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To people who are about entering upon

 State Government, and framing new Con- stitution, to define the powers of the Execu- tive will ever be difficult and responsible

 task. A State, although only portion of the nation, should act upon the same princi- ples which would govern it, if it were a na- ton within itself Every State is, in some points of view, an independent sovereignty, and excepting the powers and rights which 1t delegates to the General Government, 1t has lost none of it's privileges, among which reserved powers and privileges, is that of re- gulating its own internal government. AL though, therefore, there Is no danger that

 single State will become subject to one man, while our Union exists, still the form of gov ernment which It adopts should be purely re- publican, and the powers of it's chief magis- trate should be we'll and carefully defined. It Is in the common course of human events, that power should concentrate, and at length gather into the hands of one man. It is a tragedy which has been often acted on the great theatre ofthe world, that one man, cho- sen as the constitutional ruler of a free peo- pie, has become an unlimited despot. We see 1t in the history of Santa Anna-who, under the mask of republicanism, has hecome and will continue the tyrant of Mexico. It is another lesson to teach us the dangers of an overpowering popularity. When one man is looked upon as the peoples friend the peoples representative--the stride is not great to despotism- Had Oliver Cromwell not been a man of immense popularity, and the acknowledged friend of the people, how could lie have dared to dissolve tic PaTiia-