Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-03-02
POLITICAL.
From the National Intelligence,
Editor Of The Rich,nond EuD,,jrcr

be useful 10 communicate to you, to correct if pos
sible the many delusions, 9nder which you seem
to labor, as well as the acerbity of temper which
you manifest at this event. You consider the re.
lection of this nominee offence ola very
high grade, second only to high treason, or null.
featiOn; and those Senators, who, in the exercise
OF their independent judgments, refused to advise
and consent to this appointment, are hsld up by
you objects of rcproach to the American People
The Senators whom you have the ctlron,c r to
assail by n0aic in the coarse st lungua &C. are too
far removed by their elevated position in the pub
lie councils and the confidence of an enlightened
people, from the malignant shafts which you hurl
at them, TO need tho protection Of any other shield
than the purity of their actions, and the irreproach
able tenor of their lives. But the odous and ri
diculons attitude in which you have placed yourself
and the journal of which you are the Editor by the
sorvilc devotion which You evince to i'm power,
regardless of the principles which you prefcss to
advocate, requires that you should be disrobcd of
the 'lion's skin" under which you seek to conceal
your real purposes, * by means of which disguise
you are now cndoavorng to miscad the high-mind.
ed and patriotic people, who have heretofore con-
hded in the sinccrsty OF your professions.
The disappointment of an ambitious dcmagogue
in the enjoyment of the fruits of his corrupt in
trigncs, is mourncd over by you, evidence of
reckless party sprit-of combinations to overthrow
n glorious Administration, and PROSTATE ell the
great interests of the country, at home and abroad.
Our republican form of government is menaced by
tins refusal to permit your idol to lounge about the
Queens palace, until the period shall arrive for
his advancement to the high station which is to be
held in trust for him dd interim.
And Is the rejection of foreign Minister nov
ell in the political annals Of this country? Was il
ever before made tho subject of solemn appeal TO
the People, and of broad denunciationS against those
who, in tho exercise of thoir constitutional func-
lions, refused to sanction either the man or the
measure? You treat the event as one without par
a'lel in the history of former Administrations and
without precedent to palliate Justify it, while il
Is evident that you must know the falsehood of the
impression which you attempt, thus, deccitfully,
to make on the minds of your readers. There is a
lesson in the groaus and lamentations of the par.
ty presses, whose support of junto has been pur.
chased by office, or the hope of office, over the
rejection of this heir apparent to the Presidential
Chair, which ought to attract the serious attention
of the People.
Man-ic0rShip, which is now recommended not only
by yourself, but all your compecrs, the standard
OF political mort, while principles involving the
dearest interests of the country are referred TO
only as they may serve to promote the ends
OF personal ambition, demonstrates the existence
OF corrupt feeling, which has already made
rapid strides in some of the best regulated
States OF the Union, and, if not speedily
checked by the wholesome medicine of public opn-
ION, Will become Incorporated into tie practical
operations of our system, and by slow but GER
tan process overturn the fabric of free insti-
tntions; which cannot long endure, when that no.
Bile spirit OF Independence and Moral Virtue shall
DO relinquished, by which alone they can be pre-
served, and without which they must be annihila
ted want no other evidence of this Illuminating
fact, than is to be found in the columns of the
"Richmond Enquirer" for several years past, and
which forms distinct feature of the article be-
fore me- on deprccate the refusal of the Senate to
reward your friend & favorte with public trust of
the highest grade, as affording conclusive data on
which to found charge of new and corrupt
coalition between Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun
than which barefaced calunny was
never promulgated by the most hardened SIAN
dercr and tor the purpose of securing the support
OF honest men, who have not the opportunity of
investigating the actual state of parties in the
national Legislature by personal knowledge of
facts, you cndeavor to make an impression that
these distin guished statesmen and their friends
have united to perpctuate the "Amcriean Sys-
tenn" contrary to the policy of the present Admin
istration which thoy mutually desire to overthrow
After 2Xhausting your fund of vituperation and
vulgar abuse on certain members of the Senate,
because their opinions of mere do exact
ly accord with your own; and after an appeal from
their decision TO the States which they represent
demanding their punishment for this act of bold
tenorty. you gravely come 20 the conclusion that
" Mr.. Clay will press his mad schemes of the Ia
riff and the Bank with greater spirit-that the Adj
ninsiration will be stripped of its power to serve
us, unless the People themselves should gather to
its aid" And you proceed, with some emphasis
to inquire, is this the time for the friends of the
country to desert Gen. Jackson's banner?" Thus
You labor to impose on public credulity, by propa-
eating that which you knoc to be false, and con-
cealing that which you know to be true respecting
the men who sustain Mr.. Clay in his ''mad schemes
of the Tariff and the Bank"
lie four Senators whom you assign to the
ranks OF Mr.. Calhoun far above the scrvilc
Sycophancy which you have basely ascribed to
them, you below tho grade of a candid ed-
tor. They seek the elevation of no man by any
act which fills within the scope of their public
duties; and they could not be purchased by all the
patronage OF this or any other administration, to
lend their influence private citizens to any po
litlcal asprant who voted for the enormous Tariff
OF 1928 or who now holds opinions favorable to
that "Bil of Abominations" You shed crocodile
tears over the expressions of the South and vio
lated Constitution, and at the same moment YOU
decitiully commend TO the favor Of the people the
UNTd supporters Of the whole tissue of abuses
which you condemn, &, vauntingly claim to resist
as the champion of the present administration
WAT Is the STANDARD of General Jackson" around
which you summon the good people of the United
States to rally, in the present crisis? Does it bear
on it the inscription 'No Tariff for tho protection
of domestic manufactured" You kaOtg that it
does not. The protecting Tariff has been officially
By the Chief Magistrate constitutional
notifications, it Is true have been re-
commended in general terms; but what arc they?
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury is the
only document to which reference can be had.
disclosing the views Of the President on this subject:
and the "sehcme" pr posed in that executive
state paper corresponds exactly with the rcsolu.
ton, under consideration in the Senate, sub.
ntted by MIR. Clay, as the basis of a modified
Tariff.
General Jackson has not, and he dare mt omen
" declare himself in favor of the act of 1928 i'm.
posing duties on foreign importations. The views
of the Secretary of the Treasury, sanctioned by
Inc acquiesccnco of the President at whose will he
holds his Office, extend beyond those of Mr.. CLAY.
who is understood to be opposed TO the system of
JoUntieS, recommended by the head Of the Trca
'rry Department With all your pretended zeal
or reducing the to the expenditures of the
Government, and a corresponding reduction of du.