Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-10-05

hensivo had compromised tho peace Of the country
by granting at an evil hour the liberty of the press
esteemed correspondent We believed would
be presented to the Legislature for the sanction OF their
authority We think no such bill ought to be passed
We have previously attempted to sooh apprehension
oil our friends at Washing ton ON this subject repeat
me'sincere regret which feel at having seriously
alarmed then by the publication of 'projet Of a
D which seems yet to float in their disturbed magina-
he time may come (and heaven forbid il when
the rights OF the States are about be swept away and
no alternative may be left TO but OF this
scrpuon and an open resistance By force. The time
may come, indeed when blood ought TO be shed
support the liberties OF this naon-Yet nothing but the
iost inpertous necessity should justify such a resort.
Nothing our an orcrtcheining flood Of encrodchmenfs
sno'"d hurry our people to any act Of violence
:" must see TINS Hood sweeping down EVERY vEsrIGE
or STATE RIGHTS BEFORE Ir.--We must haze pre-
o'ousy exhausted every died6ie topic Of erpostuiaon
and reform. We tcouid first appeal to the Legisla-
tres to the people, to the srord We would declare in
the most pedcedbie manner uhe of
these proceedings in the federal government would
communicate the declaration TO other States and
cte meT concurrence ia a like decidraton.' We would
call upon Jefferson and adson, upon all the wise and
Noming Dat The most urgent necessity should induce us
TO resort TO other erpedies As matters no~ stand
we would abide by the example, rohieh James Madison
and ms associates IN the Virgipa Legislature set ms
IA Us and SO. We would have the same Legislative
GpPcdf to me understanding Of the people We would
have explanatory amendments to the Constitution re-
c0nmended, 10 stay tbs tide Of cncrodchment. We
would have the judicial power better explained. We
would nave the sweeping clause of the constitution better
erected, for preserving both the State and tire General
governments IN Their appropriate orbits"
THE Inellgencer finally suggests that we have carried
our state feeling ito extremes, which may il
come in contact with another feeling which ought 10 be
equally cherished-we mean a national feelng" But
we are as much devoted TO the union OF these States
any one. We would readily give TO il those poyvc
which are essential TO its existence and prosperity We
would have 1t exert with energy all that it possesses
nut we repeat "e'n 'fettnque that our leading maxim
is that OF the venerable Republican George Clinton when
from the chair of the Senate of the u States he gave
his casting vote against the Bank:
to b 9Oaso OF long life have found tina, not
of pso which hi S0S SSS but ii"
npS a pro sspeOn and dus' willis, tho lat
S ss rested the shall DO found
NdP"y furnishes the means for remsdyng The Svi by
eve repeat, that these words deserve 10 be written in
letters OF gold upon the walls OF the Capitol Washing
ton.''
Well; if this he Notification, SNAKE the most of
IT. we expressed the same opinions then rs we
had done seventeen years before. We took the same
view, too, of Madisons Report, which we avowed i'm
iou4'-lhree years ago we repubshed those sem
uments. They the same which we expressed
in 1921, and which we entertain at this time We
had not true at either of those periods the lights
winch Mr.. Calhoun has shed by his several Expo
sitlons on the doctrine of Nufcation!-but he has
not changed our opinions. He has flown from one
extreme TO another-in 1891 laiitudinarian in ex-
tending the powers of the Federal Government
in 1882, he has flown to the other extreme, and
Is equally autudlnarian in restricting its powers
We are so unfortunate as to be unable to fly with
him 10 either excess
AS to the notiUeS for our course we cannot stoon
TO defend them against such an accuser Men of
honor knew what pains we have taken i'm pri-
Vate correspondence TO arrest the progress of
doctrine which threatens commotion i'm The
South One friend of Mr.. Calhoun knows. how
we were told TO put ourselves upon the sub
lect; for, that as. Carolina could not be kicked into
NuilIhcation But the scene changed when we found
these predictions were likely TO he defeated, and
NuliIhcatlon was seriously ripening into measures
IL was then we deemed it the duty of every man to
speak out upon the subject
Ii is equally untrue, las has been insinuated Inv
The same writer,) that we agreed with Mr. Giles
upon this question. He was one of the abest poli
uclans il was our fortune to know bur ON this
point, we could not think with him-as we had the
honor OF telling him more than once
But enough for to-day. We shall Law over for
our next NO. the statement of "the Apostate" Webb
as to Mr.. Jeffersons Letter.
The friends of Rights steer between the scva of
on the hand, and the Char Modification on
the otherbetwecn nbomnabe Tariff Reyoutopary Re-
eybetween the attempt enlarge powers Federal
TO p1Iayze IFS legitimate The
he Federal partyand the latter Nu6ers Tho
omer or the cenpetal has been
cess threatens the Union ITSELF the Hartford Con
venon aud we fear of modern Notification Calhoun had
rare fortune OF exposing his country both species
The occentrcy of his principles has from rendering
nt SERVED to his and himself
winch talents OF tho highest order qualified emnently
to nchicvo. - '