Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-23

IL had been particularly well timed Those who a mis-.
taken the rustlng OF the South Carolina palmetto for the
approach oil furious storm, began 10 apprehend
That there would be change in the tariff and that
son between the two governments was inevitable Mr.
Cahouns friends also had their fears that Congress would
rise without aordng the nuers the means OF honora.
BILE retreat from the perous position they had taken The
poifered terms Of compromise then readily accede
TO by MIR. Calhoun. This fact might well have excited
almost as much surprise the proposition ITSELF when is
considered that the bill would afford sensible relief in
two years and scarcely in our and that even AT the
END oil nine years the duty OF 20 per cent, which it
cured 10 the manufacturers would afford as much ground
oil complaint then, as 80 per afforded when nearly
double the revenue was required And the readiness with
which terms little eous and so far short of their
former Perempory demands, WeTe eagerly accepted
could be explained only by referring lively sense OF
Imminent DANGER from which the bill relieve ed them The
very structures OF Mr. Clay the course South Carroll.
ma were regarded by her champions with the
oil iobearance as who has reluctantly engaged in
duel shews towards the sheriff who him on his
way to the field.
But the compromise, which so cordially welcomed
by the nulers, obtained the of the Ia
rhpary and that but partially Mr. ebster who has a
weight OF character in the States OF Washington
sesed by no other opposed He consed that
oy so narrowing the power oI protection, the bill virtually
surrendered il. Notwithstanding his opposition and that
which, IN few ant-Iarif members dictated by per.
sonai Ill will to Mr. Clay, the bill passed both houses by
large maJorties, and with unusual rapidy The Force
D was yet lying on the table in the House OF Represen
aives; Tor II had been then passed it would have in
aihbIy INFUSED some portion of its gall this measure
that was now pafatabe. Ii is most singular event in
parliamentary tactics that after every body saw that the
Ian must be reduced in consequence of the cNtingisl
ellt oil the public debt and while both the Adminislra-
uoh ana the Calhoun party were mannuvring, TO gain
credit with the people for what, by the OF circum
stances, was thus inevitable, that very credit should be
snached away by the great champion of the Tariff and
TINS too by the cooperation OF the other parties. 1t
would he an invhlous Office TO inquire whether MIR. Clay
was prompted in his by other motives than those
winch e has himself assigned whether disgust and
disappointment at the Inconsistent Pennsy yania
III letting her principles take direction and her votes
another, did not also have their Influence; but
were ms motives, II must have him no little pain TO
mud himself separated from some, with whom he had
long politically associated, both in prosperity adversi.
~; nor could the gratifying reflection that he by the
same change OF position, restored those with whom he
had still longer attachments and still dearer synpathes
make him full com pensaton.
The compromise received in South Carolina bv the
ruling party, or rather the greater portion of that party
IN the same favorable spirit by their Representatives in
Washington But the force bl"the bloody bill " as they
Affected to call-whch recorded, by large vote the
sense oil the rest oil the nation their course to them
as gall and wormwood. Yet amidst copous ebulitions OF
grandoquent wrath towards this b they informing led
shouts OF eXuitaon for the change in the Tariff which
they affected TO regard tIiump and the first victory
acheved by the new engine OF Notification. This incon.
sls'ency ON this occasion has suggested rhymng friend
OF mine the following lines, which may afford you some
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