Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-21

bound 10 perpetual suhmisSion TO the ;ninriss We
complain Of "A that viii hold thar doctrine, is
net to be reasoned With, hut 70 be- opposed |,
joins them. -ss.rss ~ y IS .sss
presume man, pretending to be friend TO the
state will venture TO recommend direct and immc-
date separation from the American CONF deracy as
the remedy called for in tho present crisis Whys
Because We have milder, constitutional. and I
hope an efectual substitute for disunion. Disunoi
viii not be matter OF choice with South Carolina
lit will be forced upon US. .s att ~
3 A law enacted by incompetent authority il not
binding Power -exered without, and beyond the
jurisdiction actually conferred, may, in all cases
be nghtfully opposed A law enacted by Congress,
not authorized by the constitution of the United
States, is obligatory upon u.s. than if it were
enacted by tho King Of France
The farm OF protection 10 not sanctioned by the
powers given TO Congress in the constitution OF the
United States If we mean therefore, TO support
that constitution, and by doing do support the a
merican union, we must declare the law imposing
taxes imports for the benefit of domestic manufac
lures, UNCONSTITUTIONAL null and imperative in the
state of South Carolina Whether this be done nv
the legislature, or at the recommendation of the lie.
gislature, by convention called for the express pur-
pose OF considering that question alone, and other
appears to be 'mmateriu Ishould rather prefer its
bong done by the Legislature, because il is the duty
OF representative to do because they have the
power of doing SO, and the people will support them,
IN itS and because IN such crisis the present. no
man 10 TIT to be representative who ia fearful of
this is not question to quarrel about; the main
point is TO avoid all proposals of disunon and to ad
opt that course of proceeding which is, in fact tho
only ono by which the constitution be supported
and defended. and the union preserved. .aa' ... :
If in adopting the plain course of maintaining our
constitutional rights, President Jackson, or the Gen
eral Government and the administrator of the Fed
eral Union, should forcby oppose u.s. the resistance
they wlll compel, will be on our parts resistance
proceeding from our attachment to the constitution
ITSELF and adopted not 10 evade but protect the con
stitution--not to promote, but 10 shun disunion.
This course of proceeding has the sanction of JEFF
terson and Madison, in he Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions is the course expressly indicated TO the
House of Representa- iivcs at Washington lately by
Mr. Speight of North Carolina and indeed is in itself
so plain. that authority is required to support
submit it therefore to the public a measure con-
shtutional in ITSELF and best adapted procure an
acknowledgment of our rights, and a redress of our
wrongs. MULTIPLICATION .
~ Russell Jarvis, late co-editor of the Washing
ton Telegraph, has made his appearance in the Boz
ton Palladium and renewed his structures upon Duff
Green, his former associate We extract the follow
ing lines:
"For some time past "a locker on in Venice, il
has been my lot to much inevitably leading TO
the conclusion, that the country is provided with
very weak and very corrupt administration; and
IT, without violating RHy confidence. l can expose
any ofns Imbeciites cOrruptions, the effort NAV
avail something in restoring the political atmosphere
TO healthy condition moral blight is upon
the country and she must throw il off or all those
fair and wholesome fruits, which have cost her so
much time and labour in the rearing, must wher
and decay"
a. The Phenix Gazette states that Isaac Hill still
continues to act as Cd Comptroller. Ifthe President
refuses to nominate q successor, and continues Hill
by his own authority, what redress is there'
II We have received with sincere satisfaction the
first No. of the Independent Statesman publish
ed at Danville. and edited by James Lanier, Esq q
gentleman of sterling Independence and known and
exercised talents. . .. ....... ... ..a
The principles by which his editorial and political
course will be shaped, Mr.. Lanier thus defines:
Assuming our station one of the Editorial COM
munlty, we bring with us all those feelings of cour-
tesy and good will, which should distinguish
in their intercourse with each other. the mem
bers of liberal and enlightened professon;--a pro.
fesson, which above all others des ned TO exert the
most powerful and decisive influence upon the public
prosperity and the public happiness:--And we arc
determined while in the DISCHARGE of the new duties
which have devoved upon u.s. that the honest differ
ence OF opinion either in regard TO or measures
land we know enough of the construction of the bI-
man mind, and the circumstances that usually inlu-
ence it. TO know, that there NAV be an honest differ
ing or sentiment Of hostility, in any wise diminish
the respect we accustomed to entertain for those
who with integrity Of purpose and purity OF design
under the influence of the same patriotic motives
which animate ourselves, may feel it their duty to take
course in the discus ion of public affairs, which we
may not and cannot in consciences approve. But
IN relation to the miserable time serving Weather
COCK t any such there be- who, acting from fixed
or settled principles changes his opinions and course
with every supposed shifting OF the popular breeze
whose mean and sordd selfshness brings him to-
day to condemn and censure that which he yesterday
| approved, and to commend and sanction that, which
had received his most decided reprObation:--who
abandoning the higher and purer ground OF patriot
ism. punges into the miserable muck and miro Of
party-ism and meanly becomes the obsequious and
fllsome follower and fatterer of those whom under
other circumstances he had but lately condemned
and denounced as worse than wor hless--wiih him.
there being no sympathy--no community Of feeling
or principle between us can never acknowledge
or hold the slightest raternity but esteeming all such
as ioost truth, and honor and patriotism and the