The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-10-14
JAM ES MADISON.
*See the concluding Resolution, of 1893

JAMES NADlSON.
*See the concluding Resolution, of 1893.
MULTIPLICATION. We find the follow
ing letter, being Judge Johnson's rejoin-
der to Governor Taylor, in the Charles
ton, S. G. Mercury, Of September %.
Charleston, Sept. 22, 1890
My dear Taylor " our letter, dated
Rice Creek, Sept. / 4, with the Columbia
post mark of the 18th, did not come to
hand until the nth, near three weeks
after the date of mine to which it is an
answer, and at time when It was out of
the question for me to be at Columbia to
make my speech What an opportunity
was here lost. ] certainly should have
addressed myself to an audience ",riose
minds uere IN a state for Minhing," and
might have enjoyed triumph, such as
you and have felt IN common more than
once. Where were the men who now
claim to be radicals and exclusive patri-
OTIS, when you and l stood shoulder to
shoulder in the stormy days Of ultra fed
eralism? and more recently in that uni
versal homage now rendered to the tai
ents and worth of our friend Crawford, by
men who reveled in the most wanton a
buse of him, when you and stood up ior
! him almost alone.
perceive by an editorial remark pre-
| fixed to the publication of our cores
pondcnce, that the suggestion is thrown
out that my letter was written to you with
a view to involve you in controversy
! am sure you cannot entertain such an l.
dea. Nothing was farther from my mind; /;
but if you court it, certainly shall not
shun it.-Yet it would be. Whispering to
the bowling winds to attempt IN the news
papers the defence of my eight points,
until the election is over. Let that be
passed, and something OF Il calm ensue,
and am ready to meet you; but it must
be in the columns of the Telescope, for
thus, and thus only, can the antidote be
administered where it may have some
thing to operate upon.
You style yourself Gone of the mem
bers of the Conspiracy"-but if all the
conspirators were as candid and disinter-
estcd as you are, the republic would have
nothing to fear from them; you have op-
cnly and candidly avowed that if Virgil
MIA would consent to be Il frontier state,
YOU would go off from the Union the
next day This is at once appalling 10
the good sense and good feelings Of the
people, and in that tribunal | rcpose UNI
limited confidence. IL is only when they
are hoodwinked by demagogues and hy-
pocritcs that they can 20 wrong.
A. to the part you take in this "con-
spiracv," ] solemnly declare that i'll could
think as you do upon the facts, think |
should feel as you do upon the measures.
would not live under ga Government of
unlimited powers" and if | saw distinctly
that nothing but a revolutionary move
ment could impose due restrictions, |
would cry out for revolution. As to at-
iording the States some more satisfactory
security than the Intervention of the Su
prone Court, it is what have been urg-
ing for years. Rest assured that we are
far from coveting jurisdiction, especially
where states are concerned. Heaven
save us from encountering the irritable
feelings of sovcreigns.-ButI have al
ways been met by the question, What
can the States want more than the SEN
ate? They are all there equally repre-
sented and every law which passes that
body involves decision on its constitu-
tionali,y-a decision made by body
sworn to decide impartially, and in which
the smallest State has Us much weight
as the greatest. To this l have never
been able To find but one answer, and
that is, that as to one class of cases that
tribunal is not accessible. ] mean cases
in which the constitutionality of State
Laws is brought in question. There l
would certainly amend the Constitution
so as to give an appeal to the Senate;
and perhaps to require the concurrence
oftwo thirds to declare the law of state
unconstitutional AT present, although
we are emphatically he men Of The peo-
pie, being charged exclusively with the
protection of individual right against un-
constitutional laws, yet indirectly we are
compelled to pass upon the delicate ques-
ton of sovereign right, from which may
Heaven deliver us.
/ You ask me "why did not come ont
with my Eight Points at the late election
for Intcndant of our city" | answer, be-
cause had as little 10 do with the Meet
ing at Seylc's as you had, and ifl had
had, no body would have listened to me.
/ The majority who voted for Mr.. Pringle,
are as decidedly anti-taritf as you are. l
did not vote, and ! doubt if there is a
man in South Carolina who agrees with
me in at least seven of my eight points.
| But this | do not doubt of, that the time