior of South Carolina, form an interesting portion of the annals of the American re volutin. The British trooou were so harassed by tlte irreeutar warfare which he kept up at the head of a few daring followers, that they sent as officer to remonstrate with him for not coming into the open field rnd fiht-ng, to use their expression, "like a gentleman and tt christian." Oar band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold; The British soldier trembles, When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree; We kuow the forest around us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, . JUs sate and silent islands; Within the dark mora3s. We to the English soldiery. ThaUittle dread us near! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When waking to their tents on fire They rasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are bare to earth again; And they who fly in terror, deem A mighty host behind, And hear the tramp of thousands Upon the hollow wind. Then sweet the hour that brings release From danger and from toil: We talk the battle over, And share the battle's spoil. The woodland rings with Unusual shout, As if a hunt were tip, Ad woodland flowers are gathered To crown the "soldier's cUp. With merry sont s we mock the wind That in tie pine-top grieves, And slumber long and sweetly On beds of taken leaves. Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds 5Tls life our fiery barbs to guide Across the mooidight plains; 'Tis liie to feci the night wind That lifts their tossing manes. A moment in the British camp A moment and aw ay Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men they are by broad Sanlee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all with Maion, For Marion are their prayers; And lovely ladies greet our band; With kindliest welcoming, With smiles like those ff summer, And tear like those of spriug. for them w c wear these trusty arms, And hy them down no more. Till we have driven the Briton, Forever from our shore. CONCIXDtn FROM OUR LAST. Debate in Senate, on the joiut U evolution in relation to Internal Improvement, a protecting Tariff, and rethartering the Bank of the United States. Here Mr. E. said I e would relieve himself by reading the following extract from bis address to his constituents, published in the Vin. Gazette, Oct. -23d, IS) "That the Constitution of the United State was judiciously Irani. d. to be equal and useful over the whole Union, with provisions happily suited to improve the situation, remove -the wants and operate alike beneficially over all, tannot he denied to its proVisions 1 refer for the powers 61 Congress. The cWnse giving them power "to establish Post Offices and Post toads'' is distinct, ami the practice un der it has therefore been uniform. If this clause confers no power to m ike a post t oad if its meaning be contined to designate such as are made, where is the power to make and create new Post unices t The misconstruction that denies the power m this via isc, would denv the only power granted to establUi a new olhcc -and as that which had no previous existence Is made by the establishment of every netv Post Office, thete must be equal nowei to make a road upon which the mail can be carried. The word establish' has many si guinea! sons; it clearly conveys an idea of the action. suc!i as. nrmr. ding to Johnson, "to make tirm; to found; lo build tirmly; according to jLI. tl. .....1 i r.w. . . .... traou, uiv; wiu is i rum L.aim stablftt faf make Stable, or keep its around." And here let mc remind vou, that the Constitution, expressly grants power to

Congress 4ito make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to Carry-into execution the powers by it vested." This comprehends all that is proper and necessary to affect the object; and the power to make road3 of any description for the mail, is according to the fair construction of language and long usage of government beyond dispute by this single clause. But again The Constitutional power granted to Congress to declare war and support armies renders it "necessary and proper" to construct roads and canals, as the most eligible means to transport soldiers, arms, provisions and intelligence The experience bought during the last war, must strengthen the dictates of patriotism to advance this doctrine; and the safety of an extended frontier country points to it. The power to appropriate money to advance the general wel

