The Democratic Watchman lIT V. GRIT 1111 C. • JOE W.II3IREY, AROCIA,II EDITOR Terms, $2 per Annum, in A r BELLFO) . 4IIE, PA: Friday Morning, April 15, 1870 Notice Extraordinary ! A lir Fee . tura. Now to the time to gob/melt. , for the I tiro Own° ViLvOuras. In two or three weeko, we doll beet' the puhlll•atinn of an 0111011.1A6 TALI, from the eliptlvating pen of Aisne. NELLY muum i u, or Louisville. Kcntiteky, entillod "WEARING THE CROSS." the advance manneeripte pf which have rd ready been received. WlLARipiri Tilt CROSB' to • story Of Kentucky life, During the Into war, and ationnitii in thrilling MO romantic IneldentN, and ahnorblng Inti.u.Kt MI.II Hassitiu, lo ono of the moot vtlentedl.lll.. of itie South t prwl IN Illrenoly well and faN orally known in the litorory sold The poemg that SIM! appeami in this yinpi, under her migtitt are are an Indiration of ler Inb•uh, but It i , 4 in !kr... , ‘‘rlfing "earerly to Idd jo.dieP that lithe more paid Milarly .1, VI!, 1111. i t I we thlmit In x hero her 0, te l e •m 11, r I. scriplirn powerß xrn grnat, nnd Iwvuilrtul things flow.CiPin ilcr pun hLe Nuioi fr,,nl the fountain bend "Wrtrivoi tux (lin lin" *Allen e xpre,sly fur the Ikr unerr 1111 \V VT.CII ■•N, sod we hare A j.ai ,l n hicb prove for it Those papers, therefore, 5.110 t 121, pf.p, ling it, will have the k in4itiemn ii,a 14. infrmge our enrywright, without gil mg n• .lup ert dit The Story will v( . ,tninceor In Ni 16 yf the prrnent lehnne, Innt three Heel. from lo lay Now the time to note. He% ther, fore, as we promise lair reieler+ li I, il Int. I leK•tual trent Ile run• to mend m your •erlptinns In time for the first in staltnen t of thle highly Intere.ting rutnnn•i Rb lotrzol to nuke the Dr kTli WATrif VAN the IMAM wick I y fetmily paper m the :ntivi and MA sonn an Mil. s“ory 1u ,ti eluded, (wlilcll ell! run thruulrl. tWrill numtwrft), Y. hnw 111,1V1.11,1 .ttrae•i", fratlltt . l 4 to t111(f OM OW R .• SOO IMoIOOI tLut the WATCIIIII,OI stinc.ng 1,1 In the land In tiff..., neeks i then. 100 k mit "Weerin,g the Cross," Letter From PennsvalleY. - Hon. J. G Meyer Vindicated. 11Aist , Tm‘% , iiii. \Fit 12 Meisrs Editor —We wau ed , 111 au mate of the Bellefonte lie% • end weeks two, that the Edit,,r Lax lashed hutihell . 1 1111 e IWO a tort, Le cause, as he alleged, our premmt north member of the Lego4lature did not tluenee the Legislative 1 . 1•1)11k% I , nia In rob thexml uig tined L. Lvll l the 1,. C. Ai, S. C lt•tilroad that he ought to have seemed th, Itatlroad, in the Trett-urt, lit'd the 'the Editor's mind mint t :titer L,il e beclouded lo kit.l uI 111.4,.‘ or he to ignorant of a sell ardent *1 act __ that the l'enno‘ which to to !owl.' the I. S • hail road, Is ttnelt ao g,oml aio the hot.,is that represent it and that rt they 411•Nirtr to build the road, they are able to do mo, N itliont thea.,l 01 their ONO 1,101.1 , to give them Credit and it their bondm are outheient to IntuMl (ht. Roads mentioned in the 101 l milt it more is the company able to bald and con struct any road that it undertakes 'owl t It must, however, be conceded that we send no man to Harrisburg to perform impoesibilities, or do wrong that good may come out of it, for when a 111:111 performs las ditty faithfully, with u proper regard for right anti Justice" he lute donerall that ran be ask , d (Xi any public ctlicer. The same ldo, ulual who arraigns the Hon .1 U. Meyer for dereliction of duty, was olive elected to perform the duties of Treasurer of Can tee County, and how well he performed those duties the records of t court o Cornmon Pleas and. the 'lMlliy I'rl 0 will fully explain. Utile' Editor of th e Republican calls that perfprming duties due tOdila constituents, then diet:wet lion resolves itself merely into n differ ence of opinion as to what the duties of ts public officer are. We take no pleas UM in calling up the past record of a Scoundrel, but, "people living in glass hdtSieg OlighLna to ii4WW atones," and when people make so 1111101 ado !WOW honesty and tlutf Ms well to understand the cause for so great a concert, for the public) welfare; in fact, r he has tl l will, the spleen and the gall to blacken the brightest name in any community, but, fortunately, hie influence for harm ,Iff gone wherever known, and we there fore know. hoW to appreciate all such advice, coming from such a source. Me made a sorry hit When he epdeay. sired to make us believeshat it James P. Coburn, "The great Lawyer," had been' in the •Legialature, it would have been otherwise. The Railroad 'would have sectiredllte Imr tacking, &c., by his =jetty IgiuenCto and pOneriul intellect. 