Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-06-26
For THE WJttr.

In your paper of the 5th Juno, you publish the
proceedings of the Barbour Meeting in Mecklcn-
berg, and accompany thsfn with some editorial re.
marks IN which you assert, the pcrson who issued
the notice TO cali the people of that county together
not only has his grudge satiate but that he has
grossly nSreprcsentcd you more than once.r
Fray, Sir, what is meant by saying no msrepre-
sents you on this occasion2 Does be when he
says you his Vice EXce,tency, and q few others
wish 10 obtain the vote of Virginia for Mr. Van
Buren, as Vice President, and thereby cause Virgi
MA to sacrifice every principle she holds dear? In
| TINS, he certainly does not nisrcpresent you nor
does he misrcpresent the fact that such will he the
result to Virginia, if she should DO brought 20
the support of Mr.. V. b., which God forbid
No. Sir, the gentleman who issued the notice you
complain OF, has not misreprcsented YOU, nor was
1t his wish to do it would certainly afford him
no pleasure in making you appear in a more rdicu-
ous attitude before tho Pile of Virginia than Won
found.
| In the same column, you ask what good can come
| OF the Charlottesville Convention? You know
Sir tho object of that Convention is to put Mr.
Barbour in nomination for Vice President: and this
remark is nothing moro nor less than an nsiduous
attack, an inuendo, thrown out against Mr. Barbour
the man whom you have always Landed 10 the
heavens, until he was found in opposition to your
favorite-but now he is arraycd against Mr. " b.
you are trying to wink him down by sly and artfnl
paragraphs in your paper. But with all your po-
htIcal legerdemain, Virginia will never BIO brought
to the footstool of Martin Van Buren, and there
ingloriously surrender her principles by eleyatino
him to the second office in the Union What has ha
done to claim from Virginia her support She does
not, nor cannot, look upon him in any other wav
than as a leader 10 party who has been cnraped
IN war OF deadly destruction gaiEst her rights
This is not aR idle assertion-no hypothetical
concluslon.-l have to resort TO sylogism TO
prove it. have matter of fact before my eyes,
the ever memorable Bill of Abomnations-the al.
tar upon which is written the seal of Mr. v B,s no
ltlcal condemnation.
The next thing noticed, my dear Sir, was
paragraph in tho very selEsane column. You oh.
serve you are dissuadcd by one of your correspond
ents, from prosecuting the discussion on Mr. Cal
houn's political faith, and cry out, in great agony
chow can we help III" Most potent Mr.. Richie
L gee no possible way how you 'can help DESTROY
ing Mr. Calhoun, his friends, and every thing con
nected with him; but may we not i'm your
mighty highness and infinite goodness look for a
little forbearancel You have gwen us timely notice
and we shall await with intense anxity that awful
day, when we shall have to look TO the four cor
ners OF the earth for tho scattered fragments of
Mr.. Calhoun and his friends. All we ask of you is
TO let It's Know whether to be ''scrved up for
the Presidents table," or not.
Now, Sir, let me ask you when you found it ne
cessaTy to commence your discussion on Mr.. Cal.
boun's faith! Vas it before tho disruption between
him and the President or has it been since the re-
lection of Mr.. V. B.2 You say 'tlat if any man had
been bold enough TO say from 1916 to 1921, that
Mr.. Calhoun not friend TO the principle Of
the Tariff to Internal Improvement by the Gene
raj Government; the Bank of tho United States;
that he not an ultra Federalist in constitution.
al questions; he would have been set down as an ig.
noramus an impostor."
Now, you surely would not have the people of
Virginia believe you either an ignoramus or
an lmPostor--no would, though nc might be
never so much tainted with both. Therefore I
take it for granted you knew, or believed, Mr. Cal
houn to be, i'll 1898 all that you acdge he was; and
with these convictions upon your mind you sus
tanned him at that time for Vice President and used
every effort TO secure his election. How could il
be pos, ibo for you with these impressions, TO sup
port such individual for the important dignificd
and elevated station ofVice President, when at the
same time you proiessed principles totally at vari
ance with those you charge upon him. Can you
say then, that you supported Mr. &. in 2S from prin
cipc3 Have not a right 20 expect you arc now
trying to palm upon us such man as you say Won
did in 1927 No man ever held more latitudinon
and dangerous doctrines than you charge upon Mr.
c., and yet you supported him, only years since,
with all his sins then upon his head; you are now
supporting Mr.. " b., and ssl, from Ms our support;
but stop, Sir, you may be playing off another trick
upon Us.
No, Mr.. Richie, tho great secret of your dislike
for Mr. G. grows out ofths circurgtsnce of his no,
hc~ing down II honsge % Cen Ilcagon, and ths