Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1828-11-17


% Col l:yoo. place that ecn,lnsp and MDus before
ne people n vary ocsnpseed ssstde ssi coming from such
sense o. too dauJor which mcnaccs the republic:
Prom tho Winyaw Is. c. InclGgcnccr.l
To Inc Hoaoyabie Robert " Hayne.
Sin; IL IL with great reluctance that ever appear
IN the public prints and sure no motive can bo
assigned for my wishing essa,iy TO interfere
between you and the writer under tho signature of
"Uhson. WHO that writer is, I know not. The
communication appeared in the wiuyaw paper. when
wss one hundred miles distcn did read il until
long after its nppearnnceand, although it called on
the members of tho delegation explain our proceed
mgs at your house in the city of Washington, did
not feel myself in any wise bound to obey. l was
perfectly willing that others, If they thought prpper
should publish what did and said ] knew that the
most malignant SANDER unprinciplcd rs il ia. could
!disort no act of mine into sentiment hostile to Ike
Unlon or ellen to that for the Constitution
which have ever regarded essential to the cha
ractcr ofe good citizcnnorc especially of one homo
red with Zach high trusts we are. Under this inn
Prercsion determined at once that the publication
should remain forever unanswered by me.
But ON reading your letter in the Intcllgcncer OF
etlncsday last, feel myself called ON 10 address YOU
IN public, because of your positions and the
whole character and air of the composition appear "a
impugn statements which l have made in respect to
the proceedings of the meeting referred to-state-
incn,s which know to be true and which connnu.
ncated TO few of the most enlightened and conf.
dontia of my constituents not with a view 10 crmi
nate Others (stl less that they should be NJ sished
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IT was my duty and my pleasure to give.
will therefore proceed to contrast the statements
which have made, with your positions You say in
your letter, 81 deny that any proposition was owe,
submitted to the delegation of South Carolina that the
members should immediately abandon their seats
return homc and thereby end all further political
connexion with the Government" And will you DENY
Sir, that, alter oil the southern delegations fxcent
Georgin) had positively refused TO unite with us In
sucha protest as vas thought eflectual by YOU and
others, that proposition made by one of our
members, that we should formally secede from Con-
gress-reurn homeland suy to our constituents thar
our services We're no longer of any use. That when
this proposition was made, 1t Immediately opposed
by Col DRsvToS, who at once declared that he would
not concur as the act thus performed would be unco-
stitutona md would not be sanctioned bv his copsti
tuents? cannot, sir be mistaken in this statement
The proposition excited feelings too strong To he for
gotten. thought, if it were adopted that shonId
| De placed III the most trying of all situations. TIC
roman alone at Washington, in opposition 10 the
views of the whole delegation would be ASSUMING
fearful responsibility to shrink from Int responsibility
ana yield to their views in opposition to nv own
would be contemplate weakness. Besides. what was
to result from IT. What was TO be the fate oftbe
People whom we represented Imagination shud
dcred at the prospect These were nv feeinps-tbcs
were the ideas which the proposition called forth
ana nave never III my hte boon more relieved thar
when II was immediately put down by Col. Draytou
! Again, Sir, in your letter you deny that any deter
mination was ever made that the members on Their
return home should visit their constituents penerav
ri
doctrines and principles would induce the people tc
agree to- and advocate separation frona the States
And Will you deny, Sir, that proposition was made
That zee should, on o return home, Commensurate b,
letter. or otherwise, icih e principal Of our res
Pectfcc districts, on the subject efHe TayiF-crpfai
them He fatal effects their trade and ag,ic,lf,re-
and it's aggression the sovereignty OF the Stofe
fttfheT, that tcas proposed that zoe stouid du,fn.
ne StDmer, communicate TO each other by letter, N
state Of feeling tohich disrote1e5 in our respertr
districts find, faaiy i,Gt the delegation sho..I
al I"!p.e g. cr>55 or Soucanbc, fo7. tie n,,7,o,
Of dccis'Hg and maturing plan Of action for IN
State GorerpuenR Do you not remember, that on,
gentleman Mr.. M Dufe did say that in his opinion
there was other remedy for the evil than separn
ton of the State from the Union-that temporizinf
measures would prove unavaing-and that he, him
SELF was prepared to go all lengths:-and, when il
was remarked that his constituents might not
such measure, did he not reply, with an exciama
ton, that he would not then represent them: that IN
considered his services in Congress as an obligation
conferred them, and that whenever they failed e.
support his great views the affairs of the Union
he would abandon them. To this did you not reply
that others were as ready to make sacrifices as ht
could be- Further, when it was observed that Mr.
| III Duties plum i'll advised because the JJnitet
States Government would force the State to sub.
mission, (she sngle-handcd not having the power &c
resst) did you not ask where the means Of the
General Government to coerce the State, That The
standing army was more than a handful of men
nothing could be feared from it-thut with regard e
the militia, no Southern militia if called out by the
President, would take arms against our People, nnd
that the Northern militia would not be permitted b,
Virginia and North Carolina to pass through thei
territories for the purpose of subjectng South euro
lina' Finally, after all attempts to obtain co-opcra
ton of the Southern delegations had faedaftcr on,
OF our most influential members Mr. Senator Smith
had peremptorly refused to attend--and unanirnit,
was not found to exist even among those who were
present 1t not then that You proposed to abandon
all the foregoing plans lest any increase ofexcitemcn
IN South Carolina might prove injurious to the cleo
ton of Gen. Jackson.
On the adjournment Of the meeting. I called OF
Senator SMITH, (being in the habits Of intimacy ant
confidential communication with him. related VIVA
had ransplrcd and remarked that the delegation hac
occn saved By tho wisdom and frmness Of Col. Dray
| ton.
With regard TO the views OF yourself and others
could say netbing. Having never respected eithe
the principles course Of the Calhoun party, I wa
not III your confidence, and was therefore, left L
mere conjecture to what your motives wore, an
what your Interior projects might be. In this publ
development, have not volunteered-you have forces
me to IL.
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