14 *AMWAY oft* that, by stk.' ing a plain, practical question. If Jones P. Coburn, with all S hia legal shrewdness and influence, is not able to control a little turnpike incor porating company, how long would it take him to get eontrolgatikte Legisla ture of Pennsylvania? And if the. community in which he lives have so little confidence in his integrity as to not even trust him to read the minutes of sett incorporation without appoint ing s nurlionest farmer to stand by his side and watch that he reads correctly, how many would it take to wateli Binh nl Ilarrithurg to keep him in the pap of rectitude and duty 7 tieing well ac quainted with Mr. Coburn, we would, rather seal up our lips, and let "the' dead bury their dead," 'but if he will allow his name to he used by such an principled specimens of humanity as the Editors id the Republican, without restraint, and thus, by his silent recog nition, indorse those scurrilous and WI gentleinalv articles, he must expect to share the fate of his associates, and, have his ability, as it public man, close ly scruunnicrt, \Venn. not apposed to a lair and candid affairs or men, but we tire opposed to nithout (woe and "hope to ,be intelligent piddle Again, Mr Meier is ne,tl , ol tit the gain, vv.! ul Ill,t trirlii.z the propt•r influence in the I,egt.httn , c, and bete again, the Edttor of the =I tniNt plead 1,14,0-quer, , or part% ma! ce , for prar, what ha. Mr Nfe)er fadea to do flint %%11n a.lied or expected? The factn slo,w that Mr. Meyer waft 11 le re tru.t worthy and efficient member, trout the fact that he had all the bill. pa..ed that welt. asked for by hi. con , tito, . which ought to have been pass the Editor of the nrimbliwn, hid b`nt paid a hale :Mention to the proceed ingn in the !louse, lie erlil certainly notpleail igliorance. _Mr.' 'llliiir'n ns fluence wan that kind 01 tntlucnr•t 'which any honest nail upriyht member eould expect ail acquire al the first but we will demonstrate, by a single 111.iatICI'!•-til..t he wielded the wflucurr of an older member. .. , •everal wars ago a bill wan passed allowing each and el ore oeu paper 0, the County to ptillittli all 111%%., relating especially to Centre Count,. If, be paid for out ut the County land., and an there are now some six papers primed in the 'County, tliv en prase of flaying dice,. laws publislced would vitonolit 10 about one thousand dollars per year -a loch in considerable of an item to the tax payer. Ilon. I'. t.. Meek, a printer, reeommeniTeil the repeal of this air, on the ground of economy, ;kr , nail Mr Meyer, art ;rigout iberrllll.lol.lll whirls he wan elected, to carry out retrench ment and reform, lint the bill prompt, Iv pn..e l li; ;sill, but, torrminv nllrge,l , !ritillulatic:il error, the Gov ertior, vol.trary Ur expeetation, vetoed N,.%%, noun :t Molt heart would Lave to rent here, e , pecialk helor,:im: to a path then in the 111111011 ty but flirt no tube Mr. t't iv lice, 1101 , of beim! in the right, called 1111111 e hill (.1 have It p 11,44,1, IrtqWllll .the veto and advocated its ri a o. l ivoiir4o a forcible and ronivin'cog, that it wa-i liver the (it,VerlMr . e•SetO t hy nearly a utianimou4 vote, and Mr Meyer wxn 114 , 14 0011 grlll,llll.ted try older and more experi cored incinliern neon he Iv onions, and the manner in which he had acquitted hinisell in the management or the 1011. It in rumored anicuigst its that the Edi tors of the h'epubltron labored hard, with whaterer tie/licence (Ili/ Iva, to de feat thin 101 l and finally ilincovered the Mine syntax in It, upon which they in Need the flovernor to veto if, arid that