Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-29


unlon and the attachment OF the people to it, II is
poor compliment to the people, TO suppose them so
destitute Of discretion and the power Of calculation.
10 prefer evils which no Imagination is capable of
oresceing in all their extent and permunency to the
four years rule of any Chief Magistrate, however
OBNOXIOUS. Woe unto this country, if the Union the
only bond ofrcpose, ofpeace aud safety u depen-
ded upon such contingency this! 1t is injurious
TO the nation to imagine, and insulting to express
sucha thought. If the opinion be the expression of
Je"r' honestly felt. have nothing to Say bu, to
question the prudence ofthe ovowal-fintended az
menace it is only worthy of contempt. If such an
event. produce snch an effect, let the Union be dis
solved and the sooner the better If this can over
throw it. it is worthy of mans attachment.
u FRANCIS SMITH, ESQ. of Abippdon 10 mo
among several candidates. to represent the Washing
ton District (now without representation by the
death of Gen. Alex, Smyth,) in The prcsen. Con.
gress.
Mr.. Smith announces his creed in On address 10
the people of the District and we are hapoy to find
in 1t much less of the slang and can't than is common
in similar productions of the day-a freedom from
demagogism, the bane of the country, which is hon.
orable to him.
construction upon the true, old Republican ground
While he would cut off the Federal Government from
constructive powers he has the good sense to remem
Der, and the frankness to admit, that there NAV be
danger from the members as well as from the head;
that the General Government has it's rights as we'll
as the State Governments; and that it is, no less
tnan the latter necessary to The safety, the we'll be-
ing, and the existence, of the Union and our Repub
iN0 svot f,tt,a. IL
tcn' what It has pleased SO many Of our Southern
demagegues to forget, that during national exist
OF So years every danger of disunon has proceeded
from the States; and therefore with proper soci-
tude to curb the Genera! Government he feels equal
socltude TO conne the individual States to their true
bounds He supports State rights from sober reason,
ana not for the purpose of eecting this man Presi
dent OF defeating that, in factious and merely
partzan spirit. How different alas! from the views
OF most of our State right camorers, who reverse
the order of things and instead of making partv sub
servent to the advancement, and sustaining of princi
pie, make principle subservient TO purtv views pe,
sonai promotion and political hatred Witness the
ZION secretary of State who, an advocate of Inter-
nal Improvement and the Tariff, and their steady
friend IN the Senate for many years. becomes
mighty sckler for State rights, the moment he finds
#" necessary means to secure the Southern States
witness the Hon. Vice President, who infiamed bv
the same love Of the Presidency, has abandoned
eoeTy principle which guided his conduct from 1911
to 1875, when he was Representative in CONGRESS
ana Secretary of War! The TaiR of which ne
WIS the aoies' udvocatc-IntcrnaI improvements
sysematized by him upon magnificent scale, in his
report to Congress-the Bank of the u. States
greatly indebted to him for it's existence--nU bov
been abandoned. No man knows now, what are his
principles, and in the Vice President OF the IT,
States, traitor to himself, the Judas who has nh,
10 mart the principles of go years, the shuttecock of
party, the pipe upon which predominant faction
plays what time 1t pleases, man can reoornize the
John U. Calhoun of 1919, who warmed nations
patriotism, and received nations admiration. Tn
chastened ambition hath wrought the melancholy
change. This has merged the consideration once
felt Tor the whole, in sectional servi!lty converted
the comprehensive statesman, whose eve measured
the whole of his country, into the miserable dema
gogue, whose aspirations breathcd only for self.
and the man once Of generous feelings into nm ,nvi
Gus haer ready to dshonour his country, to inf,ict
stab upon noble rival. Candid observers of all
Parles-are not these necessary deductions. from
the recent history of Jno. C. Calhoun
These are the men bet een whom the peonlo mil,
be called TO choose. They will be :old that the
rs"s OF The States will be safo under th.r protec
tion but that it would be to commit, the lamb to the
kcep'ng OF the wolf, to entrust the Constitution to
aehry Gay Anew patent of Repubcansm will
DC sued OUT and whereas Jacksonism and Republi.
canisin, are now SYNONYMOUS, then shall ed tina,
Repubcansm means Van Burenism or C.lbounsm
as the case may be!
For our own parts, If it is to be made Republican.
ism to support either of them, we will none of it,
our humble support shall be given TO no principle
trader under whatever spccous name he is presented
Let Mr. Clay ba denounced as Latitudinarian; he
has at least been consistent in his conduct and opn.
IONS What he was twenty years ugo, he is the same
man now If he err in some of his opinions, consist
ent error pursued with the steadncss of conviction
is moro respectable, more worthy of trust than acci