Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-07-21
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Casftgat0r no. 2.-The second number of Castiga
tor HAS been lying by for several weeks we had
no INCLINATION TO publish it, and have determined 70 do j.
with reluctance The reluctance arose from its cxces
sIre severity, and our insposition epber polti,
ucaI warfare already sufficiently bitter and which i'm
Tie natural course of things will increase in bitterness
as II approaches that event which excites H. we mcA,
tie election oil President. To this feeling was opposed
the wHhes OF the author, the necessity of freedom il,
Pnohc DISCUSSIONS, and our own pledge giren by the
publication of the first number These considera tons
seemed entitled TO the greatest weight and TO them we
accordingly sacrifice private wishes and give place
to Castigator,
ii is with the greatest pain that are instrumental
In publishing augh in detracton of The public ciarac-
ter OF DIR. Calhoun-a gentleman whon we defended
anu conScienousy defended, in 1924, against the at
lacks Offices numerous eXasperated and 10 all apeear
ance, imPlacable-whose talents we greatly admired
and whose conduct we believed 10 have been msrepre
sented In Mr.. Calhouns consistency having aban
doned as he has, his creed and great body of friends
who supported and elevated him TO his present omi
nence, we have lost much of confidence For what
has he abandoned Ien' For any change of measures
or ofinons' For any mpurity of conduct which rem
dered hTs cooperation with them discrcditable 10 linn
Sell: NO, surely He knows that such change has
occurred and that no such impurty has been commit
ed' lie knows that he early lend to Adams
election lie knows that the mode of Mr.. Adams cleo
uon was inevitable and that there other mode bv
WHICH fresfuen could be elected under the forms OF
'"e oohSt''uten. lie knoas that if Mr. Clay had vC-
ted for Mr.. Crawford and MIR. Crawford had hem
elected, that Mr. Clay would still under him. bsTsS
been Secretary of State-and that in all human proba
bIlty, and according to the known disposition Of man
KIND and the practice Of all Governments not even e,
cePng eurs and that too under the most beloved of
cur PRESIDENTS Mr. Jefferson himself, if Mr. CLAW had
voted for and elected zen. Jackson that the gratitude
OF that individual would have rendered him an Office IN
which in all respects he had as high pctensons as anv
other man in the U. States Sup.radIed to this Mr.
Calhoun Knows, tLa the ADMINISTRATION against which
he is so rancourou is pursuing that very course of no.
Icy, which he himself on the floor of Cono,oss On,
in Mr. Monroe's Cabinet, urged with all his great l
Tents and address, and which indeed lie has had oroo
and principal agency in fastening the Country o.
'hefs may have right to complain of the policy Of
The "overnmen-ofits constructing reads and opprcs
sing the south with Tariff, but MIR. Ca houn has no
such rGht-or TO him mainly indebted for those
evils What private grclS lie las to complain of or t
resent we know not--unIess lie considers Mr. Claws
elevation to the Department of State in that ph-hnt
this we know that he has lest more than he has o,nl
by rcnouncng his friends and repayg their confidence
ana services with wanon and gratutous msconsruc,isn
and abuse.
Mr. Calhoun said at the Meeting of Congress in
1874 that he had effected what lie under1ook-t,a he
"au put down Fir. Crawford aud the Caucus and that
nc was neutral between MIR. Adams and Gen ,acksons
" ny has he abandoned his neutrality? Was it acting
with good faith to observe il as,ion, as il was sii
to himself and TO desert it when he could M Io,cer
profit by II? Was it acting with good faith TO observe
I n he yofp FIR ID
immediately after that event to declare war against the
party who had seated him in The Chair of the VicePre
sidcncy'
These circumstances rccapitulated BY way of
justification for the publication of Casgator Whilst
Mr. CaIhoun's conduct is so open TO reproach. and
whilst bis personal partizans ying alive the char
'cters ohis political antagonists, he ought TO be neither
surprised nor offended, if he himself comes in for Sam
cho's share eff the drubspg.