Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-08-27


 of onr history the Declaration oi lndePendence- but to declare before God and our country, tat we and ours will maintain, 10 the utmost oI eur poWer the Union of the States, the Constltuuon oi the United States and that of our own Delo'eu 0.a'e, in their perfect integrity. These aIe the objects oi nur neet;na-these form the bond of our Unlon- D;fTering as many of us do, on the important polns of policy and constitutional construction the mag nitnde of these objects IS paramount 10 them ali suppresses every discordant sentiment, and unlles us as band of brothers by tes stronger 'hah those of blood. ,:.L.Loo, aeou r0 ne,ted-with harboring imaginary fsars on these ssnb;ects. Imaginary fears When we have been grayely told by high dignittry of the State, on most solemn occasion, that It tune 10 calculate the costs of the Union When the Hartford Conven- tisn the only blot in our history, pnd which has hl- therto called forth the execratlons of every Carol- niap. is held up to the people F an example for the;r imitation and emulation When one of our Renresentatiyes in and out of Congress, in the back country and the low country, has teen endeavorng, by misstatements and sophisms, td pr%e the utter ihcompatbility of the interests ol the North and South-to disaffect our people towards he General Government-and to present in the mst despotc colours the advantages of separation Q our State from the Confederacy! When the Geneal Govern ment has been called, in an official communication, by the highest authority of the State fTetgn G0- 1ernment. Finally, when we daily and hurly hear
 
 in our ears in changes on the word Nulllication.- Are not these signsl Signs, not of polltlcl peril not of the destruction of our Consttuns of Go- vernment-not of the conhagration of ou towns and of the devastation of our feds-for, could we suppose that these misguided people ha the will, asy aqseH 1 h9sf 9seaBe signs 6 of the sympathy and goodwill of the rest of the Un ion, more especially that of the South-of her de- gradation to the low estats of Massachusetts, when n f.t,.x militia at the call of tbe President and called her Hartford Convention. And signs of the fall of our State from that high and prominent stand in the Confederacy which she once held when her sons gave proof of the utter nothingness of wealth and and numbers, when opposed to virtue and talent when though small in representation, and still small iu physical force, she stood in the National Coun- cils in point of influence equal to Virginia and su- perior to New-York. Oh had you witnessed the noble bearing of our little State in the Government al Washington, when her chosen son, William Lowndes, guided and governed her Councils.- William Lowndes Name most chershed-most dear to every Carolinian-spotless patriot In thee we behed rare rivalry between goodness and great ness. These are the effects of what has been mis- called the Carolina doctrines-as the pernicious theory of Henry Clay has been called the Amer- can System when it is well known that before its adoption, freedom was the living principle of our commercial policy. Where, and by whom, have lleSe uOClTlueS been recognized ana adopted! by Georgia3 No; She has soemnly disclamed them By North Carolinal Her Legislature has put them down by vote of 5 to l. By Alabama a cotton State, and the youngest of the Southern Ssterhoodl They have shared there like fate. By Virginia the leading State of this great Southern eqnnoctia region-the land ofgenius and iberty-the first and most strenuous advocate of State Rights! No! Her Legislature has passed them by with studied neg iect while she has not newspaper of any charac fer which IS not levelled against them. Where then, and by whom, ask, have they been recog- nized and adopted-shall say by the onehalf of our people, If were to tell you that they were re- cognlzed by the one-fourth, the one-twentieh of our population, you would charge me with exagge- ration. sincerely and honestly believe-and this belief is founded laborious researches, extended as far as coud-that if the nature and tendency of these doctrines were fully explained and deve- loped to at the peoPe, that it's advocates would in very short time, be reduced handful vf faetivus and disorganizlng politicians
 Do notmisake me when speak thus of :he Caro- lima doctrines. am, and have ever been through good report and through evil report, without change or deviation, openly, and above-board an advocate of State rights, as understood and explained by Je ferson and Madison. was proud to be an humble disciple Tn that school when the majority of the Dele gatioh, with which then served denounced them as radical and Calhoun and lIDullie stigmatized them as the worst and most stupid of all hereses- but the faith of the Christian is not more different from that of the Turk, than the doctrine of State Rights Is different from that of the Carolina, as it is termed. The doctrine of State Rights opposes only the abuses of tine Constitution-the Carolina doc Urine opposes the Constitution itself The doctrine oi State Rights considers the Constitution, when administered according to its legitimate end and de- sign, as the best of all Governments The Caroli- na doctrine considers the Constitution under any circumstances, as the worst-and sneers at it as mongrel-half horse, half agator-haf National Federal b5 nf ;oht slders the action of the Constitution on the people oi the States, as a new and beautiful idea-as one of the great inventions and improvements of the 18th century. The Carolina doctrine considers this dcf'0n as fungus, as excrescence and in all its reasonlngs and conclusions places the State in the same attitude Tn which she stood under the articles of the old Confederation Were I to he asked what is necessary for the preservation of State Rights should say, strict and literal interpretation of the constitution. State Rights admit of no constructive powers but are essentially necessary to the exc cu'ion of the enumerated powers-and the word IS le,e understood m strict philosophical sehse-wnfie the Carolina doctrine to sustain it's fla vorte theoryof Ratification is compelled to resort to latitude Of construction, which will make any and every thing of the Constitution Can this new lipht then be true light The doctrine of State Rights IS as old as the Constitution itself It was the founda .on o' me hrst division of pares It has been in- Vestlgated, analysed, and discussed by patrots of transcendant minds, who revered the State overe;gn ty the palladium ofliberty and property. Yet. who among ihem ever imagined. much less affirmed. that State had rightt put her on the proceedings of the General Government This discovery was re- served for Mir Calhoun, who hismost consistetfriend MT M'Dufie, has proclaimed to be the father of the great system of Internal Improvement; and who when at the head of the War Department, and in expectation of the Presidency, was the zeaous and utncompromIsng advocate of high taxes, conscrp- ton, and the most lavish expenditure ofthe Peoples money But will tire you no longer with discus slon so dry Brothers of South Carolina Supper ters Of the Constitution! Under the banner of the thirteen sripes the sacred emblem of the Union off the24 States which waved trnna ,tl,: