Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-04-06

Of the electives franchise remove such unworthy a
gents CT their sovereign viii. Ifthcy do concur with
their representatives. and uphold them in their rcu-
sal to repeal tho law, matter how .fcn by any
other power than the Federal Judiciary declared to
be Unconstitutional, in my humble Judgment you will
hardy persuade three fourths of them to assemble
for the purpose of altering their constitutions de-
priving their agents uf the power Of acting On
the subject.
l; comes at last then to- hs--.hat VIC bavs,no o.
ther direct resource, in t cases have been con-
siderng, 10 save us from the horrors OF anarchy
than the Supreme Court ofthc United States. That
tribunal has decided hundred such cases, aud ma
ny under the most menacing circumstances. Sever
al States have occasionally made great oppo,ition to
it. Indeed it would that in their turn most of
the Sisters of this great fauli!y have fretted for
time, threatening to break the connection and form
othersbu IN the end nearly all have been restored
by the gnified and impartial conduct of orr common
umpire, to perfect good humor Should tha, umpire
ever lose its high character for justice and impartial
y, We have corrective III the form of our Govern
incni but if it is to be had only by calm and tenn
pefate appeal to the Judgment and feeIinps of the
whole American people, 1t can never be obtained by
such addresses and resolutions those of Cocton
or Abbevie. Reason receives not in place of ar
gunient violent denunciations furious appeals to
party and passion. During period Of four or five
years past, the complaints OF the South have fer this
reason met with cold reception in almost every o.
Their section ofth Union. They have been loud g.
dcep--but they have been evidently regarded the
transient efnsrons OF party feeling, coming, they
often did, couched in language of bitter vtuperation
with the now stale and despicaSIe ctargr- coali-
ton, bargain, and corruption that vile and putres-
cent stuff which has at length, the Senator from
Massachusetts truly stated, souyhed off and gone
down into the kennel forever. The course pursued
was exactly that which was best calculated to make
the whole alleged Grievances if real. irremcdable
They who loved and admired the character of the
statesman of the West, indignant Mt the calumies
with which he, they saw, uniUstly assailed,
often regarded the complaints which came with them
rs secondary considerations, brought in to aid
n in al no MI ypFtt
who affected to accredt these calumncs for polti-
cal effect in their hearts never sincerely believed any.
part of the story of Southern sute-ngs, thinking
perhaps that they kuev best what weight was to be
attached to the political filselpods which commonly
accompanied them However different their objects,
they were really the case but to the South
ern huntSman the game taken has been of no benefit
From rcccnt demonstration we perceive the South
ern complaint is not deemed worthy of
hearing. Sir, when witnessed the manly and can
did manner In which the hon. Senator from Sou,n
Carolina on my right r- Sm,h) spoke of the grey
ances OF his constituents, when saw him evidently
soaring above party feeling, menacine none
denouncing none, and touching with ali the decacy
which characteriZeS him, the subj ec. difference be-
tween us, the reflection forced itself irresstibly on
my mni-how different might have been the recep
On Of these complaints had they always come thus
recommended. S. Carolina, though erring in a con.
toversy with her sisters. would by all have been be-
ieVed to have been honestly wrong; and if under such
circumstances she should throw herself out Of
the pale of the Union in consequence of such mis-
conception of the constitution have endea yored
to prevent, would rather see my own constituents
stripped of the property acquired under the prolec
ton furnished by the government to their honest in
dustry, than compelled by any votc.of mine here to
drive the steel with which would arm our citizens
into the bosoms of That gallant people. And will
now say without meaning to express any further o
pnon on this delicate subject, that for myself when
pounds, shings and pence nj, ne shall be array
ed agaiIst tiIc fnf.: brsus,; of, U,;en oholl
unhestatngly prefer the atter-for the simple rea-
hat hD..,
value
The honorable member from New Hampshire in
the progress of his very ingenious remarks discussed
IN connection with the constitutional power of the Ju-
dietary, the whole dnctrina of internal Improvement
IS well as the tariff IIe denounced both as aorres
sons OF the Federal Government the rights Of the
States as measures evincve of, and flowing from
disposition on the part of some, to claim for that
government unlimited powers; and endeavored TO
make it appear that these acts for informal improve
ment were and ever had been Federal hereses while
the opposite and restrictive tenes, limiting us to the
strict exercise of certain enumerated aud specific
powers, had always distinguished your genuine dem
ocrat and only true republican. The honorable mem
Der informed us that by the prevalence of his strict
construction of the Constitution over the latl;udna-
ran doctrines the great political revolution of 1900
was effected and that his mode of construction had
ever since remained 'the watch word of democracy
and the strongest test of political orthodoxy Ee
showed us by these means how sthe matchess spri,
OF the West the great advocate of the principles
-
the other hand he barely minated that matcl less
spirit In the South had perhaps been Insreprese;ed
on the same subject. The intmation that the views
OF one Statesman had been misunderstood was &C
companIed by the admission that there might be DIFF
ferences and possibly honest differences on the same
subject, in the same party. This was all wel-and
my only reason for adverng it, is TO express INV
regret that SO charitable saLco not extended be-
ynnd the party line. But were afterwards told by
the honorable member, that the resemblance between
the political character OF the opposition and admins
traton parties, in 1903, 1872 and 1925, confers upon
him. and his political friends title to old iashioned
democracy as the same democratic States, with one
or two exceptions only are found, The says at each
era, side by side, favor of Jefferson, Madison and
the hero of Orleans On one side Virginia. and
pennsy vania, Carolina and Georgia, Tennessee and
kentucky On the other Delaware and Massachu-
sets, Connecticut, and divided MARYLAND / shall
hereafter take leave to present to the view of the hon
member some condolences much more striking than
That which here appears TO have caught his fancy
keeping IN view now the opposition assumed by him
IN regard to the federalism Of the Western stotcs