Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-19

be blinded by appeal TO their passions In ordinary
appeal to prejudice might be excusabc, but in
like this in which the people OF the whole State
deeply interested any attempt mislosd their repre-
sentave must be regarded great moral popIieiy.
The fact that Mr. Webster MIR OTIS and the old Federal
party approve OF the Proclamation, IT, indeed, IL
fact could have no Influence on him. (NIr NJ and ought
not TO have weight with any Independent man, who has
judgment enough 10 form opinion for HIMSELF He felt
that his own claim TO being considered Republican,
too unequivocsl nsy the slightest apprehension,
That his principles would he suspected, because no
found in company with Federaists. He reoiced TO hear
that the Federal party approved of the PROCLAMATION,
for he knew that unsupported of by the great body Of
the Republicans; and he had the comfortable
Gates of Modification and Secession. He not dis
posed 10 become the apologist Of the Hartford Convention
men; on the contrary, he had not changed an opinion,
which he had long since formed which was that II they
had been hanged under the secton had boen
proposedby General Jackson, although the act itself would
have been usurpaton of pow the part OF
the doing it, the individuals h"ms"'"" ''d not
LUZ .,.~.ypa severer punishment Than tley deserved.
ana yet he would not hesitate affirm his dcliberHte
opinion, that the Hartford Convention were better
snQcd 10 The name OF Republicans, than tho advocates
OF Modification or Secession,
The determination Of the gentleman, (Nr Dickcrson9
10 play the part Of David, by overcoming the modern
iah, Gen. Jsckson) no less heroic in him than i,
was diverttng TO tue Committee. He (Mr. NJ u had
watched tue geutemans movements with curiosity
When he announced his Intention perform wonder
and remafkng every other person must have
DONE the theatrical manner In which lie his hand
mo tue pocket OF his pantaoons he expected The sling
WIN winch tue giant was to be sIain would be produced
But appeared afterwards that the gentleman had deter
10 Iterod, excel the
orahee oil David, and to PROSTATE General Jackson by
simple denunciaon. The gentleman, (NIr ID congraui.
sted himself on his success in sabbng the members from
nocNu,luSe under the nth rib He would only remark
upon that subject that i, most harmless sabbing
ne mad ever heard Of if himself and his colleague had
0eeH sld00ed IL would not do say, in reference 10
himself what he might with great proprey cay in re-
terence to his colleague, which was that the gentemons
remark about stabbng him under the fifth rib had very
orcbly called to his recollection the fable Of the gnat on
the horn OF the But the gentleman from GoochIand
having almost literally killed the gentlemen fIom Caroline
4. IOnoa tn Iict.,s n.
ashes
Mr. M expressed regret that he had been prevented by
nusposon from hearing the greater part of the speech OF
the gentleman from Mecken6urg. That gentleman had
fallen into slight which he would endeavor TO cor
rect The gentleman had understood him. (r NJ whom
ne nst addressed the commee speak of the right OF
repatriation, as one Of the TO which State Nigh,
70 AVOID intolerabe oppression The idea which he
hdu intended 70 convey aud which he thought he had
pressed was, that when every effort had been made by
state, TO get relief from oppressive unconstituonay
Aw without success, that then there would be aler-
native LETT but for those citizens the State ,yllo could
not or would not endure oppression, their right
10 quit the c0uRtry; whilst all who remained womb he
bound TO submit 10 the laws however onerous lhey might
90 Tins right OF eXpatation had been To- by tho
Huguenots France who If their country 10 oscnna G
the prosecutions Of the Catholics The number OF those
people who left France about the no was perhaps
greater than that of all the Modification Party I'm South
Carolina But was not at all impossible for whole peo-
pie to exercise this right OF eXparaon or emigration Tho
people oil Holland had thought very seriously during the
invasion OF their country by Louis I4h of getting on hoard
meets ana gong to their East India possessions.
