Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-06
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III.TR Assn

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| One Of the standing toass which was drank n,
Buchanan's Spring on the 9TH July, discaimed all
utraisms The force 81 rI exnresss,,on rec
TO lis noyey the day of excess Of noi,ca,
anaticsm, of violent feeling, and of ultra abuse. We
have seen MIR. Calhoun fly from extreme to the
other-from the utter Reproduction of this stuff las
he called t) about State Rights" to the heresy of
Modification. We have seen the President of the
u. States, who has done more by his measures for
State Rights than any other could do fy into
an inconsiderate Proclamation, of which the express
sions were not well weghed-of which certain parts
are calculated 10 sap the very cause To which he has
been devoted We have next seen men dcnounce
HIM as tyrani, warning against all the Rights of the
States, without recoecting the measures which he
so boldly adopted i'm defence of them. This is in
deed the day of Utraisms-w il becomes the du
ty of every man who thinks for himself TO avoid all
dangerous excuses, 10 speak the truth, and TO rem
der justice to all
These remarks drawn from us by the follow
ing extracts from the last National Gazette:
lhe main and very serious distinction of American
parties, will Gro long he that OF the Uni0nisfs on one
hand, defending the supremacy and integrity our
al and Federal System, under The plain text spirit and
old apprehension OF the Constitution; and on the other
the disaected Nuliiisrs and half ufer> OF the South
rayng under al! sorts OF real and spurious State
ANTICIPATED patty prcud'ces, posi- ions. and nick name the
questions OF the Enforcing Act the Aboi ion of Savery
Internal improvement, Tariff, and forth. The Union
lists (how the great majority oil the Peopl) will have
something 10 do for The final triumph of their cause
than 10 resist the theory and practice of qualification il
De essential, their side, that the
aud plans OF Internal Improvement, and the es ishmen.s
which secure an independent judiciary sound ctirren-
ey an abundant revenue and domestic supply of manu-
iaeiures should be preserved In order 10 the
Union, the strength AMI dignity of the Ganeral Govern.
men must he consulted; and this. only by The mean
which we have jus, indicated, but ny the choice nc.
tionaries known 10 be thoroughly prncp!ed and inexiy
stesdfas."
Now, here have Mr. Walsh mounting his
high horse; and riding the most important
Rights of the States, in all the horror of NiIlfco
lie keot,
eqnjpose of power, which originally establish
ed between the Centrpetal and Centrifugal powers
between the legitimate powers Of the Federal
Government and those of the States? The great
object politicians ought to bnyc i'm view
is to preserve both the Rights and the Union of the
States The great means Of doing this, is to sec,
whether the power claimed lie among the specified
and enumerated powers and then if it be not whe-
Their be means proper and necessary TO the execu-
lion OF the specified powers But if it be neither
and yet it be erpedien Convenient, calculated 10 pro.
mote The public interest," still 10 exercise it, bu, to
ask il at the hands Of the parties to the compact.
This is the true course Of proceeding-and until il
be successfully adopted, the Rights OF the States will
be subjected to usurpaton, and their Union to dis
solution Here, for example, is Mr. w confound-
ing the friends OF State Rights, properly understood
with the extravagant Nufiers-Iiere lie is drawing
from the plain text and spirit ofthe Constitution the
power to establish National Bnnk-the power to
run Internal Improvements into the States-the
power To secure an " abundant revenue" for such
purposes, andpcrhaps he may contend for all pur-
poses OF The general WcJfGre-nnd education, posi-
Dly among The rest-ihe power TO secure do
mestIc supply OF mountaineering for aught we
know, to establish all sorts of tariffs Let Mr. W.
be persuaded, that he is just going as far on the
one extreme Mr.. Calhoun is on tire Othef-
The one calls himself Unionist, when he is in
fact C0nSottdGtionist-The other calls himself a
State Rights man, when he is in fact dangerous
.Nultifer. The goes for the rights of the Union
alone-the other for the authority of the States
alone. Neither Of them combines together the two
elements Of our political machine-Tbe Rielts oil
the States and the Union of the States They are
both 1rds ut the opposite, but extreme points of the
Political Compass. And both wrong.
thc whole Toast good one worthy Of re- publication
The Union Of the States and the Fed
raj Constitution and the State
Of moderation and Of candor
maintain with equal socitOde all free and hspyy institutions
Maj Gen. Maconb and Suite reached this City Oh Thurs
day evening last They visited the u. s. Arsenal in ou
vicinity on Saturday 0orning-and set'out Tor Washing
ton by the Stage on Sunday, mot The Noiols beacon
inlmsIes, con his way 10 Tie Virginia Spring" we
seize also this opportunity another iDstskc which