BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.

 ,JsfersOn's Opinion
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The following is an Extract from letter of MT Jefferson to John w. Eppes Esq dated. aehen Nov. G., 18l3.

 "After the solemn decision of Congress against the renewal of the Charter ofthe Bank of the Unit ed States. and the grounds of that decision, (he loant cf constitutional Poacer,) had imagined that question a rest and that moro applications acontd be made to them for the incorporation 9 odnks-Ihe opposition that ground to it's first establishment the small majority by whicht was overborne, and the means practised for obtaining it, cannot be already forgotten-The law having passed, however, by a majority its opponents True 10 the sacred principle ct submission to majOrity suffered the i0,o to o,O ttro' its term ,cthou obstruction. During this the nation had time to consider the constitutional question, and when the renewal was proposed, they condemned it. not by their representatives in Congress only, but by express instructions from different organs of their wi-Here then, ,ce might stop, and consider the me- morial as dnsscered. But, setting authority apar,- we will examine whether the legislature ought to- comply with it, eren Jf theyhad he po,eer."

 This extract is explicit It shows that Mir J. nine years after the Sentinel is silly enough to say he had abandoned his original ground still retained his con- stutona objections in all their fIeshness.-Had he

 lived to this day, there can be doubt of the course he would now take. He would have yielded to no supposed precedent.-The wonder is, how mind like MT Madison's, should have done SO. For it amounts to this: that all limited government has to do is to transcend its power-and let the usurpa- tion for certain time, under peculiar circum- stances, and this usurpaton is to consecrate sef- The whole form of limited Constitution is thus to be enlarged and changed, not by the parties to the Compact, by the people of the States; not by regu- lar amendments, but by the force of usurpatons, sometimes heedlessly, or sometimes arfuy iniro- duced-If you must have the power, ask it in the only way in which it can be graned-but usurpa- tion cannot canonize itseliand until the power can be properly conferred, its exercise ought to be con- troverted We adopt every word of ofVice-President tnin ha Uauo tIo oncttn against the renewal of the first Bank of the United | States.-Rich Eng.