Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-16

'oeJ VI AZ" lug 'ohu! Wnere tney always
have been found Sir, struggling side by side,
with their brethren of the South and West
for popular rights, and assisting in that glo-
rious triumph by which the man of the peo-
pie was elevated to the highest office in their
gift.
Who then, Mr.. President are the true
friends of the Union Those who would
confine the Federal Government strictly
within the limits prescribed by the Consiitu-
ton who would preserve to the States and
the People all powers not expressly delega-
ted; who would make this Federal and
not National Union. and who, administer
ing the Government in spirit of equal
justice, would make it blessing and not
"a curse. And whoare its enemies? Those
who are in favour of onsoldation-who are
constantly stealing power from the States,
and adding strength to the Federal Govern
ment. Who assuming an unwarrantable
Jurisdiction over the States and the People,
undertake to regulate the whole industry and
capital Of the country. But, sir, of all de-
scription of men consider those as the
worst enemies of the Union, who sacrifice
the equal rights which belong to every
member of the Confederacy to combination
of interested majorities, for personal or DO
litical objects. But the gentleman appre-
hends no evil from the dependence of the
States on the Federal Government he can
see no danger of corruption from the influ
ence of money or ofpatronage. Sir, know
that it is supposed to be wise saying " that
patronage is source of weakness" and in
support of that maxim, it has been said, that
" everv ten appointments makes hundred
enemies" But am rather inclined to think.
with the eloquent and sagacious orator now
reposing on his laurels on the banks of the
Roanoke, that &C the power of comforting
favours creates crowd of dependents !" he
gave a forcible illustration of the truth of
the remark, when he told us the effect of
holding up the savory morsel to the eager
eyes of the hungry hounds gathered around
his door. II mattered not whether the gift
was bestowed on Towser or Sweetlips,
" Tray, Blanch or Sweetheart" while held
in suspense, they were all governed by a
nod, and when the morsel was bestowed the
expectation of the favours of tomorrow kept
up the subsection today.
The Senator from Massachusetts in de-
nouncing what he is pleased to call the
Carolina doctrine, has attempted to throw
ridicule upon the idea that State has any
constitutional remedy, by the exercise of its
sovereign authority, against " gross, pal
pable, and deliberate violation of the Consti-
tuition" He calls it " an idle" or "ridic.
ulous notion" or something to that effect,
and added, that it would make the Union
a" mere rope of sand" Now, sir, as the
gentleman has not condescended to enter
into an examination of the question, and has
been satisfied with throwing the weight of
his authority into the scale, l do not deem
it necessary to do more than to throw into
the opposite scale the authority on which
South Carolina relies, and there, for the
present, l am perfectly willing to leave the
controversy. The South Carolina doctrine,
that is to say, the doctrine contained in an
exposition reported by Committee of the
Legislature in December, 1928, and publish
ed by their authority, is the good old Repub-
lican doctrine of '98-the doctrine of the
celebrated Virginia Resolutions" of that
year, of "Madison's Report" of '99. 1t will
be recollected that the Legislature of Vir-
ginia, in December '98, took into considera-
ton the Alien and Sedition Laws, then
considered by all republicans as a gross
violation of the Constitution of the United
States, and on that day passed, among 9th
ers, the following resolution
"The General Assembly doth explicitly
and peremptory declare, that it views the
powers ofthe Federal Government as result
ting from the compact to which the States
are parties, as limited by the plain sense
and intention of the instrument constituting
that compact, as no further valid than they
are authorized by the grants enumerated
in that compact and that in case of DELHI
crate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of
other powers not granted by the said COM
pact, the States who are parties thereto,
have the right, and are ip duty bound, to
interpose for arresting the progress of the
evil, and for maintaining within their re-
spective limits the authorities, rights and
liberties appertaining to them"
In addition to these, the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia appealed to the other
States, in the confluence that they would
concur with that Commonwealth that the
acts aforesaid [the alien and sedition laws
are unconstitutional. and that the necessary