Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-01-29
j. Hamilton. jr.. c. ]. Col.

Palmetto Button tho cen.re long shall
be deemed necessary maintaining the rights Of the
of South Carolina. Aud that all persons throughout the
district who have determined support the State against
military coercion the part OF the General Government
be and they are hereby requested TO do the same
The meeting separated about 10 o'clock.
To show more explicitly what the tone of
Governor Hamiltou's remarks, more particularly i'm
relation To Virginia, copy from another paper
1.-THE Charleston City Gazette, an Union journai the
following article -
sThe proceedings at the meeting of the Free Trade
Party at the Circus Monday evening last, were,
themselves have called it, of description altogether
parallelcd' Their column and a half of Indignation
against the President for the frmness and energy with
which he has determined to meet their crisis offered
through Judge Cocock all seconded by Ex-Governor
Hamilton. The latter parsonage IL said to have delivered
himself with his accustomed facility The ground he
takes with respect 10 his 'couuncture OF
interest," differs very materially from the he is said to
have occupied at the late meeting in St Peersbu never
miniof the two, the position assumed far the pre-
ferablc ono in every sense OF the word, whether
his present hopes future lame. The Cover
nor has not forgotten the maxim, that Sufficient TO the
day Is the evil thereof when he recommends that the
OF February should be postponed to the 3d OF March
Perhaps shall do acceptable service by transferring
columns that portion OF his speech which is officially
reporcdas what he says for the present be deemed
the 'law oil this realm la the OF his speech he
said
''Tha he cordially approved of that resolution which re-
commended to the Party sedulousy TO aval any conflict
with the Federal authorities pending the Bill now before
Congress for modification of the Tariff. That owed
Ii to ourselves-to the in which engaged
and to the Friends OF Free Trade and constitutional Lib
erty throughout the other States institute this
have an inauspcons influence the result OF the Bill in
question. We moreover owed it to the measures in
progress in the Legislature of Virginia Fortunately,
stood on ground where might pause, without affecting
inlurously our honor, the supported. The
civil process OF repevn, enacted by the Legislature
der the Ordinance at the option OF any citizen who
thot proper to it, IL is the State has declared the
Tariff null and void, but il for each citizen deter
mine for himself when he would pursue his remedy Be-
iieving that conflict accompanied by any thing like
physical violence at this period, would have a most inur
Gus tendency, and that the designs would in such an
hn y ttlattn la, .tI.
commended the adoption of the resolution For himself
he could alone speak but lie free declare his
conduct would be guided by the concilidory the
resolution in question
He had in December last, sent out shipment of rice
to the Havana and directed the proceeds be
TO THIS port in sugar, Tor the express purpose of making
the question under the Ordinance He should now in the
crisis presented by the unexpected events had
taken In Congressional the Legislature OF Virginia, per-
init his importation its arrival, go the custom
house stores AMI wait the issue OF the which
he had referred This COURSE the alternative Of bond
ing his goods open every citizen by which all
ct between the Federal authorities and ourselves could
be avoided until Congress rises Tho recent MESSAGE of
the Presdenby which all intention of the immediate use
OF force is disclained, makes such decision free from
any difficulty that astiious of honor could
suggest. We in fact in The trenches resting
arms, and in position in which moderation and orbear-
will give vastly augmented efficiency our ress-
lance, when we are called upon TO make it,"
THE PROCLAMATION
We give place this morning to a long Message
from the Governor of ViTginia-whose best friends,
we suspect, deprecate its violent and imprisoned
language. We shall have occasion 10 notice here
utter part of its contents-aong with the substance
of the following authoritative article re-published
from the Washington Globe of Saturday. We are
happy see, that it denies one of the erroneous OPT
mons which have been attributed TO the Procaina-
ton, not only by DIR. Cooke, but by many of his po-
litica friends in Virginia. We shall state, i'm CONT
nuation of our remarks upon Hampden, (which we
intended to publish today the objections we have
TO its expressions and the false doctrines which we
have drawn from them:
From the Gobel
The annexed resolution, offered by Dr. Cooke Of the Sc
nate OF Virginia. shows that the opposition to the Proca-
nation, in the Legislature, has grown out of total mis-
conception OF its meaning
Rs'Sced That the Federal Constitution is compact originally
formed between sep'e independent and sovereign States where
Pose voluntarily agreed vest portion It's soyesny every
by join, parties iesng to
self the exclusive enjoyment OF the residue ond @e contrary
President Ued Sacs results from
capacity taeios and rVoraded assumptions By
Of GoveMeut Assembly
aa %Su s Sq @ to sd nS most
the poSaoa de- control orer ne clsS SS g Ilgny
into ono nation and leading 10 tho Of
ederaye system into single government
1t appears from this that the Proclamation understood
Ia assume the ground that the Federal Constitution is the
creature OF the people Of the United States,
GREGArE massOne great community; and that it would
therefore give "to minority Of the States, haung a
. mYorty o. me population, control oDer The other
States This strange construction is ounled on the lo
lowing passage in the Proclamaon
"Tho people the United Constitution acting
through t4e SGte LgsLayesa making compact
fled those provisions;
be government IN which the people of all the States collectively
represented"
From this il is manifest that the Proclamation, so far
from assuming that the Constitution is work OF the
people OF the Union, people, that it is
compact formed by the people OF the United States,
ing separate communities, first through their estate
LegisdtureS,' in providing the of framing the
terms OF Union through joint conventions and then
ing in separate conventions ratiy the provisions
ermined This view of the origin of the Consttu lion
i'm the most express manner rccog mzes it as A COM
PACT" and compact deriving its binding authority
FROM the ratification OF the people OF each State respec-
lively given in their sovereign capacity through
lions. The Proclamation, il is true, negatives the
idea that the Government of the United States was
created by the State GOUerHnients-but asserts, i'm
the language OF the Constitution itself that il was
created by The people of The United States; the ma
jority IN each stare acting in separate Character
the gin1l sovereign power Of independent comnu
niy. The Proclamation m.iu:djns, however, that the
compact between the States created Government ain
tohch The people of all The States coectioeiy are repre
sented" And is it moi soils not our General Govern
ment representative GJvcrnnenR Does il not act on
the people Of The whole Union co ciyely and are not
the people collectively in branch OF is Legislature
and the states in another, represented in We tlk so
And believe 1t 10 have been lie dc sign of the oyerean
people OF The several Siae i'm the creation of The Co.
vernnen', that they should re so-represeuled.
The inference Of the resoluon drawn from the n,isa-
ken nterpretaO Of the Proclanaiion (vz) that il rero
nzes right in " minority Of The Sfafes haung a ma
jdyfy If The Popuafjo" To cOHtrOI The other STATES
sufficiently accounts for the eudice which this State pa
per has encountered in the opinion many Of the
and patriotic supporters OF State Rights i'm Virginia So
far, however irom having tendency to counten,uce
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