Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-12-02

confirmation of his appointment us envoy to Eng
land, and thus seal his claim to the confidence of
The party. Mark words, and not tho result,
We look to Mr.. Clay and his coadiutors-we look
also to the friends of Mr.. Calhoun, for Il prompt
and decided discontinue of this atrocious scheme.
u We have boon requested to publish the Essay
of Virginenss, from the U. S. Telegraph, contrast
irg Mr.. Calhouns notification, and that of our
venerable neighbor. OF the two doses, we do not
hesitate to prefer the former, denying however, tho
identity of Mr.. Websters and our Contemporaries.
Mr. Webster grants the right TO secedc indeed-but
when no other hope, chance possibility of
redress is left.
We ask, requested to do, attention to
Virginiensis, who is piquant.
From, Ike u. S. TelcgrGph
THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER-NULLIFI
TION-DISUNION.
MIR. EpIroR-
1t is known TO your readers, we believe, if not
let it be now kown, that the editor of the Rich
mond Enquirer has been engaged for some time in
examining the relations which the State and Gene
raj Governments bear TO each other. We confess
that the manner, the time, and the protracted
delberation which signalizca this effort of the En-
quirer, induced us TO look after the lucubrations of
the oracle of the Old Dominion with rather more
than ordinary interest. Besides were excited
on this subject through various considerations.
Mr.. Richie had long ago denounced the doctrines
OF certain advocates OF u strong central govern
mcnt-he assumed the garb of thorough, going
friend of State rights, Virginia doctrines-hc
pudiatcs notification, and though he contended
pretty clcsrly that he did not entirely APP
prove Of the remedy prescribed by the
Vice President for intolerable oppression,
through an unconstitutional law of the General
Government yet, well as recollect, he OBJ
jected to nothing but notification itself. The
more word appeared to excite unveiled action
IN his mental organs and dcrange his whole plan
of intellectual operations, though he frequently
Threatened r11pa oh, 1occ
less practicable. In this state of idiosyncrasy he
announced his determination to examine the sub
ject per Sc, and to define TO hairs breadth the
respective limits of State and Federal powers
Three different d" glcanings" were put forth LOngo
interuatto; and then after weeks delay and
examination, it announced, with Il suit
able flourish of trumpcts, that the next num-
Der of the Enquirer should contain the true
creed, and unfold that mystery which all are so
dcsirous to know--thc easiest, most peaceful, and
most practicable mode ofaverting, by State author
ty the effects of unconstitutional and intoera-
bly, oppressive law of the General Government.
Well, the parturiton is complete, and though
the labor has not brought forth mouse, it has pro-
Guced something which relieves Mr.. Ritehe's preg-
RdRt cranium, though 1t has somewhat disappoint-
cd the expectations awakened by the repeated
hourlshes with which its approach announced.
The readers of the Telegraph would probably wish
to know what mode has been found out by the edi-
tor of the Enquirer, by which the effects of
constitutional law of Congress could be averted
through the agency OF the reserved rights of the
States. 1t is very natural that they should for
veral reasons: First because The Enquirer has
heretofore been considered the organ of the State
Rights Party in Virginia. SoCond because that
paper, while it denounced the doctrines of Mr..
Webster rs consolidating in their character,
and tending Immediately TO monarchy, also
declared that it could not ''swallow" nullifca-
ton. And thirdly, it declared, if not in terms,
at least by implication, that could not agree with
the Vice President; and in the last resort, when all
the ordinary modes of rcmonstrance and petition
had been exhausted, to throw the State upon its
sovereignty, and suspend the unconsttutional law
until the power which created the Government
had either 7lullfed it declared its constitutions
atty. 1t would Fscarccy be believed that the re-
mody which Mr.. Ritche has discovered for uncon-
stItutional oppression, after protracted search,
is secession! Yet such is the fact. After several
years labor in the cause of State rights and the
Virginia doctrines, (hoy are synonymous he now
comes to the conclusion that disuROn is the only
eliectual power retained by the States. to arrest
the progress Of federal usurpaion Let Virgil
mans, let every GeficrscniaD, oo!, at this "Glean-
ings No. H., and say if any other feeling than pity
can be entertained for Mr.. RS. mbecility, and
contempt for his Juggling and apostaCy. This
old gentleman is fairly in the political har-
with MIR. Webster, because it will be re-
collected that the latter gentleman, in his speech
FoOps resolution, granted the right of secession.
The right of revolution could scarcely be denied
by the most strenuous advocates of despotism,
when oppression became ntolcrabe: awaited our
selves ofthat right when we declared our ndepend-
Cncc and GCcd the power OF The British lion. 1t was
therefore, in opinion, act Of sheer superero.
gatoI in the editor Of the Enquirer TO hunt up the
reserved rights Of the States, in order TO get ut
such Pcwor. Mr.. Webster, the leader of the Ma
tiona Republicans, granted it without argument.
and, it is believed, that few would have the hardi-
hood, in Tbs country, TO deny it. If Mr.. Richie
was not fully satisfied Of the absurdity Of employ
ing his time in such pitifIl qlaccry as that dcvcl-
opcd in Glcanings, No. 4, nc might be convinced
by the simple fact that the States Of Virginia and
kentucky went into az elaborate argument to prove
to the world that they possessed tho right OF pro-
teciing their citizens against the oppression of the
" Alien and Scditiou laws" Would it not be an
insult TO the intelligence Of tho American people,
and libel on tho towering intcllccs of Mr.. Jcffer
SON. and thoso distinguished patriots who aided
him in the great political reformation Of 1900, TO
suppose that they would have thought it necessary
70 present to The world the Virginia and kentucky
resolutions, and Tie arguments by which they were
sustained, in order 10 prove that the States had Gro
tcined' tire right 10 scccdo" from the General Co
vcrnment, when tho latter becomes &" intelnZahlx
oPPressivc?" Yet, if Mr. Richie be correct, such,
and such only could be the object Of their aborsH
II win DO seen that Mr. RS present theory of State
Rights, corresponds precisely with ihat long ndvo-
Gated by Che federal Partyi 10 fotidefn rerbiS that