Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-12-25
a FRIEND OF STATE RIGHTS.
FOR TIE ENQUIRER.

To the Editor Of the .N'e,c York Eusning Post
SIR-Ihe accidental perusa OF the Lexington Union >
oil the 10Th inst, has brought acquainted with charge
upon my veIacity, extracted from the New York Ameri-
This charge grows out of letter addressed by me- on
the 22d Of last month, to Friend TO Truth" and which
at my request republished in the N Y Evening
Post That letter dictated by me- 10 the hand of a
Dienaiy amanuensis Ii was written on the of pre-
paTaton Tor my departure from this place. (Chaote Court
iouse,) TO my own home, after long detention by i'll
ness and without access to my papers and vouchers
90 ms, VIII appear from my speaking OF the Tariff Of
documents and my memory (greaty impaired by dsease)
not serving me to recollect how many Tariff Laws had
oeen enacted You will do me the justice TO observe
that when, in the former part of that letter. speak of
" iorewarning both linn and Mr.. Lowndes that this was
" but the commencement of a scheme which must end
in the utter subverson Of the rights of the States gene
raly and Of robbery and oppression Of the slave hold
ing portion OF the Union, which it would impossible
Tor them TO submit tol did refer the debate of the
Tariff OF l6, then under discussion, which was reported
by Mr. Lowndes, as Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means and srenuously defended by him in that
pacity, as PERMANENT SYSTEM of Protective
DUTIES and as settling the future policy of the Federal
Government.
BY Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay it was also strenuously
and ably vindicaed upon the principles. 1t is due
10 MT Clay TO state that when arraigned his Ignorance
ana ne1pacity referred TO his ignorance OF the sci
ehce oil ocai Economy and TO his being rendered
capable by his prejudccs in favor of his darling ANIERI
CAN SYSTEM from perceiyng acknowledging its great
fundamental truths.
IL is nevertheless due myself and to truth at whose
SHRINE nave never ceased 10 worship, and OF whose altar
VIII persevere TO sacrifice seven il leads MARTYR
dom and ruin," TO admit, that in speaking Of Mr.
Lowndes's opposition to the Tariff of pa was utterly
msaken;-nsled, doubt, by the Authorization of an
imagnaon become morbid by bodily aIlicton and by
Inc powerful remedies TO which my Physician was COM
PEELED TO resort in order sustain nature under the most
eXcrucaing torments But what man. having one spark
OF hoeray or the slightest knowledge OF my character
and conduct, during the almosD forty years Tat have
been before the public, could imputc to me the settled
design OF deliberate iaehood? FasehooG so easily SO
readily detected and exposed. To candid and homo
raOe minds oil whatsoever party, fearlessIy make this
appeal; The brave are always generous From the
cowardly assassin, smarng under private gries-irom
whose dagger the female bosom yields no pro,ec-
hon, look$ior no quarter, and ask none TO men
oil honour and high minds, | fearlessiy submit my
case anu Will patiently abide by their award But the
degenerate offspring OF eminent American statesman
witn whom 1t was my pleasure and my pride TO live in
habits OF intimacy and friendship, need not facr himse
That he shall escape His piteul maligny shall be
exposed will trace il 10 its polluted source and will
hold INN up to !he scorn Of every honorable high
minded man My respect for the other surviving rela-
hves oil Rufus King, renders this painful and nvidous
task but II is indispensable, and must he performed
JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke.
Charlotte Court House, 20lh December 1892
On making the trial. Mr. r. too feeble to carry this
design into execution - $500