fare I will only allude to: and neither the assent nor the dissent of a single estate, can abridge, or extend any powers granted to Congress." "I go next to the direct constitutional power granted "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states," and whatever is "necessary and proper" to accomplish the important objects of this power over domestic and foreign commerce is provided for. No matter in what vehicles trade is carried, whether by water or by land, Congress have the necessary power to advance it. The meaning of the word "regulate" may be disputed but long and correct practice leaves nothing doubtful. If it be constitutional to build light houses, store houses, and custom houses to advance foreio"! Iri.Je, how can it, under this saine p,, er, be unconstitutional to make ? - ut or canal, eqeally "necessary .i 1 proper" to advance "trade among ! several. states T' But here steps forward the "inexpediency" of cxerctsing this power if it be granted. This is founded upon an argument that the public debt of the United States should first be discharged; and the people are left to infer that all surpbis money in the Treasury of the Union is applied by the President, to that object. Such delusion is sham.dul. I he Vreident has no control over thepuvmetit of the public debt it is provided for hv ongress; and cannot be discharged with out the creditors consent oue d, v before the last cent of interest he die. Unuer an act of Cougress passed alter the waf, ten million of dollais have been annually placed in the sinking fund to meet the debt ai it becomes due, and no additional money is required for that purpose. But (he delu-ioiv attempted in regard to the p.ihlic debt is rendered clear by the fact, that during the lat administration, there wn about $40,000,000 of this debt defra) ed and during the same period upwards of $ll,0vl'),000p i;d out of the Treasury to improve the country. The debt is now only a shadow of what it was, and there is n. difficulty in meeting its stipulated payments one or two 3 fan more will rid the country of It as provided for. The. money paid on account of the national debt, navy, fortifications, Art is circulated In other quarter and we have no c'lai.cr of any thing like equal distribution vA the public money, but by procuring aid to improve our roads and rivers, which would operate to the strength and saltalnmot this section of country, lhc western states now contain about one fourth, or rmre, of the population of tne Union: ana is the revenue derived from the consumption of foreign goods in this quarter, and the soil, to be forever expended on the sea-board, which is less in need of such aid! Since Indiana formed hr Slate Governments the annual receipts into the Treasury of the United Stales, average about twenty millions of dollars, itevenue derived from foreign imports paid a large share of tins, but it finally comes out of the pockets of those who buy H ose Imports JNow the west, in addition to paying one fourth the revenue by buying and consuming one fourth the imports have Contributed over forty millions for land?; and in thw state, where is the government expenditures, except to a few odicers and a few prin ters, a small pittance to the war worn pensioners, and "some stipends to Indians? This is the whole amount." "But Ibis plea of "inexpediency" seems to contemplate a reduction of duties upon torcign manufacturers, which would soon Inundate the country with them; rum domestic establishments, Impoverish our own mechanics, reduce agricultural profits, drain the cash out of the western country, and Ihu prevent our improvement. Such doctrine, ns I combat, in the west, is suicidal the neoplg should sccut at its advocates. The diversified interests of our extended Union can never be provided for or bound together by the ligaments of Interest arising from inter course, if tbs dictates of wisdom and the provisions of the constitution I have adverted to, be annulled by the cxecufive "expediency.' Wisdom can devise no means to perpetuate tint adh-

sion or States, stronger than, coual

rights and mutual intercourse. When these be destroyed, the value of the Union will become a matter of party calculation and I hope that event is distant I must therefcte leave partizahs of the doctrine I oppose, to talk of a deceptive expediency, to save the surplus revenue for party purposes!or to destroy ils cause! but knowing as 1 do, that Indiana did her duty during the war, and that government expenditures since, have gone to enrich other quarters, leaving her to depend solely on the fertility of the soil to meet ils constant exactions, the matter 1 now present will shew what true expediency dictates. " That the exercise of the power would only benefit neighborhoods, i the next futile objection. How do the men who urge it exemplify their principles? Examine home matters. They condemn my advocacy of a canal, and endeavor to excite a false alarm of taxation; tlui the people are to be scared from pursuing a work of general inter-1 est, lest they be taxed to complete it for the benefit of others; at the same time they say the United States must not be expected to aid us tiiat would endanger the Treasury I Now, if because those living nearest to a public work derive the most benefit from it, we are not to expend means donated for its accomplishment, and approve of a refusal of additional means should we fall short, how is any work of Internal Improvement in this state to progress? The fact is, all such pretensions are deceptive and at war with correct principles. We might as well expect our soil to be fertile when the sun drinks up its moisture and the dews of night tease to rctdrn It, as to expect to thrive without aid from the United States government, to improve our roads and rivers." The surplus revenue, sir, in annually increased by the increased wants and population of the country: and it has of late become a matter of serious con tention how to dispose of it wben the small remaining public debt be dischar ged in conformity to acts of Congress adopted many years before Gen. JackPon became President of the United States. Yet notwithstanding this fact. under tlio Veto doctrine many object? of general interest to Indiana for which aid has been repeatedly asked, arc left unprovided lor. Indeed the President withheld his signature from a bill after it had passed both Houses of Congress, granting "five hundred dollars for a survey of the While Rivers, to asceraseertairi the expense, and expediency of improving their navigation." Yet ihe prosperity of the country we see attributed to him by his adherents aud too many of the people are unacquainted with the real state of the casr1. Under the last administration an appropriation Was made for a survey and examination of the Wabash river; and although two years have clapscd since the money was expended by order of President Jackson, yet we have ho report or information upon Ihe subject! Still, however, the prosperity of the country is attributed to this President by his adherents and how many of the people know the contrary ? Since President Jackson came into power the Senate of the United States at the instance cf Senator Hendricks, passed an appropriation to improve the great Western Mail Road leading from Louisville to St. Louis, through New-Albany. Paoli, Washington and Vincennes, which on being reported to the House of Representatives was laid upon the table; and still, this people are called upon to applaud and support the policy I How far Indiana is indebted to ils influence, I need no longer illustrate at present. The next subject embraced is the Tariffsuch laws of Congress have from the first mounted the principle that revenue is so to he levied as shall most encourage or least impede the various branches of commerce and internal industry. This principle may be, and ought to be carried out to a more full and extended application; and to enact laws in disregard of it would be an undue exercise of power. The laws of the United States which have tended to protect our interests against the exclusions, monopolies, restrictions, and bounties of other nations, have been one main source of whatever prosperity this country ha enjoyed ; and Inevery instance where the protection has been efficient and complete, the result has heed beneficial, not to a part onlv. but to the whole community. The exclusion of the principal agri cultural products of the most of the States from the markets of the nations whose manufactures we receive, ope rates most oppressively Upon our inte rests,' and subjects us to a disadvantage in trade, which has seldom been expc lienced hy any well governed nation. Would not the Constitution of the United States be a mistaken phantom to deceive the sagacity of its wise framcri, if it were now discovered to be a creature without a perfect protect

