Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-10-15


principle or in consideration of the dreadful prospect
which the infamous frauds on the RIGHT of sufranc.
now getting comInsn for the first time open to the
view, every good ought to unite in their cxecra-
ton.
Let 1t not DC too hastily supposed that we have over
charged this picture, and that there are grounds for
experimenting this unlawful Eruption ofrennesseeans
into Kentucky. Facts already well established in
vous parts OF the Union, demonstrate that there are
members oithc Jackson purity capable of committing
los outrage on the rights of their fellow ctizens.-
To rccite some of thesc-In New York last fall, for
elgncrs did not scruple TO boast that they had voted
tthc jackson ticket i'll many wards In Kentucky, at
the Congressional election in 1927 Mr.. Johnson lost
hs election by votes from Tennessee. At the recent
selcction for Governor Of Kentucky, gentleman of
Elarkc county, positively that he knew at least
20 men, citizens of that county, who utter voting, for
Mr.. Barry there, proceeded to Bourbon and Shelby
on the I'd aud 3D. days Of the election, and voted for
HIM likewise m those counties, some of them voting
even tiir'e times In Mercer county plot was de-
ccted land the nomes of the individuals in some cases
cNiosed for sending two hundred men from, that coun-
lty to vote III Fayctte, after they had first voted in
Mercer at the price of paying their expenccs and fifty
cents per diemand the great falling off of the vote
III Fayete from 1927, goes very far to prove, that
that year, similar plot carried into successful ex
:cution In Philadelphia, at the late Charter cleo
icons, SIXTY spurious were ascertaned i'm one
ward. In Baltimore, wc learn that persons will be
indicted for spurious voting az the election and
Ill kentucky, the law has also been invoked to punish
this scandalouS and fatal ni;uitv.
| Here then is u mass Of rlcts fully SUSTAINING Tho
allegation, that the Jackson party have in various pla
rcsorted to this cSPcdicn for success and fthey
have done it once, the probability is that they will do
1t OF attempt to Go it again. We believe most inpli-
city, TINT there Is organized design to carry the
vote OF Kentucky for Gen. Jackson, by these base
means. Far be- it from us, to include the whole Jack
son party i'll the which so Justly applies to
part OF it; rather invoke the honorable and intel
lent othat party, unite their efforts to those of
the friends Of the Administration in restraining the
West abuse which has shown itself in the coun-
try, and which if persisted in tannot bat lay the
Union IN ruins. We may BE- pernittcd to express our
satisfaction, that the Administration party has no
where been Charged with this crime
Mr.. Caihona.-Thc reader has probably not for
gotten Mr.. Calhoun's letter to Duff Green, written
on his return from the late Session of Congress- in
which he speaks i'll such strong terms of the uncons,i
repeal That circumstance, and the Anti-Tarf'
proceedings at Columbia, have put n corrcspoudert
OF the MiilcdGseyc Soutliron, t. trace the devious
course OF mir. Calhoun upon the Tariff and in doing
so, he very completely succeeds i'll proving Mr. Cal
noun to have been principal instrument in passing
the first regular protective ,Tari.l-that of 1916
Tins would be surprising enough, if Mr.. Calhoun's
course upon the subject of Internal improvements
| had ,,i Cd tl,,,,,
ton at any political conduct Of his. II Mr. Clay is
the iater of the protective SYSTEM mr.. Calhoun had
CLAIMS alno:t strong to the paternity OF the system
+! OF Internal Improvement. His reports Willie Secre
tary of War, the highest authority for ARGUMENT
ana information which the friends of Internal I'M
provcmcnt can resort 10. lie was then of opiniop
that in prosecuting tho great designs which he deycl
opod for The Improvement Of the country localities
such States and Territories, were not at all TO be
considered J'Icy were beneath the DIGNITY of his
gigantic pHns and of the powers of Congress
Need we remind the reader, tlat Mr. Calhoun has
changed his note here too?
Motives concealed from human snht. b,,t OUT
ward causes sometimes furnish clue for their dscov
cry How is it that Mr. Calhoun has sirnultaneouslv
changed his long entertained his deeply rcvoIved
ms often declared his ably supported, opinions res
pecIihg ule cohstutiohalty and eXpedicncy of
protecting Tariff, and the constitutionay of Roads
and Canals That he should have changed at all,
Is remarkable, for his were not orons rasiily taken
up or lightly considered; but the opinions of MANY
years. of frequent rcterotion and evidently of deep
conviction. BIT admiration is of necessity much
increased, by the circumstance that tho clonnc az
tended to two great subjects, widely different, and
depending for their Legitimacy upon the construction
"f d1ercnt provisions Of the Constitution. Is it
credible that Mr. Calhoun has in very deed under
gone change of opinion upon either or both of these
suf1ccf& or must we of necessity, ascrbc the
change IN his conduct not to n change in his opu;ons
but to change In the circumstances in which he finds
himself placed? Has he discovered that TO obtain
the votes of the Southern States for the Presidency
lie must chdse his constitutional opinions, Evil TO
HIM, who evil thinks-but with MI Difference to the
ri1%lm, refrain fi,ia in.forcc