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From fte Pendteton (S C.l .uesseages-. OPINIONS OF THE VICE PRESIDENT, On tAe Relations of the States and tue Gen.
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 .Mr. Syasnscs:; must request you to permit me to use your columns, as the medium to make known my sentiments on the deeply important question 1.-the relation which the States and General Government bear to each other, and which is, at this time, a subject ot so much agitation.
 1t is one of the peculiarities of the station l occupy, that while it necessa- rily connects it's incumbent with the politics of the day, fl affords him no opportunity, officially, to express his sentiments, except accidentally on at equal division of the body over which he presides. He is thus exposed, as ] have often experienced, to have his opinions crroneously represented. In ordinary cases, I conceive the correct course to be, to remain silent, leaving to time and circumstances the correc- fion of misrepresentation; but there are occasions so vitally important, that d re- gard both to duty and character would seem to forbid such course; and such I conceive to be the present. The ire queat allusions to my sentiments, will not permit me to doubt that such also is the public conception, and that Il claims the right to know, in relation to the question referred to, the opinonsof those who hold important official sta tions; while, on my part, desiring to receive neither unmerited praise por blame, feel, l trust, the solicitude which every honest and independent man ought, that my sentiments should be truly known, whether they be such as may be calculated to recommend them to public favor or not. Entertain ing these impressions, have concluded that 1t is my duty to make known my sentiments; and l have adopted the mode which, on reflection, seemed to be the most simple, and best calculated to effect the object in view.
 The question of the relation which the States and the General Government bear to each other, is not one oi recent origin. From the commencement o our system, 1t has divided public senti ment. Even in the Convention, whlit the Constitution was struggling into ex istence, there were two parties, as t what this relation should be, whose dit ferent sentiments constituted no smal impeachment in forming that instrument Affar the General Government wen into operation. experience soon prove' that the question had not terminated with the iabors oi the Convention The great struggle that preceded tn political revolution of 1901, whicl brought Mir. Jefferson into power, turn ed essentially on it; and the doctrine and arguments on both sides, were en bodied and ably sustained; on the one in the Virginia and Kentucky resol1 tions. and the report to the Virginia L.t gislature, and on the other, in the r. plies of the Legislature of Massacht setts and some of the other States These resolutions and this report, vii thie saaeisioss osf of the Supreme Court { Pennsylvania about thesane time. pa ticularlv in the case of Cobbett. deiive ed by Chief Justice M'kean, asd ee' cured in by the whole Beach.l fonta
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