Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-05-02
pose osarrs.,ns the operation Of an ancons,i.u,io

pose osarrestns the Operation OF nB ineons;9,ion
a. law What right then, have the Secedrrs of the
prcsen, day 10 deduce from tina, resolution doc
lrnc, not nnted nj by the explanatory Report, and
which, We have the authority of the writer OF the
resolution ior saying, not contemplated by
himself by the party which acted with hiIu. md
of which he was III once the pillar and the organ
As well M IN; E. ithes, ATTEMPT To prove thai
30 tty,e is 10 Sod from the writings ofthc Psalm
~, by separating these words from the sentence
which says. The fool hath said, in his heat
;'ere Is ~ Coils it presumabe, If the Lcsis-
lUures Of 9o ana - mad intended to assert the rie N,
, OF Secession, Tia! they would net only have been
silent with tesarl TO ibu; that they Uoall no, even
have gwen hlnt oft IN the renotest manner And
ycttny not OILY thus refrain, hut the, conclude
after the enumeration Of the rish,ful modes OF re-
| Dress obove quoted, by saying" These several
means. though not equally eligible III themselves,
, nor probably 10 the States were al constitutional
open ;os consideration thus strongly asserting,
by plain rule OF logic, that no Other mcars aie
constitutlonal-B we may be asked, if these con.
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pablo and dangerous" violation of tina, ins,ru.
men what then is the State to do 7 We answer,
she is the sole judge IN the "las rcsortn-She may
sccedc, if she please-bul tshc does she must in
all the hazard Of that measure conseanen, upon
The corresponding and equal right of her sister
States to judge whether she has acted fer or
wittoW sufficient cause.-the hazard Of civil war
AMI revolution. which, disguise this remedy in what
terms we my, will follow II, by Il, law AS fixed
as those winch govern the planetary world. How
ever We may reason, refine aud sdhtillzc, FORCE
must and viii he the atbilcr, in such emergencies
Senator Miller, one Of the leading Nullyers Of
South Carolina declared, most truly, last win,cs
,hni =" constitutional secession was constitutions
NONSENSE = and ii may be affirmed " l,h equal ruth
tina, pcaceable sec,s sion is pcacenblc nonsense
We has, as well talk Of peaceable war black white
light dark or amy oher mblnajion of conlradlc or,
principles
Another evidence in support of the idea that, in
1852 Virginia did not contemp late null fcatIor
or secession, and We shall have done More thar
a year after the Virginia Leg stature had solemn
ly decided that she WAS bOunl 30 nterpose, for the
purpose ofarres..ng institutional law, & aflc
she had decided that the alien and se1i,on law
ircre this unconstitutional, the latt cr law wa
enforced IN her Metropolis under the very nos.
Of her Executive. Why did she no, then exercise
or threaten 10 -xrrc So, dis potential remedy o
secession SIMPLY b'oausc, at that day, IT ha,
~ flnuuft Uf--aIc " bee - "a
that DAY, mad never entered into the minds cf he
$ statesmen TO conceive of such remedy. DO W.
, err IN this 2 Let James Monroe. who was then tn
) Governor of Virgnia, answer. In his Message
to the Legislature, in December, 1900, aitc, an
Duncns the fact that " the scdltion law, OF thu
acts complained of had been carried into effect i,
this commonwealth. by the decision of 4 fedora
court with :" the same order AMI tranquil sub
MISSION on the par, Of the people could hive bee,
shewnby them sl,n!d OCCASION TO any tn
most ncce .ry and constitutional acts of tn,
government" he adds "The General Assem-
bly, and the good people Of this commonwealth
have acquitted themselves to their own consciencc
and to their brethren in America, in support Of
cause which they deemed q aahonal one, by M
stand ptieh they hare made and by the sentiment
mhirh they Aare expressed of those acts of the gene
raj government but they have looked for a chang
in that respec, n'-what ? in a Modification o
the law or in Secession frem the Union No" il
change II public oyiniOn, which ought to be free
aud mt to measures of u,oieatt, disfo7d and di,n
MIN which they a6tor" aid all of which must b
the necessary eoncomltants Of either the Soull
Carolina doctrine or of its Virginia spawn