Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-02-26

rersue Of the peace, liberty and rights OF her CIT
tsenS CO. The Legislature having inspired their !
leop!e with spirit vi opposition 10 the extise,
soon as The law went into Grafton, the people in
the interior, in and about Pittsburgh, now the |
seated manufactures, and from whence there are |
perpetual applications for more protection from |
mi, conviction that Congress ought not TO interfere
with any portion of their labour, organized them
selves into regular armed force. marched TO the
house of the Unite,l States revenue officer MIR
Nevlli, commenced regular tire Of small arris
which was returned, some were killed, and some
wounded, and finally demolished his Office and
hNrned down his house. The military of the u
;ited States was sent against them and the re =,
ociiion suppressed. Now, no State in the Uni6h
10 more ciainorous for high duties than Pennsyi-
Nan'a; and her members on this floor have told
US how largely their State profits by the system Of
protecting duties. /; Pennsylvania possessed the
same spirit for civil liberty and state rights at this
day, that animated her then, and she would icok
abroad and compare the reduction in the tor tunes
OF other people, produced by the taili system with
the small evils that resulted from light excise on
whiskey, under which she so loudly complained,
and against which she shed her blood. so far from
assisting 70 Impose burdens OH the Southern States
would lend her aid TO relieve them.
!he State OF Maryland had not entered into a
civil war Tor the purpose of resisting the encroact
Inen's oil the General Government; but she had, in
Two instances, recently enacted her counteryail-
ing laws; and. in support of them had twice grap-
pied with the United States i'm their courts Of Jug
uce, and gave evidence that she was not disposed
well escaped from those struggles when some of
herciizens rendered their services to the u States
10 put down the rebellion in South Carolina
Inc state OF Ohio had been engaged in a con-
fict with the General Government-how far tina,
conflict had been carried he could not prc ciscIy
say; Out as Tar as his recollection served him. there
mad been much asperity manifested on the part of
ohio' anu serious resistance had been determined
on but was abandoned. The South Carolina meet
inSs had been greatly censured by the citizens of
that state-Her citizens, perhaps are as deeply
interested as any in this Union, in tariff Of pro
tecu"g auues: One OF her members (GEN. HAIR
ElsoNl OH TINS floor, in the discussion of the Ia.
TIL Of Last session, avowedopcnly, that the protect
ing system was OF infinite advantage 70 that Stale
as her ci'izens were prosperng under il, and could
IN consequence OF it, live as splendid the citi-
aens OF any other State, wherever they had man.
utacturing establishments. With that gentleman
the prosperity OF his constituents, and the Iuxuries
III which they were wal!owing, at the expense OF
'he southern planters, appeared TO be the only
9uie ny winch he measured the constitutional
power to enact the law.
lie was sorry TO mention another State the
state OF Kentucky. They had not been n little
c'ainofous against the people of South Carolina.
!9r 'ieir opposition TO this system; and by some o!
the citizens OF that State, much abuse had been
dealt out against our citizens said MIR. s. because
OF their public meetings. Those meetings were
denounced seditiouS, tenai,lg to treason nc
tnDn, to csvil tcdr TO rebellion; with 1nanv 9TH
er reproach'ui cpi,hets OF. like character This
was not by crowd of bacchanalian jewellers who
might have acted from the impulse of an up
g"aruea moment but by gentlemen of high stand
ing and dISnihed characters They had assem-.
bled upon an important ccasion, s. after djsposinu
oil their own business assembled in the church
where genlleman,once q member of the Senate
ohered an ADDRESS anu resolution fraught with re-
pFoaches and abuse, rendering their services TO
suppress such meetings, and moreover boIdino
THIS exploded and ddngerCns principie-ttat the
ground upon which South Carolina attempted 10
justify her opposition to the tariff ,s,ns 6osf;Lo IN
IL.
damental principles IF our 0itul, aChich recSgni
ScS The right oftte majority 10 rue. Was This
government OF laws only, this rule would apply:
but being government limited and cootro,,ed 10
written Constitution that defined its poyyers hc'
as Senator from South Carolina, was bold 10 an
nounce that this government recognized no such
principle that the majority shouidruie. The fact
was, that ma ory, in the cnactinq of the al a,r
had ruled; they could have succeeded on no OH
eg principle, but the fundamental pr;ac;nyes ori
our gereri,Inent recognize principle of rule b,,
that prescribed by the Constitution; and to this !,
must be brought again, or we as people are un
done.
There was time when Kentucky held a d;;
ierent language. Al time too, when our liner
lies were in higher estimation and our Copsiitu.
ton better understood, bee use IL was but sbo,
time alter was formed, and its principles more
respected; and at 'l!ne when that State had in /
her councils, as much distinguished talent as a, ~
ny other period OF her existence, however distin !
guished they may be now. 1t was no sedton ~ .
treason then to denounce public law of Congress |
In set Of resolutions, written with un,;valIed
biity, in November 1913, the legislature OF Zen !
lucky, without dissenting voice. declared two
different laws OF Congress, nat to be LaLe, but al
together u0td and If NJ effect. They did so with
the amen fGtc as mere courtesy 10 forcirners
Us citizens they were not interested. Kentucky |
Is Tariff State; she is interested in lis existence
therefore portion Of her citizens NAV well hold
different doctine as regards this law !
We have witnessed this mornnp sail Mr. . /
the complaints OF Indiana, in a memorial OF her le
glsiature, not asking but demanding all the pub.
he lands belonging 10 the United States. within
her chartered limits. She does not come here 10
complain that government has taken portion Of I
her wealth 10 bestow elsewhere, but that the 90 |
yernment has not given her quite all she asks. |
On the heels oil this memorial is another that !
speaks language not to be mistaken. II asks for
aid to the Colonization Society," but its spirit and
tenor point to a general emancipation Indiana
is Tariff State, and whilst she holds in one hand
Legislative memorial demanding large donations
oil public lands, the property Of the Union, she
foids in the other scourge for those States al
ready languishing under a system which ia fos-
terjng her own citizens.
We have been told said Mr. S., in the pubIic
~ 1t has been confidently asserted bv some
gentlemen, that Mr. Smith was mistaken. when
ne said the Legislature Of Pennsylvania had pas.
sed resolutions instructing her Senators in Con-
gress to oppose the excise on whiskey, but that
these resolutions were the acts nf ind a.. IL