Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-02

fence oil the constitution an the liberty OF his country
! remain. gentlemen, with sioce,c respect, your friend
and fellow citizen, JAS. HAMILTON, Jr.
To GEORGE RANKIN. Esq
Aud other members of the Committee.
COMMENTS on THE ABOVE.
Greet doinss at Slab. 7otrn, SOutt Carolina The
N"hhsr-, il seems have resolved ,ha, SLApTowr shall
eclipse Collector, where they htgn their revolutionary
Dpvcinen's. War upon the u, an tion-,hc Force
dsl aud upon the man who has ,innphsd nv his yetoss
snd before the people, over the American System in all
Ts parts Is now the orei Of the day with the Mules,
yer the lead oi Messs. Calhoun aud Hamilton; anl at
Ian IowN they have made terrible siops. indeed
~ me President and all who unite with him in the
men, Vat The Union must he preserved Some sixty
sev.n'y toaIs drunk Warren II. Davis was tho
McDuthe ot the day. He urged the immediate enforce
men vt li- oath exclude the Union men from tie
rights of citizenship la South Carolina, and but one wish
seemed TO animate the whole meeting in which, we are
told grea "ndni@ty prevailed" and that was most
Hank'v avowed in the following toast, vz
Alloy those tcho roted fr tie Bloody Bill Ia coerce
Stsh Carolina, free and sovereign State into shame
Ju suomss'on, necer go doon TO their groves peace"
he whole tenor OF the proceedings 20 10 show that
me homes, gentlemen, who now tako the lead in South
Sarohna, are OF opinion that every who 6vos the
Proclsmsiom,ha Fore. Bl-o, in other ~ ords that all
Who are opposed TO nuli6caon ough start dO,rn
sni suffered MT even 10 .'die IN peace"
lhAtmost disintertsfed, consistent unoD,bou. no
nest quief politician, John tataline Calhoun, who soug
e k ~ the powers OF government in the hands OF The
Bylk offending IL with internal improvements and the
ai,Nrt--na%Ins a the receiver OF the imposs and the
EedcrI power in "ONE THE PEOPLE" Tor its guide
hs strait laced gentleman could not be present: bui
he wrote letter 10 SLAB-TowN. He is now no longer
distressed about the money or The cotton of the South
~, LIBERTY. LIBERTY, is lost iorever!! He says,
ain0 90 earthly things, place Liberty in the first
.rnrf' &c, &c 81 believe LIBERTY to be in in,,ni.
snfnf danger" SC, SC. "Thc Proclamation and Mes
Age OF President Jackson and the passage of the Force
LIpERrY," sc, SC. Unless the people should rise
from Their iettdrgy and PIT them do,on, OUR GOVERN
MENr WILL 500, ,ooN become AS DEsroTIc AS ANY ON
IARrH - Whefher zoe are to be FREE PEOPLE
depends on the fact, chether these GLARtNG AND DAN
exRous ACTS OF UsURPArioN on the part of the Fe.
dsrd! Government, are dequiesced in nof 81 ,cil
tngfy surrendered all personal considerations 10 oDpose
fbe approach of DEsrorIsAr" Il in the power
ot any single, few indiv d,ls preserve L1sERrY
he hen closes with prayer to Providence 10 ratch
oper as IN fh's GREAT AND DANGEROUS CRISIS. and
90 e"ighfen the people and inspire their hearts NTH he
lore Of THEIR LIBERTY and Country, that then man
clearly see The danger" &c.
bis is the and substance of the hole letterno,
word about the TariiI-'ho unconstitutional proe elton of
coarse wooens,-or coons,or cash duties, in the entire
eplste Free trade itself is forgotten! and nothing is
Thought oil by Mr. Calhoun, but the right of Nu6c alton
md Secession from the Union the people of
Liberty OF making him the Dictator-the TEST OATH
MAKER for fragment OF that coniederacy the Chief
Mgs'racy OF which he so long sought but despars
of ever attaining.
The Knight Errsn of Notification General Hamilton.
ilaPpears, was on witt to the metaphy. expounder
1.-the creed, and he too lucubration for Sian
iowN, or SLAP DowN,-a namc which seems more
OPT, to the doctrine.
