Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-10-13

MULTIPLICATION. We find the follow
ing letter, being Judge Johnson's rejoin-
der to Governor Taylor, in the Charles
ton, S. c. Mercury, of September %.
Charleston, Sept. %, 1880.
My dear Taylor,-Your letter, dated
Rice Creek, Sept. IL, with the Columbia
post mark Of the l4th, did not come to-
hand until the 18th, near three weeks
after the date of mine to which it is an
answer, and at time when it was out of
the question for me to be at Columbia to-
make my speech. What an opportunity
was here lost. / certainly should have
addressed myself to an audience "~hose
minds ,rere in a state for thinking" and
might have enjoyed triumph, such as
you and have felt in common more than
once. Where were the men who now
claim to be radicals and exclusive patri-
OTIS, when you and | stood shoulder to
shoulder in the stormy days of ultra fed
eralism? and more recently in that uni
versal homage now rendered to the tai
ents and worth ofour friend Crawford, by
men who revelcd in the most wanton a.
buse of him, when you and / stood up for
him almost alone.
Iperceive by an editorial remark pre-
fixed to the publication Of our cores
pondcnce, that the suggestion is thrown
out that my letter was written to you with
a view to involve you in n controversy.
am sure you cannot entertain such an l.
dea. Nothing was farther from my mind;
but if you court it, ! certainly shall not
shun it.-Yet it would be whispering to
the bowling winds to attempt IN the news
papers the defence of my eight points,
until the election is over. Let that be
passed, and something of a calm ensue,
and | am ready to meet you; but it must
be in the columns of the Telescope, for
thus, and thus only, can the antidote be
administered where it may have some
thing to operate upon.
You style yourself "One ofth mcm-
bers of the Conspiracy"-but if all the
conspirators we're as candid and disnter-
ested as you are, the republic would have
nothing to fear from them; you have op-
eny and candidly avowed that if Virgil
MIA would consent to be frontier state,
you would 90 off from the Union the
next day. This is at once appalling to
the good sense and good feelings of the
people, and in that tribunal reposc un-
limited confidence. 1t is only when they
are hoodwinked by demagogues and hy-,
pocritcs that they can 60 wrong.
As to the part you take in this econ
spiracy," u solemnly declare that irI could
think as you do upon the facts, ] think |
should feel as you do upon the measures.
would not live under ga Government Of
unlimited powers" and if / saw distinctly
that nothing but revolutionary move
ment could impose due restrictions, |
would cry ont for revolution. AS to al-
fording the States some more satisfactory
security than the Intervention Of the Su-
preme Court, it is what have been urg-
ing for years. Rest assured that we are
far from covcting jurisdiction, especially
where states arc concerned. Heaven
save us from encountering the irritable
feelings of sovereigns.-But / have al
ways been met by the question, What
can the States want more than the SEN
ate, They are all there equally repre-
scnted and every law which passes that
body involves d decision on its constitu-
tionality-a decision made by a body
sworn to decide impartally, and in which
the smallest State has as much weight
as the greatest. To this have never
been able to find but one answer, and
that is, that as to one class of cases that
tribunal is not accessible. mean cases
in which the constitutionalty Of State
Laws is brought in question. There |
would certainly amend the Constitution