The Saxons and Danes had transported themselves m
great numbers, al Inherent periods, England.
was not even necessary that the people of South Carolina
should go by sea, il they wished TO leave tho State
Wey might enigrate by land The genteman's ac-
9ualh4nce WIN history Is SUCH that he recoloct
that nations five times numerous than tho entire
population OF South Carolina, followed Alaro and other
leaders from the North, aud settled I'm the south "a
Europe Even IN the case mentioned by the gentle
man himself, almost the whole remnant of the Trojan
people, was represented 10 have embarked with Enc-
as ho' In one great ship az the gentleman supposos,
! but in numerous fleet The single ship In which,
LEneas arrived in Italy, (f in truth he ever did errivc
here) was probably avery small But (said Mr. NJ
too much time has been already consumed i'm noticing re-
marks which do not TO have any immediate bearing
upon tue question before the Committee IIo would there
lore proceed TO reply 10 those gentlemen, who had dis.
cussed tue subject under consideration, on principle
1t was due to the gentleman from Halifax (Mr Brueo,y
and the gentleman from Petersburg mir BrownO 10 saw
at they had discussed tho subjects before the Commit
tee, IN manner Which showed that the great eiier,
winch they had been III search Of, uh-and their
remarks were every way worthy Of a reply To gen.
uemen who had shewn such powers of discrimination
and such disposition to arrive at correct concLs;ons
by profound and aborious investigation of the prin.
cples upon which their arguments were To be based
he could address himself with hopo Of produe,
| ing conviction To those who seek to carry ihsiy
point by an appeal to prejudice IL useless TO saw
more than ho had done, could hardly DO expected
that they would DO willing to have the into which
they have fallen, exposed But the gentleman from afx
having manifested very different spirit he would opdsa
yor 70 Ioow hin step by step, in his enquiry into The
origin oil sovereignty aud Government the hazard
Of iaiiguing the committee, because he was persuaded
stsuch an investigation must lead detection and ak
posture OF mo erroneous principles upon which the
zeal doctrines Of Modification and Secession rest That
gentleman bad said, with propnety that the oucs,io
proper to be discussed, was whether State has the TSbt
to secede or not from the Union, pleasure To prove
that TINS night existed he into enquiry "a 10 the
original principles which Governments are founded
and when he had ascsfAined what he considered ss 0o
true foundations OF Government he undertook 10 doduce
the conclusion, that each state was sovereign and indie
pendent and Of had perfect right TO decide yyho
Their she would remain n quit the Union. pursuing
this enquiry, the gentleman has always in
such cases, commenced with preliminary enqairy A. 10
the meaning OF certain words and terms, TO be
used in making his Investigations And in the first place
ne asked what meant by the word sOveTeignV and
gave to II very correct definition, viz "it that su-
prcme uncomfortable power in State which has the right
TO decide in The last resort"
Mr. NJ. said he was anare that the word sovereignty
often used in different from that given TO H.
in the definition quoted by the gentleman from Hliax
Aud the gentleman himself, gave different meaning 70
IT, in tIe subsequent part OF his remarks, which lilo
source Of nearly every into which he hsd fslcn
Sovereignty, is a word very often used convey the idea
that original aud inner which the people have
" alter, amend, abolish heir form Of government AT
pleasure" In this sense II is synournous with The word
liberty II is perfectly obvious, that IL Inc word sove-
reigoy Is 10 be used only TO express the idea
tain OF " the rights OF man, II would be idle aitcmpt
TO draw any distinction between Governments States
which sovereign, and those which are sovereign
For, as " al mankind by natsre free aud equal and
have certain inherent rights, Of which they cannot de-
prive dvest their poserily by any compact when
they enter into state Of ocieyit is perfectly clear that
AL mankind and All States wiz the people thereof must
be equally sovereign, in that Of the word I'm the
ordinary Of The word sovereignty, i'm the sense in
nations and IN the only IN which IL can be used In
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