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The published Address of the Legislature
to the Peep lie, their constituents, affords an
other conclusive evidence of its views. The
Address warns them against the encroaching
spirit of the Gen. Government, argues the un
constltutionalty of the alien and sedition acts
points to other Instances in which the constitu
tional limits had been overleaped dwells upon
the dangerous mode Of deriving power BY
implication; and in general presses the neces
sty OF watching over the consolidating ten
dency of Federal policy. But nothing is
said that can tb understood to look to means of
maintaining tie rights of the States, beyond
the regular ales, within the forms of the


IF any furtfr lights on the subject could
be needed vdy strong one is reflected in the
answers to tie Resolutions, by the States
which protested against them. The main
objection Of Il ae, 6ey ond few general com
paints of the lnaan,atory tendency of the
Resolution, was directed against the assumed
authority of State Legislature to declare a
law Of the United States unconstitutional,
which they pronounced an unwarrantable
Interference with the exclusive jurisdiction Ct
the Supreme Court of the United States. Had
the Resolution been regarded as vowing and
maintaining right. in an idnividual State, tc
arrest by force the execution of law of the
United States, it must be presumed that y
would have been conspicuous object of thei
denunciation.


with cordial salutations,


JAMES MADISON
Wr. E. EVERETT.