ing power if it Were hot the able guardian of the general welfare? On consulting its history, its enactments, and the recorded conviction of its framers, only one answer can be made. The tariff of 1 828, was as all such laws to be salutary must be the creature of Compromise. It was adopted to adjust and reconcile all Interests as near as was then possible, by a Correct standaid. It was soon found that the agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial interests, operated upon unequally by foreign legislation, however dependent upon each other, are too distinctly effected by the comparative extent of protection afforded to each, to be perfectly reconciled to its continuance. The recent publications in behalf of each interest, embrace and cover the whole ground. But an unknown consideration, growing out of some forcign treaties made within the last year, cannot be duly estimated at present. ' The entire subjects with all proper lights, will be agitated by the present congress and if it be said this is the peculiar business of congress, look to

the course pursued by the States of Pennsylvania, JNew-Jersey, South-Carolina, Tennessee and others, who make their voice distinctly heard through their representatives. The protection of home products and home industry, is my creed. Indiana does not wish to suffer by, or relapse into a character of infantine feebleness, to keep any party in power, and if the duty on sugar and other domestic articles of production and manufacture, were now to be materially reduced, such would be her inevitable fate. But let it not be thought: let our own, and the general interests of the Union, sustain a patriotic feeling to promote both, let Our intellect sustain our efforts to be prosperous, and the happy destinies of our Slate will soon have proportionate character to advance in the highway of moral wealth, and pecuniary independence. We are told in the delusive addresses of a "central committee" that President Jackson acts upon the principles of President Jefferson. Alasl how different is the truth! President Jefferson's opinion of the constitutionality ahd expediency of ri protective tariff, is recorded by himself in the following words: " Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions, or prohibits them altogether it may be proper for u to do the same by theirs; first, burlhcning or excluding those productions which they bring here in competition with Our own of the same kind; selecting next such manufactures as we lake from them in greatest quantity, and which at the same time we could the soonest furnish to ourselves, or obtain from oilier count ries; imposing on them duties, tighter at first, but heavier and heavier afterwards, as other channels of supply open. Such duties having the effect of indirect encouragement to domestic manufactures of the same kind, may induce' the manufacturer to come himself into these states, where cheaper subsistence, equal laws, and a vent of his wares, free of duty, may insure' him the highest profits from his skill and inlustry." Docs not Jackson recommend a mere revenue tariff, in utter disregard of Jefferson's doctrine; yet his adherents would have the people believe the contrary. Before Gen. Jackson practises upon Jeflersonian principles he must radically change his course. Then Indiana may with pleasure and propriety honor the memory of the "Hero of New-Orleans," without forgetting the "heroes" of West Point, of Plaltsburgh, of Bridgcwater, Chippewa, and Erie, and ot the lliamcs and ltppecanoc, most of whom seem now to be comparatively forgotten by their country, probably in part, because they hold no public offices of patronage at their dissal. The Constitutional power bestowed upon congress in relation to the curren cy, and the cotemporaneou exposition of its framers in Uie Federalist, with the known principles of the sages who have sanctioned the existing bank charter, shew the futility of all constitutional qualms upon the subject.' I will just read the annexed joint resolution of the general assembly of Pennsylva nia: "That whereas the Bank of the U. States has tended in so great a degree to maintain a sound and uniform curren- ! .... ll J I cy; to facilitate mo unanciai opera tions of the government; to regulate foreign and domestic exchange, and has been so conducive to commercial hv. flint the Legislature of Pennsylvania recommend a renewal of its charter under such regulations and restrictions as to the power of the res pective states, us Congress may deem right and proper." I jCt this sulhce it affords precept and example. The expression in the joint rcsolu lion which adverts to the "veto doc trine." I am now told is exceptionable Let me shew US eflccr and probably

