of the United States is tried, the chief justice shall pre-shall likewise be reconsidered, and, if approved by two side; and no person shall be convicted without the thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all concurrence of two-thirds of the members present. such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined 7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not ex-by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting tend farther than to removal from office, and disquali- for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal fication to hold and enjoy any office of honour, trust, of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be reor profit, under the United States; but the party con- turned by the president within ten days (Sundays exvicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indict-cepted), after it shall have been presented to him, the ment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law. same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed SEC. 4.-1. The times, places, and manner of hold-it, unless the congress by their adjournment prevent ing elections for senators and representatives shall be its return, in which case it shall not be a law. prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but| the congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators. 2. The congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. currence of the senate and house of representatives 3. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the conmay be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment,) shall be presented to the president of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the senate and house of representatives, according to the rules and limitations SEC. 8. The congress shall have power SEC. 5.-1. Each house shall be the judge of the elec-prescribed in the case of a bill. tions, returns, and qualifications of its own members; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and exbusiness; but a smaller number may adjourn from cises; to pay the debts and provide for the common day to day, and may be authorized to compel the at defence and general welfare of the United States; but tendance of absent members, in such manner and un-all duties, imposts, and exeises shall be uniform der such penalties as each house may provide. throughout the United States: 2. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. 3. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house, on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. 4. Neither house, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. SEC. 6.-1. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascer tained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the Unijed States. They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from ar. rest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to or returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place. 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Iudian tribes : 4. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and 10. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water: 2. No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either house during his continuance intion of the land and naval forces : office. 11. To raise and support armies; but no appropria. tion of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years: SEC. 7.-1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives; but the senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other bills. 12. To provide and maintain a navy: 13. To make rules for the government and regula 14. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions: 15. To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them 2. Every bill which shall have passed the house of as may be employed in the service of the United States, representatives and the senate, shall, before it become reserving to the states respectively the appointment of a law, be presented to the president of the United States; the officers, and the authority of training the militia if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall re- according to the discipline prescribed by congress: turn it, with his objections, to that house in which it 16. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If,square) as may, by cession of particular states and after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authori ty over all places purchased, by the consent of the lc SEC. 9.-1. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or expost facto law, shall be passed. 3. The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the president of the senate. The president house of representatives, open all the certificates, and of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the house of representatives shall immediately choose, by ballot, one of them for president; and if no person have a majority, then, from the highest five on the list, the said house shall, in like manner, choose the president. But, in choosing the president, the votes 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, un-shall be taken by states, the representation from each less in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken. 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. state having one vote; a quoram for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them, by ballot, the vicepresident. 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law: and a 4. The congress may determine the time of choos regular statement and account of the receipts and ex-ing the electors. and the day on which they shall give penditures of all public money shall be published from their votes; which day shall be the same throughout time to time. 7. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state. the United States. tizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of 5. No person, except a natural born citizen, or a cithis constitution, shall be eligible to the office of presi dent; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. SEC. 10.-1. No state shall enter into any treaty, al. liance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any. 6. In case of the removal of the president from of thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to disdebts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility. 2. No state shall, without the consent of the congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absoluely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States, and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the congress. No state shall. without the consent of congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. ART. II. SEC. 1.-1. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows. charge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vice-president, and the congress may, by law, provide for t'e case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the president and vicepresident, declaring what officer shall then act as presi dent, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a president shall be elected. 7. The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which be shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. 8. Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: 9. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States." SEC. 2.