Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-02
TUEsDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1880.


North Caroina.-T irginia, and her doctrines. :
A Convention was held at Edenton on the 18th
February, at which the counties of Camden, Pasquo
tank, Chowan. Gates, Hartford, Berthe, Washington,
Tyrrel, and Martin, were represented The object
of the meeting was to address memorial to Con-
gress asking pccunary assistance from the United
States in re-openng Roanoke Inlet at or Naggs
Head.
The effect of this new channel, if we understand
it, will be to open direct communication from Abe
marie Sound to the Ocean. and thus the circuit
by the Swamp, Elizabeth River, and Chesapeake
Bay.
After recitng the claims which North Carolina has
upon the Uniop as that she was the first to declare
Independence, and has ever been second to none in
zeal maintain it, and the benefits, local and nation
a which will flow from the opening of the channel,
the memorial thus concludes:
s.Thus will be perceived, the vast Importance of
re-opening an outlet at the foot of Albemare In a
national and sectional poiut of view, compared wit
which, the cost of the operation dwi9des into insig
nihcance. Break-waters are erecting, harbours i'm
proving, rivers opening, roads making at an immense
expenditure of money, which North Carolina with
all her obstacles contributes her full proportions but
little of which ever has returned to heLcitzens by
expenditures in and for the benefit of the State And
will she not be heard this application highly
important to her citizens, and to the Unon'"
The memorial was ordered to be distributed
throughout North Carolina, and in those counties of
Virginia which border upon that State
This memorial is an abandonment and remuneration
on the part of lower N Carolina, of the doctrines
of State Rights. One by one, Virginia finds herself
deserted by her allies and now stands nearly alone in
defence of these doctrines. When political objects
are to be accomplished, when her aid necessary in
the election of President her vanity is attered by
suggestions that her dsinteresed attachment to the
Constitution is at last about to be rewarded, in the
triumph of her principles. At such times, designing
politicians throughout the Union, play upon her guilt
blty, her love of praise and her attachment to her
principles, which ardent and sincere, is prone to
fide, and to be deceived and abused. First she was
duped by New York end De Witt Clinton, who,
having completed their great cause, by their
MEANS very disnterested resolved that other States
should not partake of the assistance which they had
been refused, This the secret of the opposition
to the Internal Improvement power which New York
began to manifest about the year 1894, and if we
include the expectation of De Witt Clinton that Vr
ginia might by this means be gained over to aid in
making him President, the whole secret is revealed
Adhesion to Virginia principles, dictated by such
motives, could not be expected to be very efficient
very durable; and accordingly find it to be already
relaxed in than application to Congress for
federal aid Pending the late contest, the Jackson
party in the Western States, soothed and grated by
Virginias cooperation in the purpose of electisg
him. or DESTROYS of stimulating her zeal by the hope
of Interior advantages to her constitutional doctrines,
talked Huently of State Rights and Virginia princi-
pies. The contest however oUer, and their President
elected, movement to the right about is made with
out loss of time. Kentucky passes resolutions af-
frn1ing the power and Tennessee, migrate that she is
has the exquisite impudence to invite Virginia by
Legislative resolation unite with her in asking the
General Government for S5Oo,0 to construct a
McAdam Turnpike, ioittin her limits exclusive
ly, from the Virginia and Tennessee line to the Mis-
sissppi. (Sce Tennessee resolutions communicated
by Gov. GILES the General Assembly, published in
this papeszkout the 10th inst.) To this almost uni
vefsal zsssl, e. Carolina is to be added. 1t
is plain, that one .aha. as objects offer and as
temptation increases, all the allies Of Virginia will
Ya. it.
Is tit sensible in Virginia suffer herself to be the
sport and laughing stock of Presidential Jobbers'
20 be regularly duped every PRESIDENTIAL election,
with the expectation and hopsEpf seeing her long
cherished principles triumph, md to be laughed at
afterwards for her childish credulity3 Will she never
tire of doing the labor of Sysphus! Will she never
cease to roll up the stone which once in four years
is sure to return upon her own heade
| What now is the condition of things? State af
Yer State has asked and obtained federal assistance
Rivers are clesnsed, harbors opened, breakwaters
erected, roads, canals and rail ways constructed
over the Union, and out of the to which
Virginia has an equal claim Meanwhile she stands
with her finger in her mouth, too honest and proud
to ask for her own too poor to do what others are
doing, without it. Do her disapprobaton and self
denial, shame others into dessting from what she
pleased to consider unconstitutional, although sane
toned by the people and government of the United