Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-05

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4-=.a EssIDAN MORNING, FEB. 8, 1880.
bSrfhe 70 lowing extinct is from the Columbia
:Teiescope Of jan. 80.
s''Fhose insoient remarks OF the UAig which arc
inter-persed anpng the observations .f Mr Gaode.
and another article on the subject, from the
same paper, which we alsn add, are placed before
our readers us an index OF the opinions of the Clay
larty Ia Virginia and else whsre. CONCERNING the Or o.
ceediugs uf this State against tina Inscriptions and
tyranny ut the general govei Il remains for
the sovereign authority of this State l.. determine
%hether such insults and approbrium from mir Clay
and hs partlzans, repeatedly heaped upon her cou-
yagc, her consistency, her motives, ler power, and
her character, shall become the settled opinions Of
nrankiud. we will continue 70 re,v as wa have
heretoforc done, upon the stamina of South Ca rolino
spirit, htnness, uni chivary for reclamation of the
yedges she has given to tho southern States and tla
Trends of freedom and the Constitution throunbout
ths Union There Is no possibility of retreat, With
out Disgrace ohcr character ruin 10 her citizens
She must rely upon her energies now and upon
trat Close bond OF intimate union, wlirh links to-
getbrr the southern States ties which are ppwcr-
tul and common, for SUCCESS in tho great cause OF
preserving the union Of these st Ates upon thariri-
nal terms OF tho OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES which alone it
either can, ought 10 be preserved. We are aad
70 find at the head of affairs in Virginia and Georgia
such men as Governors FLoyD aud G,I.MRR. They
personally know the utter en,pt of ne Gorstit
lion which this eouloiasd majority Of Congress
petuaily feel and pactce. Phev duly opprcoia' the
oulentous chsacte of tho present crisis and have
:frmness enough to meet it,
4Me Telescope Will end wien the time comes, If
intappily, it shall comn-that csaxina, will prove
quite as ineGectual in inducing Virginia to cmhaYk
with South Caroiua 10 her proposed crusade aeainst
the Union as bullying has proved Ia regard to the
Tariff We told the elitors OF that Paper in 1885,
we told them again in the winter Of s'-s9, when
their missionary ia Washington was directed to larry
awhile at Nichnpona in transit and souud bow far
the political intelligence around the scat Of Govern
ment was willing TO go ia resistance--ue told the
Telescope then, that Virginia would neither TASTE
nor touch, nor handle, tho -accursad thing. YIsa
march OF pubic opinion since that time, has been in
the contrary direction to the wishes Telescope
dine policy OF South Carolina herself, In contributing
TO the election of Gen. JnCkson has built up wall
OF separation between the Interior objects of Virgil
MA anu South Carolina. We repeat that every in
dfcafson favors the idea that Virginia will speedily
hecome an extensively manufacturing State--that
every change of individual opinion is to that side of
tire question-that i'll our opinion, public feeling so
Jar from sympnthising In the violent extrcmities,
which few 1--WE include the people of S.. c. ia
natiea politicians in that State continue to menace
most decidedly reprobates and abhors them IF then
oby that close bond Of intimate union which links
tngether the southern States" the Telescope means
the Union something that will draw her from that,
and link her to South Carolina confederation in
rnntrudistinction---so something of potent efficacy
enough to detach her from the Uriun with all its IN
Vulnerable advantages, and place her on the frontier
OF cenfederacy, impotent in comparative strength
where sue would indeed prove a bulwark to South
Carolina, but would have the whole heat and burr hen
Of the day to bear-we say if this is what the Teie-
scope means by ''the bond of intmate unian," even
MIR. Rtchie will tell him in the words of his favorite
quotation, mot to lay the fattering JUNCTION to his
soul" IF by these words nothing moro is implied
than the expectation that Virginia will unite with
South Carolina, in firm decided, but Constitutional
opposition to the Tariff, that event. our wild and
scattering contemporaries of the Telescope may not
reckon without their host AS TO the aid which is
expected from Gov. Floyd, that is too rdcuot.s TO
require notoe--seeing shat the chief magistrate of
Virginia has official influence.
The Telescope is pleased to cons rue what we said
DIT the time of the debate MIR. Eppas' proposition
to rescind The Committee Of Manufactures, as ian
index of the opinions of the Clay party in Virginia
and elsewhere, concerning the proceedings of this
State Is. CO against the tyranny and usurpation of
The Federal Government z" Yea vetily-and not of
Tie Clay party merely, if The Telescope will Insist
upon it that there Is such partybut of the ,noder-
ate Of all parties. Why MIR. Clay should be dragged
81 by the Velescope not unless the editor Of
Ito Telescope thinks there rs charm in his name TO
kindle prejudice and every feeling. Mr.
Clay has given insult to South Carolina that we
know of, unless the firm aud stedGast adherence to
DIS own ioug entertained aud always avowcd opini-
ons, be considered an Insult by those, who deem every
pct ofthe General Government in opposition to their
views. tyranny and usnrpation--the rDildest terms
which the dctatoral arrogance of the South Carroll
Junto, ever deigus TO apply.
Scenes at Washbgton-Kasiiiouso ie,os regarding te
Public Lands.
Wehave expressed the opinion. that daik projects
were entertained by Presidential uspirantg, in
respect to the Public Lands, and auxil;ary the
accomplishment Of their personal and ambitious OBJ