Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-03-29
Owe WORD FOR TIE TGcI0X(yLI"l

THE DANGER NOT OVER.
TO The g0od people Of The GOOd OH D0minion-No II
There IS one symptom, lellow.cilizcns, OF the strength
ol he Union, which il a great consolation. 1t consist i'm
The TACT, That although the cause of The nuIli6ers and On.
'essioilstS Oor they scent to me all TO pull together i'm the
same cause) leads directly to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of This
coniGderacy; yet they are Profuse in their declarations of
a'lachhnehl TO The Union. They will all tell you they are
not Tor ITS dissolution, and challenge the production Of ,nv
evidence to disprovc their devotion TO it. They know FIJI
"ei' 'hat II IS si'i dearto as, the great body Of the com
mon people anu that any proposition forts dissolution alb
fupuy made, before our minds have been sufficiently i'm
o'led with the notions OF separation and modification.
and the irrecOncilable interests of Tie .Noyh and ,ma
COL upon their authors aud abettors. General Wasl,ino.
ION, as you have seen, tells It's 'tiat much pains will be
p" taken, and many articles employed, though often CO.
ct'ttB ana uts'dt0u'y directed, 10 weaken the strength
" OF our attachment TO the Uuion.' We are NOT hen In
expect any open aNowdlS, oil 4 plan TO produce a dissolu.
u"' 81 IT, we must look 10 the acts OF those men i'm or
der TO determine what they are alter or. if W. belio,o
Them sincere, we must sin look closclv into t,e conc
queHces OF their principles and their acts. TO see whether
thcy are not hurrying IL %hcadlong 10 the brink of Jisu.
mon, from whence we can never get back. fl il Gke
an awful cataract whose current cannot be resisted
where we have gone too far. Arrest our progress pr,v
YOU Tor IT ~ IA your power, or we shall be precipiialed
INTO the abyss Of ruin, aud our happiness and liberty en-.
quilted IN the "hifling eddics OF revolution and civil war
u would not he difficult TO lay before Won some sirony cir.
c instances demonstrauve of the hostility TO u,e ,res.n,
OnionO on the part oil The leadcrsOf the n%uIliGrrs and seces
slonls's. Iheir great organ, MIR. Calhoun, is represented IN
nave salduPon The hoor oi Congress, thatthc seeds of its own
corruption and dissolution were thickly sown in M. Con.
stiiution, as ia every thing human; and that il il rns.,.r
OF shI prise that suCh dlscOrdant aud conflicting interest
nave been held together for forty years bv tie federal
pond. 1t has been very truly said, thatin The speecb i'm
which the sentiment attributed TO him was uttered. tbe,e
was obviously more dissatisfaction with the Union itse1r
man win iho mode Of administering It's concerns. The
substance OF the complaint is thc iryCconcHe able conflict
OF interests between the Northern and Southern STATES
ana iue oppression which must I've experienced in such n
condition Of things from triumphant, and intcfc, fed. and
uhrelchiing maoutics. ln these opinions I do believe him
,lncerc' lie does think lie two opposite quarters of the
O'ion cannot live happily together, and therefore / am
persuaded he does wish item separated he does desire n
eou'leTn coniedcracy. God forbid il lor, IL we once Sc.
yer, trust the Old Dominion will stand alone. and not
unite herself with The States set farther South, wIich can
neither add IN lifnes Of difficulty TO her strength nor 10 her
resources. In the two wars we have wsgrd. wben our
State was assailed by A foreign foe, what aid had we from
South Carolina ? What aid cOufd she afford as in time Of
need; None! none. whatever.
hut II is neither necessary, nor TO be expected, that we
should hnd direct proofs Of a fixed determination In dis.
solve The Union. The tendency, the inevitable tendency
OF the acts OF Carolina and her abetors. is 10 dismenrbcr.
men'' Take, for instance, her Modification. See how il
sill work.
by a law Of Congress certsin duties or imposls are laid
upon imported goods. I shall not trouble YOU with en-.
curing wleiherinis law was or was not enacted In the ssh
tt oil ihe Constitution. I do not think Il was. Admit that il
was not constitutional in the opioion OF S. Carolina. YET
30 the opinions Of Virginia, OF MARYLAND, Of pennsvIvsois
and ibe Eastern and Western Ststes, 10 was constitutional: