Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STRICTURES ON THE LETTER OF CHARLES J. INGERSOLL, ESQ., TOUCHING THE RIGHT OK A LEGISLATURE TO REPEAL A CHARTER. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE LETTERS OF MR. INGERSOLL, OF MR. DALLAS, OF MR. FORWARD, AND OF " I aver that at this moment there is as sacred a regard for property, as inviolable a security to all the rights of individuals, lower taxes, fewer grievances, less to deplore, and more to admire, in the Constitution of America, than that of any other country under heaven."—Erskine's Speech on Paine's Trial. To the General Assembly of Maryland, the Convention of Pennsylvania, and the Legislatures of the several States of this Union, these strictures are respectfully inscribed by the author.—Dedication. SIR :—You have been elected a delegate to the Convention of Pennsylvania, to " propose amendments to the Constitution" of that State ; and from a desire to obtain, in advance, an exposition of " your views on the general powers of the Convention, and particularly with reference to the United States Bank, and the question of vested rights," you have been publicly invited, by certain members of your legislature, to communicate your opinions to the world. Obedient to this call, you have furnished a full, and I have no doubt, a candid statement of the principles by which you are to be guided in the performance of the momentous duty, committed to you by your constituents, as a member of the Convention. The doctrines you have attempted to ma'ntain in this 'et- ter, are interesting to every State in the Union, and to everycitizen of the States. They concern the integrity of American institutions, and have an important relation to the most solemn obligations of national faith. For I do not scruple to say, if these doctrines are adopted and sustained in the great com...