Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-09-03

ed to conide in the evidence OF their own senses
against the authority of MIR. Aud. Stevenson, and his
ally the Editor of the ENQUIRER? Yes sir-that was
Iyuur calculation, and that the assurance upon which
1t was founded Your iudcions friend suggested this
probability, and your inflated vanity adopted and acted
upon it. You believed TINT Mr.. Blair would be LETT
unsustained from the tmidty Of others who had heard
you awcd into tmi,lity by the threatened collision
with the Speaker. Thus situated, you coniectursd
that Mr. Blair would either rcract OF expain or that
the Public would have little hesitation in believing
YOU and rejecting the testimony of obscure thoul
honorable man. The calculation rs discreliabie
10 your saGaci;y, Us TO your heart iou have found
to yo'ir cost that Virginiuns will not shrink in Just
cause, even from encounter with the Speaker o.!
! the House o. Representatives, Your hiacliaveian
plan has failed, for you did give sufficient credit
~ forming IT. 10 the tirnness and integrity of your
fellow citizens. II was plan dislonorable to them
ana unworthy OF you. It's failure has placed you in
!pr"dcancnt Us uncnviable, rctributivcly Just.
hen FIRST saw the opinion ascribed to you, "tlat
Mr. Adams was reelected the Onion would be dis
solved placed but little importance upon it,
knew yor vai-glorinus AMI ostent9tious way of talk
in%--Four tondncss for seeming to know more thu.
any BODY else and your vanity in expressing cxtraYa-
sane a:l9 starting ,opinioSs supposed that YOU
rcadY to Admire year superior political foresight. and
tiie.,@t - quest ION YOU, n;aIiih,y. This Thought
until disco' cred the rodigous cagernos with which
your guardian III RicIuond denied the truth Of the
cchyoriaon, ana the sensitivcuess with Wiich YOU
dStLtlined 1t. was fcrced Ivy these Suspicious cir
cunStanccS to attach greater inpurauc the sco-
sure HOW Di'Nt from Tie cavcrncSS, with which
You and your friend hove denied what both Of yo,
Knew to be true. t;at you expressed YOUR real OPT
hion ana that the cagcrness is the effect of alarm
! at the INJURY you may have III unguaried ani
V;in-giori moIaent, inflicted upon your party. by
the nreinn Gre discovery OF their Interior aud Dies
! rerat" designs. How nicnd, can / believe any
thing ci@H Can suppose that the Speaker Of tho
House OF Representatives would utter aud -.pant
Wiat hn did not believe 10 DC true? Is it toin.y
y" justice 10 suppose. that YOU Were Id TO express
tie opinion by the pue~ile motive OF setting of
! yor own superior knowledge and consequence, "A
declaring what You did not believe? Oen on tl,
other suPposition must he correct. Won ci,hcr did
not believe Whit You affirmed nr you did believe it
When alternative xii you choose? Your i.oc is IL
nlltcd to the ijgo.
Some weeks have elansai since the u.,;eo;ahl,
proof OF the expression by YOU. YVES exhibited You
lave Observed profound silence is il the result OF
policy ar OF shanc' Even your ally AMI guardian, is
rs dumb as e was before rlpertinent and ofic .os-
Whence .'roceess tits studied scncc' Whence this
tacturnty In mon, who were never tac,urn hr:crno
Sir, you ought to speak-You owe it to yc,r:.iT and
| thrl whose word you have rashIy questioned. You
need ir admit now, that you sad what was at. rb,
tea to yoi bet You ought 70 tel Your constituents
either 'l'at yon expressed the onron not believing il
or that }u Expressed it bcleviHg it TO pc well found
Believing not Only that YOU dil express tho opinion.
Which were iltdel indeed not 10 belle, t--l,,s
that you had good reasons Cor entertaining l. call
upon You by the right Of being OF your Conslit
ents, TO deciarathe grounds upon which Won entertain
it. In the whole range OF conarcncics there is not
one so moHeutous, so terrific, tie dissolution of
the Union It is the event to which the humane look
forward with shndderng, the Patriot with despair,
the Eepubhcan overtrowing the last and brintcst
vision of the worlds hore. You the RcDrc-
sentative OF this District il Congress- an the peai-
eF Of The House Of Representatives, have said that
mat contingency VIII cnsuc, if near end probable
eye'it occurs our constituents, the American Ps--
PIE, IN Inc aGtcy OF whose public affairs, you occupy
so distinguished rank, are entitled to know the
reasons OF IN opinion, in which they so deeply in
as
DER tie h;hc5t obligation obey tbs c;,Il--as Pat
rot You ara IL dEjy bound TO disclose dangers r:ii
Greotcn Tic Hapubic. however conflentiul!v YOU
became 1ossrSscd Of the knowledge, unl however
iAs yo are IT party ties, with tie men, who's, l-
chas:c'd ambition j. secretly preparing the h,no,i;
scort &c for their country. At any other time less
weight would have been attached to ,2,1 opinion,
hp'' events have recently TRANSFERRED 10 the South of
US events are daily TRANSPORTING there, which dc.uI-
s'!i!c IN" e%*ten"c OF party, resouely determined
TO discover tire Union ii they not permitted to
G IIT her Pocy, her magistrates and her laws
aL:a league. l! they have not made you confda1t
ni tiieir trcasouabIe Designs you are believed to
Know loii"h Of them from association. The coinc-
dcI' 81 time, between yoUr expressing this opinion
, AMI tie @editious movements of the Dsunioriss in
South Carolina, proves connection between that
opinion "iFi those movements. In brief sir, Your
constituents desire, and have right TO know your
cplnioiS
TIE SHADE OF CLoPToN.
H'aorer, .fHg7st 80.
Gcn. 'NcCo4-'i'hc following response to tis rem
ttfnans letter, Is from the Anti Jackson Committee
! otPeadctoE. f:hc counties Of the Generals mis-
represented District. 1t is bold witty oaustc, and
w presume to think, unansyerabe upon the nIatters
OF Fact which It contests with the General L is es-
'a5tlshed by the statement under oath, of Me1grs.
Johnson, Hall and Masters, that Jackson was the
Generals last choice ut the former clcction-that