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Joint Resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Alabama. 1838 209 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0227 and id is 1 raw text is: 209 tie indeninity against the Creek nation, it is not to be doubted that the same would he deduct. ed not froum ti i annuity of the whole tribe, but from the annuities of that portion who coml. ruitted th depredations. A majolity of the Chiefs would feel that this was but an actoot justice to the larger portion of the tribe who took no part in the lostilities. The justicauithd propriety ofthis course is so obvious, that your memorialists with perfect cronfidence subnit the subgect to the importial consideration of your honorable body, together '.vith the following res olutione as the seneo of the General Assembly of AlSbi at. e Resolved by the Senate and Iduse of Representatives of the State of Alabama in Genelat Assembly convened, That the depredations committed by the Creek 1.ndians ~n 18:16, on the property of the people of' Alaana, prior to the commencement of oneral hostilites durin said hostilities, and subsequent thereto, ought to be paid totho sufferers out of tie Treasury. of the United Lstes. Resolved, That oIr Senators be instructed, and our R .presentatives bo requested to urge said claims on the favorable attention of Congress. )Resrd, That a copy of this memorial he forwarded to e ch of our Sqnators and Repte sentatives in Congress, with a request that it be submitted to ca ch of their respective Houses. Approved, Jan. let, 1839. JOINT REISOLUTIONS. There are now and have been, for the last tive years, two great political questins before the people of this Union- The first-what is the legitimate cut rency of the United 'States tinder the Federal constitutioul The second-to whose keeping shall ti1e public reverine be entrusted, whtsh ctllecti-dl These questions have been during that whole period, a perpetual source of aftimated discus. Plon by the people, in their primary assemblies, in their legislative assemblies, and in tteir Congress hails. To establish what is the legitimate currency, it has. bepn strenuously urged that the Consti- tution has conferred on Congress the power to regulte the currency; and under that power to incor'iorate a Bank of the United States, as the only means of reducing through the medinin of its Bank bills, the currency to the same uniform standard throughout the sveral States. 'I his power it is admited,by the advocates ofa National bank, is not derived froi any express words in the Constitution itself, bu!, is implied from the uniform action of Congress, in -grant- ing successive charters; front the adjudications of the courts of justice; and from the current of piublic opinion in its favor. . 07 On the other hand, this Legislature considers the question of implied powers put at rest, by the express negative in the tenth amendmentof the Constitution, wherein it is provided:- .- **lThat the powers not delegated to the United Status by this Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people. This reservation of undelegated powers, is, moreover, put beyond a doubt, by the action of the General Convention that framed the Constitution, in their negative on the propoisition to grant letters of incorporation. Nor has the Constitution in any portion of it, recognized any other currency, either directly orimpliedly, but gold or silver. And has positively declared,t that nothing but gold or silver shall constitute a tender. And it is certainly a political para. dox, that admits of no solution, to call, that which is declared by the supreme power of the government to be no tender, the currency of the most commercial ntion in the world. In whose keeping the revenue shall be entrusted is a question of vital importance to the American people. And the great contest is, whether it shall be confided to the keoping oftlie agents of the government, selected from the great mass of the people for their good morals, high standing in the community, immediately responsible to the government under all the obli. gations it way think proper to exact, and all the penalties it may think proper to inflict; or to that of the Banks of a thousand or ten thousand stockholders, whose avowed object is gain; and whovo responsibihty froni their numbers, their perpetual shiftings, and their idependent relation to the government, neither apponted by it, nor under its control, can never be conoen. trated nor safely relied upon. From a full review of these facts, this Legislature greatly prefer agents selected by the gov crnment itself, amenable to its orders, subject to ite immediate control, punishable at its discro- tion, and removable at its bidding. Therefbre, lst. Be It Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State f Alabama in General Assembly convened, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Repre- sentatives be requested, to vote against the recharter of the Bank of the United States, or the eatablishment of any other Bank. O

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