-1. The president shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the 2. Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the militia of the several states, when called into the actual legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, service of the United States; he may require the opi equal to the whole number of senators and represen-nion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the tatives to which the state may be entitled in the con-executive departments, upon any subject relating to the gress; but no senator or representative, or person hold-duties of their respective offices; and he shall have ing an office of trust or profit under the United States, power to grant reprieves and pardons foroffences against shall be appointed an elector. the United States, except in cases of impeachment. 2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and 2. The congress shall have power to declare the consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two- punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall thirds of the senators present concur: and he shall no- work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during minate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the the life of the person attainted. senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the supreme court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper, in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. 3. The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. ART. IV. SEC. 1.-1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and ju dicial proceedings of every other state. And the con. gress may, by general las, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. SEC. 2.-1. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdic tion of the crime. 3. No person held to service or labor in one state consequence of any law or regulation therein, be dis charged from such service or labor; but he shall be de. livered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. SEC. 3.-1. He shall, from time to time, give to the congress information of the state of the Union, and re commend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either||under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in of them: and, in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers. he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed; and shall commission all the officers of the UnitedStates. SEC. 4.-1. The president, vice-president, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from of fice on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ART. III. SEC. 1.-1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour; and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. SEC. 2.-1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity, arising under this constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority: to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admirality and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more states, between a state and citizens of another state, between citizens of different states, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects. 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have 'irected. SEC. 3.-1. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. SEC. 3.-1. New states may be admitted by the congress into this union; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned, as well as of the congress. 2. The congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SEC. 4.-1. The United States shall guaranty to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the legislature, or of the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence. ART. 5.-1. The congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution; or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the congress; provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article: and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate. ART. 6.—1. All debts contracted and engagements entered intc, before the adoption of this constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this constitution, as under the confederation. 2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby; anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. 3. The senators and representatives before mention-ing in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when ed, and the members of the several state legislatures, in actual service, in time of war or public danger; nor and all executive and judicial officers, both of the shall any person be subject for the same offence to be Uoited States and of the several states, shall be bound twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be comby oath or affirmation to support this constitution: but pelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against no religious test shall ever be required as a qualifica- himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, tion to any office or public trust under the United States. without due process of law; nor shall private properART. 7.-1. The ratification of the conventions of ty be taken for public use, without just compensation. nine states shall be sufficient for the establishment of ART. 6. In all criminal prosecutions the accused this constitution between the states so ratifying the shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, aud to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation: to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour; same. Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the states present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the twelfth. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President and deputy, from Virignia. NEW HAMPSHIRE. John Langdon, MASSACHUSETTS. Nathaniel Gorham, CONNECTICUT. William Samuel Johnson, NEW YORK. Alexander Hamilton. NEW JERSEY. William Livingston, PENNSYLVANIA. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Fitzsimons, DELAWARE. George Read, MARYLAND. James M'Henry, Daniel Carroll. VIRGINIA. John Blair, James Madison, jun. NORTH CAROLINA. William Blount, SOUTH CAROLINA. John Rutledge, GEORGIA. William Pew, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence. ART. 7. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. ART. 8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. ART. 9. The enumeration in the constitution of cer tain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. ART. 10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. ART. 11. The jndicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state. ART. 12.-1. The electors shall meet in their respec tive states, and vote by ballot for president and vicepresident, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice-president; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as president, and of all persons voted for as AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. vice-president, and of the number of votes for each, ART. 1. Congress shall make no law respecting an which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer- sealed to the seat of the government of the United cise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of States, directed to the president of the senate; the prethe press; or the right of the people peaceably to as-sident of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate semble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ART. 2. