Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-12-21

MoRE Or!N1oNs.-Whi!e the Globe observes
n profound silence OH the Proclamation, tie
Federal papers at the North make the welkin
resound with their praises. Perhaps there is
no better way to alarm their apprehensons-
and rally the old Republican party to the do
fence OF their principles, now manifeaty be,
leaguered with dangers far more urgent and
Imminent than%at any former period Than tn
press upon their attention, the constructions
placed upon the Presidents Proclamation by
their old antagonists; their cbuck!ing, their de
light. and their ayowed hopes Of the annihilia-
ton of the Southern doctrines of State soye-
relgnty, and the asceudcncy Of the maxims Of
The Hamilton School. Their nvo we'd hopes did
we say? Nay. they consider those hopes al
ready accomplished; they al!eIge and aiIcdge
truly, that the Prcsdeat has embraced the te-
nets of Hamilton aud Jay; aud they look with
assured confidence, 10 his vast popularity North,
South, East and West, 10 establish them final
iy aod irrevocubly, as Fundamental maxms of
the Government. Never has Federalism boen
so sanguine and buoyaat; and since the Admit
tisrntion Of the elder Adams, never until now
has it's colors flutcred SO gaily in the breeze;
in truth. it seeing much disposed like Van
TromP,to display broom al lis masthead, in
token OF Tvs resolution TO sweep tile old Repub
lican principles from the seas. We have act
ed with some OF these gentlemen with great
pleasure, for number Of years, in pursuit uf
IAN object which priced as Of the las, conse-
,quence 10 the safety Of the countryside exclu~
sion of Gen. Jackson from supreme power.
They, II seems, have found III him all they could
have asked; we, oil that we ever dreaded.
Here, Then, we part-they go 10 support their
principles in the person of Andrew Jackson
we 10 oppose him have ever done, and
with fresh convictions OF h!s dangerous cha
racer To n free State.
We earnestly ask perusal of the folowng1
extraci from the New York Commercial:
'Our object is to look at tho Proclamation as
lphole-wih an indu!gent eye--and with heart
that throbs with delight at such strong and posi-
tive evidence that the President has length call
cd.t his councils better than those who have
hitherto enjoyed his confidence, and guided his act
ions.
THE question is in all mouths-'Who wrote it7'
This is an inquiry which cannot now be answered.
At a future day, the private papers of some per-
pon other than the President, will disclose the
secret II is certain, however, that only two words
appertainng to it, written by the President.
Equally certain is it that it not written by the
author of either of his annual messages-more es
pecialy by the authors of that wretchod compound
of ignorance and weakness-of folly and wicked.
ness--thc Veto Message;--foT It's principles are al
with them all. But for our present purpose
and for the present purpose of the nation, it is no
matter who wrote it. The fact that it embodies
the sound constitutional principles of George Wash
ington John Jay, Alexander Hamilton John A
dams, Oliver Ellsworth, John Quincy Adams
James Kent, Daniel Webster, John Marshall John
Sergeant, and men of such-ke stamp-we soy it
IS enough that it contains the sound principles OF
federal school IN sec1 for
1T at our hands the strongest tribute Of appreciation
which our language will afford us words TO express.
We have read it first and second time with great
care and attention; and there is not principle
-avowod, argument used, against tho State
Rights party, which have not over and over
again urged upon the public attention. to the extern,
of our humble ability, in opposition to the
mad career pursuing at tho South, and second
ed BY the Regency in this State, in The
columns of the Albany Argus, and the other
Kindred papers, in which the famous notification
speech Of Colonel Hayne was ropublished and APP
Piauded to the echo; while the mastery speech Of
DANIEL Webster, multiplying that manifesto, and
furnishing tho dterieL for the proclamation before
u.s. was denounced with characteristic bitterness
and maligfity.
"UPon the subject Of State Rights, or State Sove-
regniy' as 1t IS called, The proclamation speaks in
perfect unison with the opinions of the insirious
to whom we have lust referred and whose
principles we have uniformly entertained and as
uniformly asserted and defended And altbon oh
those principles have been sOptemned and secuted
by the Government pfesses yet it affords us pleasure
to find them at length adopting and defending them
though it be on compusion
ain regard TO the absurd doctrine of tho right
Of instruction, and tho duty of tho representative
60 obey the directions Of his constituents so lono
maintained and acted upon at the South and recon
ly bagipning to find advocates at the North, thu
views Of the proclamation are sound and conelu
sivs. They correspond exactly with tho dec
'Tinss Of Burke upon this subject, sci