Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-10-12
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"wednesday Eressissy, Oct. 10.
JUDGE BARBoUws oplNIoNs.


The following is Judge Barbour's letter to the
gentlemen in N. Carolina. We accompany it with
Mr.. Bryan's Letter to the Editor Of the Constitu.
tiona!ist. Froi this it will be seen that Mr. Van
buren has not answered. aud that il is not expect
cd he can answer in less than thrse weeks! The
election will then be over.
We promised to say word on Judge Barbour's
doctrine of secession. Those who hold this doc
trino make mighty mort of it, in contradistinct-
ion to Notification. TAey are not Nufyers, no,
they--thoy are friends of tho Union. Now if we
understand what they mean, they propose to Sc
esde-wheH? Why exactly ut that point of OPP
preston, whom the Nulifyers would nuliify! Not
to dispute upon the relative soundness of Secession
or NoIlihcaiion. as docfrine-we should like to
know what tho Caion gains from Secession over
Notification. Notification eannot be ,rorss than
Secession, and may not be SO bad.
Mr.. Barbour and oil those who have lateiy be-
come such siicklers for the Union, hold up Seces.
sion rs sort of merit--they Seem as much az 10
say, have nothing to do wish Notification; no.,
no; am guil.less Of that Sin; my remedy is Seces.
sion!-as if Secession was something particularly
healing and uniting in its tendency! 1t reminds us
oil the consolation which Don Quixotte undertook
to administer to Sencho, when he told him, that
grievous as were the bruises inflicted by the
slaves OF the Yanguesian Carriers, they could
not terminate in any thing worse than death.
Judge Barbour, and all tho new converts would
console US for the mischief of Notification, by toll
ing us we have the right of Secession! A special
recipe for keeping dry, by jumping into the river.
This vast solictuds not TO be thought Nullify-
ers- his ready confession of tenet more ultra
than that stigmatized-is perfectly Ineligible to
u.s. Notification has got bad nams--it is in
exceeding bad odour-and all the Politicians even
they who started the doctrine and whose opinions
must of necessity terminate in it, drop red hot
iron. 1t is the name they dread to incur, and not
the thing which they so much dislike, is proved
by their going for Secession, which stands in the
same relation to Notification, as docs desperate
illness, to death.
Notification is probably in effect, Secession
1t cannot be uorse. If it is Secession, then the
whole dispute, like many other celebrated disputes
Is about terms, and all agreed in substance
What we want, is to keep gentlemen up to their
doctrines, and not to let them shuttle them off hen
they grow. unpopular. We have often said, and we
now repeat 1t; nay and can prove it; that modern
Notification originated here; with those very men
who are now welding II TO destroy Mr.. Calhoun
by the badness of its reputation and to build up
popularity for Mr.. Van Buron by holding him up as
opposed to it. This is not fnir game.
This is the word we had to saw
Copy of a letter addressed to PHILIP P. Barbour,
Esq, in conformity to a resolution adopted at "A
political meeting held ut Shocce Springs, N. Caro-
lima, on the 25th ult., by the Committee appointed
To correspond with Messrs. BARBOUR and VAN b.
rem, with MIR. Barbours reply.
Snocco SPRINGS, N. c., Aug. 25, 1892
SIR-At a numerous meeting of citizens from
various parts of State, brought together by ac
cident and composed of persons differing in opinion
on the several important subjects embraced in the
resolutions herein enclosed, and differing also in
their views on the election of Vice President of
the United States-the resolutions herewith for
wardcd were unanimously adopted. and we were
appointed in conformity with said resolutions
committee charged with forwarding you copy,
and respectfully soliciting carly reply to the Sc
veral questions therein proposed
1t IS unnecessary for to add our desire for an
explicit avowal of your views these Subjects for
you must be aware that they producing much
excitement throughout country, and 1t is mat
ter of greut Importance that the public should dis
distinctly understand those who are candidates for
high and distinguished stations all the leading
topics which agitate the public mind.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully, your
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