Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-05-03

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ney OF the Bank, we pronounced the act crong and
after the decision in McCulloch's case we pressed
upon her to give back the money, and not fly in the
face OF the eXpounded law.
Next, the rhetorician and the ederalist, J. @. A.,
came INTO power, contrary to the best exertions the
republicans of Virginia. What anc tricks he played
what ooid preensions he set up for the Federal Co
vernment-it is unnecessary to detail His first
message was I'm the vest taste of politics of COM
position-and II sealed the fate of his admnstra-
ton in Virginia. lie went for the doctrine of claim
ing all power TO better the condition of the people
ANA the people, improving upon his own maxim,
deferred their condition ny casting him from power.
zen. Jackson succeeded-lIow much he effected
Jor me cause 81 State Rights during nearly four years
oil his administration, the tongue of grateful coun-
Try has already pronounced. Ii was when Mr..
calhoun, flying from one extreme, TO the other
from consolidation to Modification, contributed to
throw South Carolina into this mad measure
that the administration erred i'm the the course
which al pursued-It is true the State was ssshoot
ing nladly from its sphere"-tbe wis,st and Gaines,
men now admit the iact-but i'm order to countcmct
t,at tendency, the Proclamation Was issued, and
The Force Bill was passed-Ccrtan passages in the
former as well as the Bill were Justly and severely
obnoxious TO the friends of State Rights The bill
ought not To have been passed-and il ought
now to be repeaei--yet the disinteresed friend of
S'ae i'ights VIII not TAIL TO insist upon it, that the
Notification of 3 c. has been injurious to the cause
Ii has contributed to propagate the miscellaneous idea
uiat the Federal Government must be strengthened
and that the doctrine of State Rirhts is itself
to be suspected and counteracted
As we now stand, then, the real friend of the
Rights OF The States is bound guard against the er
rors OF the Proclamation, and the Force I-at the
same time, that Inc protests against Nullifcation-
lie is bound 10 resist all the attempts that are sed
lousy making by the Federal party 10 bring the true
State Rights doctrines of Virginia into odium and
contemplate the time that he scouts t,le at
telnpts OF the Nuters to sow the seeds of Dis
UNION, and TO rally party around Mr.. Calhoun up
on sectional grounds, and to agitate the South by
'he lear oil Emancipation. Let the North touch
'nat question: IN earnest, and the Union itself must
otter TO lis foundation. There can be no doubt of
f-and therefore the agtators appealing to all
the Jealousies OF the Southern people for the pur
pose of getting up this excitement.
But the people will have am eve TO both They
VIII, 1--WE can entertain no serious fears of il, guard
against both eXtremes-aganst this constant tenden-
cy towards Consolidation and this recent madness of
Notification. They will resist both the old iede-
Tasts, and the modern nullitiers. They will watch
over the RIGHTS of the Statcs-and next over the
UNION OF the States.
AS evidences OF the opinions which are afoat--
and OF the attempts which are making bv the on
pose parties, to bring the true cause of State Rights
into leopardy-that cause which virginia s,Inoort
ed by her resolutions in '98-we Law before our read
ers the following extracts from the papers we re-
celved yesterday Hear both SideS-and guard against
| all extremes:
From tho N. York Americana
ga SOUTHERN CONFERENCE.-The readers must
not tnhk we are pursuing shadow, and vexing them
WIN dissertations respecting danger existing only in our
own Imagination, when again and again 10 wha,
we believe to be the settled purpose OF Southern po,i
Grams to bring about possible Southern Confederacy
a"u wnen we seek TO point out the sure and peaceful
modes oil avering mad and wicked design we have
heretofore spoken of convictions on the subject
we have published the written evidence of South Caro-
Imam, that such his belief: we have quoted the Or
casona paragraphs Of papers in the Southern States
showing their apprehension of the existence of such de-
Sign and yet from the natural constitution of the human
hu so prone to disregard distant perls and to repoe in
security on 'e present lew persons willing seriously
to examine this subject, believe upon the con-
Vicuons oil others, that it is which appeals close
a"u Immediately 10 all who love and cherish the
Omon We must, however, persevere in sounding
me "larm from time to time, and insisting on the
duty common TO all, of looking TO the preservaton nj
me Chion and Constitution, they exist the great aim
oil ali political movements and combinations AT presen,
ne extract we snhjon IRON oto RirhnonI Fnnuirer
ADDS 10 The proof OF the Danger and the remedy we
say, and repeat that should now be trusted with
pohcal power whose course great constitutional ques-
uonS Is ho' ana has not always been, above suspicion
et no Specializing seekers after the lost rights OF the
States cunning sophisters, who would ain persuade
he nation that the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions are
thu true eXpOsons of the Constitution no cold and re-
ncant approvers OF the Proclamation Message OF the
President respecting nui6cation,Ie none such be now
trusted We must be true 10 the Union and the Conslilu
on and can only be so by distressing and scardng those
VINO profess TO these cardinal objects qualified and
party allegiance"
Are you there, Old Truepenny?"-Ne must
scout the good old Resolutions of '99-we must
which have been sacrificed by so many acts of
congress, and so many decisions of the Supreme
Court!-we must swallow every syllable of the
rroclamaton.-or else we are not TO be trusted
OTHERWISE, we cannot be true to the Union when
IN TRUTH we must according to the principles
OF Tie last Inaugural Address OF Gen. Jackson.
round the Union itself upon the true State Rights
doctrine so much for the federal views of the n
York American which we must strongly guard
against While we protest against Nullificntion Now
let us turn to the other side--and see the more mo-
dern movements of the opposite school, We find
TIE following warnings in two of the last Southern
papers:
u From tho Savannah Gcorgan.l
. " coincide with the Edgefeld Caroiinian that H. q
discussion relative to slave property which is soin
on in some Southern newspapers neither prope nor mo-
lc But does not the Editor see that the organ Of his
~ at Washington Duff Green, is the cause of it2 re
mas devoted several numbers of his paper to the
discussion oil TINS subject, at time which Goes moi AT all
"rah'it III ~ uncalled-for by any circumstance and
can serve no end but to exasperate the fengs If tho
eSson or action should who does not know that the
whole south VIII rise one? Why saw any thing nov
cocerh'bg DennsoD sinceudary publications. That wretch
"" Garrison nave been ldbouring in the same cause for
years he respectable and influential presses AT the
o'n' nave invariably condemned them and their cause
nor' ume ago. their voice unanimously raised agans
1t and its object" e
ar, ,, From the Charleston Couuer1
ne Philadelphia Gazette we think either entertain,
100 STRONG confidence in the safety Of our institutions
undertakes me jeopardy to which they are exposed Tn,
Hanger 10 me Union is not oyer-he nuliers decar,
mat he battle is but Just beguuand systematic eC
Tort is now making and unite the South or SOM
purpose oil mis- hief, which although as vet underlined
asquinS awiuhy, we think, at a Southern conlederacv