the objection will not be urged, doctrine alluded to is clearly exempli-. fied by the course of the Legislature of Tennessee. At a previous session, that body memorialized Congress for an api propriation of half a million of dollars to hid Slate improvement, at the next session they laud the President for plaring his vc'to upon such appropriations Such is the fruit of a blind adherence to men, In defiance of measures! Over the great body of our citizens such adherence, 1 hope, can never prevail a sense of self preservation will have its duo influence. Mr. Jefferson wa3 the first to recommend to congress the exercise of the power of appropriating money in the construction of the Cun berland Road; and it is attempted to lessen the force of his great example by stating that there was then a compact with Ohio: but is it not evident that if the power did not exist, the consent of a single Stale could not confer it? Jefferson looked to the constitution br the powers of Congress. It wast under this instrument he was bound to exercise hi3 own power. It is only of late the power has been questioned-" since a silly fear of "consolidation," and a heresy called "Nullification,' found a few ambitious demagogues willing to abuse public credulity. The one is a vision utterly impossible: the other is a daring assumption of concurrent power in a state a denial of constitutional power, and a refusal to obey it. The Union would have no existence if a single State could nullify an, act of congress. Our progressive march to greatness would in that case be arrested forever. " Parly and local interests may partially divide the members of this Union; but the general interest have a beautiful symmetry to blend all in close connection. If the chain be broken, our happines3 and probably our freedom, are gone. The different States, like the little, republics once existing in Europe, would soon wae War with each other, and the result would bo certain calamity. Let the existing chain bo forever preserved, for "Liberty and Union ore one and inseparable" and let us manifest our earnestness by expressing the desire? embraced in this joint icsolulion, for measures neccsaary to that effect.Such Mr. E. said, are my views: they are imperfectly, but respectfully subinifted. 1'Uos is: t: tis OF THE niE A ?i A U 0 11 ll ft A t, , , UN AN IMl'GIUAL HIIKET, rcaLisiiRri twicu week duuiko the srssiox of mi; t;K.EUt. assembly. njlIUS Paper will, as heretofore, be J published twice a week during the session of the General Assembly, and it will, as usual, contain a detailedaccount of the proceedings of the Legislature. Its increased sizo will afford us an opportunity to present our rea-. dcrs with a much greater quantity and variety ol intelligence than heretofore. The character of the. paper is prcsum-. ed to be well kiivjwn. it has been in' existence nearly nine years, and for the three last years has been published twice a week during the session of the Legislature. It hn3 thus been enabled to give what no other paper here has . done a full and connected history of the Proceedings of the Legislature. Having incurred an increased expenditure in enlarging it to an imperial size, we appeal to our fellow-citizens, with, confidence that the appeal will not bo made in vain, for an increase of patronage. Wc have uniformly sustained a loss by our semi-weekly publications but the progressive improvementof the country, the rapid increase of our population, and the growing demand lor newspaper intelligence, seem to require that we should advance rather than retrograde. Wc havj therefore deermined to enlarge our Bheet, exertour best energies, and rely for remuneration on the liberality of patriotism.

of an enlightened public. (KTMembcrs of the Legislature arc authorized and respectfully solicited to act as agents lor us in procuring sub scribers, either for the year or during the session, and in receiving money. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. To subscribers during the Session oP the Legislature, the price will be Sev, enty-Fivb Cents, to bo paid in advance. To regular annual subscribers, the Erice will be Two Dollars for 52 nurners, if paid in advance, or Three Dollars at tho expiration of the term. Esp i attention wiil be paid to A. wardin the papers according to di rection . nllemcn to whom this proslay be forwarded wilt confer ilar favour of the Editors br pectus a parti giving ii a general circulation for the purpose of procuring subscribers, and, by having the names of session subscribers forwarded to us at least as early as the meeting of the General Assent biy. DOULASS & MAGUIUE Editors. Jsnwrou. Oct. 20.1831.