Mr. Afeyer ° eohaving it i 4 tsved, notwith ntaniling the yeti)," lalse nvntax, grant inner and all. in the House or their mend , ohm lile County TreaS, lire Iron itt,t., to, the Editors of the ifritiiithettorlie item little stern of two dollars yearly, to the ea or of tit liie.e ferocious and vindirtivao at. tacks upon hitn by the ilepub/tran, I= "How General Grant is Used by Rich The Chicttgo Tribune, the leaning Radical organ orthe West, seems to think that President I.JT 11R8 a great respect for riches. It is gratifying td know that the Trilnittehae at last got its eyes open to a tact that bits been ntent to everybody else for the last year. Wherein, we would like to know, has the President eoer shown his respea for, poor rden or his lode-, penitence 01 the rich:? The 'Tribune speaks truthfully, as folio we : President Grant has one defect of character rarely met with in high pia. ca--en, inexpliacbie respect for rich men,, Now a rich man without recog nition of some kind is one of the poor. est of human erim4ires. Either com• merce, literature, society, or politics is ipeceeemy to makehini happy, mid this is why so many dunces sit in therieni 4114,1M4 'Pose, ou.tbeir, mdney to be noticed. This man is apt, Übe bate a repabliein ,consciefee, to be a good sort of., Irian tot is President to. take bx 16l hand now, and then, to en. cobritge Info yrith i 'the fact that even enterprise is not the worst thing in the State, and to assure him thatrespecta -14 wealth need not debar any per son from visiting Magistracy occasion ally. Now, why should the President take pleasure in such merely rich men as Boric and Corkin; or, worse yet, in such designing rich men asOaltes A mes. Daniel Morrell, and others who are, of course, pleased with his attentions and interested in his person, hutoyho have more important designs that either so cial recognicion or histosical yemini sense? If they,find that they can int ptess the President with their views, merely by the contact of their riches, they will use him to their fill, and blast his administration with their faisome praise and insidious advice. 'The President's best advisers arc not to lie round in the private cosset. The days of LIN privy council wee tout tkith Clarendon and the Third Mtitart. The President's advisers should be the lieh trt press of the country, and the cry or tho many handed poor—the over taxed filmier, the idle !tailor, the immigrant. It is mortifying to our conceptions of the imerim) Chief Magistrate that he simian reel the contact or any man. notch IC , S it 1111'1'01V I'ol our, 1 . 1194.14, the WeaklieSS OU.PII. real veal(ness lie is used Ile is m pre-+ /obit: , Ile iv an Rhlli4l4l 1118111 JI is relative , have not telt. in the Mee sense the. lIVVYiI hint iu 10,48111 train tohrllni tilleral ((or,. Man of them are oi Mike. Oilier. hat, trued to grow nob by 1,b1n001,2' 111, eat IL iv nwre than prolialule that Corbin tin F 1.41, Mill (;0111t1 out of $lOO,OOO by tuning the name or dent (Irani...llot it I ( . )I.liin hart,grown Lich an Cro-ons by his high relationship, it would have liven a lens dangerous symptom titan the known tact that people who have climbed to opulence by the barb:m.ln and slips of leginla (ton are looked npon,bv the proodent .1 the hest exponents of American en:- Ihe anii Muse of Represent,: tire, .1 the Cfmunonwealth (rt . rep t.lll, flts.-rii. lir\ -Senate hill NO 1070, entitled "An act to facilitate and i.e cure the conatriiction of an additional railway eiitivetion between the waters of the Sii, l iteliantut and the great lakes, amt the northwestern States by extemling the Ad and credit of certain vorporation» to the dermev Shore, Pine Creek and Pothilo was 11111 ni like manner to aid in the constructniii of the Pittstairg. Virmila and Charleston railway, the Clearfield and Antral° railwav, lurid the Erie and Allegheny railway," was oily presented for executive ap - phival on )esterilay, the Pith net. Regarding it as among the moat im portant es er subnutlell for votistilerit lion, Loth in the principle it ouches and the consequences of my action thereon, I Imre examined