Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-12-11
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intended protect rights OF the minority
Would B% %"e %G%f BE- Gs s the
9 OS@ Mere ceases to any limit to the
This general principle laid down in our Governor
message (Which have just got through the perusa off,
and has caused me TO ask myself whether or not had
heard OF his having been mapping for the las. six monhs
Had he attended to the Of events during Thai time
he surely would be aware that this no Longer The null
nhcahon theory Why il the doctrine of eighteen hun
urea ana rty one not that of eighteen hundred and thr
y-fo0 He is from six twelve months in the rear of The
newlghts; and is actually aiding and abctting the anti
nuhcrs OF South Caros the prepo,,ero,Is notion Thai
they can possibly have any right complain Of or object
to, the " ORDINANCES" that supreme law of the land
which no minority, however nearly it may balance the
majority has any right to gansay. Constitutions are
Intended 10 protect the rights the minority nv restrain
ing The majority" &c what notion!! WIN does not
ne Governor KNOW that noto the minority have right,
Out the right oil obcdieDce Noo, he who dares 10 think
OF questioning the right Of the majority orian" the
ordnance, u, Pso Jdefo traitor; and he who enter
ains the thought that he can have any right IN se e
dienoe thereto, audacious rebel Let me recommend
TO the Governor to resume his notification studies Mean
whie WIZ let him INFO secret, which seems to have
think once heard Of naturalist who having nub
shed the description Of alligator ate wards
me SUBJECT IN order TO give fuller deveopement of
w ana when this " fuller deveopement' came out /,
proved TO be the description Of ostrich Whether This
be an actual occurrence, Of which have really heard or
only DREAM cannot positively say. But this is precise
ly what has been done by Mr. Calhoun in his two mill
hcaon exposiIons OF 1881 and 1892 The last is asserted
TO be ga fuller development OF is) views than that con.
as much identity between the doctrine oped in the let
ter OF 1892 and that set forth in the address Of 1884, as
Is between an ostrich and alligator. The latter while il
claimed TO be identical with the Virginia doctrine Of Os
was ~ reality built altogether Of certain pfeposieous de
ductions OF Mr.. Calhouns from certain vague proposition,
concerning the rights Of minoriiies It's nature was soon
exposed, and u demonstrated that il bore no sort
analogy 10 the doctrine Of 09 by showing what those prn
cpes really were and what their bearing upon the
points OF the notification theory.
Finding that the first Exposition would not 90 down and
moreover seing the operation which his minority rights
doctrine might have within the State Of South Carolina it,
sell, Mr.. G. tried his hand second time Under the
Pretenee OF Ca fuller Development" &c. he brought ou
new theory leading 10 be to the preposcrou,
result but IN every other respect totally different The
tuler deveopement" consists Of ideas stolen from the
writer's who had developed the principles Of the Yir
s creed IN order thereby TO make manifest the absurd
% mr.. VS. first Exposition; together with sophisiica
Interpretations OF the principles Of which he had thus fol
'pe h'sl Time, acquired any knowledge.
should leisure permit will, one Of these days present
as matter Of curiosity, comparative view Of the doc
nes contained IN the Exposition snd In the fnlIer deye
loPement' My purpose in now taking up the pen wal
merely TO sPPriso our worthy Governor tha H. by III,