Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-05
Richmond, Friday, April *.
Uho could haze killed Cock Robin!
Is COCK ROBIN DEAD?

Inc NuhherS are throwing up their caps, and
shouting the pecan of victory. We are (exclaim
they the "Sparrows with our BOWS and our arrows
and 4" we Killed Cock Robin" What SAYS that des-
perate Ilotspur of the columbia Times?"
'The glorious triumph of Notification has restored peace to the
tt %n have subsidized i II a e IL g SI%o u Ds9sc s,'c' {v SSa" r 10 e.%%o
ceivodi!!, Tho General Government passes an oppressive law, and re-
hi. repeal hut the interpretation Of the State of South c"1oTi@ai S 10
Justice .lumbe!cd, until awakened by the voicc Of Carolina, crying
Federal GoVom%cn,. until ,Go Su sn Of %i, ,o,SG uC co"nenso ' The
the call Of igemea he"di in our State. 1t wasihen, and not tilthen
Glorious Notification, which instead of being the
ciUil and peaceful remedy, which MIR. Calhoun and
his friends affected TO describe it, now confessedly
operates by the glitter of military army" and the
threats o" blood."-Bu are not these men mistaken?
Are we sure that no redress could be obtained with
out it? AT best, compare il with what has been truly
called the civil Revolution of 1900, which Virgi-
MA achieved by her calm and powerful appeal to
public opinion, and how does this vaunted South
Carolina victory, wrung as she now pretends hy
military force, sink into the shaded
But are we so sure that Il more glorious victory
would not have been achieved without the aid of this
Wanted Notification? We distinctly remember the
state of southern opinion four years ago. 5. was
then talking of this nostrum of Notification. The
southern States begged her 10 pause. They begged
her not TO act alone. They told her that the wrong
was common, and that the remedy ought also TO be
common. They begged her TO concert with them
a course of action, in which they could all unite
we reinembcrt to have correspondent with one of the
ablest citizens of ;. Carolina; for whom, notwith-
standing the excuses of his Notification, we have
never ceased To maintain the most cordial feelings
OF Kindness and respect. We begged him to
change his plan of action-to concert will the other
States the means of redress-to resort to amend
ments OF the CONSTITUTIONAL urge a Convention.
Inc same appeal was made in private Correspon-
dence from other Nirginians. The same public
pledges were given in the newspapers. "Virginia
was as determined as 5. Carolina in obtaining Justice
from the greedy manufacturers-and she would
nave carried out her irrevocable purposes into the
hrmest action. She would have Joined sin n LONG
pull, and a strong pull, and Il pull altogether"-and il
would have more promptly succeeded, without OBJ
tanning a halfway triumph through all this military
array.
But South Carolina would not wait. She rushed
INTO Notification. She alarmed the other Southern
States by the violence of her measures. They scarce
~ knew which to dislike the most the icrong or the
remedy-the expressions of Northern Tariff, or the
heresies of South Carolina Notification. Hence the
want OF concert among the Southern States. Hence
the schlsms which have sprung up. And hence, too.
that imperfect scheme of redress, which has been
patched up-and which is yet to be retouched and
corrected by a subsequent Congress. And even this
halfway justice would not have been secured-if
the Tariffites had not foreseen, that South Carolina
ton, and then that Virginia, and North Carolina and
Georgia, and the whole South would have united
and wrunS ample justice from the hands of a new
congress, elected under the new census. MIR. Claw
himself conlesses it in his last specify
Who believes, that this would not have been the
result ! That, if South Carolina had not resorted
10 Nullflcatlon, the whole South would have cor
daily united, in some common remedy, against their
common wrong-that they would not have hermit
ted the public debt TO be discharged. without reduc-
ing the Tariff to the economical wants of the 90
Verninent-that they would have wrung Justice from
the hands oil Their oppressors-and that they would
nave ODtalned rom The next Congress n much bet
ter Dill than we have recently obtained.
