Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-02-14


view, and at succeed session % .o"s
when was not even aemoeI OF 'na' p'ey'
The negotiations for siding from Tue o'''"
with view to rejoin il erwards, " ever eA,
| listed, must have been ring the war; "'u
no knowledge If suenego,iauon' or esr"
such design. coul therefore, nave give"
no snch information. az.
Blu, in giving an unali6ed denial TO th's
statement Of Mr.. Jeffrn, anc IN showing 'na'
upon The face of the Ter ilseh l. 'o"'a "o' oe
correct, il was due to I'm 10 show, tha' 'he
misstatemenr on his p was not inteh''o"a''
that it arose from apn6'mity OF memory
which the letter iselfandldly acknowledged;
tina, il blended ,ope,hen one indistinc' mass,
The Information which had given HIM IN
March 1908, with thelrport OF .conhd' u iai
letters. winch had ritlen TO- his and my
friends in Congress a,ar after and WIN t.
vents, projects, and peaps mere suspicious
natural enough as ooasufnces OF me p'eeea-
ING times. bu, which 6urred, 1t at all, from
three 10 six wears lalernd Of which me could
not have had informant, OF m. The simple lac
Of which apprised MJ'ffrrson was int In
the summer Of 1907, out the time OF wha'
was called the affair ONE leopard and Ches'
apeake, l had seen her from me governor
| of Nova Scotia to a peon IN MASSACHUSETTS,
affirming that the Britt government had Ger
tain information of pl by that OF rance 10
| conquer the British porssions and effect re-
yolution in the Un;te8a'es by means OF
war with Grea, Britain
AS the United S.ateand Greal Britain were
in so7 a, peace, cGespondtnce WIN me
Governor of Nova Scoa, held by any eitizen
Of the United States, inorred no violation o.
law; nor could the correspondent De response
BILE for any thing whichlhe governor m's"'
write. But my ihferrne, from his TACT were
that there existed betwm the BRUSH govern
ment and the party in Massachusetts, opposed
! 10 Mr., Jefferson. a chanel Of communication
through ,he governor 81 Nova Scotia, whicf
he was exercising to name their hatred d
gains, France, and theinealousy against thri
own government. Theet,e was not 10 an.
leader Of tn federal pary; but had no oooo
il had been shown TO so1e OF lhem' as II ha'
been 10 me, without I'M nction OF secrecy; ano
as I supposed, with WV to convince me ina
this conspiracy betweenNapoleo OF and MIR. 1e'
ferson really existed. How that chanhe'
commune alton might b further used was ma
ter OF ron jec rurr; for he mission OF Mr.. JON
Henry was nine mon,hs:fier my interview vii
Mr.. Jefferson, and prresrly a, the time Wht
was writing to my frsnds in Congress IN
letters urging he substitution of he non int
course for the embargo OF Mr.. Henry's ml
sion l knew nothing unil it was disclosed
himself In 1912.
1t was in these letter, Of sos and 1909, th'
I mentioned the design Of certain leaders oil u
federal party to effec, dissolution OF the I
MON, and the establishment, OF Northern 10
federacv- Tnis- dD- isa- had been fotmed IN u
consequence o! the acquisition OF Loulsiana.-
I Its jusliiying causes t' those who ente tanned
were, that the annexa ion OF Louisiana 10 II
Union transcribed the constitutional pow
err, Of The go, er"mrnt Of the United States
That il formed in f-ct new confederacy
which the States, united by the former con
pact, we're not bound 10 adhere. Tha, il wi
opprc ssive 10 the in erests and destructive
the infurrce Of the northern section of II
coufedcracy, whose right and dury it therefor
was 10 secedr {, ON he new body polite, and
constitute one Of their own. This plan was
far ma,ured. that the proposal had been mad
to an individual TO PERM, Himself, a, the pr,
per time, 10 br placed at the head Of the mil
lary movements, which il was forrseen Won
be necessary FOR carrying il into execution.
! all this there was no overt act Of treason.
the abstraoi theory Of our government the OBJ,
dence OF the cl'izsn is not due 10 an unc onsi
,u,iona law. H. may lawfully resist its ex.
culion If single individual undertakes tn
resistance, our constitutions, both OF lhr Unite
States and Of each separate Sta,e, have provit
ed judiciary power, judges and juries to de
| eide between the individual and the legislai,
act, watch he has resisted as demonstrations
But let US suppose lhr Ease that legislative &C
Of one or more States Of this Union are pas
ooutlic,ipg with acts Of Congress md comma,
ding tne resistance Of their citizens again
,ht m. and what else can be the result but w
civil war? and is not thai, de fatto, a dissoll
ton Of the Union. so far as the tsisting State
are concerned? and what would be the cond
lion Of every citizrn in he resisting Stares?-
Bound by the double duty Of allegiance 10 tt
Union, and to the State, he would BE- crushc
between The upper and the neither milston
with the performance Of every civic duty COZ
ver,sd into crime, and guilty Of treason, b
every act Of obedience 10 The law.
That the power of annexing Louisiana 10 th
Union had not been Delegated &c Congress, b
the constitution Of the United States, was m
own opinion; and it is recorded upon the jour
nails Of the senate, Of uhi:h was then Inem
Der. Blu, far from thinking the act itself jus
flying cause Of secession from the Union, re