it with as much eare JIM writ poillialde in the short tune allowed, and the pressor* , 01 other 1111111.4 al 11114 111.11' rinse of the setsion For these reasons it would have been e that. the VIVW4 /11”,111. to he 11111101111e1•11 111111111 have been the nob feet of more mature reflection Enter 111111111 g, however, Jinn Cllll,lOllOl, !lint the proposed measure 14 11111 only in conflict with the ronatilution, lint at war with the beat interest.' and true pull ey or the State, it it deemed an ion perative duty to guard against all pos. Ode inimeonatruction by returning the hail promptly to the Senate, in which it originated, with the following state meat of the reasons for withholding toy approval. There are in the sinking fund of the State note and one-half millions °ldol !ars 11,9,51t0,011M11 nr railroad bonds, viz $6.000,000 in bonds of the Pennsylvania railroad company, and S:1,50(I,1)011 of the liondsol the Allegheny Valley rail road company, the payment of 1.1 e latter guaranteed hy the Philadelphia "and Erie railroad company, the North erit . :teritral railway company / a n d by the Penns% Inll,llllt railroad conipaii% These 4 1'0)110,1100 are a part of the pro seeds of the sale of the main tine of the politic works, sold in SViand the S:3,500,000 are bonds aubstitited for a like amoutit of bonds which were proceeds of the sale of other portions of t h e public works, inthie subsequent to 11157. is hole S1,61K),000, there fore, ape proceeds of the sales of. , pub lic improvements fptmerlv owned by the State; and the bill uniler consider• atiob, if approved, will take this entire HUM OM Of the sinking fund and dui. tribute it among the four railroad corn panics natned in the bill, in the propor lions therein recited., VINDICAToft First. Has the legislature the,consti "ttitional power to enact this law? and, Second. If the power exists, is it ex pedient to exercise it? If the first question be answered in the negative, the bill should not be ap proved. ll' in the allirtuati ve, then the second question &sonnies a graver im portance. What then are the written constimtionaltprovisions bearing main the subject? The latter clause of the 35th section of the first article of the Constitntimi declare& that: "No law hereafter enacted shall cre• ate, renew or extend the charter of more than one corporation." The eighth Neaten of the eleventh article is as follows: "No bill shall be passed by the legis lature containing more than one sub ject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title, except appropriation bills." The proposed act is not an appropria tion bill within the recognized meaning of this section of thefundamental law. Every one familiar with the history of our State Cdnstitution knows the oh. jeots for which these clauses were in, aerted and adopted, Our State had been crushed with omnibus legisfation, enacted by what in common legislittive mut' 1.13031141.. aa. tittLeyalata Of 1:7 11 =g. Measures which alone cbtdd 'pot stand 'lOl l eh* !perks, '''' I, Men. " Veto Message IF.crt I TIN kNIIIT.II, N1111181:I nu, Apr. 7, I S7O and which often had no merits on which to stand ] were fastened together in one bill, and by ingenius combina tions of local interests, the most Meow gruous, and sometimes iniquitous pro visions, were forced through in the same act. Essentially diverse, conflict ing, and even rival and-hostile interests and parties, who.coutd , agree upon :pothing else wove thus induced to unite ,in a common raid upon the Treasury of the State. 