Delaware journal., 1828-11-18
HIGHLY INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT
From the Hinymo Is. C) hateAgencer
To THE HoNoRABLE ROBERT Y. HAyNE:

From the Hinya,o (S C) hateNigencer.
To THE HoNoRABLE ROBERT Y. HAyNE:
SIR 1t is with great reluctance that | ever ap-
pear in the public prints and am sure no motive
can be assigned for my wishing unnecessarily to in
tertere between you and the writer under the sigma
ture of 'Union.' Who that writer is, know not.
The communication appeared in the Winyaw paper,
when was one hundred miles distant ; did not
read it until long afer its appearanceand although
it called on the members of the delegation to explain
our proceedings at your house in the City of Wash
ngton, l did not feel myself in any wise bound to
obey. | was perfectly willing that others, it they
thought proper, should publish what did and said
| | knew that the most malignant SANDER, unprn
cped as it is. could distort no act of mine into
sentiment hostile to the Union, or alien to that rev
lerence for the Constitution, which have regar-
lded essential to the character of good citizen
--more especially of one, honored with such high
trusts as we are. Under this impression, deter
mined at that the publication should remain
i forever unanswered by me.
But on reading your letter in the Inelligencer of
! Wednesday last, feel myself called on to address
YOU in public. because some of your POSITIONS and
the whole character and air Of the composition, APP
pear to impugn statements which have made in
respect to the proceedings of the meeting referred
to--statemen's which know to be true, and which
: | communicated to few Of the most enlightened
. and confidential of my constuents-not with view
to crimnate others, (stl less that they should be
pubshe,) but simply part OF that political inor-
nation which 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. :" deny tnat any proposition was
ever submitted TO the delegation of South Car0lina
e ha, the members should immediately abandon their
seats, return home, and thereby end all further po
$ itical connpxion with the Government And vii
e you deny, Sir, that, after all the Southern delega
d tions Except Georgia) bad positively refused t.
}. unite with US in slch protest thought Ell
Itectual by you and others, that proposition wa
made by of our members. that we should formal
Nv cecede IRON Congtess--return home-au1 say t,
Jour constituents. that our services were no longe
of any use That when this proposition was made
e it was immediately opposed by Col. Drayton, wh
IN at once declared that he would not concur as tn
e. act thus performed would be unconstitutional an,
a. would not be sanctioned by his constituents
cannot, sir, be mistaken in this statement. The pro
as poson excited feelings too strong to be forgotten
u thought, if il were adopted, that should be place.
er in the trying of all situations. Foreman aon
IS, at Washington in opposition to the views of tn
nd whole delegation, would be assuming fearful res
''r ponsbityto shrink from that responsibility, am
he yield to their views in opposition to my own, wou
on be contemplate weakness. Besides, what was
mi result from It'll What to be the fate of the pee
mt pie whom we represented Imagination shuddel
he ed at the prospect. These my feeIings--hes
H. were the ideas which the proposition called forti
And have never in my life been more relieve
led than when it was Immediately put down by Colon,
me Drayton.
Again, Sir. in your letter you deny that any ''d'
he termination made that the members on the
sh return home should visit their constituents general
so and make every effort to incucate among them SUE
ar doctrines and principles as would induce the Pc
mt pe to agree to, and advocate separation from Il
States" And will you deny, Sir, that propositie