Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-12-28
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ton TO scan its positions. Some of them are found.
ed upon immutablc trutl-and we most cheerfuly
subscribe to them. lie gives much more accurate
account oil the origin OF our federal compact than
the Presidents Proclamation. So far as his posi-
tons tally with the 3nd resolution of 80 they are
"Ihat this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorilv
deciare that views the powers of the federal govern
men resulting from the compact 10 tchich the States
are parties, as limited by the plain and Intention of
The instrument constituting that compact no farther
valid than they authorised by the grants enumerated
IN that compact, and that in of deliberate papabe
and dangerous exercise OF other powers granted by
the said compact the States who are parties thereto
the right and are in duty bound interpose f0r arrest
ing the progress Of the er and for maintaining within
their respective limits the authorities rights and line
appertainlng 10 them.''
80 far Governor Hayne is correct-but when he
comes to apply the abstract principles lie has laid
down, we essentially differ with him.
Ii is Gays he) these great and essential truths that
South Carolina has now acted. Judging for herself as
sovereign state she has pronounced the Protecting Sy-
iem In all Its branches, TO be gross deliberate, and
palpabe violation OF the constitutional compact =; and
hdpng exhausted erCTy other of redress she has
IN the exercise OF her sovereign rights of the par
lies TO that compact, and in the performance of high and
sacred duty lneposed for arresng the evil of usurpaon
within her own imsby declaring these acts TO be null
void and no law, and taking Of her ouUn that
they SHAH not be enforced tCithin her limits ="
1t is not necessary discuss again the theory of
Notification. The Presidents Proclamation has
gwen 1t the coup de grace. On that point this last
named paper is irresistible. And why multiply
words' How can II be peaceful, constitutional re-
medy? In other words, how can a State be an the
Union, and out of it mt The same time? As Mcssrs.
Cheves, Nuckolls and McDufiie, (oncel held, it is
Revolutionary remedy-and nothing more. But
we pass over this theory-let come to the fact
nSey' Whatever the principle be, we hold Gen.
liayne TO be most unfortunate in its application.
lie holsters himself up by the precedent of '9S-'99
the doctrines of Jefferson and Madison--the Re-
solutions of Kentucky and Virginia But S. Caro-
Ina has essentially departed from both these prece-
dents. With what grace, for instance, can she say,
that she "has exhausted every other means of re-
dress" except Notification?
L. Mr.. Jefferson, in his Kentucky Resolutions, pro-
posed Committees of Conference and Correspon
dence between the aggrieyed States. What Com
mlttee has >. Carolina appointed? What confer
ence has she sought with her sister States? She re-
pudiates the idea of Southern Conventon--She
substitutes no other mode of consultations as to the
best remedies which are 10 he adopted. She flies
at once TO Nullificaon-and then calls upon the CO.
States to join her in this extreme measure
But let us look further into Mr.. Jeflersons views
IN w Was he for pushing the State into eXtre-
mites? Did he then urge Virginia to take inca
snres OF her own, that (e Alien and Sediton laws)
shall not he enforced within her limits?" What
language does he hold to Col. Nicholas i'm the
gloomy period of 100?
"IO IPiison G ..NichoIas, Sept s. '99-On sketching
what ought TO be the character of Mr. .Nddison's Re.
P~tD ~ thought something essentially necessary 10 be
said in order to avoid the inference of acquescence that
resolution declaration should be passed. Answering
lie feasOhhgs OF Sch OF the States
the field of reason and that Of the Committee Of Congress
taking notice. too Of those States who have either moi
answered at all or answered withou reasoning q Max.
ing hrm prOtesdtOns against the precedent and princn
and reserUiHg the right make this palpabe violation of
the Federal Compact the ground of doing future what
ever we might now rghtfully do, should repeons of
these, and other violations of the Compact render it expe-
dent B. Expressing in directorate and concatory Ian
guage, our warm attachment to union with our sister
STATES and the instrument and principles by which are
united that we are willing TO sacrifice this every thing
but The rights OF selfgovernmen those important points
which we have never yielded and in which alone we see
liberty, safety and happiness; that all disposed ia
make every measure OF of wrong cause of scis-
sion, we are willing TO look with indulgence and 10
wait with patience till those passions and decisions shall
have passed over which the Federal Government have
auy excited to cover its own abuses and conceal its
signs fully confident that the good sense of the American
people, ana their attachment TO those very rights which
we are now indicating, Will before shall be too late rally
WIN us onnd The true principles OF Federal Compact
Now what was iO Mr. J.s eye when he said ",lone in
iu'ure Whatever we might now ightluly do:'-He tells
us III the same Ieler-"Mr NJ who came, as had been
proposed, dues not in the reservation poposed
aboye and from this recede ably not only i'm
nH Judgment Dui because, as we should never think Of
twhaii NUH9tc0tton No-buO separation but Tor re.
peaed aud enormous violations so these when they oc-
cur VIII be cause enough OF themseves.S
Are the Tariff laws, now about to perish by the
force OF circumstances such "repeated and enor-
nous violations" to- Justify the deruier resort OF
south CarolnoYs the crisis so extreme one as will
not even permit her 10 HESITATE until she can confer
and consult with the other States?
indy, But neither has she pursued the Virginia
Resolutions. They merely declare the laws uncon-
slutonali but they took measures to arrest their
execution IN Virginia. But Mr. Madison's Report
OF W points ont other means Of redress.
"ln ne example given by tic State Of declaring the
alien and sediuOn acts TO be unconstitutional, and Of
commntcdt"g The declaration the other States, no
trace OF improper means has appeared And il the other
SfGtes nan conouTed in making like deciardtion sup
ported TOO 10y the numerous applications flowing Immediate
Jf0m WePeope tcan scarcely be doubted that these sim
pie means rouid hare been as sufficient as then are IN.
ercepifoUable
cit Is no less certain that other might have boen
employed, which are strictly within the limits OF the Con.
suuOu The legislatures Of the States mis- have made