'Phis evil became in time so intolerable that the people were at 111/4 Compelled to protect themselves against it and they did .so by these plain constitutional.prghibitions. The people in their sovereign capacity de (Mired and wrote it in their Constim Lion, that "no bill should ho passed by the legislature containing more than 0110 subject," act that "no law here after enacted shall, create, renew or cx• teml the charter of more than one cm-- oration." It is contended, and with some shim of plausibility, that the bill under con ...Memnon embraces but the one subject of railroads, and this, and thin alone, is PC prVONNit in the title; and that the act does not ((recite, renew or extelhl the diluter of 'mote than one corpora tion. Teelinipally, this nifty be No ; but we are considering grave questions of enf.titlitfonal taw, whereiliirerent ruff, of con-trof.ifofi inti+l prevail, andjodged ht tlie , c it is Mar that the provi•mnis of this act are iffhitfon of tlif , (pint, intent and object of plain constitutional jfro% 1,011. is (h e ea ... e of fh e f 'ortfolonwenhh v- I "na I, (7 IVal4 amt Serfit's. Rif., 1271 life hale Chief .111t4114. iffirm, in deliv ering the imanififons opinion cut nor Supreme I'ourl, said • "A Constitution is tint to rereo c a tecli meal interpretation liken common law iloarnment Or stntate It Is 10 be ?del!), I leil So us (0 'lll'lll out (ii 00 , 11 prineilder I f OW fl , - /et I cur' .Ipply this amlinritit e, sensible and %%ell established principle of constiiii-, tional con.trtict ion to the case in hand. The Constitution declares, s uh.fan,•r that omnilins legislation and log roll -1,4g enactments shall , ceago; and .. to that end "no law hervalter rii:o•te4 shall create, renew or e tend the char ter 01 more than one corps ration ;' and "no 101 l shall he prided lit the letze.d.i lure containing more than one fleet." The hill returned include. four diflerent railroad companicit an prmclpuls, amt nine others as guarantors, and hy liberal reni•ktruction assumes that they all 9,.mstititte but one ',abject Ily thin omnibus system the propo,ed act cam bincS the interests, local ritalries and cupidity ol nearly es cry seclion of the State, troop the. Delaware to the I,alse., and has therehy ',reared its pat-age The several cot - for:10ot,, It is tra, ;UV not, technienlly, erlated by 1111. bat were 14 , 4 incorporated by I/1111T fu' is, with the HM 1111'4 meal t 1) Lr followed by this set, which arthil'y combines the local interests of all the other hetietimary companies, hreatlie4 into them thehreatli of lifeby the appro printion of the pithlie moneys and se cairci, the tcry identical (.11161 prohibited Lt it, 'onstittition. Thus, by a ral comitruntion id' the act, 11,111 a liar row and ',clinical interpretation o; the Con,tillition, the sound rules and pi apidirahle to Loth are re' and inisarphed and the effort ..10 In reeoin de the statute 771111 1.1. prollll.lllllll The 1711 Cln pl Ina 1,11111)I. The eon-tittiliml can not bet,:la..l or TM/W1...a V . , any such manner. by t 'hint Tilistice lilb.on, it mitt "he interpreted so as to carry out the grc.it principles lit the gre.erionent, not dr 1 . 111 t h el j l " But there are other pros P.m'', (01 the ConBtitution prohibiting Huch 'ewe The 4th• lth and GUI meettotin of the X I tit art tele are an follown • "Std I V To provide lot the pay mend of the present 11011, arid an. ad ditional debt contracted as 411/1"1,111.1, the legisLitiire shall, at its first Me.r , lllll utter the adoption of this amenittnen create a sii.king rand which shall he stillicieni to pay the acearing interests on such debt, and annually to re duce the principal thereol by a 1411111 not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sinking fund shall cousist of the net annual 111( . 0111e of the public works from tinily to tone owned by the State; or the proceeds the male of the same or any part there 01, and of the 111( . 0114 or property of sale of stacks owned by the State, to getlitr with either fluids or resources that may be designated tiv law. The said sinking land may be liter/10ga from time to tone by assigning to it any part of the tates or other revenues 14' the State not f p quire.i for the twill nary and current expenses of govern ment ; arid unless ill came of war, lava loon or insurrection, au piwt,of the said sinking hind shall be limed or applied 'otherwise 'than in extinguishment ~1 'the' publio debt until the amount of each debt is reduced below the 14111111 oh five millions of dollitis." "Sec. W. The credit of the Corn nuonwealth shall not in any manner or event be pledged or loaned to an imli victual, company, corporation or asso• ciation ; nor shall the