Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-12-03
Richmond, Tuesday, Dec. 3.
THE MESSAGE

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THE MESSAGE.
The Governors Message sweeps the pI,,,er This
morning. We have never published so lony Mcs
sage from my Chief Magistrate-nor one which was
SO much dashed with cayenne. 1t boasts Of few ~,
the graces Of composition: And many parts of il
can lay claim to little originality The views of the
Proclamation and the Force Bill are little moro tba n
repetitons of the Speeches, or of ESSAYS yvb;cJ,
nave been for some time ushered forth TO the publc
-. AS State Paper from the Chief Magistrate OF
.mSlnio' IL brcathes TOO much ranking and pointed
asperty towards the author of the Proclamation
The Governor of Virginia and the President of The
u States owe TO each other at leas, the
of official courtesy
but we have no space this morning to devote 10
an expanded criticism of its contents II dissec,s
the Proclamation with elaborate cnre-nnd ,boucb
IL utters many truths i'm the process slurs over com
pietely the authoritative Exposition which Inns been
Teceh"y published oil the meaning of some of IFS
most obnoxious passages. That Exposition com
Pieteiy muttfes many OF the Governors most clabo
rate criticisms N
IL expatIa!es on the Force B-which, bad MS !,
~ Is not subject to all the exec ptons which the Co
e,"n: arrays against it. Some of the provisions
"""@" he excepts, were also coped from lnvs
winch were passed during the Embargo and Mon
intercourse times.--We did not hesitate TO olive omr
oPinion ut the time of its enactment TINT II oncI,
no. 10 DC passed-and subsequently, to express our
nope, mat would be repealed during the present
session OF Congress. We expressed the same ;,Iea
!" our last paper. We do not hesitate now In ~,
peat the same idea.-We are for bringing eyerv
ming back TO the statu quo. This Union mus, he
sbon,d ds sn oy ove-and not Ivy force. And we
ou ' suppose mat even many of those politicians
VINO voted Tor the bill, now that the crisis has nns.J
and the only obstacle in the way of pence ;s Ills
very bill, would insist upon its repeal 1t is con-
Iesslo9 que TO the rights of the States us well as
the spirit of Cancellation ~ "'
=. But the Message goes further in its doctrines.
IL brentbes the very spirit of Modification itself II
avoids the use of the term-but its abused nIraso or
STATE interposilion" amounts to Notification in its
a,os' objectionable torn. Here we have the here
~ i i,s true coors Instead of pursuing the pren,
precedent, which the Virginia Resolutions and Re-
port oi 9S-loUO chalked out protesting for orr
serves against Entertainments; appealing to our sis
Yer o!ates Tor cooperation to put them down to the
ciecu"e Tahchise to amendments of the Constit,,
tion-to a General, or even n Special Cn,,'.o.'
uon-to all the amicablc expedents which ougb,
hrst to he exhausted-and then i'm case nil those
Pedients should fall and we are brought to choose
pe,weeh SUBMISSION to despotic government with
unlimited powers and secession from the JJn;on
10 throw ourselves, after fair warning and dine mo-
'ce, upon tins great conservative principle of Sc
cessIon as "the rightful remedy"-wc are to he told
mar each STATE ought to resist an unconstitutional
iaw-to nt1i.ty its provisions within its own limits
to be an the Union and out of il. M the sa,,o
ume. But 1t Notification is to be EMPLOYED no
frequent ana IN ordinary remedy; if each State
ought TO employ il when she considers n In uncop
s SUI how long could this Union continue p
Inc uoctrine Is most misclievous as well as mos,
absurd. ~ 90 ''ios'
is IL moi astonishing, that who is so flaming an
advocate OF State Rights he processes to be- should
sur over the unconstitutonality Of the IT, s. Bank2
MOI nurmur rs breaihed against that mopstrous
institution! The first u. S. Bank was the frs, mo-,
sure which outraged the principles of the Constir.
hon, and arrayed the two great political por,;es
against each other,-yet with what manifest frbeor
uoes ms naming Message treat The bold and
dangerous pretensions of the present Bank. The
governor reserves all his Indignation for The rome
val OIL the deposiies from the U. s. Bank over IN tho
State Bank of Virginia. He reprobates in tbe
I,IonseS. terms the arrangement which the State
Bank has made with the Secretary of the Tre,surv
and mvokes the immediate interpositiop of ,hs
Legislature. We presume his exposition will no re-
viewed from another quarter. But of his views of
Dank statistics, the reader may Judge by the speci
men he has furnished in the allegation that o,,r me-
Chants nave 10 pay per cent. interest i'm NJ York
ana receiving per cent. only in Virginia, &c. We
are surprzed that one who processes to teach
so much, should be profoundly ignorant of tho
course M OF business between Virginia and the city OF
New York. Our merchants who go tLjtI,er n
purchase goods, usually take with Them cbectS
from the Banks here, for whatever sum of readv
money they can command, which checks the
state Banks furnish them with Mt par For what
,ef ioo .a u'ey purchase on credit they give
drafts on their own firms in Virginia. or oxecu,e
their notes payable mt the Banks nj home These
drafts or notes regularly forwarded TO the RanL
IN virginia for collection, and when paid. passed n
:, e'eo" vi lne Datksof New York from which
they are sent. The merchants of Virginia will .c
inaliy laugh at the creduy of the Governor in be-
iieving that they know so little of their own inter
est as to pay five six per cent more for what thew
actuniIy buy than they need do. His ExcelIencyn
seems to forget that Virginia sends something else
IMAM money to New York. If Virginia has mauy
millions to pay to New York for goods New York
has just as many millions pay to Virginia for TO-.
Socco, COAL Hour, cotton, foreign bills of exchange,
&C. The only possible difference there could le
IN The exchange between the two places, would he
the cost OF transporting specie either way, which
does not exceed one quarter or one half per cent
from tins single specimen, may Judge the nc.
curacy OF me PotIcal Economy which has dictated
this part of the Message. Lr pede, &C.
The Olive Branch once more!
MI. NJ. carey, OF Phladelpha, is publishing a
new series of Nos. in sheets signed Inv his own
name, and bearing the title of "The Olive Branch
once more" 1t is ornamented with beautiful en-.
craving of Dove bearing the Olive Branch in he,
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