Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-01-05
From tho Fredericksburg Herald.
TO THE GIIIZENs OF FREDERICK Sill r.

crisis has arrived, you advised fellow -ciizens
IN the operations OF Government The system OF self
government, devised by oreatheis and transmitted
us, their descenans, has been cherished with flal and
patriotic devotion. prosperity unparalleled in the an
has oil any people, has characterized since the adopt
oil our constitution Although in the short period of about
hiy years, had to incur the expenses of
wars, carried agans the most poweriutnaton
we find ourselves free from debt as
nation aud and plenty GROWING the board OF al
most every individual under the governne Mt code OF
laws, the miIdest and most benGcent, securing ALL Ii
berry OF conscience in morals religion aud politics. is
ours The question forces itself upon the mind o every
rejecting man, can people enjoying so many beuef,s
be otherwise than happy, conien,ci aud harmonious D?
Concede that there could be difference OF op MON
as well might conceive 10 the equality and Justice
OF laws operating upon large mass of people cover
ing large extent of territory can any man in his
senses think that intelligent people could far ex"g.
gera,e the inequality injustice those laws as to
make them OF disunon aud civil war; aud conse-
qucn ruin TO wi and wholesome institutions. As
uncomfortable as the question is there are fellow ci-
zens, discontemted spirits amongst ~ who rom dis
appointed ambition such unhalow motive have
determined lay their pa rcial hands upon this fair
pie oil liberty, erected at the of SO much blood and
treasure oil our ancestors. The whoop is already
heard. "Thc sound OF battle is in the lands Our faith
fui sentinel on the watch tower has given the signal OF
Alarm aud warns us that the citadel is in danger- tells
us That there are men who ''wshng TO deceite' our
brethren of the South, 'nakng eloquent appeals
their passions their State pride and their native coarage
by dwelling on the papabe unconstiiuonay of the la
rift laws Does the President misrepresent, when he
says they swish 10 deceived" Let us examine. John c.
calhoun on the floor OF Congress- in spec delivered on
internal Improvement the IN OF February 1917 uses
the following emphatic language. Hear himl Fellow eli.
tZens, and mark HIM!
Let not however be forgotten let be foreuer kep
IN mind that exposes 10 the greatest OF all caam
ties Qhe failure TO enact Internal Improve and TIA
riff aws next to the loss Of liberty, and to that IN
its consequences disunion."
Hear him again constitutional law, in repIy TO gen
emcn who had urged objections the constutionalty
the law: ~.
al am no advocate for refined arguments on the Con.
shtuon The instrument intended as thesis fo
the logcian to exercise his ingenuity on 1t ought TO he
construed with plain good sense" (hear hm) sand tuha
can De more cypress than the Constitution on this perl
point"
This same Mr. Calhoun is now The leader of the Soutl
Carolina rebellion DO principles vary? Is the prncp,
oil IL different from the principle of'32l No fellow
citizens! IempOrd mutdnttT, ,nHtdim ct ills"
In IL, John c. Calhoun had his hopes on the Pres
dental Chair; in 80, those hopes were blghted Herr
lies the of this nsurrecon your President ust,
nsinuates.
Your patriotic President has issued his Proclamation in
which he reasons Philosopher and entreas las am af
econae parent would his undutiiu chdren0 the disaf
eced OF South Carolina return with the spirit of the
prodga TO the home OF their fathers. He tells them the
consequences, and dwes with deep and penetrating sor
row Oh The discharge OF those duties that evolve on hin
as the chief Executive officer OF the government He calls
upon you, fellow citizens, know whether YOU are WILLING
10 aid him III sustaining the constitution and the laws The
question is repeated are you willng!' Methinks hear
but one response breaking from your patriotic heartswe
are Wiling; owe will sustain him." Already has Geor.
gia, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts, acted
Virginia is in motion. Let the citizens OF Fredericks
burc DO the last With undivided phaanx let us nscrbe
on the banner OF the Conslituton-La,U Li6ertU ana
Union SPIRIT OF WASHINGTON