Commtnoriviealt hereafter bebome a joineow tier stocl, - holder in any company, association or corporation." - "Sv VI. -TheCoutmonwealth shall not assume the debt, or any part there. of, ocany county, city, borough or township; or of any corporatio or as sociation, unitise such debt shah have been contracted to enable the State to repel invasion, suppress domeetic in surrection, defend itself in time of war, or to assist the State in the discharge of any portion of its present .indebted• nese." These three section" are part pf the Constitutional amendments adortted by a vote of the people • in 1867. They speak for themselves, and in no ilbubt• tul language. The 4th section requires the legtslaturtt to geate a sinking to consist, among other things, )'of the net annual'iliceane of Viblie works, from time to time ow 6. y'tlte State, or the proceeds or then of the same i" and, declares further that, "unless in cue of war, invasion or insurrection, no part of the sinkieclund shall be used or applied otherwise than in ex tinguishment of the public. debt." How it possible to reconcile these plain declarations of the,,Coestitittioa 'With the provisions of the bill under could 4railon These nine and a-half mil lions of bonds are the proceeds of the, public works; and they are in the sink ing fund created by the act of 22d April, 1858, in coinpliance with tiro same section or the fundamental 'law'. The constitution declares as plainly as language can direct that "no part of the Held sinking hind shall be used or' applied- otherwise than . in extingnish went _ a-4.lte public debt." The bill proposes to apply the whole of the nine and one-halt' millions to the construc tion of immiry enumerated railroads. 'rile V section declares that the crciit of Commonwealth shall not in any manner or event lie pledged or loaned to any individual,. company, corpora tion or astiociatietn. ThIA bill proposes,( not technically, a loan or pledge of credit, but inure; itproposes to pity for the construction of the railroads for these corporations. flow can this be done Consistently with the constitiitiott nl prohibition? Itoes not Ow greater include the lees'? In principle, or sub stance, how does the thing authorized IlilTer from the thing except perhaps in degree? rrite,d..he one prt) bibits the loan or pledge of credit, and the other appropriates the money to I ,ay for the work - , lint the actual result IS the snore, Vli the taking of the pro (Ted.; id the sale of the piddle works out of the sinking Mud and a prfroprin Wig them to the construction of rail roads. The \' I section declares that "the Commonwealth shall not a r ssiiiiie the debt, or any part thereof, of any coun ty., city, borough or township, or of any corporation or association." the bill tinder commie] , atititi may not authorize the assump tion 01 the debts of these railroad cool panics, but it does more. It iv...wall?, provides lor their payment, and take' from the State Treasury the necessary means with which to do it. Theme tire all clear %bibulous of the t err plain provisions tit our written t ' onslitiiiimi Aii effort is made to escape itoni these conclusions, tinder the ruling of the Supreme Court Ili the case of (liquor vs. the l'eniisyhaltill, Conitst ny (5 ' Wright, 447), which seems to as sume that these bonds in the sinking lurid are tiot the proceeds tit the sales of the public, works. But the court in that ease lii, , tilit-4 its opinion all the ground thitt‘the act' there in tplestion aiiihorlied the sinking hind commis In etrb,u,gc deprecisitlsecure ties for tho-e of rithie. lyre the attellipt Is to ittithorii.e the etch .ageol Sectirities et, o i e ss e dly good tor others ot must yuc>uouuhle value Tlll+ I re gaol a s a wort importll.lll Jowl one /of which the legtslation nl last se -s l . Ol may Id+it he Justified. Moreover, I consider the assiiiiiptlon that the howls now in the sitilsing 1111141 11,IT MA iLu 14 1 / 1 . 1.eti4 tit the sale 01 the public w0r1,4 1.11/1( . 1/11)/C, 1//1 , warranted and untrue. ' file pitrel,itse the proceed+ of tl,, sale , 0 he piddle work., its 1111.14,.. , .