Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-02-12
ALEXANDRIA, Cd. c.
.,rsso,y MORNING. February u. 1858.
rRoN SOUTH CAROLINA.

c' .o,;,, Coffee House. The City papers Of
waod,y, offer no specuIations whatever. upon
-. mission or 1t. probable fate. The Columbia
T..,coue of Tuesday, is more prompt and thus
spscuates;
8. The commissioner to our State on me part
r VIRGINIA. Mr.. b. Watkins Leigh, passed
.s.o,,S our town, on Saturday, on his way 10
Ch,,lrston. He goes, under instrueuons from
II, Legislature. to present their Resolutions 10
mo Governor of 5. C., and the President OF me
convention
ENTHUSIASTICALLY, as far as personal esteem
and confidence can 80. to c0nciliate the STATE TO-
"a. Mr.. Leigh's mission. every thing Will Ia
s"r hi, objects To that justly eminent gentle.
,,o this State will listen. with the ~arnest good
iii There is not an individual, IN the entlIe
s,,n,h bstter known amongst Us, Or more high,y
deemed of, than he. Ills character commands
nar warmest respect; his principles, our approx
4. h;s feelings, our strongest sympathy; anu ms
I;,t;upui,hed talents and thorough skull IN all
.,,,es@en.like knowledge, make 1t certain that
h, will effect every thing that Is fit 10 be erected,
toward. bending this State to the wishes oil fir-
sinla. ,.ol, o,.;,,
fran S.u;h Carolina, high regard. Inc very
nam. Of that State is dear and venerable 10 her.
She Looks to her, as to the mother of the South;
rho loun,Ier of thuse Iustrioes principles that It
b,, flen to u. to assert; the hrst great defender
If The constitution; the earliest champion of
Southern liberty. r
yet. since the honor and freedom OF our
State are things still dearer To US than any exter
nal re,pect or affection: since there are events
that Virginia cannot avert: circumstances 'ha'
no cannot drive back: We shall be clearly com
n.llrd. though not disregarding, to reject her re-
quest.
The Southern Recorder, published at M'lled'
ys,,lIs Geo contains letter from the Hon
Geo. NJ. TRoup, formerly Governor OF Georgia
and now one of the Senators Of that State IN
Congress, in which he gives full exposition OF
his poIi,ical creed. lie deemes>it utter folly IN
the South to ask for General Convention. be''ev-
mo hat such a measure would only result IN
establishing. by formal graft OF power, the
cou,,itu,ionality Of the very laws which now az
sreve the South. He puts no faith in nuiiih'a'
ton Jscre, resistance TO the ia,Cs of The Cniied
S,afes 10 be Unconstitutional, and recognizes no
other modes Of asserting State Sovereignty than
sreor,,r1oN AND WAR As to what Georgia
ousht to do, in the present crisis he holds, 1t We
understand hin Alright, that she should do moth
inv mure than she has hitherto coRsfituftoaduy
dore unless the aggrieved States, becoming
satisfied that the abuses and usurpations Of
which ,bey complain have become the settled poi
ey Of government, determine in concert" TO re-
turn to the bargain and stick 10 The bargain, or
gire up the US,on."
The following is the summary OF his creed, as
given by himself:
The result, according to my poor opinion,
is, that
There is TO power given bv the Constitution to
resist the laws Of the United States.
The only constitutional remedy for unconsti-
tutiOnal laws, is the ballor-box.
Amendments of the Constitution, petition, re.
monstrance. conventions, correspondence, and
consultations of the Staiss-these, If you please
10 call them remedIssl are not unconstitutional.
Under government founded on consent and
opinion. evils ale to be borne as long as possible.
The States in virtue of their sovereignty, when
evils are no longer supportabe, must judge the
evil aud the remedy.
The Sovereign knows but two modes of set.
Ting controversies, Negotiation aud War.
Negotiation admits arbitration, and contrOver.
sies may b. referred to other States, but this is
By consent, and not bv the Constitution. II is
Of course not permissible to one of the parties, to
refer il to its own Courts and Juries.
When States cease to have an interest in the
Unun, or suffer extreme oppression. IL Is better
that they withdraw peaceably, than that blood
be she'd in contests, which seldom decide anv
thing, and which are apt to separate the parties
forever.
A States may do very imprudently and un-
wisely what they have rish, to do. it becomes
them to act very deliberately aud cautiously. be.
cause 1t lawful for other States to unite against
them. to compel lulflment Of their obligations
under the public law"
THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
AWashiugton correspondent OF the New York