The Arkansas advocate., 1830-04-21

ftS VI AAht-A sSs VI NAA1l tsNi V SA Y thedemocracy of New England? Where they always have beenf ound Sir, strug- gling side by side, with their brethren of the South and the west for popular rights, and assisting in that glorious tri- unph by which the man. of the peepiia- was elevated tothe highestofiice in their gift.
 Who, then, Mir. President are the true friends of the Union? Those who would .con6ne the Federal Government strictly within the limits prescribed by the Con stitution; who would preserve to the States and the people all powers not ex- pressly delegated; who would make this a Federal and not a National Union, and who, administering the government in a spirit of equal justice,w would make 1t . blessing, and not q curse. And who are its enemies? Those who are in favor of consolidation-who are constantly stealing power from the States, and ad- ding strength to the Federal Govern ment. Who, assuming an unwarrant- able jurisdiction over the States and the
 'eople, undertake toregulate the whole Industry ard capital of the country. But. Sir, Of all description Of men l consider those asthe worst enemies of the Union, who sacrifice the equal rights which be- long to every memberof the confederaey to combinations of interested maiorities. for personal or political objects. Bpt the gentleman apprehends no evil from the dependence ofthe States onthe Fed eral Government? he can see no danger ot corruption from the influence of mo ney or patronage. Sir, know that it is supposed tobe wise saying sstElat pat ronage Is a source of weakness ? and in support of that maxim, it has been said. that ss every ten appointments makes al hundred enemies. But l am rather inclined to think, with t.ss eloquent s.s.s sagacious orator now reposing on his lau- rels on the banks of the Roanoke. that < the power of conterring favors creates a crowd of depeadants;" he gave a for cible illustration of the truth of the re- mark, when he told us of the effect of holding up the savory morsei to the ea- ger eyes of the hungry hounds gathered around his door. It mattered not whether the gift was bestowed on Tow ser or Sweetlips, Tray, Rlaneh or Sweetheart,'' while held in suspense. they were ali governed by nod, and when the morsel was bestowed, the ex- pectation ofthe favors of tomorrow kept UP the expectation ofto-day.
 The Senator from Massachusetts in denouncing what he is pleased to call the Carolina doctrine, has attempted to throw ridieuIe upon the idea that a State has any constitutional remedy, by the exercise of its sovereign authority, against a $ gross, paipable, and dellber- ate violation of the Constitutions. He calls 1t $ an idle'' or ridiculous no- ton, or something to that effect, and added, that 1t would make the Union < a mere rope of sand" Now, sir, as the gentleman has not condescended to en- terinto any examination of the question, and has been satisfied with throwing the weight of his authority into the scale. l do not deem Unnecessary to domore than to throw into the opposite scale the au- thorlty on which South Carolina relies, and there, for the present, am perfect ly willing to leave the controversy. The South Carolina doctrine, that is to say, the doctrine contained in an exposition reported by a Committee of the I.egis- lature in December, 1928, and publish ed by their authority, is the good old Republican doctrine of '9S--the doc Urine of the celebrated 6 Virginia Reso- lutfoDs" of that year, and of" Madison's Report of '99. It will be recollected that the Legislature of Virginia, in De cember '9S took into consideration the Alien and Sedition Laws, then consider ed by all Republicans, as a gross viola ton of the Constitution of the United States, and on that day passed, among others, the following resolution:
 "The General Assembly doth expli- cltiy and peremptorlly declare, that it views the powers of the Federal Gov ernment, as resulting from the com pact to which the States are parties, as limited hy the plain sense and inten- ton of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerat- ed Tn that eompaei; and that in case of "a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise oi other powers not granted by the said comnact tlae Statas .srho aro.