“1 :it ii lIIIII' It nil 1%01 , 1110 e 1.1.1, Ilse , 10 1 l (KO 1...111111'd Ili lorcotlll - lltg 10r the 11:11.1 down at Ow time 01 the 1.1,1, 1 .11 110 u whole seven and oneshait olilli n 1 whooL the sante Ina Ili.,Igl,;11,•+ It, "fill' Wll O ll . umnnnl .11 +llle+ 10 lie pad tin the tunic of the conipain kisd it most ing can wake this noire plain It is the filet that the 11111111 P rota, at the Of CIIP 11:1-8 , 1 , 1111,1111111M1111 amendments of ISST, arid also the net for the sale of the mum line Rtol they naturally used the Rattle %lord. , s a il el - to the Maine idegui. The words of the Const ttntion have al ready been . i noted, and the I2t see • tint' ol the mg Int the sale nt the main line, appru‘ed 16th May, 1857,1 de clares : "That the entire proceeds of the sale ch i said main line shall be paid to the sinking, Mod, and applied to the pay , mesa of th. State debt." Surlily it cannot Is• .ece.sdry t argue this ques lion further. ft . is very clear that the framers of the Comaitution intended that the whole of the proceedsthe public works should 1 ,0 int" the t a g fund, and should be al,pr-printed to no other purpose than the pay ment of the public debt; and the practice of the Hovernment eler strict. l itj, en all its departments, has comoimed t.i tluese constitutional requirements No man ipulation of words, no artfully drawn phrases, and no subtht distinctions or contracted or misapplied rules of inter pretation, can explain away these plain constitutional eestrictionx on the power of the legislature ; or enable tt,,in defi ance of them, to bankrupt the treasury of the State through means prohibited by the fundamental laws of the latul. Having thus deimonstrated the un-, constitutionality of the proposed law I might well lie spared the discussion of its expediency. It is possible, however, that different viL.wt may'bi entertained ttsto the le gal question involved. I have, there sore, fennel it proper to submit the• following , propomititions as exclusively, establiahibg the inexpediency of this- First. By the terms of the act thp, State is to exchange Six millions of bopds ($8,000,0tX)) secured by a mot , tage upon a road worth marry times that amount—for six millions (46,000, 000) of bonds , to be issued by a soaps. ny aa.yet unorganized and whose road is not yet commenced. Second. The ceetraoe of guaranty re:. 'quire(' by the bill is illusory, for it is uncertain who is to execute it, and if entered into by responsible parties it binds them to nothing except the eon( struction and the equipment ol the coh-, template(' road. The planner in which the toad is to be constructed and equirr• tied is wholy unaprovided tor. UpOa. this vital point the bill is entirely art& omniouely silsnt. Third. The interest, upon the six millions (s 6 ,oo o ,oo o ),Wodit to ,be ge r . rendered is payable, according to a re. cent decision of thy I;t9p,reme court of the.Vnitid States, Its I gbild. Tile" ` rote: rests on the bond° to be received would be payable in currency. Fourth. The State lit now receiving upon thei bonds to be surrendered four hundred, and sixty theineand doll ($460,000) per annum, and under ex isting laws is entitleil to receive that, amount annually, until the whole be paid. If the contract of guaranty men tioned in the bill were performed to the letter, the State could only receiv e th'ree hundred thousand dollars (300,. 000) per annum for the next , three years. The loss therefore to the reve. nue by this.exellatige would be one handred and sixty thousand dollars (1R160,000) annually for the first three years, and thereafter the whole amount would be lost unless paid by the p m . jected road. Fifth. Other bonds to the amount of three million and a. ball dollars ($3,. fi00,000) most amply secured are to be exchanged for second Mortgage bonds kin a prospective railroad, the first mortgnge Leing already authorized Mr sixteen thousand donors ($16,600) per mile, at seven per cent, interest. Sixth. It may weft be doubted whether the proposed road from Jersey Shore would be a success. Alihnst every new •road th rough, such male. veloped regions