Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-12
THE UNION OF ANTIpATuIEs

we remarked yesterday upon the gi0rifcdtion which
southern gentlemen more less attached TO the nuv-
ing interest, disposed TO award to Mr. CLAW as The
Southern deliverer or hherator MIR. Mangun il NOT
singular in chdunting this DEUDI. Mr.. McDufIe
paid his homage in the late nulliGyng convention TO our
great ally ~ The 'cest. And Mr.. Tyler of Virginia no
doubt being previously consulted and Informed ly MIR
LAY OF ms intentions, took occasion in anticipation, to
weave chapet for the brow OF his hero grace his entire
as pHchcalor. few days before Mr. Clay brouch for
ward The measure, adjusted between himself and MIR Cal
noun, Mr.. Tyler said in the Senate:
No matter tcho The man nay be ,cho stems fo,,,od N
rescue us from cur perioS situation though his name
may neueT reach us-th0ugh he may never ,cear The
cr0cn Eternal Fame shall tOredie eueT. green around
ms br0to, and his shall rank ,oih thai of he
Woudest patriots gf the proudeSt ciimes"
we nave strong grounds TO induce the belief that the
good UNDERSTANDING between the Calhoun paTty and MIR
Clay was not the sudden growth the last session nor
The consequence OF the late coalition bill The bin ySos
faner me offspring oil that most social, intimate
"lch existed between the parties the session of Con-
grass preceding the last. While Mr. Clay was resisting
gradual and prospective reduction" of duties as a
s,oD poison 70 his system Messrs Hayae, Miller
Mangum, and the rest Of Mr. Cahoun's party aided Mr.
Gays movement by opposing the tariff bill which took
the hTst step in the way OF reduction.
In the mean tme the most cordial and friendly re Iaon
cemened 10y dining and Iciling, Sc &C. were cuG
waited among those who had previously evinced the deem
est hostility towards each other the uras of opposing
lntcress-who, (o borrow Mr.. Forsyths emphatic exnln
ndiory phrase held the attitude Robbers and Robbee
according to their respective accounts of their
row, men, are we to account for this born love
oe'"eth aPahlesf 1t cannot surely be ascrbed as
ly as the session OF 1882 any common feelings in reI
ton to the Tariff Mr.. Clay aud the friends of Mr. CI
houn marked their opposition to the bill bv reasons
which Of it were possi!e) have wijrne Tho LrI
between them. Mr. Clay decried it, because the reduc
ions were not made altogether upon the articles of the
class requiring no protection Mr. Calhoun partv con-
demned 1t, because the bill did make greater reduc
tons on the protected class Aud finally Mr. CLAW voted
Tor The bill because ii recognized the principle Of urotec
uoh which, ~ not adequately extended he said he would
take The earliest occasion 10 provide i0r by an increase of
duties And the nuiers voted aganstt because tlv
serted that discrimination was pressed too far IN i,s
nfaIl n. I'LL
the nuierS TO say manufacturers measure mai
they might Keep up the excitement in the South use il in
'he common warfare which they had determined TO wage
against the administration to operate against the re cleo
lion OF the President.
Mr.. Chy and MIR. Calhoun were then and are now ac
tuated by one FEELING. 1t is deeply seated and ruIino
passion with hem which absorbs every other considera
ton in their minds 1t is the substitute for the burning
ambition that animated their efforts while they had hone
and made them enemies to each other 1t is the erasDe
Tdted Jeehng which drives them upon the attempt to put
down the Democratic Jackson party-the dominant party
as Mr. Clay calls it, This led to their first combination
In the Senate TO reject Mr. Van Buren, and that hannv
minging OF their respective Trains which was not less
visible In their private associations than in their Joint pub
lie efforts TO eubarrass the administration
The following extract of a letter, addressed nv Mr.
Clay to Mr. Barbour, President the Baltimore Con-
Venon early IN the session OF Congress preceding the
last, most distinctly reveals the REAL BOND OF UNton
between .NuH,fer and National:
WARRINGTON, Dec. 10, 1881
" must have been entirely regardless (says Mr Clay
Of passing events If had not observed that inv name H.
y
before the Convention, aud that some Instances dele
gates have been instructed, by their constituents To ved
support 10 it, candidate for the Presidency This re
stcton, or any restriction upon The perfect freedom of de-
liberation and decision Of the Convention is inexpedien
1t would have had more happy constitution il it had
EMBODIED WILL OF ALL WHO ARE nrerpors
RHscUING THE EXECUTIVE GovERNNtrNr- ov
THE UNION FROM THE AfIsRULE WHICH rHREATENs
TO sUBvERT EsTABLGsHED INSTITUTIONS AND SYS.
TENS or POLICY LONG AND DEsERvEDLY CHE.
RfsHED' AND 70 BRING DISGRACE AND RUIN UPON
THE COUNTRY"
Did MIR. Calhoun and his instruments embrace IN.
suggestion OF Mr. Gays letter. Did they endeayor 10
bring the "embodied toW Of air bear az ainst the re-
election OF Gen. Jackson of "rescuing the Ex-
ecuve Government from the hands of one who threa.
chershed2" W. think so. MIR Calhoun and his parlig
at home arlluy kept the President election ont of
vewpretended that their candidates Tor the Legislature
would give the vote of South Carolina TO Gen Jackson
and carried their election exclusively through the anti.
tariff excitement; and when elected did thew vote for the
man whom Mr. Clay had pointed out threatening the
subyeson OF that sysem Of policy long and deservedy
eheshedthe American System against which all tbeip
pretended ire was directed! No: il far otherwise
The vote OF South Carolina was given by the Calhoun
Legisare against the President and would have been
eDbOdied with that of Mr. Clay would have avail
ed any thing in accomplishing the scheme OF the coalition
But the suffrage Of South Carolina added to his other
vote, not sufficient to give the Presidency TO Mr.
McDulie's great ally of tie West"
"THE Crown" which Senators Tyler and Manpuu,
still 10 hold in for Mr. Clay il was not i'm the
power Of the Nuers then to confer by all their steal
thy management The vote OF s. Carolina was there.
FORE given Governor Floyd by way Of embodyne the
Southern strength some future occason against the
party OF the subverter OF the American System.
hope the constituents Of these Southern politicians
who much inclined to transfer the gratitude Of the
South TO the enemy, by whom has been so long or
pressed VIII ply into lheirmotyes for ascbng all prse
aud honor TO Mr. Clay for their doliverance These gen.
uemen once seemed willing ascrbe portion Of the re.
lief obtained for the South 10 the exeriOns Of the farmer
Of Tennessee We trust the Legislatures Of North Caro-.
lima and Virginia, will least ascertain from their Senate
rial Representatives, whether they mean to intimate BY
their high wrought euoRes the author Of the American
system, That he made UOiWnfdrg D0eTi1g Of it, TO obtain