Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-26


them TO the utmost whenever and wherever it pea
oeably be done.
Soulh Carolina has repeatedly declared that she would
submit, permanently. TO bill that should not provide
for ultimate abandonment OF the protective principle;
aud that she was TAR opposed 10 the debang and u
initiating nature OF the principle ITSELF
deleerious and destructive influence upon the institutions
and liberties OF the country than the taxation it,
SELL enormous and oppressive is Her Convention,
too, declared all this at its former session. and aso in its
address TO the people OF the u. S. that il considered
system perfect justice and equality could be established
only by an excise duty on domestic manufactures equalo
the import duty on the foreign onesbut, concession
TO and harmony, that il willing yield the in.
cden,a projections and accept OF equal adj vaorem duties
limited by the wants OF the government fairly and
nomicay administered No such compromise has been
offered. Mr. Clays blu certainly yields important
pincpes-hrst, the ultimate abandonment Of the
BILE minimum duties; and, second however indefinite Of it,
SELL the ultimate Limitation of the duties the
wants OF the government-but the infinitely impor-
tant one, OF protection, is still withheld.
"Now, what complain Of in the action Of the Cunven
ton, is, that, by its formal and most unnecessary accep
lance of Clays Bill il has indirectly recognized the pn
cipe of protection, which il contains"
lie proceeds to state, however, that though he
would not have accepted the BILL neither would he
have nuiiJfed it-but that he would have taken the
middle course-as being F" the safest and most
sistent ~
"when good whatever is to be gained by action il
is surely safer TO avoid it, and considering that the
object was TO be obtained, in this case, by simply leaving
Mr. Clays bill alone, to take its course, by formally
cepIing it, il was most mpruden aud unreflectng
necessarily prejudice the by gratuiously furnishing
to tolerate the BILL for the present, SINCE however obec
onabe, the alternative OF violent secession, while the
hope OF future success without it, every day becom
ing stronger, was still more But. only tolerate it
simply permit il TO operate, till the South is prepared
II soon must be, TO resist il successfully and
Ims might have been done by one of the following four
NODES the hrSt OF which. however, should have dec
dediy preierred"-(And then assigns the four ways
which he would have taken for repeating the s. Carolina
Orinance-and of these was in compliance with the
request of Virginia)
Ii is curious to see how this Ultra Nullifier Jumps
to his conc illusions, along with our next witness-and
how completely they both differ from the "Southern
Recorder
Sd. The "Raleigh Constt,iionalist"-T is n
whole-hog administration paper-and it holds the
following language about Clays Bill
THE PROSPECT BEFORE Us.-Snce the adjournment
oil Congress, of the South have become little more
settled, than previously Modification, il is true has
somehow other, made its disappearance whether il has
been killed, drowned, sneaked of, can't exactly de-
ternne but we are far from believing that our real in
erest is urhered: We certain that the ne tariff
bill is much more oppressive to the South than tina, of
81 and although To take it compromise we are not
very willing to have it put for the next nine wears
These of bills that alter Names but not things NAV
do very well for Messrs. Clay and Calhoun TO cut political
capers with, but they do not suit the pockets of those
who make the bread and fight the battles" We hope at
the next session OF Congress to this compromise bi
this GLORIOUS summer" bill taken up Follow out MIR
Gays acknowledgment, and abeer bill may be Obtained
than that of 49,
As for ourselves we have no doubt that Mr. Penn
beron's objections to the bill are too Just to be sha-
ken-and we have little doubt that it must be
amended. The struggle for modification is not vet
over. The 20 per cent, with the home valuation
&c. constitutes serious objection. And if rs will
probably be the case, the amount of revenue which
II nettS (even with the large protected and therefore
exceptionable list of free arcles) should much ex-
coed the necessary wants of the government it be-
comes every friend of limited Federal Constitution
TO strike at the bill forthwith We must not swell the
public Treasury, with funds do not want for the
proper, necessary and constitutional disbursements of
the government. We must watch every disburse-
ment We must cut down every expence, that i'd
mits of reduction. And we must oppose every new
appropriation, which the strict letter of the Constitt
ton does not warrant. Every dollar that is asked
ought to be brought to the letter of the charter-
The school of the economists is the only one by
which the limited poIvers of ts Federal Government
can he guarded against encroachment the Rights of
the States respected, the liberties of the people pro-
tected-and even the Union itself preserved
NJ friend in Charlottesville informs us, that some
one has written letter from this city "that the Enquirer
has lately lost tioo thousand subscribers" 1t is with
pride and pleasure that we have it in our power TO rive
Hat contradiction to this outrageous assertion Although
about huty:fUe Nuiers have ordered their papers to
he discontinued, and some OF them too without paying up
their arrearages yet the accession of subscribers
will more than supply their places The propagaors of
such reports welcome TO all the qualifications which
their groveng tempers may derive from such conemp
hbe artices We despse such pfu maneuvres and their
miserable authors They may, however, rest assured that
we shall pursue our steadily without looking to
the right hand the left. We prepared all mis-
Bad men t1H msrepresent-some honest men n1av mis-
take our Our characters may be abused-and
our principles illuminated The editorial labours of %
years may be forgotten by Jealous rivals heated fanatics
Even the tomb of our father may be volated-to wound
the feelings of the man. who has sinned against
his own conscience, and sunk himself the opinion of all
honorable patriots, bv pungng his arm into the public
Golfers and dsgraceully feeding in the public crib NAV
falsely charge with looking only after the oayes and
fishes. We scorned to justify his rapacyand the in.
eXtDguisilable resentment which have provoked NAV
now vent itself in the bttere and the most unounded re-
Proaches. We defy them all--a-from the io,c needy
sycophant of John G. Calhoun who is paid bv The CO.
umn by his employer to do his dirty work-or from him
whose conscious soul hrunk abashed from the light of dav
and caused him 10 appear like the guilty thing in Con-
venuon OF his fellow citizenship 10 him who condemn
ed to have an itching palm" could stoop TO
-" Sell the mighty space o his laI 20 bonors
For so much trash as may be gasped thus.
We defy them al-all their secret backbiting LETTERS
aud all their public denunciaions. We shall strive o
do our duty, in spite Of them, the best of our humble
ablhies--never relaxing our exerons to preserve The
UNION and The RIGHTS OF THE STATES"
As Tor this misrepresentation about the decav OF orr
Subscription list it is not the first time that we have
asserted similar ialsehood has been propsoated b,,
the Jefiersonian in this Citya paper which is "as
dull as the lat weed that grows Lehes wharP'-wbrb
makes mp by its Daigny for whist it wants in abiIiiv
which has lately been employed in grossly fasfvino Tho
columns oil this PaPer-which never assigns good motive
Tor its opponents, when il possibly invent bad
and which s equally distinguished by the audacitv of IL.
assertions, and the poverty Of its proofs We sbrevdlv
suspect that the above coinage was struck by e sarn
base and productive mint. II is at least worthy of n
"Wlhe Richmond Enquirer Spy in Washington, n
uS Woknow the cold bsy''wo will show him no Penn
We wish the PennsyIvanian better o0;co Ill. a.