Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-04-05
,yyCuBURG. APRIL 3, 1880.


..;,. in the assertion, that, IN the widest
-. of N. mos, fanatical advocate Of Stais
o;rb,s from the era of the adoption of the Fed.
= Constitution down 10 The year 1872 IT was
.ser conceived that any State composing This
.,oederacy possessed tho right either by its Lee
.;l.,ure. or by a Convention assembled with
,.,a.s re ference 0 The subject, to nullify
Ia, of the general government. which had
,sgularIy gone through the forms prescribed
10 III. Constitution: at least no such right had
.vsr been claimed. No State hassuch ,ight,
,,aer that iaslrumeai. lfihey possess il al
ali. they possess it Independent OF the const'u.
,ion In short, il is no other than the right oil
,syolu,ion, possessed by all people. under all cir
<,nstances. Such claim is 10 where advan-
ceaby MIR Jefferson, the acknowledged leader
oflhe State Rights part, although, If 1t had
.,;.ted. he would most certainly not have omit
,.d IN siIxde to it, il he bad thought ii most
,rudent not to assert ii emphaticay. No
,,ch doctrine can he deduced, il seems TO us,
,ron Mr.. Madison's Report, the text book of
the same party. except by unfair and forced
construction, or by relying on detached por.
,;oos of that Document. Taken altogether, the
sDiirli OF tina, Report is in diametrIcal opposi-
lion to such preension and. in the presump-
,;on that its venerable author would, II appeal
al tn declare that such doctrine was never
thong ), Of either by himself or by any one of
,he party VINO concurred in the Report OF 90,
,vs are nsrfecliy safe. II was not DIRE amei Of
Nv Virginia, the great champion and leader OF
ghe imitaria,rs, at a period so late as 1910, as
{, deciiedly proved by the unanimous decla.
sion of both Houses of her Legislature, that The
ontye.ribanai which tue CO restitution had vested
With mower TO annul law OF the federal GOV.
ernmen;, was the Snpreme Court-a declara-
ion which was permitted 10 go forth to the
world underet aud ooqnestioned. although
the centilsi Of M Constitution was then, as he
is now, at his posi-aIiho' the Enquirer was
then in s1isiesce- altho' Judge Spencer Roane
was then alive, aud as anxiously wa'chfnl and
Jealous of the encrc,a ,rhmens of the federal go.
vernmenl as any m.,n ever was. or as any man
ever can be-Altseu., h Mr.. Trfsrson was in the
Vigor of his manhood his intellect nnlmpaired
by age or disease although Mr.. Madison was
President of the Gate Sa'es-ln hne, al
though the party which, went into power avow-
edly on the grounc. OF N cir determination to
confne the eperstssnc of the general govern
nent rigidly within ,he 50 Gifted grants of the
constitution had almost es, 'ry where the and's-
uuted ascendsncy. WHATS to be inferred
from these facts 7 Sinpiy thai no such right
belongs 10 the States-aBd that was never
pretended to be advanced until IN seeds OF trea-
son and dis Union had been thickly s0gn IN the
minds of the Georgia politicians lars, then
Yrhng under the nticipated defeat OF VIM
H. Crawlora afterwards aggrava ed b. 1er dts
sentions with the general government with
regard TO the question OF State Jurisdiction
over the soil aud persons OF the Indian r brs
within her claimed inits-and thence infus ed
nto South Carolina, when the ell ctIon of
Mr. Adams and the supposed unequal operation
,fike Tariff laws combined. induced her to
make common cause with her more forward
but SIS l'npudent aud less refractory neighhor.
he votes of the delegation Of 5. Carolina IN
Canoucs, her Cheyes, her
I.owndes, Der Williams, her Pinknets, her
.iaynes, her Husers, snd her McDuities, all
nrove that she was, up TO 1928, nhsa-latitudi
marian in he. construction oil the federaioSn
she was even disposed to go
(ar,her than Mr.. Adams himself in the gene |
raj wsLnre" doctrine, We know not how she
can now justify herself for the ground
she hs, taken, except it be on the old marlin
tina, - one renegade is Of necessity worse than
ten Turks she certainly far outstrips FT-
gina herself in her zeal 10 throw checks and
carriers in the way of the operations oil Tue
general government, albeit there was a time
when Virginia found it difficult. aye 'mposs'o'e'
TO curb her 10 her propensity to o'e''e"P
every obstacle presented by the common sense
Interpretation of the constitution, wf'cn oppo-
sed the march OF that government 10 'n'
heights Of splendor aud power.
During the last Presidential election, Mr..
Calhoun and MIR. McOufiie. particularly, as
the leaders and champions of South Carolina
sentiment, were addressed in a vehement aud
even vlruIen, style by writers in a N'll"dsev'le
paper, the friends OF Mr. Crawford, who as
sumed the title of" Tie Trio," and was
then for the first time, that this odious clan"
oil power for the States was sci up. And IT is
our nurpose, in msking these remarks, TO quote
a short extract from the reply OF Mr. McDuhe
10 those writers. That gentleman. twill be
seen, utterly denies the existence of any such
power and emphaticslly declares, that any
iorclble opposition TO the judgment OF the
Supreme Court, founded upon an act ofCon-
hy gbuIop CI,ta IN LnIn