Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-23
amendments to the Contribution recommended 10 STAY
the tide Of enerodehnsent."

amendments to the Consttuiion recommended to sta,
me tide 81 eneroaehment"
"The Intelgencer finally suggests that we have car
ried our State feeling 'to extree which may cause
to come in contact with another fee ling which oug hit q
be equally chershed-we mean a national feeling Blu
we are as much devoted to the union of these States
any one we would as readily give to II those power
Mn are essential TO its existence and prosperity W,
wouu nave exert with energy all that II possesses
nu, we repeat erm itertnque. that leading maxim
hat OF the venerable Republican George Clinton, whet
rom The chair Of the Senate OF the u States he gave hi
casting vote against the Bank:
% hs cong a e o dS"1a That . not
%sg a , Tss tho
spee confidence however fair experience the powa
is:,"sS csa 80 es "'' s
ave repeat that these words deserve to be written in
letters oil gold upon the walls of the Capitol Washing.
CASE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
From the Enquirer Of October, 1880
In the Enquirer Of Oct. 10, $780, we find Mr. nj adj.
sons letter TO the North American Review-wi,h our
strcture ana objections 10 his leading
In his letter is the following passage:
tho o even. of ;
and OWL
led Obligation. the compact, os"a light. and
,ss sa o@e saas, az Of
both; and eanno, be doubted member the Gnion
extra and ultra right the appeal u"
!, ne ioi'owing Is part oil our commentary:
anioo himself with deal Of force
State yielding rescn,mcnIs or its fears Would upoe eve
a. ay Jss
ought for cases Of % such
s such case, do occur when the grossly
ei, injury these powers resumed by them
RAISING over the numerous occasions on which
we expressed similar sentiments, we shall bore the
reader with only one more extract:
from the Enquirer of august, 1881.
Du. 'ie cause oil Liberty and OF State Rights |.
n
Mr. Jefferson in his Inaugural Address, laid down as the
essential principles CT he support OF the
State Governments in all their rights, the coupe
tent administration Tor our domestic and the
est buiwarks against anti Republican tendencies AND
the preservation OF the General Government its whole
constitutional vigor anchor of our at
home and safety abroad The dissolution Of our non
would be one OF the heaviest blows hap
pness OF the human We ourselves should dvid
ed into two or more (who shall say how manyO small and
poweress communities insult ed by foreign States and
warning with each other Virginia too would
probably be frontier State. Nothing but the ertreest
necessity should drive us into this gloomy measure"
The States ought first frankly and calmly TO commune
with each other We must appeal in the last extremity
TO the good sense OF all the States in General Conye
and try to the Union IS we did i'm 'ss-or we
must seek TO commune with brethren of the South in
special Convention calmly confer with them as TO what
brethren OF the North. We must atempt to awaken
them again to sense OF Justice Whether in the event
Of Southern Convention this appeal is to be made to
congress- or TO General depends upon n
which we cannot anticipate. But with one thing we are
seriously impressed that the time is probablu COMING
when becomes all the good and true men in Vrp inia
10 do their duty TO come Joricdrd to throc oil minor
cdfcutduons 6ehifd Mem to exhibit all their lore of
country, and to sdpe this Union We must do it, not by
NulIhcation-we must do il by opposing both the sx-
tremes Of Consolidation, and OF Notification We must
10 II by united couciis-and Jefferson said I'VE will
separate from our companions mot null1y, mark y
only when the sole alternatives e the dissolution OF
our Union with them submission government ,cifh
om limitation Of po,oers.'
We have no time for additional comments upon
these several Extracts. For % years their spirit has
been substantially the same, i'm relation to the Reso-
utons of 99-and i'm relation 10 our duties to the
other confederaed States. We are prepared to fol-
ow out the conservative principle, so clearly ex-
founded by Mr.. Jefferson, as the true text of the
Republican school. And let us add that if the
experiment of frank declaration of our opinions
--of circumstances against the usurpations of Con-
'oncurrng declarations of the other Staes-by an
the Constitution, had all failed-and had the op-
pressons of the Federal Government gone OH to
grind us las Mr. Adams threatened) into dust
and ashes"-we should not have been content
'd with remonstrance and protesiation. We should
have been willing to have adopted still more efficient
.emedies (but not Notification !! until the Rights of
virginia had been secured its Sovereignty re-as-
serted and resumed But, thanks to the discretion
he wisdom, the firmness ofour Legislature Thanks
% the genius which dictated the powerful appeal of
VI to the Reason of the People. The Truth prevail
'd-and the Constitution was restored-Our Rights
we're asserted, and the Union was saved.