Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1828-10-22
SERIOUS CONTROVERSY.

The writer Of the first OF the following
Letters is a Representative in Congress
of great responsibility, and the writer ofthe
second is a gentleman who is or has been
a Member of the Senate of Georgia, and
has long held high trusts in that State with
credit to himself The standing of the
two gentlemen, and the nature of the cues
ton at issue, give consequence TO this
controversy. Nat Int.
To the Editor of tic SarannaF Republican.
Sir: ] have recently read, in the Nil
edgeyille Statesman and Patriot, an ex-
tract from theMacon Telegraph, in which
| am accused, on the faith of some inform
cnt of not having dcnied the intention Of
the disunionists, (to dismember the Union)
that talked loudly of the accesSity of the
measure" that said "a separation of the
States, sooner or later, was iasgitable, and
that the sooner it took place the better, that
monarchy then would be erected"
Before prsceed to the explanation due
to the public, l pronounce the informant
of the Telegraph Liar and a Scoundrel,
for having kaO,emgly, and from base mo-
tires, perverted the truth.
While in Darien, in July last, / casually
remarked, in conversation, that, If the
measures Of the present Administration
were continued, they would lead TO an alb
rogation of State Rights, render the Con
sdtutiOn nugatory, and from an amalgama-
ton of State Sovreignties, a consolidated
! form of Government would be established,
and that all power being concentrated un-
|der one general head, its aristocracy would
multiply public officers and sinecures,
with an increase Of salaries, the better 20
strengthen Executive patronage; that the
revenue derived from commerce, TO which
the Southern States have so largely con-
ributed) would, from It's CRIPPLED state,
produced by recent measures, prove mad
/ eQuate TO meet the current expenses Is-ch
Ia Government, 10 say nothing Of d reduc-
ton of the public debt; that, to supply the
deficiencies of the revenue, direct, internal
taxation, would, from necessity be resorted
/ TO, an alternative the People would not
bear; that the Southern agriculturists were
already nearly reducedto a state of yassal-
/ age, from protecting duties for the encour-
Iagement of other branches of industry, a.
their expense, and that they could not beu
AN increase Of unequal burthens, and, if
persisted in, would produce Crisis, tBat
would provoke a separation peaceably. or
| forcibly; that such an event would fix the
seal to the death warrant of the Republic,
and out of its runs might arise d monsrchi-
cal and arbitrary Government. For these
remarks, the informant Of the Telegraph
has made me say, that / am impatient for
the arrival ofthe greatest caIdmitythat can
befal the country Ii. c. the erection Of a
monarchy, to which all my acts, by 'cordS
or deeds, give the lie. Why did this no
contemplate man, who, it seems, has Civ
en- many versions to his tale, with all his
moral uorth, and adherence 10 truth, travel
all the way to Macon to disgorge his false
hoods, when he had a printing office in his
immediate vicinity! Let an impartial Pub
lie Judge am willing 20 submit to their
decision. 80 IN FLO y.
Camden County, (Ga.) Sept -, 1875