Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-10-18
SENATE,

Buckine ham correctsd)-GeoIge Booker
6l5, Randolph Harrison ll5.-Cum5erand TO
vote
Penddleton--Dr. Joseph Craycns $50, DR..
Peachy Harrison, 229.-Tbe toru,er elected by
a n ajority Of sir in the whole district.
Ohio-.Jesse Edgngton 3l7, Archibald Nc
Lean 2s2.
Hemy-Benjamin w S. Cabel, - leced with
out opposition.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
! II The figure affixed 10 each county indi-
Gates the nnmber Of m,mbers TO which il is enti-
lied
Buckingham ~ corrpcted-Col. SamuclP.
Christian 6O5. Maj Charles lsncey 475, John
Patterson 800.
Pendtelon Q)-IIarmon Hiner 223. Reuben
Dice III. Thomas Jones 80.
Ohio (2)--Z. Jacob 500, John PARROT 400,
NJ. c, Good 2o2
Henry GD--frs, day-William Dyer l43, J.
Gragely 63. q. Hairstoo9 Q.
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Mr.. MADIsoNs LETrER.--0ur paper CEN
'ains This morning document OF insstimable
value-a document which. if any thing can.
will allay the excitement now raging in South
Carolina, and he AS F." hook 10 the month of
the Levathan-" MIR. Madison takes calm and
dispassionate view of the peculiar structure cf
our government ami in his usual torche, con.
else and eegan, style, demonstrates the sb
suidify of a claim, lately for the frat time adj
vanced, ofthe power OF asingle State to arrest
the operation of a law oil the general govern
menf within its borders. His reasoning aud
/ 1t
are rreS istibie that he leaves the NuIlifyers
DOT an inch OF ground upon which to stand.
We regard il asa Provdental event that tho
author Of the Report Of '93 has lived TO rescue
that textbook OF Republicans from tho perver
sions oil Demagognes, who, under the euisc Of
a constitutional remedy" are intoxicating
sen iments tending directly to the dissolution
| OF the Union-o the destruction Of that proud
| edlice erected by the wisdom Of the Of the
REVOLUTIONARY to the ruin of the fairest and
| the brightest hopes that ever dawned upon man
kind. Had Mr.. Madison been dead, we should
have seen his sentiments on this subject as
grossly misrepresened, in order 10 sustain the
reasonable doctrines propagated by Cooper,
those of the sage of Monticello, his illustrious
friend and neighbor.
Not only does MIR. Madison deny the exist
ence OF the right of a State to nnlify law of
s the general governmeni--bui ha aflirms that
the power of arbitrsment in cases Of collision
between the federal head and either of the
members of the Confederacy, resides in The
Supreme Court-a doctrine which, as we have
always coniended, is clearly sanctioned by
more than one constitutional provision-but
which has been controverted even by some of
those who deny the light of State to set up
her Judgment, as an obligatory rule Of action,
against the declared will OF majority Of the
neutrality-suspicious. that judgment be an
expression of Legislative will, or the more SOL
emn and imposing voice ola Convention, en-.
! bodied with special reference to the matter in
dispute. lCths be no, the case, then are ws
completely al sea-on a wide waste of waters,
without chart or compass 10 guide the vessel
| of sfste--liable at every moment to be dashed
TO pieces b, the conflicting views Of those who
have embarked in beI all their hopes and all
their deslinies, and who are therefore equally
interested IN her preservation but who, some
! times honestly, and 1T others msled by foul
and false ambition, differ with regard to the
course in which she would be steerei In
these differences Of opinion, whether they he
| honestly or dishonesty entertained. aud which
must have been, and evidently were foreseen
by the trainers of the Constitution, il would
have been strange case OF omission, had they
not designated some common arbiter, 10 which
on the occurrence OF such cases, the dissatis
fed party might appeal, whole decision should
be authoritative and final. They we're not
such egreeious bunglers as TO leave such con-
tiugency, no less certain than fearful, nnprovi-
ded for. No. They did designate such fri
Against its decision, il il be unpala'sble, there
is still constitutional remedy-by constitution
al amendment. All other " remedies" BY
whatever name they be sugared over, are be-
popd the Consiitution-thcy are in truth, no.
thing else but the right Of revolution. and arm
ed resistance to insuferablc oppression. II the
people Of South Carolina are prepared for this
AS we know her leading demagognes are
thew must cen strike the blow We hope.
however, that the voice of JAMES MAusoS,-
one of the trainers of the Constitution, and IFS
abiest cotemporaaeous expounder-of him,
who has defended it in its purity, amid all the
vicsstudes of party--will have power to cub
even the restless and fiery spirits who seem
anxious to mount the car of Revolution, and to
dissipa,e, in the first half century OF its expert
ment, the brilliant but delusive dream of man s
oIf Wa h,np that