With regard TO the Union, the crusading General Ha.
milton says:
IL ''we set up false idols and worship in supid
spirit OF bgotry. the etgy for The divinity i,se-
under the name Of UNION the substantial essence of
LBERrY is 10 he lost sight Of and the very term itself
10 be employed not only cloak for fraud violence and
injustice, but for the 6dsest serry and man ,oorshp
shall have learnt little from our fathers as from ,b
august moral which the day itself teaches and find that
we have approached much nearer in our odornfo,
q The real AFFECTS of The Union, than the Egyptian did
70 has God, IN Uorshpping CROCODILE"
This is very hgurative, and Eighty. Brought down TO
me common level we suppose means that the Union
ais mere eigy;' that notification is "he substantial
essence of Lberty; that the Union preferred TO the
right OF each State TO nuify it, from spirit of man
Dorshp or devotion to General Jackson the part of
the people-that Cen Jackson is " AcRocoptIE"a and
the nation in stupid spirit of Jigotry" idoze mon
ser; and for the sake of that are induced 10 feel
an afeconae reverence for the institutions he watches
over and would preserve. This, indeed terrible Sian
at the American people and their President
1.-The General IN his next paragraphs, in effect tell, us
IA NC won" ." nave gwen law 10 me whole country by
sword, II his State had been unifed He likes Union
on small scale.
lHere the paragraphs referred to are inserted as thew
appear in the foregoing letter.
1.-THE meaning Of this is little wrapped I'm but &C his.
tory tells US that Lacedemon, though Slave Slate gave
laws to all the little States OF Greece-so South Carolina
being little Siave-holdng State would have been able
but Tor d'ssension, to have conquered by the free
men of the other great States. added them doubtless.
20 the numbered South Carolina slaves For the present
however, he is satisfied that he saved he point of hon
orr Ii is true, with the Proclamation before his ewes
he would not ego his death for his Sugar-He paid the
duty but he lives to fight another day.-"Depend upon
the day not Tar distant tOhcn all our resource. must be
brought again into actionOu antag0nistis .cotchtd
nor KILLED The next time the Nuiers will rive
quarters.
We then told by General Hamilton ha, bu, for the
uninely death oil the Knight of Roanoke he would have
)e'ned MULTIPLICATION IN The crusade against the atrocous
despofism IF the Proeamation In one of his letters
Gays the GENERALLY he remarked to
e." cannot De booted and mounted far the combat in
'iyo approaching conflict, oW at least be borne IKE
hWey Hoiuch in litter TO the field IF battle and die
rim your ranks"
To shew the people of SLAB Town how Mr. Randolph
meant to deal with the President the Generassmo W az
about 10 send TO them letter he received from the gentle
man before his death hut declining for the he
gives the slap do,cn people The following account of the
natter
al had designed to have You letter which he wrote
me lew hours after the Presidents Proclamation had
reached him. when he stretched on what was almo,
his last bed oil sickness, but mature reelection
have deemed IL advisable consult muiua friend botb
Of the deceased and myself in Virginia as to such parts
OF our correspondence ii might be proper TO mike
public, before any OF his letters appear THE LETTER
HOWEVER, TO WHICH ALLUDE, SHALL SEE THE
LIGHr-wHEN IT DOES, PROMISE you, THAT An.
DREW JACKSON, ESQ. WILL HAVE SKIN ENOUGH
LEFT UPON HIS BACK TO DETERMINE THE COLOR OF
EPID ERMIs."
TO be for one moment serious we must saw tina, yye
do not believe that MIR. Randolph ever wrote such let.
ter, ssis here described II he did what must the pub
lie think OF the Pretensions TO open manly candor and
sincerity which bis friends Tor him Mr. RanJonh
wrote TO The President the friendly nay the kindcs
letters Even after the Proclamation appeared n. came
10 Washingon-wai,ed the President--dined with
him. and 10 his very last interview, evinced she same re-
spectl, friendly regard which characterized all his
yious intercourse aud correspondence How then could
MIR. Randolph, If he were an Ingenious honest man
have hsrbOred ia his heart under all shows of