Litchfield enquirer., 1830-10-21
NUTLTTCATION.
The following is Ihe reply of Judgs Johnson to o.. 1,uvlor, publishedin in our Iast:


 o.v, TaylOr, publishedin our last
 CHARLESTON, Sept. a, 1880.
 Mv Dsaf ThySOr,-YOur letter dated Rice Greek, September n, with the Columbia Poae mark of the 18th, did not come to hand until the I7ths near three weeks atler the date of mine to which it is an answer, and at time when 1t was cut of the question for me tn bs at Columbia to make my speech.- What an opportunity was here lost cer- tainly should have addressed myself to an audience "sakOse minds Oere in c st0te 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 Patriots, when you and stood shoulder to shoulder in the stormy days of Ultra Federalism !- And more recently in that universal homage now rendered to the talents and worth of our friend Crawford, by men who revelled in the most wantOn abuse of him, when you and stood up for him almost alone.
 Iperceive by an editorial remark preRxed to the publication of our correspondence, that the suggestion is thrown out that my letter was written to you with view to involve you in a controversy. I am sure you cannot en- certain such ani idea. Nothing was farther from nny mind but if you court it. certain. " shall Rpt shun it. Yet it would be whisper Ing to the bowling winds to attempt in the newspapers the defence of my eight points, until the election is over. Let that he passed, and something of calm ensue, and I am ready to meet you but it must be in the col umns of the Telescope, for thus, and thus Dnly, can the antidote be administered where it may have something 10 operate upon.
 You style yourself " one of the members of the Conspiracy'-buti if all the Conspira-
 l l.... are. the Republic would have nothing to tear for them you have openly and candidly svoweG that if Virginia would consent to be Frontier State, you would go off from the Union the next day. This is at once appeal jog to the good sense and good feelings of the people, and in that tribunal repose unlimited confidence. It is only when they are hood winked by demagogues and hypocrites that they can so wrong.
 As to the part you take in this " Conspi- racy," solemnly declare that if could think As you do upon the facts, think should feel As you do upon the measures. ! would not live under ca Government of unlimited pow srs," and if saw distinctly that nothing but revolutionary movement could impose due restrictions. would cry out for revolution.
 As to aifording the States some more satis- factory security thap the intervention of the U for years. Rest assured that we are far from c0veting jurisdiction, especially where States are concerned. Heaven save us from encoun- tering the irritable feelings of sovereigns.- But have always been met by the question. what can the States want more than the Sem ate! They are all there equally represented, and every law which passes that body involves adecisiOn on its onstituti0nality-a decision made by body sworn to decide impartially. and in which the smallest State has as much weight asthe greatest. To this have never been able to fnd but one answer, and that is, that as tO one class of cases that tribunal is not accessible. mean cases in which the e0nstitutionaty of State laws is brought in question. There would certainly amend ths Constitution sO as to give an appeal to ths Senate; and perhaps require the con- sufrence of two-thirds to declare the law of . State unconstitutional. At present, al- though we are emphatically the men of Ehe people, being charged exclusively with the protection of individual right against uncon- stitntional laws, yet indirectly we are com pelled to pass upon the delicate question of sovereign righr, from which may Heaven de- liver us.
 You ask me "why did not come out with my Eight Points at the late election for inteudent of our City," answer, because I WMu Np usstE SO VO Wuh tLC DGctbuH 0t Oeyte Q os you had, and # had, nobody would have listened to me. The majority W ho voted for Mir. Pringe. are as decidedly Anti-TariR as you are. did not vote, and doubt if there 5s man in South Carolina who agrees with ne in at least ses en of my eight points. But this dO not doubt of, that the time is not far distant when they will all agree with me in every one of them. You know the course of my public life. have more than once before been in a minority. to all appear ances as hope- less as the present, age, even on the election Of JacksoB to the Presidency. l only assert that freedom of opinion which readily concede to all others.
 agree with yon entirely that Judge Ice and myself ought not to have been invited, and for the reasons you suggest. You see that doubted whether It was not hoax, and after the lapse of so much time without an answer from you, was nearly confirmed in that douht. I treated the invitation how ever, respectfully, yet as to leave us little as possible t0 be gained by the hoax, if it was one. Thre is one thing must beg you par ticularly 10 notice. do not mean tO suffer myself to he drawn into the question of con struction and Consttu,ionality of the Tariff Act. see that in my first Point have writ. ten Consultation, where l ought to have said CoRuention: hut the context will correct the lapsns. will treat the subject historically, and no otherwise; and then if find have