Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-05-25
che CONSTITUTIONAL saabig.
SATURDAY MORNING., NAY %. 1880.
SOUTH CAROLINA DOCTRINES.

new doctrines of notification Besides being Jack
paper the Jeifersonan less zealously State
Right and Anti Tariff Perhaps the Columbia Tee-
scope whic some time ago rejected our evidence of
tlrginIas being utterly hostile to the s; Carolina
doctrines, on the ground chat were Clay men and
Soahuonists. and therefore could not by possibility,
be good authority, may be wiling to receive the
hmony of the Republican, which possesses all the
prerequisites OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Anti Tarai
ana Anti Improvements. First last, the Public
Fress is the infable interpreter of public sentiment
--or 1t either regulates that sentiment, is regua
ted by it. In ths-wide Common wealth. there is not
public journal to our knowledge, which avows the
u Carolina doctrines; although the State is as unia-
vorably affected by the Tariff as S. Carolina. and
1utttough here tous Tie cradle Of the PRINCIPLES of
9s, toeh as pretended sustain The modern doctrines
nuHiacaf'on The Enquirer of this place, may or
may not, be attached to those doctrines it has obser
we'd Its uniform policy, whenever its private wishes
are at variance with public opinion, that is 10 say no
hsng; but this much may Be safely predicued in re-
gard to that print that if the multiplying doctrines meet
40 opposition from it. they oU recipe no assistance
further than neutrality will go If then the Tele-
scope and its coadjutors repudiate testimony they
must per force, pay more respect to the crcumstan-
ces which corroborate 1t, If the problem how Vir
gnia will act, have, as we suspect, material lnflu-
ence upon the ultimate staRd which S. Carolina NAV
take, let that problem be considered already sol
ved IN favor of union and obedience to the laws of
the land md in opposition next to unanimoas TO the
nullifyipg power claimed for the individual States
When that extreme case arises imagined by the re-
port OF SO, when oppression shall become intolerable
and the evils far exceed the benefits of Union, Vir-
ginlawi be ready to appeal TO her original sovereign
ty and dissolve the ties which bind her to her oppres
sors. She viii not however, take that course as a
constitutional course She will then allure the Com
sttution and take her ground claiming under the
Constitution, but a much higher title the laws st
God and nature. Il is unnecessary to tax the imagi-
nation to say what would such case; suf
fee it, that law which happens to bear more une-
qually upon part of the Union than another
-as where interests are so diversified, every
general law must bear more or less unequal y-ean
not be and is not considered by Virginia as failing
within the rule fi7es. We quate the protest ofte
Jeffersoniau.
In conclusion, do enter our protest, humble as
it may be- against this doctrine of the interference of
the State Legislatures IN matters where they have
sight, and as Legislatures. no. concern. Weare I'm
willing to concede toa body OF men. other than the
People themselves, the right of throwing the State,
at their pleasure, into aposture of rebellion against
the Federal Government for rebellion, to all inients
and pur Oses 1t IS, If the legislatures having
Constitutional authority undertake to declare Law
of Congress null and uoid and virtue of their as
sumed power, cali out the militia OF the State re-
sist the execution OF such Law, and sustain their
OWN unlawful acts.
TIE Broodheod and the O.Neatc Ft1n,ilies.-The
Broadheads, New Hampshire family, who have de-
served well of President jackson, have been hand
somely compensated for it. We copy the annexed
voucher of this fact from the Boston Journal.
THE BROADHEADS.
Boston Navy .4gent. --Daniel D. Broadhsad has
been nominated to this Office, in the place OF Richard
ID. Harris, removed We deeply deprccate and deem
it duty to denounce to the people, heeEistng sys
tenn of removals and punishnents" for nfdety not
to God and the country. bat political Dragon.-
Read these facts in illustration of that wretched
system
The Ho" and Reu. John Brsadltsad of n. H.. two
years ago, published certificate, of Gen. Jacksons
piety, and mildness, and morality! He is now a
member of Congress and "gees the whole for jack
son, and against his own State.
n Mark the result.
His son, DR. Broadhead, has been appointed
clerk in the Cd Comptrollers Office at Washington.
Salary $1,000.
His son, Joseph Broadhcad, ASSISTANT Measurer in
Boston Custom House Salary $500.
His SOM Daniel ID Broadtead, nominated for Navy
Agent, Boston Pay about $4,000.
Mr.. Broadheod has had a contract to supply
clothes and groceries for the Navy for several years.
But there is another family which has been. still
better provided for, by the gratitude oflhe President
we the O'Neal family at Washington Mr..
O,Neal and his three inlaw, are all quarteTed
upont Che Treasury viz:
John n. Eaor,, Secretary of War, salary $4,000.
JYiIlion O'.Ncai father D-law of Eaton, Inspector
.ofthe Pententiary.
Philip @. Handolph, brotherin law of Eaton CHIEF
CLERK in-the War Department, s20o0.
French It. Exams, another brother-in-lav of Eaton
Clerk IN The Registers Office, salary $1,000.
Wiiiionr B. LeUis, another brother in law ofEaton
Second Auditor, salary $1,000
$4,000 year. exclusive Of the yet uDhxed com.
pensation to Mr. ONeai, for his services III penal ju
Tisprudcnce. a fine reward for the services o
Gen. Jackson's Biographer, Guide, Philosopher
Friend and Fac Totum.