Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-06-29


poor compliment to the people, suppose them SC
destitute OF discretion and the power of calculation
as TO prefer evils which ina cination is capable al
oreseens in all their extent and pcrmanency to the
tour years rule of any Chief Magistrate, however
oohoSious' Woe unto this country, if the Union the
only bond freposc, fpeace aud safety ALL Deepen
ded upon such contingency his! 1t is injurious
to- the nation to imagine, and insulting to express
such thought. If the opinion be the expression n,
fear, honestly felt, we have nothing to say but to
question the prudence Of the avowal-f intended os
menace, it is only worthy of contempt If such an
event, produce suca effect let tue Union be dis
solved, and tho sooner the better IF this can over
throw it, it is worthy Of no mans attachment
" FRANCIS SMIru, Esq. OF Abingdon, is one
among several candidates to represent, the Washing
ton District (now without representation by the
death OF Gen. Alex. Smyth) in the present Con.
gress.
Mr. Smith announces his creed in an address 10
the people of the District and we are happy to find
IN 1t much loss of the slang and can't thar is common
IN similar predictions of the day-a freedom from
demagogism, the bane of the country, which is hon
orable to him.
Mr. Smith places his sentiments of constitutional
While he would cut off the Federal Government from
constructive powers. he has the good sense to remem
Ger, and the frankness to admit, that there NAV be
danger from the members well as from the head;
that the General Government has it's rights as well
as the State Governments; and that it ia, NO less
than the latter, necessary the safety, the well be
ing, and the existence of the Union and our Repub
ican institutions. He does not seem to have forpo,
lint If hnr plo
demagogues to forget, that during national existence
VI oo years every danger of dsunion has proceeded
io' Tue STATES; and therefore with proper solicit
'uue 10 curo the General Government he feels equal
soctude to conne the individual States to their true
bounds He supports State rights from sober reason,
ana not for the purpose of electing this man Presi
dent or defeating that, in factous and merely
partizan spirit How different alas. from the views
OF most of our State right clamorers who reverse
the order OF things and instead of making party sub
servent to the advancement and SUSTAINING of prnci
pie, make principle subservient to carty views ner
sonal promotion and political hatred Witness the
Hon Secretary of State, who, an advocate of Inter-
nal Improvement and the Tariff, and their steady
friend In the Senate for many years, becomes
mighty stiekler for State rights the moment he finds
II necessary means to secure the Southern States
Witness the Hon. Vice President, who infamad hv
the same love of the Presidency, has abandoned
eoery principle which guided his conduct from 1911
to 1926 when he was Representative in Congress
and Secretary of War! The Tariff of which he
was the aolest Unconstitutional improvements
systematzed by him upon magnificent scale, in his
report to Congress-the Bank of the IT. States
greatly indebted to him for its existence--aU have
oeen abandoned. No man knows now, what are his
principles, and in the Vice President of the IT.
States, traitor to himself, the Judas who has put
to mart the principles of 20 years, the shutecock of
party, the pipe upon which predominant faction
plays What time 1t pleases, can recopnize the
'ohn y. Calhoun of 1912, who warmed nations
patriotism, and received nations admiration Un-
chastened ambition hath wrought the melancholy
change. This has merged the consideration once
felt for the whole, in sectional servy, converted
the comprehensive statesman whose eve measured
the whole of his country into the miserable Jeroa
gogue, whose aspirations breathcd only for SELF
and the man once of generous feelings into an envi
Gus hater, ready to dishonour his country to inact
stab upon noble rival Candid observers of all
parfles-are not these necessary deductions, from
tue recent history of Jno. C. Calhoun
These are the men between whom the peonle will
DC called TO choose. They will be .old that the
rights OF the States will be safe under their protec
uon but that it would be to commit the lamb to the
keeping OF the wolF to entrust the Constitution to
iiehrJ Clay. a new patent of Republication will
be sued out, and whereas Jacksonism and Republi
cahisih' are now SYNONYMOUS, then shall frd that
hepuoicanism means Van Burenism or Cahouns:n
as the case may be!
FOR our own parts, if it is to be made Republican
Ism to support either of them, will none of it,
Our humble support shall be given to no principle
trader under whatever spec:ous he is presented
Let Mr. Clay be denounced as a Latitudinariau: he
has at least been consistent in his conduc, and opn
IONS What he was twenty years ago, he is the same
man now If he err in of his opinions. consist.
cnt error pursued with the s,eadness of conviction
is more respectable worthy of trust than acct