Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-08-08
LYNcHBURG. AUGUST s, 1893.
STATE RIGHTS

The R1chhioho " VIZ oosihdteaAly asserts, that
/, is impossible that one can he State Rishts
,an ba.ing his faith upon the resolutions AMI re a.
soning Of 9s, and not be a Nullfyer.a |, Is very
strange, then, that the Editor OF the Wing. who
from 1873 to 1882 avowcd himself Stat,
pighls man, according to the creed of % and
wore that motto in front of his paper, did not per
ceive that Notification was a egitimate result of
the reasonngs of that Report and the assumptions
OF those Resolutions, until the appearance of the
Presidents proclamation. Did Jaekson's denunci.
ation of the doctrine of Mobilization render the
reasoning ofthe '95 Report more lucid Or did it
remove the scales from the eyes of the + litor Of
the Wing 7 In any event, was not the Editor of
the Whis " State Rights man, (or at least did
he no, claim To bo,) at the very moment when
he WAS assailing Notification with all the bitter
ness of his caustic ridicnie Did he unite in him.
self the lmpossibtay' of a State Rights man
anil a acnoancer of Notification and will he not
now allow others 10 sed as he saw, and to act
as he once acted Probably, this " ,mp9sst5at.
IN" is not more apparent to Nh Madison now than
II was to the Wing in 1871 We "appea
rom Philip drunk to Philip sobcr.'
Bot let US look little into the history of the '9s
Resolutions. We are in!ebte to the " .H,sstsSfp-
man for rcviving recollection of the follow
ing historical facts The 1th resolution, oigi-
naIy reported, declared the Alien and Section
avs unconstituti NAL and mol lar, but rtoily
anil Qpd roll, aud II ~ effect; but upon eonsi-
.efalion, the words IN italics were, on motion Of
Mr. Jolr, Taylor, of Caroline, stricken ont. Why
were they not retained, if >ptitfcation be the c-
Ultimate consequence of those resolutions, or If the
Legislature of IS in,cu led 10 assert any such doe
nne Again-Tle Sd resolution, rs originality
reported, ran thus +" Tia, this Assembly doth OK
ilciily and pcfcmptory declare that II views the
pawers Of tho federal government as resulting i1on
the compact, TO which the STATES atone ais par
ties On The suggestion of Mr.. William h.
Giles. the word " alone was stricken out, on ihe
o-xnress eroa I'd that the general government was
II some sense, also Pa'tg TO that instrument
Why this Righteousness, # HE States preserved
their original sovereignty wi.oy unimpared
But, 5ee assert with cqaal posidvsness, ard nc
mln who hus read ti,e documents which cmanaled
from II at 10 ly, and which have b.en laid before
the public, Will dispute the truth of the assertion,
that il is impossible for any mn who is NuIfy-
Seceder not 10 approve Of The whole scope
and tenor of the proceedings of the Hartford Con
vention 1.-THE 9S Report and Resolutions jusiif,
those doctrines, they equally sustaln-lhe proceed
ings of tina, :" Jocohin' Convention. If the South
Iartr bo tho STANDARD # nod
State r ghts politicians, Harrison Gray Otis &
Co were the true state RE his of 1911, and
their opponents Jefferson, Madison, Clay, Cal.
houn, Giles indeed the whole South and Vest
were fcderalists and consolIdalionists If Null
fcation and Secession be the true Republican faith,
the New England opponents oithe embargo were
Republicans of the FIRST water. and deserve to be
highly cx,olled for their" chyalre" devotion 10 the
rights of the States, and their uncompromising op-
position TO the cncroachments of,ha, federal mon-
ster, the general government, and the despotic
force bill" which that +" bloady tyrant,' Thomas
Jefferson caused to be enacted 10 enforce All I'M
constitutional and oppressive law" instead Of De-
ing denounced, as they have already been, and
still arc even by their brethren of the same prmcl-
pie in til, South as Jacobins, disorganlzers and
traitors ltt4ey deserved cxcefation, do the
Nulliryers Of the South. If Jackson is despot,
f1riakng means TO execute the laws OF the land
SO was Jetferson-Or if, on the other hand, Jeifer
son did his duty, and deserved, for doing, the
applause and graf tuJe of his eodntrymen, jackson
his done no more and deserves the same reward
MIR Jcifefson, in his inaugural Speech laid it
down, as an ncon,rovortibe axiom, that " abso
Lutte aequeseacc in the vii Of the minority is the
vital principle OF Republics, from which there is
appeal but to force, the vital principle and I'M
mediate parent Of despoiism" Thy Notification
and Secession by this Jef irsnniln standard, and
they fall 10 the ground. This sentiment was af
ttrwatds reiterated by VIM. p Giles who, ia tn
debate on the Embargo law, ASSERTED that the
fundamental principle Of our government. is, thar
tile majority governs; = and by Nathaniel Macon,
who, on the same occasion, asked, " Is 1t come TO
this, thai, law, coastitulionally ,cted, even af
Ter formal decision in favor of lis constitutional.
" cannot be executed p And Gov. Troup, Of
Georgia, the great A ax of State sovereignty in
that State, at the TIM asserted that the great
Fundamental principle which all our institutions
are built is tlat of obedience the law. 1t Is Che
coatinaed) the fundamental principle of our GO
vefnment that the will of majority shall Govern
.aad Mot t4H nil, wtcn oppressed, SHALL BE
ENECu TED even at the oxpanse Of oil the MI
NN''sy wko's,snt a nr oFqositiom to n, " ms tsn
d'mental principle as any. and II The Ereen-
tee fail IN he c1ecutior?fi he farc, he fats IN his
duty 10 has eonnsry."-Ifthe reader will compare