Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-12-28

AND ShCESSICN.-lnc
Lynchburg Virgnan, the Lexington Union, Staun-
ION Spectator, kenawha Banner, Winchester Re-
publican, and many others of our old friends ind
co.luborcrs, pleased TO express their clagrin
atthe sympathy which they conceive to havo
discovered for Notification. The Union says "we
shave waved high the Notification flag, and attack
ed the Proclamation from the centre to the WINGS"
ami the fact is virtually assumed by the rest.
One word to them conformity. We have protest
cd against the application of force to subduo South
Carolina We dispute the right TO force. Wo
proclaim the absurdty of UNFOLDING Republic by
force. Republic is Government Of choice, not
of necessity; o., love and affection, not Of the bay.
onet. and we Cor contend, that when it has
ceased to be acceptable TO its citizens, it ought TO
n Government. IL this Nuifcation7
We furthermore contend, that the military
ducton of a State struggling for what she con.
ccives her great and irdestructiblo rights, would
be fatal precedent; that it would deter all othor
States from vindicatmg their constitutional ri ghts
and arresting usurpation that it would leave Con
gress aud Tho Federal Government without check
or any other than parchment Limitations, that tho
check of State interference withdrawn, the
lidating and centrepotal tendency of the Federal
Power, would move on TO speedy contamination;
that we should rapidly assume the condition of Pro-
vinoes, in exchange for the dignity of sovereign
States united in Federal Compact; that to the
Southern States especially, this consideration ought
TO be of paramount, of solemn regard, for without
reference TO other striking causes, Stare holding
Communities they would be forever i'll u minority
in Congress is this nulfcation'
Again objected to the application of force
to Carolina, because we are convinced it would
kindle the flames Of civil war in all the South
because persuaded the mass OF tho South
would, or later, take part with S. Carolina
because that would terminate the Union eternally-
because the South and North would then become
France and England until lSl5-becausc the
contest would be unequal could but end at last
in another demonstration of the great truth pro,
claimed by all history, that conquest comes from
the North Is this nullifcation2
We are Tariff men-we think it right, constitu-
tiona We cannot therefore but think, that multi
fcation for such cause, is most absurd and rdi
culous. But the Judges for South Carroll
nal Is she not Sovereign State, and has she not
the tight to judge for hersclfi Are at liberty TO
tlsbelieve the declarations of whole people, when
they socmnly tell the world, that their oppression
is too grievous any longer to be borne7 And
whether it be in fact no, has she not tho I'M
doubted right ofjudging for herself?
Bot we ask these gentlemen, one and ALL to an
swer this: We know the non-slave holding
States to hold the preponderance in Congress- by
immense majority. We know dislike of Afri-
can Slavery, (and not unnaturally) to be an all
pervodng sentiment north of Maryland; we know
also from the history Of the Missouri question: that
when fanaticism is rousad, it is incapable of seeing
constitutional barriers. Suppose, then--and many
sagacious men have not deemed the suppositon H.
lusory-the time had come when tho north felt it.
self called upon to do God service, by termin atng
the existence of Slavery and tho edict of .boliton
is promulgated: Resolving, Rcmonstrance, Pcti.
ton, Convention and Amendment are tried in vain
Tho decree is irrsvocable. Wise men-ye who
brandish notification with much plee as tho raw
head and bloody bones which is to alarm men from
announcing their true opiDions-What would We
then do2 Would you nullify7 Perhaps you say
Move would secede But forget not that your
selves declare notification is but an other name FOL
Secession 1t is the name, then and not the thing
which fills you with holy horror.
You do not, however, rest contented with hurl
ing anathemas at notification. You accept the en-.
tire Proclamation, You vie with Harrison GRAY
Otis, and with every Foderalis in the Unitod State,
in singing Hosannas to its and its authors praise
You crcept nothing You accept all. Well-thi,
worry Proclamation denies the right Of Secession
Come what may, you agroe that VIC are bound by
adamantine chains to the wheels or the Federal
Government. Though properly be taken
though our liberty of speech be punished--thouph
our religion itself be prescribed TO us from Wash
iDgton, you echo Gen. Jackson to the skies when
he says we still may not secede, that it will be
treason if do, and that those taken in resistance
shall be treated traitors, and not prisoners OF
war! Merciful God that frcemen should forge
tho chains for their own and their cbildrens limbs
AS Tor Nullifcaton-these gentlemen need not
shakc their CORY locks at us We care not for the
name. We arc no Nulifycrs in the present case,
ana TOT the excellent reason, that like tho Tariff.
but emergencies might arise, az emergencies have
arson III the experience of all nations, when VIC
would nuIlify-in other words, when we would turn
against tho oPPrcssor So would they-so would
every man in Virginia. why dispute about Multi.
hcat'onf ltmeans this-that all oppose il who
DO not practise it, and all will practise it, when
they think it expedient.
TnE TARIFT.-The National IntelgeBcer can.