Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-12-21
Correspondence. Of the N. Y. Courier & Enquirer

South Carolina, left off, The change 10 UNDER
| stood 10 have been IN conformity with the
wishes OF Col. Drayton, owing TO the pecul NJ
situation at his own State. This circumstances
IS evidence Of his approximations TIA, there
will be a conflict hetw.en the people Of s ,u.hl
Carolinn an,ls,he standing army" aud thar
ne might DO rallied upon, as M tnber Of the
Military COMMITTEE. TO report iJt favor of en-
'arcing tho army. for ahe purpose of subduinx
tho loca, authorities of 8outh sCafofna. Mr..
Biairs Of Sou,l, Carolina, This day declined SER
Wing on tho NJ litary Committee, II is web un-
derstood. for similar reasons. -
MIR. Hoffman,, of your State is made mem
Der Of the COMMITTEES on Manufactured in the
place Of Dir. Dayan. They are both Adm nis
iratinn men. but the latter is a Tariff man, and
as report in conformity with the wishes oil
the President IL necessa, y. it was thought most
expedient TO reject MIR. Dayan. The committee
is now so orgauizsd. THAT you may safely col
culote upon Anti-rariF measures, SO far az the
committee is concerned
| Messrs. BELL and Coulter are appointed 10
tho Judiciary Conninitte- vice Mr.. Davis, Of
South Carolina, aud Mr.. White Of louisiana
| That Committee ia now go Constructed as TO
meet the .rrssent views Of the Administration.
aud will sporrpromp,ly and boldly such la ws
or amendments of laws, as may 10 found reQui-
site in regard TO treason, qualifications or seces
| sion.
Mr. Verplanck is placed al the head of the
| ComDittee of Ways and Means, ard Mr.. M'-
Dnfie ieft,off. In regard 10 Mr. Verplanck,
most contemptible scene of Intrigue took place.
i Whether IL iiud its origin IN The city of New
York, neither know usr care but l hive
| god reason to belicse, that his appointmc nj
would baye been prevented. il the Secretary OF
the Treasury bad notinierfered. know IlInt
Mr. NJ lane took an active aud decided stand
with The Speaker,3iu favor of the selection.
He stated that Mr.. VerI,anck had, for the last
two years. transacted Nil The business Of the
Committee with The department. and there fore,
thnt II was Important he should he appointed;
thus evuriug his confidence in the iaents and
integrity OF this gentleman. Notwithstanding
the success of your Tammany Hall managers in
defeating dissemination, Mr.. Verplanck is now
placed mt the head Uf the most important com.
inhtee of tho house, as the suecesaor of such
men as Lowndes, Randolph, Calhoun, Nc L ane
aud MrDuffie. He has been bnsiiy engaged
at the Treasury department., sni, as Under
stand, among other things, on the subject of
.youS New YuTk Custom housc.s He IL very
anxious, IL Is said. to have tho amount Of the
appropriations, for erecting this edifice increas.
ed, by an additional sum of one hundred thou
sand dollars, aud have ne doubt he will sue
coed. He certainly will, If il can be accom-
Piished Ivy zeal aud perseverance.
The President continues TO evince great vi
oienco against the South Carolina Nuliiiers,
and would, VI not restrained, resort to the most
prompt aud energetic measures within his con-
/ troll Not that he disapproves of Southern op,
position 10 the tHiif, for be is wi tf The puliifi-
ers on that polnt:-isOt that lie condemns nullI-
heaiion. for he has approved of IL, in the case
of this Geaegia Missionaries: Bat that TO ab
hors and detests MIR. Calhoun, MIR. Hamilton
MIR. liayne, and Others, their associates or
friends.
ln conversation, few days since, with n
Southern tnomber of Congress, he expressed
his entire confidence, that the nulhfers would
and should DO INT down, closing his remarks
with the emphatic, and as he appeared to con
slider IL. impressive senlence--' Remember, IN
dret0 Jackson tells you so J"
The Secretary OF the Treasury as long since
know. is one of the most iDplacable opponents
of The protective system. was on origin
al federalst, OF the first i0aer, aud although lie
now sings p@ans, to- what the deIuded nnd
mist AIKEN multitude consider the triumph Of de-
mocracy, he has abandoned noue oftbe political
notions which he limb bed during "reign of terror
IN l790." He declared, Friday, TO a member
of Congress from the South, that 'srafher than
"sabmit to the Tariff, permanent system, he
mould, himself, be ,0iling to takepp his musket"
But, said the gentleman, how, then, can you
justify appeal to brue force against South Ca
rolina7 Because, the reply, / think the timo
has arrived when should ascertain, whether
the General Government possesses the power TO
put down State, "Sir," said the member, ''that
alternative should never be presented to the Anne.
rican people" Such is the influence of early inn
pressions upon the human mind. Such the
sentiments Mr.. McLaBe entertained in 1873. The
bayonot of the standing army" must be I'M
sheu,hcd against the bosom of the citizens. Can
our State sovcreignties be thus preserved or our
Union be thus porpetuated7 Impossible.
| Nor is this the only difficulty which might grow
out Of the arrangement. II would interfere with
our foreign rotations In full faith and confidence
that would rgdIy adhere to our treaties, for
eigners have established extensive houses and agen.
cies in southern States. SO far as the roduct-
i've iabour of South Carolina is concerned, these
establishments would be anuihilated, and the
! British manufacturer would be sorey oppressed,
| for the want of pur cottons. Will not the British
| government demonstrated May they not, for the
| purpose Of destroying our manufacturers (and
had almost said, for worse purposes) encourage
and protect by marine ferce,, Illicit trade in
that district OF territory VIII not such
sure, aided as it would be, by Gen. Jackson's
| BLOCKADE by land and by water" open new
field for speculation and gambling in tho exports
i of that Slater II seems to me, If all tho
tempated measures OF the Executive, have a
gambling tendency-not excepting the disposal Of
the national domain for "mess of pottage,o and
the creation Of new Bank.
The views Of John O. Adams are moro pacific.
1 They eyiBce moreof the spirit Of forbeaTance and
less disposition for the battle field. His proposition
~, TO repeal much Of tho revenue laws as con
stitutss Charleston port ofentry, and tbvs render
any vessel subject TO seizure that entered OF attempt
cd TO eptar that port. To this course Of policy, il
is probable, the nullihers would poacesby submit
Appealing, however, to their southern brethren for
support and protection, sgsinst what they viii SON
slider violation of that part Of the CoQstitption
which PyoVidos, that-"no preference shall DO given
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