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ART. 3. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted: the person having the greatest number of votes for president, shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed: and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as president, the house of representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president. But, in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by ART. 4. The right of the people to be secure in their states, the representation from each state having one persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasona-vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a memble searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no|ber or members from two-thirds of the states, and a warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, support-majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. ed by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing And if the house of representatives shall not choose a the place to be searched, and the persons or things to president whenever the right of choice shall devolve be seized. upon them, before the fourth day of March next followART. 5. No person shall be held to answer for a capi-ing, then the vice-president shall act as president, as in tal or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a present- the case of the death or other constitutional disability ment or indictment of a grand jury, exept in cases aris-llof the president In the Boston Atlas (a Federal Whig paper) of August 4, 1840, may be found the following: 2. The person having the greatest number of votes as vice-president, shall be the vice-president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the highest two numbers on the list the senate shall choose the vice-president: a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president, shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States. Articles of Confederation in our next. THE IDENTITY OF THE OLD HARTFORD CONVENTION FEDERALISTS vention Federalists. We all know that that class of "The present Whigs are not the old Hartford Conpoliticians became dissatisfied with John Q. Adams, and pending the second canvass went over to Andrew Jackson! The great republican party adhered to their allegiance, and were then as they now are, true Democrats of the Jefferson school, CONSTITUTING THE PRESENT WHIG PARTY." having compelled us to restore it to its right place, with the District of Columbia, the 11th of June last, when he pledged his men of the North to go with the men of the South, in electing Harrison to the presidency. That was a meeting ominous to the South, deceptive to the North.. The recklessness of Whiggery leaves nothing sacred. History must be turned out of doors, and falsehood put in her place. Since then, this alleged change of old parties is to be falsely assumed to practice on the young men who have not examined the subject, it becomes indispensible to put it right. Let those who have sought to seize the monument of Jefferson, and place it In the summer of last year the talented and indus-over the bones of Federalism, thank themselves for trious editors of the Boston Morning Post collected to gether various documents, showing the identity of the Hartford Convention Federalists with the party now styling themselves Whigs, and published the same in pamphlet form. It is to this pamphlet we are indebted for the following extracts, which, we trust, will not only be found highly interesting to the Democracy of This assertion in the Atlas has a meaning. It folour country, but to those who may differ with us in po.lows close upon the display of" the significant banlitics, at least that portion of them who are not so blindner" at Baltimore, by the Boston Harrison Delegation, and closer still upon the declaration of Mr. Daniel as not to see, hear, and appreciate truth when present- || Webster, at the log cabin gathering in Alexandria, in ed to them in a clear and undeniable form. We have good reason to believe that many good old Democrats have been led astray, and cast their votes for the Federal Whigs, under the firm belief and impression that they were voting for men of the same stock as the Whigs of '76—and defenders and supporters of the late war with England-really, how the people have been gulled by the falsehoods and misrepresentations, made by the Federal Whigs, over every section of our country. The falsehoods, misrepresentations, &c., immediately under consideration, or which we have referred to, will be particularized in a future number of this journal; when, if we mistake not, several classes will appear in no enviable light; among them, clergymen, who dabble in politics, causing strife and ill-will be tween man and man: and not following the example of Jesus Christ, but bowing and cringing to those clothed in purple and fine linen, and passing by the poor as if they did not see them. To master manufac-be? turers, mechanics, merchants, &c., who are in the hab-ciated in the ceremony of a left-handed marriage beit of compelling their workmen, by threats of discharging them from their employ, unless they vote at elections for such men as they may name-to such we say, The 10th of November, 1837, Mr. John Bell, of you shall hear from us in due time; and such as do Tennessee, appeared at a great Whig meeting in not mend their ways in this respect, we will let know Faneuil Hall, Boston, and standing beside Daniel Webster, who presided at that meeting, Mr. Bell exclaimed, that the employer is quite as dependent on the employ." Tennessee is in principle with Massachusetts." ed, as they are on him. Although we are in posses- The same men who stood by Mr. Webster to ratify sion of numerous facts, accompanied with the names that alliance, the John Davises, the Benjamin Russells, of employers, yet we will avoid making them pub-vouchers for the pledge at Alexandria. Who and the I. C. Bateses, and the Saltonstalls, are now his lic, unless, indeed, we are compelled, in justice to where are they? the laborer, to ourselves, and to the cause we are engaged in. The secret policy of tampering with the Abolitionists of the North had been perfected so far as it could be relied on party machinery to carry the Whig Abolitioncarried without endangering the South. Mr. Webster ists of his section, let him say what he would to the South; and he took the occasion at Alexandria, just to Mr. Evans, to proclaim an alliance with the South, upon the disclosure of General Harrison's secret letter in the hope of strengthening General Harrison in that section, and doing away the effect of the discovery of Mr. William B. Calhoun's correspondence with the Abolitionists of Massachusetts. These are the memorable words Mr. Webster used on that occasion: "WE HAVE MADE WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON THE BEARER OF OUR STANDARD!" Who are they, and what is their standard? Where have they ever been, and where do they ever mean to This is not the first time that Mr. Webster has offi tween the Federalists of Massachusetts and the Whigs of the South and West. Daniel Webster was the author of the Rockingham Circular, adopted by a convention of Federalists in New |