Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-06-20
POLITICAL EEEECT

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The National Inselligencer treats its reader.
with two columns under theEominous capture o
Ihe CTtsiS.-lt contends, that there is scheme or
foot, in South Carolina and in Georgia. resist the
Tariff, at the hazard of dissoving the Union-the
conclusion of the article shows the object of this
tarryng Expose, is 10 alarm the people into sup.
port OF the sinking Administration. Ii asks each
man, whether he will put Z" every thing at hazard
by appointing ne,D and untrieh public dgents-and
whether he will, in fine, with his eyes open ,mad-
ly rush on TO destruction, with party, which is
not deferred, even by the fear of disgusting the
public, from openly s;owng purposes, inimica to
the Unon-provocative of civil wAr-and prelu-
sive to the downfall of the Republic
And where is the evidence to justify all the pa n
ie which it would excite? 1t gives us scrap of a
sentence from some anonymous writer in the
Charleston Mercury, who declares " no alterna-
tive that threatens, comparable to those we mus,
inevitably suffer under the present stat of things
Another sentence, from another ANONYMOUS writer
In the Charlie ton City Gazette, who knows, as he
says " that there are men among u.s. no ops nly
espouse dissolution Of the Union'-also, another
scrap from some newspaper in Georgia which pro
poses " Congress, from all the States opposed Il
/ q protecting Tariff. to asse mble and devise mea.
sures, consistent NTH The Constitution to protect
them from the Introduction OF the fairfield article.
in their respective States."-These, with some flu
ing reports, about the assembling of the Lee isla-
ture OF South Carolina-and the old On read bar
allusion to some not very we'll understood message
OF the Governor Of virginia, constitute the great
budget OF proofs, by which the Jackson, the op-
position 'porfy," is to be charitaby saddled with
the charge Of openly avowing purposes inimical
to the Union-These the latest tricks by which
! the people are to be deferred from appointing any
'new and untried agents." and the men now in
power are to be snugly seated in their places, Tor
| Jour or twelve years more TO come.
| We cannot go into such weighty matters upon
such slight proofs. We have read the S. Carolina
and Georgia papers, as carefully as the journalists
| OF Washington-but, as yet, we see nothing which
will justify so loud a sound Of the tocsin. Should
the temporary resentments of some indignant per
sons derive encouragement from the official acts
Of Governor Taylor, it viii then be time to speak
to the matter, plainly cooIly and firmly. At pre-
sent, we the purpose Of the intelligenceF--and
we despse the manGuvre.
| Asto Virginia, we again intreat Of the Editors oil
the Integencer to dismiss their apprehensions
| Her measures have been uniformly characterised
| by as much moderation as frmness-she adheres
to her principles with pertinacity, which the Sc
ductions of power cannot shake, and vindicates
hem in a temper, which commands the confidence
OF her fellow sufferers and the respect Of all-and
we are sure, that sign has escaped her citizens
which msnifests the slightest appearance Of vic.
| lence Of disunion, or Of civil On one thing
she is resolutely bent, if we do not mistake thu
signs OF the timeSto ship fthe present crew, anC
/ try "HeD agents"