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interests, are, the agricultural, the commercial & manufacturing--r- supposc instead of tnm~ling all together, the Co~gress s~ould be composed of three bodies from these classes exclusively, with other cherks & balances-- I know not whether any, others would be neces- sary, for you here would find all the safeguards that w_e now seek, from the legislative power, of the senate, & the Executive-But a few hours is too short a time, to unfold this system at large- Take it and think upon it- If onr form of Governt. be the model- then make your sena-te perfectly independed, and give it little or no law-making pow·er. 1\fake it a checking power almost entirely; and .put its stability entire- ly beyond the reach of people, Executive & House of Representatives. Be not afraid of imbicility in the government. I have watched the operation of onrs. carefully, & I fearlessly assert, that not one in one hundred trnly sound and necessary laws, has ever been rejected by any one branch of the Govt. 'There .is no diffrculty in passing neces- sai~y laws through twenty separate bodies of majistracy. · Let your Judici<1ry be made equa}1y independent-But again I am off the line, which you marked out for me. The United States must at no distant day I think break up in revolution-when I say distant I compute time by the usual dura- tion of repul;ilics- She will doubtless go.through the usual struggles- She will totter, and rise again-suffer, a,nd reform abuses-_be wounded and healed again; but she must I fear soon fall- Inde- pendent of her growing might- there is a manifest tendency to in- subordination; and she is corrupt from her heart to her extremities. These are some of the fruits of her ready adoption of the ·filth of the world as her own offsprings. I do not say that all foreigners who come hither are a calamity-far from it. 1\fany of them very many of them are ornaments to our country- But alas, many of them arc the rankest poison that ever was taken into the body politic- without sense, without principle, without patriotism. T·he evil stops not with their positive transgressions. Inteligence & morality are indispensible to the safety and happiness of a republic. How are you to spread the lights of science among a people, growing con- tinually by loathsome accretions 1 You adopt a ship load of degrad- ed wretches to day-You shake off their rags-you educate them you breathe into them and their children the spirit of freemen- and tomorrow, come ten ship-loads more, from the sinks of Europe, more vile than they-Let them come in all conscience; but let only their children, born in the redlm, have any thing to do with the g-overnt. directly or indirectly. As this cannot be, in our Country, the consequent evils, conspiring with other causes, must I fear soon undermine this govt. Kow from all the anticedent throes & convulsions, as well as the final catastrophe Texas may escape by keeping herself to herself_:_ to say nothing of the lesser national difficulties, which are for ever occurring in so vast a territory as ours- when the catastrophe c9mes, what_then will be your condition 1 You close your political career: as conquerors or conquered- most likely the latter; for the south builds ships; and ~he north mans them- the south pays armies and th<: north fills &. commands them-.Keep to yourselves and very likely,
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