Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-09-21
TO TnE EDITORS OF THE ENQUIRER.


GENTLEMEN: In your paper of the 2ist ult you have
published Circular from this the subject of the
" iarlf and ask the committee who were entrusted with
ITS draft and circulation these questions viz Are hey
0he committee for qualifications or what are they for -
And what do they think their fellow disposed
to do III their Convention, and will that Convention be so
organized as to give full and free expression of the sen
mens OF Georgia.
In the absence the other members of the committee
TAKE leave to reply frankly to your enquiries entertain
ing doubt but that the views and opinions herein en-
pressed are held in with the whole committee
and large majority OF our fellow citizens.
Upon the doctrine of notification there seems 10 exist
great variety OF opinion-some considering il one thing
ana some another If to maintain that the General Co
yerninent is government of limited powers that the
Constitution is the compact OF the States with each other
by which these powers were granted and defined il
declare that the States sovereign and in the full
and perfect enjoyment of the powers granted if to a
firm that the people of State in their collective sovereign
capacity, have right declare an act of Congress not
warranted by the constitutional charter be null and
Void to act upon these principles, be notification then
am nulher then is large portion Of fellow cii-
zens Dulliers These principles asserted by our
Legislature in s28-soemnly affirmed in the legislative
protest. among the archives of the Senate of the Unit
ed States, and there deposited in perpetual testimony of
tie opinions OF Georgia solemny and deliberately
EDS and IN justification OF her character TO the present ee
Deration and to poserity.
These principles again distinctly reiterated by the
representatives of the eemen Of Georgia in the session of
1884, with scarcely dissenting voice, and approved by
the present Governor 1t then resolved that each
State IN the conederacy is in tire full exercise Of all the
rights OF sovereignty, except such rights as have been
granted TO the United States in the Federal Constitutions
That the right impose duties upon articles of trade
the protection Of domestic industry has not been grant
ed TO the Federal Government by the States IN e Fede
raj Constitution. Nor WW such right be yielded, so
"Jor as The people IF Georgia are cOncerned.b
In effect the right of resistance the usurpaons Of the
General Government has been distinctly asserted, in the
memorable Of the Missionaries and will have no
doubt be maintained. Between this case and that Of the
protective system, perceive rational distinction
In the former the decision of the Supreme Court pred
Gated upon treaties and the act Of intercourse Of 1902 In
the latter case Congress asserts the right lay duties
imports, for protection These departments OF the General
Government coordinate; they both derive their powers
rom the constitutional charter, and whether te ntracon
OF That charter be the act of the Legislative Judicial de-
pafnent matters not; since the exercise by either, of
Powernoi granted would be equally unconstitutional The
acts OF both IN the put, deemed by large
JOfy Of our fellow citizens and the Legislature Of Georgia,
70 DC Migrant usurpaons Of power; aud although there Is
no decisive action upon The last yet reasonable
man, who IS acquainted with people, believe that
Inconsistency composes any part Of their public character,
or that they will prove fecresn, 10 the principles which