AS it is, we have yet much TO accomplish. This
! Dill is lmDertect-aul must ha G,rtba- o,,o~1o1
put we have said enough for the present-and beg
leave to suhJoln some very forcible remarks. which
we received yesterday in the New York Evening
Post of the LIST:
"Ihe South Carolina Convention having repealed their
ordnance and adjourned, there is an end of Modification.
The dominant party in that state claim a victory, and the
people oil the Union are called upon 10 award their graft.
tuue 10 Ressrs. Clay and Calhoun for saving fine countrv
from the calamities of civil war. Gratitude. like confidence
Is ga planto OF slow growth"-and before we WELD nrs zoo
nlusI nave some more substatal evidence of devotion to
The Union of these States, than has been furnished Inv
either OF the high contracting parties during The late se::.
SION oil Congress. We may, in charity, overlook fire M.
Iilcal course of Mr.. Clay and MIR. Calhoun for the last
seventeen yearS-we may iroget that they were the great
architects OF that very system of policy which would have
broken our Union into fragments, but for the moral courage
OF General Jackson-but we cannot forget, that the doc.
trlnes oiMr. Calhoun are revolutionary in their cbarac,er.
aud thdtthc voice Of Mr.. Clay was not heard unon tba;
great measure, winch was deemed necessary TO ~vindicate
tue majesty OF the laws and TO preserve the i'm epritv of the
Union. We are moreover not satisfied with MIR Claws
lame apology, that notification was harmless, nor win
"o "u"iihR 'he VOle on the bill more eiIectually TO exc
cute the laws. Had he been a little less kind TO measures
which might have been fatal to The Union, and more firm
IN maintaining the authority of our Federal Constitution
ne would have been better entitled to the confidence and
gratitude OF The people But what is the foundation of ths
DEBT oil gratitude to Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Calhoun, and first
,e' us enquire how have the nulliliers triumphed? Thev
had declared the acts of 1928 and 1882 unconsttuGonai
null and void. owe have, " saw their Convention
rsoleinhly resolved upon the course which il becomes our
oiaie 10 pursue: we have resolved that until these abuses
shalI DC reformed, no more taxes shall be paid here" I'm
'helr address to the people Of the u. S. they say: "Our re-.
So'Ve Is hXed and unalterable, that a protecting tariff shall
be no longer enforced within the limits of S. C. We s,,,J
upon TIE principles OF everlasting justice, and no human
power shall drive us from our position" Nov no,,yub.
standing tins "lxed aud uualterable' resolution. and all
.hOugh o. Carolina ISLANDS upon the principles of ever
distinguishes, and Is not "to be driven from her position BY
any human power her ordinance is repealed, while the
act OF 1897 remains the lazy Of the land. is actually eve.
records OF her Convention, ratified and confirmed bv the
votes oil The Nuliihers themselves! ga protecting tariff"
which was" longer TO be enforced within the limits of
oouth Carolina, remains till the Both June, ISl2-uu the
next generation may decide whether it shall stand or fall
NC ieaVe the public to judge whether this be a glorious
victory or a signal detcdt-whether the Nulu6eTs have
not fetrea'ed from their position, nullihed their consitu-
uonal privileges, and rescnded their "everlasdnp reso.
ulons. fOr the sacrifice OF principle and consistency. /
we hdd expected some consolation in the hberalty Of tie
provisions OF the bill proposed by Mr.. Clay-We had not
supposed mat Intelligent and distinguished men would
threaten our Union with dissolution and figbten ne
WIN preparations for revolution and war, and after
al DTihg their measures TO an "impotent conclusion. "
DW yel, take from the bill, the declaration that after the /
0Vth June, 1912, protecting duties are to be abandoned-I
a declaration which posterty may or may not raify-and
what remains Of this much yaunted measure of compro.
hlse' "A reduction Of all duties above 20 per cent. AT tic
rale OF one-tenth OF such excess, not ten per cent "a sfated
40 the Report OF the Convention of south C,..1;.. 49,