Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-01-12

was addueed prove Our contederacy has been asst.
inflated to eo-Panery OF "a partners with one member
at issue with the rest in relation part of the
ment of the This the smile Of the gentle.
man from Rockbrdge last up, and he a yer knows
there IL was said by several che is armerl Then Mr.
Chairman he knows enough Of law (ior doubt moi
but that he knows more OF il than many who practice n,
to know that partner cannot be neutral in such case
bis rights are necessarily invovedAnd So in this quarrel
between South Carolina and tho General Government
about the Tariff will the gentleman be so bold as to say
that Virginia il not Is she careless about the
matter, ani quite Indifferent about the RESULT No Sir
she cannot be mediator umpire any more than one
partner could be in settling the differences about the 60
partnery essentially involving his interest This ouarre
between our sister State ant the General Government
about the Tariff directly Involves Virginia party Tn,
grievance which has reused her. which we have fol
years complained OF unequal oppre ssive and unjust in III
operaions aud more than that Sir the very thing which
the 6en Assembly OF Virginia has than once pro
ties ed against as Unconstitutional Ia this Mr. Chairman
ohi we take the lead Of :. aoiaa ia opposcn 10 IN,
Iarih; and may she not have been naturally enough eli
INFLATED into excess Yes, Sir, that excess which we al
depore may have been by eloquent nd rel
rated resolutions the Tariff And has she no excus,
Tor her resort TO Modification, one OF The State De-
crees, alluded TO by Mr. allison, for arrestng uncons
uohal laws OF Congress and other nts upor
The rShs Of the people? Ye, Sir the resolutions OF li9S
$50 dear every Rcpub cau,) Virginia asserted her RICH
10 WferpoSe Yes, Sir, her duty TO do it, And she iii,
interpose against the Alien and Sedition Laws, by he,
Legislature eren, aud followed up her resolutions by
aci Directing her judiciary TO resist for its protection
Then ON the hand we have sister State struggling
Tor relief against what suffering under i'm common
wi Ia her; aud because she has to our i.dpmsnt hoe,
rash and precpitae and has resored in this case to i'm
proper means means that we cannot approve H.
admissible remedy for the while she proclaim.
that II what ask tor al the hands OF the General Gov
ernmen, Chat is reduction OF the Tariff TO a revenue
standar shall be yielded, sho will be conentcd, and
withdraw her nulliiying ordinance. Yet asked
throw ourselves in the opposite Scaleyes Sir into the
scae OF the friends OF the Tariff by denouncng her,
thereby virtually 10 encourage the continuance OF this OPP
pressve protective system, by which the very catastrophe
may be caused which We ALL patriots, much dspre.
CAFE. Then, as between South Cardinals object and he
General Governments certainly n State identified
wIh her in interest against the Tariff States who have by
their majority in Congress- forced this unjust and oppres-
slve system upon us, conirery all admit the spirit OF
the constitution, so Tar as protection OF manufactures is
manestiy the avowed object Yes, Sir, as a dominant
federal maj rity in 1897 imposed the Alien and sedon
Law SUI on US Tor the purpose Of securing powertese
laws vi gna resisted then under the auspices OF Jeter-
son, Madison, Taylor, Sc onal, by oil
o. resolutions and report 9S 49, produced the relief
they sought with the overthrow OF the Federal Party H
their himness and that ensu ed
aud do you believes Sir, il and all the South in ourdis
pleasure at South Cardinals rashncss, and in
to popular President who has asaile PRINCIPLES
as unexpectedly as inconsseny, should neglect TO dis
play our abiding opposition the Tariff, well the
serton OF principles against the attack made unon
them, hatu wi not be calculated pre the
OF protection with confidence still greater than that drawn
from the Proclamation Yes, Sir, they greatly inspi.
rcd with hopes, toundcd upon the popularity OF the Pres
dent in Virginia; that Virginia. in her prejudice against
Nulihcaion, will unguardedly throw herself into the
scale by which Congress may be induced venture
upon longer continuance OF protection. Yes, Sir the
darling system which ehIches them at expence hi.
is sted plainly in the Northern papers They are
iaudng Proclamation TO the skies, and louder in abuse
Of South Carolina than ever.
To DE Continued