The Arkansas advocate., 1833-08-07
From tEe ,Ns,e York .4,ne,scnn.

he unity ot government which constI- tutes Us one people, was the leading ob- .iect which Washington and his felIow-Ia- borers intended to accomplish, and which they believed was accomplished, by the Constitution under which these United States have so signally prospered during nearly half a.century. But as the fathers of that Constitution have, one after anoth- VI, '5tflK fIIto ate 5rtsrs lavi1 opil,orss etIId their authority are rudely repudiated, and the idea of "one peoples is, in certain quar- ters, held and treated as a baseless and mischievous chimera. Instead of looking at the plain intent of the instrument, inge- nuity and sophistry are exhausted upon forced and fanciful constructions of 1t; in- stead of considering the interest that all have in common name, common rights, 1 and common power, and the means of rendering that power equal, energetic and supreme within it's proper limits over all, we find men contending for msubstantial theories of State supremacy, of allegiance due to a part, rather than to the whole, and striving with all their might to ritter down q paramount authority, to thing which any
 
 exercise sway, may pronounce to be no au- thority at all. Hence though as we re- marked on recent occasion, the immedi- ate danger from notification has passed over, there remains much deep discontent in the South, and settled purpose of keep Ing up and extending those distinctions winch the circumstances both of their so- cial and political condition too plainly mark between them and the rest of the Union.- Despairing of eAecting any great results in Congress, the design, so far as 1t IS yet de- yelopcd, IS to obtain influence ill the State Legislatures, s,and,by means of these, to ope- rate upon the general mind of the nation, so as to mould 1t to Southern doctrines. and to the preposterous belief, that union and harmony can only be preserved, by ac- knoWledgng m each one of the twenty four States, the right to nullify at pleasure the joint acts of all its associates.
 1t IS then on this ground that the polite al battle IS now to be fought. The former landmarks of party, or at least what were so called, will all be effaced and lost in the greater question of the supremacy of the Constitution and the authority of the laws made ln pursuance of it s'the lost rights ot the States on the one hand-the Con stltutIonal rights of the United States on the other: men who will now have to make their election, whether or no non-commit- tai cannot longer avail. The President in hls Proclamation, and in the message ac- companylng the South Carolina documents. has lad down the only true and sound con structlon of the rights, origin, and powers ot t heGeneral and State Governments.- 7iiii're'is no paitering in tiGis language, no pnneiple put forth for effect, to be disre- garded in practice, and filtered away by explanations. He puts himself upon the M l Constitution, and looks not to see whether. by so doing, he runs counter to the olosses oI thls or of that State-of Virginia or Of Kentucky ;-and they who desire the vel fare of this nation, which the preservation of the aeholc Union only can insure mnst occupy this ground frankly, fully and with out any hair-spItting reservations, or they must l take their part with seeeders and null liners. There will be, there should be no ] mlddle ground; for the time has come when