Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-04-27

SENATOR MILLER AND THE ENQuIRER OF THIS City
we perceive i'll the last Telegraph, what it is
that cnragcd our Contemporary to such degree
against Senator Miller Of :. Carolina. In n
speech on the Tariff, Gov. Miller thus introduces
his former Jackson associate Was it the fidelity
OF the picture that so incenscd the original against
the Inner! The Governor did not know perhaps
Mr.. Ritchc's present attitude TO the cause of Abo
lition or he would have spared him the association
with I.undy and Garrison. He did not know that
on the mean condition of safety the interests of
his Press he had scaled his lips hcrneticaly on Il
question of paramount interest whose transcend
ant moment he had acknowledged, and the liberal
side of which question he had embraced with ar
dor, in a moment of honest but uncaIculating
enthusiasm. He did not know that terrified by the
good people of Mccklcnhurg, who threatened to
withdraw their subscriptions, this doughty Editor
filter for the birch and the fcrulo than to wicd the
Democratic, had sneakcd into inrlorious ncutrali
ty; and if he did not actually desert, was alone
restrained from doing SO, by the regency of his
committal. "Somothing must be donc!-Oh, nv
Cod what is to be donc?" That pathetic lament
of dcspairing patrotrm--thc free and generous
and expanded sentiments which accompanied it
where they all? Entonlbcd in the fear of 10.
great and generous People.
Extract from Goo MHier's Speech in tie U. s..
Senate.
"Amon& other animadvcrsions upon the temper
manifested in the South, the Senator from New.
Jersey has read piece from Southern paper
headed "a call TO arms" Upon being asked
Tor his authority it turns out to he from rho Rich
mond Enquirer. And This is quoted TO us in such
"A wayas to induce Il belief that the people were
even now falling into ranks, to oppose by force tho
Government, and of course, it could be no other
people than the hot-hcadcd Notification Party
Sir, the Senator from New Jersey und crstands tho
Richmond Enquirer some points, II am rpri-
scd that he should disposed to hold the South
responsible for the biogcreut call of Thomas Rit-
chic.
"Thcrc time when, whatever appeared in
that paper, Zone OF the most influential and widely
circulated papers III the southern country) might
be considered as Indicating the temper Of the South
That time has gone by. We wont to look
upon Richmond the West Point-the strong
post fronticr--mounted by the Enquiror
under whose battery rcposcd with safety and
security. But such is not the case ROW. While
our old men and women, and little children, rested
III safety by day, and i'll security by night i'll def
anco OF Southern Interest and Southern feelings,
the sentinel on the wall with uncqualled pcridy,
recreant and traorous, turned his fire upon his
own people and as far as he could spread dcsoaton
III his own camp. He is the survivor of Nat Turn
or, and the confederate of Iundy and Garrison.
81 trust tho Senator from New Jersey will not
insist that rallyi!lg at his ca-spare us from
tins last disgrace, the enlistment under such lead
err After all, this call TO arms properly under
stood, means nothing; it is but the galvanic arti
cial spasm OF lifclcss toad. 1t is not animated by
one pure principle of patriotism or public virtue.
1T is the hollow hearted, spiritloss hypocritica
echo OF press Prostilutcd to power, and the ser
vic follower of mon.
elias the Senator forgotten the bold and war
like cloqucnce of Scmpromousl My voice is still
Tor war! Gods, can It Roman Senate long dcbatc?'
when iio had CGSars commission i'll his pocket"