Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-23

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If we have not satisfied these worthy friends
Nessrs Bot and Booker, that we have been faithful
to the great of State Rights in bad as well as
i'm good report ;-through all the dangers which have
attacked them since May, 1904, down to December
last through all the great questions which have
come up during many administrations, we trust
mt least we have been more fortunate i'm satisfying
the minds of liberal and impartial men. The truth
is, young we were when we entered the editorial
career were deeply imbued with the principles
of the Virginia School. No one had been more early |
dyed i'm the wool. When boys, as it were, some
years before had thought of entering the edi
toral life, we had written against Judge Iredes I'M
warranted and unconstitutional attack on the repre- |
sentative relations of Mr.. Cabell of Congress And
we had launched our feeble spear against those
strous encroachments, of the Alien and the Sedition
Acts. The Rights Of the STATES, was first great
principle ofacuon--'The Union ofhe States, was the
next. We respected both principles essential to
the prosperity of our country. But the truth is we
have been accustomed to apprehend more from the
centrpeta than the centrifugal powers of the Con-
stitution. Ambitious infatuated party have
now and then pushed on to the other excess and
it was then only, that we found it duty
teract their dangers and restore the true balance
of the Constitution, which they were attempting to
destroy. Our first our fondest love, has been the
Rights of the States as they were expoundcd by
the old Republican Party of '9S-the party, which,
had first resisted the Bank of the u. States which
had declared an interminable against the odious
acts of the Adams administration and embodied
the true principles of our confederated government
in the memorable Resolutions and Report of 80 and
| 1900. To these principles we have adhered, and
we adhere to them still.
| But our worthy opponents may turn upon us and
say to us-"True Sirs-you may have watched
over the Rights of the States and it is that
have forgotten the numerous dangers which have
threatened those Rights since the year ISO4-but
what say you TO your opposition, the grand doc
trne of Notification? Is not this Conservative prn
ciple essentially connected with the Rights of the
States? Is it not directly deduced from our own
Resolutions of '9S? Have you not al,oays thought
So yourselves until Andrew Jackson corrupted your
principles? Have you not aposatized from the
professions You had avowed upon this very subject?
And in an THIS present crisis when Notification is the
rightu remedy against the imminent dangers which
beset us how comes about that you have abandon
ed the old school of Virginia ?"
If our liberal ASSISTANTS of Amelia should not hold
this language; if they should disclan the heresy of
Notification; we know ut least there persons
who have identified Notification and State Rights in
their wild imaginations-and who have on this very
ground reprOached us with desertion of our prn-
ciples. They charge with abandoning the reso-
lutions of 0S-and they also charge us with aban-
doniEg the construction which we formerly put up
on those resolutions. 1t was but yesterday we re-
ccived in the Georgia "Recorder' the address of
that most eccentric fall politicians Judge Clayton
to the Committee of Shady Dale, in which the fol-
lowing assertion appears:
has an office to gain or rival to Destroy maintain
"s or sy tes.. 3
was at the mercy of the offending party"
he wishes TO destroy, passeth our comprehension
1t is possible that Judge Clayton did not intend such
an insinuation for that distinguished MAINLAND we
might hope, that our humble name would have es-
capped such an nsinuation-certany we should re
gard it as little, coming from that quarter, as from
any body else in America-but certainly the intro
duciion of the snow" into the Jude's sentence implies
some change of opinion upon the subject of the Vir-
ginia Resolutions. We disclam all such change
ourselves-and we know that Mr. Madison has de-
clared upon paper which we have seen, that 'sThe
doctrine (.Nuiifcation) is new TO me as it is TO
YOU" But shall not our defence upon our max
ed assertiOns-we appeal TO the Record, and will
produce the facts.
We throw ourselves, therefore, once more upon
the hberality of our readers-when we lay before
them a series of extracts from the ENQUIRER show
ing what we have uniformly thought of the Rcsou-
tons of '99-and what we have always conceived
to be the duty of the States, in commencing their ea-
slIres of opposition to the encroac hmenis of the
Federal Government. Ii is certain that we have
never enrolled the measure of Notifications as
among our remedies--nor have we ever so inter
preted the Resolutions of99.
we take our first extract from the columns of the
Enquirer, when it had been scarcely two months i'm
existence. 1t during the administration of Mr.
Jefferson-when almost every species of abuse was
showered upon his hcad-and every species of
charge was made upon Virginia. We undertook
her defence, and in series of Nos, headed "The
pind'cdfion Of Virginia." attempted to explain
and 10 justify her political conduct. The following
is the conclusion of the 9th and the last No.
From the Enquirer Of July 1904
"FEDERALIsTs OF THE NORTH in vain the n. do Won
Tansack The records OF nation in vain do you exhaust
your own productive ingenuity, to multiply your com.
plants against the State OF Virginia. You accused her Of
contemplate cowsrdice during revolutionary str,e.
giles she convnces you that her military movements
have been inscribed in the farest page the American
annals You have developed long and complicated Sc
rles oil political measures, TO demonstrate her aspiring am
billion, and her contempt of the interests Of the
Sates Her political conduct is found defy the severe
spirit oil criticism You discover her pursuing in all her
measures the grand principles OF republican
with an eye ntently fixed upon the public wclfare and
with The Constitution as her favore guide, you behold
her winning her Eagle flight uBawed by fear unafec
ed by corruption mistaken by the difficulties which sur
round her. bright star in the American constellation
she engens the paths Of those who err throug mistake
and exposes the secret Vaccinations OF are Mot
ting againi the rcpose OF their counry-Bu, these illus
lusirous services have been insufficient TO protect her
against your iberal reproaches Under the pretence OF
guarding he interests OF The northern States from viola
uon, You have come forward 10 vify and disgrace her
national character. Yet be not deceived. II no
strong sense OF public spirit vas 10 enlightened attach
ment TO the general interests Of your country that has
imposed upon you this dsgracefu office Your own in
snaed and petty interests have stimulated your
Efforts ~ no other indulgence placed your power
you thought you could find consolation in the
hcdton OF your resentment Your mortified ambition de
msnded victim; and that victim is intended be the sa
cred Union Of your country.
"mad and misguided politicians! 10 what an nnatsina-
Die object have then advenurousy aspred? You are a.
boring 10 destroy the Union, without having
the OF your power. Al the very moment when
the hearts and sentiments OF the Americans are mos
strongly concentrated, you toll for the accommodates,
an object which peculiarly demands divasJ 80 = Ia
racted nation here would you 6x The bo,nda.ias