1177. CENTRALIZATION, Local Interest and.—
Of the two questions of the tariff
and public improvements, the former, perhaps,
is not yet at rest, and the latter will excite
boisterous discussions. It happens that both
these measures fall in with the western interests,
and it is their secession from the agricultural
States which gives such strength to the
manufacturing and consolidating parties, on
these two questions. The latter is the most
dreaded, because thought to amount to a determination
in the Federal government to
assume all powers non-enumerated as well as
enumerated in the Constitution, and by giving
a loose to construction, make the text say
whatever will relieve them from the bridle of
the States. These are difficulties for your
day; I shall give them the slip.—
To Richard Rush. Washington ed. vii, 380.
Ford ed., x, 322.
(M.
1824)
