Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-02

are not pertinent 10 the present time and NAV have 20
suited from tho deep conviction in mems minds of tho ut
Yer and absolute inadequacy Of the old
either to keep the States together secure the bless
ngs OF liberty.
admit the wantoC an impartial umpire to decide Of
maers OF disputed power and jurisdiction, between tn
States and the General Government But i'm the absenc
OF That power we have only 10 rely on the wisdom an
patriotism of the people, who have not only the right
instruction, but the power OF reD1oping the public tunc
ionaes and in that way may correct usurpations upo
Their rights There is yet another remedy pointed out il
he constitution; the States may call Convention ant
al'er or change The Constitution, so as TO enlarge o
curaii the powers Of the government on all dispute
points. These are peaceful constitutional remedies
greatly preferable TO comm,oion and anarchy | can
not agree with the reasoning OF Governor Hayne which
attempts TO give TO each State a reto on the laws o
Congress-ior ", in the language of MIR. Jefferson
every iniracuon oil compact of many parties, il
70 oe resisted at once, as dissolution of it,
ever be formed which would last one wear" No
can concur with him in the doctrine that because IN,
PRESIDENT has veto, the States have one The Presi
dents veto is intended of the safeguards of Ii
oerty-lt he exercises this power caprcously and i'm
properly aud against the papabe interest OF the PEG
Pe ana the constitutional right OF the Legislature two
,hlrds OF Congress can "nuy' his veto and pass In,
Jaw Here " peaceful, constitutional remedy ag ain,
sne ahuse OF The Presidents veto power But it eaci
state OF inc twenty-iour have similar power, (ca i
either Ieto or .NUIYicdtiCn aud when any one o
.e chooses 10 exercise II, and puts the armour
attitude OF warlike resistance where then ak is the re
medy what can be done? How then are civil war
aud bloodshed and disunion and the intervention of TO
reign powers, and the probable destruction of the dear
oil the country 10 be avoided aDDeal
the patriotism and love of liberty which distngu my
countrymen TO think Of such crisis now at hand fear
anu say what Is the remedy Our sister Sate by heI
precp'tancy, has left no time for reecon-no time even
Tor her own people TO the ruin which they may un
Willingly have brought not only themselves, but en- t,
great and glorious country
O0v Eaync claims for the States the complete circle oil
sovereign rights, aud pushes these rights shot
beyond any thing before thought OIL since the esiab-
ent OF The constitution In the first place. he repeat.
the new South Carolina doctrine, that the constitution
creates confedcraed republic having single Ted-
t"e oil nationality in its ioundaiio" that the States
are s authors, their power created it, their voice clothed
with authority, the government which formed is COM
posed OF their agents, and the Union of which is bond
rs an Union OF States, and OF iniivluas.. tia. the
Government Is strictly wha, IFS implies, Federal
oo'erhmehl-that Tie States sovereign nOtc, as
they were prior to entering into the compact-hal the -
deral constitution is confederation in the nature of
ty' SC. {" That a sovereign State sh, has the inhr
rent power TO do all those acts, which, by the law OF ma
uon@ any prince or PotenfGe may of right do That like
all independent States, she neither has ought size
suer any other restraint upon her sovereign tc and
pressure than those high moral obligations under which
all princes and Saes bound before God and ntan TO
perform their solemn pledges! 80
These quotations are surely enough for the reader
hey dsgus'ed Inc in the reang and they have made me
SICK at heart in copying them. Ii that great friend of
human rights, Patrick Henry, alive what would
ne say TO tins aniaronade oil PTlcey preensios? Would
his republican indignation be expressed by only saving
" II mad an dtcfW squirting tO,cOrds momdrchy?" Has
sne not IN the most formal manner coded the General
Government the brightest jewels in the Crotcn OF her
boosted sovereignty The power of war of peace the
sword The purse, &c &C. And yet with her own deed be-
lore her eyes, she denies her bond claims all the So
veeigh rights aud prerogatves of the great Auocrat all
me husslas III she had weighed the consequences and
determined TO cancel her engagements and exercise her
moral and revolutionary right of secession and had thrown
herself into the attitude of defiance to all mankind them
indeed might her prncey Governor have claim
Ell TO DO what any other prince potenate may of rig hit
DO But this isnot the S. Carolina claims to be
an the UniOn and at the same time holds This extraor
binary language The Constitution derives her in
press terms OF certain sovereign rights binds her officers
by OATH and her citizens by every tie to regard its
provisions and the laws made in pursuance of that Con-
suutlon, Z" as the supreme law Of the Iand"-and vet
because one law on the statute book which she had voted
oy her representatives To put there operates uneauay
ana unsty on her particular local interests, she feels
herself justified in the violent and revolutionary course
tious? - "
The abstract right of Secession remains to be examined