Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-02
Richmond, SATURDAY,. Feb. >
THE GOVERNORS LAST.

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The baltimore .9mertcan pronounces our Cover
nors last Message to he "one continued nvective"
against the General Government and its policy the
President and his Proclamation. The Chronicle
speaks of itas "abusive and infammatory, and as
evidently penned with the design to confirm s. Ca
rolina in the course she has TAKEN"
We will not go into motivcs-but we can Judge of
means and effects. Governor Floyd cannot catch
the true position of Virginia She stands i'm the
august attitude of mediator. But all his views are
on one side. While our Legislature is attempting
to tranquilize ;. Carolina and to suspend her Ordi-
nance, the Governors course is calculated to con-
firm her in the rash measures she is pursuing. Not
word against her scheme of Notifications Not one
against her precipitation! Almost the whole vial ohis
criticism is poured OFT upon the President and his
Proclamation. The criticism too, i'm such bad taste
so harsh, so Incorporate, destitute of official
dignity, that even the most impartial of his friends
are compelled to confess it's errors. Ii does not call
| the President "toothless tger''-but, when the
present tempest has blown by even the Governor
himself wiil be astonished at the acrimony of ami
madverslon into which it has betrayed him.
The coincidence between the Message and the
Mission, though unntended, is rather unfortunate.
On Friday, the Governor sends it in-On Saturday,
the Commissioner is appointed They will arrive
at Charleston about the same tme-St we trust
and believe that the Mission will be crowned with
success.
The Governor attacks the bill before the Senate,
rs breaking down the sovereignty of the States and
creating a military dictator, &c. SC But whnt
do its friends say? That the object of the bill
is to avert force by peaceful, judiciary and fiscal
arrangements in the first instance and if they should
be counteracted by force the part of = Carolina
then only to repel, not to aggression q
we are ourselves opposed at this time to any mill
tary provlslon-and therefore, hope that the ma
teria part of the LIST section will not pass although
1t has been limited by subsequent amendment, ia
The end OF the next session of Congress-and al.
though 1t may have been taken verbatim from pre-.
cedent IN MIR. Jeflerson's time. We certainly would
not vote for this section, but not on account of the
fearful grounds which the Governor has depicted
lie has caricaured the bill, exceptonable as that
may be. Our hope indeed is, that MIR. Leigh may
succeed III his mssion and thus SperSede The tohoi
bill altogether.
Mr. Calhoun is again make the attempt to explain
away his speech in 1916. For his own credit sake we
shonId hope that he will not make The effort His letter
to Mr. Reynolds was bad enough. Mr.. wilkins brough
up this famous speech in the debate of Tuesday ast-wher
Mr. Calhoun TO 'ihank the gentleman Tor abiding ,c
that speech IL has been much and very often msrepre
it," ~ F
" Mr.: HHkins. | shall be happy to witness the exh
hon OF the Senator's ingenuity in explaining the speech
III such manner TO make it accord with his present
views 1t will take more ingenuity than even Mr.
Calhoun possesses 1t would be better for him if he had
little more righteousness upon the occasion. Take
care He may find some Friend of Truth in tina
body TO confront him with documentary evidence.