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.
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