Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-09-24

last ak years. In plotting the destruction OF the HOLY
Ark OF our Covenant. 10 inpossiss-ah'outl y tn
credible. But these Gentlemen will purg the msslye
OF this foul blot attempted 10 be thrown upon their e
cu'cheon. They have pens and tongues too to vnti.
cate themseivesand II their uniform and /,
their late prctestaons do not make any reply matter
IT will challenge judy for
his proofs aud expose their absurdty In the face OF the
world.
May say word to the Judge, upon his opinions
Of the Tariff IL he to the history of the Con-
s'ituton, he wi find his first position 70 be altogether
unonable We have TO refer him only the last No
of the Southern Review, for Mr.. egare's demonstra-
ton of the unconstitutionai,y of the Tariff system
But let him only turn to the Nos Of the Federast and
the Debates OF the Virginia Convention and he will
find that the subject OF Agriculture and Manufactures
then considered belonging police of the Sc
paratc States The Southern Review has answered hi
four next poins-and shown in wha: way these abuses
have gradually crept and how these violations of the
great principle OF Free Trade have been introduced by
original inadverence, and by successive precedens
and that OF all the States South Carolina has the great
est reason, perhaps, to corplain Of the Tarf-The
whole system is an oppiobum TO the age itself-a blot
upon the free Institutions OF young coun,ry-and
tOrtiori OF extended people whose interests are so
much diversified by SOIL climate, situation and habits
and whose Federal Constitution has neither expressly
conceded any such power nor could have provided for
it, without improper parality to section and gross
oppression upon anotherYet such is the system which
it has pleased Mr.. Judge Johnston 10 laud almost to the
skies.
Nor can we condemn notification or Conventions in
such qualified terms, Judge J. employs Even the
first may become the extreme medicine Of the Consti-
tuon-or rather il is medicine desors the Const,u-
ton itself Neither notification nor any sort of vioen,
resistance to the laws of the Union, is be found in
the words OF this compact, but they grow out of the
character OF all compacts. When one party violates
the compact, the other parties have right 10 pro
test to remonstsae, to hold out the idea of ress-
lance, nay, to resist, 1t come necessary to sun
port the liberties of The people, or the rights of
the States But these extreme remedies ought never 70
be resorted TO, but in the last extremity. When as Mr.
Jefferson says Gas quoted by Governor Tayor) he last
alternatives are, the dissolution of the Union or sub
mission 10 government without limitation of power,
then we say with him "thcrc be hesitation -
The States may nullfy; they may separate from the
Union; but ii only in extreme he himse,f
lays down. That Says hc) must be the last resource,
not to be thought of until much longer and greater su
terings If ec1y infracton of a compact of so manu-
parties Is to be resisted at once, dissolution of it,
none can ever be formed which would last one year
Nullltcatlon, then, which Col Dfayton saws is tau,a
mount to separation from the Union among the last
resorts il rghfu onc when cxremities NAV make
necessaryf-but under present circumstances we
clearly adopt the closing remarks of the last Southern
Review:
"we have thus submitted with candour, and with
some confidence in their business, views upon this
important question. Those who now admins erag
the Government have great work TO do In the ca.
anous and discouraging rcverses of the war; the ne
cessity OF increasing its efficiency was universally felt
and the statesmen OF the day. with the full appreciation
oil the people adopted of which they did not
oresec he distant and DISASTROUS
During the period oi unexanpled prosperity, far at
which followed the war, The same course of policy
was pursued with increasing ardour and hope until all
the guideposis and landmarks of the Constitution were
so completely lost sigh! Of that those who have within
these few years laboured restore its! prisne sim
pIicity, have spoken language almost unnellpible to
the majority of the people But great change is now
visiby takiHg place in public opinion Every omen is
favorable The recent exercise OF the did immense
good by merely arres,ng the proigae and demoraiz-
lag experiment. OF the national debt But il has pro.
duced an effect vastly mportant than this II ha
arrested the attention of the people 1t has awak $
ed the minds of men, 1t has sanctified the past
efforts 1T this and of other Southern States in defence of
those principles, upon which, and upon which alone
the success OF our great experiment in society depends
Public opinion sudiously deuded and abused for
some years pastbegns to be enlightened and every thing
encourages us 10 hope for country. Ii is true that
mighty struggle seems likely ensue. The advocates
OF the System" will undoubtedly exert themselves to
the utmost TO overthrow those who have done so much
TO defeat them; but tits only the necessary for The
friends OF moderate coInsels, of domestic ranuuv so(
true liberty and OF the permanency and projections of
the Constitution, to uniteNn vigorous, systematic de-
ermined but not ntcmperate of their holv
purposes For ourselves repeat what we said on a
former occasion-'We shall never despair of the re-
public as sands so long ray of hope is lief tus
The counses OF sage patriotism always take it for
granted, that the State be saved without throwing
into the sea whatever makes ii worth preserving