line expfesienced a Iv rind of insolvency. The connection of the State end] eimihir enterprises pre. gents a sad history of dimappointineet and tailors, of which the tibia and Elie road is a conspicuous 11. lustration. The competirtg roads ad ready in existence render the priipoeol security entirely liazardonii, if not worthless ,Seventh. As already slated in my last annual message a large autumn of the debt 01 the Commonwealth will shortly fall due. During the next dare tears over Mlle 1111111011 S 111 1 1.11111 N (9,000, 000) w ill mature. Should the securities now in the sinking fund be ex• changed for nnavailaidr 'bonds the State could riot meet her just tions. This would lend to renerals and these would in time Impair our credit. The people have declared and have the right to expect that the debt shall be paid off as provided in the Constitu Lion. and their taxes reduced. Ei g ht. Th . .a hill proposes to palm thetitate to the pursuit of poln•v oi public improvements by whiwit tw y.stirs punt she identified herself with vier prises of doubtful expediency, and which her citizens have with great imitnimat condemned .Virith. tin wilat sound priaetpL•l of puhhe polinv, equality o►Justirc, cad all the securities of the State he intuited to these tour railroads, to C,e exclusion of the hundred others in tho •CCMlll(Olweitlt It Cy Lilt 1 I y meritorious and to the exelusion also of -all the other interests of the' . State Whin have the great agricultural, manufactining and other interests done, or omitted to do, that they should le denied all participation in Vie public bOl/rit V 1 Other objertinlim lu tL iA tneasure might be eluted, hot thep4e n)rendy go en are ecirinelereil eatTirient to AatiB/7 every impartial mind that the sch e m e Ie fu4 groSti a Y10111(100 Of OW ' OW4001001) at 4 At 14011114 poliel, It IQ thereh)re gekied that the 101 l be te•vmrviolere , l rn the le•.111 (a I }WA.' rilijeetione, able!! 'oar 1101 brace hren tally preeeated du ririg the lea ilave occupied nr trle CU4Sloll and panhagt . 111 tIII I at I, Ivy,. W. l;r.tict Connecticut All Hail! The gallant Ihmuierativ of connect., Nit have again ciii,ered thetic , iiives with the bays of victory. In the face of the patronage iit iiraiit's administration and the reguittratwin of several hundred IletTrIWR muter the 1 amendment, they have triumphed gloriously and re deemed the detest, of the past two years The victory in Connecticut was victory "err policy. The Suite Convemion which placed the moccessful candidates IJI nomination, also placed thent upon it sound, um compromising pemoctatic platform. There were in hintilivasiona of pnnei h() locum ngle4s twrstilleutiona to bamboozle public sentiment, but plain. I expressed atid'hold I v avowed deolars• twos 01 fealty t State rights and the usages and traditions.of the Democrat , is party I Secant., of this, In 'corn moil with true I kniocritts everywhere, re rejoice nt the vlStory won, treating that the moral L heritnt ,•contaitied,,will not he lost upon the Deriloervuty of our own C9 lllll / 011 %ealth, who, if theyoyill but emulate the spirit a .1 rival the. integ• rity of their beethren of Connecticut, will'ePeedily h e stile to extricate them eel yes from the slough of defeat In tyllich they have wallotted far many a year ' It is meet and * i roner that the revo lution against radicalism and, the 15th amendment b eg in ee lf e ie it has, and the fi rst decisive blow for he over throw be given by it New England State. In New England radicaliAm had its unonstrotni birth,; there IA wee Crated, and from thenel, sent forth lace ti esd• IY—peatilence tOolestroy and COMP tI and now; after lama turned' )'Dose ai the evils it contOried, it receive:Site first eta() in the place where it was ,born and nurtured, and where its inihmy is beat, known. ' All hall Cdttneetieut I In duet and sackcloth no longer. • Clothed and in her right mind she c d returns to the sisterhood of D omit io fitates purified and cleansed - the Coldness of radical domination .- 11[" 4 Chunk Tinto. liv"ErcultAN ' 40, tRiIiT II4 Q- Mg4Bl'il, l l l 44mEivr , sues }Joust 1