Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-19
POLITICAL.
TO THE UNION AND STATE RIGHTS PARTY
OF SOUTH CAROLINA

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gentleman of Alabama, OF great responsibility, re-
Gently sent Inc an extract from the Columbia Telescope
Is CO. published short time previous the October
election, which had not seen before do take the
paper Among other things it contains the following:
Judge Smith and Mr. Calhoun.-Judge Smith is still
" in York, very busy making speeches against MIR Cal
&" houn, Gov. Hamilton, and MIR. M'Dufiie, and repub
fishing documents sixteen years old. He has given out
Vice President hunting, and is now endeavong gra-
THY private hate and malignity, which seems only to
" he increased by age and Disappointment
Judge Smith has lately sold all his remaining property
in the State He is now citizen of Louisiana or Ala
bama. BY what right does he make himself busy in
the local affairs OF South Carolina, when he has
her soil"
"Hc only thinks of gratifying his thirst of vengeance
" against John I. Calhoun This John G. Calhoun at
least possesses merit of which William Smith cam
" not claim He never deserted South Carona-he State
which gave him birth still contains himself and proper
y-hs soul is devoted 10 her servce-he will share
" her ateand her soil will contain his grave. But Will
" liam Smith! two years ago he deserted his principles
" and now he is about TO desert his country"
In other times and under other circumstances this per-
haps would not have been worthy OF notice. But these
times are too porenous TO permit any thing pass
ced that will tend TO develop the that gave rise
the great events that deeply interest every Americana
and which threaten the immediate separation South Caro-
lima from the Unon the horrors of civil war; and as the
humble part have acted TO control these events, has
called down upon me these uncourteous denuncations
take occasion through this address you, TO offer nv
own explanations OF this supposed persecution of Vice
President and his friends Alter which will be conte mt
with such Judgment generous community NAV please
to pass on my motives therefore admit was making
speeCHes, not against calhoun, Governor Hamilton
and Mr. M Dute as private gentlemen but against their
wild and delusive schemes Of notification BY which thew
had destroyed every thing which had the semblance of
cia order or social felicity among a viruous peopIe
who were before Supremacy happy. And were evil
IDENTIFY bent separating South Carolina from the Union
as the first step towards the dissolution of the Union itself
For at the moment OF making those speeches, Mr. Me
he, Governor Hamilton and General Hdyne, riding
throughout the State, collecting the citizens i'm large
assemblies at barbecues and vociferaing notification
peaceful and constitutional remedy against the Tariff and
Internal improvement systems, imposed the South TO
take from the planter forty bales OF out of every
hundred, TO enrich the people of New England, and at
these delicious festivals they srove TO excel in their oa
and sentiments in their convviaes best adapted to pro-
duce deep hatred to the Union hostility the admins
ation OF its laws and excite the citizens civil war
against their neighbours their brothers, and their fathers
In which the father might the throat his SON. and
the son might plunge his dagger into the bosom of his
ther. And when the assemblage was more splendid the
cTimsOned flag, devised by Governor Hamilton as the ma
tOnGl banner Of South Carolina, with star and one
stripe emblemaca of her separation from the Union was
uniurled, and waved over the sumptuous banquet
In the mean time Mr. Calhoun, the Vice President of
the United States was busily employed issuing from
press the third edition of his book of notification and
vetoes, admonshng the people demosh this govern
ment because each State had the entire control over
the laws OF the Union, and assuring them that the Tariff
and Internal Improvement System unconstitutional
and therefore null and void that they produced oppres
sion and corrupon and led to consolidation; monar
chg must soon follow. That notification was a peaceful
remedy provided by the Constitution of the United States
to empower single State, by her reserved sovereignty
10 arrest the Operation OF any law of the general govern
deem such law unconstitutional That this had been the
practice OF the States since the formation of the govern
ment. And was the only mode by which the Union OF
the States could be preserved and that the constitutional
ity OF notification was first established by Jefferson and
Madison, the apostle Of liberty, in the Virginia and Ken.
lucky Resolutions.
To aid the operation of notification they established
JacObn Clubs throughout the precisely in character
with the Jacobil Clubs of Paris during the French Revo
luton, which oreunner TO the that
such waste Of human life and such streams of human
blood in that unfortunate country Each member of the sc
clubs contributed dollar and fifty at entrance
ana inc same annually as fund TO deiray the expences OF
publishing 10000 tracts weekly, which distributed
by the mail stages the clubs and by them to the people
gratis. These tracts were filled with garbed and mu-
ulated sentences from Mr.. Jeffersons speeches OF the
Union Party, and such medley in general, no man
ever read and were always published without name.
In addition 10 all these things the Senators and six
Representatives from South Carolina, joint stock
pany, inundated the State with pamphlets which each
had subscribed his proper name denouncng the tariff of
1882, as FAR than the tariff of 1925 and that all hope
oil relief had ed and the principle protection was now
liked upon us forever and the southern people look
Tor relief elsewhere than TO Congress and determined
were they to get possession OF the public mind that hey
actually sent of their tens of thousands of pamphlets
whilst the law yet unfinished They were i'm the
hands OF the people, in cart loads read opinions formed
and denuncidions uttered in every quarter before the
Union Party knew any thing about it.
made those speeches to counterfeit this mad career,
and, if possible TO highmnded. creduous commu-
nifty from the disasters TO which these heresics egreg
Gus imposons were destined 10 lead them In doing So
met these gentlemen openly, of them face;
coward.
II is equally true that repubshed documents sixteen
years old They the speeches. the pamphlets and
the votes of Mr.. Calhoun Mr. NJ Dufe, Governor Ha-
milton and General Hayne, in support Of the Tariff and
Internal Improvement systems, when those systems
popular and evidently rising in public estimation;
trast them with the speeches, the pamphlets and the
votes, of Mr. Calhoun Mr.. M'DufTie Governor Hamilton
and General Hayne ia opposition TO those systems when
those systems had become unpopular and evidently
going down in public estimation That the people of South
Carolina might that the Tariff and Internal Improve
neDt systems were imposed upon them by MIR. Calhoun,
MIR. M'Duffie, Governor Hamilton and General Hayne
and not by the people Of New Engla caution not to
conde their redress to those who produced their cdam
ties. They literally South Carolina systems and
owe their existence to these four gentlemen than to
any body else.
ment in his bonus bill and boosted Of being it's author
And went further Secretary of War to establish
permanent, eXavagaut system, than other man i'm
the Union has ever done before or since.
Gen Hayne in the Senate in 1924 supported bill in
opposition TO every other member Of that body south OF
the Potomac, and In opposition 10 number OF the New
England members also, Tor an annual appropriation Of
$4,000 for plans and surveys Of roads and canals only
lie voted down every proposition That calculated either
10 defeat lessen the powers OF the bill He could not
be controlled; he would have his $50 600, sufficient
for year only 70 survey roads and canals than
$2OOOO0OOO Of the revenue Of the United States could
accomplish.
Mr.. NJ Dufie in the other house, in a most indie iadea.
bic effort to sustain the BILL declared that system
of Internal Improvement essential perpetuate
the Union and prosperity Of the nation the veins were
to the health and vg0ur OF the animal life and that Con-
gress had the right not only under the implied powo Of
the constitution but also under the express powers of e
constitutions to establish such a syslem.-Coud he saw
more3 yes he has said more; he said i'm letter TO friend
To 1928, published by his authority with his name sub